The Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. plant in Knoxville, TN., is the 20,000th commercial building to earn LEED certification. The United States Green Building Council issued a LEED for Commercial Interiors (LEED-CI) certification to the company.
“The 20,000th LEED certification belongs to an organization that shares our social and environmental values, and we applaud GMCR on its accomplishment,” said Rick Fedrizzi, president, CEO, and founding chair of USGBC. "This is an important milestone in our mission to drive market transformation in the built environment to practices that make healthy, high-performing buildings a fact of life.