Financial services company KeyCorp's Tiedeman campus in Brooklyn, Ohio, has been certified by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) as a green building, making it the first financial services complex to earn this designation in Ohio. KeyCorp participated in the USGBC's new rating system called Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB). The Tiedeman property, a former brownfield site, is a 750,000-sf technology and operations campus comprised of two buildings and a parking garage. The facilities house over 2,000 employees and were constructed between 1994 and 1996.
Johnson Controls managed the certification process. Changes to the facilities' automation system and continuous commissioning led to significant energy savings while ensuring indoor environmental quality. The use of environmentally smart procedures (such as the use of low-mercury bulbs in lighting fixtures as a standard practice) will reduce operating costs by more than $43,000 each year.
