1400 Smith Street - Houston, Texas - LEED Buildings on Waymarking.com

1400 Smith Street -- formerly known as Four Allen Center and later on the infamous "Enron Building" -- is a 50-story, 691 ft (211 m) tall postmodern office tower in downtown Houston, Texas. Built in 1983 and featuring an elegant blue glass and white aluminum frame, it has distinctive curved leading and trailing edges which -- until 2002, when a similar tower was erected across the street -- set it apart from all other skyscrapers in the city and made it an icon of the Houston skyline, especially when sunlight would reflect off its frame in all directions.

Designed by architectural firm Lloyd Jones Brewer and Associates, the 1,200,000-square-foot (110,000 m2) office tower is situated on Houston's six-mile (10 km) pedestrian and retail tunnel system that links many of the city's downtown towers. It was the former headquarters of Enron, one of America's largest commodities trading companies during the 1990s and later infamous for its financial scandal in 2001, and is currently leased by Chevron.

On June 12, 2011, the USGBC awarded the skyscraper a LEED for EB:O&M (v2009) Gold Certification, with a total score of 61/110. Some of the salient scorecard results include:

* Water Efficiency:
30% reduction in indoor potable water use
75% reduction in potable landscape water use

* Materials and Resources:
50% reuse, recycle or compost of ongoing consumables
75% reuse or recycle of durable goods
50% sustainable purchasing of facility alterations and additions
90% sustainable purchasing of reduced mercury lamps
70% diversion of waste from facility alteration and additions

* Energy and Atmosphere:
91 Energy Star Performance Rating

* Indoor Environmental Quality:
50% of occupied space has daylighting and quality views


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