Dive Brief:

• Haworth, a company that designs and manufactures furniture, received LEED Gold for a showroom and workspace it developed inside a building in Beijing that got LEED Platinum under the previous version of the green-building standard.
• The award was based on a score of 71 out of the 110 points possible in the U.S. Green Building Council system.
• Haworth provides a space for tenants and hotel guests in the Parkview Green building to work or hold meetings, and the space can be reconfigured over and over for their needs, using the company's furniture, partitions and other products.

Dive Insight:

It didn't take long for someone to score a win under the new LEED standards, which were only approved and put into effect a few months ago. This award also is a little different because green building usually is thought of as covering a structure rather than a space within a structure, albeit an already green structure.