SnapShot June 27, 2011
Submitted By: Jeff Shneider, President, CSHQA, Boise, Idaho Ling & Louie’s Asian Bar and Grill, which opened this spring in Meridian, Idaho, has earned kudos for its innovative sustainable design, which includes solar shades on windows to prevent direct sunlight, lighting controls geared to room use, an energy-efficient condensing-boiler water heater, low-emission furnaces and an underground seepage bed to filter stormwater before it enters the soil and groundwater. Photo by Idaho Airships Inc. and courtesy of CSHQA, a design collaboration, and ESI Construction |