Presidential Center Earns Green Globes™ Designation

Courtesy of the Clinton Foundation

The William J. Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas recently earned a two-globe designation under the Green Globes environmental assessment and rating system for its environmentally progressive design

Conceived by Polshek Partnership Architects to recognize the importance that President Clinton continues to place on environmental issues, the Center is located within a 30-acre city park on a previously contaminated brownfield site. It features the Presidential Library and Museum—much of which is enclosed in a cantilevered glass bridge over the Arkansas River—as well as a renovated railway station, built in 1899, which houses the Clinton School of Public Service and Clinton Foundation Office.

The Center is designed to be energy, water and resource efficient, to minimize emissions and to have high indoor air quality. Among its award-winning green features, it includes photovoltaic solar panels, a radiant floor system, high-efficiency equipment, windows that are insulated and glazed to reduce solar gain, recycled materials (such as structural steel, hot fluid-applied roofing, acoustic panel ceiling, resilient floor tile and carpet), timber products from sources certified as sustainable, and low-VOC, non-toxic and chemically inert interior materials.

For more information, please click here to see the case study results of the Green Globes evaluation. The Clinton Center also offers “green” tours every Saturday at 10 a.m. or by request.

For all of the Green Globes case studies available to date, please click here