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Number: 829

For release on September 4, 2008, 8:30:00 AM

Contacts: Peter Genzer, (631) 344-3174    Written by Diane Greenberg

Two Brookhaven Lab Buildings Achieve LEED Green Building Certification

UPTON, NY – Two buildings on the 5,300-acre site of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have each been awarded a LEED silver rating by the One of ten national laboratories overseen and primarily funded by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Brookhaven National Laboratory conducts research in the physical, biomedical, and environmental sciences, as well as in energy technologies and national security. Brookhaven Lab also builds and operates major scientific facilities available to university, industry and government researchers. Brookhaven is operated and managed for DOE's Office of Science by Brookhaven Science Associates, a limited-liability company founded by the Research Foundation for the State University of New York on behalf of Stony Brook University, the largest academic user of Laboratory facilities, and Battelle, a nonprofit, applied science and technology organization.

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