The Maricopa County Downtown Court Tower, a 695,000 SF facility, boasts a variety of technologies designed to improve efficiency and meet the rapidly increasing backlog and growing needs of our justice system. The new facility will allow for speedier trials, thereby cutting down higher jail costs caused by inmates’ needs for housing, food and other care. The building is Maricopa County’s single largest project with a total cost of approximately $340 million. Green Ideas integrated several sustainable strategies into the design, development and construction of the project allowing the Tower to earn LEED Gold level certification. Some of these strategies include efficient lighting and daylighting to reduce energy consumption, use of high-recycled materials sourced from local vendors, and implementation of a construction waste management plan that diverted more than 29,000 tons of waste from the landfill.