There was a bit of a race to the finish for it but the world’s first LEED platinum museum building has been finished. The Water + Life Museums complex in California is the first building to have been awarded the platinum certification. The museum campus is a total of 70,000 square feet and was built to the most exacting green standards. The Center for Water Education Foundation and 
the Western Center Community Foundation asked Lehrer Architects to design two facilities with a large outdoor connecting terrace. The museum meets the most exacting water and energy consumption standards in the world; which is all the more impressive considering the local climate where temperatures reach the triple digits in the summer and water freezes in the winter. 
When the Diamond Valley Lake Reservoir was completed in 1999 by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and is the largest earthworks project on US soil. During the dig out of the reservoir some significant fossils were discovered. These were housed in a much smaller facility until this museum was finished. This new state of the art facility offers the museum the ability to showcase these artifacts in a fantastic building.
the Western Center Community Foundation asked Lehrer Architects to design two facilities with a large outdoor connecting terrace. The museum meets the most exacting water and energy consumption standards in the world; which is all the more impressive considering the local climate where temperatures reach the triple digits in the summer and water freezes in the winter. When the Diamond Valley Lake Reservoir was completed in 1999 by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and is the largest earthworks project on US soil. During the dig out of the reservoir some significant fossils were discovered. These were housed in a much smaller facility until this museum was finished. This new state of the art facility offers the museum the ability to showcase these artifacts in a fantastic building.
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