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Hy-Vee earns LEED® Gold certification

Just in time for Earth Day!   The new Hy-Vee supermarket in Madison, WI has been awarded the prestigious LEED® Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. This is the first Hy-Vee store to achieve recognition under the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification system, the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction [...]

Madison Hy-Vee sketch

Fairfield to be Hy-Vee’s 2nd “green” store

It’s LEED, Round II. Hy-Vee has announced that the new store planned as a replacement for Fairfield will be the company’s second built to LEED certification standards. (Madison, WI, our first LEED project, has been submitted for certification and is under review by the U.S. Green Building Council.) At first glance, this might not seem to be [...]