With these goals at the forefront for Valley View, MSR Design’s architect and associate, Simona Fischer, AIA, said, “Wherever possible, we would design the building to be energy-efficient and to make good material decisions. We were guided by LEED and LBC but didn’t go for certification. The use of a Red List Free metal panel coating was an example of us bringing the idea to the table and doing the research to show it would work as well, if not better, and that the cost difference was negligible.”
