The building’s insulation exceeds
Standard 90.1 requirements with R-30
walls and R-40 roof for the refrigerated
warehouse and R-20 walls and R-30 roof
for the two other sections. The warehouse
also has a reflective white roof. The office
space has a garden roof to minimize solar
heat gain through the roof (although the
Advanced Energy Design Guide: Small
Warehouses and Self-Storage Buildings
has no recommendation for Climate
Zone 7). Energy modeling showed a 2%
reduction in refrigeration load and close
to 3% in energy demand.