The renovated complex has 156,000 square feet of modern office space in keeping with the Navy Yard's century old practice of adaptive reuse. The design incorporates recycled materials, natural lighting from skylights, automatically controlled dimmers, and low water consuming fixtures. The new Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank was constructed with long-term asset value in mind. Designed by HOK, and completed in 1998, the 618,000 SF structure minimizes its impact on the environment by emphasizing energy conservation, low maintenance landscaping, water conservation, indoor air quality, environmentally preferable materials selection, and construction waste recycling. An extremely tight exterior envelope was combined with increased natural lighting.
Lighting fixtures are high efficiency, many with occupancy sensors.
Estimated net annual energy consumption is less than 45,000 BTUs per square foot. Project materials were selected based on source sustainability, the amount of embodied energy in the material, the recycled content of the product, its ability to be recycled, and its effect on indoor air quality. This resulted in use of materials with enhanced durability, low maintenance and from predominantly local sources. Exterior materials include stone quarried less than 100 miles from the site and local brick. All wood used in the building is from certified sustainable sources.