Indianapolis — The Nature Conservancy won one of the city’s first Sustainability Awards for its new headquarters in the category of water. Called the Efroymson Conservation Center, the headquarters at 620 East Ohio St., received recognition from Mayor Greg Ballard for the storm water management system.

The building, scheduled to open in April, is set to earn the first platinum LEED certified building in the state. It will capture and control 100 percent of the storm water that falls on the building site. As such the site is not connected to the City’s Combined Sewer Overflow, or CSO, bur rather relies on low impact development, such as green roofs, native plants in the landscape, rainwater collection system on roof, a cistern, underground water infiltration that collects overflow, bio-retention area and permeable pavement.

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