Community First Credit Union

This building is a new state-of-the-art, full service branch located in Lakeland, FL. The new 4,151 square foot branch is designed to wrap around an existing Bruster’s ice cream shoppe, increasing the area’s development density while minimizing changes to infrastructure and local traffic patterns. Preserving the existing building can not only be seen as diverting 100% of its materials from disposal in landfills through building reuse, but more importantly maintaining current jobs for its employees and a service to local residents.

The cohesive design also passively reduces energy required for both structures’ cooling loads by reducing the total amount of exterior walls that are subject to the central Florida climate; therefore each building will be more efficient than if they were designed to be stand alone structures. It will be Florida first net zero energy commercial building.