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Design team highlights geothermal, mass timber and LEED goals for new county building

Tompkins County · December 9, 2025
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Designers said the proposed Center of Government would be all‑electric, use geothermal heating/cooling and heavy timber to cut embodied carbon, with energy modeling forecasting significant operational savings and a LEED Gold target.

Designers presented sustainability measures for the proposed Center of Government building and explained technical constraints and tradeoffs.

Lead presenter (speaker 3) described the project target as an all‑electric building with “the opportunity to entirely eliminate on‑site fossil fuels by designing an all electric building,” and said the team is focusing on geothermal for heating and cooling to reduce long‑term carbon and…

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