We are proud to be working with Starbuck Roastery for LEED certification on their latest creation and their 5th Reserve Roastery globally, that opened on the 28th of Feb 2019, in Tokyo, Japan. Celebrating the Japanese culture of connection and cultivation, the architect Kengo Kuma infused the Japanese concept of ‘Amu’, into the design of the new Roastery. Starbucks has used the ‘Amu’ design concept cleverly ‘to knit’ together the Art, Science and craft of truly inspired coffee.
The new Roastery comes with a wide range of firsts for Japan and the world:
- Starbucks’s first Specialty Coffee Association certified training location in Japan
- Starbucks’s first in-house bakery in Japan
- The first AMU inspired lounge in the world
- The first menu from Rocco Princi in Japan
- The first coffee roasted on site in Japan and will be exclusively in Tokyo
- The first 4 story (55-foot-high) Roastery coffee cask in the world
- The finally the world’s largest Teavana Bar
Starbucks Roastery Environmental Commitment- In Pursuit of LEED Gold Certification
Starbucks is the largest user of LEED worldwide and the Tokyo Roastery is a prime example of the efforts Starbucks is making to reduce its environmental impact. Starbucks hired BEE to provide sustainable design and construction strategies for the Roastery which is in the process of obtaining the LEED Gold-level of certification.
Starbucks Roastery’s Sustainability Features:
- Energy efficient lighting, and systems are being used to optimise the overall energy consumption by as much as 26%.
- Green Power purchased to offset 100% of the store’s total energy consumption
- Low-flow water fixtures to reduce potable water use by 40%
- “Grounds for Your Garden” Recycling program to up-cycle spent coffee grounds: Starbucks packages the spent grounds and offers them for free to customers to enrich their gardens and compost
- As a new building, they managed to have at least 75% of the waste produced during construction, either recycled or salvaged.
- The store incorporates an array of innovative technologies focused on maximizing the health and well-being of the store’s customers and employees while minimizing energy, water, material consumption and thus environmental impacts.
- The ‘AMU’ Inspiration Lounge – that is designed to bring passionate people together for human connections and interaction.
BEE’s Starbucks LEED Stores
In addition to the, BEE worked closely with the Starbucks team on the LEED certification for their stores in:
- Hefei, China
- Shanghai Expo, China
- Hong Kong (first LEED Starbucks store in Hong Kong)
- Kobe, Japan
- New Delhi, India (first LEED Starbucks store in the city, second in India)
- Shanghai Roastery, China (Second Roastery in the world and the largest Starbucks worldwide)
- Milan Roastery, Italy (The most beautiful Starbucks in the world)
For more information about these stores, LEED and BEE click here.
