“Ken is very aggressive when it comes to the ‘green stuff,’” Collage Cos. Pre-Construction Manager Keith Kolakowski says. “He wants to disrupt the banking system by doing what he’s doing.”
Because the Winter Park branch is an adaptive reuse project — a conversion of an existing office building — and not a new build, Kolakowski says Collage is aiming for LEED gold status. Also, as construction standards and practices evolve, it gets tougher to achieve platinum status.