PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – Gov. John Lynch yesterday joined employees of Service CU to celebrate the laying of the final beam to complete the steel frame of the credit union’s new, 100,000-square-foot headquarters building.
The final beam for the completed steel frame was laid by a crane following the governor’s remarks.
The new headquarters will replace the $1.9-billion credit union’s current 19,000-square-foot offices and will have an LEED environmentally friendly rating. The project is slated for completion in the fall of 2012.
The new corporate offices will be designed and built using strategies intended to improve performance in energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction and improved indoor environmental quality. Some of LEED elements of the building include skylights, geothermal heating and natural sunlight.
The four-story building will feature a full-service, 24/7 member service call center, foreign exchange, member check imaging, processing and control, finance, and three community rooms. Initially it will house 60 employees, with plans to add as many as 40 more over the next five years.
