SLIDESHOW: Inside PAMF's New LEED Gold Clinic

The Palo Alto Medical Foundation’s newest building at 49 Wells Avenue has been awarded LEED Gold certification for superior green design.

The 17,000-square-foot building, which opened to patients last fall, houses the Breast Imaging Center, Encina Practice and Executive Health Program.

Developed in March 2000 by the US Green Building Council, LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, offers building owners and operators "a framework for identifying and implementing practical and measurable green building design, construction, operations and maintenance solutions…and promotes sustainable building and development practices through a suite of rating systems that recognize projects that implement strategies for better environmental and health performance," according to the LEED website.