This West Hollywood building was designed in accordance with Los Angeles’ Green Building Ordinance, which aims to create more sustainable infrastructure. Design elements include, but are not limited to, bedrooms located on the street side to maximize natural light, native and drought-tolerant landscaping, a computer-controlled irrigation system, and two photovoltaic panels along the side of the building which provide all of the power for the building’s common spaces.

In November of 2020, Planet Optima completed a project to compliment the existing water and energy efficiency features of the building. The scope of the project was to replace the apartments’ 1.6 gallon per flush (GPF) toilets with new 0.8 GPF High Efficiency Toilets (HET). The reduction of water per flush is 50% for each of the 45 toilets replaced. Over a period of one year the replacement of these fixtures will result in estimated savings of 48,384 gallons  based on the amount of times the average American flushes per day.

This is a small scale example of the projects Planet Optima has completed throughout Los Angeles County. We take pride in participating in the effort towards meeting the State’s water conservation goals; whether on a 45 toilet project or a 2,200 toilet project.