Orginally dedicated in 1980 the Museum and Visitor Center of the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor was in urgent need to replace and expand the existing facility. The Arizona Memorial Museum Association (AMMA) established the Pearl Harbor Memorial Fund (PHMF) to raise over $50 million in capital improvement funds from public and private sources. for improvements and expansion. 

The new faciliy is now complete and is now known as the Pearl Harbor Memorial Museum and Visitor Center. It will house an expanded state-of-the-art museum, a new research and educational center with a library and teleconferencing facility, an outdoor amphitheater, movie theaters for education and visitor orientation, an expanded book shop, and improved visitor space and facilities. The new facility has nearly doubled the size of the existing museum. The museum is designed to be the primary repository of artifacts and information related to the Attack on Pearl Harbor and the War in the Pacific. Th USS Arizona is aflagship for sustainable building practices. It has been constructed to attain LEED silver rating. The new buildings will actually use less energay than the ones it replaces even they are in total twice the size.

Construction included asphalt pathways throughout the  site  that were coated with StreetBondSR – Solar Reflective coating for LEED Credits.   StreetBondSR facilitates Urban Heat Island mitigation by reducing the amount of solar energy absorbed by the pavement surface. The color chosen was Irish Cream which has an SRI of 37.   The SRI (Solar Reflectance Index) is a measure of a hardscape surface’s ability to reflect solar heat. Standard black is 0 and standard white is 100. StreetBondSR colors have an SRI greater than 29 and therefore qualify for the LEED® program under Section SS Credit 7.1 Heat Island Effect: Non-Roof. For more information go to www.usgbc.org/LEED.

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