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Life-Enhancing Design
An Accessible, Supportive Environment
From lighting, flooring and furniture choices to purposefully planned spaces – every apartment and common area is intentionally designed to help you move around more safely, easily and confidently throughout the community.
Community Design Features
- Augmented Chair Heights with Armrests
- Low Tables with Rounded Edges
- Moisture-Wicking Upholstery
- Wide Walkways
- Supportive Handrails
- Optimized Lighting
- Non-Skid Flooring
- Wayfinding, Event and Safety Signage
- Elevators and Electronic Doors
- Wheelchair-Accessible Ramps
- Manicured Sidewalks
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Apartment Design Features
- 24-Hour Emergency Alert System
- Walk-In Showers with Removable Shower Head
- ADA-Compliant Toilets and Toilet Rails Available
- Wheelchair-Accessible Sinks Available
- Non-Skid Flooring
- Easily Accessible Electrical Outlets
- Personally Controlled Thermostats
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Designed to benefit generations to come
Elegance Berkeley has been designed to achieve GreenPoint Rated Gold Certification, as mandated by the state of California. GreenPoint is an independent, third-party verification system that emphasizes energy efficiency, water conservation, indoor air quality, resource conservation, and livable communities.
We are an urban-infill, mixed-use development in a designated brownfield site, utilizing an adaptable, universal building design. Our environmentally conscious features include:
- Low-emission, 30% post-consumer or 60% post-industrial recycled content in insulation in walls and floors
- Minimal grass turf in landscape design to reduce water usage
- Durable, fire-resistant cladding and roofing materials
- Water Sense shower heads, faucets and toilets, and insulated hot water pipes
- ENERGY STAR certified appliances
- Van Dyken mechanical ventilation systems for improved indoor air quality
- Zero-VOC interior wall and ceiling paints and low-emitting flooring
- Location less than one mile from a major transit stop and community services
- 5 to 8 foot wide sidewalks buffered from roadways
- A tobacco-free building
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