Soon-to-be-mothers can have a picture-perfect view of the mountains in the maternity room at the new Weed Army Community Hospital at Fort Irwin, California. The hospital is the Department of Defense’s first LEED-Platinum, carbon-neutral medical facility built in the It generates all of the energy it needs by solar power and other renewable energy systems. It is one of three LEED Platinum medical facilities built in the , but the only one built for the Department of Defense. The hospital officially opened Sept. 21 at Fort Irwin.

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