In order to provide more efficient service and maintenance to its Metropolitan Nashville customers, Piedmont Natural Gas selected an architectural firm to design a new facility for its Tennessee Operations Center. The new facility has achieved LEED Gold, and the 58,000-square-foot building program consists of offices, training areas, and warehouse space situated on 13 acres of the 31-acre site. A large multi-functional assembly room and commercial kitchen are also on site, along with a credit union for employees. The center has a large service yard that houses raw materials storage in covered and protected bunkers. It also includes a vehicle wash station, service vehicles with fast-fill and slow-fill compressed natural gas fueling connects, in addition to storage for other maintenance materials and equipment. This new two-story building includes an out building of approximately 10,000 square feet. The structural system of the building is steel framing bearing on steel columns. Stewart provided structural and civil engineering.