As a member of The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) since 2011, our company maintains a vested interest in the way buildings and communities are designed, built and operated. It’s important to not that LEED certified buildings often include Aero-Dyne Turning Vanes & Rails.
Mechanical engineers, when drawing up the plans for their projects, know and understand the value of our turning vanes for delivering higher efficiency, lower pressure loss and decreased noise reduction, especially when they are compared to generic vanes.
And though our turning vanes play a small role in the overall design and build of a ‘green building project’ it is important to our company to know that our products help make a difference and can lessen the impact of new projects within the communities they’re built in.
A question that’s can be asked is, can green buildings really show sustainability?
Though this article in US News & World Report was written a year ago, we just came across it and wanted to share it. It helps to showcase that yes, green buildings do show sustainability (and this has been proved through various business cases).
Read the full article here: The Business Case for Green Buildings
Some key points from the article:
>> More than 20,000 LEED certified buildings have been erected worldwide since the standards were first published 14 years ago. As a result, a lot of data is available on the economic performance of sustainable buildings.
>> Traditional thinking focuses on first costs – the cost to build the building in the first place – rather than life cycle costs, the costs to operate the building over the years. Green building practices may be close to break even on a first cost basis, but the real payoff comes in when viewed through the lens of life-cycle costing.
>> As green buildings have continued in operation, researchers began to study the impact of sustainability on tenants. Tenants, it turned out, were more healthy and productive in LEED buildings. Their air is cleaner, the lighting is better, more daylight reaches interior occupants, temperature is better controlled and toxins like formaldehyde are kept out.
For more information on how The Business Case for Green Building, visit the USGBC website.
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