U.S. Green Building Council LEEDTM Green Building Rating System
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has
recently launched its innovative “Leadership in
Energy & Environmental Design” (LEED) Green
Building Rating System.
The USGBC states,
“LEED is a leading-edge system for designing,
constructing and certifying the world's best
buildings. Developed by the USGBC, LEED is a
comprehensive system of building rating and
certification that offers: Well-founded,
scientific standards, Up-to-date green
building training, A professional
accreditation program, Knowledgeable technical
support, and Prime educational and Internet
resources.”[1]
The LEED Rating
System
LEED focuses on a number of design and
construction categories which will reduce the
buildings environmental footprint and have
beneficial effect on occupant health.
Examples of
operating cost reduction projects we have engineered,
designed, built, and commissioned:
Effective PLC based high
efficiency burner pulse fired system management
resulting in a 30% reduction in natural gas
consumption by reducing combustible losses at the
burner.
Skidded deionized continuous
process water treatment resulting in longer
service cycles and elimination of regenerant
chemicals.
High efficiency, on demand
skidded steam generation, with 25% reduction in
fuel consumption by deploying high efficiency
burners, adaptive controls, and effective steam
counter flow technology.
Adaptive product batching
process and controls design with mass flow
metering, dry and liquid ingredient delivery, and
2 stage final metering providing repeatable batch
accuracy within 0.01%, resulting in optimal
ingredient usage.
Adaptive CIP process and
controls design with accurate chemical delivery,
solution batching, downstream process valve and
line cleaning, step termination based on time and
analytical instrumentation, resulting in reduced
cleaning cycle times and consistent low baseline
chemical consumption.
LEED
Category Points Available
1. Sustainable Sites 14
2. Water Efficiency 5
3. Energy and Atmosphere 17
4. Materials and Resources 13
5. Indoor Environmental Quality 15
6. LEED Innovation Credits 5
Total Points Available: 69
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