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Ence Commercial Construction
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Green Building
What is a Green Building ? Green building is the practice of increasing the efficiency with which buildings use resources — energy, water, and materials — while reducing building impacts on human health and the environment, through better siting, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and removal — the complete building life cycle. Green Building Practices Green building brings together a vast array of practices and techniques to reduce and ultimately eliminate the impacts of buildings on the environment and human health. Low-impact building materials are used wherever feasible. Architectural salvage and reclaimed materials are used when appropriate. Green building often emphasizes taking advantage of renewable resources, e.g., using sunlight through passive solar, active solar, and photovoltaic techniques. Optimizing the heating and cooling systems through installing energy efficient machinery, commissioning, and heat recovery. How is Ence Commercial Construction Green Building? The new Washington City Public Works building is one of many examples of Green Building. The building includes the use of 10 tubular skylights though out the building to help utilize natural light and reduce energy costs.
The use of tubular skylights( as pictured above ) in the new Washington Public Works building is one of many Green Building techniques that Ence Commercial Construction incorporates in all of our building projects. LEED What is LEED ? The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™ encourages and accelerates global adoption of sustainable green building and development practices through the creation and implementation of universally understood and accepted tools and performance criteria. LEED is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings. LEED gives building owners and operators the tools they need to have an immediate and measurable impact on their buildings’ performance. LEED promotes a whole-building approach to sustainability by recognizing performance in five key areas of human and environmental health: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality. LEED certification provides independent, third-party verification that a building project meets the highest green building and performance measures. There are both environmental and financial benefits to earning LEED certification. LEED-certified buildings:
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