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The Yamaha Corporation’s new building in Medellin, Colombia was recently granted LEED Gold by the USGBC. The building is multipurpose and includes a museum, offices and an auditorium. Enersim, Ltd. performed the energy modeling for the project.

Hanesbrands’ sock manufacturing facility in San Juan Opico, El Salvador, opened in March 2009. This 450,000-square-foot facility has 1,000 employees who knit, bleach, dye, board, and pack millions of pairs of socks annually. The facility was designed with a variety of features to save energy, including:

• Skylights to maximize the use of natural light.
• Daylight harvesting, which is the use of digital photo sensors to detect daylight levels and automatically adjust the interior electric lighting to create a balance.
• LED technology for task lighting for work that requires a higher light level.

These lighting features alone will avoid nearly 4 million kilowatt-hours per year, saving approximately $380,000 per year.

The facility is one of the first LEED-certified apparel manufacturing facilities in the world.

Enerim, Ltd. performed the energy modeling for the project.

The Holiday Inn® Hotel & Suites Columbia-Airport in Columbia, South Carolina was just awarded LEED Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. Enersim, Ltd. performed the whole building energy simulation.

Getting a LEED Gold certification for the use of sustainable green-building techniques is a hard enough thing to achieve that, when you can do it for a historic renovation project, you’re in pretty exclusive company. Boston’s First Church of Christ, Scientist. A 1905 structure at President Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington, DC. The Council on Foreign Relations HQ in the capitol… to name a few prominent examples.

While it’s hard to win the certification for a single project, it’s even rarer to garner the certification for a multi-building campus to get that certification across it’s entire expanse.

[NOTE: Christian Stalberg, principal at Enersim, Ltd., performed the energy modeling for all five buildings.]

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