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  • Incolmotos Yamaha Gains LEED Gold

    Incolmotos Yamaha Gains LEED Gold

    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’ Socks Manufacturing Facility LEED Certified

    HanesBrands’ Socks Manufacturing Facility LEED Certified

    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.

  • LEED Gold Certification Achieved for Holiday Inn® Hotel & Suites Columbia-Airport

    LEED Gold Certification Achieved for Holiday Inn® Hotel & Suites Columbia-Airport

    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.

  • Golden Belt earns regional-first LEED Gold for entire arts campus

    Golden Belt earns regional-first LEED Gold for entire arts campus

    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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