The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that Americans spend about 90% of their day indoors, where the air quality can be significantly worse than outside. The Indoor Environmental Quality credit category promotes strategies that can improve indoor air as well as providing access to natural daylight and views and improving acoustics.
During both the construction and operations phases, buildings generate a lot of waste and use a lot of materials and resources. This credit promotes the reduction of waste as well as reuse and recycling, and it takes into account the reduction of waste at a product’s source.
Our process incorporates the use of products that are environmentally friendly to, our employees, and the occupants of the facility you manage. OUr awareness of the critical indoor environment in any facility will help you comply with LEED certification requirements.
Reducing consumption levels through restoration and reengineering furniture, and architectural millwork helps save forests and reduces greenhouse gasses. Much of the consumption is not only in manufacturing the furniture but in the packaging, transportation and installation processes. Restoration, Reengineering and redesigning will help you comply with LEED certification requirements.
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