This is the information age. From the moment we start our day to the moment we turn in for the night, we’re bombarded with information of all kinds. Our brains cope with the information through internal censors that alert us to the information we want to see, and ignore what we don’t care to see.
But what do you do when there’s information you want, but can’t access?
That’s the case with most of our buildings. There is all kinds of information flowing out there about what is sustainable and can contribute to achieving certification from one of the many green rating systems... But how do we get that information when it’s so scattered?
This Sustainable Facility Special Bulletin, with technical content from GE for Sustainable Facility’s readers, helps narrow the focus with one website designed to let business customers tap into salient sustainability trends and issues.
Untangled Web: New Environmental Information Center from GE helps specifiers and customers cut speedier path to greater sustainability, bottom line gains
GE Consumer & Industrial’s new online Environmental Information Center (www.geconsumerandindustrial.com/environmentalinfo) examines and sorts lighting and electrical industry information in an all-encompassing Web site that business customers can tap for one-stop information gathering and learning about salient sustainability trends and issues.
Launched in June 2008, the site goes in-depth on legislation, laws, compliance codes, technology, specification information, EPAct and a variety of sustainability topics, including the U.S. Green Building Council’s voluntary LEED® Certification programs, GE’s lighting products of ecomagination™ and LEED® project certification points, including LEED®-NC (new construction) and LEED®-EB (existing building) certifications.
Not only does the site highlight all the environmental topics listed above, but also focuses on GE lighting and electrical products that contribute to LEED® certification project points. GE products can earn points within the following credits for LEED®-NC and LEED®-EB: Sustainable Sites, Water Efficiency, Energy & Atmosphere, Materials & Resources, Indoor Environmental Quality and Innovation in Operations.
Specifically, the following lighting and electrical products can obtain valuable certification points towards the overall project certification: Linear Fluorescent Lamps (T5 & T8), Electronic Ballasts, All Compact Fluorescent Lamps (screw-in and plug-in), High Intensity Discharge Lamps, Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), Drives, Lighting Controls, Modular Metering, Submetering, Transformers, Ventilation Fans and Motors. Connect to the product section of the NEW Environmental Information Center web site to review the specific credit applicability.
The new site also contains a picogram calculator for the lighting products. The calculator assists with the Materials & Resources credits that identify the level of mercury within lamps to ensure a specific picogram rating level is established. This tool validates many of the lighting products as credit-worthy when obtaining certification points.
Energy and environmental calculators can be found throughout the site while highlighting environmental trends and data as well. This multi-faceted site allows users to obtain a variety of energy saving information as well as environmentally preferable product alternatives.
GE designed the site with a compilation of information for architects, lighting designers, engineers, facility managers, construction managers, contractors, real estate professionals, government officials, end-user customers, distributors and OEMs.
“Visitors to our Environmental Information Center will notice that we’ve gone not just a mile wide, but also a mile deep in terms of what’s presented,” says Heather Wilson, Ecomagination Marketing Manager, GE Consumer & Industrial. “This extension of our customer education effort brings calm and order to the storm of information that our customers face every day about sustainability and the environmental and financial benefits of energy efficiency.”
One of GE’s motivations in creating the site was to anticipate growing interest in LEED® certification. The U.S. Green Building Council expects the number of LEED® certified buildings will climb 20 times higher between 2006 (4500 buildings) and 2010 (100,000 buildings). LEED® is a voluntary green building standard created by the U.S. Green Building Council, an independent environmental advocacy organization in Washington DC.
To visit GE Consumer & Industrial’s new Environmental Information Center, go to www.geconsumerandindustrial.com/environmentalinfo or link from www.gelighting.com or www.geelectrical.com.
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About GE Consumer & Industrial GE Consumer & Industrial spans the globe as an industry leader in major appliance, lighting and integrated industrial equipment, systems and services. Providing solutions for commercial, industrial and residential use in more than 100 countries, GE Consumer & Industrial uses innovative technologies and "ecomagination," a GE initiative to aggressively bring to market new technologies that help customers and consumers meet pressing environmental challenges, to deliver comfort, convenience and electrical protection and control. General Electric (NYSE: GE) brings imagination to work, selling products under the Monogram®, Profile™ GE®, Hotpoint®, SmartWater™ Reveal® and Energy Smart™ consumer brands, and Entellisys® industrial brand. |
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