Developers, Hotel Boost Sustainability with Water Treatment Technology
Silver Bullet’s Technology Reduces Water, Electricity, and Chemical Use in Buildings
WASHINGTON — A historic downtown hotel, the Willard InterContinental, and top D.C. property developers and owners Lerner Enterprises, Carr Properties, and WC Smith, joined with Silver Bullet, a water treatment company, to introduce a commercially available system that significantly increases building sustainability by cutting water, electricity, and chemical use in commercial buildings across the District, where sustainability has gained momentum under Executive Order 13514 on federal sustainability leadership and Mayor Gray’s Sustainable D.C. Plan.
“Lerner is pleased to announce that we are installing the Silver Bullet system throughout our entire D.C. area portfolio of properties,” said Scott Mead of Lerner Enterprises. “We tested the effectiveness of Silver Bullet in treating our cooling towers and condenser systems for 16 months and we were pleased with the results and the energy and water savings that followed. We expect to save millions of gallons of water and tens of thousands of kilowatt hours of electricity, allowing us to decrease the overall operating costs and increase the sustainability of our properties without any investment of capital.”