RenewAire’s energy recovery and indoor air quality (IAQ) equipment has helped numerous commercial building owners reach sustainability recognition. Now that same equipment, namely energy recovery ventilators (ERV) and dedicated outdoor air systems (DOAS), has helped the more than 35-year-old HVAC firm’s new 111,000-square-foot manufacturing plant achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification.
While the majority of LEED certifications go to high-performing office buildings, educational institutions and government facilities, any LEED level, let alone Gold, is a rare achievement for industrial buildings which account for less than five-percent of all levels of LEED certifications globally, according to the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). Industrial building owners typically concentrate more on price per square-foot costs than sustainability, according to the RenewAire project’s consulting engineer, Eric T. Truelove, P.E., GGA, LEED AP, Principal of Green Building Resources (GBR), Madison, Wis.