Green Buildings

Green Building is the design and construction of buildings giving careful consideration to three main elements: healthy indoor environment, maximum energy efficiency and conservative, thoughtful use of natural resources. Ghigos goes one step further, including the architectural and design element when providing energy efficiency services to new building construction and renovations.

Green buildings are environmentally responsible, economically viable, and healthier places in which to work and live. They require a common sense approach to design, but have been proven to not have significant impact on first costs. If green concepts are incorporated early in the design process, a certified green building may cost no more to build than a code compliant building. A one-time ingreen_buildingsblack1vestment premium of less than 1% of first costs can increase energy efficiency over standard building code practices by 20-30%.

Increases in efficiency directly translate into economic benefit and reduction or elimination of adverse environmental impacts.

Ghigos Energy’s green buildings services include technical assistance to provide whole building energy modeling using appropriate modeling programs

 

 

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Paper Reduction Tips

There’s many things we can all do to reduce our paper consumption, be eco-chic, and save some cash!

►For printing or copying, purchase paper containing recycled content
►Decrease margin, footer and header sizes and don’t use double line spacing if not necessary. This can save up to 50% on paper consumption (and cost).
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tons of CO2 to the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels

The U.S. has added ... importing fossil fuel.

source: zfacts.com/