Can you provide some examples?
If a company has re-roofed a distribution center or DC parking lot with lighter-colored materials—or even to put something such as grass on the roof—it’s significantly reduced that facility’s heat island effect. If it’s changed to more modern lighting technologies, it may have reduced its light-related electricity requirements by as much as 70 percent.
And if ongoing drought conditions have inspired it to seek out new landscaping options that make better use of things like storm water, it’s probably dramatically lowered its water consumption.
These activities are exactly the kinds of things that LEED validators look for during a facility certification process. And as an added bonus, they’re often the kinds of things that CFOs and accounting departments love, because many of them wind up being money-savers, too.