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Wal-Mart Opens Energy-Efficient Supercenter in Kansas City |
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Written by Administrator
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Saturday, 07 July 2007 03:54 |
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2007-01-24
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. opened the first in a series of more efficient stores last week in Kansas City, Missouri. The new store will use 20 percent less energy than a typical Wal-Mart Supercenter. The store integrates "industry-leading" heating, cooling, and refrigeration systems to reduce energy use. The systems reclaim the heat rejected by the refrigeration system and put it to use in the heating, ventilating, and air conditioning system, which also relies on a water source heat pump for heating and cooling towers for cooling. Other energy-saving technologies in the new store include a top-of-the-line dehumidification system and quick-closing doors to seal air in areas such as the garden center....
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Source: A Consumer's Guide to Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, January 24, 2007 |
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The Path to Platinum |
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Written by Administrator
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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 13:29 |
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By: Ken Shulman
2006-12-15
After 25 years spent practicing sustainable architecture, BNIM earns the highest rating under LEED – a tool the Kansas City firm's own efforts helped to create.
More than mere sentimental marker, the former Mast headquarters serves as a milestone for BNIM, one of the pioneers of green design. The package of concepts they employed for the first time there – the reliance on natural light, the narrow footprint and east-west orientation, the gray concrete used to reduce embedded energy, the attention to ventilation, conservation, and site protection – still constitutes the core elements of the firm's greenest works. They also speak to its role in defining and refining the myriad elements that characterize sustainable design today.
"I prefer not to use words like first or longest or best when talking about design," says Mark Shapiro – former head of the department of architecture at Kansas State University, who became a BNIM principal in 2004 – downplaying the firm's role as green groundbreaker. "The idea isn't to be the first one across the finish line. It's to stay in the race and to continue to get better as you go."…
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Source: Metropolis Magazine, December 2006 |
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