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The Dhivyam Jewels store in Salem, Tamilnadu, India achieved LEED Gold certification, making it the first jewellery store in India to do so. It incorporates several green features that reduce energy consumption and environmental impact. The newsletter also discusses how the town of Greensburg, Kansas rebuilt sustainably after being nearly destroyed by a tornado, with many new buildings saving $200,000 annually in energy costs. Additionally, heat exchangers purchased for a California Institute of Technology lab are projected to reduce energy use for cooling major equipment by 87%.
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- 1. En3-Newsletter-August-2012 Page 1 of 1 Issue 20: August 2012 Project Name: ANS Dhivyam Jewels Location: Salem, Tamilnadu Rating: LEED India NC ‐ Gold Key Sustainability Features The Dhivyam Jewels store owned by ANS Jewellers is the first jewellery store in India to achieve LEED GOLD certification under LEED India NC version 1.0. The project sports many green features that directly contribute to the environment in terms of reduced energy consumption, impact on the local environment and usage of natural resources. More... News from our California Office Energy Efficiency and Disaster Management On May 4, 2007, a massive tornado destroyed or severely damaged Greensburg incorporated simple design features, considered most 95% of Greensburg, Kansas. Since then, city and community leaders reliable, such as daylighting, high performance windows and ground‐ have been committed to rebuilding the town as a model sustainable source heat pumps that accommodate passive energy savings. Its new community. Experts from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the 48,500‐square‐foot Kiowa County Memorial Hospital, the first critical National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) worked with city access hospital in the nation to achieve LEED Platinum certification, leaders, business owners, and residents to identify ways to incorporate includes an ultra high‐efficiency magnetic bearing chiller with a energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies into the new secondary unit for waste heat recovery and energy recovery wheels for buildings. The town showcases energy‐saving best practices that can heating or cooling ventilation air. Including use of renewables, the Our Green Building Footprint be replicated not only in other communities recovering from disaster, hospital achieved a 59 percent annual energy savings compared to a but any location focused on sustainability. Founded in 1886, typical existing hospital, the DOE states. Greensburg relied on the agricultural, oil, and gas industries to sustain In other news,at the Pasadena‐based California Institute of Technology 125 Million Square Feet its economy. The city of Greensburg acted as a municipal utility, selling (CalTech), the Institute for Environmental Science purchased ten heat electricity, water, sewer, and trash services to Greensburg customers. exchangers from Cannon Design for its lab, says Gerald Williams, across India, Asia, Middle East, Like so many other rural towns across America, Greensburg had been mechanical engineer at Cannon Design in St. Louis, Missouri. An experiencing a steady decline in population over the past several independent study commissioned by CalTech projects the technology, Africa & the U.S. decades. In contrast to a disaster that affects isolated parts of a designed by Cannon, will reduce the laboratory’s energy use for community, the near‐complete devastation in Greensburg made long‐ cooling major lab equipment by 87 percent compared with traditional range and comprehensive community planning imperative before chillers. substantial rebuilding could begin. Rather than moving away after the The heat exchangers allow the building to use captured rainwater tornado, Greensburg residents turned disaster into opportunity and cooled via night‐sky cooling for the HVAC system and additionally use it created a vision to rebuild as a sustainable community. Thirteen new as point‐of‐source cooling for spectrometers, lasers and other heat‐ Greensburg buildings are saving a combined total of $200,000 in producing equipment in the lab. energy costs per year. “It is much easier and efficient in terms of materials and energy to cool or heat buildings using water than forced air,” he says Please visit www.en3online.com Please Click here to Unsubscribe If you wish to subscribe to this newsletter, please click Subscribe http://www.en3online.com/admin/newsletter/NL1020_August-2012-Newsletter.html 8/31/2012