LEED (Leadership
in Energy & Environmental Design)
The U.S. Green Building Council
is the nation’s foremost coalition of leaders from across
the building industry working to promote buildings that
are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy
places to live and work. It is leading a national consensus
for producing a new generation of buildings that deliver
high performance inside and out. As a member of LEED,
using our products may help to achieve LEED credits
(up to 4 credits) or points (up to 2 points). The LEED
program focuses exclusively on an individual building
structure not a specific product. The purpose of the
program is to evaluate the whole building from an environmental
performance perspective over the buildings life cycle
to determine if the building is a “green building.
Sustainability
Under normal type of foot wear and tear as well as traffic,
rubber flooring typically outlasts carpet and linoleum floors.
The tiles can be managed in such a way that their life span
is doubled and even tripled. Moving the interlocking pieces
away from high traffic zones and exchanging them with other
interlocking tiles-mats-blocks in low traffic zones achieve
this. In addition, the interlocking tiles-mats-blocks are
sometimes reversible (depending on the product) and easy
to re-install if needed, thus extending the life span.
Once the unitary rubberized safety surfacing, flooring and
pavers are no longer being used, the can be shipped back
to “UNITY” for recycling. This resulting
materials are then used in manufacturing our other
environmentally friendly products such as: Tough-Land, Pave-Land,
Play-Land, Soft-land, Rainbow land and even Rubber-Land.
Materials & Resources Credit 4:
Recycled Content
Intent: Increase
demand for building products that incorporates recycled
content materials, therefore reducing the impacts resulting
from extraction and process of new virgin materials.
Credit 4.1 (1 point)
Requirements: Used materials
with recycled content such that the sum
of post-consumer recycled content plus one-half
of the post-industrial content constitutes
at least 5% of the total value of the materials
in the project.
Credit 4.2 (1 point)
Requirements: Used materials
with recycled content such that the sum
of post-consumer recycled content plus one-half
of the post-industrial content constitutes
at least 10% of the total value of the materials
in the project.
Potential Technologies & Strategies: Establish a project goal for the recycled content
materials and identify material suppliers that can achieve
this goal. During construction, ensure that the specified
recycled content materials are installed and quantify the
total percentage of recycled content materials installed. |
