• Dual paned low emissivity glass, reduces solar heat gain
• Recycled flyash in the concrete footings, slab and panels
• High recycled content structural steel, ranging from 25% to 90%
• Low-flow toilets and urinals, infra-red faucet sensors, reduce water usage
• Room dedicated to collection and sorting of recyclables
• Construction waste – large % diverted from the landfill
• Energy efficient light fixtures generate less heat, require less cooling
• Motion sensors in conference rooms turn off lights automatically when there has been no activity for several minutes
• Many adhesives, sealants, carpet, specified for their low emissions. Low VOC (volatile organic compound) paint for better indoor air quality
• Materials and building components specified not just for their recycled content, but also for their proximity to the jobsite, to reduce amount of truck emissions.
• Standard Haworth workstations have a recycled content of 48%
• Energy Star highly reflective roof, to reduce solar heat gain, and thus reduce cooling needs

2. Current green practices at AHM’s existing facilities:

• All new carpet tiles have recycled content. All old carpet tiles are hauled back to the mill to be recycled into new carpet tiles, and are not taken to the landfill.
• The lighting in the majority of the warehouses across the country is very energy efficient, and most facilities have either HPS light fixtures which are automatically lowered to 50% of capacity when there is no activity in the aisles, or T5 energy efficient fluorescents with motion sensors. Energy efficient fluorescents are individually turned off when no activity occurs in the vicinity.
•  Environmentally friendly, recycled and recyclable materials and products have been used in Honda facilities across the country. This applies to new as well as remodeled projects, leased and owned buildings, such as: Hoffman Estates, Illinois; Englewood, Colorado; Irving, Texas; Chino, California; Training Centers at Windsor Locks, Connecticut; Mount Laurel, New Jersey; Irving, Texas; Richmond, Virginia; and French Camp, California.

3. There are also green features unique to each new building, as follows:

• Rainwater is harvested  from the warehouse roof, stored in a 90,000 gallon underground tank, filtered, treated and used to flush toilets and irrigate landscaping
• Passive air conditioning system draws outside air in through vents at the perimeter walls of the office area, under the raised office floor, where it is heated or cooled as needed, and up through grilles set in the floor. The air is drawn up via large “chimneys” or ductwork and expelled through turbines on the roof. The local Columbia River Gorge winds turn the turbines and air is drawn up 40 feet from grade to the top of the warehouse roof
• Intelligent lighting system in the office automatically increases or decreases amount of artificial light needed according to daylight conditions outside

• At night, chillers cool a salt-based solution to 22 degrees, and it is circulated through coils in a water pit, causing ice to form on the outside of the coils. During daytime, the solution is passed through a heat exchanger, and the salt-based solution is replaced by glycol at 42 degrees, and pumped to two adjacent buildings to cool them. This efficient and cost effective method has the capacity to cool additional buildings in the future
• Bio-diesel, a plant-based renewable fuel source, is used in the emergency generator, with reduced emissions of up to 75% when compared with mineral-based diesel

• Approx 20% flyash used in the concrete mix in the 500,000 square foot warehouse slab. Flyash is a by-product of coal-powered power stations, and would normally be hauled to the landfill
• Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified wood for the Resindek mezzanine decking. FSC wood comes from a sustainingly managed forest and has documentation showing chain of custody from the forest to the building.
• Expansion area south of the warehouse planted with prairie grasses requiring no irrigation

• A large percentage of the site was not developed, leaving open space, and where there is site disturbance, habitat will be restored for local flora and fauna
• Because of the project’s location in Colorado, ample use will be made of outside air in the mechanical system, to maximize free cooling

• Steel wall panels wrap exterior of building, panels have 30% recycled content, and come from a manufacturing plant under 500 miles from the jobsite
• The metal “skin”, high insulation levels and reduced number of windows will give the building a very energy efficient envelope