Owens Corning, partners to provide efficiency solutions for campuses, communities

January 2, 2009—Global building materials and composite solutions provider Owens Corning recently announced the formation of a strategic alliance to provide tailored solutions that help communities reduce energy use by up to 50 percent and CO2 emissions by up to 80 percent versus standard developments.

The integrated, holistic approach reduces the environmental impact of developers, campuses, and entire communities by focusing on both the way energy is distributed and enhancements to the energy efficiency of individual buildings.

With the launch, the alliance is embarking on a number of initiatives, ranging from college campuses in Ohio to a community in Urumqi, China, with the primary focus on new and renovated communities in North America. When complete, the Integrated Energy Master Plan that serves as the basis for the implementation plans for these communities includes the detailed pathway to:

  • Reduce energy demand, ranging from 25 to 50 percent, compared to the typical building-by-building approach to improving energy efficiency
  • Use smaller equipment to heat or cool the buildings, thus reducing cost and waste in the project
  • Reduce the need for each building to operate as an island, allowing peak loading for the system to be distributed among all the buildings and reducing the overall peak loads and energy waste
  • Decrease greenhouse gas emissions of up to 80 percent compared to business as usual energy use and delivery approaches.

The alliance includes Owens Corning; MVV decon GmbH, an international consulting subsidiary of the Mannheim-based German company MVV Energiedienstleistungen GmbH; and Garforth International, LLC, a Toledo and Brussels, Belgium-based provider of energy productivity solutions.

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