{"id":373,"date":"2014-10-01T08:02:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T08:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/priorclavena.wpengine.com\/?p=291"},"modified":"2020-11-03T23:27:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T23:27:06","slug":"blogpower-leed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.priorclave.com\/en-us\/2014\/10\/01\/blogpower-leed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of LEED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your LEED certification is the beginning, not the end, of laboratory sustainability. Coming off our sponsorship of I2SL, the Priorclave NA team is all the more committed to ensuring that our products and practices are\u00a0environmentally sustainable and support your quest for greater efficiency and sustainability \u2013 because it\u2019s a fact: Your autoclave can create significant hurdles to LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification and efficient operations.<\/p>\n<h2>Energy Efficient Autoclaves and LEED<\/h2>\n<p>The only way for a building to be meaningfully efficient \u2013 cost efficient, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.priorclave.com\/en-us\/why-priorclave\/energy-water-efficiency\/\">energy efficient<\/a>, operationally efficient \u2013 is to treat the facility as an integrated system. Architects can design a building to be LEED gold, but if you then fill your labs with the wrong equipment, the building is going to struggle to function at that level of sustainability. In this regard, inefficient medical-grade sterilizers are a major culprit.<\/p>\n<p>Choosing an energy efficient autoclave has meaningful \u201csecond-order\u201d effects. An energy efficient autoclave \u2013 one which can be fully powered down, minimizes electric consumption, wastes no excess water, and doesn\u2019t rely on a steam jacket or bolt-on steam-generator \u2013 pumps less heat and moisture into your lab. Lowering the \u201cbuilding load\u201d in this fashion doesn\u2019t just save energy and money. It significantly simplifies the building\u2019s HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air\u00a0conditioning) system. Efficient HVAC engineering is richly rewarded under LEED.<\/p>\n<h2>LEED Points and Energy Efficient Autoclaves<\/h2>\n<p>LEED tends to encourage facilities to simplify and minimize their HVAC systems. Of the 35 possible points in the LEED \u201cEnergy and Atmosphere\u201d category, 19 are within the \u201cOptimize Energy Performance\u201d credit. This is the most important credit in the LEED scheme, because LEED places such a high priority on reducing energy use and delaying climate collapse. Simpler systems are also easier for occupants to meaningfully control \u2013 earning points in the Indoor Environmental Quality \u201cThermal Comfort\u201d credits (which focus on the control, design, and verification of HVAC systems).<\/p>\n<p>But if your building has a smaller LEED-friendly HVAC system, and you then install an always-on, always-hot medical-grade autoclave, you are going to be fighting that HVAC system 24\/7. This leads to uncomfortable working conditions, damaging levels of moisture, and strains the system itself, driving up energy consumption. In short, it\u2019s the exact opposite of what you were attempting to accomplish by designing to LEED standards.<\/p>\n<h2>Looking Down the Road<\/h2>\n<p>The next version of LEED standard \u2013 LEED v4 \u2013 is expected to see wide adoption by 2016. The LEED v4 Water Efficiency prerequisites entirely disallow several mechanisms that most conventional medical autoclaves rely on (Venturi ejectors, once-thru cooling with potable water, and constant fresh-eater bleeds \u2013 all explained in detail in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.priorclave.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/08\/Is-Your-Autoclave-Bleeding-You-Dry.pdf\">autoclave water consumption<\/a> whitepaper). This is a great move, because it helps assure that a LEED building is actually functioning as efficiently as you\u2019d hope. But there are bound to be some pretty unhappy facility managers and admins who suddenly discover that it no longer matters how fantastically efficient your toilets are, nor how many solar panels are up on the roof: That hospital-style autoclave chugging away in the humid corner of your lab means no LEED v4 certificate hanging in your lobby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your LEED certification is the beginning, not the end, of laboratory sustainability. 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