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Wright Line’s Compass™, LINX®, LMS™, Optimedia®, Profile®, TechBench™ and TechCart™ product lines hold the GREENGUARD Certification. The GREENGUARD Certification Program is internationally recognized for evaluating product emissions that meet stringent indoor air quality criteria defined by GREENGUARD Environmental Institute (GEI). Products undergo rigorous, third-party testing to determine their impact on indoor air pollution with requirements for ongoing verification. For a complete listing of certified Wright Line products, view the GREENGUARD Online Product Guide at www.greenguard.org. Certified products are recommended for use by leading sustainable building programs, including the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Rating System.

Save Energy Now® is a national initiative of the Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) to drive a reduction of 25% or more in industrial energy intensity in 10 years.

 

 

Wright Line's Energy, Environmental and Design Qualities

View Wright Line's Environmental Sustainability Green Design Qualities.

 

Recycled Materials

Wright Lines uses an extensive amount of recycled products in the manufacturing process

Material Description
Steel 30% – 35% recycled content
Fabric 100% recycled polyester (post-consumer)
GREENGUARD Certified
Laminate 60% recycled paper (post-industrial)
GREENGUARD Certified

 
Particle Board 100% recycled wood/wood fiber/cellulose content
Packaging 100% recycled post consumer/industrial material

Manufacturing Process

Wright Line is very aggressive in recycling during the manufacturing process, diverting substantial amount of material from the industrial waste stream.

Material Description
Steel 100% of steel scrap from manufacturing process is recycled
Paint Environmentally safe epoxy powder coat paint system captures and recycles/reuses 95% of over spray
Corrugated Cardboard We recycled, on average, 3.3 tons of corrugated cardboard per month in 2008 (39.32 tons for the year). This includes packaging waste from manufacturing process and New England Installations corrugated packaging that is removed from customer locations after a job and brought back to our site.
Electronics Obsolete electronic components such as computer monitors, desktop PCs, printers, and fax machines, etc., are shipped off site via licensed haulers for reclamation.
Florescent & metal halide light bulbs All our burned out light bulbs are shipped off site via licensed haulers so the mercury and other toxic metals can be reclaimed and properly managed to help protect our environment.
Tyvek® Coveralls Maintenance and Paint Department coveralls are sold to a recycler who launders them and re-sells them for secondary use.
Waste Machine Oils Shipped off site via licensed haulers to be used in the blending of secondary fuels.

Point Contribution Considerations for LEED Certification 

LEED-NC: New Construction & Major Renovation

Energy & Atmosphere

Optimize Energy Performance

  • Wright Line Technical Office products, by design and proper application, help reduce Energy Costs associated with HVAC. As a modular furniture platform, optional modesty/privacy panel heights allow for better air circulation at the floor level. This reduces “ON” time of both heat and cooling systems resulting in lower energy costs.
  • This also reduces the use of space heaters, further reducing energy consumption
Materials & Resources

Recycled Content

  • Steel - 30% to 35%
  • Fabric – 100%
  • Particle Board/Fiber Board/Wood Composite - 100%
Indoor Air Quality

Low-Emitting Materials

  • Wright Line uses a higher % of steel throughout the product lines, steel is a non-emitting material.

Thermal Comfort

  • As noted in Energy and Atmosphere – the design and application of the technical office products increases air flow at floor level, reducing hot and cold spots, assists in reducing sunrise-to-sunset temperature variations, resulting in a more consistent and comfortable indoor temperature. Panel systems block air flow.

LEED–CI: Commercial Interiors

There are redundant aspects of the NC and CI guidelines. All energy, temperature and emission items are similar. The following are additional requirements.

Indoor Environmental Quality

Day Light & Views - % of Spaces

  • The modular design and proper application (design to space & operation) of Wright Line Technical Office products allows for optimal configurations that allow more daylight to reach more people. Panel systems are not as flexible in a open floor plan environment

General Topics

Life Cycle Costs The Wright Line modular design is not only reconfigurable but can also be repurposed. By their nature Tech Office Products can bridge office and technical (Lab, IT) applications as needed or required, with very little costs or obsolescence. This lowers the life cycle costs of the product.
Sustainability

A key component of Green Initiatives is the sustainability of green quality. Wright Line contributes to sustaining a Green Building by:

  • Providing long in service life cycles – reuse/repurposing of products over time – high non-obsolescence
  • Wright Line Lifetime warranty backs this up
  • High recycled/recovered materials content
  • o High steel content has a longer life span than all wood products
Space Planning Wright Line provides high density office space utilization. We conserve physical space by extensive vertical space utilization and management. Higher yield of less space is a lower cost to the property owner or tenant allowing for more Green Space within the physical building footprint.