About seven years ago the issue of LEED certification was little or nothing known in Latin America; moreover, green buildings were not conceived as the paradigm of construction; and integration and automation only reached powerful companies.
But little by little the different industries and ordinary people began to understand what it meant to have environmentally friendly constructions and although you can no longer fight against climate change, you can improve a little the expenditure of water, electricity and waste management.
Could it be that the governments of Latin America will take the same path of the European Union and demand the adaptation of old buildings to be green?
Today we are no longer surprised to find news such as the construction of green and automated buildings; in fact, in the last version of TecnoEdificios we visited two of these: the Bancolombia building and the Engineering building of the Eafit University, both in Medellín, Colombia, and we could observe how the green trend increasingly frames the buildings. What is striking is the reception that the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification is generating in the region.
A few days ago I read several news on the subject. Commercial buildings, offices, accommodations, among others, have been built under environmental standards, as is happening in Colombia with the new headquarters of Isagen (power generator), a project that is registered with the US Green Building Council as a candidate for LEED Certification.
InterContinental® Hotels Group, IHG, is also seeking certification and therefore created an energy savings program that has already been launched in 1,000 of its hotels.
But I don't just mean efforts, there are also results. In Peru, the Tambo del Inka hotel in Cusco was certified, which saves 80% in water consumption and 36% in electricity consumption thanks to the use of refrigerants and an indoor air conditioning monitoring system.
This is very good news for the region and of course for the environment, I just hope that LEED certification is more than a fad in Latin America and that we move to change the situation.
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LEED certification, the new fashion?
About seven years ago the issue of LEED certification was little or nothing known in Latin America; moreover, green buildings were not conceived as the paradigm of construction; and integration and automation only reached powerful companies.
But little by little the different industries and ordinary people began to understand what it meant to have environmentally friendly constructions and although you can no longer fight against climate change, you can improve a little the expenditure of water, electricity and waste management.
Could it be that the governments of Latin America will take the same path of the European Union and demand the adaptation of old buildings to be green?
Today we are no longer surprised to find news such as the construction of green and automated buildings; in fact, in the last version of TecnoEdificios we visited two of these: the Bancolombia building and the Engineering building of the Eafit University, both in Medellín, Colombia, and we could observe how the green trend increasingly frames the buildings. What is striking is the reception that the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification is generating in the region.
A few days ago I read several news on the subject. Commercial buildings, offices, accommodations, among others, have been built under environmental standards, as is happening in Colombia with the new headquarters of Isagen (power generator), a project that is registered with the US Green Building Council as a candidate for LEED Certification.
InterContinental® Hotels Group, IHG, is also seeking certification and therefore created an energy savings program that has already been launched in 1,000 of its hotels.
But I don't just mean efforts, there are also results. In Peru, the Tambo del Inka hotel in Cusco was certified, which saves 80% in water consumption and 36% in electricity consumption thanks to the use of refrigerants and an indoor air conditioning monitoring system.
This is very good news for the region and of course for the environment, I just hope that LEED certification is more than a fad in Latin America and that we move to change the situation.
