Chile. Four buildings to be built in Santiago will seek LEED certification, awarded by the U.S. Green Building Council, reflecting a growing trend in implementing sustainable and efficiency standards and principles in the construction of new buildings around the world.The projects that will apply for certification have a high influence in the Chilean capital, due to their size and the places where they will be built. These are the new offices of Farmacias Cruz Verde, which will have a façade with climate control that will reduce the energy used by 30%, in addition to night ventilation systems and its location will take advantage of solar energy, especially during the winter; the Deloitte corporate building, which would open in 2012, whose façade will have a design with breaks that will allow better use of the sun's rays.
On the other hand, the Costanera Lyon apartment building, with LED lighting systems and savings of up to 20% in water consumption, would be the first collective housing type property that would obtain certification; and the U. Diego Portales Library, with an area of 15 thousand square meters built with materials that do not emit polluting particles, will also have a façade covered by vegetation and a water reuse system.
