Mexico. The BEA-347 building, located in Monterrey, Nuevo León, has become the first building in Latin America to achieve double LEED Platinum Certification.
Data shared by the American Council on Sustainable Building (Usgbc) indicate that the building, owned by the company Bioconstruction and Alternative Energy (BEA), can reduce energy use by 30%, carbon emissions by 35%, water consumption by around 50% and generates savings of between 50 and 90% in the cost of waste management.
The double certification that the property has is due to the fact that in 2011 it received the LEED Platinum as a new building in version 2.2 (New Construction) and now and now it was granted the LEED Ebom certification (Existing Building: Operation and Maintenance) version 4. The Ebom is one of the most used models in Mexico, with 60 projects.
The building works based on clean energy such as photovoltaic panels, solar heaters and wind turbines that autonomously produce 13.09% of the energy consumed by the property.
