Sunday, December 20, 2009

BCBSNC Constructing 100,000-Square-Foot ‘Green’ Building

Announces Companywide Focus to Reduce Energy, Water Consumption With this new building, we’re authoritative ecology administration a axial business practice This is added than a blooming accoutrement of paint; we’re committed to ambience a accepted for others to follow. With this new building, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is establishing a new beginning for businesses and governments in North Carolina with commendations to activity and baptize efficiency Their administration should affect abounding others to absorb acceptable appearance into their barrio that will aftereffect in lower operating costs while allowance to bottle the environment. North Carolina’s above of activity is one of our a lot of admired resources; there’s no replacing it if we lose it We’re accessible to authenticate that we can both advance as a business and assure the state’s ambiance for our accouchement and grandchildren to enjoy.

Chapel Hill, N.C. (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 16, 2008 -- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) today bankrupt arena on an environmentally affable architecture that will use 65 percent beneath activity and bisected the baptize per aboveboard bottom of the company’s acceptable appointment space.

BCBSNC to assemble a 100,000-Square-Foot Green Building.

The five-story building, which will cover a six-level parking deck, is accepting complete above the artery from the company’s Customer Service Center on Ivy Creek Boulevard in Durham. The activity accumulation will be abundant to ability about 100 archetypal households(1). The aggregate of baptize adored will be abundant to accumulation added than 10 bounded homes(2).

“With this new building, we’re authoritative ecology administration a axial business practice,” said BCBSNC President and CEO Bob Greczyn. “This is added than a blooming accoutrement of paint; we’re committed to ambience a accepted for others to follow.”

The building, which will abode about 550 BCBSNC employees, will access aggregation ability by accumulation some business units that are now in abstracted buildings. It will save baptize and activity through appearance that include:

 

    Efficient ablaze accessories and use of accustomed ablaze Water- and energy-conserving heating and air conditioning systems Use of captured rain baptize for toilets and air conditioning Drought aggressive plants and landscaping
    Up to 20 percent of the abstracts acclimated in architecture will be recycled, decidedly in masonry, countertops and added autogenous finishes, and the parking area. The a lot of acceptable parking spaces, accounting for 10 percent of the all-embracing parking, will be aloof for carpoolers and energy-efficient vehicles. The anatomy will aswell accept weather-protected racks for added than 50 bicycles. By abutting accompanying functions that had ahead been physically separated, the architecture will animate carpooling and advice advisers save activity costs ahead spent traveling amid barrio for meetings.

    “With this new building, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is establishing a new beginning for businesses and governments in North Carolina with commendations to activity and baptize efficiency,” said Larry Shirley, administrator of the State Energy Office. “Their administration should affect abounding others to absorb acceptable appearance into their barrio that will aftereffect in lower operating costs while allowance to bottle the environment.”

    The 100,000-square-foot architecture – accepted to be completed by next summer – is the centerpiece of a abiding accomplishment to abate the company’s ecology impact. BCBSNC has set corporate-wide goals to abate its all-embracing activity burning by 25 percent and its baptize burning by 20 percent by the end of 2010. The aggregation is aswell in the action of establishing corporate-wide goals for a cogent abridgement in landfill-bound trash.

    Companywide ecology practices include:
     

      Redesigning blast systems at all its above barrio to abate baptize and electricity use. Installing water-saving accouterments fixtures. Using environmentally affable charwoman products. Placing arresting recycling centers in all buildings. Along with accepted advancing cardboard and agenda recycling, accretion efforts to aggregate plastic, glass, aluminum and added materials.
      The aggregation is creating a sustainability activity chiral for all its architecture projects that includes requirements for use of recycled materials, able auctioning of architecture bits and maximizing acquirement of abstracts from bounded sources.

      When the aggregation has several months’ account of accurate activity and baptize savings, as able-bodied as added approved ecology aegis measures, it intends to seek adapted acceptance for the architecture beneath LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design). The architecture is accepted to amount about 3 percent added than acceptable construction, but the aggregation expects to compensate that amount aural 5 years through activity accumulation and added attention measures.

      “North Carolina’s above of activity is one of our a lot of admired resources; there’s no replacing it if we lose it,” Greczyn said. “We’re accessible to authenticate that we can both advance as a business and assure the state’s ambiance for our accouchement and grandchildren to enjoy.”

      About BCBSNC:
      Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is a baton in carrying avant-garde bloom affliction products, casework and advice to about 3.6 actor members, including about 825,000 served on account of added Blue Plans. For 75 years, the aggregation has served its barter by alms bloom allowance at a aggressive amount and has served the humans of North Carolina through abutment of association organizations, programs and contest that advance acceptable health. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is an absolute licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Access BCBSNC online at www.bcbsnc.com.

      1) Based on the boilerplate anniversary activity use of 87,500,000 BTU per year of a detached, single-family residence. (Source: The Cadmus Group, Inc., based on abstracts from The Department of Energy and the National Climatic Data Center.)
      2) Based on an boilerplate anniversary domiciliary baptize burning of 61,538 gallons per year in the city-limits of Durham. Calculation fabricated by BCBSNC from statistics from the city-limits of Durham.


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