United States. Delta Americas, a company specializing in automation, energy solutions and thermal management, announced that its Delta Americas headquarters, located in Fremont, California, was honored by UC Berkley's Center for the Built Environment (CBE), earning an Honorable Mention in its 2017 Lively Buildings Award program.
The sustainable design and high-quality-of-life properties of Delta's LEED Platinum-certified green building, with net zero energy, were instrumental in receiving the honor. Based on its calculated energy consumption in 2016, its Energy Use Intensity (EUI) reached 21.6, indicating that the facility saved 90 percent more energy than traditional buildings. In July of this year, the building reached a full net-zero operation, with its solar power generation outpacing consumption.
"Energy efficiency is a key part of our products, and our mission has long been to translate this into built environments," said Mr. S. Huang, President of Delta America. "Delta has been actively promoting the concept of green building for more than a decade, and has enabled the creation of 25 green buildings worldwide since 2006. Our Americas headquarters incorporate building automation technologies, renewable energy applications, a series of EV chargers and datacenter solution to decrease your energy use efficiency (PUE) to as low as 1.37. It serves as a green building model and showcase of Delta's innovative solutions."
To further increase its sustainable operations and reduce energy consumption, Delta America's headquarters uses many of its own technologies, such as photovoltaic solar inverters, energy-saving variable frequency converters, elevator energy regeneration technologies, an outdoor wireless LED lighting system, infrastructure solutions, electric vehicle charging solutions and building automation management and Delta Energy Online software. To conserve water, the facility also includes a 140,000-gallon rainwater harvesting system, which has been discreetly implemented on the building property to collect water from rooftops for irrigation.
