Going Green with SPX Cooling Technologies

An entire green building industry has emerged, complete with a third-party certification program and nationally accepted benchmarks for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings.

SPX Cooling Technologies is playing an important role by helping customers attain these benchmarks through the use of environmentally responsible cooling systems.

Green Building Gets Certified

LEED, which stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a voluntary, consensus-based national rating system for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings.

Under the LEED system, builders can earn points for meeting or exceeding certain criteria in categories such as energy optimization. One of the ways to optimize energy efficiency in a building is to install a high efficiency cooling system; that’s where SPX Cooling Technologies comes in.

The Cooling Connection

Evaporative cooling systems from SPX Cooling Technologies can achieve significantly better results than the LEED designated minimum efficiency thresholds, helping to make a building using these systems eligible for LEED credits.

Standard Marley cooling tower models from SPX Cooling Technologies are available that range from 20 to 400 gallons per minute per horsepower.

Get the Whole Story

Learn more about how cooling tower selection and the use of evaporative cooling can impact LEED certification — and the environment.

Download Cooling and Heating Technology Options Take the LEED by Paul Lindahl. He is the director of market development in the Americas for SPX Thermal Equipment and Services and a leading expert on cooling tower heat transfer and optimization.