LEED - Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
During both the construction and operation phases, buildings generate a lot of waste and use a lot of materials and resources. This credit category encourages the selection of sustainably grown, harvested, produced, and transported products and materials. It promotes the reduction of waste as well as reuse and recycling, and it takes into account the reduction of waste at a product's source. More information on LEED.
Dent Design Hardware, with a complete line of aluminum hardware, is the industry leader for sustainably harvested, produced, and transported product.
Sustainable Sites
Water Efficiency
Energy & Atmospheres
Materials & Resources
No other metal is as easily recycled as aluminum.
Why is this? Recycled aluminum saves 95% of the energy (and 95% of the pollution) as compared to aluminum from raw ore. Therefore it is not only sustainable, but also cost-effective to recycle aluminum. And as opposed to most other metals, aluminum can be recycled in most towns via curb-side recycling. In fact, many town curb-side recycling programs' profitability depends critically on the aluminum content of the curbside recycling program. More information.
Harvesting
For metal, harvesting refers to the mining and melting/casting location.
Production
Our domestic sourcing and production insure maximal locally
sourced credits for your project. The actual casting process of
aluminum itself averages 30% on-site aluminum recycling and the local
aluminum supplier averages over 50% recycled aluminum content. No other
metal achieves nearly these levels of locally recycled and harvested
content.
Transportation
Aluminum speaks for itself here. Why make hardware that
must be 3 times as heavy to achieve the same result with competing metals such
as zinc? For example, Aluminum's strength to weight ratio insures its
continued use in critical airplane components well into the future.
Therefore your shipping costs, in dollars and SENSE, are optimized.
