O-I World Headquarters Achieves LEED Certification
February 01 2008 - 5:01PM
PR Newswire (US)
Building's design and construction follow sustainable practices
PERRYSBURG, Ohio, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Owens-Illinois,
Inc. (NYSE:OI) today announced that its new world headquarters
building in Perrysburg, Ohio, has been awarded silver LEED
certification, recognizing it as a truly environmentally-friendly
structure. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050412/CLTU028LOGO ) The LEED
(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building
Rating System(R) established by the U.S. Green Buildings Council is
a voluntary, consensus-based national standard for developing
high-performance, sustainable buildings. LEED certification is
based on the number of points accumulated in the areas of
sustainable sites, water efficiency, energy/atmosphere,
materials/resources, indoor environmental quality, and
innovation/design process. "LEED construction promotes the use of
environmentally-friendly practices and products for new buildings
and major renovations," said Joe Zunk, project superintendent,
specializing in LEED certification at Lathrop Company, the
contractor that built the new headquarters. "As non-renewable
resources become consumed and non-recyclable waste piles up,
environmentally-responsible construction practices continue to be
at the forefront of the construction industry and at the top of
minds for sustainability-focused companies such as O-I." Employees
began moving into the new $20 million headquarters in August 2006.
Construction began in August 2005, just three months after the
Company announced that it would be moving its headquarters to its
existing Levis Park campus in Perrysburg. O-I chose the Lathrop
Company as well as architecture and engineering firm Albert Kahn
Associates, Inc. to provide design-build services for the 100,000
square-foot building. "The building was built in a uniquely
sustainable nature. Everything from the materials used, and the
recycling of scrap materials, to waterless urinals and a system to
irrigate the grounds with water from a pond, lends to the
environmentally-friendly construction and maintenance of the
building," said Frank Butler, O-I's director of global real estate.
A variety of other features are utilized in accordance with LEED,
such as featuring prairie grass plantings to reduce the need for
irrigation and pesticides as well as to eliminate lawn mower
emissions. In addition, bike racks, outlets for hybrid vehicles as
well as a measurement and control system for lighting, heating,
cooling and air quality are used to enhance the
environmentally-friendly nature of O-I's headquarters. Further, the
interior office space construction utilizes a refurbished modular
partition system, which has been recycled from the previous
headquarters building and allows almost all workplaces to have
visibility to daylight. The Company's mentality about
sustainability and purity are reflected not only in the
functionality of the building, but also in the aesthetic design of
the building. The building's aesthetics express fundamental design
elements of texture, color and silhouette that are also found in
O-I's core offering -- glass. Glass, the true "cradle-to-cradle"
packaging product, is made with abundant natural materials and is
endlessly recyclable. As one of the purest packaging materials
available, glass has proven safe for consumers for more than 3,000
years. About O-I Millions of times a day, O-I glass containers
deliver many of the world's best-known consumer products to people
all around the world. With the leading position in Europe, North
America, Asia Pacific and Latin America, O-I manufactures
consumer-preferred, 100 percent recyclable glass containers that
enable superior taste, purity, visual appeal and value benefits for
our customers' products. Established in 1903, the company employs
more than 25,000 people with 83 manufacturing facilities in 22
countries. In 2007, net sales were $7.6 billion. For more
information, visit http://www.o-i.com/.
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http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Owens-Illinois, Inc.
CONTACT: Media, Lauren Dubilzig, +1-567-336-1312, or Investors,
Sasha Sekpeh, +1-567-336-2355, both of O-I Web site:
http://www.o-i.com/
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