29Jul2010

Preferred Freezer Services Earns LEED Gold Certification

U.S. Green Building Council awards LEED Gold Certification to Chicago facility.

Chicago, Illinois (July 29, 2010) – Preferred Freezer Services is proud to announce the achievement of LEED Gold certification for their newest fully-automated Chicago facility. LEED is an internationally recognized green building certification system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). LEED provides third party verification that a building was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across metrics such as: energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts.

As an owner and operator of state-of-the-art, full-service refrigerated warehouses, Preferred Freezer Services has a vested interest in helping to create a cleaner, more energy efficient environment now and in the future. The company is investing in sustainable buildings and practices, to save energy and encourage environmentally friendly design and construction techniques in our facilities.

USGBC recognizes Preferred Freezer Services gold status for meeting or exceeding a comprehensive list of design and construction criteria using environmentally responsible development. Those earth-friendly attributes of the Chicago facility, located at 4500 West Ann Lurie Place, include:Ӣ

Obtained 40 LEED certification creditsӢ

Optimize Energy to Exceed ASHRAE by 42%Ӣ

Water use reduced by over 30%Ӣ

49% recycled materials and 20% regional materials

Diverted 99% of construction debris from disposalӢ

Zero ozone depletion & global warming potential.

For more information about this release and Preferred Freezer Services, visit www.PreferredFreezer.com.

About Preferred Freezer Services: Preferred Freezer Services, headquartered in Elizabeth, New Jersey, is dedicated to designing, constructing and operating state-of-the-art warehouses throughout the United States and Asia. Preferred Freezer Services has grown from a single facility in 1989 to 27 locations and still growing. We now operate facilities in the following locations: New York/New Jersey, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Vietnam and expanding to China.

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