High Performing Buildings - Spring 2013 - (Page 58)
c a s e
s t u d y
M c c o r M i c k
d i s t r i b u t i o n
c e n t e r
TasTEfully
SuStainable
BY JEFF BLANKMAN
McCormick & Company’s
Distribution Center covers more
than six football fields
and includes 3,300 light fixtures,
but on sunny days, the building’s
electricity meter spins backwards.
Energy-efficiency measures, combined
with a rooftop photovoltaic array of 7,500 solar
panels, resulted in a surplus of electricity
during the first year of the array’s operation.
Studio Z
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Spring 2013
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