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Evening illumination of the Hubbell Lighting corporate headquarters in Greenville, SC.
Hubbell Lighting’s new
185,000 sq. ft. headquarters
in Greenville,
SC is as easy on the environment
as it is to view from its
majestic hilltop location. The
four-story, $41 million building
has achieved a Silver rating
under the LEED (Leadership
in Energy and Environmental
Design) program of the U.S.
Green Building Council.
As a leading manufacturer
of energy-efficient lighting,
Hubbell Lighting wanted “to
practice what they preach,” said
K. J. Jacobs, lead architect on
the project. “They wanted to be
good stewards of the environment
as consumers as well as
manufacturers.”
As a result, the new structure
is 30 percent more energy
efficient than a typical office
building of this size.
Energy savings start with
the windows. In contrast to the
building’s north face, which Jacobs
describes as “basically one
large curtain wall” of glass, the
sun-facing south side is pierced
by windows with a special glazing
minimizing solar penetration.
This eases the load on the
air-conditioning system.
In addition to high-per-
forming glass, the building
design incorporates the use
of white precast concrete and
stone around the curved structure
to make it brighter and
non-industrial looking.
Energy Efficient in Every Sense
The roof also plays an
important role in the building’s
energy conservation as it features
a highly reflective white
surface that absorbs very little
of the sun’s heat. The return for
this roof treatment is not only a
cooler building but also a minimized
“urban heat island effect”
produced by Hubbell Lighting’s
Hubbell
Lighting’s New
Headquarters
Achieves
Silver Rating
Under the U.S.
Green Building
Council’s LEED
Program
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headquarters and neighboring
structures in Greenville’s
Millennium Campus. Trees on
the 19-acre site, many of which
shade the parking lot, further
reduce the potential heat island.
Virtually absent throughout
the building’s interior is
the usual “new building smell,”
since the design team chose
paints, carpets, furniture, and
adhesives that emit few or no
volatile organic compounds
(VOCs). The building also
won LEED points for diverting
more than half of the construction
leftovers and debris from
landfills. Excess steel, concrete,
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