Pre-consumer (also called “post-industrial”) recycling refers to the reuse of industrial by-products, as distinguished from material that has been in consumer use. The iron-ore slag used to make mineral wool insulation and the fly ash used to make concrete are examples of post-industrial recycled materials. While post-consumer recycled content is preferable, a product that uses pre-consumer content or recycles a seldom-used waste product, especially in an area where recycled products are hard to find, can be considered green.
Excluded from this category, by FTC definitions, is the use of scrap within the same manufacturing process from which it was generated—material that would typically have gone back into the manufacturing process anyway.
Low-Profile Access Flooring
FreeAxez USA offers low-profile access flooring systems for wire and cable management (but not for underfloor air supply).
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Included here are various erosion-control products, foundation products that eliminate the need for excavation, and exterior stains that result in lower VOC emissions into the atmosphere. Fluorescent lamp and ballast recyclers and low-mercury fluorescent lamps reduce environmental impacts during maintenance and disposal of luminaires.
FreeAxez USA offers low-profile access flooring systems for wire and cable management (but not for underfloor air supply). The modular, snap-together, 16-gauge, zinc-plated steel system is available in 2.75" or 1.6" profiles. Base units have 34 welded support legs to provide exceptional load-bearing capacity without "bounce," which also offers a compensatory quality for some unevenness in the subfloor. Defined cable channels offer improved wire management with less tangling. This product can significantly reduce churn costs and downtime, and is particularly appropriate in applications where ceiling heights restrict the use of combined access-floor/air-plenum systems. Wood-finished systems are available.
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Access flooring greatly simplifies renovation or reconfiguration of office spaces, dramatically reducing "churn" costs.
In addition to providing a plenum for electrical and communications cabling, access flooring with appropriate height can be used for underfloor air delivery (UFAD)—an economically and environmentally attractive combination of floor and air duct.
Compared to conventional ceiling-located air-supplies, displacement ventilation from access flooring systems more effectively diffuses conditioned air into the occupied space to displace stale air, which leaves via ceiling-mounted return ducts.
More effective air distribution leads to other efficiencies as well: air handlers can be downsized, and conditioned air does not have to be chilled as much to provide the same levels of comfort. Often, ceiling height can also be increased, improving daylighting potential.
LEED Credits
MRc1: Building Reuse—Maintain Existing Walls, Floors and Roof
MRc1.1: Building Reuse—Maintain Existing Walls, Floors and Roof
MRc1.1-1.2: Building Reuse
MRc1.3: Building Reuse—Non-Structural
MRc3: Materials Reuse
MRc3.1: Materials Reuse
MRc4: Recycled Content
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FreeAxez USA
1810 Underwood Blvd
Delran, NJ
Toll-Free: 888-747-8515
www.freeaxez.com
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