Corporate Real Estate Group

CREG and its Development Partner, Sun Peak Partners, is working to building high efficiency and low waste concepts into its projects in an effort to reduce its "carbon footprint" in its operations and to provide a "green option" to the market for commercial space.

This work is underway on a first redevelopment project on 4th South between downtown Salt Lake City and the University of Utah. Concepts include:

Utilizing Compact Fluorescent (CFL) and Light Emitting Diode (LED) lighting solutions in place of incandescent bulbs - yielding between 75% and 95% in energy savings in lighting.
Utilizing the building's inherent thermal mass and high efficiency heating and cooling systems to reduce operating costs while maintaining the appropriate ambient temperatures year round,
Installing small, serial, tankless water heating units, increasing heating efficiencies thus reducing energy consumption. The units also eliminate the need for large hot water tanks, yielding more square footage for tenants' use,
Installing high efficiency lighting (fluorescent and LED),
Utilizing more eco-friendly materials such as non-VOC (volatile organic compound) paints & varnishes, reducing or eliminating this source of evaporative emissions,
Installing low- or no-flow restroom fixtures, reducing demand on Utah's precious water resources,
Increasing certain types of landscaping, including rooftop, to provide more shade and absorb more sun energy and carbon,
Installing Solar Panels to convert sun energy into power and provide tenants with a certain level of backup power for critical functions,
Signing up for Utah Power's Blue Sky Energy - electricity generated from wind farms in nearby Evanston, WY and Idaho Falls, Idaho.

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Like the Boy Scouts of America, we strive to "leave our campsite cleaner than we found it"

CREG encourages you to seek out more information on how we can reduce our collective dependence on foreign-sourced energy and our impact on the environment.

We recommend Scientific American and The Economist as solid, well established sources of news and information.

For a succinct look at Global Warming and our role in it, please visit www.climatecrisis.net

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