Sustainability drives construction practices to minimize our environmental impact as we strive to meet the needs of today, without compromising the resources of tomorrow. TYPAR® Geosynthetics continues to expand its products offering and manufacturing processes to offer solutions that surpass regulation with the idea that tomorrow requires cleaner water, the use of 100% recycled products, reduced heat island effects, diminishing footprints, and solutions that improve the longevity of systems built today.

LEED

Market Sectors

Sustainability | Grass and Ground

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a third-party certification of green building projects. A project must satisfy a series of prerequisites to achieve Certified, Silver, Gold, or Platinum status. TYPAR Geosynthetics manufactures solutions to assist in gaining credits for:

SS Credit 5.1: Site Development – Protect or Restore Habitat (1 Point)
SS Credit 5.2: Site Development – Maximize Open Space (1 Point)
SS Credit 6.1: Stormwater Design – Quantity Control (1 Point)
SS Credit 6.2: Stormwater Design – Quality Control (1 Point)
SS Credit 7.1 & 7.2: Heat Island Effect (1 Point
WE Credit 1.1 & 1.2: Water Efficient Landscaping (2-4 Points)
EA Credit 1: Optimize Energy Performance (Multiple Points)
MR Credit 4.1 & 4.2: Recycled Content(1-2 Points)
MR Credit 5.1 & 5.2: Regional Materials (1-2 Points)

Resources

US Green Building Council: http://www.usgbc.org/leed