Carrier Touts First Commercial Building in Florida to Achieve LEED Platinum Certification

(Carrier's UTC Center for Intelligent Buildings in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Image courtesy of Carrier.)

Carrier recently announced that its world headquarters, the UTC Center for Intelligent Buildings, is the first commercial building in Florida to earn Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum v4 certification. The Platinum rating – the highest designation – was awarded under the stringent version 4 LEED green building program for building design and construction from the US Green Building Council.

According to Carrier, this first-of-its-kind building was designed as a living showcase of what's possible through technology integration to increase efficiency, protect people and property, and enhance the occupant experience. In addition to supporting LEED Platinum certification, Carrier's innovative product integrations also provide a scalable and repeatable model for total green building design. Examples of sustainable integrations and solutions include:

• Automated Logic's WebCTRL building management system can use occupancy data from LenelS2 OnGuard to self-adjust air flow and temperatures of the Carrier HVAC systems for optimal comfort and efficiency.
• The ground-breaking MyWay app, based on LenelS2's BlueDiamond™ technology, eliminates the need to carry a traditional plastic employee badge and allows employees to unlock doors, call elevators, control heating and lighting and much more.
• Carrier's AquaEdge 23XRV chillers operate in a proprietary series-counterflow configuration, and are continuously monitored to ensure optimized performance, increased efficiency and proactive identification of potential issues.

Another benefit of LEED certification is employee productivity and wellbeing. The UTC Center for Intelligent Buildings was specifically designed to COGfx standards – indoor air quality specifications found by Harvard University researchers to double occupants' cognitive function test scores compared to a conventional building environment.

In 1993, Carrier helped launch the US Green Building Council as the first company to join the organization.