Miletus Group, Inc. is an architecture firm that specializes in sustainable building practices in onsite, prefab and modular offsite systems. Jobsite Leasing Company is a leading provider of mobile and modular business units. In a pioneering initiative to promote sustainability in the mobile and modular office segment of the industry, both the companies forged a strategic alliance. In a press release, the companies announced that it was a shared goal of reducing carbon footprint and offering customers a way of substantially reducing energy costs that brought the two companies on a common platform.
The mobile and modular offices segment lagged behind conventional commercial building in terms of sustainable building practices. According to the industry experts, the partnership between Miletus Group and Jobsite Leasing Company will help fill up this gap.
Jobsite Leasing Company, together with Miletus Group, laid out a system of high performance building measures in the new construction and renovation of its fleet of mobile and modular offices.
With the help of the Miletus design team, Jobsite Leasing Company was also able to dramatically reduce construction material waste, 95 percent of which is now recyclable. Additionally, the materials selection process was overhauled to include purchasing only from vendors that offer the largest inventory and highest degree of recyclable products on the market. The green building measures assured that the High Performance Mobile Offices would be 100 percent recyclable at the end of its life cycle. Moreover, Guthrie, who counts among his green building credentials, certified Green Advantage(R) practitioner for commercial and residential construction, U.S. Green Building Council member, and member of the Modular Building Institute's International Green Code review committee, expects ongoing field-monitoring reports will show energy usage of sustainable-built High Performance Mobile Offices to be as little as one-third that of conventionally built, standard industry mobile offices.
“Our team spent a great deal of time analyzing the best sustainability practices in the building industry and then found ways to apply them to the mobile and modular office building sector,” Miletus Group president and project spokesperson James B. Guthrie, explained in a statement.
According to Guthrie, office occupants will hardly notice any changes with regard to general layout and construction of the high performance office units. But they will able to noticeable differences in the form of substantially lower utility bills and significantly higher levels of comfort during hot summer and frigid winter months, Guthrie maintained.
Madhubanti Rudra is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.Edited by
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