The Green Mechanical Council was launched last month to promote energy-saving, sustainable practices in the mechanical room, an important area that's been largely ignored by the green movement.
“The USGBC's LEED program is a great success,” Dan Chiles, vice president of sales and marketing for Watts Radiant told us at this year's ISH North America, Sept. 28-30, in Chicago. “But it looks at things from an architectural and builder perspective. When it gets to the mechanical room, it really offers no advice.”