In the industrial sector, the adoption of corporate sustainability measures becomes increasingly important, which guarantee not only environmental improvements in buildings, but also influence the quality of life of its users and those around them, and cost savings during its useful life.
In this article, it will be explained what corporate sustainability is and how natural lighting and ventilation can directly contribute to achieving better levels of sustainability in industries.
What is corporate sustainability
Corporate sustainability is a series of sustainable measures that corporations can adopt with the aim of reducing environmental impacts, whether through their installation or due to their use over time, contributing ethically to society and reducing costs.
A sustainable company is one that, in the long term, promotes actions aimed at reducing its environmental impact, encourages practices and activities for the development of people and society and guarantees mechanisms for reducing costs and waste generation during the construction and use of its facilities.
Strategically, it is interesting for corporations to adopt and follow sustainability criteria, as there are social, environmental and economic gains in all aspects.
Talking about energy efficiency is essential. Reducing the effects that a building can cause on the environment depends on adapting the project to sustainable techniques and applying good energy consumption and rationing practices during the use of the environment. Professionals should seek to study ways to use natural and renewable sources in buildings for lighting and ventilation purposes, for example.
Sustainability in industrial lighting and ventilation
Until the 1950s, most industries were designed to operate using electrical energy as the main source of lighting, to the detriment of natural light. The same can be said about ventilation and cooling of the environment.
Factories and industrial warehouses generally have a greater number of users than homes, which increases the heat load of the environment. Furthermore, factories have equipment and machines that can further aggravate heat generation in these locations.
One of the ways to overcome this problem is to use solutions that can be planned and executed in corporations, even in buildings already built, to maximize the use of these resources.
As examples of these solutions we have:
- Domus:It is a type of translucent covering. guarantee excellent thermal comfort and natural lighting.
- Lanterns or sheds:They are a type of overhead lighting and ventilation that are very suitable for industrial and hospital buildings.
- Shutters:they can be fixed or mobile. They are an excellent option for increasing natural ventilation in industrial environments, mainly because they are vertical, increasing cross ventilation at the height of the space users.
- Skylights:The simplest, cheapest and most effective method for taking advantage of daylight in interiors is to use skylights. When properly sized, light-diffusing skylights provide uniform lighting and adequate ventilation.
- Among others.
MB Group and concern for corporate sustainability
The MB Group has been working for over 16 years distributing and supplying natural lighting and ventilation solutions for the industry, both in new constructions and in the renovation and modernization of industrial parks.
As a company with theLEED certificationby the Green Building Council of Brazil, seeks not only to provide sustainable solutions for client businesses, but also has a strong internal culture, since its foundation, of efficiency and sustainable use of industrial resources, always using materials of superior quality and durability.
Increasing natural ventilation and lighting in corporations is essential, as are other corporate sustainability measures. It cannot be denied that climate change arising from corporate activity is immense, and that the responsibility of companies is to minimize or even eliminate their impact on the world.
