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...Company River Industrial Complex in Dearborn, Mich. An environmentally friendly design was paramount to the project from the outset.
Ford Motor Land engaged renowned environmental architect William McDonough to serve as the consulting architect with the project architects, ARCADIS Giffels. The plan was to design a building that would allow the automobile manufacturer to produce vehicles efficiently and profitably in an environmentally friendly, modern and versatile manufacturing facility.
Resulting Design
The resulting design not only succeeded in achieving the initial objectives, it has become a template for future Ford Manufacturing facilities. The design allowed the building to achieve LEED status through the use of structural steel, natural lighting and the green roof assembly. Structural steel contributes to the building's sustainability because it is nearly 100 percent recyclable. Steel is one material that can be recycled repeatedly without losing quality. The structure was erected using nearly 8,500 tons of structural steel.
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Natural lighting was also implemented in the design to reduce large-scale energy usage. To help provide natural lighting into the interior areas a total of 36 gabled skylights were installed in the roof covering the manufacturing area.
In addition, a total of 10 monitors, each 33 feet, 4 inches by 100 feet, were installed over the...
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