Going For Green

Green means lots of things to lots of people. It’s quite the buzz word these days. Seems everybody is trying to “green up” their products or projects. From a manufacturing standpoint, it just makes sense. We all want to lower our impact on the environment in any way we can. But from a sales perspective, it can make all the difference in the world. If you can show that your product has a lower carbon footprint than your competitor’s – then you’ve got an edge. Many building contracts are being awarded based primarily on green initiatives.

The good news is that the entire modular building industry is inherently green when compared to just about any other traditional building method.

The whole nature of modularity allows for greater materials recycling, reuse and repurposing. The challenge is to be able to sell this concept and leverage it as the positive feature that it actually is. You need to be educated and confident about the ways modular construction can claim its rightful green status and work it into your repertoire. So let’s look at some of the green talking points:

• Faster build times means less downtime, which means less waste (power, water, labor, electricity) all around.
• When compared to conventional construction techniques, modular systems are designed to be relocated, reconfigured and repurposed with a project’s changing needs. There’s nothing greener than a building that you can pick up and move when you need to repurpose it.
• Ebtech Mezzanines and In-Plant Offices make use of existing space, which can reduce the need for physical expansion and resource allocation.
• Factory-assembled, off-site construction allows for much greater control of waste as well as more efficient recycling of materials.
• Transportation costs (and by association, air pollution) is cut way down by centralizing job sites and consolidating delivery sites and volume.
• Ebtech’s pre-textured and pre-colored panels reduce the environmental impact of material volume and
• VOC gas released from painting as well as water associated with cleanup from “stick-built” construction.
  Panel-built construction reuses and recycles traditional waste products like steel, wood, aluminum and paper.

These are just some of the main aspects of modular construction’s GREEN nature. You’ll probably think of more. As our world’s needs change, modular construction is best suited to change with it. So let’s start thinking GREEN in our selling so we can start seeing more GREEN from our sales!