Toyota U.S. Headquarters.Toyota wants to be the most environmentally conscious automobile manufacturer--both with its vehicles and its facilities. The Japanese carmaker was to true to that vision with the recent completion of its U.S. headquarters in Torrance. The 624,000-square-foot campus of three buildings was the largest private facility to achieve a LEED Gold certification. Landscaping is comprised of native and drought-tolerant species to meet the goal of reduced irrigation irrigation, in agriculture, artificial watering of the land. Although used chiefly in regions with annual rainfall of less than 20 in. (51 cm), it is also used in wetter areas to grow certain crops, e.g., rice. . Drip irrigation
Approximately 80 percent of all building materials Building materials used in the construction industry to create . These categories of materials and products are used by and construction project managers to specify the materials and methods used for . used in. construction contained recycled content; landscapes utilized recycled plastic edging and lumber lumber, term for timber that has been cut into boards for use as a building material. The major steps in producing lumber involve logging (the felling and preparation of timber for shipment to sawmills), sawing the logs into boards, grading the boards according to . Structural and reinforcing steel used on-site was made almost entirely from recycled automobiles. Concrete casting slabs for the "tilt-up" concrete walls were ground up and reused to build parking lots. The larger pieces were later recycled as accent paving at the outdoor courts, the joints filled with either decomposed de·com·pose v. de·com·posed, de·com·pos·ing, de·com·pos·es v.tr. 1. To separate into components or basic elements. 2. To cause to rot. v.intr. 1. granite or groundcover planting. Meanwhile, solar panels on the buildings' roof generate more than 530 kilowatts--enough to power 500 homes a year. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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