Lamb Weston Facility Receives (LEED®) Silver Certification
April 12 2016 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
The recently expanded facility in Boardman,
Ore., is Lamb Weston’s second LEED certified manufacturing
plant
ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston's Boardman, Ore., processing facility
has received its official Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design (LEED®) Silver certification, awarded by the U. S. Green
Building Council (USGBC).
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The design, construction and operations at the 505,000 square
foot processing facility – known as Boardman East – were developed
with environmental impact and sustainability in mind. The plant
makes french fries and other frozen potato products from potatoes
harvested primarily in the Columbia Basin. This certification is
the result of work done to complete a 340,000 square foot addition
to an existing building. The addition began operations in June,
2014. The Silver certification applies to both the existing
structure and the addition.
"We approached the addition in Boardman the way we approach all
of our projects – with an eye for efficient and sustainable
operations," said Rick Martin, vice president, Global Operations at
Lamb Weston. "We learned a lot from our experience with our LEED
Platinum facility in Delhi, and we brought the best of what we
learned to the design and construction of the addition in
Boardman."
Lamb Weston’s sweet potato facility in Delhi, La., was the first
frozen food manufacturing facility worldwide to receive LEED
Platinum certification when it opened in 2011.
The Boardman East plant is a state-of-the-art facility that
represents Lamb Weston’s commitment to resource-efficient food
processing, waste reduction, environmentally responsible
construction methods, and providing a healthy, safe, and productive
working environment. The company recently announced plans to
further expand the facility with an additional line for making
chopped and formed items like hash brown patties and potato
puffs.
To earn LEED Silver certification, a building is evaluated by
the USGBC on a number of specific criteria: sustainable sites
(protecting the environment), water efficiency, energy and
atmosphere, materials and resources, indoor environmental quality,
and the innovation and design process. Notable features of the Lamb
Weston LEED Silver facility include:
- Heat from par-fry equipment is captured
and reused throughout the process, which decreases the facility’s
use of natural gas by approximately 20%. The heat energy saved
annually through the capture and reuse of exhausted heat is the
equivalent of the energy used to power more than 5,000 homes.
- Landscaping featuring more than half
native species requires no permanent irrigation.
- Ninety percent of the construction
waste from the project was recycled or reused on site, diverting
more than 4,150 tons of waste from the landfill.
- High-efficiency LED lighting throughout
the office area saves more than 35% in lighting energy compared to
a code-compliant building.
- The heaviest materials for the project
– concrete, asphalt, rebar and wood – were sourced from within 500
miles of the project and supplies containing recycled material make
up 35% of the total project materials.
Project partners included Fisher Construction Group, Inc., a
leading design and construction firm with expertise in the food
industry based in Burlington, Wash., and Paladino and Company, a
Seattle, Wash.,-based sustainability and green building consulting
firm at the forefront of the green building movement.
“Paladino is proud to have provided LEED management services
throughout design and construction of the facility,” said Dev
DuRuz, Sr. Consultant and project Commissioning Agent, Paladino and
Company. “We worked with the team to determine and implement
requirements for achieving LEED Silver certification using
specialized credit tracking tools and expertise. The project was
challenging because no precedents existed in the industrial world
at the time and multiple parties had to be tied together for a
comprehensive understanding and alignment of the facility’s energy
saving needs. This certification is the result of our combined
efforts.”
ABOUT LAMB WESTONLamb Weston, a ConAgra Foods brand, is a
leading supplier of frozen potato, sweet potato, appetizer and
vegetable products to restaurants and retailers around the world.
For more than 60 years, Lamb Weston has led the industry in
innovation, introducing inventive products that simplify
back-of-house management for our customers and make eating more
delicious for their customers. From the fields where Lamb Weston
potatoes are grown to proactive customer partnerships, Lamb Weston
always strives for more and never settles. Because, when we look at
a potato, we see possibilities.
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