20 mayo, 2024 Alexander Diaz

How to reduce your company’s carbon footprint with the help of prefabricated industrial buildings

Reducing the carbon footprint in companies is key to a sustainable future. Greenhouse gases are the main contributors to climate change, and reducing emissions helps to reverse this global issue. Prefabricated industrial buildings are great allies in moving towards a positive change for the environmental health of the planet.

The registry of a company’s carbon footprint and its effective actions for reduction demonstrate real commitment to environmental care. Movements like eco-logistics aid in reducing the carbon footprint in the business sector.

From VALL, we want to show you the main reasons why prefabricated industrial buildings help reduce your company’s carbon footprint and how they achieve it.

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How to reduce your company’s carbon footprint with the help of prefabricated industrial buildings.

Adaptability and ease of changes in prefabricated industrial buildings: fewer constructions and route optimization.

The adaptability of prefabricated industrial buildings allows for easy expansion or reduction of their size with minimal environmental impact on these tasks. For a company, being able to have the space solution it needs in the right location is important. Doing so without a negative impact on the environment helps reduce its carbon footprint.

Increasingly, companies, especially large international companies, encounter eventualities that require changes in their routes for importing and exporting raw materials or finished products. Being able to choose the precise location quickly to reduce distances traveled and optimize routes, reducing emission of gases in transportation, is important.

prefabricated industrial buildings are quick to deploy and have low environmental impact, unlike conventionally constructed warehouses.

Energy efficiency is one of the reasons why VALL’s prefabricated industrial buildings help in reducing the corporate carbon footprint of SMEs and large companies.

These buildings have the option of having a TWS cover. Prefabricated industrial buildings with TWS cover contribute to improving energy efficiency inside thanks to their excellent thermal insulation capacity. This allows maintaining the interior space at a comfortable temperature with lower energy consumption to such an extent that in certain situations and depending on the location and use, it can even be zero.

This represents a significant reduction in the company’s carbon footprint and also considerable cost savings for companies.

Exterior of a Vall warehouse with a wooden facade and a sign that says

Low environmental impact in all phases and long lifespan: lower carbon footprint.

Prefabricated industrial buildings generate minimal environmental impact in all phases: construction, installation, use, dismantling, and disposal at the end of their long lifespan.

Both the steel metal structure of SteelSpace warehouses or MaxiSpace, and the aluminum structure of Aluspace warehouses, are recyclable. Parts are manufactured in workshops and assembled on-site in agile tasks that generate no waste in the area where the prefabricated industrial building will be located.

The long lifespan and waste reduction in the future, at the end of its use, also contribute to reducing its carbon footprint.

Reuse to reduce emissions.

Prefabricated industrial buildings are reusable. Their lifespan is very long, and if they are no longer needed in one location, they can be easily moved to another. Reuse is one of the keys to sustainability and helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Open spaces that facilitate green solutions.

Prefabricated industrial buildings with large dimensions in height with open spaces for storage facilitate green logistics. They allow for the implementation of automated systems to optimize warehouse management and operation and sustainable supply to or from the chain.

Moreover, the open interior allows for the adoption of new emerging technologies that reduce energy consumption, with space optimization. But it also allows for better land use, which in turn means less environmental impact.

On one hand, because it requires reserving less industrial land. And by housing in a single high-rise warehouse what would otherwise need many more square meters of built space, it needs fewer materials and less work to put it into operation. All of this translates into a reduction of environmental impact and carbon footprint.

And not only in storage. In warehouses for other industrial uses, it is also important. Furthermore, column-free open spaces facilitate green mobility solutions within prefabricated industrial buildings.

Exterior of a Vall warehouse with a wooden facade and a sign that says

Better use of solar light, lower energy consumption.

Another way in which prefabricated industrial buildings help reduce energy consumption needs in companies and thus reduce corporate carbon footprint is through their potential for good utilization of solar light.

The prefabricated industrial buildings by VALL can have different enclosures and covers, including various options of translucent canvases. These allow sunlight to pass through, reducing the need for artificial lighting indoors. Additionally, in some cases, other enclosures can be used, such as glass solutions, an option that allows for excellent utilization of natural light.

This can be complemented with the installation of efficient luminaires or intelligent industrial lighting systems, for use during hours when there is no natural light.

 

 

 

Carles Vall General Manager

Sources:

https://www.endesa.com/en/blogs/endesa-s-blog/business/business-carbon-footprint

https://www.travelperk.com/uk/guides/ways-businesses-can-reduce-carbon-footprint/how-to-reduce-office-carbon-footprint/