Conserving energy is on the minds of most Americans today. With gas prices skyrocketing, everybody is looking for ways to save energy, which translates into saving money.
If it takes $500 to heat your home in the winter, imagine how much it costs to heat a huge factory. Obviously any company building a factory needs to be as frugal as possible. Now, you can learn from their innovations.
In a heartening move against resource guzzling habits of big industry, Texas Instruments recently built a “green” factory in a town near Dallas, Texas. The company had been tempted to build the plant overseas to cut costs, but instead got creative and redesigned the factory’s blueprints to save money. It was a huge challenge and seemingly impossible feat for the design team, but it got done.
“We have to [approach energy consumption differently]…I think you do first have to set an impossible goal. Amazing things happen when people claim responsibility for the impossible,” said Shaunna Sowell, the company’s vice-president who oversees facilities world-wide.
Many changes were instrumented in building the new factory. Whereas the...
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