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The Church introduced a new pilot program that will help to save energy and water. They built a stake house in Utah with this concept in mind.
QUOTE FARMINGTON -- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Tuesday announced a big step into an environmentally-friendly future.
Officials showed off the new Farmington Stake Center, which is viewed as a possible prototype for all future meetinghouses.
The LDS Church operates 17,000 meetinghouses and is building or expanding a new facility every working day of the week.
The big concept is to make church buildings more efficient, less wasteful of natural resources and cheaper to operate. The first thing you'll notice on the outside of the Farmington building are 158 solar energy panels on the roof.
"As soon as the sun peeks over that mountain right there, they start getting energized," explained Jared Doxey, with the Church's Physical Facilities Department.
Doxey was energized, himself, leading reporters outside and in, up and down the stairs, from the chapel to the ladies room.
"We've designed these restrooms to be easier to clean and maintain, and reduce water usage," Doxey said.
There's a laundry list of innovative features, such as tank-less water heaters that don't store hot water, but generate it on demand.
"If it's the baptismal font or if it's in the kitchen, you have instantaneous hot water," Doxey said.
Around 75 percent of the technologies qualifying for LEED certification have been used in existing Church buildings for several years. -LDS Church
Sophisticated thermostats diagnose problems and send trouble alerts by e-mail.
A computer module slows down heating or cooling at times of peak power demand.
The solar panels themselves should produce, on an annual basis, all the electricity the building needs.
There are 18 high-efficiency furnaces, and the building is encased in 4 inches of foam insulation...
Officials showed off the new Farmington Stake Center, which is viewed as a possible prototype for all future meetinghouses.
The LDS Church operates 17,000 meetinghouses and is building or expanding a new facility every working day of the week.
The big concept is to make church buildings more efficient, less wasteful of natural resources and cheaper to operate. The first thing you'll notice on the outside of the Farmington building are 158 solar energy panels on the roof.
"As soon as the sun peeks over that mountain right there, they start getting energized," explained Jared Doxey, with the Church's Physical Facilities Department.
Doxey was energized, himself, leading reporters outside and in, up and down the stairs, from the chapel to the ladies room.
"We've designed these restrooms to be easier to clean and maintain, and reduce water usage," Doxey said.
There's a laundry list of innovative features, such as tank-less water heaters that don't store hot water, but generate it on demand.
"If it's the baptismal font or if it's in the kitchen, you have instantaneous hot water," Doxey said.
Around 75 percent of the technologies qualifying for LEED certification have been used in existing Church buildings for several years. -LDS Church
Sophisticated thermostats diagnose problems and send trouble alerts by e-mail.
A computer module slows down heating or cooling at times of peak power demand.
The solar panels themselves should produce, on an annual basis, all the electricity the building needs.
There are 18 high-efficiency furnaces, and the building is encased in 4 inches of foam insulation...
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Church's Second Solar-Powered Meetinghouse on Track for Prestigious Construction Industry Achievement
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unveiled its first-ever solar-powered meetinghouse in the Northern Hemisphere a year ago in Farmington, Utah. The building earned Silver LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification for implementing elements of "green" design. Now, a meetinghouse just completed in Mesa, Arizona, is the second of three prototypes that will use the sun's energy to produce as much electricity as the building consumes in a year to achieve a "net-zero" utility cost. Ref. Source 6
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Mormon Church Thinking Green
Mormon environmentalists got a boost on Nov. 6, when the LDS Church launched a web page on its newsroom site, laying out the church's views on "Stewardship and conservation." The approach may not be new, but the place of publication and emphasis is. Ref. Source 4
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