Sustainable Purchasing—Reduced Mercury in Lamps

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LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance MRc4

LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance projects can earn a point for developing and implementing a purchasing plan that minimized the amount of mercury in their mercury-containing lamps.

This is an unofficial summary for general information only.

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By CSI Division, Section

• 26: Electrical (5 Sections, 45 Products)

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	NEMA Voluntarily Reduces Mercury in CFLs, Again EBN: Newsbrief - November 2010		Newer Fluorescents Have Less Mercury, But Recycling Continues to Lag EBN: Then & Now - September 2007
	Philips Introduces Lower Mercury Fluorescent Lamps EBN: Product News - September 2007		Handbook of Sustainable Building: An Environmental Preference Method for Selection of Materials for Use in Construction and Refurbishment EBN: From the Library - February 1997

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Nichols (110,000 sq. feet) (11,000 sq. meters) Industrial, Commercial office	Nichols This building was previously a shipping cross dock. We removed many of the loading docks, added high...
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Websites
	Environmentally Preferable Purchasing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, publisher
Software
	BEES 4.0: Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), publisher (2007)
Periodicals
	Choose Green Reports Green Seal, publisher

PRODUCTS LSI Exterior LED Luminaires ARTICLES NEMA Voluntarily Reduces Mercury in CFLs, Again EBN: Newsbrief - November 2010 More articles CASE STUDIES Nichols Spring Lake, MI USA BIBLIOGRAPHY Environmentally Preferable Purchasing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, publisher More bibliography items

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