The spanish company VIVES invest in the necessity of incorporating a program through its activities to respect and protect the environment. Society has become aware of the importance of the environment that we are surrounded by, and likewise, they demand the same from every business. Vives have invested heavily trying to lead from the front ensuring that their processes and products are more and more sustainable, through different strategies such as the implantation of zero emissions in our facilities and the reduction in the consumption of raw materials and water consumption. Specific policies have long been in place, such as internal recycling of waste residuals together with water and a strict focus on energy efficiency used throughout the manufacturing processes.
It is these measures and policies which Vives want to transmit to our clients and the reason why they have published FEELING ECO.
Through FEELING ECO, Vives wants to show its commitment to sustainable building, offering its clients information about its products and company in order to help them gain green certifications for their activities, according to certification systems such as VERDE or LEED.
Vives is able to offer the Product Environmental Declaration for its range of porcelain floor tile that offers important information about a product lifetime, required for some eco-sustainable certification systems for building such as VERDE developed by the Green Building Council- Spain (GBEe), of which Vives is a member of.
Vives products can help certify the sustainability of building projects according to the international system LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design developed by the U.S. Green Building Council) through a series of points gained in the following fields.
· USE OF REGIONAL MATERIAL
· HEAT ISLAND EFFECT
· LOW EMITTING MATERIALS
· RECYCLED CONTENT
