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LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is the most widely used rating system for green buildings and available for nearly all building types. The framework is built in the spirit of health, efficiency, and cost-savings, and is meant to advance the industry and improve the built environment for people and planet. In 2019, LEED 4.1 was released with emphasize on performance monitoring and human health factors like indoor air quality. Naturally, the state of indoor climates and the means in which we create them offer an opportunity for construction contractors and building owners.

Ideal Conditions pointed its compass east for this episode. When the needle stopped spinning, it landed on two Polygon stalwarts, Larry Waltemire, Business Unit Manager, and Rich Shoemaker, Business Development Manager, helming out of the East Region. Waltemire and Shoemaker have over forty-six years of experience working at Polygon, and there aren’t too many situations they haven’t come across in all that time.

Buildings and construction require a massive amount of energy responsible for as much as 40% of global carbon emissions. The effects on budgets, people and the planet have been felt for decades. However, COVID built wide public support of climate change mitigation and demand for stronger ESG programs. This brought greater visibility and speed to the decarbonization effort, the healthy buildings movement and smart buildings evolution.

Monitoring hyper-scale data centers require significant planning, understanding of pain points, and innovative solutions. Data center infrastructure management includes tools for monitoring, measuring, and managing data centers. The global DCIM market was estimated at $2 billion in 2022. It is projected to maintain a compound annual growth rate of 11.9% from 2022 to 2026, reaching $2.9 billion.

Host of Ideal Conditions, Tyler Kern, sat down with both Victor Games-Bazan, Business Unit Manager, and Austin Jones, Business Development Specialist, of Polygon’s West division to talk about how the work has been and what special issues the team has to solve.