Legrand, North and Central America Highlights Wellbeing at Greenbuild 2019
Legrand strives to be a valuable sustainable solution partner for consultants, architects, specifiers, builders, and facility managers.
ATLANTA, Georgia., November 19, 2019 – A global innovation leader in power, light, and data technologies for homes, workplaces, and data centers, Legrand North and Central America, will showcase a range of new products at Greenbuild 2019 that enable high-performance buildings to reach exceptional levels of comfort, efficiency, productivity, and equally high sustainability standards.
Legrand strives to be a valuable sustainable solution partner for consultants, architects, specifiers, builders, and facility managers. The organization is committed to advancing high performance buildings with a focus on improvements in resource efficiency and meeting increasing customer demand for product transparency.
As the global leading manufacturer of electrical and digital products that enable power, data and light, Legrand’s exhibit will feature a range of its offerings including lighting, wireless digital lighting management, shading, solar charging and furniture power solutions – all suitable for a range of applications and building environments. These products can also contribute to the achievement of provisions of the LEED standard, the WELL standard, the Fitwel standard and the Living Building Challenge.Today, Legrand products collectively have the potential to contribute up to 33 of the 110 total points toward LEED certification, over 20 of the features in WELL, 8 of the strategies in Fitwel, and align with up to 7 imperatives across 3 petals in the Living Building Challenge.
Legrand North and Central America, Director of IoT Strategy, Yann Morvan, will be featured on the “Debunking IOT (Internet of Things) Myths” panel discussion on Thursday, November 21, at 10:15 a.m. in The Materials Applied Learning Area, booth # 1941. All show attendees are welcome to attend. Building Code Marketing Manager Shana Longo will be among a select group of individuals to present a fresh concept for the “Future of LEED” panel. She will describe how the LEED system could enable a people-centered, digital and smart workplace on Wednesday at 11:15 a.m. in room B206 in the Georgia World Congress Center.
Legrand will also be sponsoring the “Future is Green,” a program managed by the Center for Green Schools, which invites 200 local high school students to Greenbuild to learn about career opportunities and market trends in the high performance building sector. Students will be encouraged to visit the Greenbuild show floor and will be introduced to several prominent leaders within the green building community.
To learn more about Legrand’s products and solutions, please visit booth #1746 and the mindful MATERIALS pavilion, booth #m1647 at Greenbuild 2019, or visit www.legrand.us/about-us/sustainability/
About Legrand and Legrand, North and Central America
Legrand is a global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures. Its comprehensive offering of solutions for use in commercial, industrial, and residential markets makes it a benchmark for customers worldwide. Innovation for a steady flow of new products with high added value is a prime vector for growth, including, in particular, connected devices stemming from Legrand’s global Eliot (Electricity and IoT) program. Legrand reported sales of $5.6 billion in 2016. Legrand has a strong presence in North and Central America, with a portfolio of well-known market brands and product lines that includes AFCO Systems, C2G, Cablofil, Chief, Connectrac, Da-Lite, Electrorack, Finelite, Luxul, Middle Atlantic Products, Nuvo, OCL, On-Q, Ortronics, Pass & Seymour, Pinnacle, QMotion, Quiktron, Raritan, Sanus, Solarfective, Vaddio, Vantage, Wattstopper, and Wiremold. Legrand is a member of the Science Based Targets Initiative, and is acknowledged as one of the most sustainable companies in the world. Legrand is listed on Euronext Paris and is a component stock of indexes including the CAC40, FTSE4Good, MSCI World, ASPI, Corporate Oekom Rating, and DJSI (ISIN code FR0010307819) www.legrand.us.
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