Sound Insights is dedicated to the Green initiative, providing the most energy efficient and environmentally safe systems on the planet!

Crestron has been recognized as the global leader in advanced control and automation technology for commercial and residential solutions. Therefore, Sound Insights is proud to offer the entire Crestron line to help make your home or office building more energy efficient and eco-friendly. All Crestron integration solutions are RoHS compliant and meet ASHRAE and LEED standards.

"At sound Insights, we believe that we have a responsibility to our community to be good corporate citizens, and to provide the best possible Eco-friendly products and solutions to our clients."

Steven K Sumners
CEO / System Designer
Sound Insights

Thinking of Building a Green Home?

Helpful information on "Green" building:

Intelligent Efficiency: Crestron Makes Life Greener™

Green paper from Crestron This is an insightful seven page document providing valuable tips, techniques and case studies for optimizing energy efficient control solutions in commercial and residential applications. This research paper demonstrates how a fully integrated solution, including lighting, HVAC and AV, with the power and flexibility of precise manual control and custom levels of automation, results in significant energy conservation and cost savings.

Click here to download (PDF - 336K)

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)

USGBC The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is the nation's foremost coalition of leaders from every sector of the building industry working to promote buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to work. More than 6,000 member organizations work together to develop a variety of programs and services, including the LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System®, which applies to new commercial construction, existing building operations and commercial interior projects.

For more information, please visit:
www.usgbc.org/leed

LEED® Green Building Rating System®

The LEED Rating System is a point-based system whereby building products contribute to achieving LEED points following performance-based requirements. To meet these requirements, practitioners identify products that have specific attributes. The amount of points achieved will determine which level of LEED® certification the project is awarded.

Details regarding LEED certification levels and a complete list of Green Building credit categories and point allocation are available online and in a downloadable brochure.

Click here for online version
Click here to download brochure (PDF - 757K)

Crestron lighting systems may contribute to LEED certification depending upon system design and implementation. iLux is compliant based on the integral motion sensor that provides substantial energy savings. In addition, by adding a Crestron 2-series processor and light-level sensor, iLux enables daylight harvesting with both lighting and drape control.

Click here download the official LEED Rating System Manual (PDF - 444K)

ASHRAE

ASHRAE The American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) is an international membership organization establishing standards to provide minimum requirements for the energy-efficient design of buildings.

These standards set minimum requirements for the design and construction of new buildings, new portions of buildings, and new systems and equipment in existing buildings. ASHRAE standards apply to several systems and equipment used in conjunction with buildings including HVAC and lighting.

For more information, please visit:
www.ashrae.org

The lighting control product "iLux" by Crestron is compliant with Standard 90.1-2004 - Energy Standard for Buildings, and specifically the Mandatory Provisions 9.4.1.1 (b) and (c) regarding the use of an occupant sensor that turns the lights off within 30 minutes after leaving the space, and a control system that indicates that an area is unoccupied. iLux also complies with Provision 9.4.1.4, which pertains to the control of display, accent, task and demonstration lighting.

RoHS

RoHS The Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS), European Union (EU) Directive 202/95/EC, mandates that effective July 1, 2006, all products sold into the EU must significantly curtail the use of Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, Hexavalent Chromium, Polybrominated Biphenyls and Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers. Per the directive, the maximum allowed concentration by weight in homogeneous materials is 0.1 percent for each material, with the exception of Cadmium, which is 0.01 percent.

For more information, please visit:
www.rohs.gov.uk