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Mongolia’s MMS Green Building joins the LEED Earth campaign www.usgbc.org
In the capital city of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, the MMS Green Building has achieved Platinum certification under the LEED for Building Design and Construction rating system. As Mongolia’s first LEED v4 project and first Platinum project, this building has set the standard for the entire country’s green building future as a LEED Earth recipient.
LEED Earth is a campaign that offers certification at no cost to the first project overall and first LEED v4 or LEED v4.1 project at the Platinum level in countries where the rating system is still emerging. These projects’ leadership brings more sustainable and thoughtful construction to emerging markets.
The project owner, MMS LLC, is a Mongolian-based specialized supplier of advanced technology products, engineering and technical consulting services in the agriculture, mining, construction and energy sectors. The company brought on USGBC Gold member and LEED Proven Provider BEE Incorporations as a consultant to assist with the complications sometimes associated with a country’s first LEED project.
Sitting in the capital city’s newly planned smart growth and urban development zone, the multi-use MMS Green Building covers nearly 28,000 square feet of space that incorporates office spaces, showrooms, a workshop and a warehouse, connected by integrated technology systems to monitor output and efficiency. The building sits on a 107,600-square-foot plot of land that includes landscaping, green space and a garden.
Designing for occupant well-being
The project team focused on creating the highest possible indoor air quality and occupant health through an open design that allows high-quality views, natural ventilation and daylighting through highly efficient, triple-glazed glass windows, along with using low-emitting materials with the lowest possible VOCs. The HVAC system works in tandem with the building management system, which regulates performance to ensure superior indoor air quality and thermal comfort by using energy-efficient technology solutions for considerable cost savings on the overall operating expenses of the building.
A building with a glass facade set into a grassy hillside.
Using creative energy solutions
One of the highest-impact decisions made by the MMS Green Building team was to install a rooftop solar PV system with integrated battery energy storage, which provides 100% of the building’s energy. This curbs demand-response by load-shifting against peak demand hours through a hybrid solar inverter system, which separately regulates both on- and off-grid PV operations and redirects excess energy under the contracted feed-in-tariff to the central grid network.
“Our MMS Green Building is not only healthier, but [is] also setting a benchmark for how buildings should operate cross-industry in Mongolia. Our collaboration with BEE Incorporations established a momentum that will support the global goal for creating more sustainable future,” says Erdenebayar Jigmeddorj, head of the business development department at MMS.
As USGBC works to bring the environmental and human health benefits of green buildings to all, LEED Earth recipients put that into practice across the world by building spaces that raise the quality of life for their occupants.
Published Date:2022-12-14
