Roush Fenway Racing pledges to be green

Friday, January 23, 2009

CONCORD, NC — Roush Fenway Racing, a four-car NASCAR team, has pledged to work toward green and sustainability efforts both on and off the track, according to WhoWon.com.

Roush Fenway Racing currently recycles oil, solvents, steel, tires, aluminum, paper and plastic bottles, the story stated.

Jack Roush, owner Roush Fenway Racing, said: "We have an obligation to the global community to give back. The nature of our business is one that we use gas and metals but that doesn’t mean we should ignore the environment. Roush Fenway and Roush Performance have been doing things like recycling, looking into alternative fuels and working on innovated LEED building design features for several years and we will continue to look at what we can do to improve the environment."

All Roush Fenway buildings have LEED building design features, including: Solar shades on southern exposure to reduce solar heat gain and glare, reducing the amount of artificial building cooling required; interior lighting controlled by individual occupancy and photoelectric sensors to reduce electrical usage; motion activated plumbing fixtures to reduce potable water use; and rain and storm water run off capture for landscape irrigation reducing the need for potable water, the story noted.

An LED lighting retrofit across the 25-acre Roush Fenway campus has been proposed that would result in a 530 Megawatt savings of electricity each year, the story added.