The U.S. Green Building Council awarded the Chattanooga plant its platinum Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification last week, making it the cleanest and most efficient vehicle manufacturing facility in the world.
VW designed the plant to be green from the onset, equipping the facility with a rain collection system that is used to cool welding equipment and flush toilets, low-flow water fixtures, a paint shop that can save 50 million gallons of water per decade and an LED lighting system that cuts energy use by 66 percent.
GM's five-year old Lansing Delta Township plant earned the Green Building Council's second-highest rating of gold.
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