Ceco Door, one of ASSA ABLOY’s brands, is a manufacturer of steel doors and frames. Based in Milan, Tennessee, the company has produced these products for 53 years.

Green Doors from Ceco Door

Ceco’s high-performance doors are shown to save 10% or more energy.

For example, according to Ceco Door, “the new Trio-E door has the lowest U value of any steel stiffened door on the market”. (The U value is a measure of the flow of heat through a building material; the lower the U value, the more insulating the material.) The Trio-E also has an R value of 3.4.

Ceco steel doors are made using up to 58.8% recycled steel from old cars.

 

Since Ceco Door's products improve energy efficiency and contain recycled content, they may contribute to LEED certification. Ceco Door products may help to earn the following LEED credits:

• LEED Energy and Atmosphere (EA) Prerequisite 2, Minimum Energy Performance and EA Credit 1, Optimize Energy Performance:

Ceco Door's doors are shown to save 10% or more energy, contributing to the building's energy efficiency.

• LEED Materials and Resources (MR) Credit 4, Recycled Content:

Ceco Door’s products that contain recycled content (mostly post-consumer) would help the project achieve this credit, which requires that the sum of postconsumer recycled content plus 1/2 of the preconsumer content makes up at least 10% or 20% of the total value of the project, based on cost.

• LEED MR Credit 5, Regional Material:

In most rating systems (except CI), the products must be extracted, harvested, recovered, processed and manufactured within 500 miles of the product site in order to earn this credit. The products are manufactured in Milan, Tennessee – so depending on the steel mill location, LEED projects near Milan may be able to earn points toward this credit.

• LEED for Schools: Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) Credit 9, Enhanced Acoustical Performance:

To earn this credit, classrooms and core learning spaces must be designed to meet the Sound Transmission Class (STC) requirements of ANSI Standard S12.60-2002, Acoustical Performance Criteria, Design Requirements and Guidelines for Schools. Many of Ceco Door's products meet this standard, and therefore could potentially contribute to this credit.

• LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance: MR Credit 3, Sustainable Purchasing:

According to the rating system, this credit requires that the project "maintain a sustainable purchasing program covering materials for facility renovations, demolitions, refits and new construction additions". Base building elements, including doors, must meet at least 1 of a list of criteria set forth in the credit. Since many Ceco Door products contain at least 10% postconsumer material, they would help to achieve this credit.

Ceco Door also lists some LEED credits that their products could potentially help to earn indirectly. For example, Ceco doors are extremely durable, so they could contribute to MR Credit 1.2, Building Reuse if reused in a new LEED building project.

To see a more complete list of the credits Ceco Door products may help to earn, see the manufacturer’s LEED Contribution Statement.

ASSA ABLOY also has a wide range of other brands, such as Baron, Norton, Pemko and Sargent that offer products that may contribute to LEED credits. See ASSA ABLOY’s LEED certification page to learn more about how its products contribute to LEED.

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