Wire and Cable Technology Blog

I used to own and operate an electrical contracting business in Chicago. I purchased about 30-50K ft of high end specialty cable at a time.

What is out there is designed very well for what it does.

I would not want to be forced to purchase LEED certified cable. It is 100% useless to me. Some of my jobs would use dozens of types of wire and cable and it would be impossible to enforce from a business standpoint.

I would not have been able to use my existing product or suppliers if such a foolish idea were put into practice. It would drive prices up and force suppliers to deal with the backlash.

It would do nothing to ensure energy savings, occupancy rates, or any of the other benefits mentioned.

There is a reason for the different types of certification that already applies to wire and cable.

Signal characteristics, and load specifications, CMR (certified multi riser), and plenum rating are the only types of certifications I'm interested in.

Outside certifying the recycled content of the insulator, conductor, and other cable components? What do they think they intend to do to achieve the so called LEED certification?

The big problem is that people mention something like it's a good idea, and people automatically say yes without thought.