Prototype

McKinney is also home to the world’s first environmentally friendly, LEED-certified car dealership in Pat Lobb Toyota of McKinney. In the future, Pat Lobb Toyota will serve as a prototype for new Toyota dealerships.

• Approximately 75 percent of the building’s materials are recycled. The designers also tracked how far the materials were trucked and favored products manufactured less than 500 miles so that we could lessen the CO2 emissions related to trucking.
• The dealership’s front facade is comprised of composite panels made with 90 percent recycled aluminum. The site concrete has replaced 25 percent of the cement with Fly-ash, which is an industrial waste by-product.
• Natural light is allowed to permeate nearly all interior offices.
• Exterior sidewalks are made from recycled tires
• Solar panels produce electricity for the dealership
• The use of milk-based paint allows for a healthier work environment
• A cistern collects rainwater for irrigation. It’s an 8,660-gallon tank that collects condensate water, projected to be as much as 24,000 gallons in peek months.
• Waterless urinals and low-flow faucets and showerheads save thousands of gallons of water annually.
• Recycled carpet, which takes less energy to produce than standard flooring, is utilized. Some of the carpet actually incorporates automobile windshields from wrecked cars, thus keeping them out of landfills and giving them a second life as carpet backing.
• Electronic systems monitor energy performance for analysis. The dealership also worked with leading lighting manufactures to re-invent how auto dealerships illuminate their parking lots.
• Pat Lobb Toyota of McKinney recycles the waste oil that comes out of
  customer's cars and uses it as a fuel to heat the shop, car wash and detail
  bays. This allows the facility to dispose of the waste oil in the ONLY manor
  recommended by the EPA, which is by incineration.
• The dealership installed a closed loop recycled water car wash.  This system
  allows us the facility to recapture the majority of the water normally lost
  in the car wash process.  This reduces the water usage.
• The facility has incorporated a living "green wall" concept which
  increases the plant life on the site (in turn consuming CO2 - the primary
  gas citied in the "greenhouse effect") as well as providing a living solar
  shade that will lessen the summer solar load on the building. 
• The dealership recycled over 90 percent of the construction waste that would
  have otherwise gone straight to the dump.
• Pat Lobb Toyota also utilizes green housekeeping products and recycles.
  Educational information at the dealership showcases much of the technology
  and concepts used in the building.