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5 Strategies and Approaches for Achieving a Range of Objectives Associated with Federal High-Performance Facilities
Pages 59-66

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... Taken as a whole EISA, Executive Order 13423, Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management, and Executive Order 13514, Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance, establish more than 20 objectives related to federal high-performance facilities, including the following: • Reducing the use of energy, potable water, fossil fuels, and materials; • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions; • Improving indoor environmental quality; • Increasing the use of recycling and environmentally preferable products; • Minimizing waste and pollutants through source reduction; • Pursuing cost-effective innovative strategies to minimize consumption of energy, water, and materials; • Leveraging agency acquisitions to foster markets for sustainable technologies, materials, products, and services; • Locating new buildings in sustainable locations; 59
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From page 60...
... 3. Align existing federal facilities to current missions and consolidate the total facilities footprint to lower costs, reduce carbon emissions, reduce water and energy use, and optimize available resources.
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From page 61...
... Where federal facilities occupy large, contiguous land areas, such as military bases, research campuses, office parks, embassy compounds, and the like, they have opportunities to save energy, reduce the use of fossil fuels, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by building on-site combined heat and power (co-generation) plants, installing solar arrays and wind turbines for on-site generation of renewable energy (e.g., Oberlin, Ohio; Fort Carson, Colorado; Los Angeles Community College District)
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... As systems are changed out, more efficient technologies can be incorporated to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy and water use, to improve indoor environmental quality, and to meet other objectives related to high-performance green buildings. Technologies are available that have been proven to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (e.g., white roofs)
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... Agencies could leverage available resources, meet public policy goals, and improve results now and over the long term by consistently implementing existing guidelines such as those in the "Guiding Principles for Federal Leadership in High Performance and Sustainable Buildings." Even greater reductions of energy use could be achieved if, during the design process, agencies considered the energy required to operate lighting, computers, servers, copy machines, appliances, and other equipment. Hundreds of tools and models are available to help agencies evaluate alternative designs for buildings and help to optimize the use of natural resources in providing lighting, energy, and other services.
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... To the extent possible, the government and its agencies should ensure that all performance measures are aligned to achieve complementary objectives. Other techniques, technologies, and tools that can be used by agencies to improve communication and to help change behavior in support of the range of objectives associated with high-performance buildings include the following: • Providing regular updates to stakeholders on progress in achieving objectives related to high performance buildings through Webinars, conferences, and other formats.
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... One relatively easy way to embed sustainability into everyday decision making is to review these standards and revise them as necessary to align with objectives for highperformance green buildings. Specifying Energy Star appliances and equipment, WaterSense fixtures, and FEMP-designated electronics in contracts and task orders would result in improved energy and water performance almost automatically.
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... 66 ACHIEVING HIGH-PERFORMANCE FEDERAL FACILITIES Federal agencies should collaborate to determine how they can best optimize the value of such information so that it can be used more effectively by all federal agencies and so that it can be easily shared with state and local governments, private-sector and not-for-profit organizations, and the public. When agencies test new technologies and practices, they could also place the results on a Web site to help deploy effective technologies to a wider audience.
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