Achieving High-Performance Federal Facilities Strategies and Approaches for Transformational Change (2011) / Chapter Skim
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. Overall, the goal is to design buildings that meet a broad range of performance objectives related to land use, transportation, energy and water efficiency, indoor environmental quality, and other factors (NRC, 2007)
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Improved evaluation has led to the development of new technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, energy and water use, and to provide power through renewable sources. Among these technologies are "cool" roofs,2 high-performance lighting, Energy Star rated appliances and equipment, WaterSense fixtures, and windows and control systems that optimize the use of natural daylight while minimizing heat loss.
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Most recently, a June 2010 presidential memorandum directs federal agencies to accelerate efforts to identify and eliminate excess properties for the purpose of eliminating wasteful spending, saving energy and water, and further reducing greenhouse gas emissions.5 3 Operating costs include recurring maintenance and repair costs, utilities, cleaning and/or janitorial costs, and roads and grounds costs (GSA, 2010)
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Capitol; White House; Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum bitmap Annex, Fairfax, Virginia; Arts and Industries Building, Washington, D.C.
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fig 1-3.eps EISA also established the Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings within the GSA. As the GSA's green building center of excellence and the federal government's high-performance building thought leader and catalyst, the office "strategically facilitates the adoption of integrated sustainable practices, technologies and behaviors to accelerate the achievement of a zero environmental footprint." 6 6 From GSA Web site, http://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/101107.
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In this way, the report could also be of value to federal agencies with differing missions, types of facilities, and operating procedures: It would be up to the individual agencies to adapt the approaches to their situations. The committee also decided not to spend significant time researching challenges, barriers, and gaps in knowledge for achieving high-performance green buildings because most are well known and well documented.
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However, new practices, technologies, tools, and processes related to high-performance green buildings are continuously emerging. For this reason, the committee defined best practices more broadly as "processes, procedures, or technologies that optimize available resources and could be effectively applied by the GSA and other federal agencies to meet similar objectives." The committee believed that agencies might lose opportunities to leapfrog ahead to fulfill their mandates if the committee only recommended well-documented best practices with a history of proven results.
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