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Appendix E: Sustainable Fort Carson: An Integrated Approach--Christopher Juniper
Appendix E: Sustainable Fort Carson: An Integrated Approach--Christopher Juniper
Pages 95-104
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Fort Carson is about 2 miles wide and about 5 miles in length from north to south. The installation includes an airfield and six operating gates through which about 90,000 trips are made each day, and the traffic is projected to continue growing as soldiers return from deployment in the next 4 years and the area's numerous military retirees, who access Fort Carson shopping and services, grow in number.
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In addition to the 25-year goals that the garrison commander committed to in 2002, he committed Fort Carson to annual reporting back to the Colorado Springs metro community on goal progress. As the goals were set at a conference-like event, the Fort Carson sustainability team produced annual community-inclusive sustainability conferences beginning in 2003 to provide updates on Fort Carson's
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These Fort Carson community sustainability conferences became important annual events for the entire sustainability community of the region; conferences typically included more than two dozen supporting non-profit partners, ranging from environmental and peace groups to chambers of commerce and educational institutions. To maximize the effectiveness for the region's sustainability performance, which itself is a critical aspect of Fort Carson's sustainability success, Fort Carson transitioned the conference to being hosted by a community non-profit and established an educational effort for all of southern Colorado, called Southern Colorado Sustainable Communities.
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The plan will also outline a pathway to mainstreaming sustainable energy for the entire Colorado Springs metro region by 2030, supporting goals to achieve sustainability performance adopted in October 2010 (see Box E.1) by the regional sustainability planning effort that was also strongly supported by Fort Carson's garrison commander and Sustainable Fort Carson planners.
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And the installation, through the Pristine Energy Project, will complete a life-cycle sustainability performance assessment of all potential vehicle fuels and energy sources, including batteries, with a regional focus, in early 2011. Sustainable Development (Facility Planning)
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District Corps of Engineers, and its resident officers at Fort Carson are the garrison's partners in design and construction.
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It is critically important to have motivated and LEED-trained people in the right positions, creating excitement and passion about high-performance sustainable buildings. Sustainable Transportation The transportation challenges of Fort Carson begin with its being a rapidly expanding, spread-out installation at the edge of a sprawling metro area with a poor mass transit system -- resulting in 93 percent of the people arriving at Fort Carson in single-occupant vehicles, which creates major bottlenecks at installation access gates as well as on-post congestion.
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But as attainment of shopping, food, and medical services on the installation almost always requires motorized transportation, getting people to the gates without their cars only solves half the problem -- with on-post carless mobility being the other half that is required to attract transit riders who could otherwise drive. The installation's sustainable transportation team is researching a mobility system that does not use private-occupant vehicles and instead uses private-sector-provided car sharing, low-powered-vehicle sharing (bikes, electric bikes, or other personal mobility devices)
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Sustainable Procurement Fort Carson is pursuing adoption of an installation-wide sustainable procurement plan that will support compliance with Executive Order 13514 and the Department of Defense's Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan of August 2010. Annual progress toward more sustainable procurement is described in detail in Fort Carson's annual sustainability performance reports, available at the Sustainable Fort Carson Web site (www.carson.army.mil/paio/sustainability.html)
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Fort Carson's source selection boards look for contractors with past experience in LEED projects. Fort Carson's DPW has four LEED-accredited professionals on staff as of FY 2011.
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