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Title: Reducing your Carbon Footprint:


1
Reducing your Carbon Footprint
  • A Practical Guide from Product Selection through
    Building Completion

2
Why Build Sustainably?
  • Carbon is a limited resource
  • Maximize building efficiency while minimizing
    environmental impacts
  • Longer lifespan of goods promotes decreased cost
    over time

3
Areas of Importance
  • Site Selection
  • existing building reuse or new construction
  • Water Usage
  • using different techniques to decrease dependence
  • Energy Consumption
  • decrease dependence on electricity
  • Material Selection
  • what materials take less energy consumption to
    produce and deliver
  • Indoor Air Quality
  • creating a more healthy and productive
    environment for building users

4
Site Selection
  • The greenest building is the building that you
    dont build
  • Can the existing conditions of the site be used
    to maximize your building efficiency?
  • Stormwater management
  • Reducing the heat island effect

5
Water Usage
  • Fixture Usage
  • Is double plumbing applicable?
  • Low flow fixtures
  • Landscape Usage
  • Graywater Reuse
  • Potable Water Use

6
Energy Consumption
  • Commissioning and Optimization
  • Renewable Energy
  • What constitutes green power?
  • Lighting Energy Consumption
  • Equipment Energy Consumption
  • Laptops vs Desktops
  • Other equipment

7
Material Selection
  • Existing site materials
  • Waste Management
  • Recycled Content
  • Regional Materials
  • Renewable Resources

8
Indoor Environmental Quality
  • Tight building health
  • Low VOC material choices
  • Occupant Comfort
  • Daylighting and Views

9
Where do we go from here?
  • Energy Audit
  • Lighting
  • HVAC
  • What should we actually replace? And when???
  • Life Cycle Analysis
  • Embodied Energy
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