Why Sustainable Design for a Daycare setting?

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Sustainability Susan McFaddin, PhD, LEED-AP,
CEM
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Economics the study of the allocation of
scarce resources to unlimited wants.
Externalities benefits and costs that you dont
pay for
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Sustainability

• Sustainability
• meets the needs of
• the present without
• compromising the
• ability of future
• generations to meet
• their own needs.

UN Brundtsland Commission 1987
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Pacific Gyre
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From Green to Gold by Dan Esty and Andrew
Winston
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Conventional vs UFAD
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Employer Costs

• Rules of Thumb
• 1 Energy
• 10 - Rent
• 100 - Salaries

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West Bend Mutual Insurance Company(West Bend, WI)
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Average Worker Executive
Salary   60,000 120,000
Benefits 30 18,000 36,000
Total Cost 78,000 156,000
Square Feet per employee Square Feet per employee 250 400
Employee Cost/ Sq ft 312.00 390.00
15 Increase in Productivity 15 Increase in Productivity 46.80 58.50
5 Increase in Productivity 5 Increase in Productivity 15.60 19.50
Lawrence-Berkley Study Lawrence-Berkley Study Lawrence-Berkley Study
Absenteeism and Recruiting are also improved Absenteeism and Recruiting are also improved Absenteeism and Recruiting are also improved Absenteeism and Recruiting are also improved
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Adobe Towers LEED-EB
Energy Efficiency Measure Capital Cost Annual Energy Savings Payback Period ROI
Motion Sensors for HVAC in all Conference Rooms 37,500 310,438 kBtu 8 months 140
Reprogrammed Garage Lighting 55,267 76,713 kBtu 11 months 115
Installed VFD on Chiller 65,000 87,265 kBtu 7 months 163
Surge Protectors and Motion Sensors for each Office 104,750 148,498 kBtu 5 months 253
Retrofitted Garage Lighting 157,775 312,254 kBtu 10 months 118
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• Let ours be a time remembered for the awakening
  of a new reverence for life, the firm resolve to
  achieve sustainability, the quickening of the
  struggle for justice and peace, and the joyful
  celebration of life.
• Earth Charter 2000
• We did not inherit the earth from our ancestors.
• We are borrowing her from our children.
• Seneca Nations