Making the Case for Building

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• Making the Case for Building Green Health Care
  Facilities

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Sustainability

• Meeting the needs of the present
• without compromising the ability of future
• generations to meet their needs.
• We are all here together, at once, at the
  service and mercy of nature and each other. Paul
  Hawken, Ecology of Commerce

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What is Sustainable Building?

• A philosophy that integrates environmental
  quality, economic vitality, and social
  benefit/equity through the design, construction,
  and operation of the built environment.

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What is a Green Building?

• ...buildings designed, constructed, and
  operated to be very energy efficient use
  construction materials wisely, including
  recycled, renewable, and reused resources to the
  maximum extent practical are healthy for their
  occupants and typically have lower operation and
  maintenance costs. - City of Seattle, 2/12/01

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Modern Buildings Spend Natural Capital...
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With Significant Consequences

• Use of Virgin Materials
• Landscape destruction
• Toxic runoff from mines
• Deforestation
• Air and Water
• Pollution

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With Significant Consequences

• Use of Energy Resources
• Local air pollution
• Damming of rivers
• Global warming and climate change

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With Significant Consequences

• Production of waste
• Landfill problems
• Leaching of heavy metals
• Water pollution
• Unhealthy indoor air
• Illness, Health complaints
• Reduced productivity
• absenteeism

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So Who Will Pay the Price of Spending our
Natural Capital?

• Higher energy costs
• Higher water rates
• Higher costs for raw materials
• Higher costs for environmental fixes
• Higher costs for labor
• Higher costs to maintain an un-sustainable
• quality of life

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Environmental Objectives

• Indoor Environmental Quality
• Lighting
• Ergonomics
• IAQ
• Acoustical and Thermal Comfort
• Resource Conservation
• Energy, Water, Materials
• Ecosystem Protection
• Site-Based
• Region
• Beyond

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Benefits of Achieving Objectives

• Indoor Environmental Quality
• Improved health and productivity of building
  users
• Resource Conservation
• Reduced operating costs for energy and water
  using equipment
• Reduced materials waste
• Ecosystem Protection
• Reduced cost for stormwater protection
• Protected water resources

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Key Areas of Potential for Green Health Care
Facilities

• Productivity and Health for Patients and
  Employees
• Indoor Environmental Quality
• Reducing Demand for Resources
• Energy Efficiency
• Water Conservation
• Material Efficiency

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Key Areas of Concern for Green Health Care
Facilities

• Cost
• Minimize by integrated design, identify
  trade-offs
• LCA to identify offsets through operational
  savings
• Low technology approaches
• Full commissioning/Training
• Integrate incentives in planning (see handout)

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Key Areas of Concern for Green Health Care
Facilities

• Risk
• Rely on tested technologies and products
• (eco-labels, reliable directories)

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Key Areas of Concern for Green Health Care
Facilities

• Risk (continued)
• Focus on big bang items
• Start from where you are
• Work out the bugs
• Rely on professionals with green
• experience

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Key Areas of Concern for Green Health Care
Facilities

• Risk (continued)
• Integrate local resources in
• planning process
• (see handout)
• Use a systematic approach

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US Green Building Council

• Formed in 1993 to accelerate the adoption of
  green building practices, technologies, policies,
  and standards.
• Council membership-more than 275 organizations
  including
• product manufacturers
• environmental leaders
• building and design professionals
• retailers and building owners

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Overview of LEED

• Encourages integrated approach
• Focuses on five environmental disciplines
• Self-assessing system requiring documentation
• Offers four levels of certification
• Intended for the U. S. Market

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LEED Development to Date

• LEED Commercial V.2.0, March 2000 - rates new and
  existing commercial, institutional and high-rise
  residential bldgs.
• LEED Interiors, 2001, (Draft under review) rates
  tenant improvements.
• LEED Residential, 2001, (In committee, under
  development)

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LEED Environmental Disciplines

• Sustainable Sites (8 credits/14 points)
• Water Efficiency (3 credits/5 points)
• Energy and Atmosphere (6 credits/17 points)
• Materials Efficiency (7 credits/13 points)
• Indoor Environmental Quality (8 credits/15
  points)
• Innovation Credits (4 credits/4 points)

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LEED Certification Levels

• LEED Certified 26-32 points (40-50)
• Silver Level 33-38 points (51-60)
• Gold Level 39-51 points (61-80)
• Platinum Level 52 points (81 )

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Why Adopt LEED for Your Projects?

• Green design has growing market value.
• Provides an opportunity for leadership and
  legacy.
• Public policies are promoting green building - a
  national trend.
• Provides you with a clear benchmark for whats
  being recognized as green.
• Documentation requirements lend credibility to
  claims to green design.

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City of Seattle Sustainable Building Policy Today

• It shall be the policy of the City of Seattle to
  finance, plan, design, construct, manage,
  renovate, maintain, and decommission its
  facilities and buildings to be sustainable. The
  US Green Building Councils LEED rating system
  shall be used as a design and measurement tool to
  determine what constitutes sustainable building
  by national standards. All new and remodeled
  facilities and buildings over 5,000 gross square
  feet of occupied space shall meet a minimum LEED
  Silver rating.

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City of Seattle Sustainable Building Policy -
Future

• 2/12/01 City Ordinance Studies to
• Development of City Wide Green Building Program.
• Accelerate Incentives and/or Requirements for
  Commercial and Residential (non-city funded).
• Amend Seattle Energy Code to 20 beyond current
  baselines.
• Enhance Code Enforcement procedures.
• Accelerate Greening of City Facilities

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Recommended Strategies for Implementation of LEED

• Sustainable design charrette early in schematic
  design
• Use whole system thinking to explore design
  relationships
• Emphasize a multi-disciplinary, team design
  approach
• Consider adding a sustainable design specialist
  to project team

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Planning Sustainable Sites

• Location of the building
• Protecting natural and agricultural areas
• Infill and brownfield development
• Reducing need for automobile use
• Protection and restoration of the site
• Innovative stormwater management
• Light pollution reduction

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Safeguarding Water

• Reduce the quantity of water needed for the
  building and its occupants
• Limit use of potable water use for irrigation
• Use innovative wastewater technologies
• Safeguard the quality of drinking water and water
  in our rivers, streams, and lakes

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Improving Atmosphere and Energy Efficiency

• Improve energy efficiency and reduce energy use
• Use renewable and alternative energy sources
• Provide building commissioning
• Eliminate CFCs, HCFCs, Halons
• (ozone depletion)

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Conserving Materials and Resources

• Reuse an existing building
• Reduce the amount of materials needed
• Use local, regional, and renewable materials
• Choose materials with less environmental impact
• Use certified sustainably harvested wood
• Reduce and manage waste

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Enhancing Indoor Environmental Quality

• Eliminate or reduce the sources of indoor
  pollutants
• Ventilate and manage pollutants
• Ensure thermal comfort
• Monitor air quality
• Provide daylight and views

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LEED Certification Process

• Project Registration
• Technical Support
• Certification Application
• Application form and LEED Scorecard
• Completed documentation required for credits

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LEED Design Resources

• Supplements to LEED (locally driven)
• http//www.usgbc.org
• LEED V.2, Training and LEED Reference Guide