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1 online resource (150 pages) |
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""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Context""; ""2 Objectives and Challenges Associated with Federal High-Performance Green Buildings""; ""3 Levers of Change""; ""4 Best Practices, Tools, and Technologies for Transformational Change""; ""5 Strategies and Approaches for Achieving a Range of Objectives Associated with Federal High-Performance Facilities""; ""References""; ""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A: Biosketches of Committee Members""; ""Appendix B: Committee Meetings and Speakers"" |
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""Appendix C: Workshop Agenda and List of Participants""""Appendix D: Transformative Action Through Systems-Based Thinking -- Robert Berkebile""; ""Appendix E: Sustainable Fort Carson: An Integrated Approach -- Christopher Juniper""; ""Appendix F: Beyond Incrementalism: The Case of Arlington, Virginia -- Peter Garforth""; ""Appendix G: Getting to Net-Zero Energy: NREL's Research Support Facility -- Jeffrey M. Baker""; ""Appendix H: Sustainable Asset Management: The Case of Los Angeles Community College District -- Thomas L. Hall"" |
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""Appendix I: The Economics of Sustainability: The Business Case That Makes Itself -- Greg Kats"" |
| Summary |
The design, construction, operation, and retrofit of buildings is evolving in response to ever-increasing knowledge about the impact of indoor environments on people and the impact of buildings on the environment. Research has shown that the quality of indoor environments can affect the health, safety, and productivity of the people who occupy them. Buildings are also resource intensive, accounting for 40 percent of primary energy use in the United States, 12 percent of water consumption, and 60 percent of all non-industrial waste. The processes for producing electricity at power plants and delivering it for use in buildings account for 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S. federal government manages approximately 429,000 buildings of many types with a total square footage of 3.34 billion worldwide, of which about 80 percent is owned space. More than 30 individual departments and agencies are responsible for managing these buildings. The characteristics of each agency's portfolio of facilities are determined by its mission and its programs. In 2010, GSA's Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings asked the National Academies to appoint an ad hoc committee of experts to conduct a public workshop and prepare a report that identified strategies and approaches for achieving a range of objectives associated with high-performance green federal buildings. Achieving High-Performance Federal Facilities identifies examples of important initiatives taking place and available resources. The report explores how these examples could be used to help make sustainability the preferred choice at all levels of decision making. Achieving High-Performance Federal Facilities can serve as a valuable guide federal agencies with differing missions, types of facilities, and operating procedures |
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Scholarly & Professional National Academies Press |
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Public buildings -- United States -- Congresses
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Sustainable buildings -- United States -- Congresses
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Public buildings
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Sustainable buildings
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| Author |
National Research Council (U.S.)
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| ISBN |
9780309211680 |
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0309211689 |
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1283376261 |
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9781283376266 |
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