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Online Resources
Over the course of this study, the task group identified a wide range of online
resources related to sustainable design and development, value engineering, performance
measures, environmentally preferable products and lessons learned. This chapter contains
a distillation of those resources, focussing primarily on federal agency resources and
resources most directly related to this study. The list of ]:nternet sites is organized into
five general categories:
(~) Sustainable Development and Value Engineering; this category is subdivided
into federal agency sites; govemment-wide guidance; and other sites.
(2) Performance Standards for Sustainable Facilities
(3) Environmentally Preferable Products
(4) Lessons Learned
(5) Index
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND VALUE ENGINEERING
Federal Agency Sites
Department of Agriculture
http://wWw.usda.gov:80/ocio/directives/SM/SM9500-6.htm}
Provides a copy of a 1996 Department of Agriculture memorandum that outlines the
department's support for policies, programs, activities, and education in sustainable
development.
Department of the Army
Information on Sustainable Design and Development
http://www.hqUa.army.mil/acsimweb/fd/linksSDD.htm#document
Provides an index of documents, references, training materials, sustainable design and
development success stories, and other sites that relate to the military.
Sustainable Design for Military Facilities
http://www.usace.army.mil/inet/usace-docs/eng-tech-Itrs/et] ~ ~ ~ 0-3-49 l/entire.pUf
Provides information and guidance for incorporating sustainable design concepts in the
design and construction of military facilities. The file is available for download in PDF-
format.
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Department of Defense
Defense Environmental Network & Information eXchange
http://www.denix.osd.mil/denix/denix.htmI/
Provides access to environmental legislative, compliance, restoration, cleanup, and DoD
guidance information. It is intended to serve as a central electronic "meeting place" where
information can be exchanged among environmental professionals worldwide.
Sustainable Federal Facilities
Department of Energy
Energy Efficiency an(l Renewable Energy Network
http://www.eren.doe.gov
Provides access to various DOE energy efficiency and renewable energy information
resources, including:
Federal Energy Management Program
Building Commissioning Guide
http://www.eren.doe.gov/femp/techassist/bIdgcomgd.htm}
Provides links to the Federal Energy Management Program's Building
Commissioning Guidle. The guide was created by the Federal Energy Management
Program, in cooperation with the General Services Administration, to address the
requirements of Executive Order 12902, which state that each federal agency
involved in the construction of a new facility must ensure that the facility is
designed to minimize the life cycle cost of the facility by using energy efficiency,
water conservation, or renewable energy technologies.
Federal Energy Management Program
Greening Federal Facilities Guide
http://www.eren.doe.gov/femp/greenfed
Provides access to the Federal Energy Management Program's Greening Federal
Facilities' a resource guide for federal facility managers to assist them in reducing
energy consumption and costs, to help improve the working environment of the
facilities they manage, and reduce the environmental impacts of their operations.
Office of Building Technology, State, and Community Programs
Building Energy Software Tools
http://www.eren.doe.govibuildings/tools_directory
Contains information on various energy-related software tools for buildings,
which emphasize the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency and
sustainability in buildings.
Guidelines for Sustainable Building Design: Recommendations from the Presidio of
San Francisco Energy Efficiency Design Charrette
http://ateam.Ibl.gov/PUBSAbrownprs.pdf
Provides access to the proceedings from a design workshop held in 1994 that was
organized to develop solutions for the energy-efficient redevelopment of buildings by the
National Park Service (NPS) at the Presidio of San Francisco. This event brought
together engineers, researchers, architects, government officials, and students in a
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participatory environment to apply their experience to create guidelines for the
sustainable redesign of Presidio buildings. The document draws on information
developed in the charrette, combined with experience gained by the Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory Applications Team in subsequent actual Presidio design assistance
for the NPS. The emphasis on optimization and an interdisciplinary intecrated-sYstems
approach may be applicable to the creation of sustainable buildings in other settings.
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Buildings Technology Center
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
h t t p : / / w w w . o r n ~ . g o v / O R N ~ / B T C /
The Buildings Technology Center (BTC) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a research
facility devoted to the development of technologies that improve the energy efficiency
and environmental compatibility of residential and commercial buildings. Established by
the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Building Technology State and Community
Programs, the BTC is a designated "National User Facility," which means that its
facilities are available to manufacturers, universities, ant! other organizations for
proprietary and nonproprietary research and development.
Environmental Restoration Applied Cost Engineering Team
http://www.em.doe.gov/aceteam/
Serves as the homepage for the Department of Energy's Environmental Restoration
Applied Cost Engineering Team. The ACE team is part of DOE's Environmental
Management program, and was established to promote continuous cost improvements
through dissemination of cost engineering tools, methods, techniques, best practices, and
lessons learned across the Environmental Management complex. The site outlines ACE
team activities and lessons learned from the program.
Center of Excellence for Sustainable Develonment
http://www.sustainable.doe.gov
This Department of Energy site offers a menu of information and services on sustainable
development strategies for local communities, including:
Sustainable Building Technical Manual
http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/articles/ptipub.htm
The Sustainable Building Technical Manual: Green Building Design,
Construction, and Operations is designed to help architects, developers, building
owners, government officials, and others implement sustainable development
practices.
Department of the Interior
National Park Service
Greening the National Parks Through Environmental Leadership
http://www.nps.gov/renew/
Contains information on the National Park Service's environmental initiatives, including:
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Sustainable Federal Facilities
Guiding Principles of Sustainable Design
http://www.nps.gov/dsc/dsgncnstr/gps]Jtoc.html
Provides links to the principles used by the National Park Service as a basis for
achieving sustainability in facility planning and design.
Bureau of Reclamation - Value Program
http://www.usbr.gov/valuprog/
Provides information on the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation Value
Program. Links to program
studies and value engineering resources are provided.
Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance
http://es.epa.gov/oeca/cemp/cemptoc.html
Provides access to the Implementation Guide for the Code of Environmental Management
Principles for Federal Agencies. The site provides answers to such questions as: what is
the code of environmental management principles; and, what is an environmental
management system? The guide, and additional resources, are available on the site in
Adobe Acrobat format.
Federal Highway Administration -Value Engineering
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ve/vehome.htm
Provides information on the regulations covering value engineering for the federal-aid
highway program. Information provided includes the FHWA's value engineering policy;
the value engineering process; the value engineering job plan; the rationale for
performing value engineering reviews; a description of the value engineering workshop
for training individuals in public transportation organizations; and year-end summary
reports of state value engineering activity.
General Services Administration
Planet GSA
http://www.gsa.gov/planetgsa/
Provides information on the Planet GSA Program, the General Services Administration's
homepage on "green" initiatives. it contains information on GSA's national building
green initiative, and buying green, driving green, managing green, and saving green
resources.
GSA Real Property Sustainable Development Guide
http://w~vw.gsa.gov/realpropertypolicy
Provides access to the General Services Administration's Real Property Sustainable
Development Guide, a 28-page guide highlighting principles of sustainable development.
Chapters include the sustainable workplace; implementing sustainability; ideas/case
studies; and resources. The guide is available for download in PDF-format.
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U.S. Air Force
Environmentally Responsible Facilities Guide, June 1998
Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence
http://www.afcee.brooks.af.mil/green/facilitiesguide/facguide.asp
Provides access to the U.S. Air Force EnvironmentallY Resoonsible Facilities Guide. The
guide provides an ~ntrocluct~on to the environmental challenges faced in planning,
programming, designing and constructing facilities. It addresses facility-and site-related
issues and is intended to be a practical tool for implementing environmentally-
responsible practices. It is available for downioac! in PDF-format.
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Green Base of the Future
http://www.3di.com/gbof/
Provides information on the Green Base of the Future project. The project is an
outgrowth of the Texas Pollution Prevention Partnership that was formed between the
Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission and military installations in Texas in
June 1996. Together with the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence (AFCEE),
the partnership conceived the Green Base of the Future initiative in order to integrate
pollution prevention into everyday activities throughout military installations in Texas
and, to further AFCEE's goals for resource conservation.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
http://www.cecer.army.mil/sustUesign/
Provides access to the Engineer Research and Development Center and the Construction
Engineering Research Laboratory of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The site
provides information on sustainable design and development, actions the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers is taking in this area, and highlights of other federal agencies'
sustainable design and development efforts.
U.S. Navy
Naval Facilities Engineering Command
Criteria Office and Engineering Innovation Division
http://www.efdiant.navLac.navy.mil/Lantops_] S/home.htm
Contains information on, and links to, the Naval Facilities Engineering Command's
planning and design policy statements on sustainable development.
Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center
Joint Service Pollution Prevention Technical Library
http://enviro.nfesc.navy.mil/p2library/
Provides access to the Joint Service Pollution Prevention Technical Library. The library
deals with pollution prevention and compliance information and is comprised of the
Pollution Prevention Opportunity Handbook, Pollution Prevention Equipment Book,
Environmental Products Catalog, and technical documents.
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Sustainable Federal Facilities
Whole Building Design Guide
National Institute of Building Sciences
http://www.wbUg.org/
Provides access to the Whole Building Design Guide, which is sponsored by several
federal agencies, through the National Institute of Building Sciences. The Whole
Building Design Guide condenses data about building design and products into more
usable, up-to-date information. Users will be able to access specific information through
resource pages by way of three major categories: Building Types, Design Criteria, and
Products and Systems. The resource pages are reductive summaries on particular tonics
written by industry experts, and provide links to both internal pages and external sites.
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Government-wide Guidance
Cocle of Federal Regulations
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.htm]
Provides access to the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by
the executive departments and agencies of the federal government.
Council on Environmental Quality
http://www.whitehouse.gov/CEQ/
Provides information on the Council on Environmental Quality. The Council coordinates
federal environmental efforts and works closely with agencies ant! other White House
offices in the development of environmental policies and initiatives.
Executive Orders
http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/search/executive-orders.html
Allows the user to search for Executive Orders.
Office of Management and Budget Circulars
http://www.whitehouse.gov/OMB/circulars/index.htm}
Contains links to OMB circulars; circulars are arranged in numerical order.
Federal Acquisition Regulations
http: //www. arnet. gov/far/
Provides access to current Federal Acquisition Regulations, Federal Acquisition
Circulars, and other information related to Federal Acquisition Regulations.
National Town Meeting for a Sustainable America
http ://www. sustainableusa. coin/proceedings/
Contains the proceedings of the National Town Meeting for a Sustainable America held
on May 2-5, 1999, in Detroit, Michigan, and other locations across America. The
National Town Meeting was co-sponsored by the President's Council on Sustainable
Development and the Global Environment and Technology Foundation.
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Other Sites
American Planning Association
APA Policy Guide on Planning for Sustainability
http://www.planning.org/govt/sust~vpg.htm
Contains the American Planning Association's policy guide on planning for
sustainability; adopted by Chapter Delegate Assembly, April 16, 2000 and ratified by
Board of Directors, April 17, 2000.
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Assessing Progress Toward Sustainability Project
International Development Research Centre and the World Conservation Union
http://www.iucn.org/themes/eval/english/index.htm
Provides information about the concepts, tools and case studies for monitoring,
evaluating, and diagnosing processes for achieving sustainability.
Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering
http://www.cost.org/
Provides access to the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering. The
Association provides information and resources for cost managers and engineers, project
managers, planners and schedulers, estimators and bidders, and value engineers.
California Department of Transportation
Value Analysis Guides
http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/oppd/value
Provides access to the California DOT's guides on value engineering: Value Analysis
Report Guide and Value Analysis Team Guide. Both files are available for download in
pUf-format.
Canadian Society of Value Analysis
http://www.scav-csva.org/CSVA.htm
Provides information on the Canadian Society for Value Analysis. The Society promotes
the value analysis methodology by producing publications and holding conferences.
City of Austin
The Green Building Program
http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/greenbuilder/
Provides information on the City of Austin's Green Building Program, which encourages
construction professionals and consumers to incorporate sustainable building practices,
systems, and materials into residential and commercial construction. The program
presents specific and general recommendations for environmentally friendly homes that
may also be relevant to other types of development.
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City of New York
High Performance Building Guidelines
http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/htmI/~dc/p~f/greentoc.pUf
Provides access to High Performance Building Guidelines, a set of guidelines designed to
bring awareness of green design to New York City's buil(ling procurement process. The
guidelines also serve as a resource for anyone working to incorporate environmental
principles into commercial buildings.
National Center for Appropriate Technology
Center for Resourceful Building Technology
http://www.crbt.org
Provides information on the Center for Resourceful Building Technology, a project of the
National Center for Appropriate Technology (www.ncat.org). The Center promotes
environmentally responsible construction practices through research, education, anal
demon strati on .
Sustainable Federal Facilities
SAVE
Society of American Value Engineers
http://www.value-eng.org
Provides information on value engineering, including trends, upcoming events, links and
resources.
University of Michigan
Sustainable Architecture Compendium
http://www.umich.edu/~nppcpub/resources/compendia/architecture.htm!
Provides access to the University of Michigan's Sustainable Architecture Compendium.
The site contains resource lists, documents, and bibliographies relater! to sustainable
development. Documents are available for download in PDF-format.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR SUSTAINABLE FACIIJITlES
BREEAM
Building Research Establishment Lld. of the United Kingdom
http://www.bre.co.uk/sustainable/service ~ .htm]
Provides access to the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment
Method (BREEAM), a too! that allows owners, users, and designers of buildings to
review and improve environmental performance throughout the life of a building. It sets a
benchmark for environmental performance. It is based on construction and environmental
research carried out at the Building Research Establishment together with the input of the
construction and property industries and government and building regulators.
Environmental Protection Agency
Energy Star Buildings Program
http://www.epa.gov/buildings
Provides information on the Energy Star Buildings Program, a voluntary program in
which building owners agree to install high-efficiency heating, cooling, ventilating and
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lighting and control products. A central component of the program is the five-stage
implementation strategy that takes advantage of building system interactions, enabling
building owners to achieve additional energy savings while lowering capital
expenditures. Also includes:
ENERGY STAR ™
http://www.epa.gov/buildings/labe]
Provides an introduction to the Energy Star label for buildings. The EPA
and the U.S. Department of Energy have established Energy Star criteria
for commercial buildings based on energy consumption on a 0-to-100
scale. Buildings that are among the top 25 percent nationwide in terms of
energy performance, equal to a benchmarking score of 75 or greater, and
that maintain an indoor environment that conforms to industry standards
can qualify for designation as Energy Star buildings.
Energy Star™ Buildings Upgrade Manual
http://www.epa.gov/buildings/esbhome/about/planning.pdf
Contains the Energy Star™ Buildings Upgrade Manual, a guide for
Energy Star™ building partners to use in planning and implementing
profitable energy-eff~ciency upgrades in their facilities. The manual can be
used as a framework for an energy strategy, focusing on the Energy Star™
buildings five-stage approach:
Stage ~ - Green lights
Stage 2 - Building tune-up
Stage 3 - Other load reductions
Stage 4 - Fan system upgrades
Stage 5 - Heating and cooling system upgrades
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System
Criteria (LEED)
U.S. Green Building Council
http://www.usgbc.org/programs/leed.htm
Provides information on the LEED Green Building Rating System™. LEED™ evaluates
environmental performance from a "whole building" perspective over a building's life
cycle, providing a definitive standard for what constitutes a "green building." LEED™ is
a self-certifying system designed for rating new and existing commercial, institutional,
and high-rise residential buildings. It is a feature-oriented system where credits are
earned for satisfying each criterion. Different levels of green building certification are
awarded based on the total credits earned.
U.S. Green Builcling Council
http://www.usgbc.org/
The homepage of the U.S. Green Building Council; its mission is to accelerate the
adoption by industry and government of green building practices, technologies, policies,
and standards.
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ENVIRONMENTALLY PREFERABLE PRODUCTS
Architectural Record Green Products Guide
http://192.2 15.32. 1 59/GREEN/GREEN.ASP
Created and maintained by Architecturairecord.com, provides links to environmentally-
friendly building materials resources.
Carnegie Mellon University
Economic Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment
http://www.eioica.net
Provides access to the Carnegie Mellon University, Green Design Initiative, Economic
Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment. This too] allows the user to estimate the overall
environmental effects of producing a certain dollar amount of any of 500 commodities or
services in the United States. It provides guidance on the relative impacts of different
types of products, materials, services, and industries with respect to resource use and
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emissions.
Department of State
Office of the Procurement Executive
http://www.statebuy.gov/green.htm
Provides information, links, and resources on buying environmentally safe and recycled
products for contracting and program activities worldwide.
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
http://www.epa.gov/oppt/epp/database.htm
Provides access to the Environmental Protection Agency's Environmentally Preferable
Purchasing Database, as well as the Greening Uncle Sam (GUS) Purchasing Too} Site.
Also includes:
Legislative References for Environmentally Preferable Products
http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/epp/resources.htm]
Contains documents and links, compiled by the Environmental Protection
Agency, which provide information about environmentally preferable purchasing.
Environmental Products
Defense Logistics Agency
http://www.dscr.~la.mil/products/epa/eppcat.htm
Provides access to the Defense Logistics Agency supply catalog of environmental
products.
King County, Washington, Map of Recycled-Content Buildings
http://dnr.metrokc.gov/market/encompass/index.htm
Contains examples of recycled content construction projects, and provides access to
information and resources regarding sustainable building and recycled materials,
recycled-content construction materials, and recycled construction.
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National Institute of Standards and Technology
Builcling for Environmental and Economic Sustainability
http://www.bfrl.nist.gov/oae/bees.html
Contains information regarding the Building for Environmental and Economic
Sustainability tool. BEES provides a technique for balancing the environmental and
economic performance of building products. Developed by the National Institute of
Standards and Technology Building and Fire Research Laboratory with support from the
U.S. EPA Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program and the White House-
sponsored Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing, the tool is based on
consensus standards and designed to be practical, flexible, anct transparent. Version 2.0 of
the Windows™-based decision support software, aimed at designers, builders, and
product manufacturers, includes actual environmental and economic performance data for
65 building products.
BEES measures the environmental performance of building products by using the
environmental life-cycle assessment approach specified in ISO 14000 standards. All
stages in the life of a product are analyzed: raw material acquisition, manufacture,
transportation, installation, use, and recycling and waste management. Economic
performance is measured using the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
standard life-cycle cost method, which covers the costs of initial investment, replacement,
operation, maintenance and repair, and disposal. Environmental and economic
performance are combined into an overall performance measure using the ASTM
standard for Multi-Attribute Decision Analysis. For the entire BEES analysis, building
products are defined and classified according to the ASTM standard classification for
building elements known as UNIFORMAT Il. BEES is being farther developed as a tool
to assist the federal procurement community in carrying out Executive Order ~ 3 ~ O ~ .
State of Massachusetts
Environmentally Preferable Products Procurement Program
http://www.magnet.state.ma.us/osd/enviro/
The home page of the Environmentally Preferable Products (EPP) Procurement Program
of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This site provides information about the
Commonwealth's efforts to buy EPPs, State contracts for the purchase of recycled
products and other EPPs, available guides and reports, upcoming events, and contacts.
This web site is provided to address the environmentally preferred products information
needs of a number of user groups, including federal environmental purchasing program
managers.
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Audubon House
Sustainable Federal Facilities
LESSONS LEARNED
http://www.audubon.org/nas/ah/index.htm!
Highlights the Audubon House, headquarters of the National Audubon Society, which
was renovated ant] designed to be a mode] of the energy-efficient, environmentally
responsible workplace.
Design for Environment
http://www.pnI.gov/doesustainableclesign/
Provides access to the Roadmap for Integrating Sustainable Design into Site-Leve!
Operations. This document was prepared by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for
the Department of Energy. It presents a roadmap for integrating sustainable (resign at
U.S. Department of Energy sites.
Montana State University EPICenter
http://www.montana.edu/epicenter/
Provides information on Montana State University's Green Building Project, the
EPICenter, which utilizer! several new sustainable building technologies.
Pennsylvania's First Green Building
http://www.gggc.state.pa.us/building/scrob.htm}
Provides an overview of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
South-central Regional Office Building, the State of Pennsylvania's first green building.
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World Wide Web Virtual Library - Sustainable Development
http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/sustvI.htm!
Provides an extensive list of web-sites that focus on sustainable development, including
organizations, projects anal activities, electronic journals, libraries, references and
documents, databases, directories and meta-databases maintained by the Center for
Economic and Social Studies on the Environment, at Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
Representative terms from entire chapter:
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