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Sustainable Federal Facilities A Guide to Integrating Value Engineering, Life-Cycle Costing, and Sustainable Development (2001) / Chapter Skim
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5. Online Resources
Pages 53-64

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... 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.
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From page 54...
... 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.
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From page 55...
... 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.
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From page 56...
... 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.
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From page 57...
... 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.
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From page 58...
... arnet. gov/far/ Provides access to current Federal Acquisition Regulations, Federal Acquisition Circulars, and other information related to Federal Acquisition Regulations.
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From page 59...
... 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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From page 60...
... 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!
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From page 61...
... 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)
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From page 62...
... 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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From page 63...
... 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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From page 64...
... INDEX 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.
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