Working in Olmsted's Shadow Guidance for Developing a Scope of Services for the Update of the Master Plan for the U.S. Capitol and Grounds (2003) / Chapter Skim
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Capitol Complex comprises the Capitol building, House and Senate Office Buildings, the U.S. Botanic Garclen, the Capitol Grounds, the Library of Congress buildings, the Supreme Court building, the Capitol Power Plant, anct various support facilities.
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Significant modernization projects are planned for the Supreme Court and the Capitol Power Plant that provides heating ant! cooling for the entire complex, as well as a major renovation of the National Garden of the U.S.
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Master planning is a proven approach for providing the policy framework on which to organize and orcler physical improvements on a temporal and spatial basis.
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However, the workshop participants noted that work on campus master plans typically does not begin until institutional leaders and other stakehoIclers participate in the creation of a vision for the campus that provides strategic direction. Absent a clear vision, the development of a truly meaningful and inclusionary master plan becomes problematic and may not be achievable.
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put ongoing projects together and pull them into a timeline to make sure they fit with one another and represent movement and real progress toward! the big picture that a master plan attempts to describe." {clearly, a capital planning and programming process would permit the Architect of the Capitol to appear before appropriations committees with a plan that includes current basic system needs e.g., new sprinkler systems in the older builclings such as the Rayburn House Office Building in a comprehensive package for the Capitol Complex and Grounds.
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. Combined fuel cell, gas turbine, and absorption chiller technologies, while not currently costeffective for typical buildings based on energy savings alone, offer enormous promise for the future from the standpoint of energy security and reduced heat and pollution loadings.
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In the tradition of OlmstecI, landscaping can also play an important role in providing relief from the "heat island" effect of massed builclings and paved parking lots. The present Capitol Complex makes exemplary use of landscaping and water features as design elements but these low-technology approaches also have an important and broader role in sustainable design.
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Flexibility in working arrangements supports space density management options, rapid relocations, and rapid business resumption options. In the long run, the master plan should guicle the decisions about what uses are most appropriate for the Capitol Complex, what types of data should be collected and maintainer!
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It was noted during the workshop discussion that because of the strong emphasis on design in master planning, selected elements of the procurement could be done as a competition. In particular, visual presentations such as maquettes wouIc!
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