Energy-Efficiency Standards and Green Building Certification Systems Used by the Department of Defense for Military Construction and Major Renovations (2013) / Chapter Skim
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2 The DOD Operating Environment, Building Standards, and Green Building Certification Systems
2 The DOD Operating Environment, Building Standards, and Green Building Certification Systems
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Standards 90.1-2010 and 189.1-2011, the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) and Green Globes green building certification systems, and similarities and differences between the LEED and Green Globes systems.
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Federal agencies began using green building certification systems when those systems were being developed and tested in the late 1990s (Wang et al., 2012)
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. The Army subsequently adopted LEED-NC as its green building certification standard.
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. ASHRAE Standard 189.1-2011 for the Design of High-Performance Green Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings ASHRAE Standard 189.1 was created through a collaborative effort involving ASHRAE, the U.S.
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The foreword to ASHRAE Standard 189.1-2011 for high-performance green buildings states the following: New provisions within the standard were not uniformly subjected to economic assessment. Cost-benefit assessment, while an important consideration in general, was not a necessary criterion for acceptance of any given proposed change to the standard.
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. Green building certification systems are intended to provide a framework through which building professionals and owners can design and construct buildings that meet performance objectives for land use, transportation, energy and water efficiency, indoor environmental quality, and other factors.
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They invited members of environmental design, real estate, academic, governmental, and business communities to shape the development of standards to guide construction projects, to improve performance, and help design and build structures that are more environmentally sensitive and sustainable. An initial certification program, LEED 1.0, was launched in 1998 (Smith et al., 2006)
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GBI became an ANSI-accredited standards development organization and developed ANSI/GBI 01-2010, Green Building Assessment Protocol for Commercial Buildings, which is derived from, but is not the same as, the Green Globes green building certification system. The ANSI standards development process was led by a technical committee comprised of expert individuals and organizations and involved extensive consultation and consensus building.
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The two systems attach differing values to certain aspects of green building, expressed by moderately dissimilar point allocations, especially at the lower levels of assessment. For example, LEED requires a minimum performance level in categories such as energy use, erosion control, and indoor air quality, among others, while similar action in Green Globes earns points toward certification.
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(2012) prepared a review of three green building certification systems (LEED, Green Globes, and the Living Building Challenge)
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