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in the Green Procurement CompilationLearn & Plan Topics
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Energy & Atmosphere
Buildings and facilities rely on the operation of mechanical systems and electrical systems to maintain a high level of indoor environmental qual...
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Water Efficiency
Buildings are significant users of the Earth’s freshwater supply. The goal of a responsible building operator should be to encourage a sma...
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Buildings' Energy Use
Buildings represent about 76% of electricity use and 40% of U.S. primary energy use, making it essential to reduce energy consumption to reduce cost... -
Spatial Equity
Organizations today are less hierarchical and work is more team based, more mobile, and more cross functional. A key to spatial equity is that sp...
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Materials, Furniture, and Furnishings Replacement
Daily wear and tear means that materials, furniture and furnishings require periodic replacement.
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Space Reconfiguration and Renovation Projects
As needs change over time, tenants often need to convert space or phase the conversion of individual space or rooms to meet these changing needs....
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Under 10,000 SF Interiors Gut Rehab Project
This page provides Sustainable Strategies to consider as a space has or will undergo a major tenant gut rehab for projects under 10,000 SF.
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Building Systems Upgrades
This page details Sustainable Strategies to consider as your space undergoes a building system upgrade to improve energy, water use, and occupant co... -
Building Operations and Maintenance Services
Follow these sustainable strategies as your space renovations are complete and the building and interiors are operated in an environmentally sustai... -
Using Acquisition Life Cycle Tools
Guidance on how government tools and resources can be utilized during each phase of the procurement life cycle. -
Net Zero Energy
Net Zero Energy means that a building balances its energy needs with energy produced from renewable, zero-emission sources. While Net Zero Ene... -
Plug Loads
Plug loads refer to energy used by equipment that is plugged into an outlet. In an office, key plug loads include computer and monitors, printers...
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Department of Defense (DoD) Sustainable Product Purchasing
The Department of Defense (DoD) established a sustainable product purchasing program to enhance and sustain mission readiness through...
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Policies & Strategies
This section is devoted to the broad policies and strategies covering the whole government or entire agencies, services or bureaus, which set the co... -
Tools & Training
This section covers and links to systems, methods, databases, calculators, checklists, etc. designed to help Federal officials and their partners ac... -
Best Practices & Case Studies
One of the best ways to learn and make the case for high-performance building innovations is to point to others’ experience in implementing th... -
Energy Management Systems (EnMS)
Energy Management Systems (EnMS) are a set of business processes that enable facility managers to act on energy usage data and optimize eff...
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Other Useful GPC Links
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The Importance of Daylight
While many people prefer to be in spaces with abundant daylight, a critical question is to what extent the benefits of daylight matter to those who ... -
Enhancing Health with Indoor Air
Four key levers to enhance health and performance by improving indoor air.
Green Products
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Heat Pumps, Air-Source
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Ceiling Fans
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Clothes Washers
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Combination Units/Multi-Function Devices
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Commercial Dishwashers
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Commercial Dishwashers
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Commercial Ice Makers
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Commercial Ice Makers
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Commercial Ice Makers
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Copiers
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Telephones
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Dishwashers
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Dishwashers
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Fax Machines
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Furnaces
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Heat Pumps, Geothermal or Ground-Source
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Refrigerators
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Monitors
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Televisions
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Ventilation Fans
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Windows
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Commercial Ice Makers: Air-Cooled
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Commercial Ice Makers: Air-Cooled
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Commercial Ice Makers: Air-Cooled
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Commercial Ice Makers: Water-Cooled
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Commercial Ice Makers: Water-Cooled
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Commercial Ice Makers: Water-Cooled
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Boilers
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Air Conditioning, Central
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Set-Top Boxes and Cable Boxes
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Residential Water Heaters
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Residential Water Heaters: Whole-Home Gas Tankless
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Residential Water Heaters: Solar
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Residential Water Heaters: High Efficiency Electric Storage (Heat Pump)
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Residential Water Heaters: High-Efficiency Gas Storage
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Residential Water Heaters: Electric Storage Water Heaters
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Exterior Lighting
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Fluorescent Luminaires
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Clothes Dryers
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Cooler, Indirect Evaporative
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Telephones: Cordless Phones, Answering Machines, and Combination Units
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Telephones: Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Phones
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Boilers: Biomass Boiler, Wood-Pellet-Fired
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Boilers: Condensing
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Boilers: Commercial
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Boilers: Residential
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Commercial Clothes Washers
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Low-emissivity (low-e) Window Film
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Low-emissivity (low-e) Window Film
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Control Optimization System for Chiller Plants
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Energy Efficiency Standard for Federal Buildings
Whole Building Systems
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Lighting - DOE | Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Building Technologies Office (BTO)
http://energy.gov/eere/buildings/building-technologies-office
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Lighting - DOE | Advanced Energy Retrofit Guide - Improving the Energy Efficiency of Commercial Buildings
http://energy.gov/eere/buildings/advanced-energy-retrofit-guides
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HVAC - U.S. DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
http://energy.gov/eere
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HVAC - DOE | Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
http://energy.gov/eere
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IEQ - Green Tips
Optimize ventilation rates and energy efficiency to find a comfortable, healthy, and energy efficient solution.
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Lighting - Occupant Behavior on Energy Efficiency
Occupant behavior plays a critical role in achieving the designed energy efficiency of lighting systems. Energy modeling accuracies can often vary b...
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Lighting - Optimize Building Energy Efficiency
Some water system components, when bundled together, can significantly reduce overall building energy consumption as over eight percent of total ene...
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Lighting - EAp1
Energy Efficiency Best Management Practices
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HVAC - EAp1
Energy Efficiency Best Management Practices
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HVAC - EAp2
Minimum Energy Efficiency Performance
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Water - DOE FEMP | Water Efficiency in Federal Buildings and Campuses
http://energy.gov/eere/femp/water-efficiency-federal-buildings-and-campuses
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Water - DOE FEMP | Water Efficiency Best Management Practices
http://energy.gov/eere/femp/best-management-practices-water-efficiency
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Lighting - Energy Independence and Security Act (2007)
EISA 2007 established energy management goals and requirements, of which a sustainable lighting strategy is necessary, for federal buildings. It est...
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Lighting - Energy Policy Act of 2005
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005) established a number of energy management goals for federal facilities involving components of a sustaina...
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Lighting - National Energy Consumption Policy Act (1978)
The National Energy Consumption Policy Act (NECPA) serves as the underlying authority for federal energy management goals and has been regularly upd...
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HVAC - Guiding Principles for Sustainable Federal Buildings
HVAC systems must be commissioned (and recommissioned), and integrative design principles should be employed. Energy efficiency necessitates HVA...
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HVAC - Energy Independence and Security Act (2007)
EISA 2007 established energy management goals and requirements, of which a sustainable lighting strategy is necessary, for federal buildings. It est...
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HVAC - Energy Policy Act of 2005
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005) amends EPAct 1992 and establishes a number of energy management goals for federal facilities involving co...
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HVAC - National Energy Consumption Policy Act (1978)
The National Energy Consumption Policy Act (NECPA) serves as the underlying authority for federal energy management goals and has been regularly upd...
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Planted Roof - Environmental Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005)
The Environmental Policy Act of 2005 offers tax incentives for many energy and sustainability improvements that planted roofs can provide. A tax inc...
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Water - Water and Energy Consumption
Water and energy go hand-in-hand in a relationship often referred to as the "water-energy nexus." Financial cost savings are achieved through not on...
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IEQ - DYK1
IEQ improvements can save $10-30 billion from reduced symptoms of sick building syndrome.Source: Fisk, W.J,”Health and Productivity Gains from Bette...
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Submetering - ANSI/ASHRAE/USGBC/IES/USGBC Standard 189.1-2014
Provides total building sustainability guidance for designing and operating high-performance green buildings. From site location, to energy use, to ...
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Submetering - O&M Impact
Optimizing operations and maintenance (O&M) strategies for building equipment technologies and systems improves operational efficiency, reduces ...
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Lighting - Guiding Principles for Sustainable Federal Buildings
The lighting systems must be commissioned (and recommissioned), and integrative design processes should be employed. Energy efficiency necessitat...
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Lighting - Green Globes New Construction (NC)
Green Globes certification for NC projects directly necessitates a sustainable lighting strategy in the categories of Site, Energy, and Indoor Envir...
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HVAC - LEED O+M: Existing Buildings (v4)
Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design (LEED) for Building Operations and Maintenance (O+M) addresses HVAC systems through a number of prereq...
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HVAC - LEED BD+C: New Construction (v4)
Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design (LEED) for Building Design and Construction (BD+C) addresses HVAC systems through a number of prerequi...
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Submetering - O&M
One of the best ways to save energy is to measure and manage it. There are two basic methods for managing resource use: through improved resou...
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IEQ - DYK2
The estimated benefits of a 30% reduction of dampness and mold in offices include 1.5 million days of avoided absence per year, worth $0.5 billion...
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Lighting - Energy Use
By consuming 17% of the building’s total electricity consumption and further influencing overall energy demand by the waste heat it emits, lig...
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HVAC - Architect
The architect has as much or more impact on the HVAC system than any other member of the integrative team. An architect’s decisions - the building ...
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HVAC - Human Behavior on HVAC
Human behavior and interaction with the building space plays a critical component in achieving holistic sustainability. Desired gains in energy effi...
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Water - Cooling Tower
Water leaves the cooling tower system through evaporation, blow-downdrift, and basin leaks and overflows, and therefore has to be replaced. Since co...
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IEQ - Comfort and Productivity
Studies have demonstrated likely productivity gains attributed to increased occupant comfort of 0.5 – 5% from direct improvements in the quali...
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Solid Waste - FAR Subpart 23.4
FAR Subpart 23.4 – Use of Recovered Materials and Biobased Products: This policy governs the use of products containing recovered materials an...
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Lighting - Human Behavior on Lighting
Human behavior and interaction with the building space plays a critical component in achieving holistic sustainability. Desired gains in energy effi...
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Lighting - Facility Manager
Dealing with existing buildings undergoing change will involve the Facility Manager. The facility manager should work with architects and lighting e...
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Lighting - Green Globes for Existing Buildings
The lighting system is primarily addressed in the Energy and Indoor Environment categories of Green Globes for Existing Buildings. Incorporating hig...
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Water - Plumbing Fixtures
High efficiency plumbing fixtures (toilets, urinals, faucets, and showers) can lead to significant water savings. FEMP BMP #6 gives some guidance on...
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Water - Green Globes for Existing Buildings
Green Globes for Existing Buildings encourages cognitive implementation and metering of water heating equipment for energy efficiency measures. With...
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Lighting - DYK 2
An upgrade that results in a 35% increase in lighting efficiency could save over $0.18/sf/yr.Courtesy: E Source; data from Right Light Consortium ...
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HVAC - Utility Demand Charges
Your electricity bill tends to have several line items, such as costs for generation, distribution, and taxes. Some of these are related to consump...
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Water - Conservation Measures
Commercial buildings have significant opportunities to conserve the quantity of water needed for daily operations through thoughtful design of the b...
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Water - Energy Independence and Security Act (2007)
The Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) requires facility managers, as defined by the act, to complete comprehensive water evaluations throu...
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Submetering - Impact on Emissions
Energy efficiency projects, resource management strategies, and energy benchmarking all have two things in common. 1. well-executed programs help t...
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Submetering - System Specific Maintenance
Submetering systems must be installed and maintained properly by trained and motivated O&M staff to achieve the design performance objectives. O...
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Lighting - Operations and Maintenance
High-efficiency lighting tends to have very long life. Technologies like LEDs, which today have longer payback periods when considering energy alone...
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Water - Energy Use
Water efficiency measures do more than conserve water; they conserve a significant amount of energy as well. Federal facilities use sixty billion Bt...
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Submetering - Financial
Submetering can be a financially viable component of energy management by informing improved energy consumption management. It is important to remem...
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Submetering - Wayne Aspinall Federal Building
Wayne Aspinall Federal Building Explores the energy-efficiency design features of the Wayne Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Gran...
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HVAC - System Overview
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems are responsible for providing thermal comfort and fresh air to building occupants. This is...
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IEQ - Occupant Health & Productivity
In aggregate, improvements in IEQ have been estimated to have potential annual savings of: $6-14 billion from reduced respiratory disease $1-4 b...
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HVAC - Resources
The HVAC system has a tremendous impact on natural resources, through electricity, gas, and other purchased energy as well as water consumption, mat...
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Water - Resources
A sustainable water system reduces not only overall water consumption but also the associated energy demand. Take steps to optimize the system&rsquo...
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IEQ - Integrative Design Process
The integrative design process understands that buildings, their components, and their context are interrelated. Observe this principle by involving...
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Planted Roof - System Bundling
Planted roofs have synergistic benefits that result in energy saving and stormwater management; they are an attractive alternative to traditional ro...
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Submetering - Human Behavior on System
People’s behavior is a critical factor in a building’s energy use and can often account for significant changes in the amount of energy ...
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Submetering - System Impact on Humans
Submeters offer an exciting look into a building's energy consumption. While submetering systems by themselves have no direct impact on resource use...
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Lighting - Integrative Design Process
The integrative design process understands that buildings, their components, and their context are interrelated. Whole-building systems observe this...
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HVAC - Commissioning
The process of ensuring that your building is operating properly starts with commissioning. In general, commissioning is the process of ensuring tha...
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Submetering - Meter Saving Ranges
Industry trends have shown that well-designed submetering systems can provide energy savings at varying levels of action. With unstable utility pric...
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Lighting - Lighting Impact on Occupants
Lighting Ecosystem Lighting in the workplace can be better understood as an ecosystem that includes lighting design as just one component of a netw...
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Water - Financial
Within the federal sector alone, estimates put annual expenditures for water and sewer services between $500 million and $1 billion. Similar estimat...
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Submetering - Integrative Design Process
The integrative design process understands that buildings, their components, and their use type and surroundings are interrelated. Involving all sta...
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Lighting - O&M
A lighting upgrade can cut energy bills, improve the look of a facility, and boost employee morale, but all those benefits can fade away if the new ...
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Water - System Overview
Typical Federal Office Building Potable Water UseA typical Federal office building with 200 employees uses about 3,000 gallons of water in one day...
Materials
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Oven
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Freezer
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Refrigerator
Walk-in and reach-in refrigeration units should have fully-gasketed doors to fully contain the cold air within, and walls should... -
Dish Washing Station
Dish washing stations consist of multiple-compartment sinks or basins with faucets and pre-wash sprayers as well as high-tempera... -
Under Counter Refrigeration
Under-counter refrigeration units should have fully-gasketed doors to fully contain the cold air within, and walls should be adequately insulated. W... -
Kitchen Exhaust Hoods
Kitchen exhaust hoods are a large energy consumer in cafeteria spaces. Significant amounts of energy can be conserved by utilizing transfer air – co... -
Reach in Refrigeration
Refrigerated cooler units can house chilled beverages, salads, and other pre-packaged foods. Units with doors are more efficient than those that ar...