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Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ)
Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) is most simply described as the conditions inside the building. It includes air quality, but also access to da...
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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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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... -
Sustainable Sites
Choosing a building's site and managing that site during construction are important to ensure a project's sustainability. Environmentally responsibl... -
Adaptable Workplace Laboratory
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Occupant Comfort
Comfortable workers are more likely to be productive and engaged with their work than those who struggle to work in spaces that create barriers and ... -
Flexible Workplace Design
Today’s workplaces are often in flux. Organizations change direction or develop new services. People move to new sp...
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Health
Good health has both physical and psychological components. Being healthy means the absence of disease and illness, as well as feeling posi...
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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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Buildings and Health
The challenge for building design and operations is to identify and eliminate health risks while also providing positive physical, emotional, and...
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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 ... -
Biophilic Design
Learn why nature is so important to us, what we know about the benefits of nature, and how biophilia is being applied in buildings, particularly in ... -
Enhancing Health with Indoor Air
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Building Selection
A variety of physical building characteristics and operations policies should be evaluated for compliance with and support of the spaces’ heal...
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Lighting Controls
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Light Bulbs
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Light Bulbs: Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs)
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Whole Building Systems
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IEQ - Lighting Control
Incorporating task lights into the overall lighting strategy allows occupants to customize their ambient light conditions on a personalized basis. T...
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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 - Example Survey Questions
Are lighting controls being integrated?
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Lighting - Example Survey Questions
Have the energy-efficient lighting systems and controls been commissioned?
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IEQ - Green Tips
Integrate task lighting and thermal controls to leverage human behavior to promote IEQ.
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Submetering - Green Globes NC
Is there sub-metering installed for the following systems: light and lighting controls by floor or by zones, plug loads by floor or by zone, major e...
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Lighting - Green Tips Behavior
Use lighting controls that dynamically adjust lighting levels according to ambient levels while allowing manual override if desired.
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Lighting - Green Tips Impact
Provide occupants with ways to make meaningful changes to their lighting environments through personalization of task lighting and manual overrides ...
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Lighting - Example Survey Questions
Does the building incorporate any of the following high-efficiency lighting features: compact fluorescents, T8 or T5 fluorescent lamps, exit signs w...
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Lighting - Green Tips
Commission all lighting systems including controls to ensure they are performing as required and create a retro-commissioning to maintain the desire...
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Lighting - Green Tips Behavior
Provide placards explaining the principles of automated light controls so users understand when and how it is appropriate to override those controls...
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Lighting - Optimize Daylighting
Large windows can provide daylight to interior spaces, but the daylight can be best used when complementary technologies are employed. Lighting cont...
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Lighting - Green Tips
Retro-commission lighting controls to ensure that they continue to work as expected and are not obscured by new furniture arrangements.
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Lighting - Green Tips
Limit the use of accent lighting. Couple necessary accent lighting applications with lighting controls to ensure highlighted objects are illuminated...
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Lighting - Green Tips Behavior
Facilitate the transition from a passive occupant to an active participant through training and incentives. Where appropriate, account for passive ...
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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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IEQ - Guiding Principles for Sustainable Federal Buildings
Provide occupants with safe and healthy ventilation and thermal comfort, in alignment with applicable ASHRAE standards and statutory requirements....
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Lighting - System Bundling
When specifying or replacing a particular lighting component, consider coordinating that component with other related building equipment. Lighting t...
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Lighting - LEED O+M: Existing Buildings (v4)
Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design for Operations & Maintenance: Existing Buildings (LEED O+M: EB) addresses lighting systems through...
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Lighting - LEED ID+C: Commercial Interiors (v4)
LEED ID+C: Commercial Interiors emphasizes daylight as a beneficial lighting strategy for the whole building. The rating system puts a preference on...
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Lighting - LEED BD+C: New Construction (v4)
Limiting light trespass and resulting sky-glow from inefficient outdoor lighting is addressed in LEED, among other lighting-specific categories. Red...
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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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Submetering - Impact on Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ)
Submetering systems help to improve resource efficiency and conservation practices in a building, which can be used to improve indoor environmental ...
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Lighting - Lighting Designer/Engineer
The lighting engineer is responsible for ensuring that all lighting regulations are met, interior and exterior spaces are sufficiently and elegantly...
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Lighting - Comfort/Mood
Creating a sustainable and well-functioning lighting strategy by integrating efficient lighting technologies, controls, and space layout has been sh...
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IEQ - Lighting Engineer
The lighting engineer, in cooperation with the rest of the integrative team, should ensure as much natural daylight permeates the space as possible....
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IEQ - Controllability
Occupant comfort can be optimized by providing high levels of individual or group controllability with regard to ambient air, lighting, and sound. T...
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IEQ - Daylight / Views
Providing daylight access and views for occupants is important in reaching performance goals as part of the IEQ strategy. According to a study done ...
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IEQ - LEED BD+C: New Construction (v4)
Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design (LEED) for Building Design and Construction (BD+C) highlights indoor environmental quality in a fully ...
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Lighting - Financial
When employing sustainable lighting strategies, financial benefits can be realized from several sources including energy savings from proper control...
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Lighting - Energy Policy Act of 1992
The Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPAct 1992) amended the National Energy Consumption Policy Act and gave federal agencies the authority to enter into ...
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IEQ - Facility Manager
By establishing green cleaning contracts and purchasing agreements that specify environmentally-friendly cleaning and office materials, the facility...
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IEQ - Interior Designer
Interior space not only impacts materials and resource use, but also is critical to human performance through safe and healthy interiors that promo...
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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 - 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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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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Lighting - System Overview
Lighting accounts for nearly 20% of the total electricity costs of commercial buildings in the United States.1 Effective lighting systems invol...
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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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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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IEQ - System Overview
Americans spend approximately 90 percent of their time indoors1 and as a result their comfort, health, and work performance rely heavily on indoor e...
Materials
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Occupant Sensor
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Timer
Timer controls can be set to turn lights on and off at certain times, therefore specifying the duration of time the lights will be turned on. -
Shades
Shades are window coverings that block or reduce sunlight penetration through windows. Shades are available in different operational styles such as ... -
Lighting Control Software
Lighting can be controlled using comprehensive software that offers some of the following tools. Load shedding controls will turn off nonessential... -
Occupancy-Control Device
Occupancy control can save a great deal of energy as it energizes outlets only when users are present and de-energizes them when the space is vacan... -
Manual-On, Vacancy-Off Control Device
A manual-on, vacancy-off control device is a slight modification of the occupancy-control device. It energizes a plug-load when it receives manual i... -
Daylight Controls
Daylight controls measure the amount of daylight/ambient light in a room and adjust the electric light levels accordingly. Daylight controls shou... -
Manual Light Switch
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Skylights / Solar Tubes
Skylights/light tubes allow daylight to penetrate into a space. They are typically located in the roof/ceiling and can vary in s... -
Blinds
Blinds are versatile window coverings. Blinds block or reduce sunlight penetration through windows. They are made with either vertical or horizontal... -
Interior Light Shelves
Interior light shelves direct daylight deep into a space by bouncing natural light from the light-colored shelves up to the ceiling, where it is r... -
Skylights / Solar Tubes
Skylights/light tubes allow daylight to penetrate into a space. They are typically located in the roof/ceiling and can vary in size. Certain solar... -
Task Lighting
Task lights are designed to provide the occupant control of the light levels in their workspace. They illuminate specific work areas and allow fo...