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Adaptable Workplace Laboratory
This case study provides an in-depth look at using flexible interiors to design for adaptability -
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 ... -
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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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... -
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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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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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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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... -
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
Four key levers to enhance health and performance by improving indoor air. -
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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Whole Building Systems
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HVAC - Occupant
The occupant has a great impact on HVAC-related energy use. Individual controls help ensure comfort for those in the building. Occupants without t...
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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 - 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 - Green Tips
Perform periodic maintenance of control systems to ensure optimized performance to avoid unwanted behavior by occupants to bypass the system.
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HVAC - Green Tips and Strategies
Perform periodic maintenance of control systems to ensure optimized performance to avoid unwanted behavior by occupants to bypass the system.
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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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IEQ - Case3
Finding: $3.4 billion annual economic benefit, with $0.4 billion implementation costs, through integration of thermal occupant controls.Scope: Lawre...
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IEQ - Mobility
Modern office policies and technologies enable mobility as a means for the occupant to seek out desirable environmental conditions. Mobile laptops a...
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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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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 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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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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HVAC - HVAC Impact on Humans
Providing high quality thermal and ventilation comfort as part of Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) in commercial offices is a high priority for fe...
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HVAC - LEED ID+C: Commercial Interiors (v4)
LEED for Interior Design & Construction (ID+C): Commercial Interiors is intended for certification of spaces smaller than the whole building. Ev...
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IEQ - Resources
The resource impacted greatest from indoor environmental quality is not energy, water, or physical materials themselves; it’s the occupants th...
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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 - 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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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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IEQ - Thermal Comfort
Thermal conditions, which include air temperature, relative humidity, and velocity, greatly impact overall occupant comfort and associated productiv...
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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 - 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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Planted Roof - Occupant Satisfaction
The term "biophilia", meaning love of nature, is increasingly being used in high-performance building design. The goal of biomimicry is to recreate ...
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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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IEQ - Moisture Control
Moisture can enter the office building in a number of ways, including leaks in the building envelope and plumbing systems or excessive moisture in t...
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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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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...
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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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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 - 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 - 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....
Materials
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Thermostat
A thermostat is a component of the HVAC controls system. Detection and communication of the space temperature is a critical component of overall HV... -
Occupant Sensor
Occupant controls use sensors to deter... -
Seating
Seating is a critical component of the furnishings. High quality ergonomically flexible seating options are paramount in supporting a high quality ... -
Decorative / Accent Lighting
Decorative / accent lighting is designed to illuminate special architectural features or artwork. Decorative / accent lighting fixtures typically u... -
Daylight Controls
Daylight controls measure the amount of daylight/ambient light in a room and adjust the electric light levels accordingly. Daylight controls shou... -
Steel Frame
Window frames are one component of a window assembly. In naturally ventilated buildings window frames allow the window to be opened to bring in fre... -
Aluminum Frame
Window frames are one component of a window assembly. In naturally ventilated buildings window frames allow the window to be opened to bring in fre... -
Recycling containers
Recycling bins come in a variety of shapes and sizes to help keep recyclables organized and pest-free. There are large bins for breakroom and cop... -
High-Efficiency Urinal (HEU)
High-Efficiency urinals have a maximum water use of 0.125 gallons per flush (gpf) (1 pint per flush). Also included are waterless urinals which ... -
High-Efficiency Faucet
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Lighting Control Software
Lighting can be controlled using comprehensive software that offers some of the following tools. Load shedding controls will turn off nonessential... -
Manual Control
Most plug-loads can be manually powered down with built-in power buttons, shutdown procedures, or a control device that energizes and de-energizes e... -
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... -
Ceiling Fans
Ceiling fans can offer occupants the ability to control ambient comfort without making adjustments to the room, zone, or building mechanical system....