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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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The Workplace Environment as a Catalyst for Social Change
We know workplace design can influence functional behaviors, but can it be a catalyst for social change? Can organizations use the environment to...
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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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Circadian Light
Circadian rhythms are physiological processes that occur in the body approximately every 24-hours. Medical research has linked circadian disrup... -
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 ... -
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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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... -
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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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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Recycling Bottles
Recycling a single plastic bottle can conserve enough energy to light a 60-watt bulb for up to 6 hours.
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Sense of Place
What makes a workplace special? What fosters a sense of attachment, engagement and identity? These are the kinds of questions that underlie the ...
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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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Keys to Success
Sustainable design, construction, operation, and renovation are best thought of as an integrated process, rather than a collection of things. The pr... -
Integrative Design Process
Integrative thinking looks for synergies among strategies - strategies that enhance one another. It also looks for strategies that, taken together, ... -
Project Guidance
For each project there is a selection of issues and questions you should consider before selecting specific materials or products. This will help...
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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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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... -
Sustainability Program Development
Sustainability Programs incorporate all building stakeholders into the design process, promoting awareness, goal development, implementation, acc...
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LED Price Drop
LED prices have dropped rapidly in recent years. They are now more lifecycle cost effective than fluorescents in every lighting application...
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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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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...
Green Products
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Whole Building Systems
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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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Lighting - Green Tips
Avoid over-lighting by delivering the amount and quality of light necessary for the particular task.
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Lighting - Example Survey Questions
Are design strategies being implemented to bring light deeper into occupied spaces and provide uniform lighting?
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Lighting - Example Survey Questions
What percentage of all lighting in the facility is "high efficiency lighting"?
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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 - 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 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 - 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 - 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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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 - 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 - 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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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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Lighting - DOE | ENERGY STAR Building Upgrade Manual: U.S. Lighting Market Characterization - Volume 1 - National Lighting Inventory And Energy Consumption Estimate (2002)
http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/publications/pdfs/ssl/lmc_vol1_final.pdf
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Lighting - WBDG.org | Energy Efficient Lighting
http://www.wbdg.org/resources/energy-efficient-lighting
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Lighting - GSA | The Fort Carson Energy Research Project: Daylighting and Lighting System Performance
https://app_gsagov_prod_rdcgwaajp7wr.s3.amazonaws.com/Fort_Carson_Energy_Research_Project_Lighting_508.pdf
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Lighting - GSA | Saving Energy through Lighting and Daylighting Strategies
https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/Lighting_and_Daylighting_Two_Pager_508_compliant_2-9-15.pdf
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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 - IBPSA.org | Impact of Occupant Behavior on Lighting Energy Use
http://www.ibpsa.org/proceedings/BS2009/BS09_1143_1150.pdf
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Lighting - DOE LBL | Interactions Between Lighting and Space Conditioning Energy Use in U.S. Commercial Buildings
http://enduse.lbl.gov/Info/LBNL-39795.pdf
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Lighting - IBPSA.org | Impact of Occupant Behavior on Lighting Energy Use
http://www.ibpsa.org/proceedings/BS2009/BS09_1143_1150.pdf
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Lighting - DOE LBL | Interactions Between Lighting and Space Conditioning Energy Use in U.S. Commercial Buildings
http://enduse.lbl.gov/Info/LBNL-39795.pdf
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Lighting - Finding: Occupancy sensors can save 15% to 20% on lighting energy costs.
Finding: Occupancy sensors can save 15% to 20% on lighting energy costs. Source: ASHRAE.org | Advanced Energy Design Guide for Small to Medium Offic...
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Lighting - Economic Lighting Upgrade
sdsdWhen designed and installed together, this bundle can decrease the electricity needed to provide adequate and high-quality light to your space. ...
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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 - Whole Building Design Guide (WBDG.org) | Energy Efficient Lighting
http://www.wbdg.org/resources/efficientlighting.php
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Lighting - GSA's Proving Ground | Lighting
http://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/106383
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Lighting - GSA | Saving Energy through Lighting and Daylighting Strategies
https://app_gsagov_prod_rdcgwaajp7wr.s3.amazonaws.com/Lighting_and_Daylighting_Two_Pager_508_compliant_2-9-15.pdf
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Lighting - GSA | The Fort Carson Energy Research Project: Daylighting and Lighting System Performance
http://www.gsa.gov/portal/mediaId/196915/fileName/Fort_Carson_Energy_Research_Project_Lighting_508.action
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Lighting - DOE | Better Buildings' Interior Lighting Campaign Case Studies
https://betterbuildingssolutioncenter.energy.gov/alliance/technology-campaigns/interior-lighting-campaign
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HVAC - Lighting Engineer
The lighting engineer ultimately determines the power used by the lighting system. The engineer’s equipment selection also affects how much of this ...
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IEQ - Lighting Environment and Views
Providing access to uniform general lighting, daylight and views has demonstrated beneficial returns in occupant morale, comfort, and productivity. ...
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IEQ - General Lighting
Supplementing natural light with a combination of direct and indirect light sources creates a consistent and well dispersed indoor lighting level fo...
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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 - Efficiency
With payback periods often less than one year, lighting projects offer some of the simplest measures when seeking to reduce energy costs. For exampl...
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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 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
Employ a layers of light approach - using daylighting for basic ambient light levels while providing occupants with additional lighting options to m...
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Lighting - Architect
The interior architecture and building layout play a significant role on the lighting strategy. Maximizing daylight requires meticulous planning of ...
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Lighting - Occupant
The beneficiaries of a lighting system upgrade are the building occupants, who should be considered in all decisions regarding their environment. Oc...
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Lighting - Operations and Maintenance
The integrative design process doesn’t end when the lighting upgrade is installed. It is important to commission the new lighting technologies and d...
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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 Behavior
Provide information at workstations explaining the benefits of the lighting system and offer suggestions for adjusting task lighting levels for vari...
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Lighting - Green Tips Behavior
Properly explain the functionality and purpose of all newly-installed lighting technologies implemented in the system.
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Lighting - Green Tips Impact
Use light colored paints on vertical surfaces and ceilings that reflect more light to create the perception of a warmer and brighter space.
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Lighting - Green Tips Impact
Create a visually interesting lighting environment by providing flexibility (coloring, quantity, quality, and source).
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Lighting - Green Tips Impact
Periodically test and monitor emergency lighting to ensure proper functionality.
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Lighting - Green Tips
Design lighting systems with components that minimize light loss over time, are easy to maintain, and use the fewest types of lamps.
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Lighting - Green Tips
Plan for group relamping to reduce labor costs and maintain lighting uniformity.
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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 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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Lighting - EQc4
Interior Lighting
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Lighting - SSc4
Light Pollution Reduction
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Lighting - EQc6
Interior Lighting
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Lighting - SSc6
Light Pollution Reduction
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Lighting - EQc6
Interior Lighting
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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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Lighting - Example Survey Questions
Has the building had an energy audit within the past three years for the lighting system?
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Lighting - Example Survey Questions
Does the building have sub-metering of major energy uses (e.g. lighting, hot water, motors etc.)?
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Lighting - Example Survey Questions
Do lighting levels meet IES guidelines of 50-75 footcandles (500-800 lux) for office space?
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IEQ - Daylight
An effective daylighting strategy sufficiently illuminates the building space without subjecting occupants to inconvenient glare or light level fluc...
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IEQ - Green Tips
Integrate task lighting and thermal controls to leverage human behavior to promote IEQ.
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IEQ - EQc4
Interior Lighting
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IEQ - EQc6
Interior Lighting
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IEQ - EQc6
Interior Lighting
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Submetering - Green Tips and Behavior
Educate occupants about turning off lights and computers before leaving the building.
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Lighting - Productivity/Absenteeism
Happier and more comfortable occupants tend to miss fewer days of work and perform at sustained levels when approaching tasks throughout the day. Pr...
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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 - Safety
Lighting plays an important role in the safety of humans within and outside of the building. Emergency lighting must efficiently direct occupants du...
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Lighting - Behavioral Change
An educational campaign for your staff can quickly pay for itself. Ask your employees to turn off the lights when leaving a room, particularly at th...
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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 - 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 - 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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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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Submetering - ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1-2013
Provides the minimum requirements for energy-efficient design of most buildings, except low-rise residential buildings in the United States. Require...
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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 - Green Tips Impact
Adhere to all outdoor lighting codes and regulations regarding human safety. Survey occupants on their feelings of security during evening hours and...
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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 - Finding: One lighting upgrade led to a 6% increase in worker output and a reduction in sorting errors
Finding: One lighting upgrade at a postal sorting facility in Reno, Nevada led to a 6% increase in worker output and a reduction in sorting errors.S...
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Lighting - DOE | Sustainable Design Guide – Ch 5. Lighting, HVAC, and Plumbing
https://www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/publications/pdfs/commercial_initiative/sustainable_guide_ch5.pdf?bcsi_scan_F066E91406BDD76E=0&bcsi_scan_...
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HVAC - DOE | Sustainable Design Guide – Ch 5. Lighting, HVAC, and Plumbing
https://www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/publications/pdfs/commercial_initiative/sustainable_guide_ch5.pdf
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Lighting - Health
Poorly designed lighting systems, characterized by uncomfortable fluctuations in luminance levels or excessive glare, causes visual discomfort and l...
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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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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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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 - 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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Lighting - Resources
The lighting system has a tremendous impact on building resources, primarily through the electricity and associated energy it demands. Designing, im...
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Lighting - Green Tips
Limit internal “night lighting” by utilizing occupancy sensors (currently allowed by safety codes) during off-peak hours.
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Lighting - Green Tips
Reduce electrical lighting consumption and associated waste heat by pairing harvested daylight with automated dimmers and photosensors.
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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 - Workplace Specialist
Defining and establishing lighting quality and performance criteria for the daily activities of the worker is the role of the workplace specialist. ...
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Lighting - Mechanical Engineer
The mechanical engineer will size the heating and cooling equipment based on both internal heat loads and heat loss through the building envelope. ...
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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 Tips Behavior
Regularly survey occupants to ensure the ambient workspace light conditions are satisfactory and not being consistently overridden.
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Lighting - Green Tips Behavior
Provide placards encouraging users to turn off unneeded lights. Consider incentives for those reducing their electricity consumption.
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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 - Green Tips Impact
Couple indirect and direct lighting fixtures to create a well-balanced illuminated work environment without uncomfortable shadows.
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Lighting - Productivity
Even though energy and maintenance are significant portions of an organization’s operating budget, these tend to be greatly outweighed by the cost o...
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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
Develop an Operations and Maintenance (O&M) manual to serve as the lighting-management policy and a central operating reference for building managem...
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Lighting - Example Survey Questions
Is there a requirement that electrical lighting should be integrated with daylighting, taking into account daily and seasonal variations?
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Lighting - Example Survey Questions
Is there a planned schedule of cleaning light fixtures? Is there a group-relamping program?
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Lighting - DYK 3
Be sure to buy LEDs from the DesignLights Consortium (DLC) Qualified Products List. DLC qualified LEDs provide the most lifecycle cost effecti...
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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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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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IEQ - Occupant Survey
IEQ occupant surveys are a cost effective and valuable resource for identifying areas of discomfort or dissatisfaction to address during renovation ...
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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 - 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 - Green Tips Impact
Design windows to allow daylight to penetrate as far as possible into the space. Consider using light shelves to reflect daylight off the ceiling an...
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Lighting - Green Tips Impact
Avoid direct beam sunlight in continuously occupied spaces to minimize direct glare. However, designing for contrasting light levels, or sun “spots”...
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Lighting - LED Downlight Lamps for CFL Fixtures
Finding: LED downlight lamps for existing CFL ballasts can produce energy savings between 40-50%, matching light levels and quality, and have a...
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Lighting - Green Tips
Upgrade lighting economically by retrofitting components (lamps, ballasts, or reflectors) within the existing system. Replacing the lamps with appro...
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Lighting - Example Survey Questions
Does the floor plan of the building potentially allow for 80% of a typical working area to have access to day-lighting or are approximately 40% of w...
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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 - Materials
Choosing lamps and fixtures with long lives not only saves on maintenance costs but reduces waste that might otherwise go to the landfill. LEDs cont...
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Lighting - Green Tips
Replace low-efficiency lighting technologies (incandescent, fluorescent, etc.) with higher efficiency, longer lasting LEDs.
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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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IEQ - Occupant
The occupant’s health and productivity is directly affected by the IEQ and therefore their well-being should be considered throughout the inte...
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IEQ - Commissioning
Systems can malfunction, drift out of spec, or become obsolete over the life time of the building. It is important to commission and regularly re-co...
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IEQ - LEED ID+C: Commercial Interiors (v4)
Low-emitting materials that give off little to no harmful chemicals, such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), are promoted in LEED for Interior De...
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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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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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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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HVAC - 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 - 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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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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Planted Roof - Energy Use Reduction
Planted roofs reduce building energy use by cooling roofs and providing shading, thermal mass and insulation. Building-Level Energy Reduction The ...
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Planted Roof - Energy Production
The vegetation on a planted roof removes fine particulates (PM), black carbon, and pollen out of the air, which lends well to incorporating solar pa...
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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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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...
Materials
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Incandescent
Incandescent lights are becoming obsolete and are no longer produced in the U.S. Although inefficient, they possess a number of other key performanc... -
Occupant Sensor
Occupant controls use sensors to deter... -
Interior Glazing
Interior glazing is an option that may replace part of the standard wall construction to allow natural light to penetrate into the interior spaces... -
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... -
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... -
Fluorescent (including CFL)
Fluorescent lights are more efficient and last longer than incandescent lights, but they are becoming obsolete as they are replaced in the market by... -
LED
Light Emitting Diode (LED) lights have become the most energy efficient and most life... -
Clerestory Window
Clerestory windows allow daylight to penetrate into a space. They are designed to allow daylight to penetrate a space, and therefore are located ... -
Manual Light Switch
Manual light switches are typically wall mounted switches that control lighting within a room. -
Overhead Direct / Indirect
A direct-indirect light fixture has down light passage areas in the bottom of the housing through which the direct lighting component is produced. ... -
Lighting Control Software
Lighting can be controlled using comprehensive software that offers some of the following tools. Load shedding controls will turn off nonessential... -
Decorative / Accent Lighting
Decorative / accent lighting is designed to illuminate special architectural features or artwork. Decorative / accent lighting fixtures typically u... -
Direct Down Lighting
Direct down lighting with 2-by-4 or 2-by-2 fluorescent fixtures are common in office buildings and are usually recessed into a dropped ceiling. The... -
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... -
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. -
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... -
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... -
Blinds
Blinds are versatile window coverings. Blinds block or reduce sunlight penetration through windows. They are made with either vertical or horizontal... -
Open Ceiling
Open ceilings offer a modern, industrial-type feel to a space as duct-work and piping are typically visible. Like bare concrete floors, open ceiling... -
Glass
Glass doors are useful for allowing light into a space, and may be used as part of a daylighting strategy, both on the exterior and internally. Gl... -
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... -
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... -
Shades
Shades are window coverings that block or reduce sunlight penetration through windows. Shades are available in different operational styles such as ...