Implementing the Tennessee Sustainable Design Guidelines

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Implementing the Tennessee Sustainable Design
Guidelines

• A brief review of the TNSDG and roll-out efforts
  on Tennessee Board of Regents projects at Middle
  Tennessee State University
• Jerry Preston, RA
• Executive Director, TBR Office of Facilities
  Development
• Joe Whitefield, PE
• Executive Director, MTSU Facilities Services
• September 19, 2008

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Sustainability Headlines
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TNSDG Purpose and Intent

• The Tennessee SDG is a project approved by the
  State Building Commission that is to be utilized
  by Real Property Administration (RPA), Tennessee
  Board of Regents (TBR), and the University of
  Tennessee (UT) as part of their designer manuals
  as a minimum standard and guideline for designers
  to insure that the principles of good sustainable
  design and construction practices are being
  implemented on State of Tennessee projects
• All measures being considered for credit
  compliance shall have an appropriate evaluation
  of costs (capital and operating) to and benefits
  (economic, environmental, and social) for the
  Owner
• The SDG will be used as a design tool for all new
  construction, renovation, and maintenance
  projects...
• These guidelines have been formulated using the
  US Green Building Council's LEED standards as a
  basis of comparison and are tailored specifically
  for State government use as they relate to
  projects developed by RPA, TBR, and UT.

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Goals for the TNSDG and TBR

• Require sustainability be considered and
  implemented on all TBR projects
• Seek appropriate balance of environmental and
  fiscal responsibilities and realities
• The TNSDG have been customized (in wording and
  format) to incorporate goals above for State
  projects including higher education

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Lead of the Story

• TNSDG provides sustainability template for State
  projects project team still responsible,
  however, for determining appropriate measures
• Economic Cost/Benefit
• Environmental Cost/Benefit
• Social Cost/Benefit

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Assessing Customer Demand
Sustainability
Inside the Tornado, Geoffrey A. Moore
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Defining the Customers/Owners

• Innovators Enthusiasts
• Fundamentally committed to ideal, pays highest
  price
• Early Adopters Visionaries
• Want to exploit the new capability to gain a
  dramatic competitive advantage
• Early Majority Pragmatists
• Jump in to make their companies systems more
  effective
• Late Majority Conservatives
• Price sensitive
• Laggards Skeptics
• Delight in being critics

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TBRs Owner Profile - History on Energy and
Environmental Issues

• Estimated utilities expense for FY 08-09 for all
  universities, community colleges, and technology
  centers - 68m (2.27/sf on 30m sf)
• 68 CFC chillers replaced at 16 institutions
• 53.75m invested in Energy Savings Performance
  Contracting at 12 institutions
• Increased use of geothermal
• Investment in commissioning for better performing
  buildings
• Large purchaser of green power through TVAs
  Green Power Switch Program

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Where is TBR in the Sustainability Adoption Cycle?
Sustainability
idealistically
fiscally
Inside the Tornado, Geoffrey A. Moore
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Competing Priorities

• There are several conditions (mostly economic)
  that make it difficult for the TBR institutions
  to be at the leading edge of sustainable design
• Limited Capital (First Cost Concerns)
• Limited/Reduced Operating (Future Cost
  Concerns)
• Affects of Deferred Maintenance

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Competing Priorities for TBR Campuses- Deferred
Maintenance - (MTSU Campus Master Plan 2007)
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TNSDG Implementation
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TNSDG Credits

• Honor System in Design and Verification Process
• One credit does not fit all potential measures
  need to be project specific
• TNSDG Required, Recommended, and Optional
  categories are a first cut evaluation

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Evaluating the Credits and Measures

• Yes, No, Maybe, NA (point or no point)
• Regional Popularity (LEED history)
• Dont forget the Economics (Capital and
  Operational)
• Recommended
• Optional

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TBR Examples of TNSDG LEED at MTSU
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Issues Knocking at the Door for Higher Education
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Presidents Climate CommitmentAmerican College
and University Presidents Climate Commitment

• Within two months
• Establish committee to guide, develop, and
  implement plan
• Select two tangible actions to be completed while
  developing a long-term climate action plan
• Within one year (and annually thereafter)
• Complete an inventory and publicly report on
  greenhouse gas emissions

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Presidents Climate Commitment Contd

• Within two years
• Develop a climate action plan that includes a
  target date and interim milestones for achieving
  climate neutrality (no net greenhouse gas
  emissions carbon is the largest of 7 ghgs)
• Within three years
• Report greenhouse gas emissions and progress in
  implementing action plan
• Within four years
• Continue to report emissions data annually and
  submit narrative progress reports every other year

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Carbon Neutrality

• Carbon Foot-printing
• Reduce
• Buy your way out of the remainder
• True Carbon Reduction
• Focus will be on energy reduction from existing
  buildings
• Carbon Trading
• What happens when you create a market?

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• Questions

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Implementing the Tennessee Sustainable Design
Guidelines

• A brief review of the TNSDG and roll-out efforts
  on Tennessee Board of Regents projects at Middle
  Tennessee State University
• Jerry Preston, RA
• Executive Director, TBR Office of Facilities
  Development
• Joe Whitefield, PE
• Executive Director, MTSU Facilities Services
• September 19, 2008