Specifying Sustainable Design

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Specifying Sustainable Design
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Rating Systems Supported

• BSD SpecLink-E supports the following Green
  Building Rating Systems
• LEED v4 BDC
• New Construction and Major Renovations
• Core and Shell Development
• Schools, Healthcare
• Data Centers
• Warehouses and Distribution Centers
• Hospitality, Retail

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Get Started Early

• Achieving a sustainable design certification will
  depend heavily on early design decisions,
  including site selection
• Waiting until the construction documents phase to
  begin making green decisions may make achieving
  certification difficult or impossible

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Sustainable Design Criteria

• Designing for sustainability cant be delegated
  to a Design-Bid-Build Contractor
• A Design-Builder can be given a target rating
  with as little or as much direction as desired
• BSD SpecLink-E includes sustainable design
  criteria in Section DC0 Facility Design Criteria,
  which can be used for both Design-Build projects
  and early design documentation on
  Design-Bid-Build projects

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Specifying Strategy

• Types of Issues
• No matter which rating system is used, all issues
  fall into one of these categories
• Intrinsic to Location
• Design Phase Activity
• Post-Construction Activity
• Embodied in Overall Design
• Explicitly Shown In Contract Documents

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Specifying Strategy

• Intrinsic to Location
• The specification cannot address issues that are
  completely dependent on site location
• Avoidance of sensitive lands
• Brownfield site
• Surrounding density and diverse uses
• Availability of alternative transportation

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Specifying Strategy

• Design Phase Activities
• The specification cannot address
• Project planning
• Design process
• Site environmental assessment
• School campus master plan
• Life cycle analysis of design

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Specifying Strategy

• Post-Construction Issues
• The specification cannot address
• Purchasing Green Power
• Provisions for Recycling
• Prohibition of Smoking
• Operational Issues cleaning, pest control
• Joint use of facilities
• Tenant guidelines

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Specifying Stategy

• Issues Embodied in the Design
• No particular, immediately identifiable
  specification solution
• Parking capacity, reduced parking footprint
• Design for water and energy conservation
• Optimization of energy performance
• Ventilation design
• Design for flexibility

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Specifying Strategy

• Solutions in Contract Documents
• For each issue, determine where it should be
  shown or specified
• Only shown on the drawings
• Only indicated in the specifications
• Partly shown and partly specified
• Now you know what needs to be included in the
  specifications

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SpecLink-E Provides

• Contractor Procedures

• 01 5713 - Temporary Erosion Sediment Control
• 01 5721 - Indoor Air Quality Controls
• 01 7000 - Execution and Closeout Requirements
  (site drainage, pollution prevention)
• 01 7419 - Construction Waste Management
  Disposal
• 02 6500 - Underground Storage Tank Removal
• 02 8400 - Polychlorinate Biphenyl (PCB)
  Remediation
• 31 1000 - Site Clearing (limits on site
  disturbance)

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SpecLink-E Provides

• Commissioning Procedures

• 01 9113 - General Commissioning Requirements
• 01 9114 - Commissioning Authority
  Responsibilities
• 23 0800 - Commissioning of HVAC

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SpecLink-E Provides

• 01 3329 - Sustainable Design Reporting

• Explanation of project goals
• What the Contractor is required and not required
  to do to aid the certification process
• A method for collecting information about green
  materials
• Procedures to be followed
• List of sections where particular sustainable
  design issues are specified

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SpecLink-E Provides

• Sections related to Green Materials

• 01 6000 - Product Requirements (definitions)
• 01 6116 - VOC Content Restrictions
• Forms for Submittals
• 01 3329.04 Material Content Form
• 01 3329.07 Prohibited Content Installer
  Certification

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SpecLink-E Provides

• 02 Existing Conditions

• 02 4100 Demolition Removal of existing
  pavements and other impervious surfacing partial
  demolition for preserving existing construction
• 028400 Polychlorinate Biphenyl (PCB)
  Remediation Abatement of PCBs, mercury, other
  substances regulated under U.S. Toxic Substances
  Control Act

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SpecLink-E Provides

• 03 Concrete

• 03 3000 Cast-in-Place Concrete (and 4 other
  Division 3 sections) Option to replace some
  Portland cement with recycled content
• 05 Metals
• 05 5000 Metal Fabrications Custom-fabricated
  entrance mat frames
• 05 5305 Metal Gratings and Floor Plates
  Custom-fabrications entrance gratings

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SpecLink-E Provides

• 06 Wood, Plastics, and Composites
• 06 1000 - Rough Carpentry (and 9 other Division 6
  sections) Prohibition on old growth timber,
  sustainably harvested wood, salvaged and re-used
  wood
• 07 Thermal and Moisture Protection
• Vegetated roof solutions
• 07 1300 - Sheet Waterproofing
• 07 1400 - Fluid-Applied Waterproofing
• 07 5050 - Vegetated Roof Components

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SpecLink-E Provides

• 07 Thermal and Moisture Protection
• Rain water collection surfaces
• 07 4113 Metal Roof Panels
• 07 6100 Sheet Metal Roofing
• White or light colored roof membrane
• 07 5300 Elastomeric Membrane Roofing
• 07 5400 Thermoplastic Membrane Roofing
• Emissions-compliant sealants
• 078400 - Firestopping
• 07 9005 - Joint Sealers Plus sealing between
  residential units if not firestopped

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SpecLink-E Provides

• 08 Openings
• Many sections for daylighting and views
• 09 Finishes
• 09 2116 Gypsum Board Assemblies Deck-to-deck
  sealed partitions around rooms where hazardous
  gases or chemicals are used
• 09 6800 Carpeting GreenLabel Plus certified
• 09 6850 - Carpet Tile GreenLabel Plus certified
• 09 9000 - Painting and Coating VOC limits

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SpecLink-E Provides

• 10 Specialties
• 10 5100 Lockers For bicycle entrance
• 10 7113.43 Fixed Sun Screens
• 11 Equipment
• 11 3100 Residential Appliances Energy Star
  rated appliances
• 11 8277 Waste Compactors For recycling

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SpecLink-E Provides

• 12 Furnishings
• 12 2400 Window Shades Motorized shades
• 12 4813 Entrance Floor Mats and Frames
  Manufactured grilles and gratings for high volume
  entryways
• 12 9313 Bicycle Racks
• 12 9314 Bicycle Lockers
• 14 Conveying Equipment
• 14 9100 Facility Chutes For recycling

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SpecLink-E Provides

• 21 Fire Suppression
• 21 2200 Clean Agent Fire Extinguishing System
  Non-Halon extinguishing agent
• 22 Plumbing
• 22 0519 Meters and Gages for Plumbing Piping
  For metering subsystems
• 22 1005 Plumbing Piping Documentation of
  regulatory lead-content restrictions
  certification of proper soldering of copper piping

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SpecLink-E Provides

• 22 Plumbing (cont.)
• 22 3000 Plumbing Equipment Pumps for potable
  and non-potable water
• 22 4000 Plumbing Fixtures WaterSense-labeled
  fixtures documentation of regulatory
  lead-content restrictions high-efficiency and
  dry toilet fixtures
• 22 4300 Healthcare Plumbing Fixtures
  WaterSense-labeled fixtures documentation of
  regulatory lead-content restrictions

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SpecLink-E Provides

• 23 HVAC
• 23 0800 - Commissioning of HVAC
• 23 0130.51 HVAC Air Duct Cleaning
• 23 0913 Instrumentation and Control Devices for
  HVAC
• 23 0923 Direct-Digital Control System for HVAC
• 23 2113.33 - Ground-Loop Heat-Pump Piping
• 23 2500 HVAC Water Treatment To reduce
  cooling tower water usage

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SpecLink-E Provides

• 23 HVAC (cont.)
• 23 3100 HVAC Ducts and Casings
  Emissions-compliant duct sealers
• 23 4000 HVAC Air Cleaning Devices
  MERV-compliant air filters
• 23 5216 Condensing Boilers
• 23 6xxx Chiller and Refrigeration Equipment
  sections Low-GWP refrigerant
• 23 8149 Water-to-Water Heat Pumps

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SpecLink-E Provides

• 26 Electrical
• 26 0501 Minor Electrical Demolition Removal
  of abandoned cables containing lead minor
  removal of mercury-containing lamps and PCB- and
  DEHP-containing ballasts
• 26 0519 Low-Voltage Electrical Power Conductors
  and Cables Limitations on lead content of cable
  insulation
• 26 0923 Lighting Control Devices
• 26 0943 Network Lighting Controls Integrated
  lighting and window shade controls
• 26 2726 Wiring Devices Manual lighting
  controls.

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SpecLink-E Provides

• 26 Electrical (cont.)
• 26 2726 Wiring Devices Manual lighting
  controls
• 26 3100 Photovoltaic Collectors With related
  equipment and supports
• 26 5100 Interior Lighting Limitations on
  mercury-content of lamps minimum lamp life
• 26 5600 Exterior Lighting Limitations on
  mercury-content of lamps minimum lamp life
  fixtures selected to reduce light pollution

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SpecLink-E Provides

• 31 Earthwork
• 31 1000 - Site Clearing Vegetation protection
  site clearing waste management
• 31 2200 Grading For restoring site water
  flows
• 31 3700 Rip Rap For erosion protection
• 32 Exterior Improvements
• 32 0190 Operation and Maintenance of Planting
  First year maintenance
• 32 1125 - Turf Surfaced Roadways
• 32 1413 - Precast Concrete Unit Paving
  Open-grid pavers

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Step-by-Step

• 01 3329 Sustainable Design Reporting
• Select and open the section
• Choose the Rating System
• Review the automatically activated text, X-out if
  not relevant to your project
• Review inactive text, select if relevant
• In PART 3, select all sections having solutions
  relevant to your project
• Project Tree
• Green status box indicates sections activated
• Review each section for further decisions

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Section 01 3329
First select Section 01 3329 in the folder tree,
open it and check the status box at the title.
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Section 01 3329
Next, activate the relevant Rating System and
click on the blue text to see further choices
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Section 01 3329
The PART 3 checklist may have some items already
highlighted in green. Activate their parent
heading to activate them.
Each section selected, and each option below it,
automatically turns on the relevant section and
text elsewhere in the spec.
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Section 01 3329
The final section covers scope and procedures
and a list of all the other sections with an
indication of what the requirements are.
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Step-by-Step

• Submittal Report
• Automatic report lists all sections in project
  that require sustainable design documentation
  submittals
• Properly tagged user-added submittals also show

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Specifying for LEED

• As of May 2014, BSD SpecLink-E supports the
  following LEED Rating Systems
• LEED v4 BDC
• New Construction and Major Renovations
• Core and Shell Development
• Schools, Healthcare
• Data Centers
• Warehouses and Distribution Centers
• Hospitality, Retail

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Specifying for LEED

• Review the rating system document to classify
  prerequisites and credits into categories
• Intrinsic to Location
• Design Phase Activity
• Post-Construction Activity
• Embodied in Overall Design
• Shown on the Drawings
• To Be Specified

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Specifying for LEED

• Identify the Goal
• Certified 40 points
• Silver 50 points
• Gold 60 points
• Platinum 80 points
• Plus regional priority credits possible
• And the Facility Type
• New Construction, Schools, Healthcare, etc.

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Specifying for LEED

• Decide whether to pursue
• Building Material Disclosure Credits
• Building Material Optimization Credits
• Low-Emitting Materials Credits
• Make appropriate selections in 01 3329
• If pursuing any of them, include
• Section 01 3329.04 Material Content Form

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Specifying for LEED
The Material Content Form is automatically
tailored to the types of credits being pursued
Disclosures, like EPDs
Content types, such as recycled, certified wood,
VOCs
Cost information, for performing the calculations
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Specifying for LEED

• Low-Emitting Materials Credits
• Very possible to write an impossible spec
• The thresholds are very high (90-100)
• The indoor-emissions test is relatively new
• But this credit is divided into 5 categories of
  products that can be pursued separately as long
  as at least 2 categories are achieved (3 for
  Schools, Healthcare)
• Edit Section 01 6116 VOC Content Restrictions,
  to suit your decisions

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Specifying for LEED
If desired, use the Prohibited Content Installer
Certification form reduce the likelihood that
installers ignore the low-emitting material
specifications
Instructions
Assertions that they did not use any products
with prohibited content, whether specified or not
Certification signature
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Coming Soon

• In the coming months, the following additional
  rating systems will be added
• LEED v4 IDC Interiors Design Construction
• LEED v4 Homes
• GreenGlobes for New Construction
• Federal Guiding Principles for New Construction
  and Major Renovations
• LEED v4 ND Neighborhood Development (with
  construction)

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Specifying Sustainable Designwith BSD
SpecLink-E
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