Sustainable Practices for the Built Environment

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Sustainable Practices for the Built Environment

• Presented by William R. (Bill) Orr
• California Integrated Waste Management Board
• Towards Sustainability, Western Regional
  Conference and Expo, CSU Chico
• March 9, 2006

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Topics

• Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS)
• Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) Best
  Practices Manual

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Why Are Schools Important?

• Our Children and Our Childrens Children
• Second largest sector of new construction behind
  residential with retail a distant third.
• Third largest market with 7 Billion square feet
  of existing buildings

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Unprecedented Window of Opportunity

• In California
• 7,000 new classrooms per year needed for the
  projected unhoused students
• 30 of existing schools need major renovation
• 50B in State and Local School Bonds approved
• New 7B Bond on Ballot in 2006

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What Are The Benefits of High Performance
Schools?

• Increased Student Learning and Teacher
  Performance
• Increased Average Daily Attendance (ADA)
• Increased Teacher Satisfaction and Retention
• Reduced Operating Cost
• Reduced Liability
• Reduced Environmental Impact

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Benefit of Daylighting and Student Performance

• Heschong Mahone (1999)
• Students progressed faster
• 20 in Math
• 26 in Reading
• Operable windows significant

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What is the Cost of Building Green?

• 2 initial investment yields 10 fold savings
  (Katz, 2003)
• 1 sq. ft., mostly soft costs including
  Commissioning (Eley, CHPS)
• No significant difference (Matthiessen and
  Morris, 2004)
• Green Schools Cost 1.5-2.5 More and Benefits are
  10-20 Times (Katz, 2005)

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Cost Analysis Similar Buildings Academic

• Matthiessen and Morris, 2004

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What is CHPS?

• State Agencies
• Division of the State Architect
• Office of Public School Construction
• California Department of Education
• Environmental Agencies
• California Energy Commission
• California Integrated Waste Management Board

• Utilities
• PGE
• SMUD
• San Diego Gas and Electric
• So Cal Edison
• So Cal Gas Company
• Architects/Engineers
• School Districts
• Manufacturers
• Non-profits

A Non-profit Organization Dedicated to Making
Schools a Better Place to Learn.
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CHPS Districts
Natomas Unified School District

Vacaville Unified School District
Dry Creek Joint Elementary School District
New Haven Unified School District
San Rafael City Schools
Visalia Unified School District
San Francisco Unified School District
Coast Unified School District
Burbank Unified School District
Los Angeles Unified School District
Coast Community College
Santa Ana Unified School District
San Marcos Unified School District
School Districts that have adopted CHPS
San Diego City Unified School District
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Tools

• CHPS Best Practices Manual
• CHPS School Kits
• CHPS Implementation Roadmap
• Training

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Out for Public Review
COMMISSIONING
RELOCATABLE
CLASSROOMS
Coming Soon
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Why Revise CHPS Now?

• New Title 24, 2005 Energy Standards
• New Green Building Executive Order
• CHPS Experience
• New Buildings/Modernization Pilot
• Other States
• Pending Legislation
• Assembly Bill 315 (Hancock)
• New School Bond
• USGBC LEED
  Schools Application Guide

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Volume III Eligibility Criteria

• Explicitly defines a high performance school
• System of pre-requisites and credits
• 81 possible / 28 minimum
• Categories
• Site 14 points
• Water 5 points
• Energy 24 points
• Materials 11 points
• IEQ 17 points
• District 10 points

Volume III - Criteria
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CHPS Highlights
Category ENERGY Credit Minimum Energy
Performance Superior Energy
Performance
Changes Reference Standard Updated to Title 24,
2005
13 Credits in 2 Increments
Prescriptive Options No Longer Available
Calculation Method Designed to Provide More
Flexibility
Building Orientation Natural Ventilation HVAC
System Design
Volume III - Criteria
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CHPS Highlights
Category ENERGY Credit Commissioning and
Training
Requirements Based on Cx Assistant Database Tool
Changes
Three Levels Described
Abbreviated Prerequisite Standard 2
Points Comprehensive 3 Points
Volume III - Criteria
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CHPS Highlights
Category Materials
Storage and Collection of Organic Materials New
Credit Construction Waste Management Diversion
levels higher Organically Grown Materials New
Credit, USDA or IFOAM EPP/Combined Attribute
Option New calculation method for specified
materials.
Changes
Volume III - Criteria
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CHPS Highlights
Category INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY Credit
Daylighting
Two Options (Replace Daylight Factor)
Changes
Single Point in Time Approach - of daylit
classrooms
Daylight Saturation Percentage (DSP) - hours
during school year DSPDSP40 2xDSP400
Volume III - Criteria
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CHPS Highlights School as Learning Tool
Category SUSTAINABLE SITES Pre-req Educational
Display Credit Demonstration Sites
Category POLICY AND OPERATIONS Credit
Environmental Education Resolution Credit Users
Guide to Incorporate Into School Curriculum
Volume III - Criteria
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CHPS Highlights
Category POLICY AND OPERATIONS Credit
Maintenance
Changes New Credits

• Credit for Using Computerized Maintenance
  Management Software
• Credit for using Healthy SEAT site assessment tool

Volume III - Criteria
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EPP Best Practices Manual

• Fulfills requirement of EPP Law (AB 498, Chan,
  Chapter 575, Statutes of 2002)
• Assist State agencies with meeting requirements
• Laws
• Waste diversion, recycled-content product (RCP)
  procurement
• Executive orders
• Energy conservation, green building, and
  greenhouse gas emission reduction

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EPP Environment Price Performance

• EPP incorporates human health and
  environmental concerns as part of the search for
  high quality products and services at competitive
  prices.

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EPP Best Practices Manual

• Sponsors
• DGS Procurement deputy director
• CIWMB executive director
• Authors/reviewers
• 100 employees from at least 16 state entities

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EPP Best Practices Manual

• Scope
• 42 subject matter specific sections
• Almost all products covered
• Wide range of environmental and public health
  issues considered

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EPP Best Practices Manual

• Cross-Media Approach
• Topics

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Status

• 70 of the final sections submitted for final
  review
• 50 on-line at the new Green California Web site
  www.green.ca.gov
• Expect completion by spring 2006

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Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Best
Practices Manual

• www.green.ca.gov/EPP
• hosted by Dept. of General Services

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