High Performance Healthy Buildings

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Sustainability 101
Understanding the green marketplace
Paul Dennis Mid-America Distributor Sales
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Industry Overview

• EPA ranks indoor environment among top 5 risks to
  public health
• 60 billion related to lost productivity and
  medical costs
• Billions of pounds of paper disposables, plastics
  and cleaning products are used in buildings

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Health Symptoms 55 Million Americans - Allergies
EYES Puffy Teary Red Itchy Dry Irritated
HEAD Sinus pain Stuffed Sinus drip
NOSE Stuffed Sneezing Runny Sore Dry
EARS Mid ear infection Ear aches
THROAT Sore Dry Coughing Phlegm Raw Hoarse
SKIN Dry Rash Oily
CHEST Wheezing Difficult breathing Coughing Conges
tion
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Environmental Stewardship Why Green Standards?

• Minimize human exposure
• Clean for health first, appearance second
• Reduce harmful chemicals, particles and moisture
  residues
• Contain reduce pollutants
• Dispose cleaning waste in environmentally safe
  ways

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Green Cleaning ImpactAddressing a 60 Billion
Dollar Problem

• Increased occupant attendance levels
• Increased worker safety
• Reduced insurance premiums
• Enhance life cycle cost
• Lower overall MO costs
• Marketing advantages

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Purpose of CleaningLets Not Forget Our Role

• Provide a healthy safe environment
• Reduce risks and potential hazards
• Asset preservation
• Improve appearance
• Furnish valuable services to all occupants,
  patients, visitors and students

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This New Approach To Cleaning Is Not A Higher
Cost!
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Federal Mandates
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Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
Program1998 Executive Order 13101
Guiding Principles

1. Environment Price Performance
2. Pollution prevention eliminate and reduce risk
   to human health and the environment
3. Life cycle perspective all stages of product
4. Comparison of Environmental Impacts Products
5. Environmental Performance Information - Claims

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Environmental Guidelines
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Environmental Guidelines
Building Certification
Product Certification
Federal Authority
Global Ecolabeling Standards
Environmental Preferable Purchasing Program

• Mission is to achieve significant environmental
  improvement by encouraging the purchase and
  manufacturing of products and services that work
  well and have less impact on the environment.
• Exclusive focus on products, services, purchasing
• EPA criteria for 3rd-party certifiers

• It is a non-profit, voluntary, consensus-based,
  market-driven green building rating system
• It evaluates environmental performance from a
  whole building perspective over a buildings life
  cycle
• Credits earned for satisfying criteria

• Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) is a
  federal-wide program that encourages and assists
  executive agencies in the purchasing of
  environmentally preferable products and services
• Executive Order 13101
• EPA-EPP

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Building Certification
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What is LEED?

• It is a non-profit, voluntary, consensus-based,
  market-driven green building rating system
• It evaluates environmental performance from a
  whole building perspective over a buildings life
  cycle
• LEED EB Existing Building Certification
• LEED NC New Construction Certification
• Credits earned for satisfying criteria

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Points / Credits
Low impact cleaning equipment 1 pt
Sustainable products - Green Seal GS-37 Cleaning Chemical Criteria / EPA -CPG Guidelines - Low Impact disposables (liners / paper products) to meet EPA -CPG Guidelines 3 pts
Low impact Pest Management policy 2 pts
Entrance way matting systems 1 pt
Occupant Recycling maximum 3 pts
Isolated Janitorial Closets 1 pt
Documentation of attendance / medical cost 1pt
Green Cleaning - Low Environmental Impact Cleaning Policy 1 pt
Innovation 4 pts
Source Existing Building February 2004 Draft
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LEED Point System
Cleaning Industry Percentage of Total Points
Points Impacted By Cleaning Industry
Total Points Needed for Building Certification
Certification Levels
29 - 50
Up to 10 points plus 1-4 Innovation Credits
28 - 35
Certified
Silver
24 - 39
Up to 10 points plus 1-4 Innovation Credits
36 - 42
18 - 32
Up to 10 points plus 1-4 Innovation Credits
43 - 56
Gold
Platinum
13 - 25
57 - 76
Up to 10 points plus 1-4 Innovation Credits
It is process, product and practice focused.
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Buying Green
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Sustainability Creates Opportunity

• Develop your green goals
• Reducing costs drives the need for finding
  sustainable solutions
• Budgets ultimately drive decisions
• Create a Sustainability Plan
• Implement and Promote your changes

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How to Create Green Workplaces

• Identify products that easily fit into your
  current sanitation procedures
• Concentrate on key product categories- entrance
  matting, waste management, skin care, cleaning
  equipment, chemical systems and paper products
• Perform site audits to evaluate savings potential
  and possible implementation concerns
• Work with a distributor that understands
  sustainability and stocks products that
  compliment your eco-conscious strategy

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Conclusions

• There is a compelling economic case for creating
  a sustainable workplace
• There are benefits for
• Owners
• Occupants
• Facility Service Providers
• A comprehensive cleaning program impacts health
  and provides many other environment benefits
• Planning is essential
• Promote your accomplishments

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Questions ?