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LEED Silver Certified - 2010
January 2013 Environmental Report
Past Environmental Reports
Tenant Green Meeting Minutes
Green Links
Sustainable Sites
- Sustainable landscaping and exterior maintenance, utilizing manual removal of snow and landscaping waste when possible, and purchasing of environmentally preferable snow melt and exterior maintenance chemical.
- Indoor and outdoor integrated pest management to avoid pesticide use and utilizing least-toxic pesticides when necessary.
- Reduced urban heat island effect due to light colored roofing components and underground parking.
- Tenant education and outreach efforts.
- Over 80% of the building occupants bike, walk, carpool, or use public transportation to get to the building.
- Light pollution reduction utilizing a Migratory Bird Policy and manual.
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Energy & Atmosphere
- Energy Star Certified
- Improved energy efficient lighting.
- Excellent preventative maintenance, improved operations & parameters, and building-wide commissioning.
- Replacing constant speed fans with variable frequency drives.
- Integrating lighting into the building automation system.
- Improved energy awareness of building staff and vendors.
- Continuous preventive maintenance including functional and infrared testing of motor driven and electrical equipment.
- A building-wide infrared scan for building envelope improvements.
- Staff training on energy efficiency.
- Advanced building automation system and energy and water metering.
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Water Efficiency
- 30% water use reduction from the baseline for large commercial buildings, saving approximately 2 million gallons of water per year.
- Continued upgrade of fixtures to meet Universal Plumbing Code standards, and exceeding when feasible.
- Environmentally friendly cooling tower water management.
- Drought-only hand watering of plantings and preferred use of drought tolerant plantings.
- Enhanced water metering and water use tracking.
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Materials & Resources
- A building-wide Sustainable Purchasing policy.
- A building-wide Solid Waste Management policy, including
requirements for facility upgrade recycling.
- A building-wide e-waste and battery recycling initiative, including expanded consumables recycling.
- Reduced mercury in fluorescent lighting by purchasing low-mercury bulbs.
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Indoor Environmental Quality
- Increased exterior ventilation and periodic monitoring of air intake quality for healthy interior air quality.
- Advanced green cleaning and custodial effectiveness, including over 60% of products purchased certified Green Seal or equivalent,
and high performance cleaning equipment to improve indoor air quality.
- Indoor and outdoor integrated pest management to avoid pesticide use.
- Improved Indoor Air Quality due to the use of high efficiency HEPA filters.
- Tenant education and outreach efforts.
- Sustainable Indoor Air Quality Management Plan including improved build out and facility alterations procedures.
- Continued improvement and vigilance on all aspects of sustainable building management.
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