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Plan ♦ Design ♦ Build ♦ Maintain ♦ Serve
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FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
School of Business
This location is managed sustainably because of:
Air Quality & Health - Use mats, rugs & grates at
building entrances to manage particulates
- Implement a pest-management
plan to reduce or eliminate sources of food, water & shelter
- Measure internal humidity in at
least 50% of our space
- Provide shading devices or tinted
windows to control sunlight
- Use certified
environmentally-friendly cleaning products
- Use only low-VOC interior
paints
- Maintain and clean our HVAC
three times per the calendar year
- Optimize our indoor air system
with filters rated MERV 8 or greater
- Optimize our indoor air system
with the use of economizers, air handling units, etc
- Have daylight accessible to at
least 75+% of our occupants
Energy: - Offset our grid consumption through the purchase of Renewable
Energy Credits (RECs)
- Have wrapped and/or insulated ductwork
- Have insulated roof & walls, defined by values R-19 or
greater
- Initiated a third-party energy audit
- Initiated a re-commissioning plan for the HVAC system to more
energy efficiencies
- Have common area lighting on automatic timers & occupancy
sensors
- Have individual temperature controls for at least 50% of our
occupants
- Implemented and maintain specific “occupied” & “unoccupied”
set-points for the entire building
- Implemented building HVAC system schedules to
reduce energy usage during unoccupied times
- Use a high-efficiency boiler or hot-water system
- Have the policy to phase all incandescent lighting to CFL, LED or
better
Water:
- Have a system to capture rainwater and/or greywater
- Control rainwater and/or greywater prior to its disbursement
into the watershed
- Incorporate native plant species & perennials onsite, to
reduce irrigation use
- Meter our landscape irrigation
- Use high-efficiency toilet flushing mechanisms
- Have low-flow and/or faucet fixtures in 100% of common areas
- Use low-flow faucet and/or showerhead fixtures in 100% of common
areas
- Use motion-sensor faucets & fixtures in 100% of common areas
(kitchens are exempt)
- Use motion-sensor paper towel dispensers and/or hands-free,
energy efficient dryers
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