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Toyota’s Green Building Design: LEED Gold Inland Empire Technical Training Facility

2012
01.26

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www.lpainc.com Enjoy a private tour of Toyota’s LEED Gold Inland Empire Technical Training Facility with Toyota’s Mark Yamauchi, LPA architect Michael McAllister, and JLC Associates project manager Sonny Scott. The LEED Gold facility serves as a satellite location for Toyota’s Los Angeles Region. It provides professional training for advancing technology to service technicians from the local dealer base. In order to accommodate the weekly training curriculum the facility required a design with two quads. Each quad has a classroom, four service training bays, three inground vehicle lifts, an alignment rack, air compressor, and support services (restrooms, break area, storage, etc.). Two existing 10′ x 10′ roll-up doors were used for vehicle accessibility into the service bay. Sustainable features include • Priority parking for carpool and low emission vehicles. • Drought tolerant landscaping which uses recycled water for irrigation. • Use of highly reflective roofing material which reduces HVAC energy use and minimizes the heat island effect. • Use of waterless urinals, dual flush valve toilets, and sensor controlled faucets which reduces the amount of water wasted within the facility (by a minimum of 30%). • Use of light fixtures with occupancy controls and daylight sensors in areas with natural light, which reduces energy consumption and utility costs. • Optimized energy performance through the use of highly efficient HVAC units designed with multiple zones and automated …

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LEED ID&C Practice Exam: Interior Design & Construction

2011
10.24

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~Marlin’s Stadium: The first Silver LEED Ballpark with a Retractable Roof – Trane

2011
10.24

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The new Marlins ballpark, located near downtown Miami is on track to become the first Silver LEED certified ballpark with a retractable roof in the country. However, one of the most difficult LEED challenges for an open-air ballpark is optimizing its energy performance. The Marlins turned to Trane to install 50 energy efficient air handler units and a chilled water system to maintain a 75 degree indoor air temperature when the stadium roof is closed. Trane’s solution helped the Marlins meet the 15 percent savings standard for LEED certification while delivering a comfortable environment for fans, players and employees. Trane went beyond providing systems and services to bring the Marlins a full building automation solution, including training stadium engineers on ‘when’ and ‘how’ to operate chillers and cooling towers to ensure the building runs efficiently.

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LEED + The Tempest

2011
10.06

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LEED is about breaking patterns. Pick up a copy of The Tempest before you head to Greenbuild 2011!

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LEED Construction Waste Management: Green Recycling Methods for Reducing Carbon Footprint

2011
09.28

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Over the last decade, there has been an unprecedented push toward green, sustainable construction. Today, many public and private influences have integrated green methodologies into typical construction projects, whether it is driven from local, state, or federal legislation or from private organizations. The universal goal is that of developing sustainable, long-lasting urban projects that extend and preserve, not overuse, resources. Those who subscribe to the green concept strive to ensure their projects are highly efficient, constructed of quality materials, and provide long-term cost savings to future residents, owners, and end-users. This commitment to a sustainable future ensures that projects make lasting contributions to the neighborhoods and communities they are located in.

One of the aforementioned private organizations leading the way is USGBC, or the United States Green Building Council. USGBC created a program called LEED to set guidelines for sustainable development and construction. LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, and is a rating system for an independent green building certification program which provides voluntary guidelines and third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies intended to improve performance in environmental and human health metrics such as: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection, and indoor environmental quality. Based on the number of points a particular project achieves in the LEED rating system, a project can obtain one of the following certification levels: Certified, Silver, Gold or Platinum. USGBC says that LEED defines ”a nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high-performance green buildings” and ”provides building owners and operators with the tools they need to have an immediate and measurable impact on their buildings’ performance.” LEED certified buildings often provide healthier work and living environments, which contributes to higher productivity and improved employee health and comfort. The USGBC has compiled a long list of benefits of implementing a LEED strategy, which ranges from improving air and water quality to reducing solid waste, benefiting owners, occupiers, and society as a whole.

One of first and quite frankly, easiest, strategies that a real estate developer will encounter and in turn, attain would be Construction Waste Management (this shows up in Credits MRc2.1 and MRc2.2 in the LEED rating program). The intent of this credit is to ”divert construction, demolition and land-clearing debris from disposal in landfills and incinerators. Redirect recyclable recovered resources back to the manufacturing process. Redirect reusable materials to appropriate sites.” If a project is attempting to achieve this credit in their LEED building certification, the team must ”recycle and/or salvage at least 50% of non-hazardous construction and demolition debris [or 75% for Credit MRc2.2]. Develop and implement a construction waste management plan that, at a minimum, identifies the materials to be diverted from disposal and whether the materials will be sorted on-site or co-mingled. Excavated soil and land-clearing debris do not contribute to this credit. Calculations can be done by weight or volume, but must be consistent throughout.” One project that is currently in the process of achieving this credit is the Granada Village Shopping Center in Los Angeles, CA. Urban One is providing project management services on behalf of the owner of the property, Regency Centers. The project is a redevelopment of an existing shopping center built back in the early 1960’s. Since the scope of work includes the replacement of sitework, roofing, storefront, facades, as well as interior improvements of many buildings; there is a substantial amount of demolition that has to take place. This, in turn, presents a great opportunity to recycle most of this debris that is being removed. Since the project team is attempting LEED Silver building certification, the recycling rates are in line with the thresholds and are actually far exceeding 75%.

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Most projects will have some demolition that will be required prior to commencing construction, especially if it is a redevelopment of an existing building or if a structure needs to be cleared to allow for new ground-up construction. This creates a perfect opportunity to divert some of the waste being removed from the building or site to be recycled. There will also be some waste generated throughout the construction process. This waste should also be taken into account. The first step is to determine which materials present on the project are recyclable. Materials that recycle well typically include concrete, masonry, metal studs, structural steel, aluminum, wood, cardboard, drywall, acoustical tile, plastic, insulation, glass, and carpet, among others.

The next step is for the project team to develop a plan, or protocol in the removal and segregation of the material to be diverted. For tracking purposes, most contractors find it easier to designate a particular area at the site for the segregated or comingled collection of recyclable materials. In our experience, unless you will be taking your materials to a recycling plant to sort through comingled materials for you, it is prudent to literally create separate piles onsite for recyclables and for waste going to the landfill. To avoid any confusion onsite, some General Contractors even put out recycling containers that are clearly labeled with acceptable (and unacceptable) materials that should be placed in them. We would recommend making these labels bilingual and post on all sides of the container in addition to posting wayfinding signs throughout the site clearly showing where these containers can be found. The General Contractor should coordinate this plan with all of their subcontractors and suppliers to ensure that the recommended handling procedures are met and the least amount of waste is produced. These procedures should be written into a Construction Waste Management Plan, distributed and reviewed in a pre-job meeting with all involved subs and suppliers. In order to truly enforce this plan, it may be beneficial to tell contractors and suppliers that if they do not comply with the plan, then they will be subject to backcharges and withholding of payment. One should have a watchful eye of crews contaminating debris boxes or dumpsters that have been designated for a single material type.

That leads into the next step of identifying someone to haul the material off of the site, as well as recycling centers that will accept the materials. Whether one is attempting LEED building certification or not, the hauler plays a critical role in the handling and documentation of the amount of material being diverted toward recycling. When dropping off a truck full of debris, the hauler needs to obtain receipts from the facilities accepting the material, which clearly record the quantity, by weight, of each load. The team also needs to do this for all material that is not being recycled as it is dropped off at the local landfill. It is with the combination of these two types of receipts, that the team will be able to determine the overall percentage of construction and demolition debris being recycled.

Another option that was touched on earlier is for the hauler to take the debris to a sorting facility. These facilities do all of the hard work for you so that you do not need to separate all of the material onsite. If taking debris to a sorting facility, all of the debris can be comingled (recyclable and un-recyclable). Different sorting facilities offer different recycling rates. Cities typically publish lists every year of all available sorting/recycling facilities, along with their respective average recycling rates. The Granada Village Shopping Center Redevelopment that we looked at earlier is currently using the comingled approach. Since the burden of sorting is on the facility, this allows work in the field to progress at a much faster rate. There is no need to sort and place each type of material in bins or dumpsters onsite. When selecting a recycling facility for this project, Urban One and Regency Centers obviously decided to select a facility that offered a very high recycling rate. However, there was also another factor that had to be considered – proximity to the site. Having a facility that was too far away from the project would have resulted in higher hauling costs and been detrimental to our budget. As any construction estimator can tell you, exporting materials from the site and hauling/truck costs can get very expensive. The balance of these two factors lead us to select Community Recycling located in Sun Valley, CA, which offers us an average 89.83% recycling rate for comingled construction and demolition debris and is only 10.5 miles away from the site.

When trying to achieve this credit in LEED, there are several other ways to comply outside of simply taking the debris to a recycling center. If it fits within the scope of work for construction of the project, materials can be salvaged onsite. Another avenue to take would be to donate the materials to a charitable organization, such as Habitat for Humanity. Furthermore, instead of taking debris to a facility, why not take it directly to the next source? For example, at Granada Village, a substantial amount of broken concrete materials leaving the site (approximately 475 tons to date) is being sent directly to Brutoco Engineering & Construction for the Orange Line Extension project just down the street in Chatsworth, CA. 100% of this concrete material is then crushed, recycled, and reused with the right-of-way for their project. Urban One is committed to pursuing projects and real estate investments that encourage pedestrian activities, biking, and use of public transportation, so even getting an opportunity to impact another transit project is very exciting for us.

Whether a project is attempting LEED building certification or not, one should always consider a Construction Waste Management Plan and recycle construction and demolition waste if the opportunity presents itself. Redirecting recyclable recovered resources back to the manufacturing process and redirecting reusable materials to appropriate sites helps reduce the carbon footprint of a project and maximize recycling efforts. Reduce, recycle, and reuse.

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LEED AP Exam Guide: Study Materials, Sample Questions, Mock Exam, Building LEED Certification and Going Green

2011
09.13

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LEED O&M Practice Exam: Operations & Maintenance

2011
08.21

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World needs to go Green, than Green needs to go LEED

2011
08.18

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World needs to go Green, than Green needs to go LEED

In the past decade, the idea of building ‘green’ has sprouted globally – the so called ‘Green revolution’. As years passed by, one could see this revolution gradually turning into one of those temporary trends set up to support marketing of related fields of construction activity. Today, the term ‘green’ is certainly abused and misunderstood by most of the engineering empire.

Truthfully, the natural living systems on our planet are the only designs we know of that are triumphant in their sustainability because they relate with the environment in holistic, integrative, and reductive processes. On the contrary, many of the current green building rating systems like LEED are structured to endorse solutions that are in majority additive and encourage consumption over conservation. This is simply because the rating systems are initially conceived to have certain set of sections which cater to sustainability; that are then packed with technologies, systems and products to achieve it. Architects now depend much on these intelligent service systems to make up for their neglect in the basic building design. If buildings are based on a sluggish design process, one would be obviously strained to use the so called ‘Green’ or ‘intelligent’ engineering methods to supplement it.

It is unfortunate that valuable rating systems such as LEED have converted Architecture into an accounting exercise. This has completely digressed from what could have been a healthy exercise in coming out with truly good architecture. We are missing an opportunity to develop such architecture by allowing these accounting or statistical procedures to dominate our logical thinking and creativity. Targeting maximum LEED points especially in GCC countries require more common sense and deeper understanding of the effect. The potential benefits of solely achieving a certification should not be the motive of the design process.

Advocating bicycle tracks or trying to invest in a rain-water harvesting system in the Middle East are some examples. Inexperienced individuals using LEED do not realize that considering these in GCC countries is a waste of wealth, effort and energy considering the facts that lay before us. Allow me to explain. By trying to harvest the little rain we receive in the Middle East, one does not collect water actually. It turns into a scenario of collecting mud, dirt, contaminated water. This water then requires additional treatment for reuse - simply meaning one needs to use adequate chemicals and systems to treat it; one requires to spend money for this treatment system; more water is essential just to backwash the filters; electricity is required to operate this pumps and trained manpower to maintain the tanks. In short it’s an endless burden. While it may fetch you extra points in the LEED ratings, the whole initiative if analyzed is a wasteful one.

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Even implementing large-scale solar driven technologies are of extreme risk due to the amount of atmospheric dust and harsh sunlight – both being predominant factors that reduce solar cell efficiency. Recently, the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, in Saudi Arabia was declared to be among the worlds top green buildings. While it is a matter to be appreciated; I hope they have found an energy free-cost free solution to keeping all the solar cells cool and devoid of dust, to run their envisaged roof panels and solar-powered wind turbines for all the years to come. People in the Middle East can only imagine and estimate how much money; water, energy and effort are required to keep all the solar panels and glass clad surfaces of all buildings clean – every year. The statistics are upsetting.

I also wonder why a majority of the LEED credits are weighted equally, when it is plainly clear that some points have more environmental benefits than others. ‘ Why would I install efficient HVAC equipment for a few extra points when I could get the same points by adding few bicycle racks in the college campus?’, asked an Architect. Although installing the efficient HVAC system would amount to saving a huge amount of energy and add environmental value on a massive scale, according to LEED rating system – it still equals the idea of having bicycle racks within the educational campus. The solution here is to make a careful study of all the critical credits that add superior environmental value and make them mandatory. Then, the playing of points can be done by professionals within the feeble credits.

It is a fact that the development and construction of Green and Sustainable buildings will initially cost more than a conventional building. This is irrefutable. Practically in addition to this cost, all associated procedures for LEED certification will add up to another 1% – 4%. I do not know why design consultants break their heads making up fake reports and statistics to show clients otherwise. The hidden costs will show up ultimately as the project marches towards completion and will cause clients havoc. Let us be brave enough to acknowledge that they cost more and are definitely worth it.

Somewhere along the line, organizations such as USGBC have realized it could profit of the LEED system. The organization has undoubtedly advertised it globally, when compared to other rating systems like Greenstar (AUST) & BREEAM (U.K). The USGBC charges high fees for commissioning and even for becoming a LEED Accredited Professional. The fees to attempt this test is around US $400. Yes, if one fails another $400 has to be shelled out. In my opinion, if the organization is really concerned about the environment and making buildings globally green, they should make it affordable. Additionally, the LEED AP certification is being converted into an ‘elite’ profession – gradually threatening the importance of trained professionals in the architectural and engineering arena. I am forced to question the significance of paying for and passing this test as; all LEED APs – go back to referring the LEED handbooks again, while managing or commissioning all aspects of a project. Any professional can handle and refer the handbook as and when required, so why have this costly and superfluous testing system in the first place? Orientation modules and training programmes would more than suffice in this regard.

Instead of converting the commissioning and certification into a technocratic exercise, the procedures should be more involving and also include a subjective approach. Points should be granted for innovative approaches that are not included, coordinated or valued in the LEED handbook. USGBC professionals I suppose, are trained enough to make such judgments and subjective decisions proficiently. The LEED handbook should be treated only as a guide.

Instead of LEED APs judging buildings solely through paper and electronic media submissions – regular visits to analyze project sites, inspections of materials and products should also be conducted. Clients and consultants pay a lot of money and spend effort for LEED commissioning purposes and just analyzing a project through mere paperwork submitted through couriers or e-media, does not justify the whole system of USGBC at all. Decisions can be made on project sites through discussions with clients, design consultants and contractors collectively. This is how innovative and fresh LEED can evolve itself to be; rather than just being a mundane system of compiled data on which buildings are rated on.

To conclude, handbooks for rating systems are not to be used as the encyclopedias of Green and sustainable designing. Architects and Engineers must possess ample knowledge on analyzing climatic data and geography, studying human comfort levels, including passive design techniques, careful use of materials/resources and incorporating efficient building services. These basic principles should drive our design process. Determining whether a building is rated green or not is one of the smallest of issues we ultimately face at the end of a project. A rating system such as LEED, BREEAM if required, can serve as a useful check list or a medium to refer alternate solutions to our evolving design concepts.

The world needs green buildings a lot more than green buildings need LEED certification. If certifications such as LEED, BREEAM continue to cost too much money, time and effort – we will not stop building green projects; we will just stop certifying them.

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Simple Green House Concept and Relation with LEED

2011
08.05

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Green house is the innovative model of building a natural home for long term use with less cost of energy. This thinking comes from the medical model of houses which have designed for give up the loneliness or boredom. But the main reason of using the green house is reducing the energy cost and the better confronts and healthiness of the house. The green house mainly focus to increase the efficiency of using water, air, energy and other resources in its design. This design works on the better health condition and also the environment of the building with the maintenance cost and operation of the building for the purposes. This building is only for reducing the conflict on the building environment as well as on the owner’s health and natural condition and to do these the building designed to increase the use of water, air and other energy resources, increase the health condition of the owner and increase the output of them and reduce the pollution, ravage as well as the ecological squalor. There is a similar concept like green house is known as natural house. This natural building is for using the available natural products with a proper design and green structural design. The sustainable development concept of natural building is also vital to build a green house. The main purposes of green building are reducing functional cost by decreasing the using of energy and other resources and extending the productivity, using environmental products like using the rain water and decrease the heat island outcome. A man who works on green building design seeks to get the ecological and visual relation between the structure and the nearby natural resources. But usually you can not differ the between the sustainable buildings and the less or non-sustainable buildings.

LEED means the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. LEED has a rating system of green building which is developed by USGBC. With this rating system any one can easily build their standard green house. You can find a course of LEED rating system. The course is handled by GBC (Green Building Certification) and any one with this certificate will allows using the acronym Accredited Professional or AP of LEED.

In the recent years, LEED becomes the best standard of constructions along with the six most popular systems. Now LEED has almost 150 AP with roughly 20 committees of 200 or more volunteers. The main purpose of LEED is defined the greenhouse with full design. They want to be the leader in the construction industry with green concept, aware people about the benefits of green house and make this purpose working for the people with great interest.

Green buildings are building to reduce the use of energies comparing with other usually constructed buildings and LEED certify these buildings. These certified buildings become the more healthy and comfortable than other usual buildings and these green buildings are using the less energy with more efficiency than usual buildings. You can find the USGBC list which produces the benefits of a green house of LEED certified will have to be and the benefits can improving air, reducing water waste, engaged, the house owners along with the society.

Constructing a green house with the LEED rating system will make the cost higher for the primary design as well as for construction. If the designer does not understand well the constructing processes this will take more time than estimation. Some of the design and constructing processes are complicated than usual building system and these can make the misunderstanding between the designers, constructors and the owner of that greenhouse and all the processes will delay the whole construction.

There is a lack of instruments of green buildings with the standard of LEED’s requirements and hiring an AP and design consultant will surely increase the whole for the construction. All the above processes have to be fulfilled by the owner to get the LEED certification. Though these costs seem higher now but the overall benefits you will get from your greenhouse will be more than those extra costs. These costs also make your house more comfortable and healthier than the usual builds. The awareness of using green house is increased day by day by the LEED standard and one day every one will use greenhouse with LEED standard.

LEED standard wants to reduce fossil fuel in houses and the USGBC make challenge of 2030 before that year they want to make every house without using fossil fuel which cause the greenhouse gas. LEED wants the efficient using of fossil fuel and they are now looking on the other products. They want to decrease the use of toxic chemicals with the less harmful products like the leather. Though the LEED rating system is just a measurement system not a designing but this make the change to the people to better use of energy.

Using green house concept to decrease the environmental collision of building is a good idea and LEED proposed the rating system to construct a green building. More than 8100 km2 area is using for contracting building every year and 38% of the green house gas are formed from the buildings both commercial and home in US. If we can use green house the total amount of green house gas from buildings will be less than 10% and that will be help to keep the increment of green house gas under control. LEED will show you the process and the system to build your own perfect green house. This will not only decrease the green house gas, it will also decrease the operating cost of your house. Constructing a building with the proper use of LEED rating system is a time costly as well as money costly but the benefits you will get from the green building is 2 or 3 times larger than the main cost. This green building will satisfy you mentally and the environment of your house will be more healthy and comfortable.

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