National Executive Forum on Public Property

“Sustainable development”opportunities and implications

Department of National Defence“Approach to Green Buildings”

Viv Walsworth

DND approach to green buildings

• Realty: a sustainability opportunity • Policies & motivators • DND Unique challenges & considerations• DND Strategy for green building• Tools• How are we doing• Future direction

realty: a target of opportunity for DND transition to sustainability • strategic context • life cycle cost savings • productivity& QOL enhancements • Reduced impacts, residual liabilities• Kyoto commitments• Demonstrate stewardship

DND Approach to Green Buildings

Policy and motivators

Policy: Defence Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS)

• Minister’s commitment• policy fostering sustainability • 1997 realty objectives, targets, action plans • 2000 “integrating” environment into realty

“decision-making” “processes & practices”• 2003 (planned): first “green building target” • Reporting: whole building environmental

assessment

Policy: Defence Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS)

• regulatory compliance • due diligence/ environmental risk management• policy integration/ dissemination/ implementation• stewardship/ acculturation • environmental Management System (EMS)• green procurement• issue targets, action plans

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DND Approach to Green Buildings

Unique challenges and considerations

DND realty sustainability challenges:

• custodial “life cycle” asset management • unique DND realty context:

environmental issues: range/ complexity/ risksasset age/ campus contextcapacity for re-capitalization diversity of occupancies spanning climatic regionslimited knowledge/ capacity

• Priority: existing buildings

DND realty: sustainability challenges:

• all pre-design, design & construction: contracted• facilities management: contracted/ alternate

service delivery • monitoring & oversight of 3rd party providers• Render transparency/ measurability/ sustain

documentation• transferability of lessons learned to portfolio

DND Approach to green buildings

Elements of Green Building Strategy

DND Green Building Strategy

• collaboratively developed • lessons learned• conceived as continuum • coordinated with SDS cycle/ updated annually • commercially available whole building assessment• integrate decision support tools/ modeling• synergies with other initiatives/ programs • foster knowledge transfer/ capacity building

DND Green Building Strategy: 1. Existing buildings

• Existing buildings: whole building assessments – for benchmarking – post occupancy evaluations – due diligence;– to assess/ improve operations – target remedial work for re-fit & renovations– lessons learned

• Initiated: on-line assessments by base staff

DND Green building Strategy2. existing buildings retrofit

• energy performance contracts under FBI• utility data management • building energy performance indices

(BEPI’s) for building archetypes• BEPI’s: feed into existing building

assessments• On-line retrofit assessment tool planned

DND Green Building Strategy:3. New building project delivery

• adaptation of “Green Leaf” to support “environmental issues integration” into each stage of ISO 9001 “project delivery” process

• partnership with PWGSC • (alpha) on-line version: “Green Globes for

new buildings” (DND) Testing/ translation • support to SDS 2003 green building target

DND Green Building Strategy 4. targeted issues/ savings

Example: operating energy/ GHG reduction • strategic: : target 10% • operational savings: : estimate > 10%• retrofit existing buildings: 20% per EPC

benchmark archetypes• New building min 25% less than MNECB:

substantiation: CBIP modeling

DND Green building approach

Assessment & decision support

TOOLS

Tools: DND/ PWGSC environmental integration framework

• Structured: whole building environmental assessment

• Contextual: issues/ goals relevant to DND • Targeted: guidance/ indicators of content/ specificity

targeted for “each” stage• Integrated: decision support/ modeling/ compliance • Transparent: Checklist/ indicators at “each” stage

• Measurable: rating at major milestones • Flexible: generic framework with add-on modules

Tools: DND/ PWGSC on-line Green Globes for new buildings

• “DND/ PWGSC environmental issues integration framework” On-line

• available alpha test version www.greenglobes.com/nbalpha/ DND version

• DND variant identical to general practitioner except hotlinks to Federal regulations, policies

• synergies with other Federal programs• seamless input to CBIP energy modeling • links: decision support tools

Select User

Download

questionnaire

Questionnaire Screen

Other than entering the CBIP input information, most questions are “yes” or “no”.

TOOLS: DECISION SUPPORT ATHENADESIGN LCA MATERIALS

Tools: Value-based selection including “sustainability”

• Design-build: evaluated 50% price/ 50% “quality”• “quality” points include “Sustainability” • detailed CBIP energy simulation • min perf: 25% below MNECB• Price: annual energy cost x 10 + (capital cost) • encourage 10 year payback energy saving features• 15 sustainability points: LEED substantiation

DND Approach to Green Building

How are we doing?

DND Occupancy ProfileInitial focus: exist/ new quarters

DND Occupancies - by Gross Area

Quarters24%

Hangars & Maint

Workshops26%

Unit Lines / Offices / Training

19%

Storage & Warehouse

31%

RATING:

70%

72%

45%

56%

69%

80%

0 20 40 60 80 100

Fo od Servi ces

Occupan ts' Criteria

Indoor Enviroment

EnvironmentalImpact

Resources

Energy & Water

Management

90%

The Officers’ Accommodation and Mess Facility is a 9100 m2, 5-storeycomplex, located on the Canadian Forces Base (CFB) in Esquimalt,Victoria. The complex consists of 140 officers’ cabins, two lounges, diningroom, and miscellaneous support space. The complex was occupied in thespring of 2000 and procured through design-build delivery. The buildingcomplex is owned by the Department of Defence, and is managed by BaseConstruction Engineering Office. Capt. L. P. Oakes is the FacilitiesSupport Officer

PERCENT OF POINTS ACHIEVED FOR EACH ISSUE

MANAGEMENT 100 70Envir onmental Management System 25 19Pol icy 50 29Emerge ncy Res pons e 25 22ENERGY & WATER E FFICIENCY 400 179B ui lding Energy Effic ie ncy 170 85Energy Management 11 5 40Trans por tation 60 42Water Effic ie ncy 55 12RESOURCES 100 90Was te Reduction & Rec ycl ing 45 35Site 55 55EMISSIONS, EF FLUENTS & OTHER ENVIRONM ENTAL IMP ACTS 185 134Air Emis sions 30 7Oz one Depletion 40 25Water Eff luents 15 3Microbial Contami nation 25 25Hazardous Material s 75 73INDOOR ENV IRONMENT 105 59Lighting 10 4IAQ 95 55OCCUPANTS' CRITERIA 65 45FOOD SERVICES 45 36TOTAL 1000 613

Environmental Performance Measurement

CFB Toronto MFRCMilitary Family Resource Centre

project managed for DND by PWGSC Ontario region applied integrated design approach targeting natural light, indoor environment, operating energy savings stack effect to promote natural ventilationfirst DND project to achieve 4 “green leafs” eco-rating• Energy performance

Richard Doucette PWGSC

CFB HALIFAX QUARTER & MESSES

CFB ESQUIMALT

NAVAL OFFICER TRAINING CENTER

DND Approach to Green Building

The future

DND 5 year Capital Plan: “Unit Lines” occupancy modules

SoR to be Written - by $ Volume

Storage & Warehouse

$88M

Training$60M

Offices$9M Unit Lines

$219M

Messing / Dining$16M

Quarters$106M

Workshops$20M

DND Green Globes development/ adaptations

• occupancy & environmental issue specific add on’s

• jurisdictional overlay “existing buildings”• Foster retrofit transition to Green building

performance contracting (GBPC) from EPC • Retrofit version to support GBPC• Provincial/ municipal jurisdictional

overlays?

LEED CanadaFederal jurisdiction adaptation

• statutes, regulations, policy & standards applicable to Federal jurisdiction

• reconcile credits with Federal procurement policy & trade agreements

• Rationalize regional/ climatic applicability• foster balanced approach • heritage, physical security, maintainability

Conclusions

• whole portfolio view/ each phase of activity• Acculturation- Process modification- strategy-

best practices • Timely feedback/ lessons learned/ transferred• Capacity building• Hierarchy of tools/ same concepts/ different

packaging• What works for you • Reward/ recognition