The Business Case for Sustainable Design in Federal Facilities

Placet, M., D. Winiarski, J. Heerwagen, S. Shankle, K. McMordie-Stoughton, K. Fowler, J. Hail, B. Liu, D. Hunt, D. Hostick, K. Poston, A. Walker, J. Harris, W. Tschudi, E. Mills, D. Zimmerman, J. Fiksel, and J. Toothaker.

October 2003

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Abstract

“Sustainable design” is becoming a mainstream movement in the U.S. architecture and construction industry, and U.S. government agencies have been both joining that movement and leading the way. In the summer of 2001, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) and the U.S. Navy initiated the Interagency Sustainability Working Group as a forum for Federal agency representatives located in the Washington, D.C. area to share sustainable design experiences and information. Nearly 30 government agencies and offices participated. The group expressed a strong interest in communicating the business case for sustainable design. In response, FEMP initiated the effort documented in this report, which focuses on providing solid arguments, supported by defensible data, to further justify the application of sustainable design principles in Federal agency construction projects. This document is a technical resource report containing cost information, research results, case studies, and other quantitative and qualitative information pertaining to the business case for sustainable design.

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