PBS 140 Child Care Center Design Guide - The Whole Building ...

APPENDIX E
� Building Location and Site Selection: Channel development to urban or
suburban areas with existing infrastructure, protecting greenfields, and
preserving habitat and natural resources by a number of activities, including:
1. Building selected for tenant relocation is located in an established
building in a previously developed area.
2. Occupant renews lease at current location.
3. Occupant signs long-term lease.
The other concepts contained in this draft section are discussed in the
context of new construction in Section 5.1, based upon site selection criteria
found in LEED Version 2.0.
� Best Practices: Encourage tenants to select buildings with best practice
systems and employed green strategies. The specific criteria for green
strategies are essentially some of those included in LEED Version 2.0.
Selection of a LEED Certified Building is a proposed alternative method
for achieving credit in this category.
� Flexibility of Design: Encourage design that is easily reconfigured for
future expansion and/or contraction, thus decreasing churn costs and
conserving resources, by specifying some percentage of building interior
components to be easily reconfigurable.
� Accredited Professional: Support and encourage design integration required
by a LEED project and streamline the application and certification
process by including at least one principal participant of the project team
that has successfully completed the applicable LEED Accredited Professional
exam.
2.2.3 Integrative Design:
The integrated design process begins with the first “design workshop” and
continues throughout the various project phases. This process provides a
forum and methodology wherein every team member is encouraged to crossfertilize
solutions to problems that may relate to, but are not typically addressed
by, their specialty. The objective is to have every member of the
design team understand the issues that the other members need to address.
This is a successful way to educate all the participants: architects, engineers,
and the client team. Staff members are invited to participate throughout
the process. Participants are educated about the issues and “buy in” to
the solutions. The education process is accelerated, decisions are verified,
adversity is diminished, the nuances of organizational issues are learned,
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and the design process is expedited because of the presence of the involved
parties while most of the major issues are explored. More thorough and
integrated solutions are the result.
2.2.4 Construction Management:
The A/E contract should include development of the following environmental
management plans, developed with the input of relevant consultants and
stakeholders:
� Building Commissioning: Implement fundamental best practice commissioning
procedures referenced in LEED Version 2.0, and meet as many
additional commissioning referenced criteria as feasible
� Construction Waste Management: Develop a detailed program for construction/
demolition waste materials recycling, as described in LEED
Version 2.0.
� Construction IAQ Management: Develop a detailed program to indoor air
quality contamination from construction by meeting SMACNA IAQ Guidelines
for Occupied Buildings under Construction, protecting stored or installed
absorptive materials, replacing air filtration media prior to occupancy,
and conducting an IAQ testing procedure, as described in LEED
Version 2.0.
Harmful Paint Ingredients which are not allowed in “Green Seal” products:
1,1,1-trichloroethane 1,2-dichlorobenzene
acrolein acrylonitrile
antimony benzene
butyl benzyl phthalate cadmium
di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate di-n-butyl phthalate
diethyl phthalate dimethyl phthalate
ethyl benzene formaldehyde
hexavalent chromium isophorone
mercury methyl ethyl ketone
methyl isobutyl ketone methylene chloride
napthalene toluene (methyl benzene)
vinyl chloride
PBS-140 - July 2003