Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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sector, we would measure productivity quite well,
but the other is sick leave. And at least in my
agency, we measured sick leave pretty easy. I would
be curious at what your sick leave usage has went
down in some of the facilities that you have brought
online because of that safe secure environment.
Because even, you know, most of us know in the
lifecycle cost of the building, its operations and
maintenance and labor are your major cost factor
expenses. And even a two percent change would be
huge, a contribution that you've made that you may
not be tracking, or you may be, that I'm unaware of.
But, thank you.
GENERAL WILLIAMS: Excellent. Excellent
across the board. Now, other panel members who
might want to speak to any of that? Yes, Clare.
MS. ARCHER: I've got a question. I know
from the building industry perspective, we've
embraced green building and most of our peers have
all been very active in building buildings that have
gotten lead certification. We recognize that there
is, and you probably do too, that there is some kind
of cost premium that is associated with that, though
we're seeing that, you know, at least from a first
cost perspective, going down significantly as green
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