Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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I do have to take a little bit of exception with an
answer that was given earlier about the cost of
sustainable design. In some cases, some of the
recommendations or the new technologies that we are
putting in do cost more money. They cost more
initially. Putting a green roof on, because the
technology is new, can cost more money up front.
But we are looking at ways of reducing that cost and
reducing the impact and incorporating it into our
standards. Yes, it's being built into our costs.
We know that, but we're also trying to save O and M
costs for the future and for what our tenants are
going to be having to pay.
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So the new part is the verification. We've
started this program last year, maybe 18 months ago
or so to conduct site assessment trips. The problem
I was having was I was getting these memos back that
said these are what we planned to implement, but I
didn't have a sense of what actually was implemented
over time. And because this is a congressionally
mandated program and we have to report to the OMB
every year what results we actually had, I could
see, if I put myself as an auditor and go out and
look at some of these projects, would I actually see
that the value engineering recommendations that were
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