Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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the actual technical elements of what is
accomplished under that.
MS. BETHANY: Just for clarification,
you're asking on the technical, what's accomplished
on the VE team --
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Right.
MS. BETHANY: -- the fact that they may
attack a sustainable design feature. I provide that
oversight that nothing, you know, all new ideas are
good and we also when we set up the VE study during
the information stage, we're telling them what we're
looking for. And one of the goals is to be a
friendly neighbor, green sustainability. And I
again, I will put on the team a sustainable design
expert, just to make sure that we don't circumvent
the process. And we do look at life cycle. We're
not looking at just initial cost because, as I said
earlier, yes, some of these items, to go green, do
cost us a little more initially. Some of them
don't, but some of them do.
Okay, if it's costing us more initially,
the VE team might be able to come up with a way of
doing the photovoltaic for a slightly cheaper way of
doing it. Maybe use a slightly different technology
to get to that, or oh, why didn't you think about
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