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documentation is based on a site map or relatively fixed physical
features of a campus, which are unlikely to vary within
building-specific performance periods, it’s a good bet campuswide
documentation is viable. Examples include Sustainable
Sites Credit 5 Open Space & Habitat and Sustainable Sites
Credit 7.1 Non-Roof Heat Island Reduction.
• Policy Credits.There’s no reason the green cleaning
policy developed and implemented at one building can’t
For more information on campus guidance from the U.S. Green
Building Council, including a free download of the Application
Guide for Multiple Buildings and On-Campus Building Projects,
visit www.usgbc.org/campusguidance
be adopted at several others as well; in fact, USGBC would
love green cleaning to be standard operating procedure at
every building on campus. And they would happily ensure
a more efficient and predictable review process by reviewing
that policy once in a master site application rather than
over and over again. Policies that can be adopted campuswide
are a perfect fit for the master site model. Examples
include Indoor Environmental Quality Credit 3.6 — Indoor
Integrated Pest Management and Materials & Resources
Prerequisite 2 — Solid Waste Management.
• Systems Credits. Credits based on technologies or
tools implemented throughout the campus are the third
category of potential master site credits, and arguably the
ones least likely to be earned campuswide. A small number
of campuses, particularly those constructed or comprehensively
upgraded more recently, do have universal
building automation systems, for example, that allow for
campuswide documentation that
every building on campus meets the
credit requirements.
Conceptual Tools
These categories are more useful
as conceptual tools for thinking about
credits than as hard-and-fast rules or
models. Some credits that seem like
natural fits for the categories above
— documenting that every building on a campus has 10-
foot entryway mats doesn’t seem decidedly more difficult or
technically unsound than documenting that every building
has lighting controls in perimeter spaces, for example — are
not included in the first round of guidance. And a handful of
credits combine the models described above; projects pursuing
Water Efficiency Credit 3 — Irrigation Water Use can
integrate elements of geography and systems to illustrate
efficient irrigation water strategies over an entire campus.
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