Green Construction: Efficient Design for Military Facilities
Abstract
The Department of Defense (DoD), in its military design and construction procedures, is struggling with how to adjust to quality and budgetary constraints, while providing its workforce, the men and women who guard this nation, with office, housing, and maintenance buildings that comply with energy efficient standards. The paradigms of environmental design, sustainable design, or green construction within the building professions of architecture, engineering, and construction provides for extremely broad applications toward practical use. The definitions and their approaches toward the final structure produce fragmented policies on the best approach toward producing a practical energy efficient building - which, in reality, needs to be the end goal. The objective of this study is to provide a foundation for further investigation and research in green construction and sustainable design applications for1 military facilities There exist many volumes of government documents, case studies, executive orders, and military policies related to green construction practices, however, their exists no standard policy that front-line commanders can focus on to provide quality, energy efficient buildings for their people. The results of this study arrange a contemporary foundation in the broad energy policies that exist, but expands in current governmental policies and procedures to illustrate the possibility of adoption of a standard model that could be employed by the DoD Commanders A practical energy model that will provide individuals in the construction profession a set model that is employable at the front-line command level as well as allowing flexibility in further application toward higher or more efficient buildings.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA597515
Entities
People
- Todd R. Sheller
Organizations
- United States Air Force Academy