LEED and Green Globes

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LEED and Green Globes

• Presentation to the
• International Code Council
• Labor Management Committee
• St. Louis, MO June 14, 2007

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Agenda

• About the FPINLMC
• What is LEED?
• What are the alternatives?
• Why do we care?

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What is the Forest Products Industry National
Labor Management Committee?

• Founded in 1990
• Labor
• Carpenters
• Machinists
• Mine Workers
• Business
• AFPA
• Seven state/regional forestry associations

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So why am I here?
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Why build green?

• Environmentally friendly
• Uses less energy
• Uses environmentally friendly materials
• Saves money in the long run
• While the initial outlay is higher, the savings
  pay for them selves over time

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U.S. - Green Building Growth

• Local Green Programs in 1991. 1
• Local Green Programs today29
• of U.S. who say want green home...62
• of U.S. willing to pay more for it..17

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U.S. Green Building Council

• Formed in mid 1990s
• Membership in 1999 - 264
• Membership in 2006 - 6000
• Membership consists of
• Architects
• Government Reps.
• Industry
• Charities
• Produces LEED Standards

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LEEDTM Green Building Rating System

• LEED NC New Commercial Construction
• LEED CI - Commercial Interiors
• LEED EB - Existing Buildings
• LEED CS - Core and Shell
• LEED H - Homes (Pilot Phase)
• LEED R-NC Retail (Under Consideration)

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LEED Green Building Rating System

• Registered building area in 1999 was 0.78 million
  sq. m.
• Registered building area in 2005 exceeded 22.7
  million sq. m.

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LEED NC - Point Categories

• Sustainable Sites (14 pts)
• Water Efficiency (5 pts)
• Energy Atmosphere (17 pts)
• Materials Resources (13 pts)
• Indoor Environmental Quality (15 pts)
• Innovation Design Process (5 pts)

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LEED Ratings

• Certified (26 - 32 pts)
• Silver (33 - 38 pts)
• Gold (39 - 51pts)
• Platinum (52 - 69 pts)
• Silver is the most used standard

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Why is the FPINLMC concerned about LEED?
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LEED-NC

• MR 6 Rapidly Renewable
• lt 10 Year Rotation
• Bamboo
• Straw bale
• Other agri-fiber
• Wood products take at least 20 years to renew
  ineligible for credit

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LEED-NC

• MR 7 Certified Wood
• Forest Stewardship Council Only
• The majority of wood harvested in the United
  States is certified by other standards (SFI and
  American Tree Farm System) since this wood is
  ineligible, its a jobs issue for our members

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What are other concerns about LEED?

• Discourages use of wood in other ways
• Recycled content
• More costly and time consuming
• Adds up to 10 percent to the cost of a building
  rated LEED Silver and more at higher levels
• Can take up to four months to certify, largely
  paper based and done at end of construction work

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Fixing LEED

• What we would like to see changed
• Certified wood credit
• Renewable credit
• Uses life cycle analysis
• Implement consensus-based process

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What else is out there?
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The GBI

• GBI Green Building Initiative
• Nonprofit education and marketing organization
  established in 2004
• Dedicated to promoting green building solutions
  for mainstream builders and developers
• Commercial and residential focus
• www.thegbi.org

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Why GBI?

• Initially, a way to prevent USGBC from
  monopolizing market dictating terms
• Focused on promoting use of LEED Alternatives
• Green Globes Commercial
• NAHBs Residential Green Homebuilding Guidelines
• Dual mission Provide green building options for
  mainstream residential and commercial builders

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Alternatives - Green Globes

• Commercial Buildings
• On the Internet
• Point-Based System
• User Inputs

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Alternatives - Green Globes

• Recognized and Used by Government/Builders/Industr
  y
• Third-Party Certification Available
• Forest Certification Neutral
• Incorporates LCA
• Easy to use
• Quick
• User-friendly questionnaire
• Calculates potential energy savings
• Updates as improvements are made to building
• Affordable

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Areas of Assessment

• Project Management
• Site
• Energy
• Water
• Resources
• Emissions, Effluents Other Impacts
• Indoor Environment

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E.1 Low Impact Systems Materials

• Select materials with
• Lowest life cycle environmental burden
• Lowest embodied energy

No equivalent LEED section
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E.2 Minimal Consumption of Resources

• Certified lumber and panel products
• SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative)
• FSC (Forestry Stewardship Council)
• ATFS (American Tree Farm System)
• CSA International (Canadian)

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How do they compare?

• Certified 41-50
• Silver 52-59
• Gold 61-80
• Platinum 81

• 35-54
• 55-69
• 70-84
• 85

Source LEED Canada Adaptation and BREEAM/Green
Leaf Harmonization Studies, Feb 2002, The Athena
Sustainable Materials Institute
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Alternatives - Residential

• NAHB Research Center Developed
• Consensus Stakeholder Group
• Included number of wood industry reps.
• Guidelines released January 2005
• Model guidelines adaptable for local conditions

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NAHB Guidelines

• Sections
• lot preparation and design
• resource efficiency
• water conservation
• indoor environmental quality
• energy efficiency
• homeowner education

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2.6 Use renewable materials

• 2.6.1 Use materials manufactured from renewable
  resources
• Soy-based insulation
• Bamboo
• Wood-based products

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2.6 Use renewable materials

• 2.6.2 Use certified wood for wood and wood based
  materials and products from all credible third
  party certified sources, including
• FSC
• SFI
• American Tree Farm System
• CSA

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2.7 Use resource-efficient materials

• 2.7.1 Use products that contain fewer resources
  to meet the same end-use as traditional products

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2.8 Innovative Options

• 2.8.1 Use locally available, indigenous materials
• 2.8.2 Use a life cycle assessment (LCA)
• compare the environmental burden
• use the most environmentally preferable product

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How do the two compare?
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Study Highlights

• Key Finding Green Globes equal, and in some
  cases superior, to LEED
• Green Globes is easier, quicker and cheaper to
  use
• Only Green Globes looks at Life Cycle Assessment
• Significant (gt80) overlap within key categories
  of the two standards
• On average, up to 10 percent cheaper

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Whats the state of play?
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A political issue
32 states dealt with 167 green building bills in
2007
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thats been growing
Number of States Number of
Bills
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States where LEED and Green Globes are treated
equally commercial
ENACTED Arkansas Connecticut Hawaii Maryland Mi
nnesota Pennsylvania South Carolina Wisconsin PE
NDING (as of 6/25/07) California Illinois New
Jersey North Carolina
Note I had mentioned that the Florida
legislature had passed energy legislation to
make Green Globes and LEED equal. Governor Crist
subsequently vetoed the bill for reasons
unrelated to green buildings.
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What does this mean to you

• Market moving from one standard to two
• Need to know both standards
• ICC has recognized the need to work with both
• Significant overlap between two standards
• LEED ahead on commercial NAHB ahead on
  residential

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How to contact me

• Greg Stanko
• Deputy Director
• Forest Products Industry National Labor
  Management Committee
• [phone]
• greg.stanko_at_ogilvypr.com

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LEED and Green Globes

• Presentation to the
• International Code Council
• Labor Management Committee
• St. Louis, MO June 14, 2007