Background

Federal personnel are required to:

  • The term Sustainability applies within the definition of High Performance Buildings from EISA 07.
  • “A building that integrates and optimizes on a lifecycle basis all major high performance attributes, including energy [and water] conservation, environment, safety, security, durability, accessibility, cost-benefit, productivity, sustainability, functionality, and operational considerations” (Energy Independence and Security Act 2007 401 PL 110-140).
  • Within this definition, Sustainability is recognized to mean “development that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” - from the Brundtland Report, Our Common Future (1987). Experts within the Facilities Management industry have used the triple bottom line - balancing environmental, economic and social goals (Hodges 2009; Lewis et al 2009) to take the philosophical definition and make it practical.
  • The nature of Sustainability is interdisciplinary and will contain elements from environmental, operations, maintenance, contracting, management, etc.

Related Courses

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The course link will take you to the Energy University landing page; if this is your first Energy University course, click “Join” and complete the form. Returning students can “Login” from the landing page. You can search for each course by title.

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