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| Goal |
On August 2, 2000, Governor Davis issued Executive
Order D-16-00 which established the Governor's sustainable building goal:
"To site, design,
deconstruct, construct, renovate, operate, and maintain State buildings that are models of
energy, water, and materials efficiency; while providing healthy, productive,
and comfortable indoor environments and long-term benefits to Californians.
The objectives are to implement the sustainable building goal
in a cost effective manner, while considering externalities; identify
economic and environmental performance measures; determine cost savings;
use extended life cycle costing; and adopt an integrated systems
approach."
To accomplish this goal, the Executive Order directed the Secretary of
the State
and Consumer Services Agency (SCSA), then Aileen Adams, to consult with
"appropriate private sector individuals and public officials,"
including:
The Executive Order further directed the Secretary to submit a report to the
Governor recommending strategies to incorporate sustainable building practices
into the development of State facilities, including leased property.
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| The Strategy |
To develop this report—Building Better
Buildings: A Blueprint for Sustainable State Facilities (Blueprint)—Secretary Adams convened a multiagency,
interdisciplinary Sustainable Building Task Force and
Technical Group comprising representatives from various State departments with
specific fiscal, construction, and environmental policy expertise. The Blueprint responds to the Governor’s directive and is the
first in a series of annual reports that will document State government’s
progress and ongoing efforts to implement the Governor's sustainable building
goal.
As structured, the Blueprint:
- Provides background information on the Governor's Executive Order and the
tenets of sustainable building.
- Describes existing State government and other public and private sector
sustainable building efforts.
- Identifies environmental and technological trends that
complement implementing sustainable building practices in State
government.
- Describes current barriers to achieving the sustainable building goal, including administrative, budgetary, and process
issues.
- Proposes 10 major recommendations to address these barriers.
- Establishes action plans and
timetables to implement the recommendations.
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| Current Activities |
The Sustainable Building Task Force and Technical Group ceased
meeting as Governor Schwarzenegger signed Executive Order S-20-04 and
created a Cabinet level
Green Action Team. |
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