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Implementing the Governor’s Sustainable Building Executive Order
Programs at the CIWMB
Implementing the Governor's Green Building Executive Order
In December 2004, Governor Schwarzenegger established green building as a
priority for his administration with
Executive Order S-20-04. Schwarzenegger’s Green Building Executive Order
(GBEO) requires state-owned facilities to be designed, constructed,
operated, and renovated as “LEED Silver” or higher certified buildings.
LEED is a rating system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council
that stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. The GBEO
created a cabinet-level Green Action Team (GAT), led by State and Consumer
Services Agency (SCSA), to champion and monitor progress. Since the
Department of General Services (DGS) is the lead agency responsible for
siting, designing, constructing, leasing, operating and maintaining state
buildings, DGS implements the GBEO into state-owned facilities. CIWMB
provides technical assistance in the area of materials and resources.
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building
Rating System
California has the most registered LEED projects in the country. CIWMB
staff provides material efficiency technical assistance to the Green Action
Team to assist with increasing C&D waste diversion and increasing the amount
of salvaged, reused, recycled content, and environmentally preferable
products (EPP) specified and installed in State green building projects.
Staff is also working with the U.S. Green Building Council on the Materials
and Resources Technical Advisory Group (MR TAG) to help to develop the next
generation of materials efficiency related credits in all of the LEED Rating
System products.
High Performance Schools
Since 2000, staff from the CIWMB sustainable building program have
participated in a group of government agencies, utilities, and nonprofit
organizations recognized as the
Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS). In January 2001, CHPS
completed a High Performance Schools Best Practices Manual to assist
California school administrators, architects, and engineers in planning,
designing, and building schools that are energy efficient, resource
efficient, healthy, comfortable, well lit, and contain the amenities needed
for a quality education. The collaborative recently finalized a set of
design criteria for schools to self-certify that they have achieved "high
performance schools" status. To download a copy of the manual or for more
information on the collaborative, visit the the
CHPS web site.
Construction and Demolition (C&D) Diversion Efforts
As approved in late 2002, Senate Bill 1374 required the Board to develop
voluntary model ordinances for local governments and reports for diverting
construction and demolition (C&D) materials. These reports
provide recommendations to local governments and contractors on how to
create markets and adopt methods for recovering C&D materials. Both the
model ordinances and reports are
available on the Board's website.
Educate Landscaping Professionals
Staff is pursuing an outreach program and building partnerships with
landscape architects and maintenance professionals, whether they maintain
residential, commercial, or public properties, to promote resource-efficient
landscape design and maintenance practices respectively. Landscape
professionals are paying more attention to landscape design and management
practices that reduce waste generation, reuse trimmings on site, and recycle
organic products (mulch and compost) back into urban landscapes.
Information on suppliers of urban compost and mulch and grasscycling
techniques is currently available on the CIWMB’s
organic materials management site. In addition, information on companies
that supply recycled-content landscape products is also available through
the CIWMB’s recycled-content product database, in the
landscape and garden category. A series of
fact sheets and technical publications on resource-efficient landscape
design and management guidelines are available on the organics site. Staff
is also working with landscape industry associations regarding the
development of outreach programs, educational curriculum and professional
certifications regarding resource-efficient landscape design and maintenance
practices.
Services Provided by the Board
Market Development for Recycled Materials
Staff works with processors of C&D facilities to maintain a
C&D recyclers database. Staff is also
implementing the
Market Assessment Action Plan (Word, 25 KB) to quantify the flow of C&D
materials within California markets. Staff provides assistance to
manufacturers enable them to source materials to increase postconsumer
recycled content in products and incorporate EPP criteria. Staff assists
design teams with specifying salvaged, reused, and recycled content
products.
Recycled-Content Product Database
CIWMB's recycled-content product database is one of the
largest of its kind on the Internet, listing more than 2200 companies and
7000 products, including construction and landscaping products.
Sustainable Building Training Program
The CIWMB has developed a sustainable building design and
construction curricula in order to conduct regional training seminars to
state and local governments. The curricula will includes training modules to
provide attendees with a basic understanding of sustainable design and
construction.
Research and Reports
The Board has commissioned numerous research and
demonstration projects to further sustainable building and construction
and demolition waste diversion.
Specifications
Program staff works with various entities to develop or locate
specifications for building projects. These
specifications range from C&D
recycling, to materials, to
indoor environmental quality.
Funding Sources
Sustainable Building Grant and Contract Program
The sustainable building grant and contract program
was designed to leverage and empower existing sustainable building efforts.
It advances sustainable building practices in California by providing grants
and contracts to local government and state agencies to promote sustainable
building through program implementation, workshops, educational outreach,
and construction.
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