Sustainable Building Resources and
Tools for Implementing LEED-EB
Computerized
Facility Maintenance Management Software (CMMS)
CMMS systems automate most of the logistical functions performed by maintenance
staff and management. CMMS eliminates paperwork and manual tracking activities.
Much of LEED-EB is about having a good plan, effectively following through on
this good plan and tracking actual continuous building improvements. CMMS
software organizes all the tasks required for good facility management, reminds
staff what needs to be done and tracks achievements. For additional ideas on
CMMS software, search the web and ask other facility mangers what CMMS software
they have found helpful. Choose a CMMS vendor that can provide a proper match of
your initial system needs and the service provider.
CMMS
software providers include:
eMaint
EPAC
FaciliWorks
by Cybermetrics
Maintenance
Connection
ManagerPlus
Northwrite Worksite
Tools
PMC by DPSI
ProTeus
by
Eagle Technology
ProVIEW by American Quality Systems
Smart Maintenance by SmartWare Group
Utility Bill
Management Software
Utility bill
management programs help you track utility bills and identify outliers that need
to be explored. It is important that this software includes weather
normalization so utility bills can be compared even though the weather varies
for one year to the next. It is also important to make sure it is easy to upload
utility bill data into the software.
The U.S.
DOE’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program has an extensive list of
utility bill management software on its Building Technologies Program Web site (www.eere.energy.gov/buildings/tools_directory).
Examples of Utility Bill Management software include:
Energy CAP Enterprise
Metrix
Stark
Utility Manager
Pro
U.S. Energy
Star Portfolio Manager
Energy Star
Portfolio Manager is a building performance assessment tool that helps
benchmark, manage, track and verify the energy performance of your buildings
(one building or an entire portfolio of buildings over time). (www.energystar.gov)
LEED-EB
Specific Tools
Since
LEED-EB is relatively new there is a lack of LEED-EB specific tools currently
available in the marketplace. As LEED-EB usage ramps up, more LEED-EB specific
tools will become available. When evaluating LEED-EB specific tools from third
party vendors, it is important to review the LEED-EB online tools so you can
determine what features the third party software provides beyond what is
provided by the LEED-Online tools. Secondly, investigate the information
importability from the third party tool into LEED-Online. It would be a serious
shortcoming if you needed to retype the third party software tool information
into LEED-Online when it is time to file your building application with the
USGBC.
LEED-EB
Specific Tools include:
Leedspeed™ by
Enverity
is a LEED-EB specific suite of green building assessment and management tools
supported by Johnson Controls and the Alliance for Sustainable Built
Environments.
Osram Sylvania’s LEED-EB Mercury Content Calculator
for projected purchases of mercury containing lamps during a project’s LEED-EB
performance period.
Philips Lighting’s Sustainable Lighting Index Calculator
and Worksheets calculates the Sustainable Lighting Index
(picograms of mercury per lumen hour — pg/lu-hr) for lighting systems in
facilities considering LEED-EB certification
Companies
and organizations are encouraged to submit
any additional LEED-EB tools
to be added to this list.
Please contact us with such requests.
Building
Energy Efficiency Upgrade Resources
Energy Services
Coalition
National Association on
Energy Service Companies
U.S. DOE’s Building Technologies Program
Sustainable
Building Certification Programs
Collaborative for High
Performance Schools
Green Guide for Health Care
U.S. Green Building Council
LEED Rating Systems
Sustainable
Product Certification Programs and Directories
GreenBlue
Chlorine Free Products Association
CRI
Green Label
ENERGY STAR®
Qualified Products
Environmental Choice
Forest
Stewardship Council (FSC)
Green-e
Renewable Electricity
Greenguard
Green
Seal
GreenSpec Product Directory
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
ISO 14020 – Environmental labels and
declarations
ISO 14040 – Environmental management – life cycle assessment
1to3 Inc. Sustainable
Directory
Recycled Content Product Directory
Terra Choice
Super-Compliant VOC Coating Manufacturers
U.S. EPA’s Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines
U.S. EPA’s WasteWise Buy Recycled Links
Sustainable
Building Training Workshops
Healthy High Performance Cleaning Workshops
Sustainable
Building Management Newsletters
ManagingGreen
FMLink
USGBC Tools
The USGBC
has generated a variety of tools and resources to help promote
sustainability through their LEED-EB program. USGBC Resources that can aid you
include:
LEED-EB
Project Checklist
–
tool for tracking LEED-EB prerequisites and credits that are earnable in your
building, giving you an indication of potential point totals and certification
levels
LEED-EB
Rating System
– provides requirements for earning and documenting LEED-EB prerequisites and
credits
LEED-EB
Reference Guide
– offers strategies and techniques, standards, synergies and tradeoffs, and
lists of topic-specific technical resources for implementing sustainable
facility improvements and earning LEED-EB prerequisites and credits Purchase a
LEED- EB Reference Guide from the USGBC web site ($150 for USGBC members and
$200 for non-members as of May 26, 2006) early in the process to assist you with
evaluating prerequisite and credit requirements. The LEED-EB Reference Guide is
a valuable sustainable facility management tool regardless of whether the
facility aspires to move forward and obtain LEED-EB certification. |
