In the course, Sustainable Strategies for Existing Federal Facilities, you will learn strategies for creating and maintaining high performance buildings by optimizing building technologies, avoiding the costs of waste and inefficiency; and creating productive, comfortable, and healthy work environments. This course focuses on the following fundamentals for improving sustainability in a Federal facility: optimizing energy performance, protecting and conserving water, using environmentally preferable products and materials, and enhancing indoor environmental quality.

Learning Objectives

By completing this course you will learn to:

• Apply tools such as the EnergyStar Portfolio Manager to baseline and benchmark facilities to conduct a sustainability audit and inspection programs;
• Apply tools to identify opportunities to establish implementation plans and metrics to comply with the Guiding Principles for High Performance Sustainable Existing Buildings;
• Recognize decision points and opportunities to implement sustainable strategies to achieve integrated, holistic and cost effective improvements; and
• Engage an organizational team in a sustainable operations plan to ensure continuous improvement to building performance and meet agency Strategic Sustainability Performance Plans.