# Presentation: 547202

## Selling Sustainabilityat Sandia Labs

***2008 Federal Environmental Symposium East***

**June 4, 2008**
- Jack Mizner		Roy Hertweck

- Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company, for the United States Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under Contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.

**Notes:**
Mesa MicroLab 2007
Processing & Environmental Testing Lab (PETL) 2000

## Sustainable Design at Sandia to Date

- Almost 10% of SNL/NM S.F. is already or will soon be LEED certified
- More certified buildings than any other NM entity
- 6 LEED NC certified buildings
- WETL, JCEL, CINT, MESA Fab,
- MESA MicroLab & WIF
- 2 LEED NC registered buildings
-  (in design)
-  ESC and IBL
- 1 LEED EB registered building

**Notes:**
SNL is a leader in green building in the state of New Mexico and within the DOE complex.
A recent informal survey of projects shows that Sandia is close to meeting the goal of having 15% of existing buildings “green” certified by 2015.
(Based on EO 13423 and to DOE order 430.2b
It is significant to note that SNL has more green buildings than any other entity in NM- including the City of Abq, the State of NM, UNM

## Sustainable Design Leads to Good Design

**Notes:**
Processing & Environmental Testing Lab (PETL) 2000
Mesa Weapons Integration Facility (WIF) 2008
Joint Computation Evaluation Lab (JCEL) 2004
Robotics Manufacturing Science and Engineering Lab (RMSEL) 1995
All projects have integrated SD – PETL and RMSEL predate LEED
WIF and JCEL are Silver

## How did it happen at Sandia?

***Nature of the mission***
***Points of Awareness***
***A Collection of Advocates***
***Seek Success and Build Upon it***
***Team Effort***
***Serendipity – Luck Counts***

## Nature of the Mission

- The strength of Sandia’s mission work is the application of engineering and science to solve complex problems in the delivery of service
- This strength lends itself to implementing sustainability because the scientists and engineers are receptive to innovation in performance
- On the flip side....Engineers are conservative by nature and sometimes need convincing

***The mindset creates the opening***

## Points of Awareness

***Global Setting***

***Regional***

***Marketplace***

***Community***

***Org***

***Individuals***

***Points of Awareness***

**Notes:**
People
Inside an Organization
Inside a larger Community
Within a Market Place
Within a Regional Context
In a Global Scientific Setting

## A Collection of Advocates

- Energy Management
- From the 70’s energy crisis it became an ingrained value
- Water Conservation
- In the West water has always been precious
- Customers
- Performance, Awareness
- Project Management
- DOE Orders, Exec Orders, Best Practice
- Integrated Design
- Architects, Engineering disciplines, Consultants, and AEs
- Environmental/Pollution Prevention
- Leaders, Guides and a bit of prodding
- Custodial services
- Workers, Users, Facility Managers

## Seek Success – Build Upon it

- Show and publicize success
- One successful project leads to another
- Awards and recognition
- Increase advocate pool
- Define and demystify (note Workshops)
- Revise and refine project documentation
- Becomes the template for the next project
- Revise corporate documents
- “Green” construction specifications
- “Green” Design Manual
- Campus Design Guidelines

***Getting on the Guest List***

## Team Effort 

***Team Effort***

- Collaboration with EMS, Energy Management Team, Facilities architects and engineers and project managers, Site Planning Department, Line customers, Pollution Prevention, Custodial Services, Procurement, Consultants, AEs, and Facilities operations and maintenance

## PROJECT INVOLVEMENTThe Front Door

- Most projects welcome the opportunity to incorporate sustainable design from project inception through design and execution.
- It is important to have Clearly defined direction and support from DOE, SNL site management and the customer.

## PROJECT INVOLVEMENTThe Back Door

- Most projects will require a less formal approach to incorporating Sustainable design goals.
-  Use the drivers available
-  Emphasis productivity and
-  work force benefits
-  Use the advocates
-  Replicate success!
-  Learn for Failures!

## Building 836 Conference Room - 1996

**“****You can’t build with SD because it costs too much.” **
**	****– ****We think Otherwise, and we showed them.**

**Notes:**
One  of first projects to use and green materials at Sandia was the renovation of a conference room.  It was a collaborative effort between the Pollution Prevention (P2) group and the customer.  They wanted to renovate the conference room, but did not have all of the funds necessary.  P2 was able to supplement the funding and required that all materials be evaluated for their environmental preferability. 

The result was that the conference room was renovated using green materials.  The customer was happy and Sandia had shown that using environmentally preferable materials does not increase costs.   In fact, it can actually decrease costs.  

## Process Environmental Technology Laboratory 

-   Site Selection
-   Building Orientation
-   Energy Efficient Exhaust to offset Once-Thru Air
-   High Performance Building Envelope
-   Daylighting
-   Chilled Water Loop

- Completed 2000 (Pre-LEED)

***Sustainable Design Leads to Good Design***

## Model Validation Testing Center

- 20,000 ft.2 rehabilitated building that upgrades ability to monitor, analyze and view remote testing
- Performance-based, design-build contract
- Program of Requirements included an Sustainable Design section as part of the contractor selection

-    Integrated SD Charrette established roadmap for SD in the project
-    Whole building approach used during Schematic Design
-    SD Report submittals and final SD report based on LEED template
-    Established templates for many LEED credits

- Did not include night sky radiation option – Be careful what you ask for
- Non-LEED because of commissioning – Be careful of the details

***White House Closing***
*** ******the Circle Award***

**Notes:**
World class gateway to Technical area III.  
Entertain and educate customers and attract new business
Contractor selected on the basis of best value
Charrette process consisted of separate SD and building design (BD) charrettes with the ideas generated during the SD charrettes carried over to the BD charrette.

## What Is Sustainable Design at Sandia?

- Sustainable Design Defined:
- Integrating building principles that use ecologically sensitive site development, environmentally preferable resources, energy efficient building systems, water conservation measures, and indoor environmental quality for the entire life-cycle of facilities and infrastructure.
- LEED
***Sites***
***Water Efficiency***
***Energy and Atmosphere***
***Materials and Resources***
***Indoor Environmental Quality***

_**DOE - HIGH PERFORMANCE AND SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS**_

**Notes:**
Its important to have an agreed upon definition of what sustainable design means- at Sandia this is how sustainable design is defined:
Integrating design and building principles that use ecologically sensitive site development, environmentally preferable products and resources, energy efficient building systems, water conservation measures, and indoor environmental quality for the entire life-cycle of facilities and infrastructure.
The Labs21 Environmental Performance Criteria (EPC) is a rating system specifically designed for laboratory facilities.  It is the result of two complimentary efforts, LEEDTM Green Building Rating System, and the Laboratories for the 21st Century (Labs 21) program.  The EPC is being developed by a series of working groups that  includes over 40 architects, engineers, facility managers, and health and safety personnel. Version 2.0 is now out in the pilot stage.

Generally sustainable design techniques can be broken into these five categories, this follows the same methodology as the LEED green building rating system

## Integrated Educational Series Approach

- Cover each subject in 2 hour sessions, with Lunch
- Utilize and develop in-house expertise
- Each session listed targeted audience subgroups
- Three IES workshops
- 2003 - Basic SD and LEED
- 2004 - (More) Advance SD and LEED
- 2006 - Lessons Learned

***Integrated Educational Series Approach***

## The Process for Line Item projects

- Add appropriate language in project documents (CDR, DC, RFP)
- Conduct Sustainable Design Charrette, using LEED as an ideas and evaluation tool
- Have sustainable design advocate on the review team
- Sustainable Design Report is a project deliverable
- Track progress during construction
- Submit for LEED Certification

## LEED Buildings

***JCEL***

***WETL***

***MESA Fab***

***CINT***

***MESA Micro Lab***

***MESA Micro Fab***

***MESA WIF***

## Sandia Small Projects

_**BUILDING 750**_
- SUMMIT/SMPC

_**BUILDING 755**_
- FBT/MVI

_**CAFETERIA**_
- FBT/SUMMIT

_**BUILDING 758**_
- B&D/DPS

_**BUILDING 1090**_
- HB/FBT

_**BUILDING 969**_
- B&D/DPS

_**BUILDING 752**_
- SUMMIT/SMPC

_**BUILDING 770**_
- _MVI/FBT_

_**BUILDING 729**_
- SUMMIT/SMPC

_**BUILDING 751**_
- SUMMIT/SMPC

_**BUILDING 971**_
- B&D/DPS

## SD Approach for Small Projects

- Applies to New buildings, additions and major renovations greater than 10,000 SF. Revised Construction Specification 01000S
- Minimum requirements as stated Section 1.2 “Provide documentation of Sustainable Design for the Facility, organized according to the LEED rating categories.”
- Simplified guidance for SD reports
- Submit SD report at end of 60% design, 100% design and construction complete
- With improved knowledge and implementation, goal is to submit GPP projects for certification

## Discussion

***Discussion***