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|  | Cleaning Products Pilot ProjectPaving the Road to Success.  The Department of Defense's Parking Lot Repair and Maintenance Contract:  An Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Case StudyLeading By Example:  Two Case Studies Documenting How the Environmental Protection Agency Incorporated Environmental Features into New BuildingsThe City of Santa Monica's Environmental Purchasing:  A Case StudyGreen Spending:  A Case Study of Massachusetts' Environmental Purchasing Program**Cleaning Products Pilot Project**This case study documents the collaborative effort between the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and the Environmental Protection Agency to develop a framework for identifying and comparing environmentally preferable commercial cleaning products.**Paving the Road to Success - The Department of Defense's Parking Lot Repair and Maintenance Contract:  An Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Case Study**This case study describes in detail how the Department of Defense is evaluating and purchasing environmentally preferable products to repair and maintain Washington D.C. area parking lots.  The environmentally preferable purchasing pilot project involved specifying baseline environmental attributes of paving products and developing innovative contract language to encourage the contractor to go beyond those baselines.  The contract language and baseline attributesand how DOD and EPA together developed them, are described in this case study. **Leading By Example: Two Case Studies Documenting How the Environmental Protection Agency Incorporated Environmental Features into New Buildings**This publication provides two case studies to demonstrate how large building projects can cost-effectively incorporate environmental features while addressing the concerns unique to each site.  The case studies describe how EPA balanced function, cost, and environmental impact while designing and constructing two new EPA facilities. By sharing its experiences, EPA encourages others to follow the strategies advocated in its Design for the Environment (DfE) and Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) programs.**The City of Santa Monica's Environmental Purchasing: A Case Study**This case study examines how the city of Santa Monica adapted its purchasing policies to begin buying environmentally preferable products and services. The City found that purchasing environmentally preferable products and services resulted in many benefits; the quality of the products met or exceeded that of traditional products, the overall cost associated with purchases was lower, and the environmental preferability of products addressed residents' environmental concerns, improving public relations.**Green Spending:  A Case Study of Massachusetts' Environmental Purchasing Program**This case study highlights the unique approach taken by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in its environmental purchasing program. In order to eliminate communication problems between different offices, Massachusetts centralized environmental purchasing decisions within its central purchasing agency. This and other proactive decisions have made the Commonwealth a leader among state governments in environmentally preferable purchasing.  This case study is available in either ASCII Text format (42 KB) or PDF Format (1,889 KB).footer>**Contacting EPP | EPP HomeOPPT Home | EPA Home | Search | Comments
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