Integration of Sustainable Design at Sandia National
Laboratories
Jack H. Mizner, Jr., PE
CHMM, Sandia National Laboratory
For the past six years, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
(SNL/NM) has taken aggressive steps to integrate sustainable design
into its business practice. SNL/NM collectively incorporates the
"Greening the Government" executive orders (13101, 13123,
and 13148) and uses the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
(LEED™) rating system and the Laboratories for the 21st Century
(Labs21) initiative to implement sustainable design in the design
and construction of its facilities. SNL/NM's approach has two main
thrusts: project implementation and program development.
Project implementation means including sustainable design in requirements
for specific projects and incorporating sustainable design from
design through construction and operations. SNL/NM has successfully
done this for several facilities and currently has five buildings
registered with the U.S. Green Building Council. All are expected
to receive LEED™ certification. Two of the facilities, the
Center for Integrated Nano-Technologies and the Microsystems and
Engineering Systems Applications Laboratory, will be featured.
Program development has worked in concert with project implementation
to improve sustainable design integration with each subsequent project
and to institutionalize sustainable design at SNL/NM. Key elements
of program implementation include:
- Revision of standard language in programming documents for
large projects to require sustainable design, certification as
a LEED™ building and submission of a Sustainable Design
Report.
- Revision of 34 construction specifications and the Facilities
Design Standards Manual, including the specification 01000S, Design-Build
Scope and Performance Criteria, which requires sustainable design
and submission of a Sustainale Design Report for smaller projects.
- Conducting workshops to educate design and construction personnel
on sustainable design.
This presentation will trace the development of sustainable design
at SNL/NM and present case studies of the two laboratory buildings
that were designed and are being constructed using sustainable design
and Labs21 principles.
Labs21 Connection:
SNL/NM is a Labs21 Partner and Labs21 support personnel were included
as part of the team for the design of each of the SNL/NM laboratory
facilities. As such, the Labs21 approach was integrated into the
design of these laboratories. For one of the facilities, the Center
for Integrated Nano-technologies, the Labs21 Environmental Performance
Criteria (EPC) was employed in conjunction with LEED™ to evaluate
and rate the design. Labs21 and LEED™ are the primary references
that SNL/NM used to develop it's sustainable design approach.
Biography:
Jack Mizner is the Pollution Prevention Coordinator
at Sandia National Laboratories. He received a BS in Biology from
Georgia State University and MS degrees in Ecology and Environmental
Engineering from Georgia Tech. Jack is a registered professional
engineer in New Mexico, a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager,
and currently serves as president-elect of the New Mexico Chapter
of the U.S. Green Building Council. From a professional background
that includes municipal and industrial wastewater treatment, environmental
remediation, and hazardous and radioactive waste management, his
career has evolved to preventing pollution at the source. This includes
working with project managers and design professionals to implement
sustainable design principles in the construction and operations
of facilities at Sandia National Laboratories.
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