Top Ten Measure 8: Materials & Construction
Sustainable design includes the informed selection of materials and products to reduce product-cycle environmental impacts, improve performance, and optimize occupant health and comfort.
- Efforts to reduce the amount of material used on the project
- Materials selection criteria, considerations, and constraints, such as optimizing health, durability, maintenance, and energy use, and/or reducing the impacts of extraction, manufacturing, and transportation
- How the building enclosure will perform in relationship to air, moisture, water and thermal characteristics
- Consideration given to impacts on the environment over the full life cycle and the results of life cycle assessment if available
- Description of any "green lease" program
- Construction waste reduction plans and any strategies to promote recycling during occupancy
