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GREEN TEAM MEETING 3: Energy Efficient Infrastructure September 18, 2008

AGENDA Follow-up from previous meeting: Streets  Review LEED ND credits dealing with Sustainable Infrastructure: 

 Street

lights  Alternative energy  Solid waste management

Design Guidelines follow-up  Master plan approval schedule  Green Team innovation credit? 

LEED ND PILOT NEIGHBORHOODS

UPPER CHESTER FLATS EAST BANK

EUCLID CORRIDOR

ST. LUKE’S POINT

STREET LIGHTS GCT Credit 15: Infrastructure Energy Efficiency   Intent: Reduce air, water and land pollution from energy  consumption   Requirements: Design or purchase any traffic lights, street  lights, water and wastewater pumps, and treatment systems  that are included as part of the project to achieve a 15%  annual energy reduction beyond an estimated baseline  energy use for this infrastructure.  If any traffic lights are  installed as part of the project, use LED technology.

St. Paul, Minn. LED pilot installation

STREET LIGHTS: LED Ann Arbor, Mich. •Successful pilot completed: LED replacement for downtown  “globe” lights (a retrofit of existing fixtures) •City now has $630,000 grant to fund retrofits for over 1,000  downtown lights. •Initial installation will save City over $100,000 per year,  reducing annual greenhouse gas emissions by 267 tonnes  CO2e •Goal: Replace all public lighting in City with LEDs

Ann Arbor, Mich. LED in foreground

STREET LIGHTS: LED Cities piloting or using LEDs for street lighting include: Ann Arbor, Michigan Anchorage, Alaska Raleigh, North Carolina Austin, Texas Toronto, Ontario New York, New York

Lumec ‘Ancestra’ LED lights

STREET LIGHTS: SOLAR

STREET LIGHTS: SOLAR

“Street trees,” Vienna, Austria

STREET LIGHTS: METAL HALIDE “The most energy-efficient and  highest quality option of standard  street lights (in terms of light control,  distribution and color rendition) is the  Metal Halide Cutoff.  Pulse-start  metal halide lamps provide even  greater energy-efficiency compared  to standard metal halide.” -- New  York State Energy Research and  Development Authority

LIGHT POLLUTION GCT Credit 20: Light Pollution Reduction   Intent: Minimize light trespass from site, reduce sky-glow to  increase night sky access, improve nighttime visibility through  glare reduction, and reduce development impact on nocturnal  environments.   Requirements: For exterior lighting in shared portions of the  project, only light areas as required for safety and comfort.   Do not exceed 80% of the lighting power densities for exterior  areas and 50% for building facades and landscape features  as defined in ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2004, Exterior  Lighting Section, without addenda.

LIGHT POLLUTION Detrimental effects of light pollution: •Wastes resources •Higher energy costs •Pollution from burning of fossil fuels •Harms nocturnal wildlife

Full cut-off fixture

Effects of light pollution

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY GCT Credit 12: On-Site Energy Generation   Intent: Reduce air, water and land pollution from energy  consumption and production by increasing the efficiency of  the power delivery system.  Increase the reliability of power.   Requirements: Option 1 – Develop on-site energy generation system(s) with  peak electrical generating capacity of at least 5% of the  project’s specified electrical service load.   Option 2 – Develop on-site energy generation system(s) with  capacity of at least 5% of the project’s annual electrical and  thermal energy consumption, as established through an  accepted building energy performance simulation tool.

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY GCT Credit 13: On-Site Renewable Energy Sources Intent: Encourage on-site renewable energy self-supply in order to  reduce environmental and economic impacts associated with fossil fuel  energy use. Requirements: Option 1 – Design and incorporate the use of shared on-site nonpolluting renewable energy generation technologies such as solar, wind,  geothermal, small scale/micro hydroelectric, and biomass with peak  electrical generating capacity of at least 5% of the project’s specified  electrical service load. Option 2 - Design and incorporate the use of shared on-site nonpolluting renewable energy generation technologies such as solar, wind,  geothermal, small scale/micro hydroelectric, and biomass with peak  electrical generating capacity of at least 5% of the project’s annual  electrical and thermal energy consumption, as established through an  accepted building energy performance simulation tool.

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY: SOLAR

Solar America Initiative:

•$200,000 federal funding for creating solar  infrastructure plus technical assistance •25 Solar America cities, including Ann Arbor and  Pittsburgh Solar “shingles”

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY: SOLAR

Panels on a transit station

Solar lily pads, Glasgow, Scotland

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY: WIND

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY: WIND San Francisco has Residential Wind Power Work Group to  explore feasibility of small-scale wind power generation  throughout the city. They are reworking zoning to allow small  wind turbines on 35-foot poles within urban neighborhoods

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY: NET METERING

GEOTHERMAL

Rabtherm pipes

SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT GCT Credit 19:

Comprehensive Waste Management

Intent: Reduce the waste hauled to and disposed of in landfills.  Promote proper disposal  of office and household hazardous waste streams. Requirements: Meet at least two of the following three requirements and publicize the  availability and benefits of the drop-off point(s), station(s), or services: 1 – Include at least one drop-off point as part of the project available to all project  occupants for office or household potentially hazardous wastes such as paints,  solvents, oil, batteries; OR locate the project in a local government jurisdiction that  provides services for collecting these materials.  If a plan for post-collection disposal or  use does not exist, establish one. 2 – Include at least one recycling or reuse station as part of the project available to all  project occupants dedicated to the separation, collection, and storage of materials for  recycling including, at a minimum, paper, corrugated cardboard, glass, plastics and  metals; OR locate the project in a local government jurisdiction that provides recycling  services for these materials.  If a plan for post-collection use does not exist, establish  one. 3 – Include at least one compost station as part of the project available to all project  occupants dedicated to the collection and composting of food wastes; OR locate project  in a local government jurisdiction that provides services for composting materials.  If a  plan for post-collection use does not exist, establish one.

SOLID WASTE: RECYCLING

SOLID WASTE: COMPOST

SOLID WASTE: COMPOST Pilot Programs In Seattle, the Food Waste for Apartments and Condominiums  Test Project is now in the second phase of the trial with 35  additional complexes.  Buildings are provided with two large  compost bins, smaller bins for individual units. Minneapolis is providing compost bins for residents in the 900home Linden Hills neighborhood. City is interest because  garbage is more expensive to get rid of than organic materials.

AGENDA Design Guidelines follow-up  Master plan approval schedule  Green Team innovation credit? 

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