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Sustainable Design Policy And Leadership In Energy And Environmental Design Certification, David M. Nyikos
Sustainable Design Policy And Leadership In Energy And Environmental Design Certification, David M. Nyikos
Theses and Dissertations
The 2007 Air Force Sustainable Development and Design Policy mandates the use of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED ) criteria for military construction projects. Additionally, the policy authorizes adding two percent of the original building budget to the total building budget in order to fund the resulting sustainable design costs. To determine if the specific sustainable design goals of this policy had statistical support in the population of LEED certified buildings, the author gathered construction, cost, and utility data on a sample of 160 LEED certified buildings. Simple correlation and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the resulting …