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FIGURE 9.2.1 Army Sustainable Interiors demonstration and education site. The cutaway shows
a TecCrete variable-height fl oor system by Haworth, Inc. Raised fl oor systems can help provide
space to facilitate energy-effi cient controls and air distribution in buildings as related to several
EA credits. (Photograph taken at the Sustainable Interiors ribbon cutting at the Strom Thurmond
Building on Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C., June 2007.)

recently had a robust MILCON program, managing above normal construction volume
mainly due to the naval installations on the Gulf Coast that sustained significant damage
due to hurricanes Ivan in 2004 and Katrina, Rita, and Wilma in 2005. The Navy was the
first federal agency to pursue implementation of sustainable design features into
MILCON projects. The Whole Building Design Guide (www.wbdg.org) was launched by
the Navy in 1997 to begin incorporating sustainable requirements into construction
standards, specifications, and guidelines. The Construction Criteria Base (CCB) was built
within the WBDG website as a data store for standardizing construction specifications
for all the military services. The WBDG is now maintained by the National Institute for
Building Sciences and is supported by eight federal agency partners.
NAVFAC completed DoD’s first LEED certified facility with the construction of a
365,000 ft , $55 million Bachelor Enlisted Quarters at Great Lakes Naval Training Center
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in FY99. Since then several major renovation projects at Washington Navy Yard and the
Pentagon have been showcases for applying LEED for existing buildings and the use of
LID. In July 2002, NAVFAC’s Chief of Engineering issued a memorandum adopting the
LEEDrating system as a tool and metric for MILCON. In June 2003, NAVFAC Instruction
9830.1, Sustainable Development Policy, was issued requiring all construction, renovation,
and repair projects over $750,000 to attain the LEED certified level and Navy Family
Housing to implement the EPA Energy Star Label Homes Program. The Department of
the Navy was a pioneer in making sustainable design and development a standard for
military construction and continues these efforts through utilization of LEED.