Minnesota Sustainable Design Guide
The Minnesota Sustainable Design Guide educates and assists architects, building owners, occupants, educators, students, and the general public about sustainable building design. This design tool can be used to overlay environmental issues on the design, construction, and operation of both new and renovated facilities. It can set sustainable design priorities and goals; develop appropriate sustainable design strategies for a particular project; and determine performance measures to guide the design and decision-making process. It can also organize and structure environmental concerns during design, construction, and operations phases.
The goals of the Minnesota Sustainable Design Guide are to:
- educate designers, building owners, operations staff, and occupants about the concepts, goals, and significance of sustainable design;
- develop an orderly decision-making process with measurable outcomes along with a database of decisions and outcomes;
- provide flexibility in the way priorities are set and outcomes are measured within the system, so it can be adapted for different clients or agencies, regions, and building types;
- organize information in a hierarchy that permits users to easily understand the sustainable design process;
- create a system that can easily grow and change as more experience and new information becomes available.
http://www.sustainabledesignguide.umn.edu |
