DCAM Sustainable Design Policy/Goals

• Design to minimize life cycle costs, including the use of materials that will maximize durability and longevity.
• Use resources efficiently by designing buildings that exceed code minimums, including minimizing energy and water use and maximizing use of natural daylight.
• Use environmentally preferable products, including, (but not limited to) those without toxic ingredients and those which contain recycled content.
• Create healthy indoor and outdoor environments for building occupants, workers and communities.
• Minimize adverse impacts that site development may have upon natural and built systems.
• Make the building adaptable for future inclusion of innovative energy and environmental technologies as they become commercially viable.
• The Division of Capital Asset Management is implementing Executive Order 484, which provides a policy framework supported by the Massachusetts Sustainable Design Roundtable
• Sustainable Design Roundtable Report 2006