Governor Jerry Brown has issued an Executive Order directing state agencies and departments to take immediate steps to make state government buildings more sustainable and energy efficient. The government order to “shrink the state’s environmental footprint and save millions of taxpayer dollars” applies to new or renovated state buildings, and among other things, requires many state government buildings to achieve USGBC LEED Silver certification or higher, to incorporate clean, on-site power generation, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020, and for buildings designed after 2025 to be Net Zero Energy buildings.
For more information, please see the Governor’s press release and Executive Order.
Don Caskey
Mark and Paul,
The Regents of the University of California mandated essential what the governor is mandating the rest of the State’s buildings and then somequite a few years ago. Just wanted to make sure that you were aware of that.
Don
Thomas Faherty
One wonders how the green state buildings designed and built under Jerry Brown’s first term as governor are performing after 25 years or so. I recall one State building in Sacramento with automatic shading devices and a large atrium with destratification ducts to mix the air from the top to the bottom. Sim Van der Ryn was the state architect at the time. Can anyone report on how any of those buildings have performed? Are the original systems in use, or have they been remodeled, replaced in the interim? Just curious.