The Norfolk District’s sustainable design and construction program has just completed two significant new construction projects associated with Base Realignment and Closure 2005 at Joint Base Langley-Eustis. Both were designed and constructed to the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environment Design, or LEED, Silver rating standards or better. These projects are the new U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, or TRADOC, Headquarters and the Joint Task Force – Civil Support facility.
Our customers are receiving substantial benefits that include significant reductions in energy, water and resource consumption. That translates into a large cost savings over the life span of the new buildings. Most importantly, reducing the demand for resources and energy means scarce resources and dollars are available for other military missions.
Here are a few examples of significant savings for these two projects:
Energy Savings
•BRAC 2005 facilities at Fort Eustis are projected to save 1.14 million kilowatt-hours of electricity and more than 7.2 billion Btu of natural gas each year compared to traditional building practices. That’s enough electricity and gas savings to heat, cool and power 100 homes for a year.
•At current energy costs, BRAC 2005 facilities at Fort Eustis are projected to save $143,000 per year.
Water Savings
•The water-saving designs for BRAC 2005 facilities at Fort Eustis are projected to save 1.1 million gallons of water compared to traditional building practices.
•At current potable water costs, this is the equivalent of more than $6,000 per year in water cost savings.
Use of Recycled and Regional Building Materials
•The value of recycled content used in building materials on these facilities was more than $3.5 million.
•The value of regional building materials (materials that were extracted, harvested, processed, manufactured and transported from within 500 miles of the project site) used on these facilities represents close to a $5 million impact on the regional economy.
Resource Recycling
•The use of aggressive construction waste reduction and recycling programs resulted in the elimination of 13,500 tons of construction waste (the equivalent of more than 1,000 trash trucks) that otherwise would have gone to landfills.
This is just another example of the difference the Corps (and our team at the Norfolk District) makes in our community. For more information about the Joint Base Langley-Eustis projects, visit our website at http://www.nao.usace.army.mil/
