Green Buildings

Whether the result of an executive order, a new state or local law, or the public will, you now face a major challenge. You need to improve the energy performance of existing buildings. You need to make them use less energy and consume fewer resources, improve occupants’ health and productivity, and operate more efficiently and cost-effectively.

In short, you need to turn existing buildings into green buildings.

Fortunately, you do not need to face this challenge alone. For more than 10 years, the public sector has turned to Cadmus for its expertise in crafting and implementing complete energy efficiency solutions for existing buildings. Cadmus has helped energy managers, elected and appointed officials, and physical plant managers of state and local jurisdictions – as well as school systems, colleges and universities, and hospital authorities – meet internal performance goals, local or regional climate goals, and state goals for carbon emission reduction.

A Multi-Functional Team Steeped in the Nation’s Leading Energy Efficiency Initiatives

The Cadmus team of architects, analysts, engineers, economists, and marketing professionals delivers a full array of technical expertise and hands-on experience in the public sector. Our expertise stems from years of planning, implementing, and marketing some of the nation’s leading public-private voluntary partnerships, such as EPA’s ENERGY STAR®, Climate Leaders, Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools (IAQ TfS), and Green Indoor Environments. A Strategic Partner Who Can Provide as Much – or as Little – Advice as You Need Whether you need assistance crafting and implementing a complete building operations plan or performing specific technical services needed at certain stages of the green building process, Cadmus offers the counsel, resources, and tools greatly increase building performance. In addition, Cadmus can provide low-cost measures – such as education, and improved operations and maintenance – to change occupants’ behavior and support implementation. Cadmus provides services and resources in six core areas:

Strategic Planning and Project Management

Building operations strategy and planning.
Performance goal-setting, measurement, and tracking.
Documentation for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™, Green Globes, and ENERGY STAR certifications.
Environmentally preferred purchasing strategies.
Preparation of applications for federal, state, and professional association awards.
Staff education and team building via Web-based or onsite trainings.
Financial analyses for building upgrades.
Creation or review of policies, requests for quotation (RFQs) and requests for proposal (RFPs), user guidelines, and staff rewards programs.
Public outreach and community education.
Promotion of organizational achievements and staff recognition.

Sustainable Sites & Transportation

Advice on low-impact landscape management.
Stormwater management strategies.
Analysis of possible development sites including brownfields.
Comprehensive transportation and commuting strategies to complement the built environment.
Selection of appropriate roofing materials to reduce heat island effects.
Light pollution reduction strategies.

Water Efficiency & Reuse

Utility bill data collection and tracking.
Water use benchmarking to establish baselines and set performance goals.
Rain collection and graywater systems advice.
Water-efficient landscaping and fixtures recommendation.

Energy Efficiency & Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Prioritization of facility upgrades based on organizational needs.
Preparation of savings opportunity reports and cash flow projections.
Establishment of energy performance goals, target savings, and best practices.
Building energy use audits in preparation for retrofit feasibility studies.
Recommendations for facility upgrades.
Benchmarking to establish energy use baselines and estimation of greenhouse gas emissions baselines.
Continuous commissioning plan development and implementation.
Renewable energy purchasing options advice.
Greenhouse gas emissions and reductions documentation assistance.
Monitoring and verification (M/V) services for performance-based contracts.

Materials & Embodied Energy

Development and implementation an environmentally preferred purchasing strategies.
Assistance evaluating the performance, toxicity, recyclability, composition, and origin of interior and exterior building products.
Waste reduction and recycling plan advice.
Sustainable food purchasing and waste program development.

Indoor Air Quality

Development of strategies to improve temperature, thermal comfort, and lighting quality and control.
Evaluation and monitoring of occupant satisfaction with surveys.
Analysis and recommendation of environmentally responsible cleaning products and equipment.
Outdoor air supply rates measurement and documentation, and the suggestion of retrofits as necessary.
Coordination of carbon dioxide measurement and corresponding automations.
Airborne particulate reduction.

Municipal Building Assessment

Analysis of all options in the LEED rating systems
Determine which options are the most feasible based on life cycle costs and the benefits to the building owner and occupants
Quantification and monetization of the emissions impacts
Examination of the magnitude of potential effects on occupant productivity