Labs21 Workshop: Environmental Performance Criteria

Monday, October 1, 2007
9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

With the growing demand for high-performance, low-energy, facilities, the need for an assessment system to classify these sustainable buildings is essential. The Labs21 Environmental Performance Criteria (EPC), a point-based rating system that assesses the environmental performance of laboratories, has emerged as a solution. EPC builds on the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED^®) rating system by adding credits and prerequisites pertaining to laboratories.

This workshop introduced EPC and covered such issues as credits and prerequisites, technologies, and strategies that can be used to meet EPC requirements, cost implications of meeting those requirements, and sustainable design processes developed from the Labs21 Tool Kit.

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