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California’s Sustainable Buildings

6 existing state buildings have achieved LEED certifications

22 existing building projects have been benchmarked and are in various stages of retro-commissioning for energy efficiency, water conservation and waste diversion.

50 Department of General Services-managed buildings have been benchmarked to calculate their energy consumption.

250 state-owned buildings are in the process of benchmarking.

190 buildings over 50,000 square feet will be retro-commissioned (optimizing existing energy systems and identifying areas for improvement) by 2009.

31 buildings have begun or completed retro-commissioning this year.

25 buildings are scheduled to begin retro-commissioning in 2007.

6 new state-owned buildings have achieved LEED certification.

22 new construction projects (52 separate buildings) are currently design or construction and going for LEED Silver or better certification.

 


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