Noticia Atecyr

20/01/2005 Estudio publicado por la U.S. General Services Administration, estimando el coste de desarrollo de edificios gubernamentales "verdes"

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) commissioned this ground breaking study, completed in October 2004, to estimate the costs to develop "green" federal facilities using the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Building Rating System, Version 2.1. The report provides a detailed and structured review of both the hard cost and soft cost implications of achieving Certified, Silver, and Gold LEED ratings for two GSA building types, using GSA's established design standards as the point of comparison.

The two building types examined in the study are:

1. A new mid-rise federal Courthouse (five stories, 262,000 GSF, including 15,000 GSF of underground parking; base construction cost is approximately $220/GSF)

2. A mid-rise federal Office Building modernization (nine stories, 306,600 GSF, including 40,700 GSF of underground parking; base construction cost is approximately $130/GSF).

These building types reflect a significant percentage of GSA's planned capital projects over the next five to ten years.