Documents

Green Buildings

• 1618 Roland Street - An Urban Bioshelter: The original urban bioshelter and roof deck was built in 1978 (top right) and was inspired by the early work of The New Alchemy Institute on Cape Cod...
• Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Cambria Office (pdf)
  Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Cambria Office: Many of the lessons learned from DEP’s first "green" building have been applied to its next project, a 34,500 square foot office building in Ebensburg, Cambria County...
• Pennsylvania LEED™ Certified and Registered Buildings (pdf)
  Pennsylvania LEED™ Certified and Registered Buildings: Pennsylvania’s Newest LEED™ Certified/Registered Buildings...
• Regrowing a Greenhouse (pdf)
  Regrowing A Greenhouse: Maybe it was the early years in a school too close to the open-hearth furnaces in Homestead, or the adolescent afternoons spent washing commensurately sooty cars for extra money...

Green Design

• Creating A Green Design Process (pdf)
  Creating A Green Design Process: Traditionally the design process has been taught and practiced as a linear progression from design to construction to occupancy...
• Establishing Green Design Systems (pdf)
  Establishing Green Design Systems: Building a "Green Team" and setting project goals is one of the most fundamental steps in creating a high performance green building, but is often overlooked in the scheduling...
• Green At Work Guide (pdf)
  Green At Work Guide
• Green Buildings: Breaking New Ground With Sustainable Design (pdf)
  Green Buildings: Breaking New Ground With Sustainable Design: Using “Green For Less” Principles and Technologies To DesignHigh Performance “Green Buildings” on a Conventional Building Budget...
  Making Your Workplace Activities More Environmentally Friendly...
• Green Design at Penn Nursery Office (doc)
  Green Design at Penn Nursery Office: DCNR has utilized the qualities of green design at the new Penn Nursery Office in an attempt to obtain a Gold LEED certification. In addition to the prerequisites for LEED certification...
• Guaranteed Energy Savings Performance Contracting Project Implementation (pdf)
  Guaranteed Energy Savings Performance Contracting Project Implementation For Schools, Local Government Agencies, And Other Political Subdivisions...
• Guidelines for Creating High Performance Green Buildings (pdf)
  Guidelines for Creating High Performance Green Buildings: The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has embarked on a course intended to establish new priorities and direction for new construction, building leases and development in the next century. Backed by the Governor's Green Government Council and the...
• What Is A Green Building? (pdf)
  What Is A Green Building: Fundamental Principles of Green Building and Sustainable Site Design...

GreenWorthy News

• GreenWorthy News - Issue 1 (pdf)
• GreenWorthy News - Issue 2 (pdf)
• GreenWorthy News - Issue 3 (pdf)
• GreenWorthy News - Issue 4 (pdf)
• GreenWorthy News - Issue 5(pdf
• GreenWorthy News - Issue 6 (pdf)
• GreenWorthy News - Issue 7 (pdf)
• GreenWorthy News - Issue 8 (pdf)
• GreenWorthy News - Issue 9 (pdf)
• GreenWorthy News - Issue 10 (pdf)

High Performance Green School Planning Grants (HPGSPG)

• Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania Department Of Education Grant Agreement (doc)
  Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Education Grant Agreement: This Agreement is made and entered into this ______ day of _________________, 20__, at Harrisburg, County of Dauphin, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by and between the Department of Education of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania...
• HPGSPG Commitment Letter (doc)
  HPGSPG Commitment Letter: The (Insert school district name) School District would like to be considered for a Pennsylvania High-Performance Green Schools Planning Grant for the...
• HPGSPG Commitment Letter (pdf)
  HPGSPG Commitment Letter: The (Insert school district name) School District would like to be considered for a Pennsylvania High-Performance Green Schools Planning Grant for the...
• Pennsylvania High-Performance Green Schools Planning Grant Program Grant Application - 2005 (pdf)
  Pennsylvania High-Performance Green Schools Planning Grant Program Grant Application - 2005
• Pennsylvania High-Performance Green Schools Planning Grant Program Grant Application - 2008 (pdf)
  Pennsylvania High-Performance Green Schools Planning Grant Program Grant Application - 2008

Reports

• DPW 2005-06 Governor’s Green Government Council Report (doc)
  DPW 2005-06 Governor’s Green Government Council Report: The Department of Public Welfare is pleased to provide the 2005-06 Governor’s Green Government Council Report of sustainable activities at facilities and offices they operate...
• DPW 2006-07 Governor's Green Government Council Report (doc) DPW 2006-07 Governor's Green Government Council Report: The Deptartment of Public Welfare is pleased to provide the 2006-07 Governor's Green Government Council Report of sustainable activities at facilities and offices they operate...
• Green Report 2005/2006 - Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (doc)
  Green Report 2005/2006 - Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education: Green Management initiatives throughout the System also involve efforts to manage energy consumption. Efforts are underway throughout the System to significantly reduce energy through the following initiatives...
• High Performance Buildings Database Project Report (pdf)
  High Performance Buildings Database Project Report: Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's Cambria Office (DEP Cambria), Cambria Case Study...
• Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Report to Governor’s Green Government Council June 2005 (doc)
  Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Report to Governor’s Green Government Council June 2005: The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) continues to implement sustainability and green building concepts on many of its architectural projects...

Resources

• Attachment A – Provisions for Commonwealth Contracts (doc)
  Attachment A – Provisions for Commonwealth Contracts
• Attachment B - Nondiscrimination/Sexual Harassment Clause (doc)
  Attachment B - Nondiscrimination/Sexual Harassment Clause
• Attachment C - Department of Environmental Protection General Conditions (pdf)
  Attachment C - Department of Environmental Protection General Conditions
• Building Energy Consumption Analysis (pdf)
  Document 1: Building Energy Consumption Analysis: Cambria Main Building...
• Building Energy Consumption Analysis (pdf)
  Document 2: Building Energy Consumption Analysis: Cambria Main Building...
• Building Codes and Regulations (pdf)
  Building Codes and Regulations: Removing Barriers to Sustainable Development and Use of Green Building Technologies...
• Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Energy Performance Contracting Project Procurement and Implementation (pdf)
  Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Energy Performance Contracting Project Procurement and Implementation: This process is a model which may be adapted to meet the individual entity's requirements. The approval process and steps followed will vary depending on the entities legal requirements...
• Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Governor's Office Executive Order (pdf)
  Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Governor's Office Executive Order: WHEREAS, the Constitution of the Commonwealth declares that the people of the Commonwealth have the right to clean air, pure water, and the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic, and aesthetic values of the environment...
• Department of General Services General Performance Standards (pdf)
  Department of General Services General Performance Standards and specifications for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania leased facilities...
• Energy Performance Contracting Project Procurement and Implementation (pdf)
  Energy Performance Contracting Project Procurement and Implementation: AFQ Process to Monitoring (Flow Chart)
• Green At Work Matrix (pdf)
  Green At Work Matrix
• Model Energy Audit Agreement Guaranteed Energy Savings Contracting (pdf)
  Model Energy Audit Agreement Guaranteed Energy Savings Contracting For Schools, Local Government Agencies, And Other Political Subdivisions...
• Pennsylvania Map (doc) (PAMAP)
  Pennsylvania Map (PAMAP): Base mapping for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is undergoing a rapid and radical change to a seamless, consistent, high-resolution set of digital products known as PAMAP...
• Request for Quote for Electric Generation Attributes Contract 9120-08 (pdf)
  Request for Quote for Electric Generation Attributes Contract 9120-08: The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, through the Department of General Services (DGS), invites Qualified Suppliers to submit quotes for the supply and transfer of ownership of energy attributes certified to represent 100,000 MWh per annum of electric generation...
• Sample Energy Performance Contract (pdf)
  Sample Energy Performance Contract: Guaranteed Energy Services Agreement Energy Performance Contracting For Schools, Local Government Agencies, And Other Political Subdivisions...
• Sample Standardized Request for Proposals (pdf)
  Sample Standardized Request for Proposals for Guaranteed Energy Savings Contracts for School Districts, Local Government Agencies, and Other Political Subdivisions...
• Sample Technical Facility Profile(s) - Instructions to Agencies (pdf)
  Sample Technical Facility Profile(s) - Instructions to Agencies: ESCOs will need a technical description of the selected project facilities in order to evaluate the opportunity to implement a successful guaranteed energy savings contract. The following information (to the extent available) should be completed for each project site and included in the Request for proposal (RFP)...
• Climate Change & Green Buildings                               Sevengroup's Power Point featuring DEP's Cambria Office Building.