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Balancing User Priorities for Sustainability versus Security |
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| Authors: | Rita Oberle Teresa Pohlman Kathy Roper |
| Affiliation: | 1Associate Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0355. E-mail: rita.oberle@arch.gatech.edu 2Director, Tenant Activities Group and Integrated Sustainable Design and Constructability Team, Pentagon Renovation and Construction Program Office Team, U.S. Army, Pentagon, Arlington, VA 22202-3700. E-mail: pohlmant@army.pentagon.mil 3Assistant Professor, College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0680. E-mail: kathy.roper@arch.gatech.edu |
| Abstract: | In these times of global change, many facility emphases are competing for limited resources. Competing factors include, but are not limited to, sustainable design or green buildings; security, hardening or force protection; accessibility; historic preservation; aesthetics; and functionality. Yet, unlimited resources are seldom, if ever, available to fulfill all of these competing requirements in private or public construction. The Georgia Institute of Technology designed a decision matrix to allow owners and planners to balance these competing requirements on a project-by-project basis and to document the rationale. |
| Keywords: | Security Sustainable development Building design Environmental issues Costs |