Changing Forests…Enduring Values - PowerPoint Presentation

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Progress Report on USDA and USFS Green Building InitiativesSlide2

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Chief Tidwell –

“As we move forward with restoring America’s forests, we are getting smarter and more efficient in how we use wood products as both an energy and green building source, which will help maintain rural jobs”

USDA and FS Lead the Way on

Green BuildingsSlide3

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Sustainability:

The Big Picture

Sustainability

SustainabilitySlide4

USE:

select wood in new USFS & USDA building constructionRESEARCH: enhance research & development of green building materialsDEMONSTRATION: capture opportunities in USFS, USDA and with partners to demonstrate new uses of wood

PARTNERSHIPS: develop and support partnerships for using wood in federal government, private, and NGO sectorsChanging Forests…Enduring ValuesUSDA Strategy - GoalsSlide5

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Sylamore RD OfficeOzark – St. Francis National ForestMountain View, ARUse of Wood Pre-2011

First FS certified green building, 2006

Building is wood framed with wood and stone veneer sidingSlide6

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USFS 2011 Directive

Increase use of locally milled timber in all new agency buildings and facilities

Camino Real Ranger Station, Carson National Forest, Penasco, NM

Building features locally milled

wood productsSlide7

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USDA Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan

Goal 3, Objective 6 – Use Domestic Wood as the Preferred Sustainable Building Construction Material.

“Use domestically harvested wood products, ideally locally sourced and from National Forest System lands wherever practicable and feasible, as the preferred green building material for all USDA facilities and buildings.”Slide8

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Progress LCI/LCA: current information and tools to meet green building codes and standards; develop environmental product declarations (EPDs) Direction: 2011 USDA Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan & USDA Sustainable Buildings Implementation Plan (soon to be published)

Buildings constructed in AK, NM, OR, CA, etc. Under design and registered in “Green Globes”: Research Triangle Park Forestry Science & Assessment Center (NC)Enoree Ranger District Office (SC)

Goal 1: Use of wood in building constructionSlide9

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Angeles National Forest Supervisor OfficeArcadia, CA

New USFS Buildings

24,500 sq. ft.

Wood frame

Wood trusses in roof system Slide11

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Camino Real Ranger Station, Carson National Forest Penasco, NM

8,500 sq. ft.

Locally milled wood products

Wood in framing, sheathing, doors, and windowsSlide12

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Corvallis Laboratory – Siuslaw National Forest HQ OfficeCorvallis, OR

Before

construction

After construction

9,700 sq. ft.

Wood exterior, interior paneling, glulam and wood fixtures Slide13

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Juneau Laboratory, AKSlide14

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Enoree Ranger District OfficeFrancis Marion-Sumter NFWhitmire, SC

Renovation and addition planned for 2013

Expected to be first FS Green Globes buildingSlide15

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ProgressGoal 2: Enhancing green building and wood use research & development Innovative ways to use smaller diameter timber, leftover branches and limbs

New building materials research at FPL Enhancing the development and application of LCA Developing wood product standards and code acceptance for wood in non-residential constructionSlide16

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Nanotechnology

Cross

Laminated

TimberSlide17

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Progress

Demo projects: FPL Demo house, Madison, WIMississippi State University campusHaywood Community College campus, NC Green building competitions:

Carbon Challenge Baltimore

Carbon Challenge Providence

Supporting USDA Biopreferred Program

Goal 3: Demonstrating innovative uses of wood compatible with green building standardsSlide18

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FPL - Advanced Housing Research Center Demonstration House

Madison, WISlide19

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ProgressGoal 4: Develop partnerships in federal, private, and NGO sectors to advance the use of woodPromote wood preference policy with USDA’s position on White House Steering Committee on Federal Sustainability

Outreach results of the FPL - LCA study and ongoing workWork with GSA on high performance building guiding principlesPartner with U.S. WoodWorks program on educating and transferring technology to design and building professionalsNew DOD schools initiative partnership Continue offering technical assistance to private, non-profit and public sectorSlide21

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Partnership Opportunities

How can we move forward as a community to develop and promote sustainable wood uses? How do we build a bigger, more effective coalition supporting wood as a material for sustainability?Slide22

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How Can We Better Position Wood in the Big Sustainability Picture?

NON-SUSTAINABLE

SUSTAINABLESlide23

Ecological

Social

EconomicSustainable FutureChanging Forests…Enduring ValuesSlide24

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Thank you …. Contact: Jim Reaves, Deputy Chief – Research and Development (jreaves@fs.fed.us)

Dave Cleaves , Climate Change Advisor – Office of the Chief (dcleaves@fs.fed.us)