SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS
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Offices
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Enclosed Shopping Centres
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Open Air Retail
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Light Industrial
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Multi-Unit Residential Buildings
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Health Care Facilities
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Universal
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Focus Area
Water
Topic
Baseline Practices
Question #
W7.0 — Owner or landlord shares Water Management practices
Question
Has the owner or landlord shared a Water Communication Plan with the building tenants?
Applicability
Applicable to Light Industrial and Open-Air Retail buildings
Answer
Select one of the following:
- Yes – the Plan covers the following topics: water assessment, tips for operations and maintenance optimisation, fixture efficiency, managing water hazards and the value of sub-metering
- Not Applicable – Owner does not have a water communication plan
Description
Increasing building tenant and occupant awareness and engagement in environmental and sustainable practices can have a significant positive or negative impact on the performance of the building.
Requirements
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- Develop a building-specific Water Communication Plan that covers:
- The building management team’s efforts to assess water efficiency and hazards
- Water assessment, tips for operations and maintenance optimisation, fixture efficiency, managing water hazards and the value of sub-metering
- Copies of communication with the building’s tenants where the content of the building’s Water Communication Plan was shared, dated within the past 12 months
- Demonstrate that communication was distributed to at least half of the number of tenant organizations occupying the building or to a group that leases at least half of the total building area
- Develop a building-specific Water Communication Plan that covers:
Documentation
- Building-specific Water Communication Plan
- Proof of communication with a representative group of building tenants, covering water assessment, tips for operations and maintenance optimisation, fixture efficiency, managing water hazards and the value of sub-metering
Adapted BB3 Question
Best Practice 5 – Has a Water Assessment been conducted in the last five (5) years? And Best Practice 16 – Is an Occupant Environmental Communication Program in place at the building?
Suggested Lead
In house: Facility Maintenance, Building Manager/Policy Makers
References
None
Crosswalk
TBD
Other Notes
None
Scoring
Baseline – 1 Point