SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS
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Light Industrial
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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
All asset classes
Tenant occupied building
Answer & Scoring
- Yes – this is a baseline requirement
- Not applicable – Owner/landlord occupied building
Requirements
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- Develop a building-specific Water Communication Plan that covers:
- Efforts the building management team may implement to assess water efficiency and hazards. This should include tips for operations and maintenance optimization, fixture efficiency, managing water hazards and the value of sub-metering
- Initiatives that the owner/landlord can provide to support the tenant’s efforts
- Completed water assessment and associated initiatives from W1.0b as applicable
- 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 optimization, fixture efficiency, managing water hazards and the value of sub-metering
- W7.0 – Water Communication Plan Template
Suggested Lead
In-house: Facility Maintenance, Building Manager/Policy Makers
Value
- Increasing occupant awareness and engagement can positively impact the sustainability practices at building
- Tenant participation is necessary for reaching water reduction goals
- Develop a Water Management Communication Plan that defines how the building’s water reduction goals will be shared with tenants
- Share water reduction tips with tenants to encourage tenants to play an active role in water reduction at the building
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.
References
None
Adapted BB 3.0 Question
Best Practice 5 – Has a Water Assessment been conducted in the last five (5) years?
Best Practice 16 – Is an Occupant Environmental Communication Program in place at the building?