Minnesota Sustainable Design Guide

College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
University of Minnesota

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Biomedical/Bioscience Field

Project Goals

1) educate designers, building owners, operations staff, and occupants about the concepts, goals, and significance of sustainable design;

2) develop an orderly decision-making process with measurable outcomes along with a database of decisions and outcomes;

3) provide flexibility in the way priorities are set and outcomes are measured within the system so it can be adapted for different clients or agencies, regions, and building types;

4) organize information in a hierarchy that permits users to easily understand the sustainable design process; and

5) create a system that can easily grow and change as more experience and new information becomes available.

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