Sustainable Project Rating Tool (SPiRiT), Version 1.4.1. Documentation Guide

摘要

The Sustainable Project Rating Tool (SPiRiT) was developed by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) as a measurement system for rating new and major renovations to institutional buildings. SPiRiT evaluates environmental performance from a whole building perspective over a building's life cycle and provides a definitive standard to assess the sustainability or 'green' attributes of the design-construct process for a given project. SPiRiT addresses critical areas of the design-construct process for seven categories or issues: site, water, energy usage, materials, indoor environmental quality, facility delivery, and current mission. The rating system consists of prerequisites and credits that when met provide points towards an overall score. The overall score is use to indicate one of four project certification levels-Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum, indicating increasing levels of sustainability or 'greenness.' All Army Military Construction projects and major OMA projects must achieve a Bronze rating level. This work was undertaken to provide current documentation for SPiRiT version 1.4.1.