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INTEGRATIVE PROCESS, PLANNING, AND ASSESSMENTS (IP)
OVERVIEW
The industry has shifted its focus to prioritizing a whole building’s overall performance rather than just isolated systems. The Integrative Process, Planning and Assessments (IP) category encourages collaborative efforts to identify synergies among building systems and components. This approach is valuable, highlighting the collaborative process as a tool to ensure alignment among occupants, project owners, and facility managers.
This holistic approach promotes proactive consideration of how each project assesses current operations, sets goals, and prioritizes action. This contributes to high performance across all aspects of building operations while addressing decarbonization, quality of life, and ecosystem conservation and restoration from the outset. By embedding these considerations, the IP category helps shape environmentally responsible, resilient, and equitable buildings that benefit both occupants and the broader community.
Key aspects of this category include:
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Engagement . Incorporate the expertise of those directly responsible for the ongoing building operations.
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Interdisciplinary collaboration . Leverage synergies across credit categories and operations team members to maximize efficiencies and inform data-driven decisionmaking.
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Assessment . Evaluate the building and operations to provide insights into natural hazards, carbon emissions, and human impacts, which are referenced throughout the rating system.
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Planning and documentation . Create and update plans to implement best practices and fine-tune operations to continue excellence in building management.
Decarbonization Building operations account for 30% of global final energy consumption and contribute to 26% of energy-related emissions, confirming that existing buildings hold immense potential for carbon reduction. [2] To support this work, the IP category addresses decarbonization by first evaluating operations. Projects can sustain energy-efficient operating strategies through a planning approach that promotes continuity of information ( IPp3: Operations Assessment and
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