A total of seven buildings are being demolished as part of the Building 21 project, including the former home of the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, Building 37. When a new building goes up, old buildings come down to reduce JSC’s total O&M costs. Every building requires constant operation and maintenance (O&M), and those O&M costs dwarf the construction costs over the life of the building. However, facility management at JSC isn’t just about constructing state-of-the-art research facilities. Students get better test scores, and workers make fewer mistakes. Increased use of daylighting has been shown to reduce sick days and improve performance by building occupants. The indoor air quality is much higher than older buildings, and there’s no “new-building smell,” which is actually the off-gassing of volatile, and often toxic, compounds. Green buildings are healthier for the occupants because they emphasize the use of benign materials in adhesives, floor coverings, furniture and cleaning products. Other benefits aren’t immediately so obvious, though are just as important. LEED-certified buildings cost less to operate, potentially reducing energy and water bills by more than 40 percent. Why build green? It pays big dividends over the long term. The facility’s design provides capabilities that suit contemporary research, crew training and space operations for scientists and clinicians supporting current and future space programs such as the International Space Station, Orion, human research and space biology. The HHP facility will house the biomedical, environmental science, human performance and clinical laboratories. Building 21 will be JSC’s 10 th LEED-certified building when it is finished in 2017. The final determination will be made by the USGBC once construction is finished. NASA requires that all new construction reach at least LEED silver, but Building 21 contains many design features that may raise it to gold. Others are becoming routine, like the inclusion of 24 bicycle parking spaces to promote alternative transportation. These metrics, especially in energy and water conservation, have become industry standards over the past few years as the demand for green buildings continues to grow. Upon completion, the building should function with an estimated 30 percent reduction in energy usage and water usage, recycle more than 75 percent of the construction waste, use locally sourced and recycled-content materials and encourage alternative transportation. Johnson Space Center’s newest building, the Human Health and Performance (HHP) laboratory, will incorporate a large number of these features into its construction. Depending on how many aspects are included, buildings are rated as certified, silver, gold or platinum. USGBC, through LEED, provides a construction checklist, with points awarded in various categories such as energy and water efficiency, incorporating healthy materials, recycling construction waste and implementing sustainable practices. Green Building Council (USGBC) more than 20 years ago, LEED is now one of the most widely accepted green building certification programs worldwide. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) was developed to answer exactly that. AEI worked closely with NASA staff to fully integrate the new office facility with the existing Kennedy Complex Control Systems, ensuring seamless, comprehensive, and uninterrupted facilities monitoring campus-wide.Īs part of the project, AEI also collaborated on the design and development of a new data center to consolidate and optimize previously separate computing operations.How do you make 117,000 square feet of concrete, rebar and laboratories green? And what exactly does “green” mean anyway? The state-of-the-art, high-performance Central Campus Headquarters office facility supports approximately 500 NASA personnel and contractor employees, featuring an array of flexibly designed open and private office environments - from conferencing space and multi-purpose work rooms to an engineering documentation center and high-density storage library, as well as retail and service amenities. Delivered in two phases, NASA’s seven-story Central Campus Headquarters office building and separate data center - part of Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) 144,000 acres and roughly 700 total facilities - modernizes and consolidates nearly a dozen, 1960s-era buildings into a centralized hub for next-generation aerospace innovation.
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