From Compliance to Sustainability: Army Reserve Construction Project Moving Off the Electrical Grid
2010
Duffey, Bradley A
Reducing fossil fuel consumption and conserving air, land, and water resources while trying to strengthen operational capacity and meeting current and future requirements may appear to be a daunting task, but the United States Army s Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff of Installation Management Army Reserve Division is successfully doing both. The project is the United States Army Reserve Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and the goal is to get the facility off the grid or self-sustaining in all its energy needs by 2012. The center will include a 32,000-square-foot training building, a 4,841-square-foot vehicle maintenance shop, a 1,065-square-foot unheated storage building, and a 15,760-square-foot organization parking lot. The project will be the Army s pilot program for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum. The extra costs of building to LEED Platinum standards will be paid for with energy savings.
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