Sustainability is a simple concept, but it’s not particularly easy to achieve. This is especially true as projects become more complex in response to the growing demand for more sophisticated technology, enhanced performance, lower operation and maintenance costs and improved aesthetics in our buildings and infrastructure. Hitting all of those marks takes a minor miracle … or a contractor with the experience and vision to successfully put it all together.
“Putting it all together” is what drove Sundt to create Green Print. It’s a field guide to successfully applying sustainable principles in the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED system. Green Print is based on Sundt’s years of experience building green projects, from office buildings to research facilities, schools to courthouses. This mega-manual of all things sustainable was written by our senior project personnel who have leveraged their experience in green building to provide guidance to Sundt’s field employees and all of the project members, including the owner and the design team, who encounter challenges every day in the field.
“Green Print is more than your typical reference manual; it’s a customized guidebook containing practical advice, specific examples, and innovative approaches that were successfully applied to past Sundt projects,” says Preconstruction Project Manager Dan Osterman, who also leads Sundt’s Sustainability Committee. “Our next planned update coincides with the launch of LEED V4 (currently in the process of the fifth draft review comment period) to ensure that it will always be a relevant and timely resource. Green Print ensures that Sundt’s clients get the very best of our accumulated knowledge and experience incorporated into their sustainable projects.”