building a sustainable infrastructure at nasa
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Sustainable Infrastructure
at NASA
Calvin F. WilliamsChief Sustainability Officer,
Assistant Administrator,Office of Strategic
InfrastructureSeptember 2016
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Stennis Space Center – Rocket Test Stand
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Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building
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Johnson Space Center – Neutral Buoyancy Lab
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5 Glenn Research Center – Thermal Vacuum Chamber
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Ames Research CenterWind Tunnel Testing
Glenn Research CenterWind Tunnel Testing
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Ames Research Center Supercomputer
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8Goddard Space Flight Center – James Webb Telescope
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Wallops Island
Over 2/3rds of all NASA’s constructed real property value is within 16 feet of sea level ($20B value)
Johnson Space Center
...and are already feeling impacts regardless of
climate change projections…
Kennedy Space Center
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NASA Facilities Assets under 40 Years Old
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Our Facilities Energy Bill for FY2015: $130M
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Utilities unit cost increases outpace NASA’s consumption reductions
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Policies to Incorporate Sustainability
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• Rigorous Master Planning process to ensure right assets for the mission
• Balancing demolition and new building/renovation
• Set LEED Standard and Guiding Principles for High-Performance Buildings
• Striving toward Zero Energy/Water
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• Sustainable Office Building
• LEED Silver • Also won two Green
Globe awards from the Green Building Initiative®
• 20,000 gallon underground cistern for storing irrigation rainwater
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Marshall Space Flight Center
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Marshall Space Flight Center
• Many energy-savings features, coupled with rooftop photovoltaic array
• Uses 30% less energy than typical office building
• Uses 30% less water
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• Power Usage Effectiveness of 1.5 or lower
• Consolidates 5 Data Centers and over 30 Server Rooms
Langley Research Center Katherine Johnson Computational Lab
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Kennedy Space CenterPropellants North
• LEED New Construction Platinum
• Our first carbon-neutral facility; it will produce enough energy onsite from renewable sources to offset what it requires to operate
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These pictures illustrate the nature of our infrastructure.
Know any mechanics who can work on both of these???
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• LEED New Construction Platinum, including 30 of 35 credits in Energy & Atmosphere
• Includes 36 KW solar PV system.
Armstrong Flight Research Center - Main Administrative Building
Facilities Support Center
‘Old School’ Skills needed!
‘New School’ Skills needed!
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Reducing Our Footprint of Old and Unsuitable Assets
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Historic Hangars - Ames Research Center
Old, expensive-to-maintain facilities!
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Future of Sustainable Infrastructure at NASA?