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Measurable Objectives
NECSC’s initiatives are intended to enable development professionals to work together in our communities to achieve three mutually supportive sustainable development objectives – Environmental Quality, Economic Productivity and Social Equity/Quality of Life. Toward this end, the NECSC will work to create the means (technologies, tools, methods and alternative models) that applied together, will enable local development professionals to achieve the following measurable objectives within their development projects:
Note: the following metrics are based on the optimal application of alternative sustainable development options for a particular development site as compared to a baseline assuming a business-as-usual/conventional build-out plan for the site.
- Environmental Quality
- 40-70% reduction in the release of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions, solid waste disposal and regulated air and water pollution
- Economic Productivity - Energy Reliability & Security
- 20-40% reduction in peak-energy demand and security for 100% of energy supplies to critical community infrastructure & services (if applicable)
- 25-35% improvement in individual building and community-scale energy efficiency over the nation’s toughest State building energy efficiency standard ( California ’s Title-24, 2005 standard)
- Social Equity/Quality of Life
- 25% decrease in annual energy expenditures for all residential and commercial consumers within the development project
- 25% reduction in vehicle-miles-traveled (VMT) and associated congestion within the development project
- 30% increase in energy-saving land uses, green spaces & alternative transportation options
- 4-6 degree (F) decrease in annual ambient air temperatures within the development project