By Regina Clarke
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Support collaborative government/private sector research on green building technologies. " Initiate annual conferences and exhibits on green buildings. The ASTM is investigating the choices available to classify green products. " ASTM's Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) create data libraries and gather information from networked computers using a standardized format to expedite data entry. ASTM, whose voluntary approach is nevertheless viewed most often as virtually a legal mandate, has also begun efforts to develop a standardized procedure for imposing taxes on pollution that would be effective and politically acceptable.
Along with historical information, detailed descriptions of problems, options for innovative design and implementing solutions, this book provides the typical features of an environmental audit. Illustrations of program sheets for record-keeping and certification are used to assist evaluation, along with an expanded list of resource agencies and literature. The real business of environmental management falls on the facility manager more than on anyone else. He or she needs a place to begin and a way to make it happen.
Storage and disposal of hazardous materials protects everyone. Ultimately, many businesses will become sustainable designs, fully self-sufficient entities in which all services can be re-used, re-engineered and re-cycleda goal of zero waste. Results come out of looking at the problem, analyzing conditions, implementing steps to correct or improve those conditions if required and establishing policy to maintain and monitor the new procedures. The degree of system overhaul has to be delineated carefully.
