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Landscaping and Grounds
Landscaping provides many benefits to a facility. Some of the benefits include shading of surrounding buildings, areas for recreation and aesthetic appeal to help make a good first impression of the facility. Sustainable landscaping provides these benefits while balancing environmental, economic and social needs of the facility.
FMJ Articles
The FMJ is written specifically for professionals concerned with developing and maintaining productive workplaces. To view more recent articles on sustainability related topics, please log in to the FMJ Online: http://www.fmjonline.com/
Growing Your Roof with the Right IngredientsIn the few warm and humid states where they grow, palm trees are considered a prized, highly valued plant. Large, older specimens are in great demand and often command a premium price. Where they grow naturally, palm trees are often removed from existing landscape sites or from a commercial nursery field, transported and replanted at another site—creating an instant mature landscape.
Designing with Excellence
Warehouse 7, a drab former military structure, sat on the 138-acre General Services Administration’s Auburn, Washington Campus as an underutilized relic from the distant past. One of eight virtually identical World War II-era warehouses comprising the federal government’s GSA regional complex, the structure, for all practical purposes, appeared to be at the end of its useful life. However, when GSA was faced with finding a new home for the Social Security Administration (SSA) “800”-number call center serving residents of the Pacific Time Zone, the building received a rare gift. The GSA recognized that an adaptive reuse of the existing structure represented a unique opportunity to fulfill their mandate to provide sustainable government buildings, while giving taxpayers added value by transforming a minimally used federal asset into first-class, contemporary office space.
City Trees and Property Values
Urban nature in all its forms—urban forests, parks, greenbelts—provides a range of benefits and services to society, most of which are not readily bought and sold. Economists calculate the use value of nature and ecosystems when tangible goods can be exchanged at market prices, such as timber or fisheries products. Non-use values set up a more complex economic puzzle. How do you estimate values for the many indirect, intangible services and functions that urban nature provides, such as beauty, ecosystem services and psychological benefits?
Tools & Resources
IFMA Sustainability Member Community
Sustainability SIG discussion forum for IFMA members only
Sustainability “How-To Guide” Series: Landscaping
From the IFMA Foundation Sustainability How-To Guides Series.
The goal of this guide is to help facility managers, and those who work with facility managers, to better understand what sustainable landscaping is and how to apply sustainable landscaping practices.
Sustainability Knowledge
Browse a variety of sustainability-related content for the facility practitioner including the IFMA Foundation’s “Sustainability 'How-To' Guide Series,” recent research publications and helpful links.
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