DRE3: Site Design and Development Requirements – Above Green

Intent

Sustainable site development requirements help to minimize the negative direct and indirect impact of construction sites.

Requirements

Select yes or no. If yes, select all applicable sub-options.

Does the entity have sustainable site design/development requirements for development projects?

Yes
- Select all criteria included (multiple answers possible)
  - Manage waste by diverting construction and demolition materials from disposal
  - Manage waste by diverting reusable vegetation, rocks, and soil from disposal
  - Minimize light pollution to the surrounding community
  - Minimize noise pollution to the surrounding community
  - Perform environmental site assessment
  - Protect air quality during construction
  - Protect and restore habitat and soils disturbed during construction and/or during previous development
  - Protect surface water and aquatic ecosystems by controlling and retaining construction pollutants
  - Other: ____________
No

Validation

Other: State the sustainable site design/construction criteria. It is possible to add multiple other answers.

See Appendix 2a for additional information about GRESB Validation.

Scoring

4 points, E

Scoring is based on the number of selected options. It is not necessary to select all options to achieve the maximum score.

Other: The 'Other' answer is manually validated and points are contingent on the validation decision.

See the Scoring Document for additional information on scoring.

Terminology

Environmental Assessment: An assessment during the due diligence process that ensures the environmental implications of the site are taken into account. This can include contamination from historical and/or current use, to any potential environmental or human health hazard arising from the site.

Manage waste by diverting construction and demolition materials from disposal: Support a low waste construction site and minimize down-cycling of materials with actions such as diverting, reusing or recycling construction and demolition materials.

Manage waste by diverting reusable vegetation, rocks, and soil from disposal: Minimize the disposal of reusable vegetation, minerals, rocks and soil with actions such as using these materials as resources in site design or to produce compost.

Minimize light pollution to the surrounding community: Minimize the effects of light pollution caused by construction lighting and other human-made sources to the surrounding areas of the development sites.

Minimize noise pollution to the surrounding community: Minimize the effects of noise pollution caused by construction activities to the surrounding areas of the development sites.

Protect air quality during construction: Protect air quality and reduce pollution by using construction equipment that reduces emissions of localized air pollutants and greenhouse gasses.

Protect and restore habitat and soils disturbed during construction and/or during previous development: Support healthy plants, biological communities, water storage, and infiltration with actions such as the protection of on-site habitat, restoring disturbed soils, and supporting off-site land conservation.

Protect surface water and aquatic ecosystems by controlling and retaining construction pollutants: Protect receiving waters (including surface water, groundwater, and combined sewers or stormwater systems) with measures such as the creation and implementation of a stormwater pollution prevention plan or erosion and sedimentation control plan.

References

SITES v2 Rating System for Sustainable Land Design and Development

LEED BD+C: New Construction, v4, Sustainable Sites; and Materials & Resources

BREEAM International New Construction, 2016, 05 Management; and 12 Land Use and Ecology; and BREEAM Communities Manual, 2012