SPiRiT Scoring Through Self-Assessment Charrettes

The Sustainable Project Rating Tool (SPiRiT) was developed by the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) as a measurement system for rating new and major renovations to institutional buildings. SPiRiT evaluates environmental performance from a whole building perspective over a building's life cycle and provides a definitive standard to assess the sustain-ability or green attributes of the design-construct process for a given project. SPiRiT addresses critical areas of the design-construct process for seven categories or issues: site, water, energy usage, materials, indoor environmental quality, facility delivery, and current mission. The rating system consists of prerequisites and credits that when met provide points towards an overall score. The overall score is use to indicate one of four project certification levels-Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum, indicating increasing levels of sustainability or greenness. All Army Military Construction projects and major OMA projects must achieve a Bronze rating level. This guide provides an informational guide for installation Directorate of Public Works (DPW) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineer District Engineer staffs in conducting self-assessment charrettes to score projects designed to meet SPiRiT requirements. The original document contains color images.