Sustainable Infrastructure

at NASA

Calvin F. WilliamsChief Sustainability Officer,

Assistant Administrator,Office of Strategic

InfrastructureSeptember 2016

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Stennis Space Center – Rocket Test Stand

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Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building

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Johnson Space Center – Neutral Buoyancy Lab

5 Glenn Research Center – Thermal Vacuum Chamber

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Ames Research CenterWind Tunnel Testing

Glenn Research CenterWind Tunnel Testing

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Ames Research Center Supercomputer

8Goddard Space Flight Center – James Webb Telescope

Wallops Island

Over 2/3rds of all NASA’s constructed real property value is within 16 feet of sea level ($20B value)

Johnson Space Center

...and are already feeling impacts regardless of

climate change projections…

Kennedy Space Center

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NASA Facilities Assets under 40 Years Old

Our Facilities Energy Bill for FY2015: $130M

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Utilities unit cost increases outpace NASA’s consumption reductions

Policies to Incorporate Sustainability

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• Rigorous Master Planning process to ensure right assets for the mission

• Balancing demolition and new building/renovation

• Set LEED Standard and Guiding Principles for High-Performance Buildings

• Striving toward Zero Energy/Water

• Sustainable Office Building

• LEED Silver • Also won two Green

Globe awards from the Green Building Initiative®

• 20,000 gallon underground cistern for storing irrigation rainwater

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Marshall Space Flight Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

• Many energy-savings features, coupled with rooftop photovoltaic array

• Uses 30% less energy than typical office building

• Uses 30% less water

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• Power Usage Effectiveness of 1.5 or lower

• Consolidates 5 Data Centers and over 30 Server Rooms

Langley Research Center Katherine Johnson Computational Lab

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Kennedy Space CenterPropellants North

• LEED New Construction Platinum

• Our first carbon-neutral facility; it will produce enough energy onsite from renewable sources to offset what it requires to operate

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These pictures illustrate the nature of our infrastructure.

Know any mechanics who can work on both of these???

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• LEED New Construction Platinum, including 30 of 35 credits in Energy & Atmosphere

• Includes 36 KW solar PV system.

Armstrong Flight Research Center - Main Administrative Building

Facilities Support Center

‘Old School’ Skills needed!

‘New School’ Skills needed!

Reducing Our Footprint of Old and Unsuitable Assets

Historic Hangars - Ames Research Center

Old, expensive-to-maintain facilities!

Future of Sustainable Infrastructure at NASA?