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Labs21 Environmental Performance Criteria | Version
2.1 | January 2005
The Labs21 Environmental Performance Criteria (EPC) is a rating
system for use by laboratory building project stakeholders to
assess
the environmental performance of laboratory facilities. The EPC
leverages and builds on the U.S. Green Building Council's widely
used LEED™ Rating
System,
extending it to set appropriate and specific requirements for
laboratories.
The EPC is a public domain document that is available
for anyone
to use as they see fit. Labs21 does not provide a project certification
process. The USGBC is currently developing a LEED™ Application
Guide for Laboratories, using the EPC as a basis for this effort.
The Labs21 EPC follows the format of LEED™ Version 2.1. When
not mentioned, LEED™ credits and requirements are assumed to remain
the same. This website only contains additional credits (over
and above LEED™ credits) as well as modifications to LEED™ credits. For example, in the Sustainable Sites (SS) category the
LEED™ prerequisite and credits SS-1 through SS-8
remain unchanged. Labs21 EPC proposes an additional credit (SS-9),
Safety and Risk Management
with a potential two-point credit. Therefore, the Labs21EPC must
be considered in conjunction with the LEED™ Version 2.1.
Note
that the EPC increases the number of possible points from 69
to 85. The EPC does not specify threshold values for the ratings
of
silver, gold and platinum, because Labs21 does not provide a
certification process.
EPC version 2.1 is primarily an administrative update. The only
significant change is in Energy & Atmosphere Prerequisite 2
and Credit 1, which now reference the criteria in the Labs21 Laboratory
Modeling Guidelines. All other changes are minor clarifications
or corrections that do not change the intent and requirements of
EPC version 2.0.
The EPC home page
has a printable version of the EPC as well as the full checklist
in spreadsheet format.
Return to EPC
home page
This page last updated 27 January 2005
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