Designing Green Building Standards for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC)
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2022-05
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This project sets out to reduce recidivism at the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) through green building design. By combining LEED and WELL frameworks into ODRC's Green Building Standards, ODRC can implement guidelines of sustainability and human well-being in their future builds. We were able to gain background knowledge of LEED and WELL through current builds as well as taking a site visit which included retrieving surveys we sent out and an interview with three peer leaders of the horticulture class. We also gathered data through the ODRC's own JadeTrack inputs which allowed us to see which institutions were performing better than others in terms of cost, energy usage, and water usage. With the goal of reducing recidivism, the team drafted ODRC's Green Building Standards which impacts incarcerated individuals as well as staff.
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Course Code: AEDECON 4567
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Sustainability, Green Building Standards, Incarcerated Individuals, Green Prisons, Reduce Recidivism