to increase the energy efficiency to meet EPACT re-
quirements. The Army accepted the recommenda-
tions and LEED was adopted as the Army’s sustain-
able design rating tool early in 2006, to start with the
FY08 MILCON program (ASA [I&H] 2006). CERL
drafted the Army LEED Implementation Guide the fol-
lowing year and within another year, all Army new
construction projects were mandated to be registered
with USGBC (Schneider 2006).
Sustainable Army Master Planning
The Army Real Property Master Plan (RPMP) pro-
vides a roadmap to ensure a proactive approach to
meeting long-term mission requirements. The RPMP
establishes a vision and future direction for efficiently
managing, acquiring, or reducing real property at
Army Installations to support the current mission,
transformation, and management processes. Army
master planning requirements are defined in AR 210-
20 (Department of the Army 2005).
Installation master plans have followed traditional
campus planning models until fairly recently. With
the publication of SPiRiT in 2001, the Army started to
consider how to integrate sustainability principles in
the real property master planning process in a holistic
fashion. A recent redraft of AR 210-20 (unpublished)
introduces the concept of Form-Based Coding, adds
a new concept of sustainable development, planning
for health, adds Area Development Plans as a RPMP
product, and updates sustainable design and develop-
ment factors.
The revised regulation requires that the concepts
and principles of sustainable development be incorpo-
rated into all installation planning and infrastructure