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Constructed in 1896, Building 246 at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall VA, serves as the primary housing and training space for the 3rd US Infantry Regiment. Members of The Old Guard are held to the highest standards and charged with highly prestigious responsibilities: conducting military ceremonies at the White House, escorting the President of the US, and guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. These duties distinguish The Old Guard from any other unit in the US Army, and a result, sets a uniquely high bar for the renovation of its facilities. For the design-build team of EYP and Grunley Construction Co Inc, the mission was perfectly clear: deliver a safe, modern, and energy-efficient home that also maintains the visual qualities of the base's historic character.

A changing operating environment has altered how the Department of the Air Force must approach mission assurance. Unprecedented variations to the global climate and increasingly severe weather events, as well as more prevalent asymmetric threats, create new challenges for continued mission assurance. Further, dependence on enabling systems like energy and water have grown in scale and complexity as missions become ever more technology-driven and interconnected. With mission-critical assets distributed across multiple regions that are both on and off Air Force installations, a system disruption in one location can have cascading mission impacts--exposing the enterprise to unacceptable risk. To this end, testing the department's enabling system capabilities before an actual unplanned disruption occurs is key for mission continuity. By conducting \"pull-the-plug\" Energy Resilience Readiness Exercises, the Department of the Air Force simulates the impact of an event that cuts electrical power to an installation.

For US military installations, natural disasters can pose serious hazards to outdated equipment or infrastructure. At one West Coast military installation, these vulnerabilities meant an overhaul of its on-base lighting network was needed. However, before the upgrade could begin, the base would have to conduct a building equipment audit. Building equipment audits are often required by local and federal agencies and are particularly important on military bases, which can require multiple kinds of audits for equipment upgrades and refreshes. Here, Dwyer discusses how the Sain Engineering Associates completed the audit.

In May 2021, the US Army was afforded an excellent opportunity to execute a Memorandum of Understanding with the Edison Electric Institute to further enhance what has been a productive existing relationship. The agreement outlines specific efforts to collaborate and identify best practices for joint resilience planning, and to optimize potential future investment opportunities by electric companies and the Army. This new, innovative, and collaborative approach will enable readiness by helping achieve resilient, efficient, and affordable energy across our installations.

The Army is focused on increasing the resilience of installation energy and water infrastructure to withstand future threats. The Office of Energy Initiatives serves as the Army's central program management office for the development, implementation, and oversight of privately financed, large-scale energy projects focused on enhancing energy resilience, energy security, and sustainability. Here, Surash and Hughes discuss how the Army implemented projects that blend energy generation, storage, and control capabilities and developed comprehensive energy resilience solutions that are beneficial to all stakeholders.

Wimmer discusses how the Coast Guard Training Center Petaluma increased its resilience against a growing threat of natural disasters. Training Center Petaluma committed to increasing its resilience to extended electric utility outages: removing risk to personnel safety and ensuring mission continuity. The training center's facilities engineering staff engaged several federal partners to begin a microgrid potential analysis: the Federal Energy Management Program, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Staff worked closely with all external stakeholders to analyze multiple years' worth of 15-min incremental utility usage data to preliminarily size a conceptual solar generation, battery energy storage system, and microgrid control system capable of supporting full electrical utility needs for a ten-day outage duration. The analysis determined the technical and economic feasibility of installing an electric microgrid that would allow the installation to operate and sustain all base operations for a minimum of five days, with 10 days off-grid as the optimal requirement.

Aguayo and Durika discuss how the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard expanded its power generation capabilities, grid efficiency and energy resiliency. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard has generated electricity from combining heat and power since the early 1900s: initially by using steam turbines to drive direct-current generators, then expanding to drive alternating-current generators in World War II. The installation, situated along the Atlantic coastline, now uses gas turbines while recovering the waste heat to create steam for heating and industrial processes. This has positioned Portsmouth as a pioneer in combined heat and power microgrids, allowing it to align both with the three pillars of energy security (reliability, resilience, and efficiency) as well as with the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, which requires military installations to increase energy resilience.

The new Army National Guard Readiness Center and Army Aviation Support Facility built in Kankakee, IL, is a center of civic heritage designed to celebrate and inspire those who will be using it: the soldier. Situated 60-mi south of Chicago and home to three tenants—Company B, 1st Battalion, 106th Aviation; Company B, 935th Aviation Support Battalion; and a Medivac unit—the facility opened in November 2017 and will serve as a fresh and bold face for the military, playing a significant role in attracting new recruits. The previous facility at Midway Airport was impacted by a diminishing safety zone between the apron and taxiway caused by extended runways and the increased size of commercial airliners. Construction on the new building began in 2014. While the new facility’s progressive architecture is an open tribute to those who use it, the backbone of the building is its sustainable design, led by its energy efficiency advancements.

This study investigates the relevance of government quality in moderating the incidence of environmental degradation on inclusive human development in 44 sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000–2012. Environmental degradation is measured with CO₂ emissions and the governance dynamics include: political stability, voice and accountability, government effectiveness, regulation quality, the rule of law and corruption-control. The empirical evidence is based on the generalised method of moments. Regulation quality modulates CO₂ emissions to exert a net negative effect on inclusive development. Institutional governance (consisting of corruptioncontrol and the rule of law) modulates CO₂ emissions to also exert a net negative effect on inclusive human development. Fortunately, the corresponding interactive effects are positive, which indicates that good governance needs to be enhanced to achieve positive net effects. A policy threshold of institutional governance at which institutional governance completely dampens the unfavourable effect of CO₂ emissions on inclusive human development is established. Other policy implications are discussed.

This study investigates how increasing economic development affects the green economy in terms of CO₂ emissions, using data from 44 countries in the sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2000–2012. The Generalized Method of Moments is used for the empirical analysis. The following main findings are established. First, relative to CO₂ emissions, enhancing economic growth and population growth engenders a U-shaped pattern whereas increasing inclusive human development shows a Kuznets curve. Second, increasing gross domestic product growth beyond 25% of annual growth is unfavorable for a green economy. Third, a population growth rate of above 3.089% (i.e. annual %) has a positive effect of CO₂ emissions. Fourth, an inequality-adjusted human development index of above 0.4969 is beneficial for a green economy because it is associated with a reduction in CO₂ emissions. The established critical masses have policy relevance because they are situated within the policy ranges of adopted economic development dynamics.