National Guard goes green to conserve energy, cost

SANTA FE, N.M.

“Energy’s become one of our top priorities here in the National Guard,” said Thomas Gurule, a retired Guard lieutenant colonel who is now its energy manager.

Every building under the military construction program must meet the U.S. Green Building Council’s silver rating, said Elvin L. Shields, chief of the design-criteria branch for the Army National Guard’s installations division in Washington, D.C.