• To provide standards and specifications for building and site systems for the ease of maintenance and establishing consistent equipment to lower life-cycle costs.

• Provide design manuals, construction specifications, and standard construction drawings.
• Comply with applicable DOE Orders, applicable building codes, and associated regulations.
• Provide standard documents that promote green building practices that allign with the credits defined by the LEED rating system.
• Move toward industry standards that lower life cycle and initial costs.
• Apply industry "Highly Protected Risk" (HPR) standards.
• Clearly define the desired level of quality and performance required for design, construction, and operations of buildings and infrastructure.
• Continuously improve the standards by addressing life safety, life-cycle cost, green building, energy efficiency, and security.

The Order of Precedence for Sandia's various contractual construction documents generally follows this path (consult your Contract for specific application):

1. Contract Cover Page
2. Section I
3. SF 6432-CN, Section II
4. Construction Specifications
5. Construction Drawings
6. Documents incorporated by reference in Section II
7. Other documents, if any, incorporated into the Contract