Track 5: Greening Existing Buildings
Presenter | Jim Bradburn and Alexander Thome
Session Title | The Integrated Design Process and The Emerging Future of Design Delivery
Session Description:
As the A/E/C community increasingly understands how building systems working together produce better, more sustainable solutions, the collaborative paradigm must shift to accommodate a new approach. The Integrated Design Process (IDP) provides a solution for this shift. IDP offers a new model for collaboration that brings all parties to the table early in design development to ensure that all major components of the building are considered and designed as a totality. This has the potential to dramatically affect the quality of sustainable efforts as building systems from all disciplines are considered simultaneously. Mechanical and electrical systems that enhance the effectiveness of the building envelope; planning decisions that ultimately effect glazing choices; structural elements that can be used to store energy — these are the sorts of relationships that can be maximized through IDP. While it is possible to achieve green design without using IDP, costs can be reduced and building performance can be improved by full and open collaboration.
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Presenter | Victor Olgyay
Session Title | Using systems thinking to unlock the potential of existing buildings to add
Session Description:
The existing built environment uses a tremendous amount of fossil fuel and contributes significantly to climate change. Because buildings are generally inefficient in their use of energy, they represent a great opportunity to address climate change through comprehensive retrofitting to reduce operational energy use. When energy use in buildings is analyzed by individual component, cost effective measures are obtained and diminishing financial returns limit energy reductions. This can result in less savings than potentially available, and reduce the attractiveness of further energy savings. An alternative approach is to evaluate integrated packages of building systems, so efficiencies in one area are captured in supporting systems, providing the opportunity for further efficiencies cascading into larger energy and financial savings. This results in the most comprehensive, deepest and cost effective energy retrofits. This systems approach to building retrofit is shown in application to several real projects, including the Empire State Building and the Deutsch Bank HQ. Tools used to maximize net present value and carbon savings are described in the context of the modeling methodology.
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Presenter | Ben Stanley
Session Title | A World Beyond LEED NC: Moving from Metrics of Intent to Metrics of Perform
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Do the occupants of your LEED NC certified building actually recycle? Does the building meet its energy use reduction targets? Do the occupants actually know how to use the building as intended? These are the types of questions that industry is asking of LEED projects today. LEED for New Construction has been a powerful tool that has helped transform the modern green building movement. However, as the number of LEED certified buildings grows, we find that design and construction is not enough to ensure that sustainability goals identified during the design of a building are achieved during operations. Without thoughtful design and construction we couldn’t have green buildings, but it is equally true that actual performance of buildings is more important than its best intentions. This session will explore best practices for bridging the gap between design & construction and building operations. The presenters will draw from lessons learned on recently certified and now operating LEED projects and extensive experience with the EB:OM rating system. These lessons learned will help bring to light measures that can be taken during the design and delivery of a building to ensure that its performance meets the design intent.
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Presenter | Julie Sieving, Pete Hall, and Jennifer Orgolini
Session Title | Sustainability Management Systems
Session Description:
Three school districts in Colorado are among the first schools in the nation to prepare sustainability management systems (SMSs)- innovative projects that integrate all school district green initiatives - from LEED construction to food services - into one model for advancing sustainability in facility operations. Other Colorado companies such as beverage industry sustainability leader New Belgium Brewing as well as local governments have also developed their own SMSs. Sustainability management systems are helping organizations of all kinds improve energy efficiency, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote green building, engage staff in sustainability, and strive for continuous improvement in operational efficiencies. We propose a panel discussion on sustainability management systems (SMSs) that will include what they are, what topics they address, how the process works, and how organizations can benefit from them as a tool to integrate all of their green initiatives under one unified mission. Along with a general introduction to SMSs, panelists will present two specific case studies – one from a Colorado school district and one from a private company – to provide applied examples of the tremendous benefits of SMSs for a variety of organizations.
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Presenter | Annette Stelmack
Session Title | Greennovate Your Residential Remodeling Projects
Session Description:
The demand for green remodeling and retrofit projects is getting ready to explode. While much of the green homes fanfare of the past few years has focused on new construction, there is a growing interest in making existing homes more energy efficient, comfortable, healthy, safe and environmentally responsible. Join Daniele Loffreda and Annette Stelmack for an engaging, interactive and informative session focusing on green residential remodeling strategies, case studies and guidelines. Learn how to improve the environmental impacts of your remodeling projects by reducing energy, water and materials consumption and eliminating hazardous materials.
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Presenter | Phillip Saieg
Session Title | LEED EB Recertification, going from gold to platinum: a case study
Session Description:
As the first historic building in the world to receive two LEED certifications (EB Gold, CI Silver), the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado’s Alliance Center is a model of sustainability and collaboration at work. Housing 30 nonprofit tenants all focused on sustainability, including the USGBC’s Colorado Chapter, this 100-year old building offered interesting challenges to gain its original LEED status in 2005. Now, five years later, we have launched an exciting new project to take sustainable historic renovation to the next generation. The Alliance Center will be recertifying its LEED status for its 2011 deadline. The Alliance is seizing this challenge as an opportunity to go further and raise the bar in determining what’s economically viable and compelling in “Historic Green.” As we seek to upgrade from LEED EB Gold to LEED EB Platinum, we will be working collaboratively with key players in business, nonprofit, government and education to take a step back and truly examine what’s possible during the recertification process, especially as it applies to historic buildings. We are exploring how we can get to Net Zero energy usage and carbon neutrality with a viable return on investment and how we can capture the process to ensure this is replicable by others? In this presentation we will examine the research completed to date on the project, the nuts and bolts, the challenges and the opportunities of this highly collaborative effort.
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Presenter | Bill Black
Session Title | Mindshift
Session Description:
This program studies the construction delivery models, complex relationships and behaviours that prevail in our industry and looks in depth at the relationships between new collaborative delivery models for commercial real estate that leverage BIM, IPD and Lean principles in delivering superior, more sustainable results.Beyond the project context of this dialogue there are new strategies that provide opportunities for firms that are evolving, growing, changing and even re imagining themselves to meet a future of new challenges and pressures that demand fresh approaches to the business and profession of Architecture. Bill is a co-author of the book “The Commercial Real Estate Revolution” and a founding member of the group Mindshift which won the Corenet Global Innovators award at the Vegas summit in October 2009. This session will look at the findings of this group and present a dialogue as to the state of the current conventional model and the need for more effective delivery methods and cost saving efficiencies that allow the industry to perform in a more effective manner that dramatically alters the quality and sustainable nature of the results for all on a triple bottom line basis.
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