SSUSTAINABILITY USTAINABILITY --MORE THAN GOLD, MORE THAN GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUMSILVER, PLATINUM

2100 MREA 2100 MREA Energy FairEnergy Fair

Dan Becker, AIA, NCARB, LEEDDan Becker, AIA, NCARB, LEEDAPAP

Plunkett Raysich ArchitectsPlunkett Raysich Architects

INTRODUCTION

NATURAL CAPITALISM

“The next Industrial revolution, like the first one, will be a response to changing patterns of scarcity. It will create upheaval, but more importantly, it will create opportunities.”create opportunities.”

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, Paul Hawken

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

1970’s1970’s

20102010

WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

“Sustainable Design is a

design philosophy that

seeks to maximize the

quality of the built

environment, while environment, while

minimizing or eliminating

negative impact to the

natural environment.”

Jason McLennan - The Philosophy Of Sustainable Design

SHAPING SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

1. Regionalism: recognizing local conditionsfor materials, sun, wind, light and water.

2. Solar income: Use of any energy source that is renewable and currently available.

3. Old solar savings: Nonrenewable that when used release centuries of carbon when used release centuries of carbon dioxide as in coal and petroleum.

4. Look to nature to provide solutions for comfort.

5. Design as adoption to place and climate instead of technological control.

Jason McLennan - The Philosophy Of Sustainable Design

THE CARBON FOOTPRINT

Embodied Energy refers to the quantity of energy to manufacture, and supply to the point of use, a product, material or service

Apple From Iowa Apple From Washington State

SUSTAINABILITY & THE CARBON FOOTPRINT

A carbon footprint encompasses all

CO2 emissions on-site and off-site

over the full life cycle of the design,

manufacture and disposal of a

product or service.product or service.

VS

WHY SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

• Took thousands of years for our population to reach one billion

• Taken less than a century to reach six billion

• Predicted to grow in this century to ten billion

• Half buildings in USA will be built 2000 - 2030 • Half buildings in USA will be built 2000 - 2030 Prof Arthur C Nelson

DESIGNING SUSTAINABLY

1. Whole system thinking

2. Team work

3. Shifting the design curve

4. End-use/least-cost considerations

5. A true commitment

END USE CONSIDERATIONS

• Least cost-highest value

• Purpose - functionality

• Space considerations

• Financial

Renewable

Commissioning

Improve Efficiency of Systems

Reduce Loads

REGIONALISM

• Recognizing local conditions for materials, sun, wind, light and water

• Look to nature to provide solutions for comfort

• Adoption to place and climate instead of technological control technological control

APPROPRIATENESS

ENGINEERED SYSTEMS

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

Menards February 2010

Geography Light

Water Air

Geography

GEOGRAPHY

GEOGRAPHY

Santa Monica College – Ansen+Allen

GEOGRAPHY

Univ. Texas School of Nursing - BNIM

GEOGRAPHY

Sarasota Senior High School – Paul Rudolph 1958

Light

LIGHT

LIGHT

Daylighting:Is the choice, art, practice or science of using indirect natural lighting to illuminate the interior of buildings, reducing the need for electric lighting.

Cool Daylighting:Cool Daylighting:Is the successful application of daylighting using holistic design strategy that uses daylight to reduce the need for electric lighting, balances the need for quality light without causing unwanted glare and reduces the need for space cooling.

Daylighting Collaborative

LIGHT

LIGHT

• Eye adjusts dark to light in 2 to 3 seconds

• Eye adjusts light to dark in 2 to 3 minutes2 to 3 minutes

LIGHT

NorthNorth NorthNorth NorthNorth NorthNorth

• East-west axis gives greater access to penetrating daylight with reduced heat gain, but more difficult to manage

• Long north-south axis creates greater exposure to low sun with more heat gain.

LIGHT

Management

• Develop appropriate control strategies

• Utilize building geometry & spatial arrangements

that promote daylighting distribution

• Configure building to maximize number of spaces utilizing daylighting

LIGHT

Toplighting

• Light the space, not the task

• General rule: 5% of ceiling area

• Avoid direct skylight & sunlight on critical tasks

• Bounce daylight off surfaces

• Bring daylight in from above to get deeper into space• Filter sky light

• Maximize ceiling heights

LIGHT

Sidelighting

• Differentiate view windows from daylight windows

• Balance amount of light across a space

• Consider integrated approach with toplighting

LIGHT

Wyoming Valley Grammar School

Water

WATER

Storm Water Treatment TrainApplied Ecological Services

WATER

Impervious Ground

WATER

Conveyance

Saitama, Japan

WATER

Conveyance

Oregon Museum Of Science & Industry

WATER

Bio Swales

Buckman Heights

WATER

Raised Planter

Buckman Heights

WATER

Infiltration Garden

Buckman Heights

WATER

Vegetative Roof

Buckman Heights

WATER

Retention Basin / Infiltration Basin

Air

AIR

Natural Ventilation

• The natural process of supplying and moving air

• By design utilizes wind, humidity, warm air buoyancy

to bring fresh air in and force stale air out

AIR

Architecture of Natural Ventilation

• Operable windows

• High exhaust vents

• Low intake vents

• Open building plan

• Atria• Atria

• Court yards

• Internal stairwells

• Ventilation chimneys

AIR

Elements of Natural Ventilation

• Building location and orientation

• Building form and dimensions

• Window typologies and operation

• Other aperture types (doors, chimneys) • Other aperture types (doors, chimneys)

• Construction methods and

detailing (infiltration)

• External elements (walls, screens)

• Urban planning conditions

AIR

Two Types Of Natural Ventilation:

• Wind driven ventilation

• Stack ventilation.

Wind Creates Areas Of:

• Positive pressure on the windward side • Negative pressure on the leeward side

AIR

Hallandale, FL Oceanfront NY Tenement Early 1900s

Ab Anbar Wind Towers, Iraq 30 St. Mary Axe – London Norman Foster

QUANTIFYING DESIGN

ECOTEST

Focus On Energy

eQUEST

QUANTIFYING DESIGN

University of Sheffield Arts & Humanities

Making A Difference

“A brand that captures your mind gains behavior. A brand that captures your heart gains commitment.”

David A. Aaker, Building Strong Brands

THE TRANSFORMATION

David A. Aaker, Building Strong Brands

LIVING THE COMMITMENT

• Sustainability at the core of your– Company– Product(s)

• Walking the talk

• Knowing your audience• Knowing your audience

Metropolitan Group

THE CHANGE

“Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society – its world view, its basic values, its social and political structures, its arts, its key institutions – rearranges itself. And the people born then cannot even imagine a world in which their grandparents lived and into which their own parents grandparents lived and into which their own parents were born. We are currently living through such a transformation.

Peter Drucker, Post-Capitalist Society

THE CHANGE

Paul H. Ray, PHD

BUSINESS PRACTICES

• Companies Actions and Decisions Can Have a Long Lasting Positive Or Negative Affect

• Marketing (is it true or building an image)

• How They Do Business (fair trade, international practices)

• Employees First • Employees First

• Shareholders (Corporate Responsibility Report)

• Financial Practices

BUSINESS PRACTICES

Products & Services• Market Place (products and business need to fit their

market)• Product Design (products reflect companies core

values, types, materials cradle – cradle, post production & post consumer content, carbon tracking)

• World population is around 6.45 billion • World population is around 6.45 billion • “About" 10% of the world's people have Internet

access

Patagonia Herman Miller

BUSINESS PRACTICES

THE FUTURE

SEAN MCCABE

“A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by

what it refuses to destroy.”” John Sawhill of The Nature Conservancy