Getting to 2030: Frameworks & Roadmaps to help you achieve portfolio-wide performance improvements
Being a truly green firm is about more than just being “able” to deliver LEED projects. It's about aligning overall company vision, management, operations and project delivery with the demands of integrative design and collaborative relationships – and measuring company performance improvements as a result. Whether your firm delivers LEED on every project – or not, you can develop the internal systems, processes and protocols to ensure a higher level of performance across the board.
Tangible Change: Materials and the Living Building Challenge
The Living Building Challenge Materials Petal is intended to induce a successful materials economy that is non-toxic, transparent and socially equitable. In this workshop, participants will gain an understanding of how to meet the material-related Imperatives of the Living Building Challenge: I-10 Red List, I-11 Embodied Carbon Footprint, I-12 Responsible Industry, I-13 Living Economy Sourcing, and I-14 Net Positive Waste as well as introduce and explain the Declare Program.
Net Positive Energy: Power and the Living Building Challenge
The Living Building Challenge Energy Petal is intended to signal a new age of design, wherein the built environment relies solely on renewable forms of energy and operates year round in a pollution-free manner. In this in-depth review of the Energy Petal, participants will gain an understanding of how to create Net Zero Energy buildings. This interactive session will present detailed case studies of several Net Zero Energy certified buildings - identifying the design and operational challenges these projects had to overcome to meet their Net Zero Energy goals.
Here Comes the Sun (Again)
In a cold climate, the sun is a commodity not to be ignored. In 2014 engineer Marc Rosenbaum gave you the master's session. This session comes from the perspective of a designer who also works to integrate the sun in all aspects of design. High performance, energy efficient buildings should take advantage of what the sun provides. Designing in concert with the sun can bring comfort and beauty to the experience of being in a space. This session explores various ways residential design and construction can benefit from the sun's energy.
NZSummit: What We Build With
Leaders in the realm of low-carbon materials are drawing attention to the increasing significance of the front-end carbon loading associated with the materials with which we build our supposedly ZNE buildings. Given the urgency of addressing climate change in the next two decades, this front-end carbon investment must be addressed. Our speakers will describe the emerging thinking about this important topic, along with the tools available to assist building professionals in making carbon-savvy material decisions.
NZSummit: Better Than Zero
Net zero is so yesterday! Futurists are moving ahead to visions of net-positive buildings and communities. How far can we go? Where should we be focusing our efforts — on individual buildings, neighborhoods, or whole communities? Our speakers will offer several perspectives, ranging from hard quantitative analysis to aspirational program building.
Dematerialization Applied
As a follow-up to "Dematerializing Buildings" at BE14, this session will explore how the dematerialization and lightweighting of buildings is being put into practice. Many of the technologies discussed in the March 2014 session are now being put into actual application while more new technologies are entering the pipeline at a rapid rate. Driven by energy and environmental concerns, some projects are now quantifying the material savings and embodied carbon reduction resulting from lightweighting strategies.
Building Science Puzzles
Installing commercial windows and curtain walls without thermal bridges, air or water leaks
This session will look at the basic shapes of aluminum and fiberglass products used for frames, and identify the basic principles to be used to develop functional details for both new and retrofit construction. We will isolate the heat, air, and water control layers in windows and connect those in precast, solid masonry, and framed walls. Issues of structural support, construction sequencing, building movement, and high humidity interiors will be addressed. Numerous examples and case studies rich with photographs and drawings will be used.
Multifamily Ventilation 302
Central ventilation systems in multifamily buildings are a vital building system that often compromises overall building performance (ie they don’t perform to code almost 100% of the time). Correcting ventilation problems can produce significant energy savings in multifamily buildings while also improving occupant comfort and health. Central ventilation system restoration is an emerging energy retrofit that has had its bumps along the way.