INTEGRATED DESIGN PROCESS: 300-level

SESSION 26

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Thursday, September 30, 2010 – 9:00am – Metro 4A

ABSTRACT:

This panel will discuss the ways in which young professionals have affected change in the New York City’s green building industry, and opportunities for future progress.

MODERATOR:

Brittany Grech, Sustainability Coordinator, YRG Sustainability

SPEAKERS:

Eric Deuser, Sustainable Construction Manager, One Bryant Park
Jessica Cooper, Architect, LB Architects
Joel Ndreu, Associate, Jaros, Baum & Bolles
Charles Marino, AKF

DESCRIPTION:

Urban Green Council’s Emerging Professionals represent a coalition of students and young professionals in the New York City area dedicated to promoting the integration of future leaders into the green building movement. They host periodic educational seminars on green building, promote social events to build the Emerging Professionals community, and arrange green building tours in New York City.

With the nonstop growth and interest in the green building industry in recent years, New York’s firms have rapidly evolved towards more sustainable building design, construction and operations. Young professionals are key contributors to this dynamic movement, and have the capacity to influence significant change within their firms, client companies, and industry colleagues. In this session our panelists will share their approach to jump-starting sustainability initiatives within their circles of influence as young professionals. They will also discuss actions and techniques young professionals can employ to spread the green message.

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INTEGRATED DESIGN PROCESS: 300-level

SESSION 31

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Thursday, September 30, 2010 – 11:00am – Metro 2B

ABSTRACT:

The fundamentals of phytoremediation and bioremediation technologies in the built environment as well as three distinct integration strategies: as interior deployment, as integrated into the building enclosure, and as exterior deployment.

SPEAKERS:

Jason Vollen, Principal Investigator, Center for Architecture Science and Ecology, Associate Professor of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rob Rothblatt, Associate Director, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Paul Mankiewicz, Executive Director, Gaia Institute
Chris Garvin, Partner, Terrapin Bright Green

DESCRIPTION:

Plants in buildings have aesthetic, physiological and psychological benefits that have been qualified and increasingly quantified in various ways. An emerging benefit of the integration of next generation living systems is as strategies for environmental remediation and energy reduction. In addition to discussing the fundamentals of phytoremediation and bioremediation technologies in the built environment, this session will discuss three distinct integration strategies: as interior deployment, as integrated into the building enclosure, and as exterior deployment.

• The Active Modular Phytoremediation (AMP) System, developed by CASE and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is an interior deployment purposed to improve indoor air quality and reduce the energy costs associated with HVAC systems. The first deployment for the AMP System will be in the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP designed Public Safety Answering Center (PSAC) II Facility located in the Bronx and will be discussed in detail regarding the critical mission of PSAC II and the value of integrating living systems as well as the challenged of integrating first time deployments.

• Case studies developed by Terrapin Bright Green will be used to discuss the integration of livings systems into the building enclosure, taking the traditional doublewalled building envelope and transforming it with biophilic elements while challenging the self-imposed limits of what a building envelop can achieve to increase a building’s sustainability and human comfort.

• Gaia Institutes’ El Jardín del Paraíso Stormwater Capture Park is an exterior deployment that reclaims green space for the city while sequestering lead contamination. It is exemplary of several projects currently undertaken by the Gaia Institute that showcase bioremediation with an increase in biodiversity.

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INTEGRATED DESIGN PROCESS: 300-level

SESSION 34

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Thursday, September 30, 2010 – 11:00 am – Metro 4B

ABSTRACT:

This session will showcase how the available tools and current requirements of new High- Performance Buildings affect the design of building envelopes and where limitations in current tools and standards are evolving to allow accurate quantification of new high-performance forms in architecture.

MODERATOR:

Steven Baumgartner, Associate, Buro Happold

SPEAKERS:

Teresa Rainey, Associate, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Philip Haves, Leader, Simulation Research Group and Commercial Building Systems Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

DESCRIPTION:

Long before the publication of ASHRAE Standard 189.1 on High-Performance Green Buildings, design teams around the world have been pushing proposals for high-performance architectural design and incorporation of innovative low-carbon systems. Based on first principles, and without the extensive library of performance modeling tools available to design teams today, many successful projects were realized.

In today’s design environment, the energy model is king and ASHRAE, LEED, the New York City Energy Code and NYSERDA set the standards by which designers must assess and report the simulated performance of their designs. The standardization of energy model inputs has opened a fair and consistent dialogue on projected energy performance, but do the available tools and methodologies set by the rule makers actually limit creativity and innovation? The panel will discuss how high-performance designs are realized, how they must be accounted for under current and emerging Sustainability Standards, and how the tools currently available are developing to allow the best ideas to be fully accredited and validated.

ASHRAE’s ongoing efforts in developing Engineering Standards form the backbone of the Sustainability Requirements for new design projects in the New York City area. ASHRAE Standard 189.1 along with 90.1, 55 on Thermal Comfort, and 62 on Ventilation interrelate are all carefully considered throughout the building energy modeling process. Panelists will discuss how these standards may contradict the objectives of realizing a high-performance building.

Panelists will explain SOM’s design process in realizing a high-performance design by outlining the modeling programs that are used and how these tools relate to the Sustainability Requirements of a typical project. The panel will include examples to illustrate how aspects of a high performance design, when assessed through existing standards and tools, provide contradictory results. SOM teams are integrating bespoke advanced tools in their design processes. Current standards and modeling tools are evolving to allow more innovative design opportunities to receive due credit.

Then Philip Haves (LBNL)  will delve deeper into the actual mechanics of how energy modeling programs must evolve and innovate in order to harness and assign credit to all architectural and engineering innovations, while still providing a robust energy modeling environment.  Philip will also outline the current work that LBNL is doing with EnergyPlus in developing a new Graphical User Interface (GUI), with input from leading A&E firms, including SOM.  Philip will discuss how this new GUI, coupled with additional modeling functionality is allowing more and more advanced approaches to building design to be validated and credited in line with the requirements of ASHRAE Standards and LEED.

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INTEGRATED DESIGN PROCESS: 300-level

SESSION 19

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Wednesday, September 29, 2010 – 4:00pm – Metro 4A

ABSTRACT:

This session will discuss the capability and use of analytical tools used during the design process to develop low-energy solutions for the urban environment. Case studies will demonstrate how these tools are used in small and large projects to gain insight into the environmental impact of facades and related building systems.

MODERATOR:

Matthew Herman, Associate, Buro Happold

SPEAKERS:

Peter Krebs, Chief Technology Officer, Sefaira

Cramer Silkworth, Transsolar

Shillpa Singh, Senior Sustainability Manager, YRG Sustainability Consultants

Erin Rae Hoffer, Architect, Industry Strategist, Autodesk

DESCRIPTION:

Understanding the flow of energy through building envelopes requires designers to conceive their façade at multiple scales ranging from the microscopic impact of specific materials, to the long- term environmental impact of carbon emissions related to a global supply chain. Numerous analytical tools have been developed over the years to assist designers in studying the impact of their decisions.

Recently these tools have become more integrated with the design process, allowing additional insight into the environmental impacts of facades and related building systems. This session will discuss the capability and use of analytical tools used during the design process to develop low- energy solutions for the urban environment.

The session will begin with an overview of analytical tools used by designers to address sustainable ratings ordinances and mandated energy and carbon reductions in the urban environment. Participants will learn how innovation can provide the basis for informed decision-making and new behaviors on the part of the entire project team – architecture and engineering firms government, facility, design, and construction departments; and energy service companies to support true performance improvement.

Case studies will demonstrate how these tools are used in a quick and dynamic manner to address energy and comfort issues by studying wall and window properties including shading systems, thermal mass and natural ventilation. These same concepts will also be demonstrated at a much larger scale through the testing and development of a façade performance specification for a 30,000-acre master plan where design flexibility, energy, and comfort had to be balanced.

The use of analytical software will be demonstrated to show how it was applied in the design of a sustainable community to select optimal strategies, including state-of-the-art envelope material and site-wide energy generation. Panel members will also discuss their experiences in software development and design consulting as it relates to envelope systems, energy management, and the design process.

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HIGH PERFORMANCE CASE STUDIES: 300-level

SESSION 14

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Wednesday, September 29, 2010 – 4:00pm – Altman B

ABSTRACT:

While advances in building technology and professional education programs have tended to fragment the design industries, Integrated Design concepts reveal a growing commitment to improving the built environment through a more holistic and process-oriented design approach.  This panel will present a series of pioneering European building designs inspired by these ideas.

MODERATOR:

Mitsu Edwards, Structural Engineer, Project Director, RFR Consulting Engineers

SPEAKERS:

Peter Arbour, Facade Architect, Project Manager, RFR Consulting Engineers
Scott Severson, Project Architect, Morphosis Architects
Merritt Bucholz, Principal, Bucholz McEvoy Architects
William Logan, Senior Principal, Israel Berger and Associates

DESCRIPTION:

Integrated Design has been growing in fits and starts for many decades, though only today are the regulatory and economic motivators demanding that designers and developers respond to the pressures of what may otherwise seem common sense.  The practice of façade and curtain wall design, though young relative to the basic disciplines of structural engineering and architecture, is the field in which Integrated Design is making the most direct impact on our design practices and our buildings.  The experts of the panel will be available for what promises to be a lively discussion of the issues of Integrated Design as they relate to these projects and to professional practitioners around the world.

Mitsu Edwards and Peter Arbour will present the work of RFR Consulting Engineers, a Paris-based bureau d’etude founded by the late Peter Rice, which has specialized in the integration of architecture and engineering practices since the early 1980s.  Since its inception, RFR’s work has been characterized by a multi-disciplinary approach, bringing the collaborative and contradictory priorities of architects and engineers together within each project design team.  RFR – with international offices in Paris, France; Stuttgart, Germany; Shanghai, China; and Abu Dhabi, UAE – has been in the vanguard of envelope consulting with the inclusion of environmental, structural, and architectural innovations in its approach to every project.  The continuing expansion of disciplines within RFR has kept the company at the cutting edge of Integrated Design and its methodologies as practiced in Europe and throughout the world.

In recent years, RFR has been the façade consultant of the Tour Phare at La Defense in Paris by Morphosis Architects and the Elm Park Development in Dublin, Ireland by Bucholz McEvoy Architects.  Both projects will be discussed in detail with their respective architects.

Morphosis Architects will present their 300-meter Tour Phare tower for La Defense, Paris.  The project, laureate of a high-profile international design competition in 2007 is slated to begin construction in 2011.  Beginning with the competition entry and continuing throughout its development, the design of the tower has been guided by the precepts of Integrated Design, successfully negotiating the constraints of stringent environmental regulations, demands for user comfort, and a stunning architectural ambition, all within the context of the costs and risks of a large-scale, urban development.

Merritt Bucholz will discuss the work of his firm, the Dublin- and Berlin-based Bucholz McEvoy Architects, and, in particular, the Elm Park Development in Dublin, Ireland.  This prize-winning, mixed-use project comprises nine buildings, and has successfully realized an ambitious agenda of strategic siting, enhanced use of natural daylight and natural ventilation, and a radical reduction of energy consumption by mechanical systems.  A masterful example of architectural beauty and environmental performance, Elm Park stands as a challenge to designers of all disciplines.

William Logan is among the foremost building envelope designers in the world today.  As the Design Partner of Israel Berger and Associates, he has designed façades for Renzo Piano, Herzog de Meuron, Cesar Pelli and many other prominent, international architects.  He will present several of his projects that embody the principles of Integrated Design, from the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France to the new Columbia University Campus in New York City.

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