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Reflect
Think of the best moments when
everything clicked - a time when you were
working with others on a project (or another
experience)
What key elements / aspects made this
successful?
Reflect
Now think of a project you are currently
involved with.
How many of these criteria are present?
Which ones can you achieve?
Which ones are not going to happen?
What can you add to the process to help?
What expectations may need to be shifted?
The Elements
(not necessarily an Agenda)
- Defining Green
- Systems and Synergy
- Cost / Benefits
- Roadmap for an integrative process
- Elements for Success
- Principle based thinking (its not the Points)
the problem
global ecosystem capacity exceeded
productive surfaces
(forest, agriculture,
sea etc.)
biodiversity
(natures control
system)
receptive capacity
(cyclic - breakdown
waste)
Ecosystem ability to
provide
Human needs
and demands
1985
1995
2005
2050
time
a pathology of sustainability
But these solutions do not
provide a full solution
Ecosystem ability to
provide
bio recovery
Ecospecifer
Human needs
and demands
a pathology of sustainability
wellness +
bio recovery
wellness -
treatment of symptoms
Recycle
Reuse
Reduce
a pathology of sustainability
wellness +
restorative sustainability
full recovery
bio recovery
wellness -
reductive sustainability
bio recovery
Ecospecifier
An object seen
in isolation from the whole
is not the real thing
Masanobu Fukuoka
Systems
Elements
Interconnections
Systems
Elements
Interconnections
Purpose (a conscious or purposeful role)
Green Design?
Design and Construction practices that
Significantly reduce or eliminate the negative
impact of building(s) on the environment
and occupants
OR
Design, Construction, and Operation practices
that
Support and improve the health of the systems
that sustain life
integrateddesignstrategy
Seek Synergy
Synergy=$avings
Develop
Sustainable
project vision
Business as
Usual
Ecospecifier 2008
Problem:
Linear Take, Make &
Maintain process
Better Solutions:
Kendalls Cove
Developer budgeted for Electric hot water. No gas planned on site
Development Control Plan called for Energy Efficient hot water.
Early Council discussions indicated no approval until satisfactory
specification provided.
Challenge:
Deliver Solar or Gas Hot water without budget impact
Integrated Design Process Solution
IDP identified $300k savings (net $100k) by avoiding need for substation upgrade if gas introduced to whole site including cooking and
hot water.
Cost / Benefits
LEED
cer?ed
LEEDGold
&
Pla?num
Rent
Increasein Sales
premium, occupancy premium,
persq.8. rates
persq.8.
2530%*
Approx
50%
US$11.24
3.8%
US$171
*2530%forallLEEDbuildings,includingcerAed,silver,goldandplaAnumgrades.ForgoldandplaAnum,thesavingsapproach
50%.SourceofInformaAon:www.usgbc.org/News/USGBCInTheNewsDetails.aspx?ID=3648
Ecospecifier 2008
Stuff
$1.5 K
$2 K
- $3.5 K
$$$
-$2 K
$1 K
- $4 K
$1 K
100% CDs
Budget
LEED Points
The Cliffs
707 Acres
707 Acres
850 units
1,350 units
The Cliffs
850 units
1,350 units
90,290 LF of roadway
73,260 LF of roadway
54 Average Frontage
80
70
Wall
70 50 30 10
70 50 30 10
50 30 10
RCR 0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
(by 7 Group)
50
= 25% Reduction
First Costs
Financing / Legal
/ Insurance
22%
Construction
Cost
54%
A&E Fees
6%
Furnishings
8%
Land
10%
Renovations
20%
Financing / Legal
/ Insurance
15%
Taxes
17%
Interior Designers
Building/Project Users
Government agencies
Community members
Bankers
Landscape Architects
Civil Engineers
Planners
Environmentalists
Lawyers
Client
Architect
Builder
CONVENTIONAL BUILDING
TEAM
THE CHAMPION MODEL
(Linear Process / Industrial Age Thinking)
Design Team
Client /
Client Rep
Design Team
Decision Maker
Staff Reps.
Property Broker
Structural Eng.
Facilities Mngmt.
Client
Commissioning Agent
Structural Sub.
Civil Sub.
Planner
Mech Sub.
Habitat Spec.
M.E.P. Eng.
Millwork
Energy Modeler
Landscape Arch.
Waste Specialist
Finish Subs.
Electrical Sub.
And so on . . .
Source: Roadmap for the Integrated Design Process, BC Green Building Roundtable
Source: Roadmap for the Integrated Design Process, BC Green Building Roundtable
All Hands
Meetings
Materials
Water / Habitat
Energy
Indoor Envir Qlty
$: budget
M
W/H
E
IEQ
$
Prelim
DD
SD
CD
B&N
VE
Prelim
SD
DD
CD
VE
VE
W/H
W/H
E
IEQ
Meeting Date: 12/15/04
Issues:
Attendees:
Attendees:
Attendees:
Resolved:
Resolved:
Resolved:
Issues remaining:
Issues remaining:
Issues remaining:
LCC:
LCC:
LCC:
Assignments:
Assignments:
Assignments:
Reflect
Write the Story of your current design
process
Some issues to address:
Levels of collaboration
Issues iteratively addressed
Meaningful outcomes
Personal satisfaction
Elements of Success
5. Seek Synergy.
Synergy - the sum of the parts is greater than the whole
sustainable concepts.
Cost sustainability initiatives fully
Use whole-building as well as whole-site modeling
e.g. energy and water balance models to test scenarios
and optimize progressively- test early, test often
Use systems thinking to look at different options and
think of unorthodox solutions
Break past and outdated assumptions
Synergy often generates innovation and major whole project cost benefits worth the risk
Being overly-cautious often results in lack of innovation
- no synergy = no savings
Experienced project and construction managers
manage or externalize risk (e.g. indemnities,
insurance, sharing etc)
Result makes high performance green buildings a low
or no cost option
Source: Roadmap for the Integrated Design Process, BC Green Building Roundtable
you feel that group interactions inspire creativity working sessions are more fun.
2
S(EE) Rs
Synergy (drivers), Educated (in
Sustainability), Enthusiastic,
Expertise, Experience & Risk
Managers (not avoiders).
The E Factors
Education and Enthusiasm
An equal, high level of ESD education creates
maximum synergy
Enthusiasm means the team members are likely to:
go the extra mile,
search for synthesis not just do analysis i.e.
be more creative
be more willing to innovative
be co-learners and exercise humility
care more about the future
The R Factor
Risk Managers
Design team must be innovative specifiers, competent
risk assessors and managers:
Progress in sustainability necessitates use of new
and innovative technologies
Innovative technology can be implemented with
appropriate risk management strategies
Significant cost benefit can often result from
innovative integrated technology solutions
Bjrn Stigson
President
World Business Council for Sustainable Development,
Geneva, 26 November 2004
Design and Builders will need to deal differently with substitution and
deletion practices.
The Three Es
Everybody
Early
Every Issue
opening up
REFLECTING
THINKING
CREATING
Iterations
What do we believe?
Whole systems processes
Mindset
Team Alignment
Goals specific
Sust. Principles Nat Cap/TNS
DOING
Coordinated Action
CONNECTING
Learning Wheel:
All-Hands
Meetings
What do we know?
Digestion
Catalysts
Inhibitors
Opportunities & Solutions
Brainstorm
Cross-link
DECIDING
winnowing
down
Learning Wheel concept from Peter Senges Fifth Discipline Field Book
Process Graphic by Alex Zimmerman and Anita Burke
Schematic Design
Design Development
CoVO
Front End
CoVO
Back End
Discovery
Pre-Design/Concept SD
DD
CD
Discovery
Pre-Design/Concept SD
DD
CD
Energy:
Energy efficiency and sources, microclimates, building use
Materials:
Local material sources and waste opportunities
Water
1. Water budget should be equal to or less than rainfall
amount on site
2. Use less
3. No water should leave the site
4. Clean all water to potable standards before it leaves
the site
5. If, and before, water leaves the site cascade its
use to support all life (habitat and human)
6. Recharge ground water table (where possible)
Water Balance
This schematic water balance was
prepared for a mixed use development of
approximately 150 homes, in the arid
west. The water balance illustration shows
the quantity offlow through a development
incorporating residential dwellings, a
school, civic and commercial buildings,
and landscape. Captured rainwater and
treated effluent meet the landscape water
demand. This reduces the potable water
required by the development by 6.14
acre-feet, about 2 million gallons, per
year. The water balance diagram shows
that no captured rainwater or recycled
effluent is being used for flushing urinals
and water closets in the commercial and
civic buildings. However, the commercial
and civic buildings are dual-plumbed to
make this possible in the future. 15.8
acre-feet per year (5.15 million gallons) is
returned to the aquifer through a* *land
application system.* * This offsets the
long-term demand on the aquifer, creating
a more sustainable water profile for the
development.
Materials
1. Use less
2. Use materials that are:
- abundant;
- natural;
- do not destroy human and earth systems in
their extraction, manufacture, and disposal.
- this generally means: locally sourced,
recyclable, non-toxic, low embodied energy
Energy
1. Create less demand insulation, use patterns,
reduced loads, etc
2. Use available site energies sources and sinks sun,
wind, earth-coupling, diurnal cycles
3. Increase efficiency of whats left equipment,
appliances, diversity factors, parasitic losses, part-load
performance, etc.
- Cost integration
- Feedback
Core Team
Discovery
Pre-Design/Concept SD
DD
CD
Discovery
Leverage Points (Keystone)
add side-bars
Examples to be developed
Pre-Design/Concept SD
DD
CD
$$
MEP/Comfort Systems
Interior/Bldg./Site Config.
$$
$$$
_______
_________
$$
$$$
Operating Costs
OC
OC
Maintenance Costs
MC
MC
Replacement Costs
RC
RC
_____________________________________________________
Productivity Benefit
_____________________________________________________
PB
_________
NPV
Depreciation Benefits
Optional Environmental Burden (weighting factors/multipliers)
PB
___________
NPV
Discovery
Pre-Design/Concept SD
DD
CD
Schematic Design
Discovery
Pre-Design/Concept SD
DD
CD
Design Development
Workshop #4
Discovery
Pre-Design/Concept SD
DD
CD
Construction Documents
Workshop #5
Documentation
CD Coordination Workshop
Discovery
Pre-Design/Concept SD
DD
CD
Occupancy
Post-Occupancy Evaluation
Construction
Commissioning
Discovery
Pre-Design/Concept SD
DD
CD
ecospecifier
2008
external shading,
insulation,
orientation,
optimised areas of smart glazing
thermal mass, earth integration, phase change
materials etc;
ecospecifier 2008
ecospecifier 2008
= 35.4oC
= 37.2oC
= 64.7oC
ecospecifier
2008
ecospecifier 2008
Shaded western
aspect allows 100%
screening and views
ecospecifier 2008
wholesystemdesignisthekeyto
advancedresourceproducAvityo^en
reducingcapitalcostuctuaAonsto
zeroorless.
WholesystemdesignopAmizesan
enAresystemtocapturesynergies.
Dr.AndrewKean,10XE"FactorTen"andtheNonviolentOverthrowofBadEngineering,RockyMountainsInsAtute,www.rmi.org,
SnowmassColorado
Interoperability:3DCADnowBIM
3Disnow 3+DornD
andthenewtermis
BuildingInformaAonModel=BIM
Rapid,real,costeecAveecoproling
Toxic
Effluent
Energy
Use
1.0
0.8
LCA is now
automated
Water
Use
0.6
Toxic
Solid
Waste
Metal
ores
0.4
0.2
0.0
Solid
Waste
Mineral
Depletion
Toxic Air
Pollution
Fossil
Fuels
Greenhouse
Gases
Scarce
Resources
YES/NO?
umbrellas Commonfunc?on:
DierentMaterials
DierentDurabili?es
Dierentimpacts
umbrella?
Aluminium
Louvres:
SamefuncAon
Ecospecifier 2008
Building umbrella
Timber
Louvres:
SamefuncAon
Ecospecifier 2008
GGE
GGE
kg/m2 (approx)
(kgCO2e/
kg)
(kgCO2e/
m2 )
20.4
9.205
189
8.5
5.457
46
Mass
1.3
16-22
14.4-6.6
Excludes
Cbond coating
1.3
Concrete precast,
118
.114
Concrete precast,
2.3
118
1.242
.114
2.3
.352
76
-2.8
21-29
19-9
16
14
-200
Ecospecifier 2008
State of Mind
Participants in ISDP
need to be prepared to
enter into a state of
willing suspension of
disbelief about costs
and outcomes..
Until the creative process
is complete and proper
analysis can be done
everything should be on
the table.
To do different things
we need to do things differently
Before we can do things differently
we need to think about them differently (new
purpose)
Before we think differently
we need to be different