Track 3: Community Collaborations and Innovative Partnerships
Presenter | Rick Rome
Session Title | Paths to Sustainability in Healthcare
Session Description:
A case study comparing three of ccrd Partners large Children’s hospitals and their differing approaches to achieving sustainability. - Dell Children’s which became LEED Platinum by taking sustainability to the community - Birmingham Children’s had the community bring sustainability to them by having donations earmarked specifically to be used for achieving LEED certification. - Phoenix Children’s which did not have the funds to achieve LEED certification but still did a sustainable hospital by achieving items that showed energy paybacks and other items to achieve a healthy environment. We’ll present several key sustainability points in our hospital case studies. The associated benefits and economic payback will be provided.
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Presenter | Matthew Higgins
Session Title | Integrated Energy Design Toward Net Zero Buildings
Session Description:
This session will logically challenge the way energy efficient buildings are currently designed and engineered, suggesting that greater interdisciplinary design studies will further reveal energy reduction potentials. Using simulation and heat-transfer as common-ground for understanding energy design, cause-and-affect building processes will be unveiled and scrutinized to formulate optimal designs. The session will enable attendees to improve their ability to recognize what is essential to building performance and occupant comfort. Further, attendees will be able to understand how to communicate, execute, and verify net-zero energy designs in order to reduce the affects of non-renewable energy consumption. The session further addresses methods to effectively reduce building energy consumption through conscientious design decisions; thinking beyond rating systems and points to materialize an architecture that will be energy efficient into the future. This shift requires a more scientific approach to energy reduction while focusing on the strengths in the existing energy design processes. The process described in this session is generalized as: initially optimizing demand-side load reduction measures based on heat-transfer surface areas, internal loads, diurnal swings, and various baseline metrics; then maximizing practical and effective passive design strategies that are annually beneficial; and lastly turning to energy efficient equipment and renewable energy systems.
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Presenter | Michael Tavel, David Kahn ASLA, and Adam Stenftenagel
Session Title | The planning of Geos
Session Description:
Geos, breaking ground in the winter or spring of 2010 in Arvada, Colorado, is project to be America's largest net-zero energy urban mixed-use neighborhood. The design has won seven design awards including a national honor award from the American Society of Landscape Architects. This session will review the planning of Geos including: Solar Urbanism Research; entitlements and public process; stormwater management integrated with civic space; passive house building systems; energy modelling and mechanical system design; strategies for affordability; integrated agriculture; and planning for public stewardship.
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Presenter | Homer Robinson, Robert J. Straka, and Greg Hawrylyshyn
Session Title | Gardens in the Desert: A LEED-H Multifamily Pilot Case History
Session Description:
A collaboration of the Jonathan Rose Companies and the Supportive Housing Coalition of NM, Silver Gardens is the first affordable tax credit housing project in the Southwest designed to achieve a Gold certification in the LEED-H Multifamily Pilot, as well as the first affordable housing project in the Americas to sell its carbon offsets. Located on a brownfield across the street from Albuquerque's Alvarado Transportation Center - hub of all local and regional train and bus lines - Silver Gardens is a key element in rejuvenating Albuquerque's downtown, and a model of public-private infill development partnership. From its innovative structural fill solution (which saved over 1300 gallons of diesel fuel and avoided over 5200 cubic yards of material from the landfill) to its 5000 gallon rainwater-harvesting roof design, Silver Gardens has maximized its potential to model responsible green building techniques in a high desert, urban environment for an affordable residential product. Housing tenants from market rate to transitioning from homelessness, Silver Gardens illustrates what can occur when a green for-profit developer, non-profit social service provider, and urban-redevelopment-focused city government team up. We will discuss the economic and building science challenges to building a project in this Pilot Program, ranging from creative green-specific financing strategies to thermal bypass challenges to energy modeling hurdles to educating tenants and building staff.
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Presenter | Jennifer E. Cross and Farah McDill
Session Title | Creating a Sustainable Organization and Built Environment
Session Description:
How can we use buildings to teach sustainability? How can we make newly designed green schools and older buildings alike more energy efficient through mindful behaviors? The Poudre School District in northern Colorado is a nationally recognized leader in energy conservation and green design, this session with explore diverse ways that users of new and old buildings focus their attention on energy conservation in order to attain yearly reductions in energy use. This session will present and discuss two case studies: a newly designed green school and a public high school built in the 1970s. Within the green school, students learn sustainable practices through examining: architectural design elements, the mechanical and lighting systems, material use, site use and landscaping, water use, and recycling. After mastering this information, elementary students provide technical tours of the building to community members, including graduate students from Colorado State University. At Rocky Mountain High School, a concerted energy conservation effort at the school—supported by the district facilities and operations staff and other community partners—resulted in a 50% reduction in electricity use. This reduction has made it the most energy efficient school—even more efficient than the first LEED Silver School—in the district.
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Presenter | Walker Christensen and Katie Nelson
Session Title | Western Progress: Can we move forward while protecting the past?
Session Description:
How do small, historic towns throughout the West incorporate the latest techniques and technologies for improving infrastructure without losing their authentic flavor? When the economy in these towns is based on tourism instead of mining, agriculture or industry, then the historic attractions of the town are guarded with fervor. The passion involved with protecting these historic resources is appropriate because too many beautiful buildings and public spaces have been demolished in the name of progress. Should we allow a governing board to tell an owner of a historic building that they can’t install solar panels because they disrupt the aesthetic of the original roofline? Is the physical history created 100 years ago more important than the history we are creating today? Is it more important to preserve buildings or streetscape the way it was originally created or preserve our natural resources for future generations? These are issues that will be explored in our presentation of case studies (built and planned) throughout Western Colorado. We are in the middle of writing our own history and these decisions will have an impact on the sustainability of the character, economy and ecology of these towns.
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