intro to green buildings

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Todays Special Green Buildings

Introduction

Tour

Lunch

Price is Right


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Introduction to Green Buildings

Aurora Sharrard

Green Design AIU Apprenticeship Program

20 February 2006


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Buildings Account for . . . 20% of U.S. economy

All construction

39% of U.S. primaryenergy use

70% of U.S. energyconsumption

12% of all potablewater

16 trillion gallons /year

40% of raw materials

globally

3 billon tons / year

136 million tons of

waste / year

Municipal solid

waste = 210 million

tons / year

Source: USGBC


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Building Life Cycle Costs Design

Architects, Engineers, Planners

Construction Labor (contractors), Materials, Equipment

Operation and Maintenance

Lighting, Heating/Cooling, Renovations,Cleaning

Deconstruction

Labor (contractors), material disposal (recycle?)


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Building Life Cycle Costs The people inside!

Workers wages can make up bulk of life

cycle costs of a building Comfortable building

space

Happier workers

More productivity!

Not typical to thinkthis way, but

becoming morecommon


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What is a green building?


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Is this a

greenbuilding

?


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9/47Island Wood, Bainbridge Island, WA


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Sleeping Lady RetreatLeavenworth, WA


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Ducks UnlimitedWinnipeg, Manitoba


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GAP Inc., San Bruno, CA


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Philip Merrill Environmental

CenterAnnapolis, MD


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Private Home, Tempe, AZ


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Green

Materials


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Private HomeWalnut Creek, CA


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Private

Home

Walnut Creek,CA


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How do you differentiate one

green building from another?


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What is LEED? Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

Created by the USGBC in 1998

Precursor in 1994

Encouraged by NIST and DOE

Adapted for other countries

Canada Australia

Hong Kong


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LEED Buildings 19 certified under Version 1.0

198 certified under Version 2.0 (June 2005)

Mostly commercial buildings International

Canada

Sri Lanka

India

1,188 registered (March 2004)

At various design and construction stages

0.7% of commercial buildings built annually


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LEED Categories Sustainable Sites (SS)

Water Efficiency (WE)

Energy & Atmosphere (EA)

Materials & Resources (MR)

Indoor Environmental Quality (EQ or IEQ) Innovation & Design (ID)


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Credits & Available PointsAbbreviation Category Prerequisites Credits Sub-Credits

Points

Available

SS Sustainable Sites 1 8 614

WE Water Efficiency 0 3 2 5

EA Energy & Atmosphere 3 6 2 17

MR Materials & Resources 1 7 6 13

IEQIndoor Environmental

Quality2 8 7 15

ID Innovation & Design 0 2 3 5

TOTAL 7 34 26 69


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LEED Levels for NC Certified

26-32 points

Silver 33-38 points

Gold

39-51 points

Platinum 52-69 points


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LEED Products Horizontal

LEED for . . .

New Construction and MajorRenovation Projects

Pilots

Existing Buildings

Commercial Interiors

Core and Shell Projects

Residential Homes

Vertical Guides

Retail

Laboratories

Schools

Healthcare

Campus

Volume Build


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LEED Projects Certified by State

0

5

10

15

20

25

CA PA WA OR MI CO GA MA NY AZ VA FL MD KS NJ NC IL

State


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LEED Certified Projects by Leve

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

CERTIFIED SILVER GOLD PLATINUM

Level


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Square Footage of LEED Certified Buildings by City

0

500,000

1,000,000

1,500,000

2,000,000

2,500,000

Pittsburgh, PA Sacramento,

CA

Torrance, CA Caledonia, MI Atlanta, GA

City, State

Square

Footage


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Pittsburgh Green Buildings (14 + 2) PNC Firstside Center

David L. Lawrence ConventionCenter

McGowan Institute forRegenerative Medicine

CCI Center

CORO Center for CivicLeadership

KSBA Architects OfficeBuilding

Phipps Conservatory WelcomeCenter

Childrens Museum LanternBuilding

Heinz Regional History Center

Addition

CMU New House Residence

Hall

Henderson House

Collaborative InnovationCenter

Posner Center

Greater Pittsburgh Duquesne

Greater PittsburghCommunity Food Bank

Munhall

Siemens Westinghouse

U.S. Steel Research andTechnology Center

+ 42 registered!


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Green Building Tour of CMU

Selection of buildings

(green and not green)


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Green Building Tour of CMU Hamerschlag green roof

Wean

Newell Simon Collaborative Innovation Center

Watershed Project

New House 1st LEED dorm -- Silver rating

Intelligent Workplace

Kraus Campo Green roof / gathering place on top of Posner Hall

Attempting LEED Certified level


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HamerschlagGreen Roof


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Wean Hall


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Newell

Simon


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Collaborative Innovation Center


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CEE Undergraduate Watershed Project


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New House

Dormitory


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Intelligent Workplace


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Kraus Campo


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Butterfly Garden


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Triple Bottom Line

Economics

Social Equity

Environment


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Where can green buildings fit in? Economics

Can save lots of $$ over life cycle

Environment

Can save huge amounts of energy, resources, and

emissions

Social Equity

Can produce happier, healthier workers/tenants


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What is Sustainability?Meeting the needs of the

present withoutcompromising the ability of

future generations to meettheir own needs


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Lets go!


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Craig Street Solar Panels

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