materials and chemistry: new horizons in green building
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Materials and Chemistry: New Horizons. What's the future for the chemical industry in green building? Jerry's talk to a meeting sponsored by BASF in San Francisco, November 2012.TRANSCRIPT
New Horizons in SustainabilityMaterials and Chemistry
Jerry Yudelson, PE, LEED Fellow
Yudelson Associates
Where Are We Today?
• Green building growing rapidly, especially in existing buildings
• Building design improving gradually• BUT A long way to go
• Focus shifting away from energy & location to what’s inside
• Building performance
• Architecture 2030 & Net-Zero Energy
• Greening existing Buildings
• Resilient design• Sustainable Cities
Trends & Issues
Trends & Issues
• Convergence: IT & buildings with energy
• Indoor air quality• Materials &
chemistry• Healthy building
materials – EPDs, HPDs
• Healthy homes
Building Performance
Building Performance
Zero
Net Zero Energy Now!
Retro-Greening
Intercontinental Hotel
San Francisco, LEED-EB Gold
Resilient Design
Beyond Greening: Sustainability
Huge convergence underway with sustainability, IT & information cloud connecting with energy, buildings & transportation systems
Sustainable Cities
Masdar City, Abu Dhabi (future)
We Need To Move Quickly!
EcoDistricts — Future of Sustainable Cities
Sustainable Cities: Issue Is Scale
Materials & Chemistry
Materials & Chemistry
Green Chemistry Is Not New!
Materials & Chemistry
Biomimicry
Biomimicry
Indoor Environmental Quality
Healthy Buildings: Next Frontier
EPDs/HPDs Up Next In US
2015 Europe: all building materials
need EPDs Product Transparency Label
Healthy Buildings
Red List vs. Reality
Bottom Line: Transparency
Bottom Line: Transparency
Home Sweet Home: IAQ & Health
• Interiors: health and LCA-related decisions
• Exteriors: lifetime carbon emissions• Overriding concern: sustainability
• As a result, by 2020, most of the building products industry sells today will be either reformulated or become obsolete!
Sum It All Up. . .
Chemistry: The Enabler
THANK YOU!