TRACK TWO
Beyond the Fundamentals
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Track Chairs: Marc Sternick, Dietz & Company Architects, Inc., and Jeremy M. Toal, AIA, LEED® AP, Dietz & Company Architects, Inc
Conference Room: Waterfront 3
LEED® Platinum on a Steel Budget
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Wednesday, March 12
Session Chair: Leland D. Cott, FAIA, LEED®, Bruner/Cott & Associates, Inc.
Session Speakers: Gregory Burns, LEED®, Consigli Construction Company, Inc.
Leland D. Cott, FAIA, LEED®, Bruner/Cott & Associates, Inc.
Thomas Vautin, Harvard University Operations Services
The Blackstone Office renovation is the first LEED® Platinum certified building at Harvard University. The single state-of-the-art offices and workshop facility is the result of the transformation of three historic masonry buildings for Harvard University Operations Services. This session will focus on the different pressures, hard decisions, coordination issues, and problem solving results that arose with Blackstone. The panel will offer insight on roadblocks and successes from the owner, designer, and general contractor perspectives.
Re-Visioning the Design Process: Managing for Regeneration
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Wednesday, March 12
Session Chair: Jeremy M. Toal, AIA, LEED® AP, Dietz & Company Architects, Inc.
Session Speaker: William G. Reed, AIA, LEED® AP, Integrative Design Collaborative
This session will explore the practice nuts and bolts that allow a manageable way to weave together the key systems and issues of society, technology, the land and the project to create a design and design process that put us on the course toward regeneration. Regenerative design offers the possibility of leveraging the design process and a project to create environments, communities, and ecosystems that are continually evolving and vibrant - a living system.
Daylighting Analysis: Tools for Modeling and Simulating Performance
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Wednesday, March 12
Session Chair: Dennis Carlberg, AIA, LEED® AP, Arrowstreet, Inc.
Session Speakers: Dennis Carlberg, AIA, LEED® AP, Arrowstreet, Inc.
Leo Dwyer, CNI Tram Law, Inc.
This session is intended to de-mystify daylighting analysis by examining the use of tools commonly used by architects today. The session will focus on the use of physical modeling tools and techniques for qualitative and quantitative analysis. It will also examine the use of mainstream 3D computer modeling programs such as Google SketchUp and Autodesk's Revit for quick qualitative studies.
Energy Modeling for High Performance & Design
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Thursday, March 13
Session Chair: Jeremy M. Toal, AIA, LEED® AP, Dietz & Company Architects, Inc.
Session Speaker: Dave Fano, SHoP Architects, Matthew Herman, Buro Happold Consulting Engineers, P.C.
Building simulation tools can provide the design team advice and quantitative data on aspects of building physics, environmental design, and energy performance. A case study will show how Dynamic Thermal Simulations, Energy Modeling, and Computational Fluid Dynamics can be used to explore design issues to inform the design of low energy buildings and illustrate how and when to use these tools in the context of a Building Information Model (BIM) to assist designers and developers.
Footprinting: Methodologies & Tools
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Thursday, March 13
Session Chair: Jeremy M. Toal, AIA, LEED® AP, Dietz & Company Architects, Inc.
Session Speaker: Jim Merkel, Global Living Project
Julian Parsley, Buro Happold Consulting Engineers, P.C.
The ecological footprint of the average US resident approaches 24 acres, whereas global availability amounts to 4.4 acres per capita. The global challenge is to create live-work settings that bridge this gap. This session will present a methodology of "ecological footprinting", explore why a building owner, design professional, individual, or institution might calculate their footprint and provide examples of how this may inform behavior, operations, building infrastructure, purchasing, etc., to lessen impact.
Measurement & Verification in High Performance Buildings
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Thursday, March 13
Session Chair: Jeremy M. Toal, AIA, LEED® AP, Dietz & Company Architects, Inc.
Session Speakers: Andrew M. Shapiro, Energy Balance, Inc.
This session will describe the M&V process and how it is applied to LEED®-NC, including discussion of the IPMVP, Options B (end-use monitoring) and D (calibrated simulation), and development of M&V plans. Three years of M&V data from the NRG building have highlighted successes, shortcomings and mysteries in building operation. This M&V system was designed to minimize costs and capture essential sub-system data using a combination of manually read meters, one-time measurements, and automated sensors.
Solar Energy Systems for Architects
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Thursday, March 13
Session Chair: Bart Bales, PE, MSME, RISE Engineering
Session Speakers: Bart Bales, PE, MSME, RISE Engineering
Michael Kocsmiersky, BSEE, Kosmo Solar, Inc.
This session will walk you through the various system types and approaches, setting project energy use reduction goals, estimating building energy use, calculating renewable energy production targets, provide rules of thumb for system sizing and cost, and highlight design considerations that may impact the project. This advanced session will provide guidelines for architects for analysis, design, and application of photovoltaic systems to new or existing buildings.