THE CHALLENGE

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THE CHALLENGE OF LIVING
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WHY?
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SHADES OF GREEN
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SHADES OF GREEN
Green Building vs. Sustainability(LEED vs
Natural Step)

• Sustainability (Natural Step)
• Whole systems focus
• Strategic
• Triple bottom line
• Focus on aligning with natures cyclical
  processes
• Can guide towards full sustainability

• Green Building (LEED)
• Detail focused
• Tactical
• Ecologically biased
• Focus on being less bad
• Doesnt guarantee sustainability

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TNS A SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE

• Focusing "upstream"
• Principles rather than details
• Shared framework and a common language
• Unalterable system conditions

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TNS THE FUNNEL

• Ecological - species, atmosphere, oceans, land
  ,water

• Health - workers, society, self

• Competition - prices, shortages, insurance

Declining Capacity

• Customer pressure, boycotts, bad publicity

• Governments regulations,
• standards

Effects

• Species extinction
• Human health decline
• Resource depletion
• Social disruption
• Climate change
• Regulatory hurdles
• Rising costs

• Increasing demand for resources

• Increasing populations

• Increasing affluence, worldwide

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TNS BASIC SCIENCE

• Matter and energy do not disappear
• Matter and energy tend to disperse
• Value of matter is in its concentration and
  structure
• Photosynthesis is principal process by which net
  order is produced

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TNS FOUR SYSTEM CONDITIONS
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In order for a society to be sustainable,
natures functions and diversity are not
systematically

• 1. ..subject to increasing concentrations of
  substances extracted from the earths crust
• 2. ..subject to increasing concentrations of
  substances produced by society
• 3. ..impoverished by physical displacement, over
  harvesting, or other forms of ecosystem
  manipulation and in a sustainable society,
• 4. people are not subject to conditions that
  systematically undermine their capacity to meet
  their needs.

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TNS SERA 4 SC SHORTHAND
1 - TAKE Can the earth replace what I take? 2 -
MAKE Am I poisoning soil, air or water? 3 -
RESPECT Do I respect the biodiversity of flora
and fauna? 4 - CHOOSE Are the choices I make
fair and equitable?
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TNS BACKCASTING

• Analyze baseline project for system condition
  violations
• where are we today?
• Envision a fully sustainable project
• what could full sustainability look like?
• Develop implementation strategies
• how do we get from where we are to where we
  are going?

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Living Building Challenge and a University
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COST CASCADIA STUDY
FINANCIAL COSTS OF LIVING BUILDINGS CASCADIA
USGBC / SERA / NBI (Fall 2008)

• Single Family Residential
• Multi-Family Residential
• Mid-Rise Office Building
• Elementary School
• University Classroom
• Hospital
• Complex Mixed-Use Renovation
• High Rise Mixed-Use
• Low Rise Office Building

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LIVING BUILDING SECTION CONCEPTS
Infill Residential
Office
High-Rise Residential
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RETHINK THE FORM
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CASE STUDY HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER
Southern Oregon University / Rogue Community
College Medford, OR
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CASE STUDY HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER

• PROJECT
• 68,700 square feet
• Construction Budget
• 16.8 million
• 243 / Sq. Ft.

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CASE STUDY HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER

• REQUIRED
• Oregon SEED Program
• LEED Silver Equivalent

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CASE STUDY HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER

• Key Strategies
• Urban infill development
• On-site stormwater treatment
• Window orientation to maximize
• daylighting
• Optimized surface to volume and
• window to wall ratios
• Evaporative cooling
• Smart materials choices
• Incentives offset LEED costs

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CASE STUDY HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER

• Results
• 37 Energy savings
• 53 Water savings
• 93 Construction waste diverted
• 24 Recycled content
• 21 Regional materials
• 62 FSC Certified wood
• 81 Access to daylighting
• 90 Access to views
• 50 Green power
• 53 Kw solar array

• Targeting LEED Platinum
• No added cost to project

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SHADES OF GREEN
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THE CHALLENGE OF LIVING
BUILDINGS
Presenter John Echlin, johne_at_serapdx.com www.s
erapdx.com
Beyond Fire Workshop 8.03.08 UC/CSU/CCC
Sustainability Conference 2008