Strategies for Tomorrow: Reengineering for a Sustainable Built Environment

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Strategies for Tomorrow Re-engineering for
a Sustainable Built Environment
The Innovators October 9, Seattle

• Michael Wolcott, Ph.D.
• Director, Institute for Sustainable Design
• Louisiana-Pacific Distinguished Professor of
  Wood Materials and Engineering
• Civil and Environmental Engineering
• College of Engineering and Architecture

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EnergyStar
clean technology
low impact development
LEED
Net Zero Buildings
Living Buildings
green buildings
solar
sustainability
rain gardens
Green Built
wind power
green IT
green roads
TheNaturalStep
carbon neutral
biofuels
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Sustainability

• Development that meets the needs of the present
  without compromising the ability of future
  generations to meet their own needs.

UN World Commission on Environment and
Development Brundtland Commission Report, 1987
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Economic ProsperityEnvironmental QualitySocial
Justice
Environmental Protection Resource Conservation

• Triple bottom line

Economic Prosperity Continuity
Social Well-Being Equity
John Elkington, 1998, Cannibals With Forks The
Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business. New
Society Pub. 407pp.
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Dorthea Lang Library of Congress
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NASA
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Brenda Om
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Energy Use in United States

• Operations energy
• Lights
• Heating
• Cooling
• Mechanicals
• Embodied energy
• Manufacturing
• Transportation
• Construction

Commercial Buildings 18
Residential Buildings 21
Embodied 9
Transportation 28
Manufacturing 24
Source U.S. DOE Energy Information
Administration
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Dennis S Hurd
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msnbc.com
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Strategies for a Sustainable FutureNow and
Tomorrow

• Green building standards
• Design Goals Environment
• Economics
• WSU activities

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1. GREEN BUILDING STANDARDSOur Solution for NOW
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Metrics of Sustainability

• Energy
• Water
• Green house gases
• Economic
• Social capital
• Public health

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Green Building Standards Comparison
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2. Design Goals EnvironmentIs Todays BEST
Choice... Tomorrows ONLY Choice?
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Stormwater
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Carbon Limits
Source Ken Skog, USFS Economist DataCRS 2008,
U.S. Climate Action Report 2007, EPA 2008
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Source United Nations Population Prospects
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Carbon Neutral Constructionfor Tomorrow
EM Total Energy Resource R REDUCE loads
w/ passive design P PRODUCE renewable energy O
OFFSET what is left! ZERO EMBODIED
OPERATIONAL energy resources
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Living Building Challengefor the Rest of Time

• Three simple goals
• Generates all of its own energywith renewable
  resources
• Captures and treats all of its water
• Operates efficiently and for maximum beauty

CASCADIA region green building council
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4. Economy of Green

• Resource efficiencyleads to...
• Low operation costslead to...
• Stability in changing economyleads to...
• Increased investmentleads to...
• Empowered workforce

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Source Office of Federal Housing Enterprise
Oversight
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...this is the greatest economic opportunity
that we've had since we mobilized for WWIIBill
Clinton

• U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Summit, November
  19, 2007

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Free people never deal with problems based on
threat of destruction...make it economic
mobilization
cities

• 76th US Mayors Conference of Mayors, November 19,
  2007
• - Bill Clinton

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roads
LID
air
food
social
water
structures
design
energy
enabling materials
codes standards
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Academic Research ProgramsAddressing the Need
for Sustainability Education

• Civil and environmental engineering
• New hires in sustainable engineering,green
  pavements
• Wood materials and engineering laboratory
• Laboratory for atmospheric research,water center
• Architecture, landscape arch, interior design
• Individually in Pullman
• Integrated Design Institute Spokane
• Electrical engineering
• Renewable energy coursework endowment

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Extension Applied ResearchAddressing the Need
for Sustainability Practice

• Civil and environmental engineering
• Vikram Yadama Karl Englund
• Materials development
• Clientele
• Byproducts Synergy Group- industrial ecology
  network
• Numerous industrial partners
• Government agencies
• King County - waste to resources
• U.S. Forest Service

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Extension Applied ResearchAddressing the Need
for Sustainability Practice

• Pierce County Extension
• Curtis Hinman
• Low impact development
• LID certification program
• Government Agencies
• Puget Sound Partnership
• King and Pierce County
• Numerous municipalities

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Renewable Recycled MaterialsWood Materials and
Engineering Laboratory

• 60 year history
• Engineered wood products
• Natural fiber composites
• Biopolymer development
• Novel structural design

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Engineered Wood CompositesWood Materials and
Engineering Laboratory
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Recycled Building ProductsWood Materials and
Engineering Laboratory

• 1billion/yr sales
• Principally recycled materials
• Formulations
• Processing
• ASTM ICC

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Biopolymers From WastewaterImproved Water
Quality - Additional Profit Stream

• Poly(hydroxy alkanoates)
• Composites and nano-composites
• Biodegradable
• Low embodied energy
• Municipal industrial wastewater

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What use is a house if you dont havea
tolerable planetto put it on? Henry David
Thoreau
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• Coming Up
• The Innovators lecture series
• Fall 2008

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Biofuels Natural Solutions to the Energy Crisis
The Innovators November 13, Seattle

• Norman G. Lewis, Ph.D.
• Regents Professor, Molecular Plant Sciences
• Director, Institute of Biological Chemistry
• College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural
  Resource Sciences

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Saving Lives Worldwide The Animal-Human Health
Connection
The Innovators December 4, Seattle

• Wendy C. Brown, M.P.H., Ph.D.
• Professor of Immunology
• Department of Veterinary Microbiology and
  Pathology
• School for Global Animal Health
• College of Veterinary Medicine

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• For more information
• www.theinnovators.wsu.edu
• Toll free 877-978-3868

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