Intro Sustainable Building

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Intro Sustainable Building

• prof. ir. Kees Duijvestein
• SOM study group, Urban Design and Environment,
• Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of
  Technology

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Ecological building

• Biological building
• Ecological building
• Bio- ecological building
• Environment-conscious
• Environment-friendly
• Energy-conscious building
• Organical building
• Back to the seventies??
• Fairy tale architecture??

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From ecological to sustainable

• Biological building
• Ecological building
• Bio- ecological building
• Environment-minded
• Enviroment-friendly
• Energy-minded building
• Organical building
• Back to the seventies??
• Fairy tale architecture??

National Environmental Policy Plan Ministry of
Housing, Planning and Environment Duurzaam
Bouwen Sustainable Building!!
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Sustainable

• Sustainable building
• comes from
• Sustainable Development (Brundtland)

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Economic quality profit affordability transparanc
y
honesty
profit / prosperity
people
Social quality health livability Freedom Freedom
of choice
Environmental Q energy water material mobility wa
ste
planet
safety
purity
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Design quality relations through
scales (bio)diversity robustness beauty
project
profit/ prosperity
economic Q
people
social Q
planet
environmental Q
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Sustainable versus Durable
In Dutch duurzaam is both sustainable and
durable

• Sustainable
• Balance with
• People
• Planet
• prosperity
• pm Enduring freedom
• German Nachhaltig

• Durable
• Long life span
• PVC
• Galvanized steel
• Preserved wood
• (Lead)
• (CFKs)
• (Asbestos)
• Etc.
• German Dauerhaft

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Sustainability attitude

• Sustainability environment problems
• Environment stands for soil -, noise - and water
  pollution, problems with asbestos and PVC/dioxine

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Thats not my job

• There is a story about four people named
  everybody, somebody, anybody and nobody.
• There was an important job to be done and
  everybody was sure that somebody would do it.
• Anybody could have done it, but nobody did it.

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Thats not my job

• Somebody got angry about that, because it was
  everybodys job.
• Everybody thought anybody could do it, but nobody
  realised that everybody would not do it.
• It ended up that everybody blamed somebody when
  nobody did what anybody could have.

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Sustainability attitude

• Sustainability environment problems
• Sustainability as a challenge for new design and
  organization

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Sustainable Building Quadruple P
Planet Environmental Quality
Project Design Quality
People Social Quality
Prosperity Economic Quality
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Sustainable Building Quadruple P
Energy Water Food material Mobility Wastel
Planet Environmental Quality
Three steps- strategy
flows
systems
Project Design Quality
People Social Quality
Prosperity Economic Quality
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Environment right in the middle
Mercurius
Venus
Earth
Mars
Sun
Too hot
Too cold
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Environment

• The set of conditions for life

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A black box
IN
OUT
Building or Neighbourhood or City
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In order to function, several streams are
necessary
IN
OUT
energy
heat
Building or Neighbourhood or City
raw materials
waste
water
waste water
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The flow-through-speed differs dramatically
IN
OUT
Building
building materials
flue gas (after 1 min.) heat (after 10 hours)
energy
water
waste water (after 10 min.)
demolition rubble (after 100 years)
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Three steps strategy/Trias ecologica

• IN
• 1. Prevent unnecessary use
• 2. Use sustainable resources
• 3. Use finite sources wisely

• OUT
• 1. Prevent waste
• 2. Recycle waste
• 3. Sensible waste processing

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Sustainable Building Quadruple P
Planet Environmental Quality
Urban plan Parcel plan Surroundings plan
Building design Housing design Life and work
space
Project Design Quality
design quality Bio-diversity
relationships through scales
places
People Social Quality
Prosperity Economic Quality
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Relations through scales
Soil-sinkage
Acidification
Climatic change
Heating
Energy problems
0,1m
1m
10m
100m
1km
10km
102km
103km
104km
Detail
Building
District
Region
Continent
Life an work place
Neighbourhood
City
Stream area
World
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Sustainable Building Quadruple P
Planet Environmental Quality
Project Design Quality
Government Civil service Urban planners Architects
Contractors Users
People Social Quality
Proces quality
Four variants DCBA
participants
Prosperity Economic Quality
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Life cycle

• Participant
• Government
• Urban planners
• Architects
• Contractor
• Users
• Contractor
• Users
• Contractors

• Activities
• Initiative
• Location selection
• Design
• Construction
• Use and upkeep
• Renovation
• (Re)use
• Demolition

Time Hours Days Weeks Months Years Weeks Years Da
ys
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architecture
urban design
Co-operation
Building surroundings
Mono-disciplinary
civil engineering
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Co-operation
urban design
architecture
Multi-disciplinary
Building surroundings
civil engineering
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Needed
architecture
urban design
Inter-disciplinary co-operation
civil engineering
Building surroundings
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Design tool Method of four variants (DCBA)

• D - The normal situation
• C - Rectify normal usage
• B - Minimize damage to the environment
• A - Autonomos the Absolute most favarouble
  situation

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Theme slow traffic

• D flexibel, therefore low priority
• C determines urban structure
• B right of way
• A only means of transportation

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Environmental profiles for Amersfoort, Nieuwland
...
A
B
Sustainable building in Amersfoort At least
level C
(ambition) level
C
D
A
B
(ambition) level
C
Sustainable building in Nieuwland
D
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and 1 MW project
A
Sustainable building in project the 1 MW project
B
(ambition) level
C
D
A
B
(ambition) level
Fine-tuning and possible compensation
C
D
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Design quality relations through
scales (bio)diversity robustness beauty
project
profit/ prosperity
economic Q
people
social Q
planet
environmental Q
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Think global, act local