General Sustainability Announcements

When: Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Where: Wurster Hall, Room 112 (Auditorium)

Time: 12:30-2 pm

Speaker 1: Bruce Hammond

Title: Sustainable Design and Construction: A Builder's Viewpoint

Bruce Hammond is a general building contractor with over 25 years in light commercial and residential construction. From the beginning, a consistent and progressive focus of his company has been on identifying and utilizing construction technologies and practices which minimize impact on the environment, with particular emphasis on energy efficiency, resource conservation, and durability. He has also active in educating and consulting municipalities and county agencies to bring them up to speed about sustainable construction practices for their planning and building departments.

In this presentation, Bruce will offer us a viewpoint from in the trenches, and will speak to the current and ongoing challenges of building and managing "Certifiably Green" projects. How can a view of the structures of the past inform how we plan for a vital and nourishing future? How can we set and manage project targets so that buildings are performing as intended? What assessment criteria, tools and resources can we use? And what lessons can we learn from case studies?

Speaker #2: Cole Roberts

Title: Benefits and Limitations of Life Cycle Cost Analysis

Cole Roberts is a Mechanical Engineer and Senior Sustainability Consultant in Arup's San Francisco office, specializing in sustainable design, assessment, and consultation. Cole has an expansive background ranging from business and finance, climate responsive building engineering, LEED"/Labs21 consulting, master planning, development guidelines, and stakeholder engagement. He offers experience in the use of passive and active techniques to reduce the energy and water consumption of projects and improve their internal environmental quality, often incorporating life-cycle cost analysis, building information modeling, and the computer analysis of thermal comfort and building energy consumption.

This presentation explores the benefits and limitations of Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA), the keys to success, and the application of LCCA as exhibited in an integrated design building project. With the increased recognition of the importance of sustainability in the built environment, there is now an increasing resurgence of the importance of well conceived and executed LCCA. As a growing number of developers and owners buy in to the argument that buildings are best designed with a long term view of performance in mind, the methodologies of LCCA are surfacing as one of the most effective ways of clearly informing the economic tier of triple bottom line decision making.