Presenters

Stacy H. Smedley / Kirsten Ritchie / Mikhail Davis

Description

The building sector is the world’s single largest emitter of Green House Gases (GHGs), accounting for 30-40% of total global GHG emissions. Although operational emissions account for more of a building's carbon footprint over its entire life, between now and 2030, almost 75% of the carbon footprint of that 900 B ft2 will be embodied carbon, NOT operational emissions. Building products can reduce their carbon footprint and even become carbon sinks that help remove excess greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

This session will equip manufacturers, architects, designers, and other building industry professionals with specific and practical strategies for selecting products and materials that reduce embodied carbon emissions and move the industry toward making buildings part of the solution instead of less of the problem.

Learning Objectives

• Upon completion, participants will be able to explain the importance of addressing not only operational carbon, but also embodied carbon in building products and how both relates to global warming EA Optimize Energy Performance, MR2 EPD Option 1, LEED v4.1, MR2 - Multi-Attribute Optimization, (EPD Option 2) LEED v4.1.
• Upon completion, participants will be able to identify tools that can help to measure and compare the carbon footprint of different products, including MR2 EPD Option 1, LEED v4.1, MR2 - Multi-Attribute Optimization, (EPD Option 2) LEED v4.1.
• Upon completion, participants will be able to share best practices for considering embodied carbon in specifications. MR2 - Multi-Attribute Optimization, (EPD Option 2) LEED v4.1.
• Upon completion, participants will be able to identify gap opportunities for carbon footprint disclosure advocacy.

Presenters

Melanie Lowe / Alex Setmajer

Description

Many companies want to choose more sustainable products for their buildings, but lose steam trying to understand and navigate the complex landscape of certifications, labels and lists of chemicals to avoid. With years of experience on this challenging journey, global CRM leader Salesforce is releasing their Healthy Materials Manual to the public to act as a road map for this increasingly-specialized subject.

Salesforce Tower in San Francisco is LEED Core and Shell Platinum Certified and on track to be the highest-rated LEED v4 for Commercial Interiors (CI) Platinum project in the United States. Using Salesforce Tower as an initial testing ground, the company is now rolling out their Healthy Materials Program to their global real estate portfolio from New York to New Zealand.

The program evaluates a product’s ingredients, transparency, environmental and social attributes, as well as understand how they contribute to rating systems like LEED v4. It enables Salesforce to work with their partners and manufacturers to optimize products for health and sustainability before they are integrated into the Salesforce Global Ohana Design Standard.

Learning Objectives

• Discover lessons learned from three years of a comprehensive approach to increasing product health and sustainability criteria.
• Learn how a global approach to materials has been developed to both create positive health and environmental outcomes, and to meet LEED v4 Materials andResources credit requirements.
• Understand how other architectural product attributes, such as appearance, performance and cost, can be balanced with the need for product sustainability.
• Hear how different internal departments like design, procurement and sustainability can work together to create product criteria that meet everyone’s needs.

Presenters

Mary Curtiss / Devon Bertram

Description

Planning or evaluating a sustainability program for your real estate is a critical (but daunting) task. This session will first present new, original research gleaned from a collaborative study of 20+ leading companies across North America. The research demonstrates that there are just a few key factors that overwhelmingly impact sustainability program outcomes at different stages – design, implementation, and management. As a leader in sustainability across a range of programs and initiatives, Hewlett-Packard (HP) will share their experience in crafting, implementing, and improving their sustainable real estate program. In addition to presenting research and on the ground experience, the session will include an interactive exercise allowing participants to apply the research findings to their own challenges in designing, implementing, and managing sustainability programs.

Learning Objectives

• Apply new research findings to assess the current state of your sustainable real estate program and identify actionable strategies to overcome challenges.
• Identify existing tools, frameworks, and green building rating systems that support a sustainable real estate program across the lifecycle of a project, as well as key factors and best practices to ensure success.
• Connect your real estate sustainability program and goals to your broader corporate strategy to expand its impact and buy-in.
• Integrate first-hand best practices and lessons learned from research, presenters, and audience members that address challenges related to the design, implementation, and management of sustainable real estate programs (related to leadership, communication, stakeholder buy-in, strategic action plans, data collection, etc.).

Presenters

Gautami Palanki / Jessica Loeper / Robyn Eason

Description

70 kg/m2 CO2 emissions: What does that mean? Is it good, bad or average? How does it compare to others around the world? Where does environmental and financial performance intersect? How do I engage building occupants in lowering emissions? Emissions anywhere impact people everywhere. To help answer the questions above and share impactful strategies for climate action, this session brings together California based sustainability experts that track, manage and report on carbon across portfolios. The session will describe the organizations' philosophies, sustainability initiatives and tools used, including the score in the Arc platform.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the ways to measure carbon emissions in the building and across the portfolio.
• Describe ways to benchmark carbon emissions from a building's operations across the portfolio and local/global peers, using the Arc platform.
• Summarize strategies to measure, manage and minimize carbon emissions, cross energy, transportation and other metrics
• Leverage the accountability and transparency of reporting frameworks, to manage carbon reduction goals.

Presenters

Catherine (Jimmy) O'Hare / Scott Salge / Erik Pearson

Description

Local governments were early leaders in adopting LEED and the City of Hayward has taken that leadership to the next level with its new Library, tracking LEED Platinum and targeting ZNE. This session will explore how to achieve such high levels of performance on a complex public sector project with a diverse and community-serving user focus. The project includes all-electric design, radiant slab conditioning, rainwater reuse, and optimized daylighting among other innovative strategies.

Learning Objectives

• Understand how to maximize energy points in all-electric buildings under EAc1.
• Learn how rainwater capture and reuse can be used to achieve WEc1 Indoor Water Use Reduction.
• Understand lessons learned for achieving the LEED EQ credit for daylighting.
• Understand the role of zero net energy and all-electric buildings in the context of public sector sustainability and GHG goals.

Presenters

Nicole Crone / Tristam Coffin / Christen Soares

Description

This session explore the innovative solutions for the Whole Foods Sunnyvale store, pursuing LEED, WELL, and Zero Net Energy. This project provides a model for retail and for groceries, two sectors that historically have not been at the forefront of sustainability and green building. The design team incorporate health, resilience, energy, graywater, and many other strategies to provide an integrated solution. The project mostly eliminated onsite fossil fuel use onsite and leveraged natural refrigerants in ways that could provide an example to the entire industry.

Learning Objectives

• Understand applications of LEED ID+C v4 Retail, WELL, decarbonization, and zero net energy in a retail food service environment.
• Learn how to apply innovative energy solutions to maximize points available in EAc1 Optimize Energy Performance.
• Understand graywater systems and how they contribute to WEc1 Indoor Water use Reduction.
• Understand synergies, tradeoffs, and considerations when balancing health and wellness with energy efficiency and sustainability.

Presenters

Panama Bartholomy / Sara Neff / Martha Brooks

Description

California is going through one of its most seismic shifts in building energy policy and design. The move towards full decarbonization of the building stock has started and the policy, technical and financial implications are being developed under our feet. Come hear from thought leaders working on the policies, programs and projects leading this shift. A panel of market leaders will discuss where we are, where we are going and what it means for you.

Learning Objectives

• Learn about current and upcoming regulatory changes related to operating emissions from buildings and how this will affect design.
• Learn about the dangers of natural gas for building occupants and communities and how to design buildings without gas infrastructure.
• Learn about the movement to electrify buildings and how architects can design all-electric buildings cost-effectively.
• Learn about programs and initiatives being rolled out and planned to help the design and construction community avoid gas infrastructure in their designs and construction.

Presenters

Kathleen Hetrick / Paula Kehoe

Description

Reviewing onsite water reuse design and permitting process for two projects, one in Santa Monica and one in San Francisco. What are some of the pinch points and successes that attendees can learn from? Also, how does the passage of SB966 impact this process once the law goes into effect. What do designers need to start thinking of now prior to implementation of this law?

Learning Objectives

• Learn about how onsite water reuse impacts the Indoor Water Use Reduction WEc2 credit.
• Learn the difference between grey and blackwater and how that choice impacts the design process.
• Learn about the challenges and successes associated with composting toilets in larger deveopment.
• Learn about some of the resources available that can help designers.

Presenters

Michael Robinson, Sr. / Amanda von Almen

Description

California Utility rates are about to go through the largest change since the creation of Time of Use rates. As a result, a new set of facilities will have the opportunity to leverage battery energy storage solutions to effectively for manage demand and reduce utility energy costs. The presentation will detail the changes in the market and provide a case study of how an office space can leverage storage to reduce demand charges. The presentation concludes with example business models to deploy storage and how to identify if a facility is a good potential fit for storage.

Learning Objectives

• Education of changing Utility Rate Structures.
• Education of different energy storage business models.
• Review energy storage load profile analysis process.
• Understand how to identify if a facility is a good match for storage.

Presenters

Dan Burgoyne / John Andary / David Kaneda

Description

A "zero net carbon" building is a "zero net energy" building designed to be all-electric (no natural gas burned on site). We will demonstrate how to design a zero net carbon building by explaining basic strategies and through case study examples. These built examples include medical, higher education, civic and office buildings. The session will also explain how these zero net carbon buildings were built within or below the project construction budget.

Learning Objectives

• Learn how the State of California defines Zero Net Energy
• Learn efficiency requirements for state of California ZNE buildings
• Learn options for renewable energy generation for California state ZNE buildings
• Learn about tools and resources to help identify and achieve ZNE

Presenters

Kimberly Loscher / Emi LaFountain / Jenelle Shapiro

Description

How can contractors lead LEED? This session provides the contractor’s perspective on ways to move the needle and transform traditional design and construction practices. The presenters will share what some of the largest contractors in the US are doing to push the envelope on LEED and green construction.

Learning Objectives

• Share unique strategies that contractors are using to meet project design and construction sustainability goals.
• Explain ways project partners can work together to meet the Construction and Demolition Waste Management credit in LEED BD+C v4.
• List ways project partners can work together to meet the Building Product Disclosure and Optimization credits in LEED BD+C v4.
• Describe synergies and shared collaboration approaches between contractors, designers, and owners to meet the Integrative Process credit in LEED BD+C v4.

Presenters

Elaine Aye / Evan Reis

Description

Resiliency has become an urgent issue for designers, owners and managers responsible for the safekeeping of their buildings and the wellbeing of occupants. This session provides an overview of future climate forecasting models and a climate resilience assessment tool for identifying areas of vulnerability to changing climate conditions. Strategies to incorporate into building design from an operational perspective, with regards to building systems, education, resilient systems, resourcefulness, recovery and adaptability will be discussed.

Learning Objectives

• Comprehend the scientific basis behind the need for resiliency planning in the built environment.
• Understand how to manage risk through resiliency assessments.
• Identify strategies for climate change mitigation and adaptation.
• Discuss trends in resilient design and how climate data can inform design choices.