Conference Details
Imagine a Design for a World of 9 Billion People - Implementation of a Cradle to Cradle Design Philosophy
David Johnson is an accomplished architect and a principal of William McDonough + Partners, an internationally recognized design firm practicing ecologically, socially, and economically intelligent architecture and planning in the U.S. and abroad. David will present the philosophy the firm’s architecture and community design practice, principally defined by the seminal work of William McDonough & Michael Braungart, Cradle to Cradle / remaking the way we make things. David will present how this philosophy informs the design work of the practice, case studies of diverse design projects and the larger vision of the potential of Cradle to Cradle Design to address the cogent issues of today and the future.
David Johnson
William McDonough + Partners
Sustainable Challenges in a Global Environment - King Abdullah University for Science and Technology
The world is increasingly facing environmental challenges of all kinds from purely local issues to issues such as climate change which are global in their nature. Countries around the world are generally responding to these challenges but in wildly different ways. This talk will initially cover a broad survey of the global response. It will then go into more detail on the response of Saudi Arabia, the largest producer of petroleum in the world focusing on the innovative King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). KAUST is innovative in its design having earned LEED Platinum from the US Green Building Council but also in the nature of its research. The research focuses on core issues of alternative energy, water and desalinization, biomediation and sustainable agriculture.
Bill Odell
The HOK Group
Improving Building Sustainability Through Integrated Design, Retrofit and Operations
This lecture will present a number of case studies describing best practices of integrated design, retrofit and operation of green commercial buildings around the world. The first case study involves the retrofit of a small net zero energy commercial office building in California. Additional case studies include the first green certified building in Austria and a new University campus in Florida, both of which include the innovative integration of technology to reduce energy use and streamline operations. The final case study is the Johnson Controls corporate headquarters campus in Wisconsin which includes both new and existing buildings, all designed or retrofitted to achieve a LEEDtm Platinum rating.
Clay Nesler
Johnson Controls, Inc.
Rating Tools and Common Carbon Metric
The presentation provides a review of emerging trends and key achievements in the field of Sustainable Development indicators (SDIs), reflects on the role of the indicator system developed in partnership with WGBC and UNEP-SBCI, and offers a set of options and suggestions for the way forward.
As strategic policy tools, SDIs have the potential to turn the generic concept of sustainability into action. Today, however, we are far from achieving this potential. We can't currently find a standardized set of indicators, and several private corporations are creating their own, suitable for their purposes, while international institutions are still trying to develop a generic indicator for measuring and monitoring sustainable development.
While sustainability indicators, indices and reporting systems gained growing popularity in both the public and private sectors, their effectiveness in influencing actual policy and practices often remained limited. The gap between the large potential but smaller actual influence of SDIs on more mainstream adoption of sustainable policies and practices suggests there is a latent potential for indicators to play a stronger role in articulating and tracking progress towards sustainability visions in a wide range of settings.
Realizing this potential requires tackling a number of challenges. From the institutional perspective, the key challenge is to ensure SDIs are integrated into existing rating systems and mainstream policy mechanisms, instead of being an environmental “add-on” to new measurement and reporting systems.
Voluntary rating systems all-ready assist decision makers in setting goals, benchmarking, and comparing alternatives, but also innovation processes and improvement options. They are bringing the ideas inherent in ecoefficiency and the « triple-bottom line » thinking down to a practical implementation level by developing, integrating, and applying measurement science assessing the sustainability performance of energy technologies and systems in an integrated building design and operation context
Alfonso Ponce-Alvarez
Sustainable Building Alliance
Peter Graham
UNEP-SBCI
Thomas Mueller
CaGBC
Affordable and Sustainable – a Housing Enigma
As a small city-state in a small island with scarcely any natural resources of its own, Singapore imports most of the resources it needs, including food, water and energy needs. To remain competitive, Singapore has to continue its economic growth whilst supporting a growing population that can sustain the economy. These challenges will put a strain on our resources, and we have to find ways to sustain development in Singapore.
As the public housing authority of Singapore, the Housing & Development Board (HDB) plays a key role in meeting the housing needs of Singaporeans. Today, over 80% of Singapore’s population live in HDB flats, out of which more than 90% own their flats. Beyond shelter, HDB seeks to create vibrant and sustainable homes, by providing a built environment of a high standard, enhancing the economic value of HDB flats, and building active and cohesive communities within its towns and estates.
The HDB has been proactive in promoting and implementing environmental best practices and measures in its planning, building and development process. Notably, HDB launched its first demonstration eco-precinct - Treelodge@Punggol - in March 2007 to show that innovative building technology and sustainable development can be practical and cost-effective. It spearheaded with the Town Councils through its Energy SAVE programme launched in 2008, to reduce energy usage for the common areas of existing public housing towns / estates.
To have a more strategized approach towards R&D, the HDB Building Research Institute (HDB BRI) was set up in Sep 09 to spearhead new technology and bring about innovative, cost effective and sustainable solutions for HDB projects.
Going forward, HDB BRI is looking at developing Next-Generation of eco-friendly homes. A high signature Eco-District will be developed in Punggol within the east-west corridor along the Punggol Waterway, to create “Green Living by the Waters”. HDB will be modernizing its stock of over 900,000 residential flats to become more environmentally friendly, as part of its “Grey to Green” initiatives. Both the Eco-Town@Punggol and Eco-modernisation of existing HDB towns / estates will serve as ‘Living Laboratories’ to test new ideas and technologies in sustainable development, integrating urban solutions such as energy conservation and renewable energy, enhanced greenery and blue waters, and building technologies to create a sustainable and green living environment for the residents.
This model enables the island state of land area 710 sq km to house about 5 millions people in an environmentally sustainable yet dense urban setting with good balance of green against grey. It allows for the densification of the living environment without compromising the quality of life and bio-diversity of the green spaces in the country.
Lau Joo Ming
HDB Building Research Institute
Affordable and Sustainable – a Housing Enigma
Imagine a future of climate positive, sustainable cities that provide affordable places to live, work and play. Is this just a dream or can it be our reality?
With the same energy and passion that we are addressing green building design and carbon emissions with, we must also address the housing affordability crisis. In Australia, undersupply of housing stock, among other things, is pushing up housing prices – creating a stock deficiency estimated to be some 128,000 homes and rising.
This presentation will address the key challenges and opportunities in the Australian market to developing large-scale green AND affordable housing solutions, utilising Lend Lease’s experience in the sector.
Cate Collins
Lend Lease Australia
Government Enhanced Financing Initiatives
Mr. Platt will review recent trends in private and public financing strategies to advance green buildings in the United States. He will compare and contrast these with financing trends elsewhere in the world including Asia.
Roger Platt, J.D.
USGBC
Approaches to Financing of Energy Efficient and Green Buildings
Just a few years ago few people knew anything about the dangers of carbon emissions; energy was cheap and seemed abundant, and economic growth was only spiralling upward. Today we have made a hard landing and are confronted with the interconnected global economic meltdown, energy crisis and global climate change.
With buildings representing 40% of global energy consumption, and cities a staggering 75%, this is clearly a focal area for action. Of the 19% of total global electricity that lighting consumes, as much as 60% goes to non-residential buildings alone. Significant savings are possible by switching to energy efficient lighting, though often the lack of funding is seen as an important hurdle. This is why at Philips we have developed a number of financing models and approaches to finance the – accelerated – renovation of the vast existing building stock. Investing in the switch to energy efficient green buildings will not only save money and carbon emissions, but also make our buildings more efficient and better places to work, study and leisure.
Harry Verhaar
Philips Lighting Global
How World events can jump-start sustainable building
Ms. Bate will present initiatives, key green solutions and lessons learned from the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, acclaimed as the ’Greenest Games Ever,’ and how these are impacting the development for the Toronto 2015 Summer Pan Am and Parapan Am Games.
Items to be discussed are:
• 2010 Winter Olympic Buildings & Communities - Key Features
• Summer Versus Winter Games-Purposed Buildings and Venues
• Key Features of Sustainability
• Transportation Initiatives and Solutions
• Regional Geography and Climate
• Political Partnerships & Champions
• Deadlines of Games as Finish Lines
• Legacy for These Types of Facilities (Long-Term Use)
Ms. Lisa Bate
Canada Green Building Council
Sustainable Planning & Design of World Expo 2010 Shanghai
China - An Experiment for Future City
Professor Wu, who oversaw the planning of the 2010 Shanghai World EXPO site, will examine the history of urban development from its pre-industrial and industrial stages through today and beyond. He will explain how its industrial stage created unprecedented growth and prosperity for cities, but also brought severe, wide-spread urban problems, such as pollution, traffic congestion, and inadequate housing and social conditions for poor populations. The sustainable future cities must move beyond this flawed approach, and explore new strategies and technologies that incorporate the use of clean and renewable energy. The 2010 Shanghai World EXPO has designed and built its entire site as a demonstration of the concept “Better City, Better Life”. By combining the next generation of urban sustainable technologies with traditional Chinese wisdom, the EXPO organizers pursued a new kind of City of our future.
Prof. Dr. Wu Zhiqiang
Shanghai World Expo 2010
Organically Cool Buildings: Affordable Solutions for AirCon Savings, LED Lighting Standards and High Light Energy Conversion Solar Panelling
Top energy guzzlers in tropical urban cities such as Singapore come from electricity consumption through air conditioning and lighting. Adopting patented innovations with proven success do not necessarily need to come with capital intensive outlays.
Dr. Charles Li
Genesis Photonics Inc.(GPI)
Sustainable Energy Finance Program: Catalyst for Investments in Green Buildings
IFC’s Sustainable Energy Finance program in the Philippines partners with local banks to help promote investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies. The program, which also involves capacity building programs for service and technology providers, market awareness-raising, and support for regulatory improvement, is seen to increase access to financing for green buildings in the country.
Dr Romel Carlos
IFC
How to improve your buildings
energy efficiency with Vertical
Transportation
Elevators can consume up to12% of the energy used in buildings. The amount of energy consumed by elevators can be dramatically reduced if principles explained in this paper are followed.
Modern traction elevators use counterweights that balance the dead weight of the car and approximately half of the rated load. Depending on the load in the car, either the car or the counterweight will be heavier. The motor will work as a generator, if the heavier part moves downwards. The generated energy can be fed back to the mains to minimize energy consumption of the building. By improving the overall efficiency of the elevator system we can further increase the amount of energy regenerated.
Standby energy, energy consumed when the elevator is not moving, can measure up to 80% of the total elevator energy consumed in low rise units. It is therefore essential to also concentrate on reduction of standby energy consumption.
Johannes De Jong
Kone Elevators
Creative Trade Financing for Green Project Owners
The Green movement has created unprecedented dimensions of comparative advantages. Carbon credits, patent inventions and clean technologies present themselves as new world resources and potential economic drivers. The role of traditional trade financing and cornerstone instruments have to be adapted in creative scenarios; the essence is to provide greater favourable terms to the Green product importers whilst eliminating uncertainties for the Green exporter in this revolutionary era.
Elaina Olivia Chong
Real Kaiten Pte Ltd
Achieving Grid Parity through Solar System Leasing
Even now, many people believe that solar energy is still costly and not an economical solution in Singapore. This presentation will explore the actual price of power customers are paying versus savings that can be generated from a solar system in Singapore. Learn how to obtain a solar system at almost no cost over time and how Grid-Parity can be achieved immediately through Solar System Leasing Programme from vertically integrated solar companies like Sunseap in our present time without any grants or incentive from government.
Frank Phuan
Sunseap Enterprises Pte Ltd
Five Easy Pieces
The new building extension of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in the town of Gland near Geneva is an experiment exploring the possibilities of sustainable construction. The project forms one in a series of buildings designed by agps.architecture that evolved over the course of a decade. In research, work builds upon previous work, looking beyond its current state toward its own future evolution. Architects, among others, tend to work in series with explorations from one project forming a base of departure for a following work. For agps.architecture, the mandate to set a benchmark in sustainable design for IUCN occurred within a sequence of environmentally designed projects. The Midfield Terminal at the Zurich International Airport and the Zurich International School in Switzerland explored strategies for sustainable development of buildings through geothermal energy for heating and cooling, solar energy, the reduction of duct work, decentralized mechanical systems, and the use of concrete as thermal mass. These buildings set the stage for more radical implementation in the IUCN project. Reciprocity among energy, material, economic, functional, and spatial considerations progressed still further in subsequent projects at the building and urban scale. These proposals form an ongoing experiment with architecture perceived as a type of laboratory in which ideas and techniques are reframed, tested, rejected, explored, and redefined, and in which the IUCN project played an important role.
Sarah Graham
agps architecture
Tree House - Living in Harmony with Nature
Tree House Condominium is a creation inspired by its surrounding, a harmonious blend of greenery consisting of a nature reserve, a park connector and the nearby Zheng Hwa Park.
Using "Biomimicry" concept, the project ensures the continuous flow of the surrounding natural biodiversity into the development through the introduction of a 24-storey "Bio Shield", Green Canopy and sky terraces. By extension of this ideal, the concept for the development of the Tree House seeks to reinforce this condition to be in sync with its natural environment and offer the same within the built environment.
More than a BCA Green Mark Platinum winner, the development is designed to provide a holistic green lifestyle infused with the latest sustainable innovations. The project is also awarded the inaugural Active, Beautiful and Clean Waters (ABC) Water Certification by the Public Utilities Board of Singapore.
Allen Ang
City Developments Ltd
Retrofitting the Empire State Building
The goal of the Empire State Building project was to prove the financial viability of performing whole-building retrofits in commercial building and to create a replicable, integrated design process for optimizing financial and environmental performance. To meet these goals, a collaborative team of industry and NGO efficiency experts performed a detailed evaluation of over 60 improvement measures to determine the theoretical minimun energy use. After initial feasibility screening, the remaining improvement measures were grouped into bundles and analyzed using a calibrated energy simulation model to determine energy savings, carbon reduction and financial impact. The resulting solution involves eight interactive measures that impact the building's envelope, systems, technology, operations and tenant use. Total energy savings are expected to 38% with an incremental payback of 3.1 years, placing the 80 year-old Empire State Building in the top 10% of all U.S. office buildings with regard to energy efficiency.
Clay Nesler
Johnson Controls, Inc.
Green & Gracious Construction
Dragages Singapore Pte Ltd has been established in Singapore since 1985. Since then and in partnership spirit with Authorities, its project teams including its clients, consultants, its in-house teams and sub-contractors, Dragages’ has always placed the utmost importance into excellence in Quality, Safety and Environmental and resolutely participates actively to the development of a Sustainable Construction sector in Singapore. In this presentation, Dragages will share its Design and Build Main-contractor’s approach vis-a-vis Environmental culture and will provide actual examples of sustainable projects it has strived for and constructed successfully with flying colors in Singapore.
Ms Audrey Perez
Dragages Singapore
IDEA House
The scientific evidence that green houses gases, caused by human activities since the middle of the 20th century, are largely responsible for global warming is now overwhelming (IPCC 2007). Global statistics demonstrate that the energy requirements to sustain our built environment and its infrastructure are having dire environmental consequences, which is reaffirmed by the global perspective that buildings now account for almost a half of the world’s carbon emissions (World green building council 2008; US department of energy 2008). The global green agenda of creating a more sustainable built environment for the betterment of future generations has seen the rise of a greater green consciousness in the industry, and with it more collaborative processes in order to deliver more sustainable products.
The lecture explores the process of collaboration between Sime Darby Property (a company committed to 'developing sustainable futures') and Broadway Malyan, (an International, Interdisciplinary design practice of British origin that embraced sustainable design and its processes before the term 'sustainability' became a la mode) along with the broader design and construction team. Assoc. Professor Jason Pomeroy, Director of Broadway Malyan Asia, will use the 'Idea House'- the first carbon neutral prototype dwelling that provides an insight into fututre tropical living, as a case study in sustainable working process to deliver a sustainable design.
Jason Pomeroy
Broadway Malyan Asia Pte Ltd
Recycled Concrete Aggregates in Structural Concrete Applications - Samwoh Eco-Green Building
In respond to the government call, Samwoh has embarked on an ambitious and forward-thinking demonstration project to build the first building structure in the region using concrete with up to 100% recycled concrete aggregate (RCA) which is derived from construction and demolition waste.
In the past, the disposal of the waste posed a major environmental problem due to limited land space. But today, through the extensive R&D works, technologies have been developed to recycle and reuse the waste in structural concrete applications. It is a technological breakthrough for the industry. The completion of the Samwoh Eco-Green Building has marked a significant milestone in sustainable development in Singapore.
Dr. Ho Nyok Yong
Samwoh Corporation Pte Ltd
Retrofitting the Empire State Building
This lecture will present a number of case studies describing best practices of integrated design, retrofit and operation of green commercial buildings around the world. The first case study involves the retrofit of a small net zero energy commercial office building in California. Additional case studies include the first green certified building in Austria and a new University campus in Florida, both of which include the innovative integration of technology to reduce energy use and streamline operations. The final case study is the Johnson Controls corporate headquarters campus in Wisconsin which includes both new and existing buildings, all designed or retrofitted to achieve a LEED
tm Platinum rating.
Clay G Nesler
Johnson Controls Inc.
The London Olympic 2012
The London 2012 Games has the publically stated ambition to be the most sustainable games ever. The build cost for the games is over £7billion and includes the creation of the biggest new park in England for over 100 years, the transformation of 250 hectares of contaminated land in one of the poorest areas of London into a vibrant new urban quarter of East London, and wholesale social and economic renewal. Legacy sits at the heart of the Olympic proposals and the masterplan has been driven by long term thinking.
All of this will be achieved to a comprehensive suite of sustainability objectives that cover the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainability. The ODA has developed a comprehensive range of objectives and detailed strategy and action plans to ensure that the targets are met and the civil engineering, utility, stadium, housing and landscape projects contribute to those targets. To support this programme a technical support and assurance team has been set up.
The presentation will describe the standards, processes, challenges and achievements and share some of the lessons learned.
Dan Epstein
Olympic Delivery Authority
Singapore Zero Energy Building
The Zero Energy Building at the Building and Construction Authority Academy (ZEB@BCA Academy) is Singapore's first Net Zero Energy Building. What makes it more outstanding is that it is actually retrofitted from an existing building. This flagship R&D project to showcase passive design and advanced green building technologies is a collaboration between BCA's Centre of Sustainable Buildings and Construction, the School of Design and Environment of the National University of Singapore (NUS) and practitioners from the private sector, with additional funding support from Singapore's Ministry of National Development and Economic Development Board.
As a Net Zero Energy Building, ZEB@BCA Academy is designed to operate with the grid serving as its battery where excess renewable energy generated is stored and draw down as reserve when there is inadequate renewable energy on a raining day. In this way, a large and costly battery is avoided. It is aimed to achieve a Net Zero consumption on an annual basis. Since its launch in Oct 09, the building has been performing closely to what was predicted at the design and planning stage, and it has achieved the Net Zero target to-date.
The paper will describe the integrated approach adopted in the conceptualisation, design development and implementation stages of the project. The key design features and green building technologies incorporated for test-bedding and their performance to-date will be discussed. The strategic roles played by a ZEB in the greening of the built environment sector is significant. Hence, the benefits and the useful lessons learnt in overcoming the challenges faced, and the implementation and management of a ZEB will be shared.
Ang Kian Seng
BCA
A/P Dr. Lee Siew Eang
NUS
Low Energy Buildings: GEO & ST Diamond Building
While average Malaysian building office buildings consume 172 kWh/m2 year, a new standard for energy efficiency has been set by the new ST Diamond Building (85 kWh/m2 year) and the 3-year old GEO Building (64 kWh/m2 year). When including the contribution from the roof integrated PV systems, the annual energy index of the two Malaysian office buildings drop to 77 kWh/m2 year and 32 kWh/m2 year, respectively, or 55% and 81% lower than the energy consumption of average office buildings.
The main energy efficiency design strategies that were employed for both buildings were passive building design including favourable orientation and design for high daylight autonomy, energy efficient and daylight responsive lighting systems including the use of task lighting, energy efficient M&E systems including demand controlled ventilation, reduced pressure drops from upsizing ducts and pipes and VSD for pumps and fans, air-tightness of the building envelope, and energy efficient receptacle loads. Lastly, good energy management has been proven to be a key to achieve energy efficient building performance.
Gregers Reimann
IEN Consultants Sdn Bhd
Modern solutions for energy-efficient (residential) construction
Presented by BASF, and one of its customers/partners, the speech will cover: key construction market trends; the importance of building energy efficiency (BEE); already available solutions in other regions (Germany) to address BEE, the technology example ICF. Key construction market trends- Construction market ASEAN- key trends: durability, speed of construction, labour productivity of construction, energy efficiency- specific importance of megatrend Building energy efficiency (BEE)- Answers by the construction industry . The importance of comprehensive thinking in Systems, proper planning and execution [ - German construction standards as a benchmark ]- already available solutions in other regions (Germany ) to address BEE : Refurbishing projects as 7L / 3L house. New buildings: 1L / passive house.- the ICF technology as an example of mdoern solutions , details on ICF - contributions of Styrostone and BASF to a sustainable building based on ICF.
Timo Jutzi
Styrostone ICF
Returns on Sustainable Investment
Sarah’s presentation takes the audience through the typical scenarios of how a developer, investor, owner-occupier or tenant of a hypothetical new office, might appraise the cost-benefits of a ‘standard’ building (one built to current compliance) compared to a zero-carbon/high performance building.
Each case is clearly presented to show how current justifications are skewed based on trusted, but outdated notions and valuations; and that conversely riskier decisions are frequently made in terms of restricting the specification rather than future-proofing the investment. This can apply to both new-build and refurbishment.
This compelling presentation has been met with acclaim by even the most hardened green sceptics. Sarah’s cutting-edge thinking is at the heart of a new working party for the UK Government, through the Department of Work & Pensions, to look at how legislation can drive organisations to recognise the multiple paybacks of low carbon, high performance workplaces by looking at human capital returns as well as carbon, energy and operating costs. This explodes the myth of decisions based on ‘value’ measured simply in terms of
cost per square metre.
Ms. Sarah Daly
Health Avery Architects
Sharing Design: The Story of a Building
Nowadays, green building is rising significantly, large amount of expensive and
collage technologies of green building keeps emerging prominently. This presentation
introduces the process that IBR team adapted to explore the green building
technology system which suitable for the condition of China under the guidance of
“Sharing Design”, with characters of “Localized, Adaptive and Affordable”.
“Sharing” is the key concept of Green Building. it is the sharing between human and
nature, the sharing between human and human, the sharing between mind and body,
as well as the sharing between now and future. Here we start with the sharing of
design rights, to make the building design as a sharing platform, to guide the green
behaviors and culture of human development. Meanwhile, the annual operation
data of this project reflects significant benefits –non‐traditional water‐use rate was
52%; conventional energy consumption was 66% lower than similar office buildings.
Ye Qing
Shenzhen Institute of Building Research
Green Buildings and Sustainable construction
Increasing concern for the environment has led governments and real-estate developers to place greater emphasis on resource-efficiency and eco-friendliness alongside the conventional requirements such as utility, durability and comfort.
For green buildings, the practice of creating structures and using environmentally responsible processes throughout a building’s lifecycle has become a cornerstone in the global drive to enhance environmental sustainability. Materials, structures, products used during the construction and within the building can have an impact on the environmental sustainability of the building.
TÜV SÜD PSB will present on the testing and evaluation of indoor environmental quality in buildings and the efficient use of resources such as energy, water and material within buildings. Going green in buildings hence requires an integrated approach that balances cost effectiveness, safety and sustainability.
Dr Sun Qiqing
TÜV SÜD PSBSingapore
Sustainability Certificate of Real Estate
The market lacks a pragmatic and time efficient system for the evaluation of the sustainability of existing real estate. Existing evaluation systems (LEED, BREEAM, DGNB, etc.) focus on new buildings. In comparison to these a new system for existing buildings should not only be based on theoretical document testing but on a detailed on-site inspection of the building. The inspection is carried out by authorized experts with high technical, ecological, business and real estate expertise. The result should ba a cost-effective evaluation and a focus on the sustainability potential of a building. Measures with room for improvements of the building should be given, which are economicallu feasible in the short to mid-term.
TÜV SÜD SCoRE stands a Sustainability Certification of Real Estate and is a nww evaluation standard for assessing the sustainability of existing office and administration buildings. The standard originated from countless Due Diligence examinations carried out by TÜV SÜD. In the presentation, the TÜV SÜD SCoRE standard is introduced and discussed against the background of the above mentioned market requirements.
Dr Stefan Heuss
TÜV SÜD Industry Services
