Don’t miss the Winter edition of Centerline, available online now! In this issue, we feature pro
bono work, news on recently awarded grants, introduce you to the newest CBE
partners, and more.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Livable Buildings 2014 Winners Announced
CBE is proud to announce the winners of the 7th annual Livable
Buildings Award!
In August of 2014, a jury of CBE Industry Partners selected the David & Lucile Packard Foundation Headquarters in Los Altos, California, as the
winner of the 2014 Livable Buildings Award. The DPR Southwest Headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, was recognized
with an honorable mention. These projects meet the highest standards for
providing healthy and productive indoor environments, and represent best
practices for sustainability and overall design.
These winning projects, along with the other award finalists,
ranked among the top scorers in CBE's Occupant Indoor Environmental Quality Survey.
The survey, used to study occupant satisfaction with the quality of the indoor
environment, has been implemented in over 650 buildings around the globe.
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Viega is newest CBE member
Founded in 1899, The Viega Group manufactures and distributes plumbing, heating, and pipe-joining systems, and offers more than 3,000 products in North America. Viega is best known for innovative press technology systems for industrial, commercial, and residential projects, including everything that is needed for a complete radiant heating or cooling installation. They provide the tools, training, and technical support needed for a radiant project, and their products can be easily integrated into building designs for overall energy efficiencies. Viega's extensive product offerings provide system designers with many options and choices, and include tubing, fittings, manifolds, controls, mixing stations, sensors, mats, panels, tracks, and plates.
“We are honored to be associated with CBE,” said Mark Parent, Director of Product Management. “There is a lack of industry knowledge when it comes to radiant heating and cooling. Our hope is to help educate the industry on newer and more efficient technologies when designing commercial integrated hydronics systems.”
CBE’s recently received grant will be funding work related to radiant slab cooling, researching how to optimize radiant systems for maximum energy efficiency and comfort. This research will provide performance data to develop design and control guidelines. Viega and CBE are also collaborating to provide training sessions to leverage these research results to create innovative product advancements and design guidelines. Sessions are planned for May and November on both coasts, be on the lookout for further information soon.
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| The Davis Building at the University of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio, installed a Viega radiant mat system and won first place in the 2014 ASHRAE Technology Awards. Image: Viega. |
“We are honored to be associated with CBE,” said Mark Parent, Director of Product Management. “There is a lack of industry knowledge when it comes to radiant heating and cooling. Our hope is to help educate the industry on newer and more efficient technologies when designing commercial integrated hydronics systems.”
CBE’s recently received grant will be funding work related to radiant slab cooling, researching how to optimize radiant systems for maximum energy efficiency and comfort. This research will provide performance data to develop design and control guidelines. Viega and CBE are also collaborating to provide training sessions to leverage these research results to create innovative product advancements and design guidelines. Sessions are planned for May and November on both coasts, be on the lookout for further information soon.
Thursday, September 18, 2014
New member welcome: Delos Living
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| CBRE's Los Angeles headquarters was the first WELL Certified office in the world. Image: Delos. |
and wellness as a critical element of business planning, building design, and programming decisions. Knowing that people spend well over 90 percent of their time in buildings, Delos believes that commercial real estate has a unique opportunity to support health and wellness, including preventative health. They developed the WELL Building Standard, an evidence-based performance standard for measuring, certifying, and monitoring the performance of building features that impact occupant health and wellness (air, water, nourishment, light, fitness, comfort, and mind).
The company is comprised of four core areas: (1) Delos Labs: The central research hub. They collaborate with scientific, medical, and design/research groups to review, assemble, publish, and evaluate the technical and performance data of the WELL Building Standard; (2) Delos Project Delivery and Project Management: Provides advisory support to industry (owners, developers, architects, engineers, contractors, and manufacturers) for the WELL Building Standard; (3) Delos Ventures: Identifies and brings innovative wellness real-estate products and technologies to market; and (4) STAYWELL and WELL SIGNATURE: Provides health and wellness lifestyle amenities, products and programs designed to enhance and improve the hospitality and multi-family living experience. CBE is currently working with Delos to develop a survey tool to be used for the WELL Standard, to measure worker health, productivity, and satisfaction with their environment.
Thursday, August 21, 2014
CBE welcomes Stantec to consortium
With over 15,000 employees in more than 250 offices around the world, Stantec offers professional consulting with a wide variety of expertise — including engineering, planning, architecture, interior design, environmental sciences, and more. They collaborate across disciplines and industries to bring buildings, energy and resource, and infrastructure projects to life. They currently have 649 LEED accredited professionals and 293 LEED certified projects.
They have been involved in many high-profile projects, including: Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s (SMUD) East Campus Operations Center, one of the nation’s largest projects to target zero net energy (and a field study location for CBE’s research on radiant systems); a full-scale renovation of the EGWW Federal Building in Portland, Oregon, which received the 2014 Best Tall Building Award from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat; NREL’s LEED Platinum, ZNE Research Support Facility in Golden, Colorado; LA’s first ZNE visitor center for the Department of Recreation & Parks, the Audubon Visitor’s Center at Debs Park and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s FLEXLAB test bed facility.
Motivated by research, Stantec’s R&D Fund Program has awarded $4.8 million through 170 research grants to their team members. Through this research, they are finding creative ways to explore problems faced by their peers and clients. Stantec was inspired to join CBE because of their shared passion to be a diverse think tank, where sustainability and resilient design are embraced but they are driven by the process that takes them to that place. “We look forward to the thought provoking and inspiring discussion with the members of the Center for the Built Environment community,” notes Porus Antia, Associate and Manager at Stantec.
They have been involved in many high-profile projects, including: Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s (SMUD) East Campus Operations Center, one of the nation’s largest projects to target zero net energy (and a field study location for CBE’s research on radiant systems); a full-scale renovation of the EGWW Federal Building in Portland, Oregon, which received the 2014 Best Tall Building Award from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat; NREL’s LEED Platinum, ZNE Research Support Facility in Golden, Colorado; LA’s first ZNE visitor center for the Department of Recreation & Parks, the Audubon Visitor’s Center at Debs Park and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s FLEXLAB test bed facility.
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| Stantec was part of the design team for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. Image: Courtesy NREL. |
Motivated by research, Stantec’s R&D Fund Program has awarded $4.8 million through 170 research grants to their team members. Through this research, they are finding creative ways to explore problems faced by their peers and clients. Stantec was inspired to join CBE because of their shared passion to be a diverse think tank, where sustainability and resilient design are embraced but they are driven by the process that takes them to that place. “We look forward to the thought provoking and inspiring discussion with the members of the Center for the Built Environment community,” notes Porus Antia, Associate and Manager at Stantec.
Thursday, July 17, 2014
WRNS Studio joins membership team
Award-winning architecture and planning firm WRNS Studio joined CBE in April as part of the Taylor Engineering membership team. The 60-person firm, based in San Francisco, creates sustainable places for work, play, health, transit, and civic engagement. Recent projects include multiple buildings at UCSF Mission Bay, Adobe’s corporate campus in Utah, expansion of Intuit’s Mountain View campus, and the Hayes Valley Playground in San Francisco. They have received over 30 design awards since their founding in 2005, including an AIA COTE Top Ten Green Projects Award, several AIA design awards, and being named Architect magazine’s top firm of 2013. WRNS Studios’ design ethic is informed by sensitivity to place, contextual engagement, technical proficiency, and conservation. Currently, they are utilizing the CBE IEQ Occupant Survey for a large project with the Hawaii Department of Education. They are leading a project team to improve schools across Hawaii to become more sustainable and healthier for the students, teachers, and other faculty.
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| The Sacred Heart Schools' Stevens Net Zero Library, in Atherton, CA, by WRNS Studio is LEED Platinum and designed to meet three petals for the Living Building Challenge. Photo: Bruce Damonte. |
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Welcome new CBE member, BuroHappold
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| BuroHappold was on the project team for the Hawaii Preparatory Academy, only the third recipient of Living status under the Living Building Challenge. Photo: Matthew Millman. |
2014. Over the past 40 years, they have teamed up with leading architects and collaborated with global organizations such as the United Nations, The World Bank, and UNESCO. Focused at the building and city level, they work with their clients to find innovative and sustainable solutions for every project. Their team includes a wide range of engineers, innovative thinkers, economists, and planners, with diverse skill sets. Projects include stadiums, academic buildings, bridges, transportation (including San Francisco’s Transbay Terminal, currently under construction), commercial offices, and more. They have been at the forefront of low and zero-energy building design, evident in some of their recently completed projects. They were on the team for the net-zero Morphosis LA Office, the Honorable Mention of the 2013 CBE Livable Buildings Award. Their recently completed Hawaii Prep Academy received LEED Platinum and is the third project to receive “Living” status under the Living Building Challenge. The building’s cost-effective passive design demonstrates net-zero energy and water performance and an aesthetically pleasing solution.
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