Breath Life into Sustainable Design. By Jeffery L. Davis, AIA, LEED AP BD+C PERFORMING ARTS:
Today’s performing arts and event venues are a key element in the cultural ecosystems that are our cities and communities. Imagine a venue that actually is its own environmental ecosystem. Much like a soil, utilizing the sunlight for photosynthesis, and depending on the - resents a major part of the ecosystem, such as energy and water. The International Living Future Institute administers the Living Building Challenge.
Occupant Engagement-Behavioral Psychology An ecosystem requires that all of the elements work together in a connected system. This means that your venue requires that the oc- cupants be a part of that ecosystem, yes . . . even the public. Web- based apps are customized for your occupants like those provided by action through friendly gaming competition. Projects that reduce their loads through occupant training and adjustments to current systems can result in improvement of $20,000, as it did on one such building for Salt Lake County.
How does the Living Building Challenge compare to LEED? LEED is an important part of the sustainable design community.
The improvements in LEED v4 are raising the game again and mak- ing owners, designers, and contractors stretch for compliance. LEED is a great measurement tool for the design and construction of a build- ing. The Living Building Challenge requires a one-year performance - ing period ensures that a building is performing to the level it was de- - ter and comply with a Red-List free environment. The Red List is a list of chemicals that are known to be harmful to humans. Each area of the living building challenge requirements are called
the Energy Petal, the Water Petal, and the Materials Petal. Projects increased cost implications in the early 2000’s, the full Living Building - forming arts centers and 58 sports venues, several of which are plat- inum. Just as the market transformed the ease of achieving a LEED Platinum building came within reach over a 10-year period of time, achievable for performing arts and event venues. Recently, Golden 1 Center opened in Sacramento, which was the
- mark. Many of the sustainable features of the Golden 1 Center are in
LIVING VENUES
Center project team demonstrate that a Living Building Event Venue could be a real possibility in the near future. Living Building strategies would be unique in venue projects, as the associated design features and systems needs to balance between the inherent extremes of use during events the when the venue is idle.
Today’s Living Building
western United States with specialties in performing arts and sports venues, recently moved into their own Living Building Challenge pur- Building in the state of California, and one of only a dozen or so in the world. The construction of the building was completed in late De- cember and is now into its one year performance period. The Living Building is scheduled to produce at least 105% of the energy it uses over a one year period. The Living Building collects enough rain wa- ter to provide for all of its water needs on an annual basis, even during the recent major drought seen in California over the past several years. Being a net-positive water building requires composting toilets and
use of gray water so that the sewer connection is needed only as an plant wall where the plants use the gray water eliminating the need for it to be disposed of through a sewer system. The building also has a clean the rainwater to be used as drinking water. The building is also meeting the Red List requirements, having documented the ingredi- ents of every building product used. -
reuse project, greatly minimizing the material that would have gone to engaged by the occupants, who are signaled by a light on the wall, to building occupants are an important part of the building’s ecosystem. - erated on future performing arts and event centers.
Decisions Decisions: What do you do for your Venue? You may feel like something as ambitious as a regenerative build-
ing that creates its own ecosystem is just beyond your reach, but so did most Venue Projects little over a decade ago relative to achieving LEED Platinum status, although today there are many LEED Plati- num buildings. In time, you too will see many Living Venues. You can, however, start today through existing building energy assessments and occupant engagement, or through choosing to participate in a Petal today and will save dollars from your operating budgets. FM
Sacramento, California.
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