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March, 2007
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Archived 2010
Imperative Webcast
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EDITORIAL
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Over the past several months Architecture 2030 has been busier than ever. We set some very Adopt The 2030
challenging goals for ourselves, and with enormous support and commitment, we achieved Challenge
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reach in a lifetime by traveling and lecturing. as an official adopter, and
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On February 20, 2007, Architecture 2030 hosted the 2010 Imperative Global Emergency (obstacles/successes) as
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Now the word is out: Global warming is happening and the educational and design as an official adopter, and
communities have an obligation to join others worldwide in the battle against catastrophic describe your progress
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and policymakers a simple, achievable strategy to reduce fossil-fuel consumption and the
carbon emissions that are currently a by-product of the built environment.
2010 Imperative Forum
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If you do your homework, have your facts right and the merits on your side, and then build a initiatives and progress, swap
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THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, NY Times, March 16, 2007 OP-Ed: Marching with a Mouse
FEATURES Lord, Aeck & Sargent
adopts The 2030
Campus Sustainability Challenge
Lord, Aeck & Sargent
Sonoma State University Architecture, a pioneer in
sustainable, energy-efficient
Sustainability was a driving force in the architectural design, was one of
the first architecture firms in the
design of the Sonoma State University
country to adopt The 2030
Student Recreation Center. Challenge.
Approximately 70% of the building is dBusinessNews
naturally ventilated and cooled; the
building is "night flushed" of all hot air
and utilizes interior thermal mass to The Fulton County
moderate daytime interior Commission voted
temperatures. Vents located in the to adopt The 2030
lobby skylight and under built-in Sonoma State University, Student Recreation Center Challenge
exterior window seats assure adequate Rohnert Park, CA, Architect: LPA Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin
air movement and natural ventilation joined mayors from around the
throughout the lobby area. An indirect evaporative cooling system is used in the offices, country to adopt The 2030
multipurpose and fitness room and a de-stratification/ventilation system is employed in the small Challenge last summer. The
gym. Along with proper orientation and a well insulated exterior skin, the building is 43% more Fulton County Commission
efficient than the California code (Title 24), with an energy savings of approximately 339,000 recently voted to adopt a
kWh/Yr. As Title 24 is one of the most stringent building codes in the US, the building is well resolution that would accept The
2030 Challenge.
below the 50% operating energy consumption reduction target called for by The 2030
Daily Report
Challenge. The project was designed to meet a LEED Silver certification rating from the
USGBC.
Photovoltaic research
team shares award with
University of California, Berkeley NASA's James Hansen
Sarah Kurtz and Jerry Olson,
The Early Childhood Education Center (ECEC) at UC Berkeley is an example of using an two solar-power innovators at
integrated design process to achieve sustainable building design goals. Comprehensive the U.S. Department of Energy’s
collaboration between the user group, the design team, and the project delivery team produced National Renewable Energy
a highly-sustainable building that satisfies programmatic requirements while adhering to Laboratory (NREL) in Golden,
construction schedule and budget. The building is largely illuminated with natural daylight Colorado, will share this year's
$1 million Dan David Future
introduced via skylights and south clerestory windows to create a comfortable, healthful
Prize with NASA climate
environment while reducing electricity use. In addition to providing the building's young occu- scientist James Hansen. The
pants with a healthy indoor environment, the ECEC also promotes stewardship of the natural prizes are granted to individuals
environment. Examples of sustainable resource use at the ECEC include: or institutions that have made an
• Diversion of over 75% of construction outstanding contribution to
waste from landfill into recycling and humanity.
reuse venues National Renewable Energy
• Low flow fixtures reduce indoor water Laboratory
use by 25%
• Landscaping water use is reduced by All new homes in
61% England will have to be
• Energy-efficient design reduces carbon neutral by 2016
energy use to 26% below Title 24 The UK's 21 million homes are
energy conservation standards responsible for 27% of England’s
• Passive solar controls reduce energy CO2 emissions. The government
hopes that requiring all new
consumption
homes to be carbon neutral will
The building is expected to receive a help the country meet its target of
LEED-NC Silver rating from the cutting CO2 emissions by at least
USGBC, and was honored with a Best 60% by 2050.
Practice Award for Integrated Design University of California, Berkeley BBC News
Process at the 2006 UC/CSU/IOU The Early Childhood Education Center
SustainabilityConference. Architect: JSW/D Architects
Los Angeles Community College Step it Up Congress:
Cut carbon 80% by 2050
Capping a year of local leadership in promoting sustainable building practices, the Los Angeles This April 14th, tens of thousands
Community College District (LACCD) was honored in December 2006 with the United States of Americans will gather all
Green Building Council - Los Angeles Chapter's (USGBC-LA) Sustainable Future Award. across the country at meaningful,
iconic places to call for action on
climate change. Participants will
The LACCD is currently undertaking the largest public sector green building program in the
hike, bike, climb, walk, swim,
United States, funded by the $2.2 billion Proposition A/AA Bond Program. In April 2006, the kayak, canoe, or simply sit or
LACCD opened its first green building, the Maintenance and Operations (M&O) building at Los stand with banners that call for
Angeles Valley College. The M&O building earned Leadership in Energy and Environmental action.
Design (LEED™) certification from the US Green Building Council because it incorporates a Step It Up 2007
number of features designed to reduce energy and water consumption.
Pelosi Supports
In October 2006, the LACCD further illustrated its commitment to sustainability with the Important U.S. Solar
announcement of its plan to be the first community college district in the nation to “go off the and Fuel Cell Bill
grid” by generating its own power for all energy needs. The LACCD is currently planning to In a meeting last Wednesday with
install photovoltaic (solar energy) panels that will produce enough electricity to meet daytime solar and environmental
power needs at each of its nine colleges. lobbyists, House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi expressed her support for
The Los Angeles Community College District is one of the largest community college districts in H.R. 550, an important bill that
the country, educating more than 110,000 students at its nine colleges each year. The District’s would extend the residential and
commercial investment tax credit
strong leadership in its adoption of sustainability practices has been recognized by numerous
(ITC) for solar and fuel cell
organizations, including the California Climate Registry, Global Green USA, and Flex Your equipment for eight years. The bill
Power. also revises other key tax credits
for those industries.
University of California, Santa Barbara Renewable Energy Access
The University of California, Santa Barbara "Climate Change 2007"
boasts the only LEED Platinum laboratory The IPCC 4th
building in the US. In constructing Bren Hall, Assessment Report is
home to the interdisciplinary graduate school of coming out soon
environmental science and management, The IPCC's Working Group II
100% of the demolition waste and 92% of the "Impacts, Adaption and
construction waste were recycled. The Vulnerability," a comprehensive
building, which gets 10% of its power from a and rigorous picture of the global
photovoltaic system, was designed by Zimmer present state of knowledge of
Gunsul Frasca, an environmentally conscious climate change, is to be released
on April 6th in Brussels.
firm that also designed the adjacent Marine
Download the summary for
University of California, Santa Barbara Science Building. The Marine Science Building policymakers.
Bren Hall, School of Environmental Science is UCSB’s second LEED for New Construction Intergovernmental Panel on
and Management certified building and is 25% more energy Climate Change
Architect: Zimmer Gunsul Frasca efficient than California building codes require.
Both projects have purchased wind Design for Disassembly
energy to power the buildings for two years. The university has also signed an agreement with Competition
the USGBC to use LEED for Existing Buildings ratings to LEED certify 25 of its existing EPA is partnering with AIA, the
buildings over the next five years. One building, Girvetz Hall, has already been certified. Buiding Materials Reuse
Association and West Coast
California Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo Green on the Lifecycle Building
Challenge. This national
competition, sponsored by
In June 2005, California Polytechnic’s Sustainable Environments minor received the AIA GreenBuildingBlocks.com, invites
COTE’s top award for “ecological literacy.” Cal Poly also offers Sustainable Architecture as a engineers, designers, planners,
graduate study program within their Masters of Science in Architecture degree. The university’s contractors, builders, government
dedication to sustainable efforts is further exemplified in the numerous courses offered in its leaders, educators and students
sustainability catalog. to submit their ideas for buildings
and building materials that
The Renewable Energy Institute at Cal Poly has also partnered with the California Integrated facilitate and anticipate future
Waste Management Board to promote sustainable environmental design principles in higher changes to and eventual
adaptation, disassembly, or
education and industry continuing education programs. Their project, Sustainable
dismantling for recovery.
Environmental Design Education (SEDE), provides a curriculum model for teaching sustainable lifecyclebuilding.org
design practices and lists green programs and campuses.
2030Speaks Go to the News/Resources
section of architecture2030.org to
get the latest news updates on
April 11, 2007 April 25, 2007
issues regarding climate change
Leaders in Sustainable Architecture Lecture Living Future 07 Conference and the building sector.
Series Keynote, Edward Mazria AIA
Lecture, Edward Mazria AIA Seattle Center Comments and suggestions for
Rubloff Auditorium, The Art Institute of Chicago Seattle, Washington future Architecture 2030 E-news
Chicago, Illinois (open to the public, registration required) issues should be sent to:
(open to the public, registration required) see: http://www.cascadiagbc.org/ info@architecture2030.org
resources/LivingFuture07/living-future
April 20, 2007
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee April 26, 2007
Lecture, Edward Mazria AIA EcoDensity 07
Milwaukee, Wisconsin Lecture, Edward Mazria AIA .
(open to the public) Alice MacKay Room, Library Square
Vancouver BC, Canada
April 23, 2007 (open to the public)
Minnesota Zero Emissions Design Project see:http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca
Public Lecture, Edward Mazria AIA /ctyclerk/NewsReleases2007
University of Minnesota /NRecodensityspeakerseries.htm
Minneapolis, Minnesota
(open to the public) May 20, 2007
Congress for the New Urbanism
CNU XV Convention ,
Lecture, Edward Mazria AIA
10 am to noon Architecture 2030
Loews Hotel 607 Cerrillos Road
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Santa Fe, NM 87505
.
www.architecture2030.org
(open to the public, registration required)
see: http://cnu.org/cnuxv/
