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Sustainable Buildings— Sustainable Cities

Jerry YudelsonGreen Building

Initiative

Taking Action — 2014

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• How are cities driving sustainability?

• What is the green revolution?

• Greening the cities: Just a dream?• What are ‘present era’

principles for greening communities and cities?

Key Questions:

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How Are Cities Driving Sustainability?The world’s 600 largest cities drive 64% of global GDP growth with only 22% of the world’s population*

Cities Drive Future Prosperity. . . But Are Inherently Unsustainable. If Green Revolution is the Answer. . . What’s the Question?

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*McKinsey Report - March 2011

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Green Revolution: What’s The Question?

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What’s The Issue?

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Only Performance Counts

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Total Carbon Emissions Count

Bank of America Tower New York City

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Forum Chriesbach Dübendorf, Switzerland

Europe: Measure Total Carbon Emissions

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Measuring Carbon

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BerlinZero-Net-Energy

Building

How Much Energy Should Buildings Use?

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Where Do We Need To Get To?

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What Did We Find Out?

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North American Buildings: LEED Platinum

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European Buildings: LEED Platinum

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Asia/Pacific Buildings: LEED Platinum

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Smart Cities — 5 Action Steps

• Start with Smart Living Buildings– Keep Score with rating systems

• Add in Green Infrastructure– Singapore’s NEWater

• Keep Score: Cloud-based Solutions– Sustainability Reporting

• Discard 20th Century Rule Book– Seattle’s Bullitt Center

• Communicate Success!– Global Best Practices

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Smart Buildings

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Green Globes is…

North America’s first interactive system for design guidance, environmental assessment and green building rating

Green Globes - New Construction

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Green Globes® US/Canada

BREEAM UK

BREEAM Canada

BREEAM GreenLeaf

200,000 buildings certified since 1990

Green Globes - New Construction

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*About GRESB — The Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark is an industry-led organization committed to rigorous, independent evaluation of the sustainability performance of real-estate portfolios. GRESB works to identify and implement sustainability best practices to enhance and protect shareholder value. More: http://gresb.com .

GRESB* Standards For All Buildings

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NREL Research Support Facility I • Golden, Colorado, USA20,000 sq.m./LEED Platinum • 110 kWh/sq.m./year

Zero-Net Energy Buildings

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Cut US CO2 Emissions 14% by 2025

Rapid Greening Impact

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Smart Cities — Taking Action

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Masdar City, Abu Dhabi

Smart Cities — Green Infrastructure

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Smart Cities — Water Infrastructure

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Singapore Marina Barrage

Smart Cities — Water Infrastructure

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Smart Cities — Water Infrastructure

Green stormwater infrastructure includes a range of soil-water-plant systems that intercept stormwater, infiltrate some of it into the ground, evaporate some of it into the air, and in some cases release some of it slowly back into the storm sewer system.

Philadelphia Green Stormwater Plan

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• Example: Switch Smart Hub — real time monitoring and control via Cloud

• Monitoring and control• Non-proprietary• All over IP• All in real time• All via Web• All Cloud-hosted

• Fault detection• Sustainability reporting• Investment decisions - ROI

Keep Score: Cloud-based • Real-time • Data Analytics

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Bullitt Center, Seattle, Washington, USA: 50,000 sq.ft.

Seeking LEED Platinum/Living Building Challenge

Discard 20th Century Rule Book

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Practices!

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Take-AwaysTake-Aways

Buildings + InfrastructureCloud-based InformationChange Rule BookShare Best Practices

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THANK YOU!