Kevin Settlemyre

Green Roundtable (Boston)NEXUS - Green Building Resource Center

THE PLACE WHERE ALL GREEN THINGS COME TOGETHER

A ONE-STOP-RESOURCE FOR GREEN DEVELOPMENT

Who What When Where?• What is the Green Roundtable and how

does NeXus fit in?• Design and construction of the center• Development of NEXUS pieces • Website• Marketing • Sponsor and advertisers

THE GREEN ROUNDTABLE

AF F I L I A T E

BLUGBoston LEED Users Group

GAPGreen Assistance Program

COPCommunity Outreach Program

Mission: bringing people together to create effective collaborations and implementing sustainable design strategies for all scales of development

A VARIETY OF PROGRAMS TO MAKE GREEN MAINSTREAM

Policy•Green Boston Initiative –Mayor’s Task Force

•State Sustainability Initiative

•Healthcare Initiative

•GHNE: Residential Green Building

•Community Outreach Program: Green Development initiatives for cities and towns in Mass.

issued Nov. 2004

Public = LEED silverPrivate = LEED certifiable

3-year implementation plan

Components of Implementation:• Technical Assistance for Public Facilities Dept Projects (2006 – GRT assist 4 projects to date)

• Training for City Staff on Sustainable Strategies to raise the level of what too look for

and what to request

Technical Assistance•Integrated Design Process Facilitation / Strategy•Green Design Consulting•Demystifying Sustainable Strategies•Owner Support: Design team selection & team facilitation•Technical Peer reviews•Sustainable Masterplanning•Daylight, energy and other analysis•Natural/Stack Ventilation and airflow analysis•Renewable & Hybrid Strategy Feasibility Assessments•Design Guide Fact Sheets•Rating System support and implementation

Current LEED & Other Projects•Dana Farber Cancer Institute

•Boston College Sustainable Masterplan

•Jackson Square Redevelopment Masterplan

•Boston Children’s Museum

•North Point Development

•Boston College Master Planning

•Genzyme Laboratory

•Univ. of Rhode Island Center for Bio & Life Sciences

•Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Sanctuary

•Cambridge Police Station

•Project Hope Community Center

•American Cancer Society’s Hope Lodge

•River Valley Market Food Co-op

•The Charter School – Stamford, CT.

•Grinnell Campus Center

•Northfield Mt. Hermon Performing Arts Center

•Charlestown Police Station and more…..

Education•Negotiating a Green Mindset

•Greening Your Firm in 10 (not so easy) steps

•Integrated Design Process

•Monthly Roundtable meetings

•Quarterly Roundtables for specific groups (Developers, Contractors)

•BOOT CAMP for firm transformation

•BLUG - Boston LEED User Group

38 Chauncy Street, Downtown Boston

Programs & Spaces

Bamboo flooring

Ceiling Materials(recycled content)Efficient Light

Fixtures(sensors, dimmers)

Cabinetry (no formaldehyde, high recycled content, rapidly renewable materials)

Environ. Friendly Fabric & Furniture

Automated Sun Shades (visual sensor locations)

Zero VOC Paints

Other Sustainable Flooring Materials

Presto wall panels

Cork post-it boards

Adaptable partitions(spillover daylight)

Partitions & substrate:(high recycled content, rapidly renewable)

CO2 monitors

Energy use monitoring controls(live, daily, monthly, yearly)

Track Solar Path(light levels, heat gain)

Countertops(recycled glass or other) Green Building

System Exhibits

NEXUS – the space as storyteller

NEXUS - Full Immersion Experience

Think Space

Community Lounge & Cafe

Cyber Lounge

Samples & Resource Library

Teaching People to Ask Critical Questions

Between the exhibits and the tradeshow there is a filter zone where the visitor is given a framework of critical questions to use with which to engage the product area. The filter is based on Building Green’s Greenspecwith GRT added criteria.

NEXUS Content - The Filter Zone

1. Energy2. Water3. Materials & resources/waste4. Indoor environmental quality5. Health (public and environmental)6. Economics7. Measurement and metrics (including rating

systems)8. Site/planning/land use (transportation/sprawl

smart growth)9. Process: design and construction10. Building science11. Building operations & maintenance12. Environmental justice

Overview of Educational Exhibit Content

Recycled biocompositeCounter

soybean & recycled

newsprint

Composting Toilet

Seagrass & Sisal Flooring

Recycled Glass Tiles

StrawbaleConstructionSupplies

OrganicLinens

Toxic-FreeCleansers

Worm BinComposter

TRADE SHOW FLOOR YEAR ROUND

Promotional Exhibits

Some of the ExhibitorsBamboo AdvantageTate Access Floors

York International Corp.Longden Company, IncBenjamin Moore & Co.

New England Window Systems AntronBostik

Carlisle Syntec

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Target Audiences and Marketing

Audiences:1. Design Professionals, contractors, developers,

building professionals2. Green product and service

Manufacturers/providers3. General Public - including homeowners, K-12,

students, tourists, etc.4. ADVISORY BOARD Network > 110,000 members5. 30,000 UNIQUE VISITORS PER YEAR IN THE SPACE

NEXUSWEB – nexusboston.org

NEXUSWEB – nexusboston.org

GREEN SERVICE PROVIDERS

(RFQ)

PRODUCTS AND MATERIALS

(BUILDING GREEN)

CASE STUDIES(DOE HPDB)

BOSTON GREEN MARKET

NEXUS DATABASE - LINKED INFORMATION & RESOURCES

NEXUS Sponsors

Updates @ NEXUS - weekly newsletter updates- August '06 - Controlling the Indoor Environment at NEXUS - July '06 - Experiencing Green Materials at NEXUS- June '06 - Green Wiring- May '06 - Demolition Diversions & Opening the Window- April '06 - Community Input & NEXUS Demolition- March '06 - LEED-CI, Demo, NEXUSWeb

LEED & the Design Process

•Gypsum Board – Demo Existing – What to do with it?• Sent to Commercial Paving and Recycling Company in Maine

• Paving products from Gypsum Board Waste

•New Gypsum – where to get?•High Recycled Content – product in Canada

•Lower Recycled Content – locally manufactured, USG

• Installation Method & Source Reduction – How to lower?•Typical Installation approach wastes 10-15% of product

•Discussions with installers pertaining to size of panels and number of cuts

•Demo of waste generated going to USG recycling facility in Cambridge

•The “Other Green Monster”

The Decision Making Process

NEXUS Waste Management Efforts

•Currently NEXUS is >95% recycled construction waste•If this level could be maintained it would result in (3) LEED credits:

Marketing PlanAdvertising • Tradeshows: NESEA, Residential Design,

Green Roofs Conference, Environdesign, GreenBuild, BuildBoston

• MBTA (transit authority)• Metro, Globe• Community Tabs• Captivate Network• WBUR

Ads - in development

Ads - in development

Ads - in development

THANK YOU

Nexus Grand OpeningJanuary 2006

Coming soon – www.nexusboston.orgwww.greenroundtable.orginfo@greenroundtable.org

AF F I L I A T E

THE GREEN ROUNDTABLE