Taking a peek behind the glass curtain of Olympic House
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Project Name: IOC’s new headquarters, Olympic House Project Description: Designing buildings with environmental performance top of mind while developing a methodology to quantify the resulting GHG benefits Project Start: 2018 Crediting Period: 50 years; July 2019 – June 2069 Partners: IOC, Frener & Reiter, Roschmann, South Pole Location: Lausanne, Switzerland Why Beyond Business as Usual? This project successfully surpassed already high baseline standards for sustainable building practices in Switzerland. Helping organizations set the example for sustainable building The built environment industry is widely recognized as having the highest percentage of global energy consumption. In fact, according to a study conducted by the World Green Building Council, 1 over one-third of all global energy-related carbon emissions each year derive from buildings and their construction. There is a clear urgency to decarbonize this segment by addressing emissions from operating and constructing buildings. Exemplifying this, the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) new headquarters building, Olympic House—located in Lausanne, Switzerland—is paving the way for the adoption of state-of-the-art building techniques that are available and commercially viable to developers. This project was named one of the most sustainable buildings in the world and has received the most points (94) of any LEED 2 v4-certified new construction project to date. Olympic House also served as an exemplary project to develop and validate a greenhouse gas (GHG) methodology for Dow’s High Performance Building Initiative and is expected to deliver a total of 3,351 tonnes of third-party verified GHG emission reductions over the building’s lifetime. That’s equivalent to emissions from over 8.3 million miles driven by the average passenger vehicle. 3 Defying the industry minimums In the building and construction industry, lowering carbon is a two- fold effort, where energy saved during operation often comes at the expense of additional insulation or building material (embodied carbon). Optimizing this relationship and shortening the “carbon payback’’ time is one of a designer’s challenges. For Olympic House, reductions in operational energy were made possible by a number of unique building technologies, such as a high-performance glass façade and building enclosure, an innovative heating and cooling system, and on-site photovoltaic power generation. For the façade, a combination of long-lasting Dow silicone products for structural sealing and bonding was used. These solutions help enable architectural design freedom while contributing to a thermal envelope that requires less energy use than the legal minimum for a renewable energy supply. 4 With a holistic, whole-building approach for Olympic House, the IOC also installed on-site renewable energy production means. Solar panels and heat pumps using water from nearby Lake Geneva provide renewable energy to the building. Extra energy needs are covered by renewable electricity purchased from the local grid, and district heating produced from renewable sources. When compared to a reference building designed to meet already stringent local standards in Switzerland, Olympic House operations are projected to require 35% less final energy. Taking a peek behind the glass curtain of Olympic House Holistic built environment collaborations reflect global unity of Olympic Movement and inspire building above and beyond code CASE STUDY: OLYMPIC HOUSE 1 https://www.worldgbc.org/sites/default/files/UNEP%20188_GABC_en%20%28web%29.pdf 2 Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design 3 https://www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse-gas-equivalencies-calculator 4 With a renewable heat supply, the thermal envelope must comply with 100% of the limit value SIA 380/1. With a non-renewable heat supply, the energy efficiency requirements are higher (LVLEne, art 30b).
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Project Name: IOC’s new headquarters, Olympic House
Project Description: Designing buildings with environmental performance top of mind while developing a methodology to quantify the resulting GHG benefits
Project Start: 2018
Crediting Period: 50 years; July 2019 – June 2069
Partners: IOC, Frener & Reiter, Roschmann, South Pole
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Why Beyond Business as Usual? This project successfully surpassed already high baseline standards for sustainable building practices in Switzerland.
Helping organizations set the example for sustainable building The built environment industry is widely recognized as having the highest percentage of global energy consumption. In fact, according to a study conducted by the World Green Building Council,1 over one-third of all global energy-related carbon emissions each year derive from buildings and their construction. There is a clear urgency to decarbonize this segment by addressing emissions from operating and constructing buildings.
Exemplifying this, the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) new headquarters building, Olympic House—located in Lausanne, Switzerland—is paving the way for the adoption of state-of-the-art building techniques that are available and commercially viable to developers. This project was named one of the most sustainable buildings in the world and has received the most points (94) of any LEED2 v4-certified new construction project to date.
Olympic House also served as an exemplary project to develop and validate a greenhouse gas (GHG) methodology for Dow’s High Performance Building Initiative and is expected to deliver a total of 3,351 tonnes of third-party verified GHG emission reductions over the building’s lifetime. That’s equivalent to emissions from over 8.3 million miles driven by the average passenger vehicle.3
Defying the industry minimumsIn the building and construction industry, lowering carbon is a two-fold effort, where energy saved during operation often comes at the expense of additional insulation or building material (embodied carbon). Optimizing this relationship and shortening the “carbon payback’’ time is one of a designer’s challenges.
For Olympic House, reductions in operational energy were made possible by a number of unique building technologies, such as a high-performance glass façade and building enclosure, an innovative heating and cooling system, and on-site photovoltaic power generation.
For the façade, a combination of long-lasting Dow silicone products for structural sealing and bonding was used. These solutions help enable architectural design freedom while contributing to a thermal envelope that requires less energy use than the legal minimum for a renewable energy supply.4
With a holistic, whole-building approach for Olympic House, the IOC also installed on-site renewable energy production means. Solar panels and heat pumps using water from nearby Lake Geneva provide renewable energy to the building. Extra energy needs are covered by renewable electricity purchased from the local grid, and district heating produced from renewable sources.
When compared to a reference building designed to meet already stringent local standards in Switzerland, Olympic House operations are projected to require 35% less final energy.
Taking a peek behind the glass curtain of Olympic House Holistic built environment collaborations reflect global unity of Olympic Movement and inspire building above and beyond code
CASE STUDY: OLYMPIC HOUSE
1https://www.worldgbc.org/sites/default/files/UNEP%20188_GABC_en%20%28web%29.pdf2Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
3https://www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse-gas-equivalencies-calculator4With a renewable heat supply, the thermal envelope must comply with 100% of the limit value SIA 380/1. With a non-renewable heat supply, the energy efficiency requirements are higher (LVLEne, art 30b).
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High Performance Building (HPB) InitiativeThroughout 2018-2020, in terms of Dow’s carbon partnership program with the IOC, Dow reached out to a number of key construction value chain players, including property developers, façade fabricators, engineering, architects and green building organizations. With the objective of creating a carbon project in the High-Performance Buildings segment we developed a capability to quantify greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions resulting from more sustainable design solutions throughout a building’s lifetime.Together with leading carbon and sustainability expert South Pole and guided by engineering professionals at Arup, we developed a GHG methodology to account for buildings’ operational energy savings, as well as for any related changes in embodied carbon. This methodology builds on recognized approaches and mechanisms, such as LCA, CDM, VCS and has been validated by an independent auditor Environmental Resources Management. The methodology has been applied to a newly built IOC Headquarters in Lausanne.
This capability allows developers to get an actual number in CO2 equivalents, that reflects impacts and benefits of their decisions in design and construction. Developers can tell a more carbon-focused story of their project, get more familiar with the best principles of carbon accounting, and demonstrate alignment with a trending direction for buildings: from emissions reduction to net zero to carbon positive. This Initiative also benefits and includes collaborations that Dow fosters in the value chain such as with façade fabricators, engineers and architects.
To learn more about Dow’s High-Performance Building Initiative, visit: https://corporate.dow.com/en-us/about/partnerships/sports/sustainability/ioc-carbon-partner/ built-environment.html
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