Designing for Zero Net Carbon – Three Nonresidential All-Electric Building Case Studies

This is a free zoom presentation –  log-in information will be emailed to registrants 24 hours before the event

CES Learning Units: 1 LU / HSW – APPROVED

Presenting from profiles in the book “Designing for Zero Carbon, Volume 1: Case Studies of All-Electric Buildings,” this course features three non-residential projects designed as high-performance all-electric buildings that will operate with zero-carbon emissions once the California electric grid has been 100% decarbonized. Program includes review of design strategies, overview of the readily available all-electric building systems implemented, and post-occupancy performance data. Discussion will include tools, metrics, and modeling used by the design teams in pursuit of the performance goals, and will highlight exemplary features of the various projects, discuss lessons learned that can help other practitioners to achieve similar levels of performance in their own projects.

Moderator

Edward Dean, FAIA
Edward Dean, FAIA, is a practicing architect and sustainability consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been a champion of low-energy aspects of green building design for his entire career. After teaching design studio and environmental courses at UC Berkeley for 10 years, he turned to full time architectural practice working for Joseph Esherick in San Francisco as lead designer on a number of projects noted for their innovative aspects in green design, in particular design for daylight. He continued to work in the mainstream practice of architecture at major firms, including NBBJ, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca (ZGF), SMWM (now part of Perkins & Will) and SOM.

Currently, he is one of the leaders of the architectural profession in the design of Zero Net Energy (ZNE) buildings. He led the design team for the West Branch Library for the City of Berkeley that was certified ZNE in 2015 by the International Living Future Institute, achieved LEED-Platinum certification and was selected in 2016 as one of the AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten Projects.

Ed is now engaged in full-time consulting practice with his own firm, Bernheim + Dean Inc., in sustainable and healthy building design, and ZNE design in particular. He is the author of a series of case study books on Zero Net Energy and Zero Net Carbon.

Learning Objectives
+ Understand through several non-residential case studies the relative impact on carbon emissions attributable to both building construction and building operation.
+ Review examples of common non-residential building types that achieve ZNE performance without onsite combustion and examples that will cause zero-operational carbon emissions once the electric grid is decarbonized.
+ Review how on-site renewable energy with and without battery storage can support ZNE and “zero carbon” performance, and explain how building efficiency and on-site energy storage affect harmonization with the electric grid.
+ Be able to perform a comparison of embodied carbon for two alternative design approaches.

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