The Introductory Overview talk will help you better understand the Green Building Council's LEED(r) program fast - today's hottest design support and ratings tool supporting environmental design and construction of successful green buildings. This overview will explore the pre-eminent green building guide and rating tool, and cover sustainable design principles and green building practices. Using LEED(r) is proven effective to help deliver excellence in green building projects through unbiased ratings of project design options and to help project teams compare green construction packages. Green buildings succeed by reducing operating costs, enhancing occupant health and comfort, enhancing durability and decreasing maintenance, all at low, sometimes zero, added construction costs. Holistic, collaborative sustainable design projects are producing not only environmentally superior projects, but also increasing a building's economic viability.

The lecture is to be given by Gunner Hubbard from Fore Solutions, Consultants for High Performance Green Buildings.

For further information and to reserve a place, Please contact AIA/UK Chapter Executive directly by email amanda.vidler@hok.com.

For upcoming events please visit www.aiauk.org.

Other Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_in_Energy_and_Environmental_Design
• http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/03/building_green_china.php

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About the speaker

Green Buildings, the LEED Rating System, and the Role of the Design Team

Gunnar Hubbard, a Green Building Consultant based in the US, will provide a lecture on the role green building rating systems play in today's global economy and climate change. The lecture will start with a brief review of the climate change and green buildings, and then delve into the current specifics of existing rating systems. The emphasis will be placed the LEED rating system and the types of rating systems available for the changing global market, with appropriate comparisons to BREEAM and HQE and others. An emphasis will be placed on the role that architects and design teams play in not just meeting, but exceeding these standards and steering progress towards innovative and inspired solutions for a better built environment and global environmental economy.

Gunnar Hubbard is an architect, a LEED Faculty, and President of ForeSolutions: Consultants for High Performance, Green Buildings located in Portland, ME. He consults on projects ranging from affordable housing to the large national projects like the CityCenter project in Las Vegas. His work brings integrated design and green building approaches to forefront of decision making for the client, design team, contractor, and occupants. He leads workshops, seminars, and charrettes worldwide, and teaches both the LEED NC, CI, and LEED for Schools training courses nationwide for the USGBC.

He is a founding Board Member of the Maine USGBC Chapter, a Board Member for Community Housing of Maine, and is on the City of Portland's Sustainability Task Force. Prior to starting Fore Solutions, he co-founded McCoppin Studios, an architecture firm based in San Francisco which specializes in environmentally-responsible design. He was a research scholar in Green Development Services at the Rocky Mountain Institute where he did research across the country on environmentally-responsible architecture and development.

Prior to his time at RMI, Gunnar was the executive director of Yestermorrow Design Build School.

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Predock began his academic career studying engineering and it was through a fortuitous encounter with architect Don Schlegel that Predock focused his attentions on architecture. Early projects in New Mexico led to more significant projects such as the Arizona Science Center. A sense of earth, place, and light were consistent themes of these projects.

Predock’s design process includes the use of large collages and clay models. The use of sculptural modelling is evidenced in projects such as the Spencer Theater for the Performing Arts that has a commanding presence in its mountainous setting.

The AIA Gold Medallist in his later projects showed a keen appreciation for the importance of the architectural procession through and around a building. The Canadian Museum of Human Rights currently in design showed a mastery of integration between massing, place, and promenade through an uplifting series of spaces.

The National Palace Museum in Taiwan, also in design, is a phenomenal project that creates a ‘Jade Mountain’ of marble and glass to house significant cultural artefacts.

Predock showed numerous other projects during the course of his lecture, and concluded with a lively question and answer session. For those that missed the lecture, download this audiovisual recording (27.4 MB .wmv) from the AIA/UK website.

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Proposed topics:

• International design-build competitions
• Public-private partnerships and international design-build project delivery methods
• The architect's changing role in the industry

Invited speakers:

• Zaha Hadid, Hon. FAIA, 2004 Pritzker Prize laureate
• Harold Adams, FAIA, RIBA, RTKL Associates and 2007 Advisory Group chair, AIA International Committee
• Patrick Macleamy, FAIA, Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum
• RK Stewart, FAIA, AIA president
• Sunand Prasad, RIBA, RIBA president
• Rebekah Gladson, AIA, DBIA president

Details:

• Conference Postcard
• Program Information
• Register online or download a registration form.

Winners

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Gianni Botsford Architects’ Light House in London was cited by jury chair Deborah Saunt of DSDHA for its outstanding achievement in providing “a sense of openness in a really constrained site. It should be taken seriously as it’s really testing something, and could serve as a model of backlands development for other potential uses.”

The Collection in Lincoln by Panter Hudspith was lauded as a “beautiful sculptural piece, different and really beautifully detailed. It is very cleverly sited: routes through the museum are set up around things experienced outside the museum.”

The jury considered Zaha Hadid Architects’ design for Maggie’s Centre in Fife “a brave commission that raises awareness of the psychological needs of cancer care as well as the clinical,” and recognised that “going there is something that takes you outside of your daily condition,” citing the “user-friendly village-like spaces inside.”

Commendations

Buschow Henley’s St John’s Therapy Centre in London was praised as a “positive example of bringing about good quality architecture for not much money. Its powerful street presence communicates positive messages about health to the wider public, including issues of access and visibility.”

About KPF’s Ruth Deech Building at St Anne’s College, Oxford, the jury commented, “There’s a place for quiet architecture; this is a large building that’s broken down and handled quite carefully on the site with subtle moves, beautifully detailed.”

de Rijke Marsh Morgan won an accolade for their Wansey Street Housing in London: “It’s playful and clever and serious at the same time very few people can pull that off. It deals with complex issues and does it rather well.”

John McAslan + Partners’ Lanvender Sure Start and Children’s Nursery for Southampton University was cited as a “simple solution, elegantly done, with a clear and consistent use of materials.”

Jury member Professor Robert Mull of London Metropolitan University, presenting the Noel Hill Student Travel Awards, commended both recipients for well defined projects. Aimee O’Carroll’s project to study public space in Japan was seen as a complement to her portfolio project of an extension to the Tate Modern, and Emily Penn’s portfolio demonstrated an impressive range of investigations which gave the jury confidence that she would benefit greatly from her travels to observe sustainability in China. Aimee is on her year out after completing her Part 1 and Emily is a second year student, both from Cambridge University.

The 2007 AIA/UK excellence in design awards jury was:

• Bob Allies, Allies and Morrison Architects
• Mary Bowman, Gustafson Porter
• Cécile Brisac, Brisac Gonzalez Architects
• Chris Carroll, ARUP Advanced Geometry Unit
• Robert Mull, Department of Architecture, London Metropolitan University
• Peter Murray, Wordsearch
• David Partridge, Argent
• Deborah Saunt, DSDHA
• Graham Stirk, Richard Rogers Partnership

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