High Performing Buildings - Spring 2008 - (Page 2)

CONTENTS 30 Part 1 of a 3-Part Series 4 A Sense of Community Seattle City Hall When the new hall opened in 2005, the local press declared the building an energy hog. Reasons for the misunderstanding included insufﬁcient data, unequal comparison and unfavorable timing. Since then, Seattle City Hall has become a source of community pride as a powerful example of environmental stewardship. The 200,000 ft2 building features glazing, a thermal buffer, sunshades, daylighting controls, a green roof, and an underﬂoor air-distribution system. Daylighting Strategies That Maximize Beneﬁts With a one- to three-year simple payback, daylighting strategies can potentially reduce our nation’s total energy consumption by 1%. Roof monitors, lightshelves, side lighting and skylights are just a few options in daylighting design. The author discusses the various elements of daylighting and how to maximize the beneﬁts. 20 Conservation Gateway Sweetwater Creek Visitor Center The visitor center is a high performance building with low impact on the ecosystem. The building’s waste treatment system eliminates the use of municipal potable water for sewage and treats 100% of the waste on-site in an ecological manner, without using chemicals. A 12 in. deep intensive vegetated green roof blends with the site’s natural topography while moderating the temperature differentials between the building interior and exterior air. 2 HIGH PERFORMING BUILDINGS Spring 2008

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High Performing Buildings - Spring 2008
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Contents
Seattle City Hall
SEMCO
3M Energy & Advanced Materials
Price
Sofame Technologies Inc.
Sweetwater Creek Visitor Center
ASHRAE Certification
Greenheck
Daylighting Strategies That Maximize Benefits
Energy Conservatory, The
ASHRAE e-learning
Ecobuild America
CTG Energetics, Inc.
Cambridge City Hall Annex
Tate Access Floors, Inc
Air-Conditioning, Heating, & Refrigeration Institute
31 Tannery Project
Building Owners & Managers Institute
Indian Springs Discovery Center
International Facility Management Association
ASHRAE Healthcare
Fulton Companies, The
AAON, Inc.

High Performing Buildings - Spring 2008