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Mapping the Way to
Net Zero
Design
Associate Jennifer Betancourt, AIA, LEED AP BD+C,
NCARB, discusses Dewberry's AIA 2030 Challenge
performance and a roadmap to Net Zero design.
Why did Dewberry opt to participate
in the AIA 2030 Challenge?
it had goals that contributed to meeting the growing
As an architect, how do you influence a
building to operate as carbon neutral?
sustainability requirements of our clients. Designing
We can control the efficiency of the envelope design and
sustainably helps the client control future costs. One of
influence the nature of the facility's building systems-
the great things about the program is we're not competing
namely lighting, HVAC, and water. We should also be
against other firms or competing against other designs.
thinking through how we design the buildings so that
The main challenge is how do we, as designers and
people work more efficiently within them. For example, we
as building users and owners, incrementally reduce
cannot prevent a user from bringing in a light to plug in
our carbon use? We must all embrace this significant
at their desk. That desk light generates additional heat and
challenge in order for it to be effective.
uses more electricity. Therefore, how do we design spaces
We signed up for the AIA 2030 Challenge in 2008 because
that will preclude someone from feeling the need to plug in
What is Dewberry's roadmap to
Net Zero design?
a light, thereby influencing the energy use of the building?
If one of our ultimate goals is to design carbon neutral
can we generate electricity on the site itself. How can
operating buildings, we needed to figure out our own
internal roadmap. We found after a couple years of
2030 reporting that through the use of technology and
awareness, our incremental improvement was running
five to seven percent per year the first several years. If
we have a five percent improvement every year, which is
what we're on track to do, we'll hit the goal in 2027, three
years early. This roadmap also predicts a timeline of
technology integration that influences our designs, such
We also have to have a full understanding of how
the building begin to generate some of the electricity
that it consumes? Whether that's through wind capture
or photovoltaics, how do we generate and harness the
technology that's out there? It's not going to happen on
every building, as not every client is going to want to pay
upfront for renewable energy systems. But it is imperative
to have incremental change that recognizes available
technologies, the nature of the markets within our practice,
and the outlooks of our clients.
as site-generated energy.
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