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Contents 18 Documenting Performance Does it Need to Be So Hard? Obtaining energy performance data should be easy, but is often difficult. Adam Hinge of Sustainable Energy Partnerships and Don Winston of The Durst Organization explore a host of challenges, including faulty modeling data, a lack of cooperation between designers and building owners/occupants, and difficulty in accessing energy use history in multitenant buildings with multiple meters. Energy data play a critical role in determining how efficiently “high performance” buildings are operating and what technologies are worthwhile. 6 Rx for Platinum 24 Urban stewards Health & Healing The center is the first medical and research facility of its type, size and complexity to receive the U.S. Green Building Council LEED® Platinum certification. The project demonstrates again that sustainable design does not have to cost more. In a public/private partnership, the city of Portland, Ore., teamed with its largest employer, Oregon Health & Science University, and Portland’s more environmentally progressive development companies with the goal of using advanced health and wellness technology in an environmentally responsible building. OHSU Center for Cook+Fox Architects Office Designers reclaimed daylighting, high ceilings and original architectural detailing of this former penthouse of an upscale New York City department store built in 1902. The renovation of this historic space was seen as an opportunity to showcase high performance design strategies as well as environmentally preferable materials that are healthy, beautiful, and affordable. A 5,500-square-foot terrace with a heat-absorbing tar roof was converted into a green roof, which has grown into a flowering landscape that attracts insects, birds and the attention of visitors. 2 HigH Performing Buildings Winter 2009

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of High Performing Buildings - Winter 2009

High Performing Buildings - Winter 2009
Contents
Commentary
OHSU Center for Health & Healing
Documenting Performance
Cook+Fox Architects Office
5 Houston Center
Skanska's Atlanta Office
Advertisers Index

High Performing Buildings - Winter 2009