Susan Szenasy's piece on Lifelong Learning in this month's excellent Metropolis Magazine features GGLO's Space at the Steps:
In addition to the useful information I gleaned from this event, what I remember best is the venue itself. The ground floor, with its front door opening to Harbor Steps, a pleasant downtown decent to the water, is partly a meeting place..memorably dubbed Space at the Steps. The groups that regularly gather here discuss all the things that go into building great cities in the 21st century.
Seattle Channel has posted the video from Climate Change: From Crisis to Opportunity on their site! Check it out
Congratulations to the Hjarta team and Pryde+Johnson! Hjarta, located in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood, features energy efficient elevators, a central boiler and high-performance windows in a concrete and steel structure with an insulated envelope. Community features incluude a Rooftop Terrace/Garden, a Community Room, and Yoga and Workout Rooms.
Living Future 2010---"the unconference for deep green professionals"---kicks off tonight in Seattle, running through Friday. GGLO will be well represented, with staff presenting at two sessions:
Post Occupancy Building Performance Evaluation: Understanding How Best to Use Feedback to Improve Outcome
Friday May 7, 1:45 - 3:45
Mark Frankel, Jon Heller, and Alicia Daniels Uhlig
How Existing Buildings Can Save the Planet: Imagining a Development-related Embodied Energy and GHG Emissions Transfer Program
Friday May 7, 1:45 - 3:45
Dave Cutler and Michael Wishkoski
The building performance evaluation presentation will cover the latest results of GGLO's collaboration with the engineering firm Ecotope and the City of Seattle. This work builds on ongoing building performance evaluation research that GGLO has been conducting since 2006.
The presentation on existing buildings will focus on embodied carbon, and how it can help inform development decisions from the single building to neighborhood scales. The presentation integrates GGLO's internal research on the renovation of the historic Cobb building, along with neighborhood performance studies conducted for the Blueprint for Transit Oriented Communities, as well as new research on embodied carbon in infrastructure.
Hope to see you there!
UPDATE: Please see GGLO's Insight article on embodied carbon for details on the research behind the Living Future presentation.
