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CONTENTS
November/December 2010
48
FEATURES
The 2010 Evergreen Awards

Ecommercial Winner 48
The Atrium School in Watertown, Mass., designed
by Maryann Thompson Architects.
Ecommercial Honorable Mention 54

Twelve | West in Portland, Ore., designed by
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects.
Greenhouse Winner 58
Virginia Point, a Houston, Texas, residence
designed by Adams Architects.
On the Boards Winner 62

Digital Media City Landmark Tower in Seoul, South
Korea, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
Perspective Winner 66
Peter Busby of Busby Perkins+Will.
On the Cover: Digital Media City Landmark Tower,

the 2010 Evergreen Awards On the Boards winner,
58 66 designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM).
Rendering by SOM.
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CONTENTS
DEPARTMENTS
Viewpoint 10
Greenscene 12
Products 39
Deep Green 19
One of HOK’s sustainable-design specialists
describes the process of searching for and
incorporating green building incentives into
projects.
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Technology 25
Two engineers discuss the benefits of using BIM to
Previous page,clockwise from top: Anton Grassl/Esto; William Anthony; Joe Aker, Aker/Zvonkovic Photography.
project —and modify — sustainable initiatives and
building operations.
Flashback 31
Through its design and modified operations and
maintenance practices, the William J. Clinton
Presidential Center & Park achieved LEED
certification twice.
Ecocentric 72
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This net-zero playhouse is serious about the
environment.
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VIEWPOINT
Performance Issues depending on each of our personal filters, it can be architectural point of view—which, in a way, adds
a combination of the above and much more. a twist to the idea of building performance: Does it
Shortly before this issue of eco-structure went In reviewing nearly 200 entries in our building perform aesthetically?
to press, a tremor shook the green building categories (Ecommercial, Greenhouse, and On the In this case, the jury sought examples of
community. On Oct. 8, an attorney acting on behalf Boards), our jurors repeatedly came back to two gracefully integrated sustainable strategies. They
of Henry Gifford, president of New York–based questions: One, does the structure perform? And took note of retrofits that successfully addressed
Gifford Fuel Saving, filed a class-action lawsuit in two, does it stand out from an architectural point of the relationship between new and old, and
the U.S. District Court for the Southern District view? A “no” vote to either query helped filter out questioned how urban projects acknowledged
of New York against the USGBC, alleging fraud, finalists for a more in-depth discussion. their surroundings. They looked at sustainable
unfair competition, and deceptive trade practices. What the jury sought most from each entry efforts—solar, wind, geothermal, access to daylight
In addition to naming the USGBC as a defendant, was performance data, something that still seems and the outdoors, green roofs, and use of recycled
the suit also specifically named David Gottfried, to fall to the wayside once a project is handed over and renewable materials—with an eye on how
founder and first president of the USGBC; USGBC to the client. “We’re all good with thinking in terms they were integrated into a project. Were these
founding chairman, and current president and of design expressions,” noted one of our jurors. “It’s characteristics treated as a design element or were
CEO Richard Fedrizzi; and past USGBC founding trying to get designers to think about energy that is they more of a big “I’m green!” statement? (They
chairman Robert Watson as defendants. the challenge.” preferred when it was the former.) As an example,
Gifford alleges that the USGBC is misleading The yearning for performance data is a they applauded the technologies employed in
consumers and misrepresenting the energy sentiment that I hear repeatedly, and the industry Twelve | West, our Ecommercial honorable
performance of LEED-certified buildings, among certainly is taking steps to be more diligent in its mention, but wondered whether the wind turbines
other charges. (View a PDF of the complaint at information collection. Before Gifford filed his on the building’s roof could have been more subtly
eco-structure.com.) If you ask me, while increased lawsuit, the USGBC was already taking steps to integrated into the structure.
discussion on post-occupancy performance is better integrate performance-data collection and While we will have to wait to see how Gifford’s
needed in the industry, I am not sure that a analysis into future versions of the LEED rating lawsuit will be resolved, in the spirit of open-ended
courtroom is the most productive venue for it. systems, and the International Living Building discussion, I invite you to browse our Evergreen
At eco-structure, we strive to provide a less- Institute requires at least 12 months of performance coverage, starting on page 46 and continued online
litigious environment in which to examine building data for its Living Building Challenge—read about at eco-structure.com, and send us your feedback.
performance and sustainable design. (Not that we’re the first official Living Buildings on page 12.
casting aside the legal implications of going green: Still, a vast amount of data is missing. What’s
Less than one month prior to Gifford’s lawsuit, the holdup on measurement becoming a natural
eco-structure explored the issue of green building step in a project? Could it be blamed on the
rating–related litigation, dubbed “LEEDigation” in economy, or a lack of initiative and incentive?
our September 2010 Deep Green column. Check it As our Perspective winner, Peter Busby of Busby
out at eco-structure.com.) Perkins+Will, notes in our Q&A on page 66, it’s
Our November/December edition, which not often that an architecture firm is paid to go
celebrates the 2010 Evergreen Awards, continues back and measure building performance. One of
our focus on performance. In fact, it was a driving the keys to acquiring more data, he thinks, is to
factor in the competition’s jury deliberations. establish better benchmarks and measurements
Judging a sustainable design competition that will not only hold the building industry
is understandably a tough assignment (and one accountable, but also will help filter the good design
for which we owe great thanks to our jurors, who from the not-so-good (and certainly from the
are spotlighted on page 68). After all, there is no bad). As an example, he referenced energy labeling
set answer as to what constitutes excellence. Is it practices in Europe, where building owners must
a certain level of LEED certification? Is it energy provide building performance data as part of the
Mike Morgan
use that is, at minimum, a specific percentage sale of a building.

below code? Is it reuse of existing infrastructure, As noted above, our Evergreen Awards jury also
rather than new construction? As we all know, examined whether each entry stood out from an
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GREENSCENE
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projects are aiming to meet its targets. To be
certified as a Living Building, a project must meet
all program requirements through a full year of
operation. The building must be built only on
grayfields or brownfields, and set aside an equal
amount of land for habitat exchange in return for
TWO PROJECTS EARN LIVING BUILDING CERTIFICATION, each hectare of development; must generate all
AND A THIRD PROJECT EARNS PARTIAL PROGRAM of its own energy through renewable resources;
must capture and treat its own water through
CERTIFICATION FROM THE INTERNATIONAL LIVING
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BUILDING INSTITUTE. only nontoxic, appropriately sourced materials;
must operate efficiently; and must be built for
maximum beauty. Projects meeting a minimum
of three of the six petals, such as Eco-Sense, are
eligible for Petal Recognition.
“The Living Building Challenge calls for
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Three projects have completed the first full set of a fundamental shift in how we conceive of the
third-party audits for the Living Building Challenge built environment,” says Jason F. McLennan,
from the International Living Building Institute CEO of the ILBI. “These three projects have
(ILBI). The Omega Center for Sustainable Living demonstrated that we have all of the skills and
in Rhinebeck, N.Y., designed by BNIM, and Tyson technology we need to completely transform the
Living Learning Center in Eureka, Mo., designed built environment. These are quite simply the
by Hellmuth+Bicknese Architects, each earned greenest buildings in the world. If the building
full certification as Living Buildings. Eco-Sense, industry follows the example set by these
a private residence in Victoria, British Columbia, pioneering teams, we can begin healing our
Canada, designed by its owners, earned partial ecosystems and creating a future in which all
certification for completing four of a total six life can thrive.” ▪
performance areas—dubbed petals —in the
Living Building Challenge, version 1.3. To learn more about the three projects, visit ilbi.org/lbc/
The Living Building Challenge was launched certified. To read a profile on the Tyson Living Learning
in 2006 and the ILBI reports that more than 70 Center, visit eco-structure.com.
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Rhode Island is the first state to adopt the operational savings resulting from the legislation.
International Green Construction Code (IGCC). The IGCC was released for public review in
Under the Rhode Island Green Buildings Act, March 2010, with a goal of final publication in 2012.
all public agency major facility projects must be It applies to new and existing commercial buildings.
designed and constructed as green buildings, The requirements of the 2012 International Energy
and the IGCC is now identified as an equivalent Conservation Codes provide a baseline energy
standard in compliance with this requirement. provision for the IGCC, and ASHRAE Standard
The rules and regulations to implement the 189.1-2009 for the Design of High-Performance
act took effect in October. In August, Richland, Green Buildings, Except Low-Rise Residential
Wash., became the first city to adopt the IGCC as a Buildings is integrated into the IGCC’s technical
nonmandatory document for commercial buildings. content as an alternative compliance path. ▪

Longest
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Topping out with a total surface area of 4,072

square feet, the new green wall at the recently
opened East Conservatory Plaza of Longwood
Gardens, a horticultural center in Kennett
Square, Pa., is the longest indoor green wall
in North America.
Designed by British landscape architect
Kim Wilkie Associates, the green wall features
a panel wall system from GSky Plant Systems
of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, that
supports more than 47,000 plants from 25 plant
species, the majority of which are varieties of
ferns. Its surface area makes the new wall more
than 50 percent larger than the next-largest
indoor green wall, located at the PNC Bank
building in Pittsburgh, which measures
2,380 square feet.
The plants of the Longwood wall are planted
in 3,590 panels, which were started at a nursery
for 32 weeks before installation, and then were
transported to the site in three climate-controlled
trucks. Twenty-four irrigation zones and 3,900
linear feet of irrigation drip line maintain
the plants.
It is estimated that the wall will provide
an annual amount of oxygen equivalent to that
produced by 90 14-foot-tall trees and will clean
more than 15,000 pounds of dust and toxins
from the air per year.
The living wall lines a glass-roofed corridor
that forms a spine between two rows of 17
domed underground lavatories of the new
East Conservatory Plaza, also designed by
Wilkie in collaboration with London-based
architect Michaelis Boyd Architects; Princeton,
N.J.–based Farewell Mills Gatsch Architects; and
Philadelphia-based landscape architecture firm
Wells Appel. The new plaza acts as an arrival point
for conservatory visitors and is structured as five
tiered terraces that are meant to appear as steps
in the site’s landscape. ▪
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technology employed at Longwood Gardens from the
November 2010 issue of architect magazine, visit
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As a sustainable-design practice leader in HOK’s
Washington, D.C., office, I’m part of a network
of sustainable design specialists spread across
the firm that constantly seeks out and shares
information about green incentives, rebates, and
benefits. How do we stay on top of it all to find the
best options for each project?
Matters
Where We Look
Our first stop is the Web. To make sure everyone
in our network is aware of all the federal, state,
local, and utility incentives related to energy
performance, our starting point is the easily
searchable U.S. Department of Energy– funded
Database of State Incentives for Renewables &
Efficiency (DSIRE) at dsireusa.org. It’s updated
ONE OF HOK’S SUSTAINABLE-DESIGN regularly— there’s a “What’s New?” page for quick
SPECIALISTS DESCRIBES THE PROCESS OF reference— and we search by sector, state, or
SEARCHING FOR AND INCORPORATING GREEN technology.
Though DSIRE’s database includes some
BUILDING INCENTIVES INTO PROJECTS. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
funding opportunities, these options are covered
more extensively on the U.S. Department of
Energy’s website (energy.gov/recovery/funding
.htm). In addition, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency’s and USGBC’s websites (epa
.gov/greenbuilding/tools/funding.htm and usgbc
.org, respectively) are helpful. (For more sources,
Text Anica Landreneau see eco-structure’s September 2009 story on
Illustration Henry Obasi green project incentives at eco-structure.com/
greenincentives2009.)

DEEP GREEN Next, we often check with utility companies, as are coaxing the building industry into making
they may provide their own rebates and incentives. environmentally friendly choices by enacting
Offering their larger customers incentives for new codes or legislation and creating incentive
energy-efficient initiatives and renewable energy programs to make building green more appealing.
systems helps the utilities shave peak usage, For example, many cities with older infrastructure
maintain enough capacity to meet peak demand, systems are experiencing combined sewer overflow
and postpone the need to build costly new power problems. Here, stormwater can wash sewage into
plants. Also, many water utilities offer incentives for local waterways during heavy rain. Repairing this
water conservation, and municipalities across the infrastructure could cost a municipality billions
country offer rebates for water-saving products such of dollars and take many years to complete; so
as aerators for faucets, showerheads, and toilets. one way that they’re combating this problem
Speaking of municipalities, we regularly is by providing low-impact development (LID)
look at the local level. Across the country, cities incentives.
In Washington, D.C., the District of Columbia
Department of the Environment (DDOE) offers
rebates of $5 to $7 per square foot for green
roof installations and other LID incentives. The
District’s goal is to encourage building owners to
keep stormwater on green roofs or infiltrated in
site landscape features, rather than having it run
directly into municipal storm sewers. LID features
also include landscape elements such as bioswales
and rain gardens. As a specific example, at the new
351,000-gross-square-foot Consolidated Forensic
Laboratory, HOK’s team is channeling runoff water
into rain garden planter boxes instead of the street
so that it can be absorbed on the site instead of
entering the District’s stormwater system.
Complementing these efforts on the code
side of the equation, the District’s building codes
now require 75 percent of a new building’s roof
to be a vegetated or cool roof (either reflective
or limestone ballasted), and a project that is
built from lot line to lot line can avoid installing
structural stormwater management features if at
least half of the roof is vegetated with an approved
system. For owners, stormwater fees are based on
a site’s impervious surface area — the lower the
percentage of impervious surface, the lower the
fees. Thus, in addition to the green roof rebate and
up-front savings on structural stormwater features,
buildings with green roofs can save money during
operations.
Most cities have green building, planning,
and permitting agencies. You can get to know staff
members by participating in your local USGBC
chapter or other building industry associations.
In my office, we have developed relationships
with the staff at the DDOE, so that we can contact
them to explain our projects and inquire about
green incentives, and they often send us e-mails
announcing new programs. Agencies such as
DDOE often consult with firms like ours about
pending stormwater legislation, fees, or building
code changes, to get feedback and determine if
they are pushing the envelope environmentally
without discouraging people from building in
the District.
When We Start
Researching and targeting possible opportunities
should start early. Green incentives typically aren’t
mutually exclusive — we have found that we can
“A practical demonstration of a sustainable way
of building.”
Adèle Naudé Santos, Architect and Urban Planner, Professor at the

MIT in Cambridge (USA) and Head of the Holcim Awards jury 2008
North America, on the prize-winning Center for freshwater
restoration and research, Sudbury, Canada.
Develop new perspectives for our

future: 3 rd International Holcim
Awards competition for projects
in sustainable construction. Prize
money totals USD 2 million.
www.holcimawards.org
In partnership with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

(ETH Zurich), Switzerland; the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, USA; Tongji University, Shanghai, China;
Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City; and the Ecole Supérieure
d’Architecture de Casablanca, Morocco. The universities lead the
independent juries in five regions of the world. Entries at
www.holcimawards.org close March 23, 2011.
The Holcim Awards competition is an initiative of the Holcim

Foundation for Sustainable Construction. Based in Switzerland,
the foundation is supported by Holcim Ltd and its Group companies
and affiliates in more than 70 countries. Holcim is one of the
world’s leading suppliers of cement and aggregates as well
as further activities such as ready-mix concrete and asphalt
including services.

DEEP GREEN combine several if a project qualifies. At HOK,
once we identify an incentive, we rely on our
client’s financial analysts and tax specialists to
determine whether they are desirable. If there will
Cities are coaxing the green building industry be additional up-front costs involved in designing
a more energy-efficient envelope or HVAC system,
into making environmentally friendly choices for example, the client helps calculate whether
the payback is worth the initial investment. Many
by enacting new codes or legislation and organizations also take into account the marketing
and public relations benefits of occupying an
creating incentive programs. innovative green building. If the incentives are
deemed attractive, we meet with the client to chart
out exactly what the project team needs to do to
qualify for them.
It’s helpful to identify incentives early to
address any effects on compensation. For example,
many green incentives are tax-based. However,
since a public school or public agency does
not pay taxes, those projects cannot get the tax
benefits available for energy-efficient commercial
buildings. The good news is that some tax benefits
for public projects can be transferred to the
professional design firm. In that case, a school
district or government agency could negotiate to
transfer the tax benefit to the primary architect
in exchange for designing an energy-efficient
building. The architect then gets that tax benefit
or rebate as a bonus and, in return, charges the
owner a reduced design fee. This, naturally,
makes negotiating the architect’s professional
compensation trickier, so these incentives should
be identified as soon as possible.
Incentives also can be used to help secure
project financing. We are working with a local
developer who is planning an 800,000-square-
foot mixed-use project to anchor an eco-district in
D.C.’s southeast quadrant. The team is exploring
strategies that could result in a building that uses
50 percent less energy than that mandated in the
ASHRAE 90.1 standard. Meeting this will make the
project eligible for up to $1.80 per square foot in
federal tax incentives under the Energy Policy Act
of 2005.
In addition, some technologies under
consideration for the project, such as high-
pressure gas microturbines and photovoltaics (PV),
will be eligible for local rebates and incentives.
PV and wind energy installations can earn up to
$3 per watt in rebates from the District. The local
COOL ROOF electric utility is offering rebates for enhanced
commissioning, and LID strategies such as green
roofs will earn up to $7 per square foot through the
Anacostia Watershed Society.
Our hope is that the advanced environmental
attributes included in the building design will
help our client obtain the leverage it needs to
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As Users Make It
devoted to sustainability, we run frequent load
calculations and space analyses that are based upon
standard Building Information Modeling (BIM)
software. Seeing the increase, we turned to the BIM
model to examine the cause of this spike, which
TWO ENGINEERS DISCUSS was too high to be explained by hot weather alone.
One benefit of BIM is the ease in which we
THE BENEFITS OF USING BIM can relate a building’s orientation to the sun’s
TO PROJECT—AND MODIFY— seasonal paths across the sky, and plot the resulting
energy use given factors such as the building’s
SUSTAINABLE INITIATIVES geometry, orientation, fenestration, and U-values
AND BUILDING OPERATIONS. (insulating properties) of its walls. Prior to BIM,

validating performance model inputs was time
consuming and produced more opportunities for
misinterpretation of information. For this project’s
analysis we used Autodesk Revit and exported data
to Trace for load and energy-use calculations.
Reviewing the results produced from the
Text Bungane Mehlomakulu and Natalia Khaldi analysis obtained using BIM, and focusing on the
Illustration Jameson Simpson
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We consulted with the architect, and were able to On a larger level, coordination among
arrive at a solution well before the design process engineers, architects, and owners in the design
was mature. This behind-the-scenes ability to locate stage means that green initiatives are embedded
and fix problem areas early is an often overlooked early into the building design process, thus
aspect of sustainable design, but in the long run it minimizing conflict with other building goals. We
can save time, materials, and money. are beginning to see that green initiatives are not
The energy spike in the courthouse, and seen as supplemental, but as intrinsic, to a project.
the resulting fix, underline several strengths of Increasingly, building owners seize on green
BIM as it relates to sustainable initiatives. Energy initiatives in an effort to cut gas and electric bills.
calculations performed as often as necessary can Beyond the design stage, BIM aids
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As BIM matures, more clients are becoming better scheduling and construction management.
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FLASHBACK
Bridge of
The William J. Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock,
Ark., has won several awards including an AIA National
Honor Award for Architecture in 2006, an AIA/Committee
on the Environment Top Ten Green Projects honorable
mention in 2007, and an AIA/American Library Association
Possibilities
Building Award in 2007.
THROUGH ITS DESIGN AND MODIFIED OPERATIONS AND

MAINTENANCE PRACTICES, THE WILLIAM J. CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL
CENTER & PARK ACHIEVED LEED CERTIFICATION TWICE.
Text David R. Macaulay
Around Little Rock, Ark., they call it “Bill’s Bridge.” William J. Clinton Foundation offices and the
In a lush setting that was once a brownfield University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public
and reaches out towards the Arkansas River, the Service. The library elevated its status further in
William J. Clinton Presidential Center & Park is 2007 when it received Platinum LEED for Existing
reminiscent of Little Rock’s six bridges that cross Buildings (LEED-EB) certification, becoming the
the river nearby, its modern design emblematic of only federally maintained facility to earn this
a “bridge to the 21st century.” The center, which recognition.
opened in November 2004, is home to the William Collaboration on the building’s concept became
J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum. a clear theme for architects James Polshek, Richard
© Albert Vecerka/Esto
Designed to LEED Silver certification by Ennead Olcott, and Kevin McClurkan upon their invitation
Architects (formerly Polshek Partnership) of New to the White House in 1999 by then-President
York, the center’s main museum wing rises over Clinton. The president had been impressed with the
a 27-acre city park that stretches along the south firm’s cultural and educational projects, particularly
bank of the river. Nearby, the refurbished Choctaw the design of the Rose planetarium at New York’s
Station, a 111-year-old train depot, houses the American Museum of Natural History and the

art museum at Stanford University. Clinton had After visiting the libraries of several former
FLASHBACK
given considerable thought to his own presidential presidents, the architects better understood
library, picturing a public and archival space as an Clinton’s desire to emphasize openness,
exemplar of sustainable design. Olcott, a founding accessibility, and light. The National Archives
partner and design principal, recalls, “You won’t and Records Administration (NARA) dictates
find many clients as enlightened as President requirements for protecting and preserving
Clinton. It’s not like we had to convince him to the artifacts and documents from a presidency,
make a green building. It was quite the other way and the rest of the building serves as an active
around— he was leading the charge.” meeting place and policy think tank. “He didn’t
want archivists laboring in a dark, vault-like
Site Development environment,” Olcott says.
The project designers met with Clinton every six Yet prominent use of daylight presented a
weeks over the course of a year. Site selection, challenge in such a hot, humid climate. Olcott
led by the former president, focused on a long- recalls thinking: “We’ve got a glass bridge that’s
abandoned rail yard and old warehouses near facing west. How are we going to keep the sun
downtown. “Here, he chose to make a bigger off it?” The designers first considered placing a
impact by cleaning up this derelict site, to use system of louvers over the glass, but later opted for
this urban locale as a catalyst for enlightened a curtain-wall system that incorporates a floating
development,” Olcott notes. “He immediately saw glass scrim, with a sun-screening interlayer and
the possibilities there that others didn’t.” coatings, to reduce solar heat gain by half. Whereas
On site, Clinton envisioned bicycling and the designers predicted energy performance at
pedestrian paths, as well as restoration of the 25 percent better than ASHRAE 90.1–1999, the
old train station and adjacent railroad bridge. In center currently uses 34 percent less energy than
addition to a public park, today the area features comparable code-compliant buildings. Likewise,
nearly a dozen new office buildings. potable water reduction strategies total 23 percent
Natural light represents another signature less than that permitted by code, for a savings of
element in the building’s design and orientation. approximately 324,000 gallons annually.

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FLASHBACK
Natural light was a key design element as President Clinton sought to emphasize
openness, accessibility, and light. The west-facing glass bridge, however, proved
challenging in Little Rock’s hot, humid climate. The solution to controlling solar heat gain
was a floating glass scrim with a sun-screening interlayer and coating.
Continued Progress
Hailed by the press upon its opening, the Clinton Presidential Center
has since attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. But the
president and his foundation elected to green the three-building complex
further. Through a detailed LEED-EB certification process, consultants at
Leonardo Academy of Madison, Wis., identified a series of performance
improvements. Among them: updated operating procedures for erosion
and sedimentation control, as well as updated procedures for green site and
building exterior management, and the addition of low-VOC purchasing
practices and green cleaning policies. Ninety-four percent of the center’s
waste is now recycled and carbon neutrality was achieved via Green-e
certified renewable energy credits.
In addition to staff and contractor training, Leonardo Academy also
managed the procurement process to install a 5,000-square-foot green
roof over the library and oversaw the application for recertification under
LEED-EB. The results were recognized with LEED Platinum certification in
November 2007.
Olcott takes pride in realizing the president’s original vision as an
award-winning green building. “For us, the bridge metaphor captures the
spirit of Bill Clinton and his presidency,” he says. “I can’t think of another
client we could convince to build a building like that. Certainly an ambitious
undertaking for anyone, but it captured his imagination —and it was all new
Timothy Hursley
to us then, too.” ▪
David R. Macaulay is the author of Integrated Design: Mithun and the blog
Green ArchiTEXT, greenarchitext.com.

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FLASHBACK LESSONS LEARNED
To create transformative change in the built
environment of Little Rock, Ark., and the
surrounding region, stands as one of the
primary goals for the design and construction
of the Clinton Presidential Center. “President
Clinton’s vision was to create ripples within
Arkansas in terms of challenging people,
government, and other NGOs to pursue
this sort of sustainable construction,” says
Jordan Johnson of the Clinton Foundation.
Meeting LEED Silver and then LEED Platinum
requirements for the library and museum
resulted in several lessons. According to
Richard Olcott of Ennead Architects and Michael
In the future buildings will Arny of the Leonardo Academy, these included:
sell energy, not buy it.
• Broaden use of recycled and reclaimed
Are you ready? materials. While green design once called for
One day, buildings will be incredibly a series of compromises in material selection,
air-tight and energy efficient – so today’s choices are greater than ever (i.e.,
efficient that they will consume zero carpets made of recycled plastics); the center’s
net energy and even sell energy structure includes 100 percent recycled steel.
back to the grid. For condominiums, The center’s main wing rises out over a • Future-proof buildings. Although Ennead’s
27-acre city park alongside the south bank
this could make condo fees “net- design originally included a green roof, at the
of the Arkansas River that was previously
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practically goes through the roof. It’s and improves energy efficiency.
tomorrow’s smarter technology, today. • Reconcile green and federal standards.

Gaining approval for a water-retaining green
roof and locating the right system proved a
bigger challenge than anticipated, Arny says,
due to strict National Archives and Records
Administration requirements that are in place
to protect records against fire, flood, and
other threats.
• Continually improve building performance.
Other than a green roof, the project’s Platinum
certification involved no new sustainable
building components; rather, its optimized
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Text Laurie Grant
Kawneer Co. has introduced Versoleil SunShades,

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Beginning with the Single Blade SunShade System,
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horizontal or vertical configurations. Horizontal blades
can be tilted at eight different angles in five-degree
increments, while vertical blades can be oriented in 15
angles in five-degree increments. Depths from 6 inches
to 14 inches are available, and finish options include
Permanodic anodized finishes as well as standard and
custom paint finishes. The line can contribute to LEED
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texture options up to nine. Designers can choose from
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recycled content. The panels have an overlapping lip to
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Wallcoverings The Brasilia wallpaper collection from Wallquest draws

inspiration from leaves, grasses, tree bark, and other natural
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THE PURSUIT OF
EXCELLENCE
In the ever-growing realm of green building, what constitutes a noteworthy project? We offer one
set of examples with the winners of the 2010 Evergreen Awards, eco-structure’s third-annual
competition recognizing innovation in environmental performance and design. Showcased on
the pages that follow, this year’s winners, plus one honorable mention, span four categories —
Ecommercial, Greenhouse, On the Boards (which recognizes unbuilt work), and Perspective (which
spotlights an industry champion). The winners share a core attribute: They make projects work both
technically and aesthetically, marrying admirable environmental performance that pushes beyond
baseline measurements with innovative and thoughtful architecture. These projects (or, in the case
of our Perspective winner, his portfolio and industry leadership) are further support in striking
down the argument that good design may need to be sacrificed for green design, or vice versa.
As our jury discussed in mulling over this year’s entries, there should
no longer be a viable excuse for not combining sustainability and
outstanding aesthetics in any space. The industry and its clients
deserve—and should demand—excellence across the board.
Charged with filtering this year’s winners out of a sizeable entry field were Marc J. Cohen,
director of sustainable design at MVE Institutional in Irvine, Calif.; Narada Golden, senior
sustainability manager at YRG in Boulder, Colo.; Daniel J. Kaplan, senior partner at FXFowle
Architects in New York; Patrick Thibaudeau, vice president at HGA in Minneapolis; and William
J. Worthen, vice president at Simon & Associates in San Francisco and director, resource architect
for sustainability for the American Institute of Architects.
The 2010 winners will be recognized at a lunch during Greenbuild International Conference
and Expo. For more information on the awards and the event, visit eco-structure.com ▪
The whole-child education mission of the Atrium School is not just the stuff of blackboards and gym
ECOMMERCIAL WINNER class. In addition to academic and cognitive growth, the 120-student, K–6 school in Watertown, Mass.,
SECOND LIFE emphasizes social development, dialogue across age groups, and environmental awareness. Atrium’s
methods for achieving progressive results include weekly school-wide assemblies and common curricula.
In all, its approach could have been adapted from the Quaker playbook.
While Atrium’s current pedagogy may coincidentally reference historic educational precedents, its
building concretely merges past and present. Since the 2006–2007 academic year, the institution has
occupied a 20,000-square-foot warehouse that Maryann Thompson Architects remade as a contemporary
learning space and a lesson in sustainable design. The Cambridge, Mass.–based firm accomplished this feat
in spite of a lean budget of $110 per square foot.
The project required a vow of eeciency: In August 2005, the Watertown municipality claimed Atrium’s
old building in eminent domain, and gave the school 13 months to vacate. School oecials promptly leased
a former Wordsworth Books storage facility as a new site. Still, restrictions of time and money dissuaded
Text David Sokol several of Maryann Thompson’s colleagues from competing for the job, she recalls, adding that initial
Photos Anton Grassl/Esto
glimpses of the 1920s-era warehouse caused shudders: “That first walkthrough was a little intimidating.
The building has an amazing truss system, but it was painted all black and there were no windows.”
Project: Atrium School It may have been scary, but it also was sound. The structure, brick on concrete block, was in excellent
Location: Watertown, Mass. condition, and the roof membrane required only minimal patching. Thompson’s team removed the
“flimsy stage-set partitions” that had divided the interior when the building was a warehouse, and inserted
GREEN TEAM skylights and double-glazed windows —with 85-percent recycled-content aluminum frames —where there
Architect, interior designer, lighting designer: would be eight classrooms, five administrative oeces, and communal spaces.
Maryann Thompson Architects, maryannthompson.com The firm then set about transforming the interior from black to white. “We sprayed the whole interior
Client/owner: Atrium School, atrium.org in low-VOC white paint. The trusses are beautiful, like a spiderweb, and [the paint] allows the children to
MEP engineer: Wozny/Barbar & Associates, wbaengineers.com see how the structural systems work,” Thompson says. Acknowledging that an 18-foot-tall warehouse filled
Structural engineer: Richmond So Engineers, richmondso.com with kids could be noisy, the design team installed white linen–covered acoustical tiles liberally.
Civil engineer: Gala Simon Associates, gsadesign.com Minimizing intervention became the rule of thumb. Waterless urinals and low-flow toilets, which are
Construction manager, general contractor: Bowdoin largely responsible for a yearly water consumption of roughly 5.2 gallons per square foot—a figure that is
Construction Corp., bowdoinconstruction.com on the low end of the water use range of high-performance schools in the High Performance Buildings
Landscape architect: Landworks Studio, landworksstudio.com Database —were added without moving plumbing lines. Similarly, Thompson “wove the school around”
Green engineer: The Green Engineer, greenengineer.com the existing electrical infrastructure. Ductwork was inserted inconspicuously—made of a washable white
cloth, it expands and contracts according to use.
MATERIALS AND SOURCES One main change, however, dealt with perception. The warehouse originally faced a light-industrial
Acoustical system, ceiling: Decoustics, decoustics.ca section of Watertown, while its rear elevation and expansive parking lot opened to a residential area.
Flooring: Forbo Flooring Systems, forboflooringna.com Thompson achieved the zoning change required to flip those faces. “Setting the school’s entrance toward
Millwork: Environ Biocomposites, environbiocomposites.com what would seem to be the rear of the building was a deliberate choice to engage the kids in their natural
HVAC: FabricAir, fabricair.com world as their first interaction with the school,” says Jim Newman, chair of the Atrium School’s Board of
Lighting: B-K Lighting, bklighting.com; Lightolier by Trustees. Now, students start their day by passing through a landscape of undulating landforms designed
Philips, lightolier.com; LSI Industries, lsi-industries.com; by Michael Blier of Boston-based landscape firm Landworks Studio. This playground is a community
Teka Illumination, teka-illumination.com amenity that is open to residents. It also conceals basins beneath the mounds that retain stormwater to
Metal: Von Duprin, vonduprin.com reduce site runoff and refill the aquifer. The design team also reinstituted grass, trees, and natural drainage
Paints and finishes: The Sherwin-Williams Co., on site, decreasing the impervious area from 89 percent to 51 percent.
sherwin-williams.com Thompson designed diagonal wood screens that cover portions of the south-facing brick masonry.
Plumbing and water systems: Excel Dryer, exceldryer.com; These expanses of western red cedar soften the former warehouse’s sharp edges and, Thompson says, “they
Haws Corp., hawsco.com; Toto USA, totousa.com provide Atrium with an iconographic image.” The move is a gesture toward the residential neighborhood
Signage: Montana Lettering, signlettersource.com and an exercise in branding. One portion rises above the roofline to form a light well for the multipurpose
Windows and doors: EFCO Corp., efcocorp.com; Kamco space below—which acts as a gymnasium, assembly area, theater, and afterschool-program venue— and it
Supply Corp., kamco.com; Modulex Interior Products, expedites natural ventilation in that space by the stack effect. The light well, other skylights, and windows
www.modulexinc.com; Schweiss Doors, bifold.com work in tandem with interior luminaires that are activated by motion and daylight sensors. As a result, the
school consumes only 14.24 kBtu per square foot. Factoring in a high-intensity boiler and other mechanical
systems, total energy consumption is 38.51 kBtu per square foot, or 25 percent less than comparable schools
in the High Performance Buildings Database.
The south-facing multipurpose space exemplifies Thompson’s diverse sustainability strategy. In
addition to using daylighting and natural ventilation, the building has concrete floors that provide excellent
thermal mass; perimeter casework that was fabricated from recycled wheatboard; and a dramatic garage
door that emphasizes students’ connections to the outdoors.
While the multipurpose space bookends the building’s southern end, a library forms the northern
terminus. Between these two rooms, Thompson threaded classrooms, a faculty lounge, and administrative
oeces around the existing infrastructure to create an undulating double-loaded corridor that promotes a
sense of discovery. More generally, Thompson calls the Atrium School a personal turning point. “Atrium
showed me that you could make an adaptive-reuse project beautiful and emotionally interesting,” she says.
“Now I think of adaptive reuse as almost a holy thing. It is the most profound form of recycling.” ▪
David Sokol writes about architecture from Beacon, N.Y. For all Evergreen Awards coverage, visit eco-structure.com.
Now: The new entrance to the Atrium School
Before: The streetside warehouse entrance Before: The warehouse rear view Before: The warehouse side view

ATRIUM SCHOOL
ECOMMERCIAL WINNER
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and administrative offices Flexible multipurpose spaces
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Twelve | West
In many ways, the Twelve | West building in downtown Portland, Ore., is about energy—its generation,
ECOMMERCIAL conservation, and participation—on a district scale. But the energy that drove the 23-story project was a
HONORABLE MENTION desire to bring new life to a neglected area of the city core. For local project designers Zimmer Gunsul
FORWARD Frasca Architects (ZGF ), the solution lay in transparency.

“We wanted Twelve | West to be an urban catalyst that bridged a major thoroughfare to the vibrant
MOMENTUM aesthetic of Portland’s Pearl District,” explains ZGF principal John Breshears. ZGF’s interest in the project’s
success was personal. The company occupies four floors inside the 550,000-square-foot structure, which
also includes 17 stories of apartments, five levels of below-grade parking, and three roof-level terraces and
gardens. “By making the building transparent, we could reveal the vitality inside,” Breshears says, “but
transparency and sustainable performance can be in direct conflict with each other.” In order to resolve the
competing goals of visual openness and environmental stewardship, the designers first sought to optimize
the mechanical systems.
Text KJ Fields The team employed computer modeling and design predictions to control lighting in the space and
Photos Basil Childers, Pete Eckert, worked with a local curtain-wall fabricator to find the exact glass needed to control thermal gain. ZGF’s
and Nick Merrick
office space is served by underfloor air distribution and overhead passive chilled beams that cool the space
through a natural convention loop, as well as heat recovery at the air handling units and demand-driven
Project: Twelve | West airflow control. The team also exposed the concrete ceilings and structure, which provide thermal mass to
Location: Portland, Ore. moderate temperature swings. In the apartments, the HVAC system includes extremely efficient motors
and equipment, and a district utility in the Pearl District extended its service area to provide chilled water
GREEN TEAM: for Twelve | West.
Architect, interior designer, landscape architect, green On the top of the building, four wind turbines serve as an open-air experiment on wind power
consultant, LEED consultant: Zimmer Gunsul Frasca generation in an urban environment and are projected to produce nearly 10,000 kWh per year, enough
Architects, zgf.com electricity to offset that used by the building’s elevators. More renewable power comes from 1,360 square
Client/owner, construction manager: Gerding Edlen
feet of flat-plate solar hot-water panels on the roof, which provide 24 percent of the energy needed to heat
Development Co., gerdingedlen.com
the domestic hot water in the building. Energy models predict that Twelve | West will exceed current 2030
Mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, lighting
designer: Glumac, glumac.com; Total Mechanical,
Challenge benchmarks for energy use and achieve a 46 percent savings over code baseline.
totalmechanical.com Breshears says that project materials for the office space were painstakingly researched, and low-
Structural engineer: KPFF, kpff.com emitting materials and finishes were used throughout the building. In the office lobby, white metal
Civil engineer: David Evans and Associates, deainc.com ceiling panels are coated with a water-based, solvent-free finish that was not available from the panel
Geotechnical engineer: GeoDesign, geodesigninc.com manufacturer, so the designers paired two companies together to create the custom product. Recycled
General contractor: Hoffman Construction Co., materials include 100 percent corn-fiber curtains, linoleum flooring, recycled-denim insulation, and
hoffmancorp.com 96 percent recycled, locally manufactured gypsum wallboard. Locally sourced concrete and natural
materials also were specified throughout the building.
MATERIALS AND SOURCES: More than half of the wood used in the office space is Forest Stewardship Council certified. The
Building management systems and services: Siemens, designers selected bamboo for veneers on doors, casework, flooring, and cabinets, and the office lobby’s
buildingtechnologies.siemens.com wood siding was salvaged from an old trolley barn. An artist crafted the reception desk from wood
Cladding: Cold Spring Granite, coldspringgranite.com; salvaged from a 270-year-old walnut tree that was felled in Salem, Ore., because it was diseased. One
Dri-Design, dri-design.com; Streimer Sheet Metal Works, lobby wall showcases a collection of old photographic slides of past projects that were mounted and
streimer.com; Swisspearl, swisspearl.com backlit to create a portfolio display.
Curtain walls: Benson Industries, bensonglobal.com Twelve | West’s vegetated roof contains an unusually deep plant medium of 18 to 24 inches, which
Glass: Viracon, viracon.com allowed the team to incorporate plants that will grow tall, some up to 20 feet, to create a lush garden.
HVAC: Total Mechanical The deeper substrate also offers a substantial stormwater benefit. Excess rainwater is collected in a
Lighting control systems: Lutron Electronics Co., lutron.com 23,000-gallon tank. Combined with cooling coil condensate in the summer months, the rainwater provides
Lighting: Architectural Lighting Works, archltgworks.com; all of the project’s irrigation needs and approximately 90 percent of the offices’ toilet flushing needs. In
Artemide, artemide.us; Bartco Lighting, bartcolighting.com; response to the amount of waste diverted from the local sewer system, the city of Portland agreed to offset
Designplan Lighting, designplan.com; Focal Point, focal system development charges for the stormwater retention system, offsetting 91 percent of the system’s total
pointlights.com; Haworth, haworth.com; ilight Technology, cost, and the system saves a projected 286,225 gallons of potable water annually.
ilight-tech.com; iol Lighting Services; Kurt Versen Co., Opened in 2009, the project achieved two LEED Platinum certifications, one under LEED for New
kurtversen.com; Ledalite, ledalite.com; Lightolier by Philips, Construction and another under LEED for Commercial Interiors for the office floors. At press time, a
lightolier.com; Lithonia Lighting, lithonia.com; Louis Poulsen, comprehensive energy performance review was being conducted, as well as metering of the building’s
louispoulsen.com; Sistemalux, sistemalux.com; Visual Lighting overall energy use and submetering of the office lighting and plug loads, total domestic hot-water use,
Technologies, visual-lighting.com; Vode Lighting, vode.com; heating, cooling, and electrical use in the residences. In addition, the wind resources and energy production
Zumtobel, zumtobel.com will be measured by ZGF in conjunction with outside partners, including the building’s construction
Plumbing and water systems: Construction Products, manager, electrical and mechanical engineer, and the National Wind Technology Center, for five years
contech-cpi.com; Contech Total Mechanical; Siemens against predictions. Similarly, researchers at the Center for the Built Environment at the University of
Renewable energy systems: Southwest Windpower, California at Berkeley, have partnered with the design team to study glare, daylighting controls, and roller-
windenergy.com; Trox, trox.us blind effectiveness to better understand the impact of the high-transparency façade on both occupants
Roofing: Snyder Roofing and Sheet Metal, snyderroofing.com and energy use. “We’re benchmarking our energy performance and we launched a measurement and
Windows and doors: Bamboo Revolution, bamboorevolution verification plan,” Breshears says. “We want to share what we’ve learned with others to promote more
.com; Benson Industries; Grand View Glass & Metal, grand sustainable buildings everywhere.” ▪
viewglass.com; Kawneer, kawneer.com; Oregon Door,
oregondoor.com; Quantum Windows, quantumwindows.com KJ Fields writes about sustainability and architecture from Portland, Ore. To see a slide show of Twelve | West, as
For more, visit eco-structure.com well as extended coverage of this year’s Evergreen Award winners, visit eco-structure.com.

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GREENHOUSE WINNER Georgian graciousness with brick walls and crown molding. But the Hedgeses have made it their mission to
LONE STAR completely change that ideal, using the full force of modern architecture and technology. Their new home,
dubbed Virginia Point and located in Houston, gleams with cobalt-blue solar panels, galvanized aluminum,
and the force of their convictions. It is the first house in the city to receive LEED Platinum certification and
is a net-zero consumer of energy. “It’s the most radical project we’ve done,” says architect Joe Adams of
Adams Architects, a local firm.
The Hedgeses wanted to make a statement, not simply build a new house. “Houston is the energy
capital of the U.S., so what better place to have a home that produces its own energy?” says Daniel Hedges.
He and wife Adele are both part of the political establishment—he’s a former U.S. attorney and she is a
state judge —and they now consider themselves “environmental evangelists,” opening up their home for
public tours. “It’s a very warm and comfortable house. You expect you’re going to come into a hard, cold
place, but it’s anything but that,” Daniel Hedges says.
Text Lydia Lee Joe and Gail Adams were family friends of the Hedgeses with a 30-year architecture practice and
Photos Joe Aker, Aker/Zvonkovic Photography
had built off-the-grid houses in remote locations. When the Hedgeses asked them to go all out on the
sustainability front, the Adamses designed a house specifically to maximize solar collection. The process
Project: Virginia Point started with the site selection itself. The Adamses helped the Hedgeses pick a prominent corner lot, with its
Location: Houston, Texas long side facing south. The two-story house’s form then followed suit: It is shaped like a simple shed, with
a roof that is pitched south at the optimum angle for the region (30 degrees) and holds most of the home’s
GREEN TEAM 140 170W solar panels (which generate a total output of 23.8 kW). The orientation also allows for a long row
Architect: Adams Architects, adamsarchitectshouston.com of north-facing clerestory windows, which bring soft, diffuse light into the house and minimize the need
Interior designer: Tokerud & Co. for artificial lighting. “Texas is graced with a lot of natural light, but most people don’t know what to do
Client/owner: Daniel and Adele Hedges with it,” Joe Adams says. “We are taking the brunt of the hot sun and making power out of it, and using the
Structural engineer, geotechnical engineer: Gessner cooler northern lighting for living.”
Engineering, gessnerengineering.com The Adamses also designed a second volume, enclosed in glass, to create a show-stopping double-
Construction manager, general contractor: Chris Fry, height entryway. With its solar panels tilted west, toward the street, the architects made a point of
Dovetail Builders, dovetailbuild.com showcasing these very unique roofing tiles.
Landscape architect: Asakura Robinson Co., “I believe that one of the biggest impediments to the green revolution is nostalgia and sentimentality
asakurarobinson.com in architecture,” Joe Adams says. “Once you tie your building to a preordained style, you’re going to cut
Lighting designer: Bernard Woolf, Lighting Unlimited, yourself off from a lot of the most sustainable things you can do.”
lulighting.com The house is about 3,500 square feet, with an additional 1,500 square feet of shaded outdoor space.
LEED consultant: Contects Consultants & Architects, Because the Houston area is prone to flooding, the primary living spaces are on the second level, which
contects.com features an open living and dining area, along with a master suite and a kitchen. The contemporary design
also incorporates traditional passive cooling techniques. The upper floor has a long screened-in porch, built
MATERIALS AND SOURCES with decking fabricated from recycled plastics, where the Hedgeses frequently take their meals. “To engage
Appliances: General Electric Co., geappliances.com the outdoors in Houston is really unheard of,” notes Adams. On the first level, a dogtrot — a covered
Building management systems and services: breezeway — separates the garage from a wing of guest bedrooms. The shady spot is a favorite hangout of
Lutron Electronics Co., lutron.com the Hedges family dogs.
Cladding: Galvalume, galvalume.com Contributing to the home’s mechanical efficiency, a geothermal system (with four 2-ton heat pumps
Curtainwalls: HRCG, hrcgonline.com and 10 300-feet-deep wells that house cooling loops) takes care of the heating and cooling, contributing
Flooring: EcoTimber, ecotimber.com; Plyboo by Smith & to a Home Energy Rating (HERS) index performance of negative 11. (The HERS index is a 100-point scale
Fong Co., plyboo.com; Teragren, teragren.com; based off of a reference home built to the 2006 International Energy Conservation Code, where a score of
HVAC: WaterFurnace International, waterfurnace.com zero equates to being net-zero energy.) A 7,000-gallon rainwater cistern stored underground supplies all of
Lighting: American Lighting, americanlighting.com; the house’s potable water needs—the stored water is purified using ultraviolet radiation before use. These
Elco Lighting, elcolighting.com; Eurofase Lighting, eurofase measures also were financially efficient: The geothermal materials and system installation costs, along
.com; Halo by Cooper Lighting, haloltg.com; Hydrel, hydrel with the house’s solar system, inverters, and backup battery system, were eligible for federal tax credits. The
.com; Jesco Lighting Group, jescolighting.com; LBL Lighting, rainwater system helps contribute to a near-net-zero water utility bill (not zero, as the Hedgeses still pay for
lbllighting.com; Louis Poulsen, louispoulsen.com; Lumiere by a sewer connection).
Cooper Lighting, lumiere-lighting.com; Lutron Electronics The home’s architecture of efficiency also meant that building materials and finishes were picked for
Co.; Matthews Fan Co., matthewsfanco.com; The Modern their extreme durability; in addition to floods, the area is regularly beset by hurricanes. The rooftop solar
Fan Co., modernfan.com; Panasonic, panasonic.com; panels are integrated with the home’s steel framing and have withstood one hurricane already without
Rotaliana, rotaliana.it; Techlight, techlightusa.com; Tech incident. A battery backup system lets the home function free from the electrical grid in dramatic weather.
Lighting, techlighting.com; Visual Lighting Technologies, When it came to the exterior, the Hedgeses were tired of having to repaint trim and replace windows on
visual-lighting.com; WAC Lighting, waclighting.com their Georgian, and the Adamses responded with a zero-maintenance structure that has exposed galvanized
Paints and finishes: The Sherwin-Williams Co., steel framing and galvanized aluminum siding in large, medium, and fine textures to distinguish the
sherwin-williams.com different volumes of the building. Inside, the first floor is covered with polished concrete, while the second
Photovoltaics: Sharp Electronics Corp., sharpusa.com floor features warm bamboo flooring and cabinetry. The interiors reveal the house’s structure, with framing
Plumbing and water systems: PexSupply, pexsupply.com and bracing clearly visible within the lofty spaces. “This building has a realness to it that even a lot of
Rainwater recovery system: SparkleTap Water Co., modernist architecture doesn’t have,” Joe Adams says. “It’s not a pristine white box, which you have to do a
sparkletap.com lot of shenanigans to achieve, by the way. But I think this house is beautiful in its own way.” ▪
Lydia Lee writes about architecture and design from Menlo Park, Calif. To see a slide show of Virginia Point, as well
as additional coverage of the 2010 Evergreen Awards, visit eco-structure.com.
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Digital Media City Tower
The 20th and 21st centuries are dotted with iconic skyscrapers by the architecture and engineering firm
ON THE BOARDS WINNER Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). The Hancock Tower, the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower), the Burj
JOLLY GREEN Khalifa, and the still-under-construction One World Trade Center all soar heavenwards as feats of design and
engineering. And some 40 years into designing super-tall structures, the firm is continuing to innovate. Its
GIANT Digital Media City Landmark Tower in southwestern Seoul, South Korea, brings sustainable design skyward.
At 2,100 feet tall (133 stories), the mixed-use tower hosts a collection of green technologies, including
solar panels, wind turbines, enhanced daylighting, and living walls. SOM anticipates that these strategies
will reduce overall building energy use by 66 percent. “Original constraints on super-tall buildings were
vertical transportation and structural requirements,” explains SOM design partner Mustafa Abadan. “Today,
those requirements have become easier to solve with technological advancements, but sustainability needs
to be addressed. We’ve shifted our priorities to environmental issues.”
Located on a 37,208-square-meter (401,278-square-foot) site west of downtown Seoul and north of
the Han River, in an area slated for development as a technology and media hub, the super high-rise is
Text Mimi Zeiger designed to be a beacon for the region—literally. LED lights integrated into the façade will be programmed
Renderings Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
to correspond to sky color and come on at sunset, creating a dynamic light display.
Yet the building’s environmental responsiveness is not just for show. The tower promotes urban
Project: Digital Media City density. A micro-city in itself, its mixed-use program includes an eight-story retail podium, 39 office
Landmark Tower floors, a 16-floor hotel with a double-height lobby, 19 serviced apartment floors, 39 residential floors, one
Location: Seoul, South Korea restaurant floor, three observation decks, and eight mechanical floors. One of Seoul’s major train stations is
within walking distance.
GREEN TEAM: Despite the symbolic display, the tower’s spectacle comes in its forward-thinking production of
Design architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, som.com renewable energy. SOM’s team reconfigured the standard super-tall building footprint, where the core is
Architect of record: SAMOO Architects & Engineers, usually taken up with structural supports and vertical transportation. About halfway up the building—at the
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hotel lobby — the more-traditional core is replaced by a 1,000-foot-tall vertical void. Roughly 60 feet wide
Client/owner: Seoul Light AMC
by 100 feet long, the void is based on the principles of a solar updraft tower. Using the stack effect, air will
MEP engineer: Syska Hennessy Group, syska.com
be drawn into a collection area, where it will be heated naturally by the sun before it rises up through the
Structural engineer: SOM Structures
Landscape architect: Thomas Balsley Associates, tbany.com tower to drive six horizontal-axis wind turbines, each 3 meters (about 10 feet) in diameter. SOM predicts
Lighting designer: SBLD, sbldstudio.com that this “solar engine” will provide 3 to 5 percent of the building’s overall energy. “Tall buildings naturally
Sustainable design: Buro Happold, burohappold.com act as chimneys,” Abadan explains. “There is a natural draw of air that, up until now, we’ve had to fight.
Fire and life safety: Aon Fire Protection Engineering Corp., In this tower we’ve embraced this phenomenon. Super-tall towers have always been designed around
aonfpe.com structural concerns, but we’ve also recognized that other forces acting on the building can be harnessed in
Vertical transportation: VDA, vdassoc.com a different way.” Additionally, there are plans to capture methane from an adjacent landfill and convert it to
fuel. Nicholas Holt, a director at SOM, projects that the gas given off from decomposing trash combined
with wind turbines installed on land south of the site could supply 20 percent of the entire building’s power.
Integrated systems are key to maintaining an efficient super-tall building. For example, the structure’s
electrical and mechanical systems are optimized with high-efficiency lighting fixtures, chilled beam cooling
in the office spaces, and radiant flooring in all residential and hotel guest room spaces. The exterior façade
is designed to generate both shade and energy. The southern façade will be outfitted with horizontal
shading fins, while the eastern and western façades will have a combination of horizontal and vertical
fins. Discussions are under way to install photovoltaic (PV) panels on a to-be-determined mix of fins on all
three sides. It is anticipated that the PV panels will be installed on the lower portion of the building for easy
maintenance and will generate 1,400 mWh of energy to be fed back into the site or sold back to the grid.
Around the central atrium, glass panels will allow natural light to filter deep into the floor plates.
SOM’s ability to stay on the cutting edge of performance technologies comes from in-house research
and advanced computational power. By using a combination of software packages, the team is able
to empirically model complex environmental systems such as heat gain, solar incidence, and thermal
dynamics. In fact, prototypical development done in partnership with the Center for Architecture, Science,
and Ecology (CASE), which is a research entity co-hosted by SOM New York and the Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, led to the tower’s “lungs.” CASE had designed an Active Modular Phytoremediation System
(which won a 2009 R+D Award from architffct magazine) and, for the tower, collaborated with SOM to
improve existing green wall technology. Up to 90,000 square feet have been allocated within two U-shaped
perimeter voids—one on the building’s north side, one on the south—to house green walls. Each void will
be broken into three stacked segments and in the upper segments of each U, the green walls will cleanse
air by drawing it across the plant leaves, roots, and rhizomes, which together filter out VOCs and toxins.
The walls also will pre-cool the air, reducing the amount of energy needed to cool the apartments. Grown
hydroponically, the green walls will be supported by the building’s graywater reclamation system.
Although the Digital Media City Landmark Tower is just out of schematic design and completion
is anticipated in 2014, it represents the future of super-tall architecture. “We’ve incorporated a level of
environmental enhancement that goes beyond what has been thought of up until now,” Abadan says. No
longer will it be enough to race upwards solely on feats of structural engineering, it’s now sustainability’s
turn to scrape the sky. ▪
Mimi Zeiger writes about architecture from Brooklyn, N.Y. See more Evergreen Awards coverage at eco-structure.com.

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PERSPECTIVE WINNER
PETER BUSBY
Interview Katie Weeks

Portrait William Anthony
What constitutes green design? For Peter Busby, sustainable design is an ever-evolving entity with one constant: Green design is an inherent part of good design.
This perspective can be traced back to the University of Toronto where Busby received a Bachelors of Arts degree in political philosophy in 1974. “I studied morals
and ethics and came away from my first degree with a strong opinion about doing the right thing and finding a career path that would allow me to do something
inherently good,” he explains. “I turned to architecture as a vehicle to do good and to build the right things for people.”
As Busby studied architecture at the University of British Columbia and ventured into practice, doing good via architecture grew to incorporate sustainability.
“I studied under Ray Cole, who brought a lot of sustainable design trends over from the United Kingdom,” he recalls. “Then I went to work in Europe … At
[Norman] Foster’s office, I was able to work on projects in Europe and Asia that were pretty green. This was 30-odd years ago.”
The green-design-is-good-design perspective has served Busby well. His firm—founded in Vancouver in 1984 as Peter Busby Architects and renamed Busby
Perkins+Will in 2004—has raked in accolades including two AIA Committee on the Environment Top 10 Awards (one in 2004 for the City of White Rock Operations
Building in White Rock, British Columbia, and one in 2009 for Dockside Green in Vancouver, British Columbia); an AIA What Makes It Green? Award (for Dockside
Green); and recognition as the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s 2005 firm of the year and as one of Canada’s top 50 green employers for 2009 and 2010.
Busby’s dedication to sustainability continues to drive him. As a managing director at Perkins+Will, he serves as high-level adviser for the firm’s Sustainable
Design Initiative, overseeing internal operations and strategic plans to elevate the firm’s green design practice. On a personal level, he earmarks 20 percent of his
time for environmental advocacy. He is a past chairperson for the Sustainable Buildings Canada Committee, a co-founder of the Canada Green Building Council,
the first architect to sit on the board of BC Hydro, and a participant in several local task forces and the USGBC.
Now in the mix of honors: the 2010 Evergreen Award in the Perspective category, bestowed in recognition of Busby’s continued dedication to fostering
innovation in environmental performance and architecture. eco-structure recently spoke with Busby about current challenges in sustainable design.
How would you define your philosophy on what it Architects and engineers are just now beginning engineer whose buildings are not green today, but
means to design green? to understand what is a reasonable level of energy if you look at the final product, it looks the same as
The only consistent aspect of our approach to consumption in a given building type per square foot buildings that were built 10 years ago. So, either
designing a sustainable building is that it is or square meter per year, and we’re just starting we’re snowing each other, or nothing’s changing, and
always changing. There is no ultimate textbook to get comfortable with those numbers. In Europe, I think that’s troubling. When we get to measuring
on sustainable design. There is no list of what you there have been laws in place by building type buildings, where you label a building and understand
must do and what you must not do. It’s a constantly regarding the maximum amount of energy that how it performs, then the truth will come out as to
evolving position. Each year, we learn more. For should be consumed per square meter per year per what is a good building and what is not. It’s time
example, we’re now working with the Living Building building. We’re slow off the mark here. for the industry to have measurements and be
Challenge and learning about material composition In Europe, there are laws requiring building accountable for what it does—it’s past time.
in buildings. We’re not chemists. It’s a whole new owners to post the energy consumption of a building
chapter in sustainable design. In this vein, you can before they lease or sell it. We need those kinds of Do you regularly check back in on projects to see
go back over the past 25 years and find things we things in North America in order to force people to how they are performing?
learned each year. We’re constantly striving to learn address the issue of energy consumption. We have done some post-occupancy reviews over
more, do better work, and move toward realizing the past five years, but to tell you the truth, it’s hard
what the word “sustainability” really means. When it comes to sustainable design, are there to do. No one pays you to do it, so you have to be
any common misconceptions that you see? For rigorous and go back. We’re in the process of trying
In terms of the environmental impact of buildings, example, there often seems to be confusion to inventory all of our buildings across Perkins+Will
what do you consider to be the most pressing regarding the costs associated with going green. to benchmark them.
challenges facing architects, designers, and other I’m always asked how much it will cost. I haven’t
allied professionals today? been to a meeting with people considering doing What do you think will be the biggest factors to
I think in the early days of sustainable design—say, a green building where someone doesn’t want to influence sustainable design and construction in
when the LEED tools were just coming out—people know how much it costs. The truth is that when the next five years?
found it pretty easy to obtain a level of sustainable designed properly, there should be little to no cost Once again, the biggest challenge will be
or green design. The hard part is coming now, when for most building types with reasonably aggressive understanding actual energy performance. At
we really have to improve the energy performance of solutions. When you get into sophisticated solutions the moment, the LEED process requires energy
our buildings. We have to build better envelopes and like net-zero energy, carbon-free buildings, or living modeling, but it’s often done at the end of a project
encourage our clients to make better investments in buildings, then there is a cost, but usually those and done as a result of the USGBC requiring it
the hard physical aspects of their buildings. types of buildings are trying to do other things that for certification submissions. We should be doing
The price of energy is going to rise and the real make them more expensive in their very nature. energy models at the beginning of the process and
estate industry is competitive, so having a building I always remind people, however, that even if they should influence how we design our buildings.
consume less energy makes it more marketable. there is a 7 percent premium for a high-performing They should be done in real time so that as we make
Landlords are starting to press architects and green building, that’s [the same percentage] we design decisions, we can see the energy impact.
engineers for true building performance, but I think pay our real estate agents to sell a building. It’s The second challenge will be in the material
there is still a lot to be learned, particularly by the lasting value that pays back over 40 to 50 years realm: understanding the carbon content of our
mainstream public, about better envelopes and and is incredibly good value for the money. But materials, their environmental impact, and what
better performance. because a lot of buildings are developed on spec they’re made of. We’ve got to take it much farther
If you look at building standards in parts of and we hand off the operational costs to tenants or beyond LEED and VOC-type standards for interior
Europe, they get the envelope right first, and then purchasers, our system has no inherent mechanism finishes and remove all poisons and carcinogens
work on other elements. In North America and Asia, for reconciliation. The builder often doesn’t carry from the materials surrounding us. We spend most
we tend not to do that. We essentially build cheap the long-term costs of his operational decisions. We of our time in buildings. They should be healthy. ▪
buildings and we’ve got to stop. We have to invest in need a method that allows this to happen.
the envelope, and that’s going to be a big challenge Another challenge is greenwashing. There’s Log on to eco-structure.com to see all coverage of the
over the next three to four years. hardly a building advertiser, architect, builder, or 2010 Evergreen Award winners.

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1. Marc J. Cohen Istanbul; and the Science Applications International
With more than 23 years of experience in Corp. headquarters in McLean, Va. Kaplan is a
architecture, facility planning and management, visiting critic at Cornell University’s College of
and sustainable design consulting, Marc J. Cohen Architecture, Art & Planning New York center,
joined MVE Institutional in Irvine, Calif., in January where he is teaching a master’s design studio.
2010 as director of sustainable design. As such, he In 2009, he co-taught a graduate-level course
leads the firm’s sustainable design program and at Cornell that explored the marriage of design
oversees project planning, design, scheduling, cost invention with environmental performance in the
estimating, specification preparation, subcontractor building envelope.
coordination, and client briefings. Cohen is a faculty
2 member of the USGBC, and leads programs on 4. Patrick Thibaudeau
green building basics, LEED core concepts and As vice president, sustainable design, at
strategies, and LEED technical workshops. Minneapolis, Minn.–based HGA, Patrick
Thibaudeau is responsible for the firm’s sustainable
2. Narada Golden design practice and also oversees cost estimating,
Senior sustainability manager and the design and construction administration, and operating
construction team lead at YRG Sustainability in councils. He was an early member of the AIA’s
Boulder, Colo., Narada Golden has over 10 years Committee on the Environment (COTE), worked
of experience in architectural design, construction on the AIA’s Environmental Resource Guide, and was
3 administration, LEED project management, and instrumental in forming AIA Minnesota’s COTE.
leadership in the field of green building, and has Under Thibaudeau’s leadership, HGA received the
worked on commercial, educational, cultural, 2007 National Construction Specification Institute
laboratory, and residential projects. Golden is (CSI) Environmental Stewardship Award and the
currently an ambassador for the Cascadia Green 2006 CSI Minneapolis–St. Paul Chapter Rebecca
Building Council, gives presentations on the Living L. Foss Environmental Stewardship Award. He is
Building Challenge, and is developing a toolkit to a current member of eec-ostresrte’s editorial
train a national network of Cascadia Ambassadors. advisory board.
He also is on the Rocky Mountain Earth Institute
steering committee for the Northwest Earth 5. William J. Worthen
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Institute, has started over 100 courses on personal William J. Worthen is director, resource architect
sustainability in Portland, Ore., and Denver, is for sustainability for the American Institute of
trained in the Natural Step, and helped to organize Architects. In this role, he is a staff subject matter
Natural Step trainings in Portland. expert on sustainability to identify, guide, and
facilitate smooth access to information, knowledge,
3. Daniel J. Kaplan and practice tools for architects. In addition,
Daniel J. Kaplan is a senior partner in the New York Worthen is a vice president of Simon & Associates
office of FXFowle Architects, and design director in San Francisco. He is a member of the USGBC’s
of the firm’s Urban Studio. He has more than 26 Implementation Advisory Committee (National
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years of experience in the industry, 23 of which have LEED Advisory Board), sits on the San Francisco
been served at FXFowle. Projects currently under Mayor’s Task Force on Green Building, has advised
his direction include the HealthCare Chaplaincy’s California’s Attorney General on green building,
palliative care campus in New York City that and is a technical advisor on the implementation
combines residential, medical, and educational of San Francisco’s Green Building Ordinance and a
uses; Eleven Times Square, a LEED Gold–certified member of the AIA California Council.
corporate office tower in Manhattan; the Clinical
Sciences Center at Roswell Park Cancer Institute
in Buffalo, N.Y.; Atasehir Renaissance Tower in
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Playing
Each summer, a village of palatial playhouses wood tones, as well as blue plexiglass panels and
materializes in southern California. Teams of Trex Accents siding. The “truth wall,” an interior
architects, engineers, and product manufacturers wall covered in acrylic instead of gypsum board,
House
donate their time and resources to Project reveals the playhouse’s construction, including
Playhouse, a fundraiser that benefits HomeAid 100 percent natural wool insulation and a wood
Orange County, a nonprofit organization that structure. Large sliding doors make up two walls,
builds and renovates shelters for the homeless. providing natural ventilation and daylight.
THIS NET-ZERO The playhouses are predictably small, each Other sustainable features of the playhouse
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ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT.
homes. Each of the seven playhouses on view at the and IceStone countertops, as well as native and
Irvine Spectrum Center this year featured a theme, water-efficient vegetation on the viewing deck
chosen by the design teams, from a firehouse and and around the playhouse, energy efficient LED
Text Murrye Bernard
a Craftsman-style home to a Nantucket beach lighting, and Suntech Black Label photovoltaic
Photo David Heath
house. The Ocean Adventure Lab stood out as the solar modules, which can be viewed up close from
lone modern design. It also was crafted to be a the roof deck. As Project Playhouse’s first net-
sustainable, net-zero showcase. zero playhouse in its 19-year history, the Ocean
Project team members —Turner Construction Adventure Lab received an honorary certification
Co., LPA, ProRepro, and Tangram Interiors —all from the USGBC’s Orange County chapter.
share a sustainable mindset. Working off of this In addition to learning about sustainable
commonality, they partnered with the Ocean design, visitors to the Lab also were invited to
Institute —a nonprofit organization based in Dana experiment with a wave-generating tank and play
Point, Calif., that is dedicated to ocean preservation the role of oceanographer using microscopes, lab
through education— to create an environment coats, and books provided by the Ocean Institute.
to teach kids of all ages about oceanography and It’s obvious that visitors and team members alike
green building principles. were entertained—LPA even created its own
Since all materials were donated, the resulting mockumentary of the design and construction
color palette was eclectic, which was fitting for process. (View it online at eco-structure.com.)
a playhouse promoting adventure, explains LPA Following the summer exhibition, the
team member Keith Hempel. The exterior is clad in playhouses were auctioned off, with proceeds of
durable Trespa Meteon panels in ochre, silver, and the auction going to HomeAid. ▪
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