10:00 ET | 7:00 PT Morning Networking
Maximizing Use of Sustainable Materials
10:30 ET | 7:30 PT Integrating Clients into the Design Process & Leveraging Strong Data Visualization to Make it Easier to Choose Sustainable Options
Synopsis
- Hearing how design choices can be provided to clients in a way that makes embedded and operational carbon, as well as cost implications clear
- Customizing your approach with each client so the level of detail and complexity aligns with their technical experience
- Revealing how a city-wide zero-carbon terms of reference can make it easier for all buildings to achieve significant carbon reduction
11:00 ET | 8:00 PT Reviewing the Opportunities of Mass Timber and How to Integrate it into Your Next Building Design
Synopsis
- Understanding when in the design workflow you need to consider alternative structural materials such as mass timber
- Exploring the process of gaining the buy-in of clients and contractors and overcoming logistical barriers such as supply chains
- Identifying the barriers to wider adoption of mass timber: can this be used on every project, and if so why aren’t we using it already?
11:30 ET | 8:30 PT Q&A: Maximizing Use of Sustainable Materials
11:50 | 8:50 Short Break
Achieving High Performance with Alternative Delivery Methods
12:20 ET | 9:20 PT Applying Panelization & Passive House Methods to Sustainable High-Rise Façade Design
Synopsis
- Understanding the speed, cost and sustainability benefits of modular approaches to façade design and construction
- Exploring the use of passive house principles on large high-rise buildings to significantly improve sustainability
- Assessing the constructability challenges with a panelized approach, such as procurement, logistics and installation
12:50 ET | 9:50 PT Applying High-Performance Design to Various Flavors of Design-Build Delivery Methods
Synopsis
- Revealing how to best integrate contractors into the early design stage and leverage maximum value from their expertise
- Hearing how to gain the buy-in of architects and other traditional design stakeholders who are unfamiliar or sceptical of design build methods
- Comparing the pros and cons of different variations of design-build and which is preferable to achieve maximum building performance
1:20 pm Case Study: Successful Adoption of Design Assist to Improve Building Performan
Synopsis
- Highlighting why subcontractors were brought onto the design team early, and what function they performed
- Hearing how the subcontractors were integrated into the design choices being made and how this influenced building performance
- Revealing lessons learned in how to create a collaborative design team that plays on the strengths of all firms
1:50 ET | 10:50 PT Q&A: Achieving High Performance with Alternative Delivery Methods
2:10 ET | 11:10 PT Break & Networking
Designing for Long Term Resiliency to Climate Change
3:00 ET | 2:00 PT Smart City Drivers: How Urban Scale Simulation Powers Carbon Neutral, Healthy, and Resilient Cities
Synopsis
- Hearing how modelling at the urban scale can improve air, energy and water efficiency and set up individual building design and simulation for success
- Assessing the role of computational design in understanding the interaction between buildings in an urban environment
- Understanding how climate change impacts can be addressed through advanced technologies, such as lidar modelling for sea level rise and mapping for ecosystem services
3:30 ET | 12:30 PT Revealing How to Futureproof a Building Envelope & Design with Climate Change in Mind
Synopsis
- Leveraging predicted future weather data, instead of just historical weather data to improve a building’s overall resiliency to extreme climate conditions
- Including adaptability and flexibility into design to allow a building’s optimal solar and thermal performances to shift with a changing climate
- Assessing best practices for reducing heating and cooling loads, improving thermal comfort and daylight for various climate zones