High Performance Building Requirements for Sustainability Portland Cement Association

Sustainability seeks higher performance  Product innovation  Building and site design  Societal behavior

 Rating systems aren’t building code.  It can’t be sustainable if it isn’t durable. Bridging a Gap

High Performance Building Requirements for Sustainability Stephen S. Szoke, PE, LEED AP Director, Codes and Standards Portland Cement Association High Performance Buildings

 Mandatory Language  Concise Criteria  Modifies the IBC  Functional Resilience HPBRS is Unique because:

More than the others…  Functional Resilience  Sites  Energy  Water  Materials  Indoor Environment

Functional resilience is fundamental to all other attributes  Safe  Secure  Healthy  Durable  Disaster resistant  Comfortable  Productive  Re-usable Critical attributes for an economically, societal, and environmentally balanced sustainable infrastructure

Re-Development with Re-Use

Functional Resilience Wynkoff Hotel, Atlanta Built in 1913 Completely gutted by fire in 1946 Re-opened as a hotel in 1951 Housing for elderly Vacant for 20 years Opened as the Ellis Hotel in 2007

Damaged by WTC collapse including 5 day uncontrolled fire Reopened as apartment building in 2005 Functional Resilience 90 West St., New York Built in 1907

Dis-Functional Resilience WTC 7, New York Built in 1987 Uncontrolled fire for 8 hours Total building collapse

Adaptive Reuse 199 S. Fifth Street Condominiums, Columbus, Ohio Meyers + Associates Architecture Images courtesy of Meyers + Associates and ESTO Photography

82 Billion Sq Ft Demolished and Replaced by 2030 “…1/3 of our existing buildings, largely because the majority of them weren’t designed to last any longer.” Richard Moe National Trust for Historic Preservation summarizing Brookings Report OR

“$35 Billion Annual Loss Due to Weather Disasters” National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Climate Change = More Severe Weather

Mandatory Language …shall be designed and constructed …shall be provided …shall be tested in accordance with …shall not be permitted …shall be determined by

Limited scope – basis for voluntary programs

Emergency Management Community Leaders Emergency Responders Building Officials Energy Disabled Elderly Municipal Planners Charities Environmental Interests Future Generations

Adoption All buildings in jurisdictions Forward thinking about sustainability Disaster prone areas All government owned or funded buildings Buildings designated HP Recognized as exemplary Identified green or sustainable Recognized for emergency operations

To some the choice is clear… OR

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub Advance the understanding of:  Concrete Material Science  LCA and Building Technology  Econometrics of Sustainability

Greenbuild Legacy House

Thank you David Shepherd, AIA, LEED AP Director – Sustainable Development Portland Cement Association Stephen Szoke, PE, LEED AP Director – Codes and Standards Portland Cement Association