Experts from KPF’s Environmental Performance team presented three sessions on topics including the use of thermal comfort modeling to design resilient spaces, the design of sustainable lab buildings, and the business case for electrification.
On Thursday, November 6, members of KPF’s environmental performance team (KPFep) joined experts in engineering, real estate development, building science, and other fields to share their expertise in sustainable design at Greenbuild, the largest sustainable design conference in the country.
Carlos Cerezo Davila, KPF’s Global Director of Sustainability, joined Zoe Davis, Senior Climate Resilience Project Manager, City of Boston Office of Climate Resilience; Nathaniel Jones, Senior Consultant, Arup; and Tobias Kramer, Post Doctoral Researcher at the Center for the Built Environment, UC Berkeley, for Thermal Comfort Modeling for the Design of Resilient Microclimates. Their session explored how designers and policymakers use urban microclimate models to understand how the built environment and climatic conditions will impact human sensorial experience of a given space.
Christina X. Brown, Senior Environmental Performance Specialist at KPF, joined Jeffrey Rios, Senior Vice President, WSP; Ray Swartz, Senior Vice President, WSP; and Tony Dover, Energy Management & Sustainability Officer, UC Irvine Health, for A Tale of Two Projects: Electrifying Buildings on Opposite Coasts. The session examined two all-electric healthcare projects in New York and California, using these case studies to understand how electrification can support campus decarbonization goals and the unique challenges of electrifying healthcare and life sciences projects.
Erin Heidelberger, Environmental Performance Specialist at KPF joined Chris Colasanti, Partner, JB&B; Ben Myers Senior Vice President, Sustainability, BXP; and Neetu Siddarth, Sustainability Director, Energy & Utilities, BXP for The Business Case for Electrification in Developer-Driven Commercial Office Projects. Taking an all-electric commercial office tower in New York as its case study, this panel discussion examined the business-case tradeoffs behind electrification and showed how state-of-the-art technology and thoughtful design can yield buildings that deliver for developers and the climate.
