SBSE
Retreat 2009:
The LEAP TO ZERO CARBON:
Laval University, Québec City, QB
Wednesday, June 24 to Saturday, June 27
I just got them to appreciate LEED… NOW you want me to teach Carbon Neutral??? Sigh…
The level of ecological literacy required in the curriculum is ramping up and expanding at a frenetic pace. Some schools have not yet incorporated “basic sustainable design” into their slate of required courses. Others have finally arrived at a position where students have developed an understanding of LEED and are incorporating it into a range of projects. The “Leap to Zero Carbon” will likely put patience to the test as schools scramble to be able to incorporate this into their teaching and courses.
It is the intention of this Retreat to build on the agenda set forth in New Forest and delve more into issues surrounding Carbon Neutral Design. What is it? How is it defined? How do we take our current sustainable and passive design teaching and make the big LEAP into teaching students how to design to that more particular ZERO target. We are looking for your ideas, best lectures, discrete projects and larger studio initiatives.
Our intention is that everyone leaves this Retreat fully equipped to teach Carbon Neutral and meet the goals of Architecture2030! We can do it if we resort to the long standing basis of SBSE to share our ideas, projects and teaching resources!
powerpoint presentation given at SBSE Retreat 2008 |
The streets of Old Quebec City - founded some 400 years ago |
Carbon Neutral and ZED Design Teaching
1) Carbon Neutrality in the Lecture course
2) Carbon Neutrality in the Studio setting
Carbon Neutral or Low Energy Research
3) Reporting on CND research
4) Development of helpful tools
Impact of Carbon Neutral on People and Programming of Buildings
5) Springing from Katy Janda's presentation at New Forest -
"Buildings Don't Use Carbon - People Do!"
Highlighting innovative ways to reprogram buildings and people to REDUCE!
6) Great case studies to share??!!
Presentation time slots will be short (10–15 min.) and organized into serial sessions,
so that we can accommodate as many presentations as possible,
encouraging everyone's participation in each session.
We are hoping that some of the material presented at this gathering will be able to be added to the website for the "Carbon Neutral Design Project Web Site", an education resource initative funded by AIA and a private donor in which many SBSE folk have been involved for the past year. If you wish to have your studio project or case study added to the resource, templates will be made available in Spring 2009.
The retreat will be organized around your proposals for presentations in all tracks and beyond. We are seeking
proposals
(due February 23) from both faculty and students.
This retreat starts immediately after PLEA - "Architecture, Energy and the Occupant's Perspective". We encourage participation in both events if possible. Quebec City is a fantastic venue and much of the content of the Passive Conference feeds well into the notion of impact reduction, which is the basis of Carbon Neutral Design. Depending on registration for PLEA of Retreat attendees, there may be some of the PLEA presentations "re presented" at the Retreat. I know that Andre and Claude have some interesting events planned for PLEA!
Program Coordinators:
Terri Meyer Boake, University of Waterloo, tboake@uwaterloo.ca
Mary Guzowski, University of Minnesota, guzow001@umn.edu
Site Coordinators:
Andre Potvin, Laval University, andre.potvin@arc.ulaval.ca
Claude Demers, Laval University, claude.demers@arc.ulaval.ca
SBSE: Society of Building Science Educators
Comments about this page can be sent to Terri Boake.
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