Kinder Building – MFAH | Houston, TX, USA (2020)
Features
– “Cold jacket” of glass tubes reduces solar gain by 90%
– Natural light to all spaces
LEED Silver
Features
– Green roof
– Natural light & natural ventilation
Lewis Arts Complex, Princeton University l Princeton, NJ, USA (2017)
LEED Silver
Features
– Geothermal heating & cooling (140 wells)
– Recycled water pool
– Green roofs
– High performance envelope with extensive daylighting
– LED theatrical lighting
Features
– Ecological Okalux insulating glass
-Green roof terrace
– Natural bamboo interior
– Transparent glass cavity wall
– Active slab insulating with natural ventilation
LEED Gold
Features
– Geothermal heating & cooling
– Natural light galleries
– Transparent glass cavity wall
– Active slab conditioning with displacement air humidity control
– Green roofs
– Rainwater harvesting
The Ex of IN House l Rhinebeck, NY, USA (2016)
Features
– Geothermal heating & cooling
– Recycled Poraver façade
– Solar flex panel roof
– Natural unfinished
– Locally sourced wood interior: super-insulated birch plywood diaphragm construction
– PLA corn starch-based 3D printed light fixtures
– No trees were cleared in construction
BREEAM Excellent (equivalent to LEED Gold)
RICS Design through Innovation Award (2015)
Features
– Natural ventilation via “driven voids of light”
– Radiant floor slab heater acts as vertical ventilation
– Green roof
– Storm water harvesting feeds sinks and toilets
– New biomass plant serves Reid building and existing buildings
LEED Gold: LEED energy model shows 49% reduction in energy use, earning all 19 LEED points for optimizing energy performance
Features
– First U.S. building to implement radiant floor heating/cooling with bubble-voided concrete slab (reduces concrete by 30%)
– Green roof
– Perforated sunshade South facades reduce solar gain and optimize natural light
– Honeycomb skylight diverts natural light through form
– Natural ventilation via operable windows and skylights
Sliced Porosity Block / Chengdu Raffles City| Chengdu, China (2012)
LEED Gold
Green GOOD DESIGN Award (2014)
Features
– Geothermal heating & cooling (455 wells, 90m deep)
– Thermal storage for cooling in peak energy costs periods
– Underfloor air distribution system reduce mechanical equipment sizing and energy consumption
– Thermal mass provided by exterior cast-in-place concrete facades
– Recycled grey water system
– Hybrid buildings combine living, working, culture & commerce
– Enhanced public / open space (12,000m2 landscaped public plaza provided)
– Natural light and ventilation for all spaces
– Reduced heat island effect with high albedo landscape materials and green roofs
Features
– Geothermal heating & cooling (44 wells)
– Green roof
– High performance clear and translucent glazing provides extensive daylight
– Stable below-critical thermal mass construction reduces energy use
Daeyang Gallery and House l Seoul, Korea (2012)
Features
– Geothermal heating & cooling
– Green & recycled water pools
– Natural light to all space
Features
– Geothermal heating & cooling (first geothermal museum in Denmark)
– Active slab conditioning with displacement air humidity control
– Continuous natural light galleries
– High performance envelope
2007 AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Project Award
Features
– Geothermal heating & cooling (88 wells)
– Largest green roof in state of Connecticut (30,0000 sq. ft.)
– Gravity-driven water treatment process eliminates pumping energy
– Skylit natural lighting to plant spaces
Swiss Minergie Standard (equivalent to LEED Platinum)
Features
– Green roof
– Recycled water pool
– Translucent glass ventilated cavity wall
LEED Platinum (First Certified LEED Platinum in South China)
Green GOOD DESIGN Award (2010)
Features
– Cooling via special ice storage system
– Provides more green landscape to public than building footprint (125% site green coverage)
– Landscape ponds of recycled water
– Special sun louvers reduce 70% of heat gain
– Natural light and ventilation for all spaces
– Sustainable, self-regenerating bamboo interiors
– Solar array on roof (1,400 sq. meters)
– High-performance building envelope includes exterior sun-shading louvers
– Chilled slabs and underfloor air distribution system reduce mechanical equipment sizing and energy consumption
LEED Gold
AIA New York Chapter Sustainable Design Merit Award (2008)
Features
– Geothermal heating & cooling (largest geothermal array in China, 2009; 660 wells 100m deep)
– System saves 2,110,000 degrees of energy usage / year
– Represents up to 80% of energy savings compared to conventional heating and cooling systems
– 1kW/h of power used renders 6.5 kW/h and 5.5kW/h of heating and cooling respectively
– Radiant slab (for heating and colling) along with underfloor air distribution system reduce mechanical equipment sizing and energy consumption
– Site restauration from past industrial function
– Hybrid buildings combine living, working, culture & commerce
– Recycled grey water system connects all apartments to ultra-violet zap for clear central landscape pools
– Provides more green landscape to public than building footprint. A high-performance building envelope includes external shading systems that minimize solar heat gain and reduces overall cooling loads