WS3 - (Workshop 3) Heritage Conservation and Carbon Reduction: The Climate Crisis and Moving towards Zero Net Carbon

Saturday, October 3, 2020

10:00 AM – 3:00 PM MDT

CE: 12

Sponsored By:

Workshop Organizer(s)

Nikolas Marsall-Moritz
Scott Henson

Principal
Scott Henson Architect
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David Johnston, MCIP, RPP, M.PI.

Principal Heritage Planner
City of Edmonton
Matthew Radune, RA, AIA, Certified Passive House Designer

Project Manager
Scott Henson Architect
Jane Sanders

Senior Associate
Scott Henson Architect
Elana Zysblat, CAHP

Heritage Consultant
Ance Building Services

Workshop Presenter(s)

Lois Arena, PE

Director
Steven Winter Associates
Angel Ayón, AIA, LEED AP

Principal
AYON Studio Architecture . Preservation, P.C.
Ryan Bragg, AIBC, MAA, FRAIC, LEED AP® BD+C

Principal
Perkins & Will
Ghislain Bélanger, OAQ, MRAIC, LEED AP

Principal
CO12 Architecture
Mark Thompson Brandt, OAA, RAIC, APT-RP, CAHP, LEED AP, AIA-IA

Senior Conservation Architect & Urbanist
MTBA Associates Inc.
David Dove, AIBC, FRAIC, LEED AP® BD+C

Principal
Perkins & Will
Lori Ferriss, AIA, PE, LEED AP BD+C

Director of Sustainability and Climate Action
Goody Clancy
Andrew Frontini, OAA, NSAA, FRAIC, LEED® AP BD+C

Principal, Design Director
Perkins & Will
DJ

David Johnston, MCIP, RPP, M.PI.

Principal Heritage Planner
City of Edmonton
Chris Magwood

Executive Director
The Endeavour Centre
Ed May

Partner
bldgtyp
Daniel Millette, MA., MASA, PhD, RPA, RPP, MCIP

Adjunct Research Professor
Carleton University
Jennifer O'Connor

President
Athena Sustainable Materials Institute
Matthew Radune, RA, AIA, Certified Passive House Designer

Project Manager
Scott Henson Architect
Nakita Reed, AIA, CPHC, LEED AP BD+C, NOMA

ASSOCIATE
Quinn Evans
Kate Simonen, AIA, SE

Director
Carbon Leadership Forum
Larry L. Strain, FAIA, LEED AP

Principal
Siegel& Strain Architects
Kathy Wardle, M.E.S., LEED AP® BD+C, WELL AP, RELi AP

Associate Principal, Director of Sustainability
Perkins & Will
GW

Geoff Wagner

Senior Manager, Project Development
EPCOR
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Hatice Yazar, OAA,RAIC, MBA

Principal
Hatice Yazar Architect Inc.
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Phil Parker, BASc, P. Eng., MRICS, LEED® AP

This 3-day course has been approved for 12.0 hours HSW.

This is THE workshop for anyone involved in the stewardship of existing and historic buildings, to get on board and up-to-speed with major climate action contributions. The Heritage Conservation/ Preservation community is positioned well to lead the way towards the de-carbonization of existing and historic buildings, which account for a massive share of carbon emissions. Many individuals and organizations are working to seize the technical and design tools and solutions for reuse, rehabilitation and retrofit.

Conversations about sustainable design trend disproportionately towards operational efficiency; however, amidst increasing goals of zero net carbon, it is critical to account for the environmental impacts of every stage of a building's life, including embodied value and end of life costs. Therefore, the industry needs metrics that are more comprehensive for building reuse vs. new construction.

The workshop will include a deep dive into Greenhouse Gas emissions associated with reusing and upgrading existing & historic buildings:

Embodied and Operational Greenhouse Gas Emissions associated with Reuse;
Avoided Embodied and Operational Greenhouse Gas Emissions associated with Reuse vs. Replacement – How does Building Reuse compare to New Construction and what are the Operational savings over time?

Day 3 - Saturday, October 3 - Hands-on exercise - conserving and decarbonizing a power plant - the Rossdale Power Plant in Edmonton
10:20am - 11:15am - Virtual Tour - Tour and orientation of Rossdale Power Plant, Statement of Significance, Condition Assessment, draft Conservation Plan, funding and planning perimeters, historic design and functions - David Johnston (City of Edmonton) and Geoff Wagner (EPCOR)

11:15am - 11:30am - Q & A

11:30am - 11:45 am Break - Sponsor Content

11:45pm - 12:45 Breakout groups: (Workshop coordinators to lead FOUR group discussions on lessons and tools from Day 1 and 2 and how to apply them to the Powerplant)

Group 1. LCA

Group 2. testing/assessment

Group 3. materials/interventions

Group 4. Adaptive reuse

12:45pm -1:00pm Break - Sponsor Content

1:00pm - 2:30pm Presentation of group proposals

Panel Discussion, and Summary

Learning Objectives:

Identify current critical sustainability initiatives, emerging carbon-fighting tools and calculators, and assess their benefits to designing projects in your community;
Determining an appropriate life cycle analysis duration for examining heritage buildings;
Implementing energy retrofits and applying latest related building science & systems to your project;
Integrating both technical and human aspects of energy efficiency, decarbonization, use and reuse, adaptation and evolution, sustainability and meaningful conservation into a project;
Identify analyze and build upon existing metrics with respect to sustainability and green building.