Buildings Unplugged: Leveraging Green Performance with Passive Survivability

Recent events in Japan remind us that we're also vulnerable to power disruptions, and peak power load shedding. In many critical care facilities diesel generators with limited fuel storage provide a small margin of security. What codes might be developed that would require commercial and institutional buildings to switch into low power/ passive operation? And how best to address the regulatory and logistical challenges to the use of natural ventilation?

Speakers

• Pauline Souza, Sustainability Director and Joel Baumgardner, Project Architect at WRNS Studio, will be speaking about advanced sustainable strategies employed at St. Joseph's Lower and Middle School in Atherton.
• Hormoz Janssens, PE, Mechanical Principal, Interface Engineering, will be speaking about natural daylighting and ventilation at CCSF's Joint Use Facility, and the challenges of mixedmode building operation.
• Michael Gould is a Senior Designer at HOK, San Francisco. He will be speaking about passive systems utilized in Jurong General Hospital, expected to be completed by early 2014.

Reception: 6pm, Lecture: 6:30-9pm Purchase tickets online or RSVP by email.