IDID Conference Schedule at AIA New Hampshire

Stepping Up to the 2030 Challenge

Below is a description of educational sessions at the 2008 Conference. For information on the speakers, see the IDID Presenters page.

AIA Continuing Education Credits are available for all sessions. A total of 13.25 AIA CEUs are available over the two days, all but one of them HSW. Continuing Education credits are available for other professionals, too. Please call the AIANH office, 603-357-2863.

Thursday, July 17

8:30-9:00
Registration/Refreshments (Heritage Commins in Samuel Reed Hall)

9:00
Wecome by PSU President Sara Jayne Steen. PSU is establishing its leadership role nationally with regard to environmental sustainability initiatives. Some key developments are the new LEED Gold Langdon Woods residence hall, the establishment of the President's Commission in Environmental Sustainability, a new interdisciplinary Environmental Studies major, and a commitment to educating students to live in an environmentally sustainable way.
Introduction to IDID V by Kate Hartnett: Stepping Up to the 2030 Challenge. Kate will outline the focus of the conference and the things you will carry away with you by the completion of the event.

9:15
Session 1: Stepping up to the 2030 Challenge at the State Scale–Housing
1.25 AIA HSW CEUs
Between 2000 and 2006, New Hampshire residents aged 30 to 39 declined by over 24,000, while those 65 and older increased 17%, the highest growth rate in New England. The authors of Communities and Consequences: The unbalancing of New Hampshire’s human ecology, and what we can do about it will discuss how a new attitude is needed to change this trend; to allow housing affordable to all ages and life stages, and how we can be as welcoming to young people and children as we are to open space and older people. A panel will follow to discuss connecting housing diversity/density with affordability and the 2030 Challenge (high performance buildings).
Presenters:
• Moderator: Ben Frost–NH Housing Finance Authority
• Lorraine Stuart Merrill–New Hampshire Commissioner of Agriculture, Markets & Food and co-author Communities and Consequences
• Anne Stephenson– Clean Air/Cool Planet
• Dick Henry–The Jordan Institute
• Donald Sienkiewicz–Home Builders and Remodelers Association

10:30
Break, refreshments

10:45
Session 2: Stepping up to the 2030 Challenge at the Municipal Scale– Three Town Stories
1.25 AIA HSW CEUs
Epping: Epping has set a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 25% by 2025 and passed one of the first voter-approved mandatory energy-efficiency and sustainable design ordinances in the U.S. They have completed energy-efficiency upgrades on three municipal buildings–including envelope, the first two U.S. installations of ecopower combined heat and power, and PV–reducing greenhouse gas by over 50%. TD Banknorth's new building, first under the new ordinance, plans to be fully solar powered, and meet the 2020 goals of the 2030 Challenge. This talk will review Epping's challenges, successes, and future goals.
Presenter:
• Clay Mitchell, J.D.

Portsmouth: Portsmouth has created a framework and collaborative synergy among city government leaders and staff, local businesses and non-profits, and citizens to make it an eco-municipality. Presenters will discuss the opportunity for municipal leadership and describe how the city will be stepping up to the 2030 Challenge by looking at building practices, as well as practices in land use regulation and site plan review.
Presenters:
• Bert Cohen, Adjunct Asst. Professor, UNH; and Peter Britz, Environmental Planner/Portsmouth Sustainability Coordinator

Plymouth: The Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative encourages energy conservation, efficiency practices, and the use of renewable energy. It takes a pragmatic approach by encouraging people to prepare for their energy future as they would their financial future. Peter Adams will discuss how the initiative has helped the community practice energy conservation and reduced the costs of renewable energy and energy efficiency products.
Presenter:
• Peter Adams, Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative

12:00
Lunch (Hartman Union Building, HUB)

1:00
Session 3: Stepping up to the 2030 Challenge at the State Scale–Climate Change Action
1 AIA HSW CEU
Most people work at the site scale on specific projects, or at the municipal scale on planning boards, conservation commissions, and/or local energy committees. A number of states are learning to use policies and practices that create good jobs and economic benefits by reducing energy use. Efficiency is the place to start, while the renewables markets get things going.
Presenter:
• Ken Colburn, Symbiotic Strategies LLC

2:00
Session 4: Stepping up to the 2030 Challenge at the Site Scale–Two Local Projects
1.25 AIA CEUs
Part 1: Given the magnitude of the 2030 challenge (think of the number of buildings that need renovation and the numbers built new every year in NH), what can we learn from the Durham/AIA150 Community Partnership process about changing local site design and municipal approval processes to step up to the 2030 Challenge? Patricia Sherman FAIA will discuss the AIA150 and planning process. Bill Schoonmaker AIA will offer thoughts on the design team work and interaction with the committee and the public. Dave Howland will share his thoughts on the municipal and volunteer roles, including the need for transparency for all throughout the process
Presenters:
• Patricia Sherman FAIA, Bill Schoonmaker AIA, and Dave Howland

Part 2: The Coppersmith Way Development is the second Low Impact Development (LID) being built by Transformations, Inc. of Townsend, MA. Each new home is built to Energy Star standards, LEED certified, and provides renewable electricity from photovoltaic (PV) roof panels. Because of the reduced energy demand of these efficient homes, the electricity generated from the PV systems provides between half and all of the annual electric needs for each home. In the last 15 months, Transformations built seven Near Zero Energy Homes (HERS index under 40), and has three Zero Energy Homes in the building stage and design stage.
Presenter:
• Carter Scott, Transformations, Inc.

3:30
Session 5: Stepping up to the 2030 Challenge at the Municipal Scale: PSU & Plymouth walking tours
1.5 AIA HSW CEUs
After a brief introduction to the Langdon LEED Gold residence hall by PSU's Bill Crangle, we will divide into four tour groups (see options below). Two of the groups will go directly to Langdon for a 30-minute tour, followed by a 40 minute tour of campus or downtown on the way back to the HUB. The other two groups will have about 40 minutes for tours of campus or downtown on their way to Langdon, then a 30 minute tour of Langdon, then a walk directly back to the HUB. Langdon Woods is a nationally recognized, five-story, 114,000 sq. ft. "model home" of environmental responsibility, one of the first and largest residence halls in the U.S. to earn LEED Gold. Almost half of the building materials were manufactured within 500 miles, and 20% of the brick, wood, and glass came from recycled materials. Sustainable site design follows site contours to avoid blasting bedrock, covers previously developed parking areas, makes use of adjacent shade for summer cooling, and preserves woodlands, wetlands, and a streambed. For more information on Langdon Woods see Plymouth Magazine)
Introduction and Langdon Woods Tours:
• Bill Crangle, PSU VP for Financial Affairs
• Ed Mellow, Cannon Design
• Matt Cilley, Rist Frost Shumway

Tour Options (Attendees will choose one group. Each will tour Langdon Woods.
Tour 1 (starts with Langdon): Carol Jowdy and Steve Sweedler will lead you on a tour of PSU campus landscape improvements, opportunities, and challenges.
Tour 2 (starts with Langdon): June Hammond Rowan will take participants into downtown Plymouth and discuss pedestrian improvements, including an expanding network of foot and bicycle paths, the new Route 3 roundabout, and the new bridge into downtown.
Tour 3 (starts with downtown tour): Steve Whitman will lead his group downtown and focus on his personal story about changing homes to live downtown and what that means for him and his family
Tour 4 (starts with campus tour): Chris Williams AIA will lead his group around the PSU campus and talk about the 1990's Master Plan, goals, accomplishments, and challenges.

5:00-7:00
Reception, Banquet (Hartman Union Building), IDID Excellence in Sustainable Design and Development Awards presentation

7:30
Keynote: Life is Good! by Ed Mazria FAIA, Architecture 2030 (in Boyd Hall)
1.25 AIA HSW CEUs
Ed Mazria published The Passive Solar Energy Book in 1979. Thirty years later, he leads the Architecture 2030 Challenge to meet the carbon reduction targets set by climate scientists needed to counteract climate change. He will describe the exciting conclusions from The 2030 Blueprint, a comparative analysis of building energy efficiency, 'clean coal' and nuclear power, along with actions to jump start the 2030 Challenge in local communities.

8:30
Dessert and reception with Ed Mazria FAIA

Friday, July 18

8:00
Registration/Breakfast (Heritage Commons in Samuel Reed Hall)

8:15
Welcome by Patrick Bourgeron, Director, Center for the Environment, PSU
The Center for the Environment serves a diverse research, education, and public engagement role addressing the science, policies, culture and economics of the natural environment in northern New England: Its new Director will give welcome us offer his insights on the 2030 Challenge and on his career as an ecosystems researcher and scientist.

8:30
Session 6: Stepping up to the 2030 Challenge at the Site scale–Grounds
1.25 AIA HSW CEUs
Part 1: Integrated Landscaping. Most landscaping is linear: design, select plants, install, maintain. Integrated landscaping is different. Following nature's lead, the site becomes an interrelated system of plant and animal communities. Hear how to take a nonlinear, holistic approach, using natural ecosystems as models, to establish beautiful, functional landscapes that look and feel as if they belong here, create landscapes that sustain themselves with minimum cost, energy, and effort, and to find alternatives to invasive species that offer the same aesthetic characteristics. Create landscapes that benefit wildlife, above and below ground.
Presenters:
• Kate Hartnett, geographer and low-impact living advocate
• Mary Tebo, UNH Cooperative Extension community forestry educator
• Marilyn Wyzga, professional artist and teaching naturalist

Part 2: Shorelands: A provocative shoreland landscaping/impervious surface talk which culminates in both a challenge to landscape architects/site designers and a suggestion for tax law changes in NH. In addition to the water quality advantages of appropriate waterfront landscaping, increased layers of vegetation absorb carbon, provide shade for reduced air conditioning in the summer, and wind break to reduce heating in the winter. These effects may be small when considered only for the shoreland zone, but would be significant when combined with reduced sprawl and increased high performance buildings and grounds in compact development patterns, helping step up to the 2030 Challenge.
Presenter:
• Steve Kahl, Professor, PSU
Part 3: Shorelands–Case Studies: An architect and landscape architect will discuss two projects on Squam Lake that illustrate the principles discussed in Parts 1 and 2.
Integrated Water Front Landscaping: by Chris Williams, AIA
Examples from different waterfront projects will be shown that utilize plant material from the site or new plant materials of the same type brought into landscape around the buildings and site disturbed areas. One project that includes three buildings utilized plants from the footprint of the second and third buildings for landscaping of the site. Another project carefully designed to fit into an existing landscape burned to the ground killing all vegetation within 40-60 feet of the building. To re-landscape, vegetation from a new commercial site was purchased to landscape round the lakefront house.
Design with Nature (a case study): Carol Jowdy ASLA
Using patterns and rhythms in nature as our mentors, landscape design becomes ecological, self renewing sustainable design. Mimicking natural ecosystems' structure and function, we create self-regulating ecologies that interact, cooperate, and depend on one other to sustain life. Reading the land's interconnected network of relationships, plant and animal communities, and natural resources offers a holistic approach to land stewardship. It provides an opportunity to create low impact, self maintaining ecologically responsible, livable landscapes.

9:45
Session 7: Stepping up to the 2030 Challenge at the Site Scale–Renovation/ReUse
1.25 AIA HSW CEUs
Stepping up to 2030 Challenge will require retrofit of more than 500,000 existing buildings in NH. To do so, we need to transform both organizational and project practices. Leith will describe her approach to integrated design, and the most common and effective strategies for improving existing building performance to reduce energy use and improve comfort, answering: (1) How do we institutionalize integrated design as normal business practice? (2) How do we get a particular client or project to utilize an integrated design approach? (3) What are the most effective ways to convince clients to make energy and sustainability improvements to existing buildings?
Presenter:
• Leith Sharp, Harvard Green Campus Initiative on Improving Existing Building Performance

11:00
Session 8: Stepping up to the 2030 Challenge at the Site Scale–Renovation/ReUse Cont'd—
Case Study and Tour
1 AIA HSW CEUs
A beloved campus landmark, Mary Lyon Hall reopened in 2007 as an energy efficient testament to sustainable rehabilitation. Thermal envelope improvements combined with state-of-the-art building automation systems reduce energy usage by 50%. Use of reclaimed original materials, including the timber frame, slate roofing, and hardwood flooring, retain much of Mary Lyon Hall's embodied energy and charm. Now updated with modern amenities and features, the residence hall continues to be one of the students' most popular choices for campus living. Quick Facts: • Originally constructed in 1916 • Renovated and reopened in 2007 • $13.5 million construction costs • Avoided sending 3,000 cubic yards of construction waste and debris to landfills • Avoided creating 800 - 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions
Presenters:
Bill Crangle, PSU Vice President for Financial Affairs
John Harper, Lavallee Brensinger Architects
Chad Montegrose, Rist Frost Shumway

12:00
Lunch (Prospect Dining Hall), followed by PSU catering on local foods

1:30
Sessions 9 & 10: Stepping up to the 2030 Challenge at the Site Scale–Virtual Tours
2.25 AIA HSW CEUs

Moving Toward Neutral: One Family's Story. An overview of a 5+ star-rated EnergyStar passive and active solar home designed with climate change, carbon neutrality, and human health in mind. Will discuss the family's carbon footprint, energy conservation, and ongoing reduction strategies, renewable energy systems, food production, telecommuting, and more. Presenter: Patrick Miller
Tin Mountain Nature Center: This 6,400 square foot nature learning center has a very low carbon footprint and is a zero energy building. It is built out of native materials harvested within 20 miles of the site and features 20 local woods as interior finishes. The building includes a solar thermal system that provides the bulk of the building’s heat. A wood/oil boiler provides backup with no oil burned and wood supplied from the 100 acre site. The solar photovoltaic system produced 19,000 kWh of electricity annually with actual usage being at 18,000 kWh. Presenter: Chris Williams AIA
An educational center and demonstration farm that researches, applies and teaches skills of sustainable living and small-scale organic farming, working to improve the human relationship to the environment and serving as a role model for healthy living; Presenter: Tyler Durham, DAcres
The new White Mountains Administration Center being built at I-93 exit 27
in Campton, NH, combines both supervisory and district offices into one
location. The new facility includes a 28,000 sf office / visitor
building, heated and unheated warehouse space and a central woodchip-fired heating plant. Early energy modeling and early cost estimating allowed the team to design a building that uses 49% less energy than a code compliant one AND is expected to be built at a lower cost than its code-built counterpart!. Presenter: Paul Leveille Assoc. AIA
The Unity House, A Net-Zero Energy Prototype for the 21st Century: A Mass-Producible, Customizable, Sustainable, and Adaptable Green Home: This 1930 sf home is the second of a series of prototypes that will be built as part of the OPEN Prototype Intitiative -a joint venture into rethinking the way we build homes in the US between Bensonwood, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and other construction industry members. It will achieve LEED Platinum, serve as a living classroom for Unity College students, faculty and the public and be the home of the college's president. The passive solar home is run entirely on electrical energy, using a heat pump for heating and cooling, features a 5.4 KW PV array and solar domestic hot water system. Specific attention was given to optimizing the thermal envelope and minimizing the space needed to accomodate various sized groups of people. Presenters: Randall Walter AIA and Hilary Harris

3:45
Door Prizes, Closing

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