2011 sustainabilit y update
Sustainability is no longer a buzzword – it’s a business and social imperative. Across the world, the built environment accounts for a huge percentage of resource consumption and emissions, plays an important role in human health and drives job creation. With the economic downturn and urgent need to move away from “business as usual,” the priorities of the economy and ecology have finally come together.
HOK’s specific commitments to sustainability include: • Achieving carbon neutrality in our projects and practice by 2030 • Incorporating an integrated design process and sustainable strategies into all projects • Tracking key performance goals from design through operations • LEED credentialing for all HOK design professionals • Commitment to performing pro bono work in all offices • Implementing a global green operations plan • LEED Gold certification or higher for all HOK offices
K i n g a b d u l l a h u n i v e r s i t y o f s c i e n c e a n d t ec h n o l o gy T h u wa l , S a u d i a r a b i a | L E E D - N C P l at i n u m first leed certified project in saudi ar abia AIA Commit tee on the environment top ten green project
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The time: Now. The place: Every corner of the world. The focus: Sustaining life by creating built environments that are based on interconnected systems, both natural and manmade, that support life.
As one of the world’s most influential design firms, HOK takes very seriously our responsibility to incorporate measurable, sustainable outcomes into everything we do. We have been a leader in sustainability since the days when it was known simply as environmentally responsible design. In 1993, we made it official by establishing sustainable design as a core value. We’re proud of what we have accomplished and of our reputation as a worldwide leader in sustainability. But we need to do more. Designing for environmental sustainability is not enough. The design and construction industry must quickly move toward a built environment in which human and natural systems can thrive together.
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sustainability agenda for 2020 HOK’s sustainability agenda for the second decade of the 21st century defines three goals that we believe will trigger critical outcomes.
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Focus on People
Buildings don’t use energy, people do. The actions of those who occupy and maintain a space, whether they’re plugging in a space heater, failing to recycle, or opening a window, have an enormous impact on our ability to reduce resource consumption. We are addressing facility management and occupant behavior at all scales, particularly in existing buildings.
khed sez master pl an Ma h a r as h t r a , In d i a designed based on life’ s principles 35% on -site renewable energy 50% water use reduction
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use nature’s principles
We must bring nature’s principles into our design solutions. Design solutions should be informed by the patterns and processes that have formed in nature over billions of years. This applies at all scales, from the interior renovation of an office building in the U.S. to the planning of a new town in India. Partnering with the Biomimicry Guild, HOK is thinking beyond the building scale and modeling nature to develop large-scale, optimized ecosystem solutions with efficient closed loop systems for water, energy and materials.
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model, manage and monitor
We can’t manage what we don’t measure. To make meaningful improvements, we need to design and monitor built environments to meet clear performance goals. Project teams must model performance-driven solutions around key social, economic and environmental indicators and create feedback loops that continue through an environment’s life cycle. Our commitment to buildingSMART features advanced use of building information modeling to produce “smart” models that drive design solutions and monitor long-term performance.
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life cycle services h ow w e h e l p c l i e n t s
We’re working with clients to link business and environmental goals by greening everything from individual workplaces to buildings, sites and global real estate portfolios. A Sustainable Foundation
Opportunities for Renewal
Sustainability is integrated into all HOK’s architectural, engineering, interior design and consulting solutions – it’s just an essential element of good design.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Today, our clients’ goals for doing more with less have created unprecedented opportunities for them to renew their existing environments in ways that make sound economic and environmental sense. In this new climate, we’re helping many clients creatively renovate, reuse and reposition existing environments.
HOK provides sustainable solutions throughout the life cycle of a built environment, from planning and strategy through design and construction, and into operations, maintenance and occupancy. We can provide the most long-term value and impact when we are involved in the actual performance of those environments. Our goal is to help clients improve their business results while moving the world toward a low-carbon future in a way that enhances the quality of people’s lives.
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Renewal projects have their own set of considerations that go beyond those traditionally associated with new building design. Our experts in renewal assignments are specialists in areas like regional and neighborhood planning; architecture, engineering and interior design for building renovation; conservation and preservation; sustainable design, the green workplace and environmental business planning; high-performance building systems and many more.
L I FE C Y C L E SE R V I C ES
a u t o d e s k o n e m a r k e t c o r p o r at e o f f i c e s san f r anc i sco , ca l i f o r n i a 100% reuse of existing structure 47% water use reduction 30% lighting power density reduction
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life cycle services design + construction SUSTAINABLE DESIGN Integrating sustainability into all architectural, engineering, interior design and planning solutions in a way that addresses environmental, social and economic sustainability. BIOMIMETIC DESIGN Applying “Life’s Principles” – the patterns and processes of the natural world – to the design of the built environment.
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operations + occupancy LAND + WATER Providing green infrastructure planning and design to help communities address stormwater management and develop solutions linking water management, energy conservation, air pollution abatement, carbon storage, environmental resource management and land use strategies. GREEN RATING SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT Managing the documentation process for the entire project team for LEED, BREEAM, Green Mark and other green rating systems, including design guidance, charrette facilitation, research and certification submittal.
OCCUPANT ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM Engaging occupants to inspire sustainable behavior among building tenant groups through engagement, education and outreach programs. SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION Developing and delivering sustainability courses to advance organizational sustainability goals, including ‘train-the-trainer’ programs to build in-house sustainability leadership. LEED FOR EXISTING BUILDINGS: O&M Managing the analysis, documentation and certification process for LEED for Existing Buildings: O&M by addressing building performance, operational practices, management policies and procurement practices.
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planning + strategy BUILDING PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS Comparing actual building performance to design goals and benchmarks, focusing on utility performance and user experience and documenting results to inform decisions. ENERGY AND WATER RESOURCE EFFICIENCY Identifying practices, policies and measures to reduce energy, carbon and water consumption, increase whole building resource efficiency and reduce operating costs.
SUSTAINABLE GUIDELINES Developing sustainable design, construction and operations guidelines to help clients manage all components of their portfolio. SUSTAINABILITY PLANNING Collaborating with organizations to develop a holistic sustainability strategy that achieves measurable results across a broad range of environmental, economic and social areas of focus.
ENVIRONMENTAL BUSINESS PLANNING Working with corporations to prioritize strategies and develop a comprehensive framework for implementing their sustainability program, including operations guidelines, environmental benchmarking, best practice research and financial analysis.
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recent work
Planning + Strategy ecological economics applied to triple-bottom-line policies
implementation of $8.4M Energy efficiency and conservation block grant multi-stakeholder, consensus-based process Web site and public engagement
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“The Greenest County in America”
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That’s the ambitious goal that St Louis County has set for itself. The path to this goal will reinforce the County as a truly 21st century place. Our world is constantly changing, and with rising energy prices, climate change and an emerging green economy, the value of our metropolitan assets are increasing. St Louis County’s collection of established neighborhoods, businesses, open space, infrastructure and amenities position us to prosper in the new sustainable “green” paradigm.
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A responsive St Louis County will address challenges and leverage opportunities created by continuing global shifts and position itself as a County of the Future. Welcome to a Green and Growing St Louis County!
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recent work
Operations + Occupancy Green Property Assessment Energy Auditing and Conservation Planning LEED-EB Gap Analysis
LEED-EB certification 234 tons CO 2 emission reduction Energy Star Rating: 95 17% facility waste reduction
CHICAGO HOUSING AUTHORIT Y
LEED Assessment 速
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Chicago green housing authority Chicago, Illinois
occupant engagement program
cadillac Fairview, toronto-dominion centre Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Oxford properties, metrocentre 225 king st. w. Toronto, Ontario, Canada | LEED-EB Silver
sustainability education
leed ebom for schools - web learning for usgbc Washington, DC
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recent work
design + construction: renew restoreD natural ventilation and daylighting
100% building retrofit 80% energy use reduction (expected) 100% hot water from solar thermal
the mint project San Francisco, California
byron rogers federal office building Denver, Colorado
renovation and adaptive reuse
30% energy use reduction (expected) Natural ventilation in humid climate seawater cooling and dehumidification renovated pearl harbor air craft hangar
national oceanic and atmospheric administration Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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Pending LEED Certification
r e c e n t work
urban revitalization for downtown atlanta mulTi-modal transit & lively public spaces
22% energy use reduction 57% building reuse 48% reused furnishings
hok london office London, United Kingdom
LEED-CI Gold
green line master plan Atlanta, Georgia
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recent work
design + construction: new 58% energy use reduction 40% water use reduction 97% construction waste reduction
nasa new office building Houston, Texas
LEED-NC Platinum
78% Water Use Reduction 65% Energy Use Reduction design for collaboration
34% energy use reduction public / private research collaboration
jean canfield government of canada building Charlottetown, PEI, Canada Pending LEED Certification
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA AT LAKE NONA Orlando, Florida
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Pending LEED Certification
r e c e n t work
22% water use reduction 52% lighting power density reduction community meeting place
21% Energy use reduction 100% daylit public spaces 91% regional materials
allsteel and gunlocke resource center Atlanta, Georgia LEED-CI Gold
colonel h. weir cook terminal - indianapolis international airport Indianapolis, Indiana Pending LEED Certification
30% overall space reduction through efficient space planning Patient areas of respite Rooftop community garden
22% energy use reduction 30% water use reduction 89% construction waste reduction
wishard health services - new medical building Indianapolis, Indiana
college of dupage health and sciences center Glen Ellyn, Illinois LEED-NC Gold
Pending LEED Certification
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design + construction: new KAUST
king abdullah university of science and technology | Thuwal, Saudi arabia
SUSTAINABLE METRICS
water: 78%
reclaimed water,
ENERGY: 27.1%
Annual Energy Cost Savings,
materials: 20%
▲ Integral Shading
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100% wastewater reused, 42%
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potable water reduction
On-site Renewable Energy,
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38% regional materials, 99% wood from FSC sources, 80% construction waste management
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▲ Passively Cooled Courtyards
▲ Filtered Daylight
▲ Solar Tower
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Certified in 2009 as the world’s largest LEED-NC Platinum project, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is a new international, graduate-level research university open to men and women from around the world. Located on the west coast of Saudi Arabia, the 600,000square-meter campus sits on a highly visible 36-million-squaremeter site along the Red Sea. KAUST includes 186,000 square meters of laboratory space spread across an interconnected complex of five research buildings. The design promotes KAUST’s vision of conducting highly collaborative, interdisciplinary, goal-oriented research, with no traditional boundaries between labs and academic areas.
LEED-NC PLATINUM Sustainability Diagram
Exceptionally flexible building shells and universal floor plates accommodate virtually every type of lab and provide interchangeable, customizable lab modules. The physical campus and its operations aspire to demonstrate new ways of building in the Middle East that will advance principles of stewardship toward energy and the environment.
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future directions driving hok’s sustainability agenda ALLIANCE WITH THE BIOMIMICRY GUILD
HOK and the Biomimicry Guild have formed an exclusive alliance linking the natural and built environment. Through this relationship, we are integrating innovations from nature into the planning and design of buildings, communities and cities worldwide. Established more than a decade ago by biologists Janine Benyus and Dr. Dayna Baumeister, biomimicry is a design and leadership discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature’s time-tested ideas.
The ‘biologist at the design table’ brings new ways of solving problems by asking questions about what nature would do. These questions often challenge longstanding, business as usual approaches to the built environment. This bio-inspired creative process allows designers to think about a project in new ways grounded in the ecology of a site.
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THE BIO-INSPIRED DESIGN OF A NEW TOWN IN INDIA The new Lavasa hill town is spread across 12,500 acres of picturesque, landscape on the backwaters of Warasgaon Lake, southeast of Mumbai. From the beginning, the team has envisioned Lavasa as a sustainable town. A key goal has been to integrate the town’s infrastructure with energy, water and waste flow to increase efficiency and close resource loops. The Biomimicry Guild prepared a “Genius of Place” report and “Ecological Performance Standards” that describes the pre-tested, locally attuned strategies adopted by the organisms native to the Lavasa site. In this report, the Guild looked to the living creatures and plants of the moist, deciduous ecosystem to provide models for locally attuned design strategies. The intent was to honor the local intelligence and to emulate ways local ‘geniuses’ manage water, protect soil, adapt to seasonal weather and respond to other site challenges. The team defined specific goals for sustainability based on the infrastructure and systems requirements of the site and baseline energy, water and waste demands.
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future directions driving hok’s sustainability agenda NET ZERO EMISSIONS DESIGN
DESIGN GOALS FOR NET ZERO COURT
• 150,000-200,000-sq. ft.
• Marketable
• Flexible and adaptable
• multi-tenant office building
• Design based on today’s technology, materials, systems, codes
• Sustainable
• Affordable (10-year payback)
An integrated design team led by HOK and energy and daylighting consultant The Weidt Group undertook a virtual design charrette to create a market-rate, zero emissions design for a Class A commercial office building.
• Use ‘Life’s Principles’ to inform design
The team selected a potentially developable site in midtown St. Louis, Mo., for the project. They selected this site for its challenging four-season climate, because electricity costs in Missouri are among the lowest in the country — a factor that challenged the team’s ability to make the design affordable — and because St Louis’ electrical fuel profile is 81 percent coal. The team believed that if they could create a successful net zero emissions design on this difficult site, they would be able to replicate the process in any location.
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What is Zero Emissions? The U.S. Department of Energy describes it as...
A building that produces and exports at least as much emissions-free renewable energy as it imports and uses from emission-producing energy sources annually.
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E n e r g y U s e I n t e n s i t y - 2 1 . 9 KTBU s / SF p e r y e a r b e f o r e r e n e wa b l e e n e r gy C o n s t r u c t i o n C o s t: $ 2 2 3 / GSF Pay b a c k : 12 – 14 y e a r s A n n u a l e n e r g y c o s t s av i n g s : $ 18 4 , 5 6 7 A n n u a l e n e r g y c o s t: $ 2 , 418
The design of Net Zero Co2urt reduced carbon emissions by 76 percent through energy efficiency strategies, with only minor additional first costs compared to a conventional office building.
To provide the remaining clean energy required to reach zero carbon emissions, the team identified on-site renewable energy systems that include approximately 51,800 square feet of rooftop and wall-mounted photovoltaic panels and 15,000 square feet of solar thermal tubes on the southern building facades and roof.
SECRET GARDEN
The process revealed that designing a carbon neutral office building was easier and more affordable than most believe. By using strict performance parameters to inform the design, the team created a replicable process that can be applied to most building types across the world.
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sustainability at hok SUSTAINABLE AWARDS + RECOGNITION
w e w r o t e t h e b o o ks
The honors HOK receives for sustainable design remind us of our responsibility to continue advancing sustainability toward mainstream awareness and acceptance. These include:
The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design, Second Edition This guidebook includes extensive new design process information, updated case studies, and post-occupancy evaluations organized to support use of the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED® green building rating system. Complete with practical tools and real-world examples, this hands-on reference is for architects, engineers, planners, landscape architects, interior designers, construction contractors, building owners and students.
Eight AIA Committee on the Environment “Top Ten Green Projects,” including KAUST in 2010 #1 in DesignIntelligence 2010 survey of “Most Influential Green Design Firms” U.S. Green Building Council “Organizational Excellence Award” AIA COTE, CoreNet Global and IIDA “Sustainable Design Leadership Award” Global Green USA “Designing a Sustainable and Secure World Award” Sustainable Buildings Industry Council “Best Sustainable Practice Award” AIA Presidential Citation for Sustainable Design
The Green Workplace Written by HOK’s Leigh Stringer, The Green Workplace is a comprehensive guide that demonstrates how green businesses can reduce costs, enhance productivity, improve recruitment and retention, increase shareholder value, and contribute to a healthier natural environment. The book features real-world examples from Bloomberg, Google, Sprint, Adobe, Texas Instruments and 25 other companies that have experienced the benefits of greener workplaces.
HOK Firsts:
HOK Designed:
HOK designed the first LEED-certified airport terminal
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First LEED-certified embassy First LEED Gold project in Latin America First LEED-CI certified project in Singapore First LEED-NC Platinum project in Saudi Arabia First LEED-CI Gold project in the UK page 22
LEED, BREEAM and Green Mark certified projects
The Largest LEED-NC Platinum project in the world
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w e wa l k t h e wa l k HOK is incorporating green initiatives into the design and daily operations of its offices. This includes a requirement that all new HOK offices be LEED certified – now at 11 across the globe. HOK London Office London, England, UK LEED-CI Gold
The HOK Sustainable Roadmap, adopted by the HOK Board of Directors, is a comprehensive set of goals, priorities and measurable actions to further integrate sustainability into all aspects of the firm’s culture and business. With clear actions and measures, its goal is to ensure that the firm remains a leader in sustainability while equipping HOK to meet the AIA 2030 commitment of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030.
HOK Atlanta Office Atlanta, Georgia LEED-CI Gold
HOK Chicago Office Chicago, Illinois LEED-CI Platinum
HOK Hong Kong Office Hong Kong, China LEED-CI Gold
HOK Miami Office Miami, Florida LEED-CI Certified
HOK Beijing Office Beijing, China LEED-CI Gold
HOK Shanghai Office Shanghai, China LEED-CI Silver
HOK Singapore Office Singapore LEED-CI Silver
HOK Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada LEED-CI Gold
HOK St. Louis Office St. Louis, Missouri LEED-CI Certified
HOK San Francisco Office San Francisco, California LEED-CI Pilot Certified
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