SUSTAINABILITY ACTION PLAN 2020 EDITION
Table of Contents Firm Overview
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Setting Project Performance Goals
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Our Framework for Integrative High-Performance Design
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Sustainable Design Project Profiles
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Statement from Senior Leadership Design Performance Modeling
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2018-2030 DDx Reporting
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Operational Improvements
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Monthly Sustainability Series
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Sustainable Accredited Professionals
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Featured Certifications
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Advocacy & Professional Involvement
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Closing Statement
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For more than five decades, Browning Day has been an industry leader in design and environmental sensitivity. The product we create reflects the values of our client and the commitment we have as a firm to sustainable design and performance driven excellence. Our approach to architecture, planning, landscape architecture and interior design all inherently speak to our commitment to sustainable design and thought leadership. We lead with a commitment to educate all involved on sustainability and best practices that meets the client’s needs, budget and vision.
Tim Wise, AIA, RID, LEED AP BD+C, IIDA Principal, Executive Vice President Browning Day
Improving the human experience through transformative design. Browning Day, Indianapolis, Ind. We are both scientific and artistic, methodical and creative, and we develop designs that impress visually and function appropriately – on time and within budget. We listen, adapt to and assimilate client needs. By immersing ourselves in a project’s challenges and opportunities, we design solutions that meet (and exceed) expectations. We collaborate—with our clients and with each other. Our expertise helps us operate better, design smarter, and be more cost savvy. We value every vision. We’re committed to cultivating a diverse, equitable and inclusive team that makes one another better and our collective work stronger.
Browning Day is an award-winning, nationally recognized architecture, planning, landscape architecture and interior design firm. We help our clients transform a place into a space by communicating with stakeholders and the community, resulting in an artistic, holistic and integrated design. Our team of design professionals brings a wealth of expertise, diverse talents, and a collaborative approach to every project, enabling us to elevate the vision of our clients. True collaboration is an art that begins with listening. We reflect and then design places that are impactful, functional, sustainable, and memorable. Together, we bring your vision to life. With every opportunity Browning Day creates possibility. Possibility for cities to prosper, organizations to achieve their desired outcomes and for occupants to enjoy these places in exciting and unexpected ways. We are Browning Day, Designers of Possibility™
We push the envelope but never an agenda. We bring our own ideas to the table, but we’re ever mindful of our clients’ overarching goals and budget. No ego will get in the way of your plans coming to fruition.
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SETTING PROJECT PERFORMANCE GOALS Browning Day knows that sustainability needs to be integral to the design process to provide the best results. The firm’s goal is to educate each client on all sustainable certifications available for their project. This means hosting eco-charrettes that bring all stakeholders, designers and consultants to the table early in the planning stages and continually reassessing our goals throughout each project phase. Browning Day has created an internal process to measure current projects to evaluate the impact of project design on energy performance. This data is tracked regardless of if the project is seeking a sustainability certification or not. Based on this information, the firm seeks to work with project stakeholders to establish performance baselines and goals. When feasible, the project team will engage project stakeholders to review post-occupancy project performance data annually and help the client identify what areas can be improved. Browning Day has also committed to share predicted and actual performance data with the American Institute of Architects (AIA) through their AIA 2030 Design Data Exchange (DDx). Browning Day intends to pursue the proposed energy reduction goals as outlined in the 2030 Challenge. With help from clients, it can be expected that energy and water use, air quality, material life cycle impacts and end users’ comfort can be optimized. For more information, visit aia.org/resources/202041-the-2030-commitment
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OUR FRAMEWORK FOR INTEGRATIVE HIGH-PERFORMANCE DESIGN Browning Day has established an actionable, firm-wide strategy for developing sustainable design best practices. Programming: Listen From the outset of discussions regarding programming, the project team should engage the client to establish quantitative and qualitative project requirements related to performance, environmental responsibility, and human health/wellness. This should take the form of a delivered document that becomes part of the Owner’s Project Requirements (OPR). Conceptual Design: Respond During conceptual design, the project team should respond to the sustainable design requirements and goals in specific ways. Through an integrative process, the project team shall engage the client and project stakeholders to initiate an integrative process charrette (also referred to as eco-charrette) to further refine the project’s sustainable design objectives and prompt an opportunity for multi-disciplinary engagement with the client and stakeholders. Whether in narrative form or through diagrams and figures, the design team shall track the best practices and specific strategies to be implemented on the project to meet the owner’s sustainable design requirements and goals – this includes performance targets, certifications, and other objectives. As part of the products-of-design for the conceptual design phase, this information should be clearly communicated to the client in a manner deemed more appropriate by the project team. This artifact will constitute the Basis of Design (BOD).
During the conceptual design phase, the project team should work with the client to establish to what degree commissioning will be executed as part of the project. If possible, the Commissioning Authority (CxA) should be engaged during the integrative process charrette. Schematic Design: Set Targets, Iterate, and Optimize As part of the schematic design process, the OPR shall be reviewed, revised as appropriate with the client, and leveraged to further develop the BOD, serving as a key driver for schematic design development. Sustainable design requirements and goals shall be reconciled with the various parameters of the project and revised appropriately. Through design performance modeling, project performance baselines shall be established and targets should be identified. A result of iterative analyses, the project design should be optimized to meet its quantitative and qualitative objectives. At this stage, the project should establish a track to pursue project certification in accordance with the OPR. The project should seek registration and an action plan to pursue certification should be developed and disseminated to the design team and client. The products-of-design for the schematic design phase should include project performance baselines and targets, the building certification action plan, and revised figures and diagrams to help communicate the project’s sustainable design requirements and goals. Design Development: Optimization The design development phase necessitates careful attention to ensure that the project’s sustainable design strategies are clearly communicated and integrated across the various disciplines involved in the design process.
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OUR FRAMEWORK FOR INTEGRATIVE HIGH-PERFORMANCE DESIGN CONT.
At this stage, a more robust investigation into the project’s performance outcomes will require deeper engagement with energy modeling and building information modeling. Diligent coordination is required as the design team seeks to optimize the design project to best meet the goals and objectives as outlined in the OPR. Construction Documents: Ensure Alignment During the construction documents stage, the design team should continue to refine the project design and ensure that the implanted sustainable design strategies are aligned with the project’s schedule, program, and budget. Specifications shall be developed to better ensure that the building is constructed in accordance with the sustainable design requirements and goals. Bidding: Communicate During the bidding process, the project team shall clearly communicate the unique sustainable design components of the project. Roles and responsibilities of the contractor need to be clearly identified and communicated. Construction Administration: Ensure Execution During the construction administration phase of a project, the project team should regularly coordinate with the contractor, owner, and design team with regard to certification tracking and documentation, performance goals, and commissioning. The project teams shall meet no less than once per month for updates and coordination on such matters.
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Post-Occupancy: Follow-Through The design team should work with the project ownership in order to define a scope of services to serve the project after substantial completion of the project. Performance Data It is recommended that the project team procures 12 consecutive months of metered energy and water performance data for no less than five consecutive years. After each 12-month performance period, the project team shall aggregate the data and compare it against predicted performance outcomes. The design team should endeavor to review the data with the client and, if deemed appropriate, discuss strategies to further improve performance in the future.
Ongoing Certification / Re-Certification If the project is pursuing on-going certification, the project team shall coordinate with the client to ensure that all parties continue to track data and produce documentation as necessary. Post-Occupancy Surveys / Response Plans The design team shall engage the client about the potential benefits of regular post-occupancy surveys (POS). If the client elects to engage the design team for such additional services, the design team shall assist the client as requested. A response plan shall also be developed to accompany the POS and define strategies to improve the project’s performance in order to remedy unsatisfactory POS results.
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SUSTAINABLE DESIGN PROJECT PROFILES Browning Day has a legacy of sustainable design leadership in Indiana. Among its accomplishments, the firm has lead project efforts for: ++ The first Net-Zero Energy Building certification in Indiana: Chrisney Branch Library
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++ The first LEED certified project in Indianapolis: i.d.o. Headquarters ++ The first SITES project in Indiana: The Center (top right) ++ The first Sustainability Award from the City of Indianapolis for innovative energy-related strategies: Butler University’s College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (COPHS) (bottom right)
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Indiana University Global and International Studies Building
Design performance modeling tools were utilized from concept through final design. This led the project team to optimized energy and environmental design strategies.
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Butler University Center for the Sciences Indianapolis, Ind. Continuing 25 years of experience working on Butler University’s campus, the school selected Browning Day to provide exterior architecture and landscape architecture services for a new science addition.
The project will consist of a new 40,000-square-foot addition, approximately 120,000 square feet of renovations for Gallahue Hall, and approximately 60,000 square feet of renovations for the Holcomb Building.
With science at the foundation of many of Butler’s academic programs, a new laboratory and classroom facility is planned as an addition to two adjacent renovated facilities - Gallahue Hall and the Holcomb Building.
The new atrium space will better connect the various components of the new and renovated facilities. It will serve as the central “hub” for the sciences and is envisioned to be a destination place for the new science center. The atrium will provide soft seating areas for informal and formal gatherings. It will also incorporate multimedia technology areas for presentations or for displaying department classroom content.
In addition to providing space to accommodate growth, the new addition will provide the opportunity to reorganize classrooms, instructional labs, and research and support space to better match contemporary science teaching methods.
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The Center for the Sciences is tracking LEED Gold certification.
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Butler University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Addition Indianapolis, Ind.
The addition to Butler’s College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences encompasses a 36,000 square-foot, three-story addition. The design includes two 140-seat lecture halls, 5,000 square-feet of lab spaces, offices, classrooms and a campus data center. The new lab facilities facilitate improved staff research opportunities and lecture halls provide learning environments that were not previously available in the existing building. Lab spaces were designed over large lecture halls to improve the overall building efficiency ratio.
Butler University Schrott Center for the Arts Indianapolis, Ind.
The LEED Gold certified Schrott Center for the Arts is a 450-seat venue for music and theater, with the primary purpose of providing teaching space for Butler University. The theater is located near Clowes Memorial Hall, and responds to the theater and music departments’ needs for a mid-sized performance facility. The project is designed to meet the particular requirements of choral, orchestral, and theatrical productions, and includes a lobby, green room, dressing rooms, and other support spaces. Due to its relationship with other buildings on campus, the exterior design employs a mix of buffcolored architectural precast concrete and ashlar-pattern Indiana limestone veneer.
This building is a certified LEED Gold building and received an Award for Excellence in Energy from the Indianapolis Office of Sustainability, SustainIndy.
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Indianapolis Zoo Simon Skjodt International Orangutan Center Indianapolis, Ind.
The International Orangutan Center at the Indianapolis Zoo is the home for orangutans on four acres of zoo property. The exhibit is a derivative of the Polynesian pole house to create a sustainable/eco-friendly shelter for the orangutans. It features an approximately 8,000 square-foot vegetated green roof. It is a three axis sloped roof, making it more challenging to design over a standard flat vegetated roof. The roof is able to be seen from almost a mile away. The center also offers state-of-the-art exhibits and interactive computer games, offering an unprecedented intimate level of interaction with one of the planet’s most endangered primates. A landmark project in the arena of animal husbandry, the facility affords its occupants the freedom to travel in and around the exhibit building with greater mobility than the human visitors.
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Eagle Branch Public Library Indianapolis, Ind.
The Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library wanted to add a new branch that maximized access to services, improved the Library’s visibility and met the needs of a diverse and growing community. Browning Day worked with the Library to plan a space that was functional, modern and sustainable. In addition to access to computers and display and storage for books, DVDs and other materials, useful and engaging spaces for children, teens, students and adults were incorporated into the design. Using materials and massing complementary to the transitional commercial/residential surroundings, the Eagle Branch has an open floor plan with tall central stack, facing full-length windows that welcome light into the whole space. Browning Day incorporated the client’s commitment to sustainability into the design with energy-efficient technologies including a solar panel array. With these important steps, the Eagle Branch is working towards LEED Gold certification, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and consuming 25% less energy than buildings of similar size and nature. The Eagle Branch Library is efficiently and sustainably designed and will continue to serve the Indianapolis community for years to come.
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Indiana University Global and International Studies Building Bloomington, Ind. The Global and International Studies Building houses nearly 300 dedicated faculty offices, in addition to large areas for workstations integrated amongst the offices. The auditorium, 13 classrooms, and six seminar rooms provide registrar controlled educational space along the bottom two floors. Large and small conference rooms are dispersed throughout the upper floors. The exterior architecture looks both to the past and to the future of the campus. The exterior façades are rendered in modern adaptations of recognizable details from the historic buildings on campus. While the Jordan Avenue façade is familiarly massive with punched openings and grouped windows, the multi-story lobby is a transparent glass enclosure that is designed to permit views within and beyond its boundaries as well as to and from Wells Library. The curved west wing forms a radial edge along the Arboretum, further integrating building and site. Browning Day was the Architect-of-Record. Ennead was the design architect.
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Indiana University Jacobs School of Music East Studio Bloomington, Ind.
The East Studio of the internationally acclaimed Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University further enhances the school’s worldclass reputation, providing practice and office space befitting a school of Jacobs’ stature. The facility accommodates 84 faculty teaching studios and music practice rooms, and administrative and Dean’s offices. Browning Day’s landscape architects provided leadership on the master plan and coordinated the utility relocation planning for the East Studio Building. Responsibilities included the site and landscape design for a 5.25-acre site with a 20-foot grade change. In addition to the East Studio Building, the project involved an addition to the Music Arts Center to include two large rehearsal spaces and percussion rehearsal space. This project is certified LEED Gold. Browning Day was the Architect-of-Record. Flad Architects was the design architect.
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Earlham College Science Center Richmond, Ind.
Earlham College Center for the Visual and Performing Arts Richmond, Ind.
The Earlham College Science Center was a collaboration with Bora Architects. Browning Day’s landscape architects led the site design and were charged with knitting the project seamlessly into the north edge of existing campus buildings and mature landscape.
With a LEED Gold Certification, this state-of-the-art facility features a generous amount of natural light, and welcoming social spaces created through the use of large glass windows. Browning Day’s design of the landscape architecture includes a versatile central arts plaza that doubles as an outdoor performance venue. The building features occupancy and photocell sensors that compliment a whole-building control package. Site plantings and softscape were selected to be native, durable and minimally-irrigated. The outdoor “amphitheater” created between Runyan Center and CVPA is a multi-purpose space for impromptu and seasonal performances, shows, and rehearsals, showcasing the talent of students and faculty.
As a new modern statement found within an early 19th century traditional brick and limestone campus, the building and landscape design reinforced the axial entrance with canopy trees in lawn that have a dual function as code required fire truck access and bio-swale. A modern elevated plaza features wide elegant steps, a sloping walk and wall doubling as a sign, and a Cretaceous Garden highlighted in the internal courtyard. Extensive involvement in the programming of the site was done so that it offered educational value.
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The Center Indianapolis, Ind.
An Indianapolis corporation commissioned Browning Day to design a new Center for Innovation, with a mix of offices and laboratories. The needs of the end-user take center stage and spaces respond accordingly to provide flevxibility and choice in the daily work environment. The goal is to create an environment that spawns new ideas and encourages new working patterns centered on efficiency, casual interaction and collaboration. The building occupies 105,000 square feet of the 50-acre campus, allowing the majority of the site to remain wooded and landscaped. Having analyzed early-stage energy models, Browning Day ascertained a short list of highly effective design strategies that reduce both utility costs and carbon emissions. By combining the best orientation, glazing ratio, shading, material properties, and mechanical efficiencies, the design team was able to optimize the structure’s energy performance, balance the daylighting potential, and arrive at a design solution that is projected to save the owner more than $30,000 per year in utility costs.
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Indiana University Ray E. Cramer Marching Hundred Hall Bloomington, Ind. The Indiana University Marching Hundred is a 250-person band that was formed during the university’s inception in 1896. To address the group’s concerns of not having permanent practice space, Browning Day architects designed an indoor environment for the band’s needs. Indiana University Ray E. Cramer Marching Hundred Hall features a 7,900 square-foot rehearsal space, two smaller rehearsal rooms at 1,900 square feet each, instrument storage and repair, uniform storage and associated support space such as office space and meeting rooms. All practice rooms are acoustically isolated from one another.
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The building provides the band with an adjacent relationship to the basketball and football facilities where they perform. On game days, the marching band emerges from the building at the corner and proceed to the football stadium. The exterior of the building is constructed of architectural load bearing precast concrete and finished to emulate the look of limestone, which complements the existing buildings on campus. The $10 million project was completed in November 2017. The project is LEED Gold certified.
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Ivy Tech Community College Frankfort Campus
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Browning Day was retained by the City of Frankfort to design parking lots and pedestrian plaza spaces to complement a renovated building that was transformed into classrooms for Ivy Tech Community College. The project’s challenges included working around newly relocated site utilities including gas, fiber, telephone, electric, and cable. The design provided irrigated landscape planting areas in the asphalt parking lots in addition to lighting for safety and beauty. Both lots are located above fill from past building demolition. Stormwater is managed through a combination of pervious concrete, permeable pavers, vegetated swales, and drain pipes. These best management practices help reduce the environmental impact on the adjacent Prairie Creek.
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DESIGN PERFORMANCE MODELING The building design and construction industry is becoming ever more attuned to high-performance outcomes. Design teams and clients alike are becoming sophisticated with regard to building science and energy conservation measures. Consequently, there is a growing expectation that project teams leverage energy modeling to go beyond oversimplified rules-of-thumb toward optimized building solutions grounded in performance-driven outcomes and an integrative design process. Understanding the potential for energy modeling to impact change in the built environment and better serve clients, Browning Day has positioned itself to provide leadership in energy modeling to both clients and the broader design community alike. Increasingly, energy modeling – once the purview of engineers late in the design process – is being utilized as a decision-making tool from conceptual design through construction. An emerging marketplace of accessible software tools is liberating energy modeling opportunities for the entire design team. Thanks to these platforms, any designer can compare the performance of various design options and refine strategies. This kind of early-stage energy modeling – often referred to as design performance modeling – is simplified through basic forms, generalizations, and gross approximations, which makes it markedly different from the highly detailed comprehensive modeling effort typically executed near the end of the design process for green building certification or energy code compliance. As part of an integrative process, design performance modeling provides teams with a dynamic opportunity to compare the relative performance of different options at the earliest stages of design, when
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most of the major decisions are made and the consequences of significant changes are minimal. As part of our design process, Browning Day implements a degree of design performance modeling on most architectural and interior design projects as deemed appropriate for the scope of the work. Predicted energy performance is cataloged in the AIA 2030 Design Data Exchange (DDx), through which aggregated results position the firm for marked performance improvements across the firm’s entire architectural portfolio over time. Browning Day also engages the local design community through professional organizations, speaking engagements, published works, and various other outlets.
2030 DDX REPORTING 2019 was Browning Day’s third year of reporting projects to the AIA 2030 DDx database. Our goal was to create a baseline for our performance and compare it to the national and regional average. The predicted EUI reduction was below the national average, but similar to other regional firms. After reviewing this data, our next goal is to increase the number of projects that are analyzed by energy modeling software. We also seek to receive measured results on select existing LEED projects to compare the predicted data with the measured performance. Moving forward, are also looking for effective ways to model and report on embodied carbon.
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OPERATIONAL IMPROVEMENTS Browning Day has integrated operations that demonstrate its commitment to a sustainable future. The firm has created a Sustainable Design Leadership team who has been working to fully integrate the firm’s sustainability goals into its daily process. This leadership team is also charged with monitoring the latest trends and sharing them with the entire firm. 1.
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One example of integrating sustainability into the firm’s daily operations is adopting a recycling policy. It has been successful due to the continued education of all staff members on what items can be recycled and how items can be reused. Browning Day participates in ZeroLandfill Indy by annually donating unused product samples to this cause. The firm also holds an annual Purge & Store day to recycle or store unused drawings. As part of our 2018 initiatives, we’ve established an in-house platform for bringing in engaging speakers and disseminating important informational resources. Browning Day’s Sustainability Design Leadership (SDL) group has implemented a monthly lunchtime presentation that focuses on sustainable practices, technologies and materials. The program has been so successful that we envision it to last for years to come. Please see the following page for more details. Key staff members are also working on an office renovation and plan to include sustainable features including occupancy sensors, environmentally friendly office furniture, certified sustainable finishes, LED lighting, and a transition from desktops to laptops. The firm has also implemented policies for purchasing environmentally friendly kitchen supplies, such as recyclable products, post-consumer waste products, and biodegradable products. All external food vendors have been challenged with providing family style meals with eco-friendly tableware as well.
MONTHLY SUSTAINABILITY SERIES The SDL monthly presentations have varied with internal and external presenters along with a few field trip events. Examples of presentations included Urban Forestry, Preservation, Native Plantings, Building Performance and visiting a SITES project. The presentations have given us the opportunity to connect our coworkers with resources throughout our city as well as remind each other of the expertise that is available within our own firm. We look forward to using this program to stay on top of sustainability trends as well as keeping our coworkers educated on applying sustainable practices.
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SUSTAINABLE CREDENTIALS To better serve our clients toward their sustainable design and high-performance project goals, Browning Day staffs a variety of sustainable accredited professionals in multiple disciplines.
42% Forty-two percent of Browning Day’s architectural design staff is sustainably accredited
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57% Fifty-seven percent of Browning Day’s interior design staff is sustainably accredited
LEED SUMMARY Leaders across the globe have made LEED the most widely used green building rating system in the world with 1.85 million square feet of construction space certifying every day. LEED certification provides independent verification of a building or neighborhood’s green features, allowing for the design, construction, operations and maintenance of resource-efficient, high-performing, healthy, cost-effective buildings. LEED is pushing the green building industry to go further. Developed in a transparent, consensus-based process, LEED ensures that leaders can demand more from our buildings, creating healthy experiences, conserving precious resources and benefitting the business bottom line. LEED projects earn points across nine basic areas that
Browning Day’s staff consists of LEED Accredited Professional with multiple specialties:
Browning Day’s LEED AP personnel has certified OVER 2 MILLION square feet of building space. Browning Day has been a corporate member of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) since 2005. For more information, visit usgbc.org/leed.
address key aspects of green buildings: • Integrative Process
• Materials and Resources
• Location and Transportation
• Indoor Environmental Quality
• Sustainable Sites
• Innovation
• Water Efficiency
• Regional Priority
• Energy and Atmosphere Designers of Possibility In 2007, Browning Day achieved the first LEED certified project in Indianapolis.
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WELL SUMMARY The WELL Building Standard marries best practices in design and construction with evidence-based health and wellness interventions. It harnesses the built environment as a vehicle to support human health, wellbeing and comfort. WELL Certified™ spaces and WELL Core and Shell Compliant™ developments can lead to a built environment that helps to improve the nutrition, fitness, mood, sleep, comfort and performance of its occupants. This is achieved in part by implementing strategies, programs and technologies designed to encourage healthy, more active lifestyles and reducing occupant exposure to harmful chemicals and pollutants. The WELL Building Standard is organized into seven categories of wellness called Concepts: Air, Water, Nourishment, Light, Fitness, Comfort and Mind. The Concepts are comprised of 102 features. Every feature is intended to address specific aspects of occupant health, comfort or knowledge.
Designers of Possibility In 2016, Browning Day became the first design firm in Indiana with a WELL Accredited Professional (WELL AP). For more information, visit wellcertified.com Click to edit Title
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ERFORMANCE-DRIVEN DESIGN ZERO ENERGY BUILDING CERTIFICATION (NZEB) SUMMARY
The International Living Future Institute and New Buildings Institute formed a partnership to streamline the certification of and database for zero energy buildings to create broader market adoption, codification, and standardization of net-zero energy technologies in everyday buildings. The Zero Energy Building Certification program recognizes projects for at least 12 consecutive months of zero energy performance without the use of onsite combustion.
Designers of Possibility In 2016, Browning Day achieved the first Zero Energy Building certification in Indiana for the Chrisney Branch Library of the Lincoln Heritage Public Library. For more information, visit living-future.org/net-zero
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FITWEL SUMMARY Fitwel is a cost-effective, high-impact building certification standard that optimizes building occupant health and productivity through targeted improvements to workplace design and policies. Fitwel has a vision for a healthier future where every building is enhanced to support the wellbeing of its occupants and surrounding communities. It is based on the idea that all office facilities can be improved through specific, incremental changes into healthier places to work, regardless of their size, age, and location. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the General Services Administration led the development of Fitwel, garnering input from experts in public health and design and reviewing more than 3,000 scientific studies. The Center for Active Design is the operator of Fitwel, leading its widespread adoption and future development. Designers of Possibility In 2017, Browning Day became the first design firm in Indiana with a registered Fitwel Ambassador. Fitwel Ambassadors are well-versed on the evidence-based connection between design and health and have a clear understanding on how to integrate Fitwel’s strategies within buildings. Ambassadors can also navigate the Fitwel Digital Scorecard to assist companies with tracking progress and attain Fitwel certification. For more information, visit fitwel.org
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SITES SUMMARY
SITES is used by landscape architects, designers, engineers, architects, developers, policy-makers and others to align land development and management with innovative sustainable design. SITES helps create ecologically resilient communities and benefits the environment, property owners, and local and regional communities and economies. Administered by Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI), SITES offers a comprehensive rating system designed to distinguish sustainable landscapes, measure their performance and elevate their value. SITES certification is for development projects located on sites with or without buildings, ranging from national parks to corporate campuses, streetscapes to homes, and more. Designers of Possibility In 2018, Browning Day became the first design firm in Indiana with a SITES Certified project, The Center, in Indianapolis. For more information, visit sustainablesites.org
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ADVOCACY & PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT Browning Day employees are encouraged to attend conferences, workshops and seminars focused on sustainability. The firm seeks in-house presentations focusing on sustainability topics that earn continuing education credits. Firm staff also maintain close relationships with local universities and educators in the architectural industry. Browning Day hires interns and employees mentor local youth to help advance their careers and our industry. Browning Day has been a proud corporate member of the U.S. Green Building Council since 2005. In addition, our professional staff is engaged with a variety of organizations dedicated to a sustainable built environment:
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Closing Statement When Browning Day signed the AIA 2030 Commitment, it sparked a conversation about energy and carbon. We understand our work in a new way and we are now challenging ourselves to achieve continued improvement across our portfolio. Achievement in high performance building design and construction must be tethered in the feedback offered by building energy modeling - a practice that can be leveraged to test ideas and make better-informed decisions. This action plan continues to change over time. Today, it serves as an information resource to ground our approach to design, it celebrates the hard work and achievement put forth by our project teams, and it edifies our commitment to continued improvement. Moving forward, we want to expand the energy discussion into a carbon discussion as well. To that effect, we are looking for ways to not only track our portfolio’s operational carbon but also the embodied carbon of our work. We are Designers of Possibility - and as we march forward, we will continue to learn and grow.
Daniel Overbey, AIA, NCARB, LEED Fellow, WELL AP, EcoDistricts AP, Fitwel Ambassador Director of Sustainability Browning Day
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