Speaker Series: Bringing Sustainability Goals to Reality: Implementation in Practice

ABSTRACT:

Many projects begin with numerous sustainability goals which eventually become lessened or disappear in the course of design due to a variety of factors. This presentation will describe the approach for maintaining those goals, featuring examples of two different types of academic campus buildings: a high-intensity research lab and a classroom/museum facility. For both, ambitious goals were established at the outset of a project and carried through to implementation. An important outcome is the furthering of the process towards the comprehensive perspective of holistic design.

BIO:

Arlen Li is an architect and Planning Principal at HGA, with over 35 years of experience planning and designing academic and corporate science facilities for leading institutions throughout the U.S. He promotes a holistic design approach for all building projects and is active in leadership roles on multiple local and national sustainability groups. Arlen is a Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) board member and a chapter officer of the International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories (I2SL) New England.