Efficient Building Systems Seminar

This 1-day seminar will discuss the essentials behind designing efficient building systems. The topics covered hope to address misconceptions regarding green design concepts amidst ever-growing environmental literature, and distil efficient & practical design solutions that work.

SEMINAR OUTLINE

What does 'green' mean? Higher order Principles and Paradigms of Integrative Design

• Beyond the platitudes; what does it take to really make integrative design work?

• Key opportunities to make engineering systems efficient
  System integration: beyond simply "saving space for all that stuff"

• Some key basic leverage points that are frequently missed

• Equipment elimination: more room and more money for the good stuff!

• Effective daylighting

• A few key technical points

• Central plants versus distributed

• Co-generation and trigeneration

• Commissioning: the most integrative discipline, and why you should care?

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Engineers, architects, design consultants, facilities & building managers, energy services managers/specialists & anyone who hopes to gain a better appreciation of efficient systems design

ACCREDITATION

This course is accredited under the Board of Architects - Singapore Institute of Architects Continuing Professional Development Programme. Participants will gain 4 CPD points upon completion of the course. Course participants must complete this course with at least 75% attendance rate.

Pending CPD from the Professional Engineers Board.

ABOUT THE TRAINER

Mr. Huston Eubank,
Registered Architect, Fulbright Senior Specialist, LEED AP
A leader in green buildings for 18 years, Mr. Eubank served as founding Secretary and Executive Director of the World Green Building Council and is a Principal at Rocky Mountain Institute. He is also Program Director for USGBC founder David Gottfried, “EarthSmart Ambassador” at Portland General Electric, and a senior project architect at Gensler. Mr. Eubank’s green consulting projects include the California Academy of Science, the Boston Convention Center, schools in Brazil, teaching at Beijing University, High Performance Internet Data Centers, and Greening the California State Capitol. His website is: www.heubank.com