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Design for Sustainability

Lecture Notes

LEC #

TOPICS

1

Introduction (PDF)

The Green Engineer
Chris Schaffner, The Green Engineer, LLP

2

Sustainability and the Building Industry
Prof. John Ochsendorf, MIT Architecture (PDF)

3

Current U.S. Trends
Prof. John Ochsendorf, MIT Architecture (PDF)

4

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) (PDF - 1.0 MB)
Dana Ozik, MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering

5

Sustainable Design in Practice
Mark Webster, SGH Consulting Engineers

6

The Genzyme Building
Rick Aimes, Next Phase Studios
Byron Stigge, Buro Happold Consulting Engineers

7

Student Presentations

8

Energy in Buildings
Prof. Leslie Norford, MIT Architecture (PDF)

9

Materials
Prof. John Fernandez, MIT Architecture (PDF - 1.4 MB)

10

Water and Sanitation
Dr. Eric Adams, MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering (PDF - 7.7 MB)

11

Stata Center Tour
Robert Cunkelman, MIT

12

Project Working Session

13

Final Presentations 1

14

Final Presentations 2

Assignments

The following assignments were given over the course of the semester. Homework 1 was not graded; it consisted of the "My Footprint" exercise found on the Related Resources page.

Homework 2 - Carbon Dioxide (PDF)

Homework 3 - Life Cycle Assessment (PDF)

Homework 4 - Sustainable Buildings and Sites (PDF)

Final Project (PDF)

Projects

The following presentations were given by students during Ses #7. All work is courtesy of the student named and used with permission.

Alfred Navato (PDF)

Bahjat Dagher (PDF)

Celine Paoli (PDF)

Helen McCreery (PDF)

Herve Favennec (PDF)

Jeff Walker (PDF)

Johan Leonard (PDF)

Keith Coleman (PDF)

Kelly Doyle (PDF)

Nasruddin Nazerali (PDF)

Nina Mahjoub (PDF)

Raymond Kwok (PDF)

Sean Homem (PDF)

Sophie Johnson (PDF)

Teshamulwa Okioga (PDF)