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SustainableEngineering@Edinburgh. Fig. 3 Energy wastage. Fig. 7 Energy use in offices. Fig. 8 Ventilation system in The Environmental Building. Fig. 5 The CH2 Building, Melbourne, 2006. Fig. 2 Energy consumption. Fig. 6 Mistral Building, Reading, 1997.
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SustainableEngineering@Edinburgh Fig. 3 Energy wastage Fig. 7 Energy use in offices Fig. 8 Ventilation system in The Environmental Building Fig. 5 The CH2 Building, Melbourne, 2006 Fig. 2 Energy consumption Fig. 6 Mistral Building, Reading, 1997 Fig. 4 The Environmental Building, Watford, 1982 Group 19: Sustainable Corporate BuildingsBy: Noemi Cueva (0570094); Yvonne Wilkie (0563522); Caroline Fahy (0788582); Nick Cumming-Bruce (0564054)IMS3/MSFM3 Sustainability Module, March 2008 Current Solutions BREEAM and EDAS provide ways of assessing corporate buildings for sustainability in the design and operation stages. • Introduction • Buildings are responsible for 50% of primary energy consumption. Offices alone use 17% of this. • Image is essential for any corporation and often outweighs any drive to be sustainable. • Current conventional methods used to heat, light and ventilate are a huge drain on our natural resources. • This cannot be allowed to continue. • Ventilation shafts / wind towers provide ways to ventilate, heat and cool a building efficiently and naturally. • Concrete slabs can be cooled at night and used to absorb heat and cool a building during the day. • Louvres, such as found in the CH2 building change orientation according to the position of the sun to allow daylight in without the associated heat. • Integrated water systems and in-house recycling/treatment plants can reduce up to 95% of wasted water. • Multi-Water Treatment Plants and rain water collection supplies 100% of non-drinking water for cooling, plant watering Fig. 1 Energy usage in the business sector • Construction Counts • Concrete manufacture accounts for 10% of CO2 emissions in the world. • Sustainable timber is an organic, non-toxic and naturally renewable building material. • Timber frame has the lowest CO2 cost of any available building material and saves 0.8 tonnes of CO2 for every cubic meter used. • References • www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/uses/commercial.html • www.gothamgazette.com/article/issueoftheweek/20071015/200/2319 • www.maxfordham.com/projects-item.php?id=58&cat=9 • www.minterellison.com/public/resources/file/ebcd8600c52b166/GreenBuildings.pdfwww.rpreston.com/site/05_examples/commercial.htm • http://projects.bre.co.uk/envbuild/envirbui.pdf • http://www.timber-frame.org/index.php?page=47 • http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003151.html • “Implementation Strategy.” In Harrison, Andrew, Wheeler, Paul and Whitehead, Carolyn. The Distributed Workplace. Spon Press, London, (2004). • and toilet flushing. • The ability for the occupants of a corporate building to control their environment can further increase sustainability. • “If organisations are not sustainable they and their stake holders and communities will cease to exist” Human activity has started a downward spiral which is becoming increasingly difficult to break. Corporations have to shoulder their responsibility in setting a good sustainable example.