Big Green: Exemplars on the road to carbon neutrality

[Joe Karten]

Dear Jim,

The Vauban district of Freiburg has a development of residential townhouses
that have been built in the passive-house style. This allows them to keep
indoor climates comfortable using 15% of the energy of a traditional
dwelling unit. In addition, they have photo-voltaic paneled roofs which
produce enough electricity to supply the homes with all of their needs and
even sell some back to the utility.

See a short case study on them here:
http://www.greenbuildingworldwide.com/index_files/page0050.htm

Kind regards,
Joe

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 3:30 AM, <jwasley at uwm.edu> wrote:

> Biggreen,
>
> The Society of Building Science Educators is organizing a summit on carbon
> neutral design here at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Our goal is
> to
> assemble a list of buildings that would be the subject of in-depth case
> studies- seeking insights that can be shared on the process of designing
> and
> building buildings with little or no carbon footprint, as described by the
> 2030
> Challenge.
>
> We are seeking recent buildings that may or may not be well known, but
> that make
> radical strides in integrated design and hopefully have good performance
> data
> that could be made publicly available. We have two basic categories to
> fill:
> housing that deals with issues of affordability and larger
> commercial/institutional buildings with public access. We are looking for
> recommendations in all climates.
>
> Being in Wisconsin, our home favorite as an example of what we are looking
> for
> is the Aldo Leopold Legacy Center. This LEED Platinum building received an
> innovation credit for 'carbon neutral operations,' which expands the scope
> of
> carbon neutrality out beyond the building. We don't expect to find many
> buildings that are this aggressive, but do expect that there are many
> recent
> buildings that are pushing hard in this direction.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions! Please suggest a contact person as well as the
> project.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jim Wasley, AIA, LEED AP
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>
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Joe Karten, LEED AP, Green Star AP
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