SBA Sustainable Building Operations & Maintenance

Learning Objectives

This unit provides a foundation for integrating sustainability into building operations and maintenance. In particular, it presents information on:

• The facility management (FM) function, with a focus on understanding the duties of the FM department in an organization, the education and experience of FM professionals, and how to position FM departments in organizations to ensure successful performance of the building post-occupancy.
• Building commissioning (Cx); in particular, what it is, how it is accomplished, and why it is critical to the performance of a building.
• Elements and activities conducted as part of an effective operations and maintenance program.
• Criteria for an effective training program and training resources with the goal of enabling the SBA to serve as a training resource for facilities professionals involved in sustainable building projects.

SBA Sustainable Construction Management

Learning Objectives

This unit students how to work effectively with the contractor to implement green building practices on a project, or, if they are in construction, how to be a “green contractor.” It provides the following:

• An overview of green constructions practices – construction waste management, site protection, and IAQ protection.
• Discussion on incorporating green building materials.
• Guidance on good planning and communication practices for sustainable construction practices.

SBA Water Conservation and Quality

Learning Objectives

This unit provides a foundation for understanding how to conserve water and protect water quality through the application of sustainable design and water use efficiencies. At the completion of this unit, students will:

• Understand the impacts of conventional site and landscape design, maintenance practices, and the benefits of adopting a natural systems-based approach.
• Be familiar with the challenges and opportunities of sustainable site development patterns.
• Understand outdoor water conservation strategies and practices.
• Employ techniques to reduce impact through landscape layout, plant selection, and placement.
• Become familiar with on-site water management methods, and options for stormwater and wastewater.
• Apply various approaches to indoor water conservation.

SBA Indoor Environmental Quality

Learning Objectives

This unit provides a foundation for understanding the issues that contribute to poor indoor environmental quality (IEQ), and an overview of the benefits of and strategies for achieving good IEQ. The unit’s learning objectives will help students to:

• Explain the human health and well-being, environmental, and economic benefits of good IEQ.
• Recognize, evaluate and control common indoor air pollutants and their impact on IEQ.
• Understand common barriers, implementation challenges and solutions to achieving good indoor air quality.
• Recognize the IEQ resources available through green building programs.
• Leverage mechanical and natural ventilation system design strategies.

SBA Green Materials

Learning Objectives

This unit provides a foundation for understanding the issues underlying material selection and planning in a sustainable building. It outlines the following:

• Factors in material selection and the issue of trade-offs.
• Resources available to assist in evaluating whether a material is appropriate for a sustainable building project.
• The analytical, systematic, and integrated process one might take to evaluate materials for a project.
• Material considerations when using the LEED rating systems.
• The changing role of material choices on a building’s carbon footprint.
• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) benefits and limitations.

SBA Energy and Lighting

Learning Objectives

The unit provides a foundation for understanding how to achieve a building with high energy and lighting performance (efficiency and quality), and includes the following learning objectives:

• An understanding of what energy is and how the design of building energy systems impacts both the human experience and the global environment.
• An appreciation of the value of a contextual, holistic approach to building energy system design.
• An understanding of how a building dynamically interacts with its occupants and the local climate, including renewable energy flows.
• Basics for understanding fundamental building energy systems, primarily the building envelope, HVAC, and lighting.
• An awareness of key building energy design tools, methodologies, standards, and sources for additional information.

SBA Fundamentals of Sustainable Building

Learning Objectives

This unit provides a foundation for the course. In addition to reviewing overall course requirements, the team project, and other course management logistics, this unit will enable students to:

• Understand green building in the context of sustainability
• Articulate the “case” or rationale for green building from an environmental, economic, and social benefit perspective.
• Become knowledgeable about the current state of green building in the region and nationally.
• Understand the role of policy, programs, and projects in market transformation.
• Develop a basic understanding of the key elements of sustainable design and other aspects of delivering a green building.
• Experience the eco-charette process.
• Understand their individual roles with regard to the team project, related activities (paper, presentation), and learning objectives associated with those activities.

SBA Importance of Place

Learning Objectives

The importance of “place-based” thinking in achieving truly sustainable development is:

• Understand the over-arching issues and processes driving sustainable land use at regional, local, and site levels.
• Know the importance of transportation planning and siting, and their relationship to sustainability.
• Become familiar with group participation models for planning, development, and design processes.
• Understand the sustainable site planning and design process and principles.
• Practice conducting sustainable site assessment.
• Become familiar with the approaches that different rating systems take to address site issues.

 

Project Rising Development

BILTMORE QUARTER
Sears + Roades Center Retrofit
Project Rising: Phoenix

CONCEPT

• During a nine month training program, professionals from the fields of architecture, urban planning, engineering, construction, and city management, learn the latest in the tried and true practices of sustainability in the unique bio-region they inhabit. These students collaborate on projects that will demonstrate the sustainable strategies they are researching.
• Shark Tank , an ABC hit television show where business innovators pitch their new ideas to venture capitalists for funding. Project Rising is a competition develop projects from the drawing boards of thoughtful and talented teams from the Ikoloji Sonoran Sustainable Building Advisor Program (SoSBAP).

 

• The winning pitch will receive funding for further implementation.

 

MOTIVATION

• Project Rising came together through a combined force of IKOLOJI Sustainability Collaborative and Urban Initiatives, both impassioned by progressive elaboration of their city.

“If we can solve for Phoenix, we can solve for anywhere …”

• The City of Phoenix has been criticized as, “the least sustainable city in the world” by many people.
• In the year of Arizona’s 100 year statehood anniversary, it’s important to make distinctions between where we’ve been and where we’re going. The City of Phoenix and Maricopa County as a whole have a golden opportunity to rise from the ashes of the past … beyond SB1070 and the collapse of the real estate boom …

 

Table of Contents
The Pulse …

APRIL 11, 2012 Mayor’s State of the City Priorities
1.2012 double amount of solar voltaic cells on COP rooftops
2.National leader in green and sustainability
3.Sustainability as the thought process throughout COP
4.Solutions for vacant lots
5.Advancing the downtown area
6.Demanding new and innovative thinking
7.Neighborhoods, elderly, poverty, homelessness

Table of Contents
1. CSBA Investigation
2. Retrofit Strategies
3. Over the Hump Development
4. Case Studies
5. Acknowledgements

Executive Summary

BILTMORE QUARTER RETROFIT
Our project is a set of responsible design principles to revive the heart of the Camelback East Village Core into retrofitting the Camelback Colonnade shopping center into a thriving, creative, urban neighborhood, with diverse choices for living, working and playing. The heart of the proposal is the adaptive reuse of the abandoned Mervyn’s department store, and parking field, into an urban, co-working business incubator, where Phoenicians can regenerate our economy with new products, services and ideas. As businesses outgrow their space, new buildings would infill the parking area, with pedestrian connections to the surrounding neighborhoods and developments, creating demands for a light rail extension. The final result would create a neighborhood similar to: West Village, Uptown, Dallas, Texas, 2000;
Mockingbird Station, Dallas, Texas, 1997; Cherry Creek District, Denver, Colorado; Huntington
Village, Houston, Texas; Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia.

Executive Summary

• Peter Newton, Associate AIA, CSBA
  • Market Comparisons
• Eric Voise, CSBA
  • Adaptive Reuse Plan for the Mervyn¡¦s
• Bruce Lovegrove
  • Sustainability & Business Plan

 

CSBA Investigation

• Existing Conditions: how we got here
• Competitive Creative Economic Urban Areas
  • Phoenix
  • Dallas
  • Denver
• Comparative Upscale Markets
  • Biltmore District
  • Park Cities
  • Cherry Creek

CSBA Investigation

• Existing Conditions: how we got here
• Competitive Creative Economic Urban Areas
  • Phoenix
  • Dallas
  • Denver
• Comparative Upscale Markets
  • Biltmore District
  • Park Cities
  • Cherry Creek

 

Establishing Market Presence
Growth & Development

• Westcor acquires center, several renovations follow, and name changed to Colonnade Mall
• Recession & Oppertunity

Mervyns files for bankruptcy and shutters its stores in 2009, leaving a huge vacancy.

Phoenix, Arizona
20 miles of Light Rail
1 State University
1 Airport
4 Art Museums
Fortune 500 Companies
8 Performing Arts Facilities
700,000 SF Convention Center
Tallest Builgin: 483 ft.

CSBA Investigation

• Existing Conditions: how we got here
• Competitive Creative Economic Urban Areas
  • Phoenix
  • Dallas
  • Denver
• Comparative Upscale Markets
  • Biltmore District
  • Park Cities
  • Cherry Creek

Phoenix, Arizona
Area
Pop: 4.2 mil
Density: 252.9/sq mi.
Area: 16,573 sq. mi.
City
Pop: 1.4 mil
Density: 3,072/sq mi.
Area: 518 sq. mi
Biltmore District
Dallas, Texas
Area
Pop: 6.7 mil
Density: 634/sq mi.
Area: 9,286 sq. mi.
City
Pop: 1.2 mil
Density: 3,518/sq mi.
Area: 385.8 sq. mi.

Park Cities
Denver, Colorado
Area
Pop: 2.6 mil
Density: 303.3/sq mi.
Area: 8,414 sq. mi.
City
Pop: 0.6 mil
Density: 3,874/sq mi.
Area: 154.9 sq. mi.
Cherry Creek

CSBA Investigation

• Existing Conditions: how we got here
• Competitive Creative Economic Urban Areas
  • Phoenix
  • Dallas
  • Denver
• Comparative Upscale Markets
  • Biltmore District
  • Park Cities
  •   Cherry Creek

Retrofit Strategies

• Co-Working
  • Gangplank
  • Workhaus
  • Creative Density
• TOD
  • Valley Metro
  • Mockingbird Station
  • City Center, Englewood, Colorado
• Town Center
  • Scottsdale Quarter
  • West Villages
  • Belmar

Retrofit Strategies

• Co-Working
  • Gangplank
  • Workhaus
  • Creative Density
• TOD
  • Valley Metro
  • Mockingbird Station
  • City Center, Englewood, Colorado
• Town Center
  • Scottsdale Quarter
  • West Villages
  • Belmar

Co-Working ¡V

• A workspace for the creative class, comprised of local independent artists, designers, writers, photographers, etc.
• Spaces leasable long-term, or for as little as one day.

Gangplank
Another creative-class, cooperative workspace, much like ¡§In Co+Hoots¡¨, bringing together like-minded individuals and businesses in the spirit of shared ideas and collaboration.
Workhaus, Dallas
Another creative-class, cooperative workspace, much like ¡§In Co+Hoots¡¨, bringing together like-minded individuals and businesses in the spirit of shared ideas and collaboration.

Creative Density, Denver
Retrofit Strategies

• Co-Working
• Gangplank
• Workhaus
• Creative Density
• TOD
• Valley Metro
• Mockingbird Station
• City Center, Englewood, Colorado
• Town Center
• Scottsdale Quarter
• West Villages
• Belmar

Transit Oriented Development

• A workspace for the creative class, comprised of local independent artists, designers, writers, photographers, etc.
• Spaces leasable long-term, or for as little as one day.
• Valley Metro
• A workspace for the creative class, comprised of local independent artists, designers, writers, photographers, etc.
• Spaces leasable long-term, or for as little as one day.
• Mockingbird Station, Dallas
• A workspace for the creative class, comprised of local independent artists, designers, writers, photographers, etc.
• Spaces leasable long-term, or for as little as one day.

City Center Englewood, Colorado
Retrofit Strategies

• Co-Working
  • Gangplank
  • Workhaus
  • Creative Density
• TOD
  • Valley Metro
  • Mockingbird Station
  • City Center, Englewood, Colorado
• Town Center
  • Scottsdale Quarter
  • West Villages
  • Belmar

 

Town Center
Scottsdale, Arizona
West Village, Uptown, Dallas
Belmar, Colorado
Next Steps
Camelback Colonade
The Future
The Future: A New Beginning

• A new business plan and a fresh start to inject needed life into an aging strip mall.
• No more “big box” chain retail in the space.
• A communal business environment, subdivided, but with a common sense of both place and purpose within the community.
• A space for both established and “start-up” businesses to collaborate, share ideas, and grow together.
• Leasable sub-spaces with an eclectic and diverse mix of shopping, dining, and services.

THE CAMELBACK CO-OPS
“An Adaptive Re-use Plan for the Mervyn’s”
Case Studies
Blankspaces
Mockingbird Station
Belmar
Case Studies
Blankspaces
Mockingbird Station

Belmar
Examples of Similar Local Spaces:
1.) “POOL Together” – Mesa, AZ
Unfortunately shuttered in February, 2011, but was never properly promoted and was sited at a poor location. Could be successful at Camelback Colonnade. Also a former Mervyns.
POOL Together (cont.)
POOL Together (cont.)
POOL Together (cont.)

Case Studies
Blankspaces
Mockingbird Station
Belmar

Mockingbird Station
Where the In Crowd Flocks

Mockingbird Station
Adaptive ReUse

Mockingbird Station
Transit Oriented Development

Case Studies
Blankspaces
Mockingbird Station

Belmar

Belmar
Adaptive Redevelopment

Belmar
Master Plan

Belmar
New Town

Belmar
New Town

Credits & Acknowledgments:
Thank you to the following for information and permissions:

• Pam Paes of “POOL Together”
• Tony Felice of “In Co+Hoots”
• Westcor
• Retorfitting Suburbia, Ellen Dunham-Jones & June Williamson
• Mark Stamp, ASU Master’s of Real Estate Development

Project Rising Pitch

BILTMORE QUARTER
Sears + Roades Center Retrofit

CSBA Investigation

• Existing Conditions
• Competitive Creative Economic Urban Areas
  • Phoenix
  • Dallas
  • Denver
• Comparative Upscale Markets
  • Biltmore District
  • Park Cities
  • Cherry Creek

Establishing Market Presence

Decline & Bankruptcy

• 1988, Squaw Peak Parkway bisected the site.
• 1990s, demalled into big box strip mall.
• Sears sub-divided into retail spaces.
• 52,700 sf section of the mall demolished
• A parking garage was built
• Joskes sub-divided into a 2nd floor leased office space and a retail ground floor.
• 59,800 sf Fry’s added
• Additional out buildings added.
• Now CAMELBACK COLONNADE
• 2009, Mervyn’s bankruptcy.

Competitive Creative Economic Urban Areas

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
-Charles Darwin

Phoenix Creative Assessment

Phoenix, Arizona
Metro
Pop: 4.2 mil
Density: 252.9/sq mi.
Area: 16,573 sq. mi.
City
Pop: 1.4 mil
Density: 3,072/sq mi.
Area: 518 sq. mi

Dallas Creative Assessment

Dallas, Texas
Metro
Pop: 6.7 mil
Density: 634/sq mi.
Area: 9,286 sq. mi.
City
Pop: 1.2 mil
Density: 3,518/sq mi.
Area: 385.8 sq. mi.

Denver Creative Assessment

Denver, Colorado
Metro
Pop: 2.6 mil
Density: 303.3/sq mi.
Area: 8,414 sq. mi.
City
Pop: 0.6 mil
Density: 3,874/sq mi.
Area: 154.9 sq. mi.

Retrofit Strategies

• Co-Working
  • Gangplank
  • Workhaus
  • Creative Density
• TOD
  • Valley Metro
  • Mockingbird Station
  • City Center, Englewood, Colorado
• Town Center
  • Scottsdale Quarter
  • West Villages
  • Belmar

 

Retrofit Strategies

• Co-Working
  • Gangplank
  • Workhaus
  • Creative Density

Co-Working –

• Coworking is the social gathering of people, who work independently, but share values, and are interested in the synergy that can occur when working with talented people of differing fields in the same space.
• Attractive to telecommuters, independent contractors, and travelers.
• The coworking model is a social collaborative, that allows for the cross pollenization of ideas with a strong focus on community.
• Coworking communities are formed by organizing Casual Coworking events in public places such as cafes, galleries or multi-functional spaces.

Gangplank

• Gangplank is a group of individuals creating an economy of innovation and creativity in the Valley. They envision a new economic engine comprised of collaboration and community, where industries come together to transform our culture.
• A place for creators, where diverse backgrounds and ideas collide, providing the necessary fuel to innovate.
• Gangplank believes that the creative class focuses on collaboration over competition, and that ideas should be shared freely.
• Offers one-on-one meetings with mentors specializing in marketing, financial management and business planning.
• Weekly brownbag presentations by local business leaders.
• Member-lead workshops.
• The youth arm of Gangplank, Gangplank Junior, seeks to augment a struggling education system, through after-school programming focused on hands-on learning and encouraging creativity, preparing future generations to operate in a world beyond what their schools prepare them for.

Workhaus, Dallas

• Workhaus Co-Working Lodge is a better, more efficient, green, mobile, and connected worklife in Dallas, TX.
• A simple concept where independent professionals work together for the purpose of collaboration and the ability to focus on their work in inspiring spaces.
• Membership-based co-working also provides a professional environment to meet clients, receive mail, socialize and talk shop with other professionals.
• We provide rental opportunities for a desk space, private workspace, and amenities businesses need to run efficiently.
• We create a dynamic culture of mentorship, incubation, leadership, networking and most importantly creating.

Creative Density, Denver

FROEBEL ATELIER

• relating to a system of education to develop the importance of free play
• a workshop or studio, especially of an artisan or designer.
• 1830–40;: literally, pile of chips

Membership has its privileges

To Subscribe to the Atlier simply contact us. BUT, a subscription does not mean you get to work in a collaborative and creative space, you must become a part of the community of freelancers, mobile workers, and start-ups.

Bringing Mobile Workers Together

Coworking Communities provide a space for mobile professionals to work together. Coworking is proving that independent professionals do better together in a community rather working alone. The physical density of people and lack of barriers creates a collaborative environment alone. The physical density of people and lack of barriers creates a collaborative environment where people can focus on their work independently but also share experiences and work together.

What if you could blend the benefits of working from home, the coffee house, and the corporate office?

• Flexible workspace, with Open concept offices so you can feed off the energy and build relationships
• Community of brainstorming buddies
• Organized events to learn about design and techniques, business trends, and the next ‘big idea’
• Amazing coffee, printing, and other essential business requirements
• – besides awesome people to be around.

According to a the Global Coworking Survey:

• 42% of coworkers reported an increase in revenue, only 5% saw a decline
• 85% were more motivated
• 88% have better interaction with people
• 60% said they are more relaxed at home now
• 57% work more teams for projects

Philosophy

We aim to connect individuals and small businesses creating an economy of innovation and creativity. We envision a new economic engine comprised of collaboration and community, in contrast to the silos and stodgy dependence on the next tourism and land development boom. Our ideas are based on the Creative Economy work of Economist Richard Florida and the (re)New(ed) Urbanism work on Retrofitting Suburbia by Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson. We studied their work to discover methods for Phoenix to live up to its nom du plume.

We have the talent in this Valley to create an economy to compete with the Atlantas, Denvers, Houstons, Austins, and Dallases, we just need to work together to create it. Different environments need to overlap, connect and interact in order to transform our community to be economically and environmentally sustainable. The community we seek to create is based on the idea of the 4 Es:

1.Equity
2.Economy
3.Environment
4.Aesthetics

This new economy cannot thrive without engaging the larger business, creative, entrepreneurial, governmental, and technical communities together. We believe that innovation breeds intension. We will transform our culture into one supportive of the entrepreneurial spirit, of risk taking, of pioneering into the unknown territories as the founders of our municipalities once did. This requires education, entrepreneurship and creative workspaces.

Likely Subscribers

• Game designers
• Graphic Designers
• Sole Practitioners
• Architects
• Engineers
• Web Designer
• Independent Insurance Agents
• Real Estate Agents
• Digital Artists
• Freelance Programmers
• Financial Planners
• Hobbyists
• Day Traders
• Internet Sales
• Web Production
• Web Publishers
• Start-Ups
• Authors
• Technical Writers
• Digital Artists
• and more!

Subscription: PREMIUM

• No long-term contract, subscriptions are month to month, and includes Listing in our member directory.
• Professional Reception services for subscribers deliveries and customer calls to your dedicated LAN line and voicemail: Personalized answering, greeting, and arranging (handsets available, or we can ¡§wire¡¨ your number to your cell).
• Professional Executive Secretarial services available to assist subscribers with editing and proposal/presentation preparation.
• Open, cubicle and private studio offices; ¡§Phone Booth¡¨; & Comfortable, open seating, with patio seating, in the Lounge area.
• Fully equipped Conference Center for teleconferencing, pitching, ideation, client meetings, and community events.
• WiFi/Internet, coffee, Print/Fax/Copy services (discounts on large reproduction runs), mailboxes, and 24-hour access, are included for monthly subscribers.
• Work tables, mobile white boards, flip charts, software license seat library (pricing may vary) , webinar, on line organizational platforms
• A room dedicated for long phone calls or webinars.
• A fully equipped Cafe with flavored coffee, refrigerator, microwaves, snack/soda machines, plates, silverware, dishwasher, available for breaks, networking and catering.

 

Subscription: FRINGE

• All Inclusive access to Salon Talks, Lounges, and networking.
• Special Discounts to local Conferences and Professional Society events.
• Extra Perks like arranging Speaking at events.
• All Amenities & Included Services are available to monthly subscribers, regardless of level.
• Walking, biking and a short transit distance to numerous restaurants and bars for client entertaining, with a conference kitchen available for catering.
• Located in a community of business, with easy access to retail and networks.
• Affordable housing close by.
• Professional mentoring and counseling seminars and discounts on private sessions for you and your business.
• Professional magazine, periodicals, newsletters and newspapers Reference Center, available both in on line and in the lounge area. ALL subscriptions included in dues, with selection made by subscribers to the space.
• Discounts on events and CDU courses.
• Members can cowork around the world for free with the coworking visa.
• Quarterly Innovation Charettes to encourage collaboration and new ideas for puzzling problems.

Subscriber Mentoring
Seeing opportunities in unlikely places, maximizing profitability through planning and detail efficiency is the intrinsic value of good maturation of business incubation. The ability to marry economic sensitivity with design accountability while navigating the myriad challenges and constraints ubiquitous to development is a skill set unique to Alloy.

• Budgets
• Cash Flow Models
• Concept Ideation
• Consultant Team
• Financial
• Market Analysis
• Marketing Programs
• Legal
• Pro Formas
• Boiler Plate Template Documents
• Sources & Uses Statement
• With self-directed and community developed programs to benefit subscribers and a 2 mile neighborhood radius

 

Subscriber plans
Mobile Membership ($98 per month)
For the developing business that needs a professional workspace, but not an office.

• Access to any open desk
• Discounts on CDU Classes
• Ability to Stay Late

Dweller Membership ($395 per month)
Set desk
All services listed above

Resident Subscription ($900- $750)

• Great for office startups or small business teams.
• Full access to the coworking floor, conference room, kitchen

 

Decanter plans

Lounge Pass (FREE)
For those needing a quick stop to check email.

• Access to any seat in the lounge
• Free WiFi
• Coffee is 50 cents.
• Printing and other services additional

Transit Pass ($25 per day)
For the interloper who works from home, is visiting the area, or developing a side business

• Access to any open desk
• Additional cost to use conference spaces and Professional Services.

Day Pass ($25 per day)
For the interloper who works from home, is visiting the area, or developing a side business
Access to any open desk

• Additional cost to use conference spaces and Professional Services.
• Conference Room Rentals.

You don’t have to be a member. Members get the conference room for free or 50% off.

• Half Day – $75
• Full Day – $100

Proposal

Proposal