The Sustainability Challenge

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The Sustainability Challenge

• Mike Smith
• Sustainability Product and Innovation Director
• URS Corporation

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Edinburgh and City Region Towards
SustainabilityMichael SmithFRSA MSc BA
DipEM MIIRSMURS Corporation
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URS
Project Management
Due Diligence
URS Corporation is one of the largest, global,
fully integrated engineering, construction and
technical services firms and has a network of 404
offices worldwide, employing over 55,000 people
in more than 34 countries. In Europe we
have over 2,000 employees working in 11
countries and 37 offices.
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Some Credentials
Project Management
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• Number One on ENRs List of the Top
• 500 Design Firms since 2001
• Number One on ENRs List of the Top
• Global Design Firms in 2008
• Number Two on ENRs List of the Top
• Green Design Firms in 2008
• Number Four on ENRs List of the Top
• 200 Environmental Firms in 2008
• Third on Building Design
• Constructions Design/Construction List

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Building Sustainability
Project Management
Due Diligence

• Policy, strategy, funding
• Master planning and design team support
• Pre-planning sustainability and energy strategies
• Energy efficient and passive design
• Renewable energy and CHP
• Day lighting and efficient lighting design
• Water conservation and recycling
• Waste reduction and recycling
• Sustainable purchasing
• Green travel plans
• Ecological enhancement
• Construction impact mitigation

• Engineering Design
• Environmental Consulting
• Building Sustainability
• Integrated Environmental Design
• Economics and Development
• Transportation Planning, Design, Project
  Management and Maintenance
• Strategic Facilities Management
• Mergers Acquisition Consulting
• Corporate Responsibility Consulting

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Drivers for Sustainability
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• Social and ecological breaches of sustainable
  limits
• Climate Change
• Global / Regional capacity - footprinting
• Planning and Sustainable Design Construction
• Infrastructure capacity/capability
• Energy Performance of Buildings Directive
• Cost of energy
• Exporting energy
• Return on investment
• Peer Expectation
• Customer expectation

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Drivers for Sustainability
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• DENSITY APPRECIATION

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From Policy to Construction
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Masterplanning
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• Strategy for masterplan
• Spatial principles limits targets design
  features monitor and report
• Spatial regional sub-regional centre
  development zonesintegrated
• socio-economic development deprivation zones
  sector clusters
• Principles Sustainable development Integrated
  carbon, waste
• water strategies Ecological enhancement
• Limits social ecological biocapacity
• Targets - Zero carbon / waste renewable
  generation chp generation
• emissions
• Design features Low carbon BREEAM Passive
  Insulation Natural
• VentilationMicro-climate design
  Central/Decentralised generation
• Gasification and EfWAnaerobic Digestion
  Integrated renewables
• Transport modes
• Monitor and report Benchmarking

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Masterplanning
Project Management
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• Minoco Wharf, London, UK
• 3D Reid Architects
• Plans include 25,000m2 of offices, retail and
  leisure facilities on the ground floor, and up to
  4,000 homes
• Sustainability
• Air quality
• Socio-economics
• Water resources
• Flood risk
• EIA

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Masterplanning
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• URS have worked on a number of whole city energy
  and waste strategies including recently for San
  Francisco Public Utilities
• Waste grease to biofuel demonstration program
• Economic and financial analysis and business case
  for building a used cooking oil (UCO) to
  biodiesel plant

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Triple Zero
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• Zero operational carbon
• Zero water from mains
• Zero waste to landfill or incineration
• Minimise demand
• Reduce Re-use Remanufacture Recycle
• Energy from waste
• Advanced Thermal Treatment
• Anaerobic digestion
• Rainwater harvesting
• Black water recycling

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Waste collection
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Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage
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Summer
Winter
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Large scale PV
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Sustainable Construct
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• St Asaph CentreNorth Wales
• Building Integrated Photovoltaics
• Natural ventilation
• Rainwater harvesting
• BREEAM Excellent
• Building Magazine
• Sustainable Building
• of the Year 2005

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Sustainable Construct
Project Management
Due Diligence
Great Glen House, Inverness, Scotland, UK - HQ of
Scottish Natural Heritage Natural
ventilation Solar energy Use of rain water
Recyclable building materials Sustainable
construction management BREEAM-Rating
Excellent BREEAM Offices Award 2006 Building
Magazine Sustainable Building of the Year 2006
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Sustainable Construct
Project Management
Due Diligence

• Multi Development Forum Duisburg
• 58,0000 m² retail and office space
• First BREEAM Retail certified scheme in Germany
• ICSC Pilot Scheme

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Sustainable Construct
Project Management
Due Diligence
9 m diameter wind turbines in roof Ground
coupled heat pump Future connection to Multi
Utility Service Company community utility
network Sustainability strategy EIA
(Environmental Impact Assessment)
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Sustainable Construct
Project Management
Due Diligence
Combined heat and power Aquifer Thermal
Energy Storage Sustainability strategy Full
engineering design EIA
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Sustainable Construct
Project Management
Due Diligence

• 35,0000 m² office space
• BREEAM Excellent
• 45 reductions in CO2 emissions

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Sustainable Construct
Project Management
Due Diligence

• Sustainability energy
• Strategy for master plan
• Benchmarking
• BREEAM assessment
• Centralised heating
• Contract energy management
• 10 Renewables
• Wind tunnel testing

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Sustainable Construct
Project Management
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• 131,510 m² office building
• BREEAM Excellent
• Sustainability Advice
• EIA

 
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Sustainable Edinburgh A Way Forward
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• Strategy for masterplan
• Spatial principles limits targets design
  features monitor and report
• Detailed analysis of current and future demand
  for energy, water and waste volumes
• City spatial zoning / characterisation
• Identification of locations for resource re-use,
  energy from waste, CHP, renewable generation,
  water and sewage treatment
• Energy or Multi Utility Service Companies
• Identification of routes for infrastructure and
  intermodal nodes
• Potential funding streams and implementation
  vehicles
• Stakeholder dialogue
• Planning Integration
• Valuing carbon shadow price of carbon
• Checking it Works

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