Beyond Buildings: Engaging Occupants to Optimize Benefits of Sustainability
Joe Phillips, MBA, AIA, Phillips Collaborative
Based on work with international science and technology organizations, this program creates tangible tools and practices linking sustainable design of laboratories with occupant needs and actions.
Nearly every successful laboratory initiative to improve performance requires the full participation of the laboratory personnel. Likewise, most programs require behavior modification, incentives, new tools, and active management. Sustainability, both for green buildings and for laboratory operations, is no different.
The program begins with the best practices of sustainable design as presented in the LEED® and Labs21 Environmental Performance Criteria, and presents how their success and payback is influenced by occupant awareness, actions and practical compliance. The presentation provides general and specific recommendations for how to establish and maintain practices that raise occupant awareness, simplify actions with positive effects, and encourage continued compliance. Together, these lessons from holistic sustainability programs enable the facility to deliver long term positive environmental performance. In addition, they encourage occupant participation in seeking novel or hidden levers to more sustainability improvements.
Biography:
Joe Phillips is currently with Phillips Collaborative, LLC. In his capacity as CEO and project director, Mr. Phillips concentrates on the enhancement of science and technology missions through expert planning and design of operation-critical facilities. He brings a special focus to the recovery of capital resources through the development and implementation of sustainability programs for facilities, scientific operations, and maintenance. He has been instrumental in the integration of sustainable principles into both individual projects and the practice of facility design for research. He has served on the U.S. Green Building Council's Core Committee responsible for the development of the LEED Application Guide for Laboratories. He serves on the Board of Directors for I2SL, and is a frequent lecturer and author on sustainable laboratory design and operations. His current focus is helping organizations implement sustainability programs beyond facility projects.
Joe Phillips has been a leader on capital projects worldwide for prominent research and healthcare enterprises and has successfully executed senior management responsibilities during the course of his 20-year career with top architecture and engineering firms. For 15 years prior, he was a scientist and operations manager responsible for technology development and transfer for healthcare and science organizations.
Mr. Phillips is a registered architect and earned a Master of Business Administration from New York University, specializing in finance, a Master of Architecture from the University of Colorado, and a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from Bucknell University.