Massachusetts Institute of Technology's High Performance Building Program and the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Walter Henry, P.E.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Steve Mahler, AIA, LEED AP®, Ellenzweig
In concert with its evolving academic mission, MIT has pushed energy conservation to the forefront of its design goals for new capital projects. The MIT Green Building Task Force developed new long-range environmental goals in 2001 that guide MIT's approach to capital project delivery:
- LEED® Silver minimum certification, plus project-based performance standards.
- Integrated design process involving the client team, consultant designers, and campus energy experts.
- Comprehensive approach to evaluating project components and design using modeling that takes into account initial investment, lifecycle cost, performance, and environmental benefits and impacts.
The speakers will describe in detail how MIT's energy reduction policies informed the approach to organizing, programming, and designing the project for the new state-of- the-art Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, including:
- Recent relevant data from the MIT High-Performance Building Program.
- Establishing energy and project delivery goals, and tailoring MIT's integrated design process to the project.
- Assembling the right design team and integrating client stakeholders into the design process to support the project goals.
- Using energy modeling tools and payback criteria for systems selection and design.
- Collecting and applying historical systems data to right-size laboratory building systems for a laboratory project.
- Reconciling energy conservation goals with environmental health and safety criteria and researcher preferences.
- Identification of risks that the owner should accept to enable the
integrated design process.
Biographies:
Walter Henry is director of engineering in the Department of Facilities at MIT. Mr. Henry has managed several engineering firms in the Boston area and has served as owner's representative on a number of major building projects in the United States and Europe. For 12 years, Mr. Henry served as vice president of engineering for XENERGY, a large national energy conservation and energy services firm. Mr. Henry is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Boston College, as well as a registered professional engineer in Massachusetts and other New England states.
Steve Mahler is a principal with Ellenzweig, an architectural design firm located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Mr. Mahler has 25 years of experience in the planning and design of laboratory facilities for higher education, including many projects at MIT. Mr. Mahler's recent projects include MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, a recently completed 365,000-gross-square-foot research building, and the Medical Education Building at Brown University, a 134,000-gross-square-foot medical school; both projects are registered for LEED Gold certification. Mr. Mahler has also completed research building projects at Harvard University, Iowa State University, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of Chicago.
Mr. Mahler is a LEED 2.0 AP and has lectured on energy conservation strategies; he holds a Masters of Architecture and Bachelor of Science in arts and design from MIT.