Overview of Campus Energy and Carbon Neutrality: Design Process and Lessons Learned
Russ Drinker, HOK Architects
In order to achieve Climate Positive and Carbon Neutral projects, clients, institutions, and communities are embracing bold net-zero energy usage, net-zero water usage, and carbon neutral operations goals for buildings and campuses. This presentation will address the challenges and opportunities to achieving these goals for technology campuses by examining case studies from around the globe.
Climate positive, regenerative design is currently achievable at market rates for buildings and communities, as demonstrated by such projects as the Ohlone College Campus in California and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Research Support Facility in Colorado. Climate positive performance is accomplished by using sustainable planning strategies, energy efficient design, and producing onsite renewable energy supported by regulatory incentives.
We face huge challenges, however, in achieving zero net energy with program intensive research and development laboratories because these facilities consume enormous amounts of energy, primarily in the interest of life safety. This presentation will take an overview on how the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) campus in Singapore, the KAUST project in Saudi Arabia, the Clean Tech Park in Singapore, and Bio-XCell in Malaysia incorporate best practices and state of the art technologies to reduce energy consumption in research facility design and operations, and generate on-site renewable energy as case studies for what is possible in order to move toward achieving Net-Zero Energy Design for research laboratory campuses.
Henry Russell (Russ) Drinker is the managing director for the San Francisco practice of HOK, a global interdisciplinary design practice. Prior to joining HOK, Mr. Drinker was the regional director of South East Asia for Perkins+Will and CEO of MBT Architecture, Inc. Mr. Drinker has more than 32 years of experience in architecture and planning, providing leadership on a broad range of large-scale, innovative, and technically challenging projects with an emphasis on sustainable design.
His portfolio is notable for its globally recognized research and academic campuses, including the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) Green Mark Platinum project for the National Research Foundation in Singapore; the Princess Noura University, a new 32 million square foot campus for 40,000 full-time female students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; and projects throughout the University of California system and Stanford University. Mr. Drinker has also led master planning projects for Chevron; United States Embassies in Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, and Damascus; and a new medical sciences campus for King Saud University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Mr. Drinker has been a guest speaker at conferences on technological innovations and sustainable design at the International Association of Science Parks, Association for University Research Parks, Low Carbon Earth Summit, International Green Build Conference, Society for College and University Planning, Tradeline, Bio-Asia, and the One North Lab Design Seminar in Singapore.
Mr. Drinker has been identified as one of the 101 Leaders in Sustainable City-Making and Theory by Steffen Lehmann in his 2010 publication "The Principles of Green Urbanism." Mr. Drinker obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree with major in architecture at the University of California Berkeley and a master's Degree in architecture from Columbia University in New York.