Payette Principals Andrea Love and Mark Oldham were recently featured on the DaVinci Pursuit’s public radio, Intersections: Where Art and Science Meet. Alongside other industry professionals and facilitator Mark Kesling, they engaged in an insightful, 2-episode discussion about the impact of carbon within the building industry. The conversation journeyed across a variety of topics, including but not limited to the embodied carbon in concrete, wood as an alternative material, the cost and environment savings from reusing versus building new, LEED as a jumping point for regenerative architecture, and the meaning of net-zero.
Listen to the two episodes below:
Little Successes Can Change Everything: Building Solutions for Our Carbon Future – Episode 1
Little Successes Can Change Everything: Building Solutions for Our Carbon Future – Episode 2
Opening later this year, the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, MA is an essay in the tuning of building façades for performance. The aluminum sunshades that veil the building began as a concept tested by scoring Bristol paper. The team utilized tools from all modalities: paper models, CNC-mills, parametric studies, solar analysis, wind and water simulations and full-scale mock-ups to inform the design and drive energy use down. The ultra-high performance building is tracking a 61% reduction in energy use compared to the 2030 baseline.
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