Green Campus Blueprints: Crafting Net-Zero Architecture

Rising to the challenge of our times
Campus buildings – perhaps more than others – must rise to the challenge of our times. The way they perform or how they are experienced should reflect the lessons taught to the students who use them. Today, walking the talk means setting (and meeting) climate targets, and framing aspirations for well-being and inclusivity. Two winners at the Holcim Foundation Awards 2023 – Asia Pacific Bronze winner, NUS Yusof Ishak House (Singapore) and North America Bronze winner, Kaiser Borsari Hall (Bellingham, Washington, USA) – are campus buildings in two very different settings, bound by a desire to decarbonise and enhance well-being.

Framing aspirations for higher education in Singapore and the USA
The NUS Yusof Ishak House is a retrofitted heritage building within the National University of Singapore campus. Here, the decision to conserve an existing building is the first step to lowering (embodied) carbon. The second is reducing operational energy use with reliance on passive design strategies, and technology that minimizes waste and maximizes onsite production of renewable power. The Kaiser Borsari Hall is a purpose-built facility in Western Washington University’s campus – designed as a collaborative teaching space that advances the university’s ambition to become US’s first carbon net-neutral campus. The project uses a cross-laminated timber structure to minimize embodied carbon, and on-site energy generation and storage to reduce operational emissions.

In this discussion moderated by sustainable design expert and Ecogradia’s editor-in-chief, Nirmal Kishnani, the two projects’ team members – Erik L’Heureux and Ryan Bussard – discuss how campus buildings, perhaps more than others, must rise to the challenge of our times.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction from the Holcim Foundation
6:26 Kaiser Borsari Hall Project Overview
8:47 NUS Yusof Ishak House Project Overview
10:58 Discussion
49:40 Q&A

🎤 Speakers:
Ryan Bussard, Design Principal, Perkins&Will
Erik L'Heureux, Lead Designer & Associate Professor, National University of Singapore
Moderated by Nirmal Kishnani, Editor-in-Chief, Ecogradia

🏆 More info about the two winning projects:
Project 1: https://www.holcimfoundation.org/projects/kaiser-borsari-hall
Project 2: https://www.holcimfoundation.org/projects/nus-yusof-ishak-house

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