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Join us for results and lessons learned from the first year of operation at the PAE Living Building. The world’s first developer-driven Living Building, the PAE Living Building is a 5-story, 58,500 square foot mixed use building that demonstrates replicable and cost-effective solutions for sustainable design in Oregon. Learn the challenges and surprises the first year of operation offered, and how to remove barriers to entry for future highly sustainable projects.

Then learn about SERA’s post-occupancy efforts after a year of working in their new human-centered, high performance office on the top floor of the Galleria. To date, SERA’s office has secured a LEED Platinum certification and is also in pursuit of WELL certification, Living Building Core certification including the ambitious Materials Petal, and ILFI Zero Carbon certification.  Beyond covering lessons learned about the office’s performance one year in, including efforts to calibrate its novel mixed-mode ventilation system and delivering on the office’s dashboard, this presentation will also speak to a series of change management and post-occupancy efforts that have been deployed to continuously learn forward in this living laboratory of workspace.

Learning Objective 1:
Participants will learn about Net Zero Energy and Net Zero Water in a historic downtown core.

Learning Objective 2:
Participants will understand the results and operational data from a year in the PAE Living Building

Learning Objective 3:
Participants will understand how post-occupancy efforts are essential to ensure achievement of health and high-performance design goals.

Learning Objective 4:
Participants will be able to identify the benefits of change management and the need to develop occupant feedback loops in post-occupancy efforts.

Speakers

Josh Cabot, AIA, LEED AP BD+C
Senior Associate, SERA Architects

Josh Cabot is an experienced multidisciplinary force within SERA Architects’ Workplace Studio. With a background in structural and mechanical engineering—coupled with 4 years spent as a construction project manager—Josh is able to address the myriad technical and operational demands on a project, while simultaneously nurturing the creative aspirations that are necessary to create coherent and compelling designs. His passion lies in finding new ways to integrate sustainability features into the broader story of a project, by finding opportunities that weave together human experience, high performance, and deep rootedness to place.  

In addition to his work as a project architect and design integrator, Josh serves as a Studio Leader and contributes to SERA’s Sustainability Resources Group (SuRG). When able to fully geek out, you can find Josh researching aspects of all-wood joinery, mass timber construction, and passive climate solutions that simultaneously evoke biophilic responses.

Marc Brune
Principal, PAE

Marc is a Principal and mechanical engineer with PAE. He has led the mechanical and energy-systems design for many of the world’s most prominent net-positive energy buildings, including the Bullitt Center, Rocky Mountain Institute Innovation Center, the Kendeda Building at Georgia Tech, and the PAE Living Building. He believes that designers have a responsibility to create buildings that minimize resource use and is grateful to be part of a design community working toward a net zero carbon future. Marc holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Washington and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Portland.