Building Sustainability Speaker Series
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Posted by Web Team, February 22, 2006
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The Simmons College Sustainability Working Group and the Colleges of the Fenway Environmental Science Forum invite you to the first discussion on Building Sustainability, presented by Andrew Scott, Associate Professor of Architecture at MIT, on Wednesday, March 1st from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in C101.
Andrew Scott will provide an overview of what is encompassed by “sustainability” when it is related to the built environment. Using specific projects in Boston and abroad, he will discuss how architects are responding to the sustainability challenge and why it is essential to meet this challenge.
Professor Scott ‘s professional practice and design research is focused around issues of “sustainability” in designing and making architecture, most significantly through design strategies and technological systems of a “bio-climatic” design. His practice, both in the US and the UK, has won several awards and competitions. Most recently he completed a project for Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center in Boston Harbor. At MIT, Andrew Scott has coordinated a conference on the “Dimensions of Sustainability” which gave rise to a book of the same name. More recently he has completed research projects on “Sustainable Urban Housing in China” and on laboratory design (with British Petroleum). His most recent project is to lead an MIT team to design and build a prefabricated solar home for the bi-annual Solar Decathlon competition in Washington D.C.
The second forum in the series will be held on March 28th . Dan Beaudoin, the Energy and Utilities Manager at the Harvard School of Public Health, will give a presentation about sustainable projects he has overseen, including those that take advantage of Harvard University’s 0% loan program. Time and venue TBA.
At the final and third forum, architects from Cannon Design will discuss the process of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification and how the design of the new School of Management Building at Simmons College will meet silver level certification. This forum will be held on March 29th from 3:00-5:00 p.m. in C103.
For additional information, please write sustainability@simmons.edu.
Sponsored by the Honors Program, Biology Liaison, English/Philosophy Liaison, Economics Liaison, COF Environmental Science Forum, Simmons College Sustainability Working Group.
