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Advancing Health Equity and Environmental Performance through Design: A Holistic Framework for Healthy Buildings
Overview
Join the Designer Selection Board for a presentation and Board conversation with the Perkins&Will team of Yanel de Angel, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C, RELI, LFA, Principal, Managing Director, Erika Eitland, MPH, ScD,Director, Human Experience Research, Senior Associate, Patrick Cunningham, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, LFA, Design Director, and Tyler Hinckley, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, RELI, LFA, Senior Associate, Senior Regenerative Design Advisor. The presentation will be the first in a series of three sessions. The session is offered as an AIA CES credit of 1 LU/HSW.
Agenda
Session 1: Advancing Health Equity and Environmental Performance through Design: A Holistic Framework for Healthy Buildings
This session introduces a holistic framework for advancing health equity and environmental performance through design. Based on regenerative design principles, this holistic framework for healthy buildings considers the entire project delivery arc and identifies key mind shifts for a productive process. This session will offer an opportunity for participants to reflect on the knowledge gained so far and gaps to strengthen, which could be in any category: energy and carbon, water, design and beauty, biophilic design, materials, health, place or theory.
This session also explores how to introduce a methodology that scales from macro to micro, integrating health, safety and welfare (HSW) principles in every phase of the process. At a macro level, it considers public health community indicators / determinants and how to equitably solve those and improve the physical, emotional, and social well-being of occupants and users. At a micro level, it considers the choices made during the design process from healthy material selections with low embodied carbon to strategies to reduce operational carbon, integrate renewable energy, and achieve Zero Net Energy (ZNE) targets.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Explore a holistic framework for advancing health equity and environmental performance through design.
- Identify the public health community indicators / determinants and identify strategies to equitably design to improve health conditions for users and the community.
- Consider design choices to elevate the human experience and well-being of occupants through healthy material selection and biophilic moments.
- Prioritize strategies that would yield operational carbon and energy reductions to achieve Zero Net Energy (ZNE) and when in the process these strategic decisions matter the most.