Presentation for REGENERATION Edition 2, Italy and updated for SEDA Green Drinks in Ayr, April 2016. The Green Drinks event coincided with John Muir birthday (21/4) and Earth Day (22/4) Sharing from FutuREstorative book and Cuerdon Valley Park project (1st UK LBC registered project).
Living Building Challenge UK Project Inspires with Net Positive Design
1. Living Building
Challenge UK
Martin Brown
Fairsnape
Sharing from:
Future Restorative
Illustrated through:
Cuerdon Valley Park Visitor Centre LBC Project
5. A Sense of Urgency
The Numbers
Paris Agreement
climate change
target 2deg C
Aim for 1.5 Deg C
2016 Carbon ppm
all time high reached
March 2016 407ppm
Built Environment
40% of problem,
40% of solution
2.0 > 1.5
407 > 350
40% > 40%
6. There are no non-radical approaches left
before us in addressing climate change
Namoi Klein, This Changes Everything (2015)
Reducing built environment carbon emissions
(50% from 1990 levels by 2025) is now
out of reach with current practice.
UK Green Construction Board (2015)
We no longer have luxury of just being less bad.
Martin Brown Future Restorative 2016
A Sense of Urgency
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12. Project Image
Cuerdon Valley Park
Visitor Centre
Lancashire UK
LBC Registered (1st UK)
Community Funded
Community Build
LBC UK
Collaborative Expert
Support
Education Links
17. ReWilding
People
Eco Literacy
Influence of Buildings
Connecting people
to nature,
through buildings
We spend 90%
time indoors
Children spend
less time outdoors
than prisoners
20. Net Positive
Waste
Cuerdon Valley
Park
Straw Bale is a Waste
Product!
Zero Waste
on site so far
Only waste will be packaging
for café equipment
“Let’s all become radical
environmentalists: the single best thing
we can do for the planet is to keep our
stuff in use longer. Patagonia chief
executive Rose Marcario
21. Net Positive
Carbon
Cuerdon Valley Park
Potentially a Carbon Sink
Using straw, timber,
no cement
= net positive
Minimal fuel used in
construction
Possibly attract carbon
offsets from other
construction projects
27. #FutuREstorative Published 01 July 2016
FUTURESTORATIVE
Inspirations,
Innovations and Challenges
for a New Sustainability
Martin Brown
28. “We have lost
connectivity with
nature significantly
in the last
generation, and in
doing so our respect,
and lowered our
tolerance for doing
harm”
Martin Brown, Fairsnape
29. References & Mentions:
Martin Brown www.fairsnape.com @fairsnape @futurestorative
FutuREstorative. Martin Brown RIBA Books http://bit.ly/futuREstorative
Living Building Challenge www.ilfi.org/lbc @livingbuilding
UK Collaborative @livingbldguk
Cuerdon Valley Park: https://cuerdenvalleypark.org.uk/visitor-centre-details/
Bullitt Centre www.bullittcentre.org @bullitcentre
John Muir Trust www.jmt.org
Last Child in the Woods: Richard Louv
14 Patterns of Biophilia: Terrapin Bright Green
This Changes Everything: Naomi Klein
Norwegian Wood: Haruki Murakami
Construction Carbon: www.constructco2.com
Carbon Visuals: www.carbonvisuals.com
Oliva Keith (CVP Project Artist) http://www.oliviakeith.co.uk/
Notas del editor
Silent spring
Hello, and thank you for your interest in the Living Building Challenge, a program of the International Living Future Institute that was publicly launched in November 2006. It is the most stringent and complete sustainable building philosophy and standard in the world.
The core framework of the Challenge is its arrangement into seven primary categories, known as Petals, drawing further from the metaphor of the flower.
Those of you knowledgeable about green building see some familiar topics, like energy or materials. But the LBC aims to be as holistic as possible, addressing things like happiness, equity, and beauty. These petals interact with one another, as I will highlight over the course of the presentation.
Each petal is then broken into sub-petals, which are known as Imperatives. These Imperatives address specific topics related to each Petal, and they also set forth specific requirements for each Petal. We will discuss each Imperative briefly today.
Finally, there are three different levels of certification.
Full Living Building Challenge Certification means a project has achieved every applicable Imperative of the Living Building Challenge. These buildings are at the absolute pinnacle of sustainable building in the world.
Petal Certification is a project that has achieved at least three Petals, including one of the three core Petals—Water, Energy, or Materials—as well as Imperative One, Limits to Growth, and Imperative 20, Inspiration and Education. The Limits to Growth Imperative is required because we don’t want development in any case to occur in inappropriate areas. Inspiration and Education is also required because we want each project to be a catalyst within its own physical and functional community. Within their areas of focus, Petal-certified projects represent the highest levels of achievement internationally.
Net Zero Energy Building Certification recognizes the crucial priority of addressing the carbonization of the atmosphere and oceans. These projects achieve the core Net Positive Energy Imperative, as well as a handful of relevant Imperatives drawn from the Standard that support the Living Building Challenge mission.
Let’s look at how the JUST Program works in practice.For each of our social justice and equity indicators, the organization will assess their policies and data and select a corresponding rating of zero, one, two or three stars. One way of way of looking at the rating system is to equate one star for “good,” two stars for “better,” three stars for “best.”