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Syska Hennessy Group co-presidents Gary Brennen and Cyrus Izzo spoke with <\/em>CPE editorial director Suzann D. Silverman about high-efficiency building design and development solutions. The first part of the discussion, “Building Evolution,”<\/a> appeared in the February issue of <\/em>Commercial Property Executive. What follows is additional discussion about effective sustainability, or \u201chigh-performance,\u201d methods.<\/em><\/p>\n

CPE: How effective do you find most green\u2014or as you call them, \u201chigh performance\u201d\u2014elements that are tending to be incorporated into buildings?<\/p>\n

IZZO: I think the reason we embrace, at Syska, the term \u201chigh performance\u201d probably more so than just \u201cgreen\u201d or \u201cLEED\u201d (is) it feels like not all but some are very focused on the point system to achieve LEED. And they\u2019re missing the point. They\u2019re focused on the wrong point. The point is to have a high-performance environment, and the outcome is a LEED score rating that gets you to Silver, Gold, Platinum even, and have a strategy around the design, the construction and the operations to deliver a high-performance environment\u2014for the tenants, for the occupants. I think some people work backwards: How do I get to that point? Oh, I need to do X, Y and Z. That\u2019s not really a holistic solution. That\u2019s probably not giving the ultimate owner or occupant the benefit that we\u2019re talking about today. The people who are going to be very successful \u2026 really embrace the overall concept and then tune the systems to behave, not just focus on, \u201cWhat decision do I need to make today to get that point in the future, when we fill out the paperwork?\u201d<\/p>\n

CPE: What specific kinds of green characteristics are you most recommending to clients?<\/p>\n

IZZO: We\u2019ve definitely done a lot of work around water and how to reuse water, and I think it is wonderful to watch many of the owners really be focused on that and figure out creative ways of being able to redeploy water usage.<\/p>\n

BRENNEN: And which probably doesn\u2019t get enough market recognition just yet. \u2026 Green kind of gets back to (a) holistic process (whereby) first you\u2019ve got to reduce the load, so that when you add something green or renewable it has a bigger impact. How do I shrink my load? First, through good design, and engineer the architecture, and then begin to do things we\u2019ve seen work really well. Displacement ventilation, (where) you bring in air down low, at a higher temperature, and because you do that, you actually get more hours of free cooling from the outside air in most environments you\u2019re in around the country. \u2026<\/p>\n

Certainly, photovoltaics are becoming more and more cost effective. You still need the government rebates to help that, but the price is coming down. But, again, you want to put those at kind of step five. You want to go through four steps of reduce, reduce, reduce, reduce and then add photovoltaics, and then do things like displacement ventilation.<\/p>\n

We also see use of under-floor air, although it kind of got a bit of a black mark, because people didn\u2019t know how to detail it. GSA even started backing away from putting in under-floor air, because they forgot how to seal the floor. Contractors didn\u2019t know. Little details matter when you\u2019re doing these kinds of things. So, under-floor air is a great strategy, but if you execute it wrong, it\u2019s really bad. There have been some cases where that hasn\u2019t gone well for people.<\/p>\n

IZZO: I think the last piece is raising the set point temperatures. \u2026 These temperatures are written right into leases. And these are long-term leases. People have to evolve with these changes. Seventy-two degrees and a wet bulb of this or that\u2014I think those are almost archaic. But if you look at a lease today, I guarantee you it\u2019ll have the same specs.<\/p>\n

BRENNEN: The other technology we see (is) geoexchange, which is a way of using the earth as a heat sink. \u2026 You\u2019re not pumping. You\u2019re not using chillers. You\u2019re using the earth as a heat exchanger. But you also save water, because you\u2019re not using cooling towers, which actually blow off and evaporate millions of gallons of water a year. So geoexchange, we think, has some significant upside. It\u2019s not happening on a lot of projects just yet, because it is costly. So you have to do the lifecycle, and you have to be in it for the long run. But over time I think you\u2019ll see more and more opportunity for geoexchange \u2026 probably not an urban environment like New York City. But when you get out where you have a little more land, that could be an interesting opportunity for clients.<\/p>\n

IZZO: Interestingly enough, even here in New York, there are some pretty well-known installations that have had some high levels of success.<\/p>\n

CPE: What do you see the next generation of high-performance or sustainable design looking like?<\/p>\n

IZZO: These tools that continue to evolve and need to get refined will continue to help push the envelope. But I do think the next generation of system types really will be dependent on\u2014and I hate to go back to it\u2014but will be dependent on where we end up or what path we start heading down with the energy discussion. I think that\u2019s really going to be a key driver in the next generation of these systems, how they start to take shape. \u2026 To get to the next plateau, it\u2019s a different conversation. And energy will be a key part of that conversation.<\/p>\n

BRENNEN: The other thing I\u2019d say about the future of high performance is one of the words might be \u201ctransparency,\u201d which is, I think, this idea of energy and impact on the environment. Your tenants will know and everybody will know; it\u2019ll be transparent, through energy labeling or EnergyStar, or the building design might be transparent, where you can see in and see out. I don\u2019t think there\u2019ll be any more secrets. You\u2019re going to know exactly how your building performs. And your tenants will know how your building performs. And you\u2019ll be held to kind of a higher standard, almost, in the future because of that transparency.<\/p>\n

CPE: Is there anything else that you see coming?<\/p>\n

IZZO: I think the only other thing\u2014and I\u2019m far from an expert on this\u2014it\u2019ll be interesting, in the future, how projects get financed. \u2026 A lot of our owners today\u2014government owners, corporate entities, educational facilities\u2014continue to struggle in raising capital. So I think that conversation is evolving as well, with regard to P3 opportunities versus private equity versus foreign investment. With the current state of the economy, I think that will become more of a topic than ever before.<\/p>\n

BRENNEN: I think P3 is really interesting. \u2026 We\u2019re doing Long Beach Courthouse, which is the first P3 building of its kind in the U.S. We\u2019ve seen P3 in infrastructure, like toll roads, but this is the first building being financed and built and operated by the\u2014call it \u201cdeveloper\u201d; it\u2019s really an investor partnership.<\/p>\n

IZZO: Even here in New York, I think the first half a dozen or so P3\u2014and mostly around transportation\u2014projects have been released, and it\u2019ll be intriguing to see the response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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