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BUILDING TECHNOLOGY LECTURE SERIES
FALL 2009
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[RESCHEDULED TO]
Monday, October 19 2009
12:30-2PM ROOM TBA

BYRON STIGGE
Associate Principal, Buro Happold

Costs and benefits of Double Skin Facades

A case study of the design and construction process for an externally ventilated double skin facade for the University of Michigan Biomedical Science Reseach Building will be presented in this lecture, the first in the Fall 2009 Building Technology Lecture Series. The design process included extensive energy modeling, CFD analysis, value engineering, detailing design and control specifications. Following the case study, Associate Principal of Buro Happold, Byron Stigge, will present a more general research project comparing the payback issues of double skin facades. The research included the wide variety capital costs as well as the variety of operational and maintenance costs and savings for 4 types of double skin facades in 5 climate types.

Byron Stigge leads the Sustainability Consulting group for the North America region of Buro Happold. Byron has focused his engineering and design career on environmental building consulting with the UK-based firm Buro Happold since 1998 and has worked in their London, Bath and New York offices. His passion for sustainable development of the built environment has offered him the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects around the world from city-scale sustainable master planning projects to LEED Platinum buildings to detailed systems and facade analysis projects.

Recent projects include: Orange County Great Park in Irvine, CA; Tellapur City, Hyderabad, India; CSOB Bank, Prague; Governors Island Strategic Plan, New York City; Genzyme Center, Cambridge, MA; Pole, Moscow; Lavasa, India; The World Trade Center Competition with “Team Think”; Lotte Super Tower in Seoul, Korea; Lifestyle Hotel at MGM CityCenter, Las Vegas, Koukeny Design Initiative, Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya.

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Light refreshments will be served.
Please contact amulcahy@mit.edu with questions.

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Upcoming dates in the Fall 2009 BTLS:

Mon Sept 28
AVT 7-431, 12:30-2PM
Christoph Reinhart, Harvard University
“The role of building performance simulation in architectural education and practice”

Mon Oct 5
AVT 7-431, 12:30-2PM
Brent Gabby, Simpson Gumphertz & Heger
Lecture title TBA

Mon Oct 19
Room TBA, 12:30-2PM
Byron Stigge, Buro Happold
“Costs and benefits of Double Skin Facades”

Mon Nov 2
1-190, 12:30-2PM
Erik Olsen, Transsolar Inc.]
“Inside the shoebox: Using physics-rich performance simulations to provide meaningful design guidance”

Mon Nov 16
Room TBA, 12:30-2PM
Simon Greenwold, MathWorks
Lecture title TBA

Mon Nov 23
AVT 7-431, 12:30-2PM
Roger Chang, Westlake Reed Leskosky
“Sustainable Design: A Collaborative Approach”