Department Seminar

 

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
11:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.
ILC 141

 

Thomas Auer
Transsolar
Stuttgart, Germany

 

HIGH COMFORT - LOW ENERGY:  INTEGRATED BUILDING DESIGN IN PRACTICE

 

LEED is a great and successful tool to encourage sustainability in building design. However, architects and engineers need to think about green building design and environmental qualities beyond LEED.  Every building is unique which requires an integrated design process in order to achieve a high performance building design.

The lecture gives an overview about our collaborations with design teams in North America as well as in Europe.