1. ORNL’s 3rd Annual
Southeast Sustainability
Summit
Knoxville, Tennessee
August 2013
Howard S. Wertheimer, FAIA, LEED AP
werth@gatech.edu
Director, Capital Planning & Space Management
www.space.gatech.edu

2. View of Historic Campus from Across North Ave.
Georgia Tech

3. 1800’s
1910’s
1920’s
1930’s
1940’s
1950’s
1960’s
1970’s
1980’s
1900’s
1990’s
9,500 Undergraduates
3,500 Graduate Students
4,000 Faculty/Staff
7,400,000 GSF
Georgia Tech Campus--circa 1997
Georgia Tech Campus-circa 1997

4. 2004 Master Plan
Plan targets for 2014
13,500 Undergraduates
8,700 Graduate Students
7,600 Faculty/Staff
15.6 M GSF

5. 2012 Existing Conditions
13,948 Undergraduates
6,993 Graduate Students
7,365 Faculty/Staff
14.7 M Gross SF

6. Gross Sq. Ft. by Year Chart (1997-2011) and projected thru 2014
1997 - 2011
• 540,000 gsf average
growth per year
• Faculty/Staff: 161
increase per year
• UG Students: 248
increase per year
• Grad Students: 297
increase per year
• Total Population
Growth: 706 per year
Annual Growth
CAPITAL PLANNING AND SPACE MANAGEMENT, MAY 2011

7. Research & Development Expenditures FY 1997-FY2011
Annual Growth
INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH AND PLANNING, MAY 2012
$-
$100.0
$200.0
$300.0
$400.0
$500.0
$600.0
$700.0
Dollars(InMillions)

8. Comprehensive Approach to Sustainability
“Georgia Tech as a Living Learning Laboratory”
• Education:
Learning in the Classroom
• Research:
Discovery in the Laboratory
• Campus:
Practice in Managing our
Campus

9. Education
• Technologically appropriate
learning spaces
• Research neighborhoods to
promote inter-disciplinary
• Open spaces for recreation
Ecology
• Green buildings
• Native vegetation systems
• Reduce impervious surface
• Environmental Stewardship
• Sustainability
Economy
• Effective use of Physical and
Fiscal Resources
• Historic Districts
Campus Master Plan

10. Landscape Master Plan
Key Concepts:
• Ecological Landscape
• Human Landscape
Goals:
 Develop integrated, ecologically-
based landscape and open
space systems (storm water
management).
 Enhance living, working and
learning environment.
 Unify the campus with a distinct
sense of place.
 Increase tree canopy-replace
aging
trees
 Create an Eco-Commons (80
acres)
 Implement ecological
performance requirements of
50% reduction of storm water
runoff

11. Cistern Master Plan
Clough Commons Cistern:
- 1.4M gallon cistern capacity
- 28 day supply for irrigation
- 28 day supply for toilet flushing
- 30% reduction in stormwater
Athletic Precinct
280,000 gallon
40,000 gallon

12. Stormwater Master Plan

14. Space Management Strategy
• INSITE Database
• Event Management System (EMS)
• Classroom & Event Scheduling
• Space Request Form
• New Hire Process
• People
• Money
• Space
• Equipment
• BOR Space Utilization Initiative
• Space Committee

15. • State Appropriations
• Philanthropy
• Cost Recovery
• Grants
Funding Strategies

16. • Purpose is to promote and support the Georgia Institute of
Technology, an instrumentality of the Board of Regents of the
University System of Georgia, and to erect such suitable
buildings and other facilities as may be appropriate to the
needs and goals of the Institute.
• Board appointed by the President of the Institute
GT Facilities Inc.

17. Georgia Tech Facilities Growth since 1997

18. Project Locations

19. Case Study:
Carbon-Neutral Energy Solutions Laboratory Building (C-NES)
LEED Platinum
Design/Builder: HDR/Gilbane Building Co.

20. • Slab-on-grade high-bay and mid-bay space
U N I V E RS I T Y N E E D S
Growing Demand

21. V I S I O N & L E A D E RS H I P
Change the Paradigm
of technically complex high -bay research
• Ballroom Concept
• Mid-bay Space
• Research the Research

22. V I S I O N & L E A D E RS H I P
Climate Leadership
Net Zero Facility
• A m e r i c a n C o l l e g e a n d U n i v e r s i t y P r e s i d e n t ’s C l i m a t e C o m m i t m e n t
• P l a n n i n g a n d D e s i g n C o m m i s s i o n
“ We c a n d o b e t t e r t h a n L E E D ”

23. V I S I O N & L E A D E RS H I P
Design Excellence
• Planning and Design Commission
• Executive Planning and Design Commission
• Regular Design Reviews

24. NARA Campus

25. Preliminary
Planning
Document

26. Mid-bay lab
Computational labs/offices
High bay lab
lab
office
Project Overview
Pre-Planning Program

27. Preliminary
Planning
Document

28. Preliminary
Planning
Document

29. Preliminary
Planning
Document

30. CARBON NEUTRAL*
Net Zero Energy Building
Carbon Neutral
Offset carbon: for building energy use
for building construction
transit of materials used (total embodied energy)
net zero site energy
net zero source energy
net zero energy emissions
“Carbon neutrality is defined here as eliminating or offsetting fossil based electricity and
fuel use. For example, if the electricity grid is 60% fossil fuel and 40%
hydroelectric, reducing grid electricity use by 60% and eliminating / offsetting on-site fuel
use will make the project carbon neutral.” Green Building Studio, 2008
* Oxford word of the year 2006
Definition

31. The Scale of the Problem
Small Office Large Office Laboratory
44.0
83.2
290.1
EnergyUseinkBtu/ft2PerYear
Typical Lab Energy Use
• As much as (10) Typical Office Buildings.
• 6’ Fume Hood = (1) 2,500 s.f. house

32. New Funding Opportunities
A LT E R N AT I V E F U N D I N G

33. K E Y M E T R I C S
NIST Funding: $11.6 Million
GT Matching Funding: 11.6 Million
Add’l GT Expenses: 2.3 Million
Total Project Budget: $25.5 Million
Project Size: 42,000 sf

34. NIST Grant Application
• Re-packaged the project
• More aggressive program: Combustion
• Increased space need
• “Shovel Ready”
• Re-cast the budget
• Cost model / Buy-American
• More aggressive Schedule
• Constructability Reviews
A LT E R N AT I V E F U N D I N G

35. A LT E R N AT I V E F U N D I N G

36. D E V E LO P I N G T H E G R A N T
I nterdisciplinary Research Model

37. D E V E LO P I N G T H E G R A N T
Additional Program Space = “Shovel Ready Project”

38. D E V E LO P I N G T H E G R A N T
Basement Access
To Additional
Program Space

39. Grant Awards
• 176 Grant Applications
• 12 Awards
• $123 Million in Funding

40. C-NES LAB AS DESIGNED/BUILT

41. Sustainable Site Strategies
Sustainable Site Strategies + Landscape Master Plan Integration

43. Building Components:

47. Case Study:
Carbon-Neutral Energy Solutions Laboratory Building (C-NES)
LEED Platinum
Design/Builder: HDR/Gilbane Building Co.

48. ENR Southeast ‘Owner of the Year’

49. Awards and Recognitions
Clough Commons and Tech Green
•LEED Platinum 2013
•University System of Georgia - Award of Excellence 2011
•Atlanta Business Chronicle - Best in Atlanta Real Estate – 2011
Hinman Building Renovation
•Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation - 2012 Excellence in
Rehabilitation Award
•University System of Georgia - Sustainability Award 2011
•Interior Design Magazine - 2011 Best of Year Award
•Architect Magazine - 2011 P/A (Progressive Architecture) Award
•Architect Magazine - The Annual Design Review Award 2011
•AIA - 2012 CAE Educational Facility Design Awards - Merit Award
•AIA New York - AIA NY Design Awards 2012 - Honor Award, Interiors
•AIA Georgia - 2011 Design Awards Program - Honor Award
Carbon Neutral Energy Solutions Laboratory (CNES)
•ENR Southeast – Best Green Building - 2013
•LEED Platinum - 2013
•R&D Magazine Lab of the Year – 2013
•AIA / SCUP – Excellence in Architecture – 2013
•AGC Build Georgia Award; Best Sustainable Building – 2013
•AIA Georgia - 2012
•ASLA Georgia - 2012
•ENR Southeast - Best New Building – 2012
•AIA New Jersey
Other Recognitions
•Princeton Review Green Honor Roll 2009 - present
•Sierra Club Sustainable Campus
•League of American Cyclists – Silver Bike Friendly Campus 2012
•Tree Campus USA 2008-present
•Landscape Master Plan - SCUP Excellence in Planning for an
established Campus, Merit Award, 2009
•Electrical Substation - Atlanta Urban Design Commission Award of
Excellence for Public Art, 2008
•National Wildlife Federation Exemplary Green Campus 2008
•ENR Southeast – 2013 Owner of the Year

50. Architecture + Engineering + Landscape + Ecology + Technology

52. ORNL’s 3rd Annual
Southeast Sustainability
Summit
Knoxville, Tennessee
August 2013
Howard S. Wertheimer, FAIA, LEED AP
werth@gatech.edu
Director, Capital Planning & Space Management
www.space.gatech.edu