Daikin Conference April 26 27, 2017

An Eco-Design Strategy for the Future

Heraclius
All Rights Reserved, Claude Bérubé
Emperor of the Byzantine Empire
He was responsible for introducing
Greek as the Eastern Roman
Empire's official language.

From Sustainability to Nanotechnology
Sustainability is the method of
harvesting or using a resource so
that the resource is not depleted
or permanently damaged.
Nanotechnology aims at the
design and creation of functional
materials, structures, devices and
systems through direct control of
matter on the nanometer length
scale and exploitation of novel
phenomena and properties on this
length scale and it is not as
complicated as it seems.
The word «Nanotechnology » was seen for the first
time in a dictionnary in 1974.

• Design to reduce pollution
• Design to improve functionality
• Design to increase products lifespan
• Design to reduce energy consumption
• Design to reduce waste production
• Design to improve water usage
• Design with reuse/recycling in mind

Several years ago, I came to the conclusion that
interventions by interior and industrial designers,
as well as architects, were highly important in
ensuring the balance between our material culture
and a more sustainable society. Unfortunately, that
came with a cost that several clients are not yet
ready to pay.

Just have a look at the Copenhagen Conference
on Climate held in December 2010 and you can
see the concerns of countries wanting to balance
infinite human needs based on continual
unsustainable economic growth, with the social
equity our environment requires.
And now, with the 2016 elections in USA, changes
to environment situation are not expected to get
better

It became evident to me that economic concerns
were not going to fade out and be replaced by a
sudden desire to become unconditionally
sustainable.
The fact remains that the ‘deciders’ will not
subscribe to a solution that leaves them in an
economically weak position.
I believe that the designer’s ethical concerns
contribute to the authenticity and elevation of our
profession, and therefore decided to investigate
other avenues. Nanotechnology is one of
these avenues.

Your nails grow at 60
nanometers per minute
At the end of this 60 minutes
presentation your nails will be
3600 nanometers longer
In nanotechnology the particles we use are less than 100 nm
Nanotechnology & Nanometer
You can measure nanotechnology

If the relative size of a
nanoparticle was compared to a
soccer ball, the soccer ball size
could be compared to earth.
.
Relative size of a nanoparticule

Early Nano Object
In fact, some applications of nanotechnology date from the early
Roman ages. The Lycurgus Cup is one example, whereby gold
and silver nanoparticles present in the glass cause this ancient
object to change color when subjected to different angles of light.
An accidental result in this case. British Museum
British Museum
London, UK

I believe that nanotechnology will lead to dramatic
changes in the decreasing use of:
• Natural resources,
• Water,
• Energy production/distribution.
Nanotechnology holds the promise of contributing
significantly to sustainability, based on enhanced
properties with decreased use of materials, energy
and reduced waste.

Nanotechnology also forces us to review over a
century of industrialisation but also requires us to
reconsider irreversibly our cross-disciplinary
approaches and perhaps brings up the need for
integrating a more scientific approach in the
design-development-construction process.

“When the nanotech wave comes to shore,
it will bring rapid, monumental, inescapable
and potentially devastating change.
Nanotechnology is a 'platform technology,
meaning that it has the potential to alter or
completely transform the current state of
the art in every major industrial sector…”
Kathy Jo Wetter, Ph.D. ETC Group

How can nanotechnology be
incorporated into design?
Nanotechnology developments will have a
major impact on how we design
residential and public places and, perhaps
more particularly, hospitals, hotels,
resorts, restaurants, offices or cinemas.

Aerogel

What is Aerogel?
Aerogel is made from Silicon Dioxide, the
same material as ordinary glass, only
1,000 times less dense. Aerogel (also
called ‘frozen smoke’ because of its
hazy blue appearance), is a truly
remarkable material:
It is the lightest and lowest-density solid
known to exist. Being the world’s lightest
known solid, it weighs only three times more
than air, Aerogel is also the strongest material
known to man.
PRICE
ISAN
ISSUE

Malaysian Professor
Halimaton’s contribution to
the field of science is in
discovering a cost effective
way to turn discarded rice
husks into Maerogel
(Malaysian Aerogel)
What is Maerogel?
ProfessorHalimaton
The silica in rice husks is extracted
to produce Maerogel, and her
discovery cuts the cost of producing
aerogel by 80 % making it affordable
for common commercial and
residential use.
GOOD
NEWS
Professor Halimaton’s
discovery seems to have
disappeared from the
radars for a few years now
and the expensive Aerogel
is more popular then ever.
Would anyone know why?
BUT…

The Eli & Edythe Broad Museum
by architect Zaha Hadid
The museum is part of the Michigan State University (Lansing)
a good
example
of the use
of Aerogel
The museum is part of the Michigan State University
Zaha Hadid used Okagel, a derivative of aerogel to insulate and create a
natural lighting in the cavities of the metal structure of the three-story museum .

The use of Okagel (aerogel) for the 4,300 square
meters museum is particularly suitable for a
building that requires optimal lighting conditions,
energy savings and a higher degree of
environmental comfort.
designed by architect Zaha Hadid

designed by architect Zaha Hadid
Through the use of this derivative of the Aerogel, the
museum is flooded with filtered light of exceptional
quality on its three floors, unparalleled thermal and
sound insulation and the energy savings that the
architect was looking for in this relatively cold climate.
There is no doubt in my mind that this product will
soon find its place and become a standard in the
construction of shopping centres, libraries and
hospitals.
Okagel glass
Combines
OKALUX and
Lumira

Aerogel and Light
cement combined.
A future interesting
material to develop.

After burning of fossil fuel, CEMENT production is
the second most important cause of carbon
dioxide emissions in the world.
(410 kg of CO2 per cubic meter)

Jubilee Church in Rome (2004)
Architect Richard Meier used Titanium dioxide (TX Millenium)
More than twelve years after it
opened, the Jubilee Church in Rome
looks as good as new. Some might
call its still-pristine condition a miracle,
but the true cause is a material that
cleans both itself and the air around it.
The brilliant whiteness of the shells is
due to the presence of nano particles
of titanium dioxide (Ti[O.sub.2]) in the
concrete.

Nano protected wall surface
in Antwerp Station in Belgium
Antwerp Station the night before the visit by the Belgian Royal
Family... And then after cleaning with WATER.
Terror
GRAFFiTtists
for the

for the
GRAFFiTtists
Terror
New York pays 750 dollars/ m² annually to keep subway
trains clean. A Nano solution treatment would only cost
$40.00/per square meter and would last years.
Some urban zones are
particularly appreciated
by the graffitists and can
be vandalized10 times
per year. This can
represent between
$200-400 for cleaning
one single square meter.

Concrete
Metal or Glass
Textiles
Wood
GRAFFiTtists
Terror
for the
Claude Bérubé,
President Nanocore Technology

Wood: 18,000 square meters
Metropol Parasol in Seville, Spain
This beautiful series of undulating
parasols comprise the world's
largest wooden structure.
A 18,000 SM structure.
The innovative structure is made
from bonded timber with a NANO
polyurethane coating.

The Tachi lab of the University of
Tokyo has developed a new
technology that gives you the
illusion of invisibility.
NanoSurprises: Invisibility
The nanotechnology experience is
based on this idea but at a nano scale

Nanoscience
Carbon Nanotubes
Cannondale is 5 kg
Claude Bérubé,
President Nanocore Technology Dorel is a Canadian Company

Nanoscience
Carbon Nanotubes
Claude Bérubé,

Nanostructured Optical Crystal
• 2,800 times the capacity of Blu-Ray
• Offers 360 terabyte (TB) of memory
• Resists a temperature of 10000 C
• millions of years life
•The optical crystal works in 5D
This small optical crystal disk is made by nanostructured assembly.
It works in 5 dimensions; that is to say that in addition to its three
dimensions two additional parameters are present:
the refraction and the polarization.
Claude Bérubé,

+ =?
Granular Aerogel
NEW
CONSTRUCTION
MATERIAL?
The Super Nano materials
Aerogel Applications
Aluminum Foam

Hospital Operating Theatre and Patient room
• Air-purifying negative ions wall paint
• Air-purifying textiles
• Accent wood antibacterial floor
covering with negative ions
• Antibacterial wood varnish
• Antibacterial and liquid-dirt repellent
upholstery
• Antibacterial floor tiles with
photocatalytic surface
• Antibacterial light switches
• Water-repellent, scratch-resistant
and vapor permeable ceramic wall
covering
Hospital Harzkliniken, Goslar Germany

In Malaysia

“ Only who can see the invisible,
Can do the impossible”
Frank S. Gaines

Your finger nails are
now 3600 nanometers
longer.
By the way…
Claude Bérubé,

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