Design That Pays Back: Energy Efficiency, Wellness, and the Bottom Line
June 17 | 1:00-2:00pm ET | Earn 1 AIA LU/HSW
Description
It’s time to challenge the commonly held belief that sustainable design is out of financial reach for senior living providers. With early goal setting and a process that stays true to set goals, an energy efficient building results in first and long-term cost benefits, increased wellness for residents, and can help owners stay ahead of the curve of climate legislation.
Using Brightview Senior Living projects as real-world case studies, the presentation will analyze the process needed to implement effective follow-through on energy goals, both from the owner’s and design team’s perspectives, and findings from post occupancy evaluations. Analyzing energy model data, the team will discuss how decisions are made from a holistic perspective of understanding the building’s predicted energy use, with financing and operations in mind. Additional funding resources, including utility incentives and opportunities presented by the Inflation Reduction Act will also be discussed.
The presentation will expand upon Brightview’s sustainability initiatives, and the impacts and benefits to residents, the environment, and the bottom line, derived from design decisions that naturally co-exist with sustainable design. These include connections to nature, the use of biophilic patterns, and their contribution to resident wellness and carbon modeling goals. With an integrated team and aligned goals, an energy efficient portfolio with environmentally mindful design provides multiple benefits to the owner-operator, and increased wellness to residents.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the long-term financial benefits of energy efficient buildings for owner operators and where to seek out incentives for green building technology.
- Understand the processes that Brightview Senior Living has utilized to design energy efficient buildings across their portfolio, including goal setting, energy modeling, who needs to be involved and when, to reduce overall energy use and reduce their carbon footprint for building longevity and lower environmental impact.
- Understand the increased value that an environmentally mindful design brings to the owner-operator, and how it works in harmony with the mission to provide healthy spaces for increased resident and occupant well-being.
- Understand the impacts and benefits of acting on environmental stewardship now, and how carbon modeling can help owners stay ahead of the curve, and how to balance first cost decision making with long-term energy and carbon missions thinking.
Speakers
David Holland
David Holland serves as Vice President of Development for Brightview Senior Living. He is responsible for market feasibility, site selection, obtaining entitlement approvals and coordinating development and building design. Mr. Holland has been responsible for acquisition of existing communities as well as development of new construction amounting to over $2.0 billion of real estate value since he joined Brightview Senior Living in 1996. Mr. Holland also leads Brightview’s Sustainability Action Plan recognizing and setting a strategy to reduce the company’s carbon footprint. Brightview is committed developing and operating communities in an ever-increasingly responsible manner that creates healthy places to live and to work.
Cynthia Shonaiya, AIA, LEED AP, NOMA
Architect Cindy Shonaiya has 30 years of professional experience spanning three continents. As Hord Coplan Macht's (HCM) Senior Living & Affordable Housing Market Sector Leader, her strengths lie in her ability to successfully incorporate outstanding design and sustainable practices within her projects, while maintaining and exceeding her clients’ budget expectations. Passionate about mentoring the next generation of architects, she serves as the chair of the Maryland Board of Architects, is on the Board of Volunteers of America of the Chesapeake & Carolinas, the AIA Design for Aging Leadership Group, the NCARB Licensure Research & Development Committee, and is recognized by the Daily Record as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women.
Ilijana Soldan, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP, CPHC
Ilijana Soldan is an architect with over 10 years of experience and a diverse project background. She is a research-based designer and credits her varied experience as the core driver of her passion to find synergies between a project’s program, site, stakeholder goals, end-user experience, and operations. At HCM, she leads the firm-wide Sustainability Action Team, connecting in-house research with training, and serves as an advisor for projects to increase energy efficiency and environmentally mindful material selection during design. Her holistic commitment to sustainability also includes engaging firm leadership to inspire HCM to lead by example in both building design performance and firm operations.