Engineering Sustainable Design

Highlighting opportunities for engineers and architects to positively impact the environment, John Anderson presents a life cycle inventory analysis of alternative design strategies, including material selection, recycling or reusing a structure, maximizing material efficiency, thermal mass effects and future adaptability, that can be implemented to minimize carbon emissions from the built environment. In addition, the lecture will focus on the Pocantico Proclamation on Sustainability & Historic Preservation, a document developed in November 2008 that blends elements of building preservation and green values into recommendations for policy makers. The Proclamation brings together the work of industry leaders in architecture, engineering, and public policy, and represents an historic synthesis of the fields of sustainability and preservation. John Anderson is a structural engineer at Robert Silman Associates in New York City where his interest lies in sustainable structural design. In 2009 John was awarded the Anton Tedesko Fellowship, during which he worked with Robert Silman to research the role of the structural engineer in green building and published the results of a life cycle assessment of green building design strategies. In December 2007, John Anderson completed a master of engineering degree at the University of California Berkeley in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His research included low CO2 cement alternatives, chemical resistance of concrete, and sustainable building materials in French Polynesia. He has published several articles focusing on sustainability and engineering. Mr. Anderson is also a past Fulbright Fellow, where he researched the relationship between engineering and architecture as they relate to green building at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany. His undergraduate degree is from the University of California at Davis and he has studied abroad at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland as well. The event will take place at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place. Structural Engineers Association of New York