Corporación EM organiza constantemente actividades abiertas al público y orientadas a la educación de diferentes tendencias del diseño mundial.
Para noviembre de este año realizaremos un plenario en conjunto con la compañía Gensler de Nueva York. Varios expertos van a exponer y discutir sobre las últimas tendencias de “Lugares de trabajo y arquitectura sostenible”, tanto las corrientes mundiales como su aplicación en Costa Rica.
Gensler es una de las principales firmas de arquitectura global, diseño, planeamiento y de consultoría estratégica en el mundo.
Entre los expositores con quienes contaremos tenemos al Arq. Joseph Brancato Director de Gensler NY y miembro de LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), Robert Balder Director de Planeamiento Maestro de Gensler NY y Kirsten Richie Directora de Diseño Sostenible de Gensler NY, quien ha sido consultora de medio ambiente de grandes compañías como Wal-Mart e Interface entre otros y consejera del U.S. Green Building y ASTM Task Group on Environmentally Preferred Products.
Gensler tiene un profundo compromiso con el diseño ecológico responsable y a realizar diseños sostenibles de los espacios para las personas, ya sea en áreas habitables como de trabajo, diversión, de tránsito, etc.
“For 35 years, we’ ve made sustainability our business, not just our mantra.
We started making sustainability our business in 1972, when we asked Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E), the California utility, if they would consider using one of their own office workplace projects as a prototypical energy-efficient workspace. They agreed—two years before the first oil crisis drove energy prices through the roof.
In the eighties, we focused on indoor air quality, establishing new design practices and specifications for office buildings and work settings. Late in that decade, we designed the first office building in the United States with all the features now associated with “green” design—raised floors, under-floor air, daylighting, natural ventilation, and solar shading.
In the nineties, we pushed both aspects of sustainable design with our clients and also with the manufacturers of building and interior products, materials, and finishes. With our client base and project volume, this had considerable impact on industry practices. Along the way, we won a 1998 Business Week Design Award for sustainable design.
In 2005, the U.S. Green Building Council gave us its leadership award, recognizing our involvement in refining and extending LEED building certification to core and shell and interiors. In 2006 and 2007, we joined forces with PNC Bank to push for portfolio LEED certification, making it much easier for retailers to push for LEED ratings for their stores.
Today, Gensler has an active, firmwide Sustainable Design Task Force, with industry experts on the subject in every region, from East Asia to Europe, and with some 570 LEED-accredited design professionals.”
Fuente: www.gensler.com/sustainability/index.html |
