Facades and Digital Fabrication Conference February 16, 2012
U. S. General Services Administration
D I R K J. M E Y E R , A I A NATIONAL TECHNICAL ADVISOR BUILDING ENCLOSURES
Federal Agencies Who Have Authority for Real Property 15 Agencies have property holding authority, totaling 3.4-billion-sf GSA
U.S. Department of Defense (military bases)
U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
Architect of the Capitol (AOC)
U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)
NASA
U.S. Department of Interior
Who is
?
1949
Public Buildings Service
Federal Acquisition Service
1970 - 40,000 employees 2009 - 12,600 employees (PBS has 6,000 employees)
PBS has two fundamental activities: Space acquisition through new construction or leasing Life-cycle asset management of acquired space AK Northwest/Arctic Region 10
Rocky Mountain Region 8
New England Region 1
Great Lakes Region 5 ME
WA
ND
MT
MI WI
SD
OR
Northeast & Caribbean Region 2
Heartland Region 6
ID
MI
VT
NH
CT
RI
MA
NY
WY NE Pacific Rim Region 9
NV
UT
IA IL
CO KS
PR
IN
OH
PA
MO
WV
NJ MD
DE
Mid-Atlantic Region 3
CA KY OK AZ
AR MS
TX
LA
NC
TN
NM
HI
VA
GA Southeast Region 4
GU Greater Southwest Region 7
FL
DC National Capital Region 11
SC
AL
VI
PBS Portfolio Buildings ~ 8,603 Inventory of over 353-million-sf 49% Owned & 51% Leased Federal workers housed in GSA space exceed 1.0 million
Chronological Distribution of GSA Buildings
“The policy shall be to provide…facilities in an architectural style and form which is distinguished and which will reflect the dignity, enterprise, vigor, and stability of the American National Government. Major emphasis should be placed on the choice of designs that embody the finest contemporary American architectural thought….”
Design Excellence Program was establish in 1994 in accordance with GSA’s Strategic Plan “to be the best”
Meeting EISA Fossil Fuel Reduction Goals 120
kBtu/SF
100 80 60 40 20 0 2003
2008
2010
2015 Year
EISA
CBECS
Efficiency
2020
2025 9
Renew ables
2030
Latest ain’t necessarily the greatest
Premature failure caused by an in line wood preservative
No Pain No Gain
Blue curves – cost vs. effort
Portland
Newark Houston
Cleveland
Portland
Newark
Cleveland
Houston
of Bing Thom, Architect for the newly renovated Arena Stage ………he made a strong impression on the theater’s artistic director, Molly Smith. (For one thing, he asked for a copy of its mission statement, something none of the architects thought to do, she said.)
Nic Lehoux courtesy of Bing Thom Architects
“Do the right thing”
How we do things is a Manager’s decision
Why we do things is an Executive decision
Budget Challenges
In Thousands of Dollars
“no glazed system that is presently available can come close to the level of performance delivered by a simple and relatively inexpensive opaque wall system” Dr. John Straube, University of Waterloo
P 100 - Building Enclosure Changes 2010 version
http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/220569
Air Barrier Requirements = ASHRAE 90.1 2010 plus
GSA Air tightness Requirements - Qualitative Design Checklist Guide Specification for Air Barrier Quality Assurance and Testing Inspection/quality Assurance/testing Requirements
Hygrothermal Design ASHRAE 160 "Criteria for Moisture Control Design Analysis in Buildings" is an acceptable basis of design
“People do what you inspect not what you expect” Anson Dorrance, Head Coach Women’s Soccer University of North Carolina
You can not inspect quality into a project it must be designed in
DEFECTS What Commissioning must become
Current practice of commissioning
RISK
Thank you dirk.meyer@gsa.gov
Wind Tunnel Testing
Photos courtesy of RWDI
Wind Tunnel Testing 19-ROOF
65 63
18-FL12 17-FL11 16-FL10 15-FL9 14-FL8 13-FL7 12-FL6 11-FL5 10-FL4 09-FL3 08-FL2 07-FL1 06-GUEST 05-PARK 04-PARK 03-PARK
54
102 103
84 84
76 53 82 49 80 46 78 42 77 39 76 36 76 33 75 31 74 28 72 26 73 25 73 24 69 23 66 WIND TUNNEL
ASCE 7-98
Wind Tunnel Testing Component
Pre-Test
Post-Test
Piles
$352,100.00
$315,330.00
Pile Cap Concrete & Rebar
$445,640.00
$335,280.00
Shear Wall Rebar
$392,000.00
$341,600.00
$1,220,000.00
$775,000.00
Exterior Wall Studs
Estimated Total Savings Initial Owner Investment
$642,530.00 $57,500.00