A Case Study of Practical Resilient Measures

Date: September 15, 2026
Time: 4:20 PM – 4:50 PM
Ballroom F

This session will share the story of a flexible community space designed in 2019 that has become both a resilience hub and a welcoming place for everyday gathering, all while meeting the Zero Energy requirements of the Living Building Challenge. The project rethinks what a civic space can be, showing how thoughtful, adaptable design can support daily use as well as critical needs during emergencies. It offers real world ideas for creating spaces that prioritize net positive performance and occupant well being. It anticipated key ideas now reflected in LEED v5 resilience credits by six years along with with all electric REACH codes three years before REACH codes. The session will explore strategies combining high performance systems, passive strategies, and community focused planning.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

By the end of this session, attendees will learn about:

• What does Net Zero Energy Design in operations entail?
• A case study of a resilience hub with the open ended question for replication as a school facility
• LEED v5 Resilience Credits over view.
• Pointers on tackling health and decarbonization at a building level.

Speaker:
Hafsa Burt, Principal, hb+a Architects