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Parsons Brinckerhoff
Sustainability
Helping Clients Address Their Needs
New Songdo City, South Korea:
Bringing LEED to a Mega Project in a New Market
Suzanne Johnson
Director of Sustainability - Federal
Northern Virginia Chapter, CSI
20130508

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Presentation Goals
• Review of Sustainability and LEED as a
Measurement Tool
• Introduction to the World’s Largest
Private Development
• Basic Understanding of the Korean
Construction Process and Practice
• Basic Understanding of Working with
LEED in New Foreign Markets

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Sustainability-
Considering, aligning and
innovating to resolve the
economic, social and environmental
impacts of our actions as a means of
adding value

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Sustainability
1. Planet
2. People
3. Profit

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Sustainability
• Integration
– American Institute of Architects
– US Department of Defense
• Measurement
• Architecture and Total Energy Approach

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Measurement
• Parts or Total
• Local or Global
• LEED
• BEAM
• Green Building Certification
• Codes and Standards

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USGBC Developed in1993
LEED Pilot 1998

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• New Construction
• Core and Shell
• Schools

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Songdo International Business
Development (IBD)
• $30 billion, private 1554-acre (628-
hectare) master-planned site with 350
commercial, institutional, retail, and
residential buildings.
• The client introduced LEED to Korea
• First LEED-registered projects in
Korea, with over 70 projects, mostly
city blocks, in pursuit of LEED
certification and ten projects certified.

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Songdo Vision

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Songdo City International Business District, Korea
Client: New Songdo City Development, LLC

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From Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority

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Songdo IBD
•607 Ha
•First LEED
Registered
Projects in Korea
•LEED for New
Construction
•LEED for Core &
Shell
•LEED for
Neighborhood
Development
•11 Certified, 60 in
Pursuit, 3 Active

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Core Design Goals
• Open Space
• Transportation
• Water
• Energy Use
• Recycling
• Operations

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Core Design Goals
• Open Space
• Transportation
• Water
• Energy Use
• Recycling
• Operations

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Open Space
• 40% Open Space
• 100 Acre Central Park
• Block Connect Pedestrians to Space
• Sunlight, Views, and Open Skies
Optimized
• Native and Adaptive Species

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Core Design Goals
• Open Space
• Transportation
• Water
• Energy Use
• Recycling
• Operations

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Transportation
• Incheon Subway into IBD
• 25km (15.5 miles) of Bike Lanes
• 5% Parking for Fuel-Efficient Vehicles
• Underground Parking
• Electrical Vehicle Charging Stations

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Core Design Goals
• Open Space
• Transportation
• Water
• Energy Use
• Recycling
• Operations

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Water
• Seawater for Central Park Canal
• Target 90% Reduction Irrigation-Based
Potable Water
• Target 20-40% of Baseline Potable
Water Use
• Vegetated Green Roofs
• Stormwater Management

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Core Design Goals
• Open Space
• Transportation
• Water
• Energy Use
• Recycling
• Operations

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Energy Use
• ASHRAE Standards
• City-Wide Co-Generation by Natural
Gas
• LED Traffic Lights
• Centralized Pneumatic Waste
Collection

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Core Design Goals
• Open Space
• Transportation
• Water
• Energy Use
• Recycling
• Operations

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Recycling/Materials
• Target 75% Construction Waste
Recycling
• Recycled Content Materials
• Flyash in Concrete to Reduce Portland
Cement by 20%
• Local Products
• Low-VOC Products

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Core Design Goals
• Open Space
• Transportation
• Water
• Energy Use
• Recycling
• Operations

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Operations
• Procurement Goals and Recycling
Guidelines through FM Digital Interface
• FM Contracts Mandate Sustainable
Products
• Smoking Prohibited in Public Areas
and Office Buildings

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Change Management

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LEED Document Flow Chart
LEED Facilitator
Arup
Commercial
US
Architect/Engineer
US
Architect/Engineer
Korea
LEED Facilitator
Cosentini
Residential
US
LEED Project Director
PB
LEED Coordinators
PB
Korea
Designers
Architect/Engineer
US
Architect/Engineer
Korea
Design
Construction
Design
Construction
CM MC
Request
Delivery
Request
Request
Request
Delivery Delivery
Request

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Songdo Convensia
LEED-NC v2.2 Certified
• Use: Convention Center
• Total Site Area: 27,005m²
290,680f²
• Total Floor Area : 54,054m²
58,183f²
• Building Stories : B1F, 3F

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Sheraton Incheon Hotel
LEED-NC v2.2 Certified
• Use: Hotel
• Hotel Rooms: 321
• Buildable Area: 53,119m²
571,768f²
• Five Star-Rated
•First Non-Smoking Hotel in
Korea

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North East Asia Trade Tower (NEATT)
LEED-CS v2.0 Registered
LEED-CS Pre-Certification Applied
Startup Set May 2013 after Hold for
Interior Design
• Use: Office, Hotel
• Total Site Area: 155,961m²
1,678,750f²
• Total Floor Area: 220,550m²
2,373980f²
• Building Stories: B3F, 68F

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Chadwick International
LEED-NC v2.2 Certified
• Use: Education
• Total Site Area: 71,404m²
76,8587f²
• Total Floor Area: 51,196m²
551,091f²
• Building Stories: B2F, 4F

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Songdo the # Central Park I (D22)
LEED-NC v2.2 Certified
• Use: Residential, Commercial
• Total Site Area: 38,778m²
417,403f²
• Total Floor Area: 204,913m²
2,205,560f²
• Building stories: B2F, 47F
• Number of Units: 729 units

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Songdo the # Harbor View (D13/14)
LEED-NC v2.2 Certified
• Use : Residential
• Total Site Area: 50,773m²
546,516f²
• Total Floor Area: 238,854m²
2,571,000f²
• Building stories: B2F, 38F
• Number of Units: 845

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Songdo Prugio (D19)
LEED-NC v2.2 Certified
• Use: Residential
• Total Site Area: 31,736m²
341,604f²
• Total Floor Area: 142,033m²
1,528,830f²
• Building stories: 42F
• Number of Units: 539

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Songdo Xi Harbor View (D20/21)
LEED-NC v2.2 Certified
• Use: Residential
• Total Site Area: 266,822m²
2,872,050f²
• Total Floor Area: 264,916m²
2,851,530f²
• Building stories: B2F, 41F
• Number of Units: 1069

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Songdo # Central Park II (D23)
LEED-NC v2.2 Certified
• Use: Residential, Commercial
• Land Area: 32,596m²
626,277f²
• Total Floor Area: 184,588m²
1,986,890f²
• Housing Area: 147,640m²
1,589,180f²
• Building stories: B2F, 49F
• Number of Units: 632

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49. Suzanne Johnson
Parsons Brinckerhoff
465 Spring Park Place
Herndon, VA 20170
+1 703-742-5828 (Herndon office)
johnsonsuz@pbworld.com
www.pbworld.com

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Sustainability at Parsons Brinckerhoff
Development of infrastructure requires
not only technical excellence but also
“the mind and the knowledge to
conceive that which is useful and will
be for the convenience of mankind in
the long run.”
It is “not the design that governs, but its
adaptability to the economic and social
needs of the time.”
- William Barclay Parsons (1859-1932)