1. Green Building Course
Week 1

2. Introduction
Tim Middleton
tim.ian.middleton@gmail.com
Worklounge 03 Architects (http://www.03-x.com)
VILANDCO Green Building Consulting
LOTUS Accredited Professional

3. Japan Foundation Library Interior

4. Question: What is Green Building?

5. “Green buildings can be defined as healthy facilities
designed and built in a resource efficient manner using
ecologically based principles, reducing building impacts
on human health and environment. Green buildings are
also sometimes referred as high performance buildings or
sustainable construction (Kibert 2008)”

6. Importance of Sustainable Built
Environments

7. The Greenhouse effect greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as
water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4),
nitrous oxide (N2O, NO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2) and ozone
(O3) (Source: UNEP)

8. URBANISATION IN VIETNAM
2010
2020
2030
*Source: VGBC, World Bank, US Census, Vietnam Office of Statistics

9. ENERGY IN VIETNAM
*Source: VGBC
• Energy deficit by 2015 of 10%, rising to 70% in 2025
•Energy prices set to drastically increase few times a year

10. WASTE IN VIETNAM
*Source: Ministry of Construction & Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Oct 2010 , VGBC
• Viet Nam’s solid waste production is set to almost double by 2020
• Out of the 91 national landfill sites, only 17 are considered sanitary with 41 of
them considered a high environmental and human health risk

11. CLIMATE CHANGE RISK
*Source: World Bank 2007 , VGBC
• A 1m SLR will impact on 10% of Viet Nam’s DP and 11% of the population

12. DEFORESTATION
*Source: FAO, VGBC
•Over 50% area lost in 5 years , Vietnam could lose all of its primary forest by
2020
•Causing possible extinction of rare and endemic Vietnamese species

13. BUILDING IMPACTS ON THE
ENVIRONMENT
*Source: VGBC

14. AVERAGE SAVINGS OF GREEN BUILDINGS
*Source: VGBC

15. “The world doesn’t need us. It has been through the Ice
Age, meteor showers and other extreme weather
elements. It is ourselves we need to save”

16. History of Green Building

17. Vernacular Architecture
Where do these buildings come from?

18. International Style Architecture
Where do these buildings come from?
Hint: Phoenix (US), Singapore, Ottawa
(Canada), Sydney (Aus)

19. Is Building Technology and Design constantly improving over
time?

20. Greenhouses

21. Crystal Palace, Joseph Paxton 1851

22. Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan, Italy (1877)

23. Technological advancements, new typologies:
Home Life Insurance Bldg, Chicago 1885 (William Le Baron
Jenney and Louis Sullivan)
Steel, Concrete, Glass, Elevators, AC

24. The Oil Crisis:
1973 (embargo)
1979 (Iranian Revolution)
1990 (Gulf War)
2013 (sustained increase in demand ??)

25. Current Ideas and Movements
>Case Study research topics

26. ① Life Cycle
-Modularity
-Construction/demolition
-Embodied energy
-Cradle to cradle

27. ② Sustainable Materials
Recycled
Rapidly Renewable
Reuse
Local Materials

28. ③ Biomimicry

29. ④ High Performance Façade
-OTTV
-Natural Light
-Evaporation
-Double skin

30. ⑤ Transit Oriented Development
-Walkable Cities
-New Urbanism

31. ⑥ Renewable Energy
-Zero Energy Building/Office
-Low Energy Building/Office

32. ⑦ Ecological Sustainability

33. ⑧ Traditional Vernacular
-Vietnamese
-Regional

34. ⑨ Social Sustainability
-Urban Agriculture
-Interactive
-Sustainable Affordable Housing
-Educational Building