Resilience & Sustainability LMC – Discussion Highlights

August 2024 New Member Introductions & Planning Discussion
June 2024 Tour: City of Austin Blackwater Pilot Building with Katherine Jashinksi
May 2024 Tour: Whisper Valley | Gained understanding of how geothermal can be efficient and affordable when deployed at a district scale, as well as the technical workings of providing geothermal to hundreds of homes.
April 2024 Tour: UT Dell Medical with Jonathan Orgen (Siglo) | Critical to the success of sensitive urban landscapes such as this is (1) lots of Construction Observation to help guide the landscape contractors and (2) commitment to ongoing Management by the client. The result is a stunning landscape that evolves over time, getting replanted as needed to help it thrive overall. For example, little bluestem was beautiful but getting too wet to thrive, so after 2 years it was replanted with a mix of native species more suited to the particular microclimate of each section.
February 2024 Presenter: Corey Squire, Author of People Planet Design | “How can each of us put high-performance design into practice through our organization and our work? Achieving high-performance design is all about setting clear priorities: is this project more about materials, affordability, etc?”

December 2023 ARUP – Resiliency group discussed Microgrids
November 2023 Brainstorm for future meetings, housekeeping
October 2023 Tour Hines T3 project; Timber 10% higher cost than traditional construction – should yield higher rents and more leasing activity
September 2023 Brainstorm for future meetings, housekeeping, internal conversations/discussions
June 2023 Alice Hill – “David M Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment” | Her last book was The Fight for Climate after Covid-19, and a discussion with her would be, I imagine, high level on what it means to intentionally create a more resilient world, in some ways contextualizing the work we do as designers and developers among the many players (every human!) involved in addressing the climate crisis.
May 2023 Brainstorm for future meetings, housekeeping
April 2023 Team Member mini TED talks
March 2023 Kyle Frazier, Freedom Solar
February 2023 New Member Intros, meeting planning, speaker planning

December 2022 Holiday Mixer
November 2022 ULI National Resilience Introduction/Talk – Lindsay Brugger ULI
October 2022 Internal Mission Statement and Recent City updates/changes
September 2022 ASU – Urban Heat Resilience – Sara Meerow and Ladd Keith
August 2022 City of Austin Water Reuse Program and Pilot Buildings –Katherine Jashinski
June 2022 City of Austin Programs & Goals — Laura Patino, Marc Coudert, Jeffrey Wacker
May 2022Internal Conversations, goals, and planning
April 2022 Introductions, get to know each other