Regenerative Design Flashcards
How does the built environment plays a significant role in climate change?
From how projects are constructed, to how they’re used, to how they are disassembled at end of life.
What has the design and construction field implemented to increasingly stringent “high performance” design practices to minimize those impacts
Using a site to its maximum potential
Maximize renewable energy
Sourcing green building materials
Conserving water : recycling storm runoff
Minimize rainwater pollution
Energy efficient lighting
What is Stormwater Management?
The effort to reduce runoff of rainwater or melted snow into streets, lawns and other sites and improvement of water quality
What are Rain Gardens?
A garden of native shrubs, perennials and flowers, planted in small depression which is generally formed on a natural slope
How can Rain Gardens help?
Designed to hold and soak in rain water runoff
Effective in removing up to 90% of nutrients and chemicals and up to 80% of sediments from rain eater runoff
Compared to a conventional lawn, rain gardens allow for 30% more water to
soak into the ground
What are Cisterns?
Large tanks that store rainwater
collected from impervious surfaces
for domestic use or consumption
How can Cisterns help?
Domestic use : flushing
toilets, watering gardens,
laundry, washing cars
Consumption: used where
there is a shortage of water in
rural areas and camp sites
What do Green Roofs do?
Absorb rain water, reducing the amount of rain that will end up to the downspout
How many gallons of runoff can a green roof absorb in a year?
200,000 gallons
What is Net Zero?
The balance between the amount of
greenhouse gas produced and the amount
removed from the atmosphere.We reach net
zero when the amount we add is no more than
the amount taken away.
The term net zero is important because – for
CO2 at least – this is the state at which global
warming stops.
How do we produce CO2 and green house gasses into the atmosphere
Burning fossil fuels:Transportation
Coal, natural gas, oil (gasoline) : cars, trucks,
ships, planes
Electricity Production: from burning fossil fuels (coal
and natural gas)
Industry: energy use and chemical reactions for
production
Commercial / Residential: heat / waste
Agriculture : livestock, soil and rice production
‐Land use / Forestry :Clearing forests and other
landscape changes
What is Net Positive?
Net Positive is a new way of doing business which puts back more into society, the environment and the global economy than it takes out.
What is the Passive House Standard
Its a set of rigorous requirements for total building energy use and air‐tightness : Net‐Zero or Net‐Positive,
What is Regenerative Design?
Regenerative design is a process‐oriented whole systems approach to design.
What does the term Regenerative describe?
A process that mimics nature itself by restoring or renewing its own sources of energy and materials.