Last month at Facades+ San Francisco, hosted by AN in collaboration with EHDD, a roundtable convened Foster + Partners senior partner and designer Ben Dobbin; University of California, Berkeley director of communications David Lehrer; Turner Construction Company sustainability manager Brett Stuckey; and Skanska sustainability director Tolga Tutar. The discussion, moderated by EHDD principal Quyen Luong, focused on the gap between design intent and built reality in the construction of low-carbon envelopes. Across back to back mini presentations followed by a Q&A, the speakers discussed dematerialization, building typologies, adaptive reuse, and the early integration of sustainability in design conversations as areas of focus for further improvement in the creation of low-carbon facades.
