Online Lecture by James Scott Brew (Nikken Sekkei)

Our Climate Crisis: Challenges & Solutions for the Built Environment

When: Thursday, August 6, 2020 at at 06:00 (Eastern US Time) / 19:00 (Tokyo time)

CES: 2.0 LU/ HSW for AIA members

Summary:

The conditions of Earth’s atmosphere today haven’t been seen for roughly three million years; humans have never lived on a planet like this. Changes are coming faster than most scientists have predicted—and society needs to change even faster. It’s a daunting task. Based on the book and research conducted by a team of international researchers for Drawdown.org (Paul Hawken), this presentation uses meticulously researched data that maps, measures, models and describes the most substantive solutions to the global climate crisis, for the built environment—that already exist.

About the Speaker: James Scott Brew, AIA, FCSI, CCS, CCCA, CPHC, LEED AP, WELL AP

James Scott Brew is a senior sustainability and wellness architect, building scientist, and “student of story” with NIKKEN SEKKEI (Tokyo) where he specializes in helping to inspire and create high-performance, sustainable, healthy buildings and cities for people and the environment. He has over 35 years of design and construction experience, and has completed hundreds of projects focused on historic preservation, healthy, high-performance, low-energy designs, and helped create dozens of sustainable campus and community plans. His work extends from the U.S. to Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Europe.  Before joining NIKKEN, James co-led the buildings practice as a Principal Architect at Rocky Mountain Institute. James also spent 18 years as a principal owner, vice-president and pioneer of sustainable design, helping to grow his own Minnesota-based architecture and engineering firm from a small, single-focused team, to nearly 200 people on 7 client-focused teams.