AIA Japan - Resilient by Design: Leveraging a Disaster for Building Solutions
Event Description
Japan experiences about 4 earthquakes per day on average. Add to that occasional tsunamis, typhoons, landslides, floods, draughts, wildfires, and over 100 active volcanoes and it is difficult to find a place more affected by the increased intensity and frequency of natural disasters than Japan.
After Japan’s March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, many projects in the design phase were put on hold for re-thinking priorities. Radical resilience was now required. With a focus on increased climate resilient design, many projects realigned their goals around energy, safety and resiliency for people and property.
This session will focus on one project where the client, a Japanese railway company, used their strategic focus on reliability, safety and sustainability to re-imagine their new headquarters as a place for people during a crisis.
CES: Estimated 1 LU/ HSW for AIA Members
Speaker
James Scott Brew, FCSI, AIA, LEED AP, WELL AP, Senior Sustainability & Wellness Architect, NIKKEN SEKKEI
Moderator: Richard Moriwaki, AIA,
James Scott Brew is a senior resilience and wellness architect with NIKKEN SEKKEI (Tokyo, Japan) where he specializes in helping to create healthy, sustainable, and energy efficient buildings that achieve greater resiliency for clients, campuses, and cities. He has over 35 years of design, management, and construction experience and has completed hundreds of projects—at many scales, focused on historic preservation, retrofits, healthy, high-performance, LEED/WELL certified, and Passive House buildings. His work extends from the U.S. to Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and Europe.
Before joining NIKKEN, Mr. Brew co-led the buildings practice at Rocky Mountain Institute and was a principal owner, vice-president and pioneer of sustainable design helping to grow his own Minnesota-based architecture and engineering firm from a small firm to nearly 200 people on 7 client focused teams.
Moderator: Richard Moriwaki has more 30 years of architectural and facilities management experience in U.S. and Japan. He has more than 15 years of project management experience with an A-E firm providing architectural design services for DOD installations in Japan and Okinawa. In addition, he has more than 15 years of corporate facility management experience as Vice-President at Wall Street brokerage company and multi-national U.S. automotive company in Japan. He travelled extensively throughout Asia to oversee offices in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, and Singapore. In 2010, he established RJM Consulting to further his interest in facilitating design charrettes for sustainable building and neighborhood projects.
