Triple-Bottom Line in Office Buildings

Varying Window-to-Wall Ratio in Boston, MA

Robert Phillips Luke Troup David Fannon Dr. Matt Eckelman
phillips.ro@husky.neu.edu troup.l@husky.neu.edu d.fanon@neu.edu m.eckelman@neu.edu

Do Resilient and Sustainable Design Strategies Conflict in Commercial Buildings? A Critical

MOTIVATION Analysis of Existing Resilient Building Frameworks and Their Sustainability Implications.

RC ResilientCity, BG BuildingGreen, REDi Resilience-based Phillips, R., Troup, L., Fannon, D., Eckelman, M.J.
Earthquake Design Initiative, RDI Resilient Design Institute (2017) Energy and Buildings.

METHODS Prototype buildings used to develop BIM models for environmental, economic, and occupant
comfort analyses.
Life Cycle
Prototype Buildings Baseline Scenario
MODELS & TOOLS

Assessment
12 stories WWR 40
APPROACH

METRICS Life Cycle

Cost

Cover 80% of the commercial building floor area in the United Occupant
States... 16 commercial building types in 17 climate locations Comfort
Design Alternatives: WWR 20 WWR 60

Life Cycle Assessment

RESULTS Comfort
LCC: Net Present Value Decreased Increased

-0.8% = 48 M MJ

Slight reductions in the

buildings environmental
impacts, results in large
global reductions.
Summary

-0.75% = 3 M kg CO2e

-0.75% GWP +0.9% GWP

-$10 M +$8 M
i=0 i=2
Conveying (6%), plumbing (2%), HVAC (16%), -3,000 SF PPD +4,000 SF PPD
fire protection (3%), electrical (16%).