Please join us for the October Chapter meeting!
We will enjoy a discussion from the following speaker:
Live Long, Healthy and Low Energy
Speaker: Mr. Luke Leung
Are people live in urban environment longer living and lower energy? Since 75% of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050, we should ensure urban environment is where humans will thrive. From regression analysis done by the SOM team, urban dwellers tend to live longer than the rural residents. In fact, dense environment often coincide with longer life expectancy. Compare to rural communities, urban dwellers also consumes less energy. However, are urban dweller healthier and how can we further lower our energy consumption?
Using Amish communities as a study case, this lecture will compare how our urban environment also brings about more allergy, autism, asthma, etc. cases, and how we can use nature and technology thriving together to make us healthier
Also using district scale system examples around the world, this lecture will study how cities and towns in US can lower entropy through beyond buildings integration.
(This lecture is currently submitted for 1 hour of AIA/USGBC credit approval)
5:30pm-6:30pm : Cocktail Hour
Come network with other industry professionals during our cocktail hour. Registered attendees will enjoy complimentary drinks while they last, so come early!
6:30pm-7:30pm : Dinner and Speaker
The dinner meeting will include a family style dinner cooked just for us. We will do introductions and provide updates on the Atlanta chapter, followed by the main presentation.
Getting there:
Parking: Free parking is available. The restaurant is located at Cumberland Mall.
To attain accurate catering counts, please register for this event in advance. Registrations after October 9th will result in an increased cost of $45.
Speaker Biography:
Luke is a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Fellow; He is also a Centennial Fellow from The Pennsylvania State University Architectural Engineering Department; Board of Directors for USGBC (United State Green Building Council), Illinois; Chairman of the ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning) Technical Committee on “Tall Buildings”; ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer; Chairman of the Building Pressure Committee, Chicago Committee on High Rise Buildings; Sustainable Committee with Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH); Expert Peer Review Panel, CTBUH; Part Time Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT); Advisory Board of Architecture PhD Program, IIT; Member of the Chicago Sister Cities Program with China; MBA from University of Chicago, MS and BAE from Architectural Engineering at Penn State University.
Luke Leung is a Director of the Sustainability Engineering Studio for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP. His work includes Burj Khalifa, the world’s current tallest man-made structure; Multiple times “Excellence in Engineering” award from the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE); 2 awards from National Institute of Building Sciences, among others. Selected projects also include Pertamina Tower (Net Zero Supertall), General Motors Global Headquarters, Roche Diagnostic in Indianapolis, Beijing Finance Street, Embassy of Ottawa in Canada, Embassy in Beijing, Lakeside – 55 million sqft low energy development, a LEED Platinum building with the first large scale horizontal wind turbine in the city of Chicago; etc., and has served as a member of the editorial team for the CTBUH guide Natural Ventilation in High-Rise Office Buildings, ASHRAE “Design Guide for Tall, Supertall, Megatall Building Systems”, among other publications.
