Decarbonization toolkit: Reaching climate ambitions for Brutalist and mid-century buildings

This case study is a deep dive into how interdisciplinary collaboration from the start resulted in dramatic energy and carbon reductions for an existing brutalist classroom building with historic designation. Presenters relate how the project team solved the challenge of delivering high-performance outcomes within the limited budget of a public project while maintaining the integrity of the architectural expression. They detail the iterative analysis that set up a former energy hog classroom building at UMass Dartmouth to achieve a significant 68% reduction in energy use intensity from 133 kBTU/sf/year to the predicted 40 kBTU/sf/year, and carbon savings of 63% with a customized bundle of strategies.