Nicole Isle - Moderator - Brightworks Sustainability Consulting Firm
Lynelle Cameron - Director of Sustainability at Autodesk, Cleantech, Hewlet Packard, Non-Profit Himalayas, Telemark skiing, Berkeley MBA, Advisory Board Net Impact
Thomas Knittel - Design principal at NY HOK - Global Architecture Firm - 25 design excellence awards
Nicole Biomimicry 3.8: New Logo of Biomimicry Guild (Mizzoula, MO)
Growth Industry for Future, London Review, Harvard
Based off nature. Long history of what works regarding what is sustainable on this planet.
"Conscious emulation of life's genius." Deep design patterns of how nature has solved the same problems we have in our human interactions.
After 3.8 million years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival.
Nature as MENTOR.
Biomimicry as model for new design. WhalePower. Humpback whales ridges on fins used in wind power turbines. 32% less drag and 20% production increase.
CALERA. How coral reefs form to create cement. Uses calcium carbonate and sequesters CO2 instead of polluting.
Columbia Forest Products. New glue without formaldehyde. Looked at Blue mussel off of oregon coast. Mimic protein structure. How can muscles attach to rocks so well in wet area. Glue is used in plywood and performs better than traditional, especially in wet areas.
Sunlight.Water. Gravity.
Adam Nieman/science photography library - area of earth related to area of water - marble on a small globe
Dynamic non-equilibrium
Life creates conditions conducive to life.
Rules of Life - 29 principles.
Biomimicry 3.8 - Org that is driving evolution of Biomimicry. For profit and non-profit. Ask Nature is a tool to use.
Lynelle.
Director of Sustainability, Autodesk
CAD. Focused now on building 3-D model. Build into design, hard unless have experts in the field. How make it easier to build intelligence into the tool set so don't all have to be experts in sustainability. Where less material needed, what kind of material to use. Build decision making into design process. All member os design team can come together and see how their work interacts in the design period.
3D models let designers find out early on what happens if you change the design shape or orientation. Long before get to material. Impact of solar radiation on building, to optimize climate control.
Same technology can be used to redesign existed building. Take photograph and stitch together and create 3D model. Then look at from carbon footprint, energy use, etc.
Manufacture. Eco materials advisor. Partnering with GrantaDesign, one of largest material design databases. Which material are flagged red cost, water, materials. Software helps you decide which is the best material to use, what alternatives available.
Biomimicry 3.8. For-profit and non-profit consulting in one organism. How would nature create this organization that is trying to do many functions.
Biomimicry. Bullet chain Japan, big sound issue as enter tunnel. King Fisher can dive from high altitudes into water without making a splash.
Community of Biologist.
Technology company with 10 million legal users of software.
We deal with CAD monkey trying to do better with design, can't have biologist at design table in every organization.
Ask Nature trying to bridge gap between designers/engineers and biologist. Popular with students and academics, going after professionals.
The best tools to make sure can make best decisions. Must also educate students on what mean by biomimicry and sustainability. Not a lot of teachers to teach. Series of 5 minute videos that teach basic principles of what mean by sustainability. Free Range Studios has helped them create these videos.
Thomas.
Blue butterfly's wings no pigment. It's the way the light goes through the wings. Now working on that in fabric design.
HOK Biomicry in practice. Not bread and butter. Hate or love it. "In the end our society will be designed not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy." John C Sawhill
New City in India. Integrating with triple bottom line. Innovation in depth and range of triple bottom life.
Environmental (ecosystem, water, atmosphere, material, energy, food)
Economic (commerce, value)
Social (community, culture, health education governance, transport, shelter)
Use all these principals and make sure have these built into the company. Function,
Challenge cities to match the sample level of ecosystem to the natural setting.
Monsoon season. Natural System, leafs absorb water during rainy system. Our systems don't traditionally do that.
Bioreport. Rather than reinvent in each biome. Eastern Temperature Boradleaf Forest. Set up so there is a series of lenses to look at when building in that area. Tend to create terrible conditions in erosion when we build. Beavers create upstream barriers. So create in our design a series of leaky barriers. .
Sao Paulo. Five structural layers of Rainforest. Epiphysted (plant) throughout rainforst. Will hold up to a gallon of water. Design building with structures that collect water and redistributes. Structure, brazil tree nut, hard shell used to mimic in creating exoskeleton for building. Bones of certain birds help in design of building structure.
Self-organize. Study social insects.
Project Haiti. Designing new children's orphanage in Haiti. Screening system, creates boundary layer(radiant) but admits ventilation. thomas.knittel@hok.com Project Haiti www.usgbc.org/haiti
Q/A
Biomimcry seems to need in depth biological knowledge. What is the case for making this investment in business?
Lynelle. Innovation.
Not necessarily a big investment. Take from cubical world into natural world. Interface carpet, looked at forest floor and created carpet. Their highest performing carpet sales.
Thomas.
Who we learn to exchange new ideas is going to be game changer in future. Deal with what technology has given us, highly specialized experts, not big picture. When engaged in biomimcry decision there is a lot of enthusiasm and interesting for the employees.
Biomicry not an easy sale. Easy to sell LEED. Biomimicry above menu of prescriptive options. Beyond alacarte choices to getting a "green building". Opens to extreme innovation and creativity. Can learn from the actual site. Ecological performance measure.
Lynelle.Biologist at the Design Table. Training program to help bridge the gap between biology and design.
Thomas. Biologist some with lots of interesting information, but we don't always know what to do with it.
Nicole. Biologist need to understand the challenge of what trying to solve for the project. Budget, schedule, basic parameters, but what are the big issues going to have to tackle whether use biomimicry or not. That's when you use Nature.Org and hire a biologist for design solutions.
Flood delta. How it builds soil. Cleans water. Filtration. Circulation. Create nutrients. Looks to see how can integrate into design.
Use Life's Principals - off of Biomimicry 3.8. Benchmark for success. Product to market, how can it create conditions conducive to life. Integrity through self-renewal. How build relationships, how adaptable.
Lynelle. We need to have large industries thinking about nature's way or else we won't be around. (We'll be fossils). We need to radically change the way we do business.
Thomas. Deal with contradictions all the time. More sophisticated with manipulating materials, the seemingly more successfully we are as a human race, but more damage we are doing in the process. We are producing so many carcinogens around us every day. For every ton of concrete also create a ton of CO2, but concrete will last a very long time. Want buildings that are fully compostable. Beetle all made o same material, but parts are hard and part are soft.
Biomimicry is coming from all kinds of people observing nature.
Ray Anderson founder Interface Modular carpet.
then looked into glue. Tape each little corner together and will act like a large floor carpet. No need for harsh glues.
Cradle to cradle. Closed loop cycles.
Biomimicry in Social Context? Swarm intelligence. Cooperation in termites and bees. Swarm intelligence how to related in socialize context.
Military studies ants.
Bees. Whole greater that sum of parts.
Resource partitioning. Many organism going after same resource. Not any one that outbeats the other, different times of day, seasonality, etc. Through cooperation, rich system that thrives.
Lynelle Cameron - Director of Sustainability at Autodesk, Cleantech, Hewlet Packard, Non-Profit Himalayas, Telemark skiing, Berkeley MBA, Advisory Board Net Impact
Thomas Knittel - Design principal at NY HOK - Global Architecture Firm - 25 design excellence awards
Nicole Biomimicry 3.8: New Logo of Biomimicry Guild (Mizzoula, MO)
Growth Industry for Future, London Review, HarvardBased off nature. Long history of what works regarding what is sustainable on this planet.
"Conscious emulation of life's genius." Deep design patterns of how nature has solved the same problems we have in our human interactions.
After 3.8 million years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival.
Nature as MENTOR.
Biomimicry as model for new design. WhalePower. Humpback whales ridges on fins used in wind power turbines. 32% less drag and 20% production increase.
CALERA. How coral reefs form to create cement. Uses calcium carbonate and sequesters CO2 instead of polluting.
Columbia Forest Products. New glue without formaldehyde. Looked at Blue mussel off of oregon coast. Mimic protein structure. How can muscles attach to rocks so well in wet area. Glue is used in plywood and performs better than traditional, especially in wet areas.
Sunlight.Water. Gravity.
Adam Nieman/science photography library - area of earth related to area of water - marble on a small globe
Dynamic non-equilibrium
Life creates conditions conducive to life.
Rules of Life - 29 principles.
Biomimicry 3.8 - Org that is driving evolution of Biomimicry. For profit and non-profit. Ask Nature is a tool to use.
Lynelle.
Director of Sustainability, Autodesk
CAD. Focused now on building 3-D model. Build into design, hard unless have experts in the field. How make it easier to build intelligence into the tool set so don't all have to be experts in sustainability. Where less material needed, what kind of material to use. Build decision making into design process. All member os design team can come together and see how their work interacts in the design period.
3D models let designers find out early on what happens if you change the design shape or orientation. Long before get to material. Impact of solar radiation on building, to optimize climate control.
Same technology can be used to redesign existed building. Take photograph and stitch together and create 3D model. Then look at from carbon footprint, energy use, etc.
Manufacture. Eco materials advisor. Partnering with GrantaDesign, one of largest material design databases. Which material are flagged red cost, water, materials. Software helps you decide which is the best material to use, what alternatives available.
Biomimicry 3.8. For-profit and non-profit consulting in one organism. How would nature create this organization that is trying to do many functions.
Biomimicry. Bullet chain Japan, big sound issue as enter tunnel. King Fisher can dive from high altitudes into water without making a splash.
Community of Biologist.
Technology company with 10 million legal users of software.
We deal with CAD monkey trying to do better with design, can't have biologist at design table in every organization.
Ask Nature trying to bridge gap between designers/engineers and biologist. Popular with students and academics, going after professionals.
The best tools to make sure can make best decisions. Must also educate students on what mean by biomimicry and sustainability. Not a lot of teachers to teach. Series of 5 minute videos that teach basic principles of what mean by sustainability. Free Range Studios has helped them create these videos.
Thomas.
Blue butterfly's wings no pigment. It's the way the light goes through the wings. Now working on that in fabric design.
HOK Biomicry in practice. Not bread and butter. Hate or love it. "In the end our society will be designed not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy." John C Sawhill
New City in India. Integrating with triple bottom line. Innovation in depth and range of triple bottom life.
Environmental (ecosystem, water, atmosphere, material, energy, food)
Economic (commerce, value)
Social (community, culture, health education governance, transport, shelter)
Use all these principals and make sure have these built into the company. Function,
Challenge cities to match the sample level of ecosystem to the natural setting.
Monsoon season. Natural System, leafs absorb water during rainy system. Our systems don't traditionally do that.
Bioreport. Rather than reinvent in each biome. Eastern Temperature Boradleaf Forest. Set up so there is a series of lenses to look at when building in that area. Tend to create terrible conditions in erosion when we build. Beavers create upstream barriers. So create in our design a series of leaky barriers. .
Sao Paulo. Five structural layers of Rainforest. Epiphysted (plant) throughout rainforst. Will hold up to a gallon of water. Design building with structures that collect water and redistributes. Structure, brazil tree nut, hard shell used to mimic in creating exoskeleton for building. Bones of certain birds help in design of building structure.
Self-organize. Study social insects.
Project Haiti. Designing new children's orphanage in Haiti. Screening system, creates boundary layer(radiant) but admits ventilation. thomas.knittel@hok.com Project Haiti www.usgbc.org/haiti
Q/A
Biomimcry seems to need in depth biological knowledge. What is the case for making this investment in business?
Lynelle. Innovation.
Not necessarily a big investment. Take from cubical world into natural world. Interface carpet, looked at forest floor and created carpet. Their highest performing carpet sales.
Thomas.
Who we learn to exchange new ideas is going to be game changer in future. Deal with what technology has given us, highly specialized experts, not big picture. When engaged in biomimcry decision there is a lot of enthusiasm and interesting for the employees.
Biomicry not an easy sale. Easy to sell LEED. Biomimicry above menu of prescriptive options. Beyond alacarte choices to getting a "green building". Opens to extreme innovation and creativity. Can learn from the actual site. Ecological performance measure.
Lynelle.Biologist at the Design Table. Training program to help bridge the gap between biology and design.
Thomas. Biologist some with lots of interesting information, but we don't always know what to do with it.
Nicole. Biologist need to understand the challenge of what trying to solve for the project. Budget, schedule, basic parameters, but what are the big issues going to have to tackle whether use biomimicry or not. That's when you use Nature.Org and hire a biologist for design solutions.
Flood delta. How it builds soil. Cleans water. Filtration. Circulation. Create nutrients. Looks to see how can integrate into design.
Use Life's Principals - off of Biomimicry 3.8. Benchmark for success. Product to market, how can it create conditions conducive to life. Integrity through self-renewal. How build relationships, how adaptable.
Lynelle. We need to have large industries thinking about nature's way or else we won't be around. (We'll be fossils). We need to radically change the way we do business.
Thomas. Deal with contradictions all the time. More sophisticated with manipulating materials, the seemingly more successfully we are as a human race, but more damage we are doing in the process. We are producing so many carcinogens around us every day. For every ton of concrete also create a ton of CO2, but concrete will last a very long time. Want buildings that are fully compostable. Beetle all made o same material, but parts are hard and part are soft.
Biomimicry is coming from all kinds of people observing nature.
Ray Anderson founder Interface Modular carpet.
then looked into glue. Tape each little corner together and will act like a large floor carpet. No need for harsh glues.
Cradle to cradle. Closed loop cycles.
Biomimicry in Social Context? Swarm intelligence. Cooperation in termites and bees. Swarm intelligence how to related in socialize context.
Military studies ants.
Bees. Whole greater that sum of parts.
Resource partitioning. Many organism going after same resource. Not any one that outbeats the other, different times of day, seasonality, etc. Through cooperation, rich system that thrives.
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