30 Years of High Performance

由专筑网雷军，Vigo编译

一个效率极高的节能先驱者。

An energy leader who preached efficiency before there were buzzwords.



近几年来，能源效率和可持续设计一直是热门词。由于世界终于开始团结起来应对气候变化的威胁，这个词就变得越发重要。

基于Web的项目数据报告工具和2030挑战，之前预测的能源使用强度指标成为重中之重，作为建筑师协会会员的诺曼斯特朗，花了30年的职业生涯专于能源研究。

“早在70年代末，”斯特朗说，“我们更重视能源效率，之后才是'可持续发展'。我认为，在70年代末和一些被动的太阳能，地球保护运动，使我们意识到可持续发展的重要性，并且开始重视高性能和能源相关的项目。

“当我还在读书的时候，”他补充道，“可持续的做法是‘减少，再利用，回收’，然而现在是‘你的碳排放量是什么？’这是一种新的看法。”

斯特朗在全国各地进行宣传，对节能和低碳建筑的重要性进行阐明，努力说服观众，使其融入其专业技能。他即是潮流又是保守的代表。

“他在这领域有着深入的了解，” AIA的能源领导小组主任麦克林托克说。“然而，他却谦虚自持”

自1979年以来，他一直与米勒赫尔合作（2003年的AIA建筑事务所奖获得者西雅图和圣迭戈工作室），2015年其在布利特中心，在西雅图科特迪瓦设计中取得前十名的佳绩。他被评为2004年AIA伙伴，其次从2005年到2007年担任AIA副主席。他还主持了可持续性的讨论组，聚集志同道合的能源爱好者为解决环境问题提供50个策略，在建筑过程中减少使用百分之五十的化石燃料。

“回到2005年，”他说，“我是董事会的成员，我们的董事会表决觉得荒谬和不可思议，但重要的是，是可持续发展的减排目标。减少碳排放：这就是未来的重点。”

“我以我的职业生涯为荣，”AIA的建筑法规援助项目主席和能源领导小组成员莫林格特曼说。“我们为董事会服务的同时，坚持对2005年他所倡导的可持续发展的立场声明，是如此重要和必要。他和他的公司都只是一小步，仍在不断进步。”

从自然的道德和伦理的角度来说，斯特朗的目标不是在一味拯救地球。作为一个有影响力的公司的重要合作伙伴，必要时，他将是一个现实主义者；他热爱工作，同时认识到除非环保项目是有利可图，否则是不会有市场需求的。

“为客户节省成本有什么不对吗？”他问道。“这才是关键。它不是一个政治问题，而是一个聪明的商业决策，如果你这样做，将会对世界有益。”

他也不是一个跟风的人。他知道会有包罗万象的说法，但他宁愿用一个词概括了他的真正含义。

“可持续性”这个词在很多方面都被滥用和误用，“斯特朗说，”但是“高性能”所需要。它也有助于扩展我们的目标：电，水，风以及任何资源。”

这是斯特朗2016年的中心点：接下来将面临的是什么。在几十年来一直围绕着能源，他正在探索对那些以今日事业为终身事业的人来说什么才是最重要的。

他说：“我们国家的某些地区更清楚我们对地球和气候所做的事情，我们现在的需求都得到了满足，那未来呢？未来就是现在，因此我们现在需要处理一个大的障碍，如建筑装修。”

很多地区都是沿袭过去传统的建筑范围：例如，AIA2030承诺已经推出了一个新的设计数据交换工具，其企业使用报告项目内的能源数据，但依旧强烈的认为我们需要随着时间推移而不断进步的东西，包括水利和整体建筑物。

他说：“我们雇用的人有化学或科学背景，顶尖的设计应用科学，设计是很重要的，但你也需要知道什么设计对应什么建筑。“这不是典型的，”他补充道，“但这是需要的东西。”

The last few years have been a boon for energy efficiency and sustainable design. Ideas that were niche and segmented have spread throughout the profession, gaining more and more traction as the world finally stirs to unite against the threat of climate change.
But before there were Web-based project data reporting tools and the 2030 Challenge, before the Predicted Energy Use Intensity metric was on the tips of tongues, there was Norman Strong, FAIA, who has spent the bulk of his 30-year career focused on energy.
“Back in the late 1970s,” Strong says, “we were working on energy efficiency before it became ‘sustainability.’ The whole idea of ‘sustainable design’ occurred after we were involved. I think the earth-sheltered movement in the late ’70s and some of the passive solar work we did at that time made us aware of the importance of not only sustainability, but also high-performance and energy-related projects.”
“When I was in school,” he adds, “the idea of sustainable practices was ‘reduce, reuse, recycle.’ Now it’s, ‘What’s your carbon footprint?’ It’s a new way of looking at it.”
Walking the Walk
Strong has traveled across the country preaching the need for high-performance and carbon-neutral buildings, bringing energy-centric ideas to audiences before they seep into the profession, let alone enter broader culture in general. He’s a trendsetter, albeit a reserved one.
“He has a huge depth of knowledge and history in this field,” says Maurya McClintock, Assoc. AIA, director of McClintock Façade Consulting and Strong’s associate on the AIA’s Energy Leadership Group. “And yet, like most of the people involved, he plays it down. He’s very modest about his capabilities.”
His track record speaks for itself. Since 1979, he’s been with the Miller Hull Partnership (2003’s AIA Architecture Firm Award recipient with offices in Seattle and San Diego), whose work on the Bullitt Center in Seattle placed on the AIA COTE Top Ten in 2015. He was named a Fellow of the AIA in 2004, which was followed by a stint as AIA national vice president from 2005 to 2007. He also chaired the Sustainability Discussion Group, a gathering of similarly minded energy aficionados who tackled endeavors such as providing 50 strategies that would produce 50 percent fossil-fuel reduction in buildings.
“Back in 2005,” he says, “I was a part of the AIA’s Board of Directors and we voted on what were then these outrageous and incredible, but important, goals of sustainable reduction. Reduction in carbon emissions and the use of best practices: That, in itself, was the starting point of what came next.”
“I completely credit Norm for my career path,” says Maureen Guttman, AIA, president of the Building Codes Assistance Project and a fellow member of the Energy Leadership Group. “We served on the [AIA National] board of directors at the same time, and the importance of the sustainability position statement he advocated for in 2005 was so vital and necessary to our continued viability as leaders. He and his firm are among a very small number who talk the talk and then walk the walk.”
A Unique Focus on the Future
Yet Strong’s goals, while moral and ethical in nature, aren’t part of a single-minded focus on saving the planet. As a key partner at an influential firm, he can be a realist when it’s needed; he cherishes the impact of his work while recognizing that environmentally beneficial projects won’t get the needed buy-in unless they’re also good business.
“What’s wrong with saving a client money?” he asks. “That’s critical. It cuts beyond it being a political issue and becomes a smart business decision where—oh, by the way—it also helps the world if you do this.”
He’s also not a buzzword fan. He knows there are catchalls that speak to a larger audience, but he’d rather use a term that sums up what he really means.
“The word ‘sustainability’ is used and misused in a lot of ways,” Strong says, “but ‘high performance’ is something you can get your arms around. It also helps expand what we’re aiming for: high performance in energy, water, wind—any resource that goes in or comes out of the process.”
And that is Strong’s main focus for 2016: what comes next. Having been around the energy game for decades, he’s looking at what will matter to those who will take up his life’s work among today’s emerging professionals.
“Certain parts of the country are now more aware of what we’re doing to both the climate and the planet,” he says, “but we’re getting to the point where full buy-in is needed today, not in the future. Because the future is now, we need to take on the next big hurdles, like building renovations.”
A large part of that is moving past the traditional scope of architecture: For example, the AIA 2030 Commitment has launched a new Design Data Exchange tool that its firms use to report their projects’ energy data, but Strong believes we need something that evolves over time to include water and capture a building’s broader performance.
“We’re hiring people with chemistry or science backgrounds that go beyond the applied sciences of design,” he says. “Design is important, but you also need to know what’s in that design, what’s in that building. “It’s not typical,” he adds, “but it’s something that’s needed.”

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