Zero Carbon Emissions Office Building Prototype
Location: St. Louis, Missouri | Size: 170,735 sq. ft. | Design Completion: 2010
An integrated design team led by HOK and energy and daylighting consultant The Weidt Group undertook a 10-month virtual design charrette to create a market-rate, zero-emissions design for a class A commercial office building in St. Louis. The team used the U.S. Department of Energy’s definition of a zero emissions building: “A building that produces and exports at least as much emissions-free renewable energy as it imports and uses from emission-producing energy sources annually.”
Specific design goals for Net Zero Co2urt included:
- 150,00-200,000-sq.-ft. multi-tenant office building
- Affordable (10-year payback)
- Marketable
- Designed based on today’s technology, materials, systems and codes
- Flexible and adaptable
- Sustainable
- Use ‘Life’s Principles’ to inform design
- Compare to base case LEED-NC Certified building of similar size
