1-1.WHY WE CHOOSE THIS BUILDING?
The Pearl River Tower is located in Tianhe district, Guangzhou,China where near our house in mainland. So it is convenient and practical for us to choose it as an example to analyze and do a field measurement on the total building performance diagnosis using the methods taught by Professor Lam in SENV7006 course.
The Chinese government set the goal of reducing carbon emission by 10% by the end of 2010. Guangzhou experiences some of the worst air pollution & is the major focus of an environmental initiative.
The building merits a close look for its highly integrated approach to sustainabilityan approach that helped the PRT earn LEED Platinum one of only a handful of supertall towers to attain this status. According to its LEED scorecard, the building is estimated to use an impressive 44 percent less energy than a similar tower built to the American energy standard ASHRAE 90.1-2007.
1-1.WHY WE CHOOSE THIS BUILDING?
1-2. STRATEGIES FOR SEEKING
ZERO ENERGY
1-3. BUILDING AT A GLANCE
1-4. BUILDING TEAM
1-2. STRATEGIES FOR SEEKING
ZERO ENERGY
Aim was to build a ‘Transformed, Integrated, High Performance, Environmentally Responsible Design’ . ‘High performance’to mean a structures whose‘energy saving systems’would work together in an integrated manner to consume nearly 60% less energy than a traditional building. This was done using the following‘4’ steps:
Step 1: Reduction
Step 2: Reclamation
Step 3: Passive Absorption
Step 4:Generation
1-3. BUILDING AT A GLANCE
Building Name: Pearl River Tower
Location: Guangzhou, China
Size: 2.3 million ft²
Storey:71-storey
Started: 2006
Completed: Estimated 2012
Use:Office Building Cost Estimated $12 million more than a building designed to meet the minimum requirements of Standard 90.1
Distinctions: Designed to be the most energy-efficient super-tall tower in the world
Owner: CNTC Guangdong Tobacco Company
Architect:Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
1-4. BUILDING TEAM
(SOM) SOM Project Team:
MEP Roger Frechette, P.E.
Project engineer, SOM’s director of sustainable engineering
Architecture Russell Gilchrist, project architect, SOM’s director of technical architecture
Structural William Baker, P.E., FASCE,
SOM’s structural engineering partner Management Tom Kerwin, FAIA, SOM’s managing partner
Wind Engineering Consultant: Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin Inc.
Acoustics: Shen Milsom Wilke,Inc
Fire: Rolf Jensen & Associates
Landscape: SWA Group
Vertical Transportation :RWDI
Elevator:Otis Elevator Company
(RWDI) RWDI Project Team: Ray Sinclair, Ph.D; Duncan Phillips, Ph.D.; Glenn Schuyler, Ph.D.
Other Key Players: Guangzhou Design Institute
