GREENBUILD TOURS

A compelling and informative tour of Schuylkill Yards featuring Philadelphia’s next-generation life science building, 3151 Market. Centered around a 1.3-acre public park, Schuylkill Yards is a master planned, urban, walkable, transit-oriented development that includes the adaptive reuse and redevelopment of existing buildings. The construction of new ones into high-performance offices, laboratories, retail, and residential buildings. Every detail in Schuylkill Yards is carefully considered to help the community connect, live their best lives, and even change others' lives through discovery and innovation.

3151 Market is meticulously designed with sustainability at its core, providing state of the art office/lab space, premier amenities, and a prime location at the epicenter of the region’s flourishing life science ecosystem. Targeted for LEED v4 Platinum and WELL Silver, the 12-story building features a dynamic glazing system, multi-modal transportation access, a heavy focus on occupant well-being via plentiful access to daylight and outdoors at all levels of the building, and optimized engineering systems. Don’t miss the chance to experience this impactful development and project for the City of Philadelphia and surrounding region!

At the Saint-Gobain North America Headquarters Campus, based 35 minutes outside of Philadelphia in Malvern, PA, attendees will experience first-hand Saint-Gobain’s Purpose —Making the World a Better Home — through a tour of a high-performance office campus, including both a LEED Double Platinum building and a Living Building Challenge Core building, fostering productivity, collaboration, and well-being. Saint-Gobain is the world's largest building materials company and a leader in transparent and sustainable products, systems, and solutions with close to 2,000 EPD’s, HPD’s and LCA’s-- of which approximately 70 are included in the two buildings and will be experienced on the tour.

Join the FCA design team for a thought-provoking tour of their new headquarters. Attendees will explore the relationship between aesthetically differentiated “neighborhoods” which allow for integration of the Quadruple bottom line (People, Planet, Prosperity and Place), and the use of biophilic and neuro-sensitive design strategies to create a deep feeling of well-being. The tour will outline the ambitious steps taken to maximize sustainability: Reduction of the floor plate and energy profile by 60%; divert 85% of waste from landfills, reduce the lighting density by 40% versus the original office space. The tour will include an honest discussion about the impacts of moving from the south and west side of the building to the north side, as well as other challenges that arose as the project was placed into use. Finally, FCA’s innovative and Sustainability Action Plan will be highlighted.

Visit two key projects that highlight the opportunities when reevaluating your building. Two of University of Pennsylvania took this opportunity to keep the historic elements of their buildings “to renovate and adapt to the modern world. The Richards Medical Lab”, a Lou Kahn building design, will focus on the 4-year renovation, archival research, and adaptation to use prismatic light-filled spaces, framed by the precisely articulated and masterly restored exposed concrete, brick, and glass structure. The West Philadelphia Title and Trust Company Building, built in 1925, overcame the existing building’s severe spatial and structural limitations to create functional and dynamic interior spaces, as well as engaging exterior facades – one of Penn’s most successful recent projects.

Tour attendees will learn how the team’s analysis of the existing structure – carried out in part using laser scanning techniques – led to programmatic modifications that saved most of the existing building, reducing the project’s embodied carbon, shortening construction time, and eliminating much of the planned demolition and disruption. The team’s unflagging focus on sustainability revealed opportunities to exceed the university’s standards for indoor comfort, environmental quality, and emissions reduction.

As gene therapy innovators, Spark Therapeutics enjoys a healthy synergy with the vibrant academic research environment in Philadelphia. When the startup outgrew its initial locations, they committed to staying within the city and built research & manufacturing facilities in West Philadelphia near the research environments of the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University. This tour will take you to two facilities - the renovated Bulletin Building, Spark's first LEED building, and to the construction site for the Gene Therapy Innovation Center, a one-of-a-kind research and manufacturing facility in the heart of West Philadelphia. Representatives from the owner team, design teams, and construction teams will explain some of the key sustainability strategies undertaken at these facilities.

The Drexel Health Science Building is a premier LEED v4 Gold BD+C Core and Shell project. This project engages on the hands-on experience for students to work in Labs and Simulations. Showcasing storm water management and reuse for the building. Using the

Tour would typically start in the penthouse roof area exploring the Mechanical systems we utilized for LEED Gold and then a sprinkle of the occupied floors. 12th being a heavy lab floor 8th being a heavy simulation floor and 2 and 1 based on time. Finishing with a walk around the outside to talk about water usage, storm water systems and most importantly our glass to solid envelop that supports all the heating and cooling loads while providing the interior classroom spaces with natural light and comfort.

The Pavilion at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania is a state-of-the-art inpatient facility and a architectural icon for Penn Medicine on its extensive academic medical campus in West Philadelphia. The Pavilion broke new ground for sustainable healthcare construction and design with LEED Gold Building Certification, the largest hospital to do so as of 2021. Conservation initiatives included recycling materials that were collected after the demolition of the former hospital, including 291 tons of scrap steel and 17,000 tons of concrete. During construction, 25% of materials were prefabricated and manufactured off-site, including more than 570 multi-trade plenum racks and all 504 bathrooms for each patient room, minimizing on-site waste, reducing traffic impact and site congestion, increasing quality and lowering cost. On this tour, you’ll see not only the amazing end product, but also learn more about the human-centered design and construction process and all we learned along the way.

University Place 3.0 and The Sheward Partnership Philadelphia Headquarters exemplify the integration of health, wellness, and sustainability in modern, post-COVID office spaces. These facilities prioritize employee well-being, sustainability, and high-performance environments. Both locations emphasize indoor air quality, accessible green spaces, and amenities that support physical and mental health. University Place 3.0, a 275,000 SF office, laboratory, and retail building in West Philadelphia, is the first LEED and WELL Platinum laboratory in the U.S. and the first WELL Platinum project in the city. It features chilled beam heating and cooling, rainwater harvesting, electrochromic glass, and an accessible green roof. The Sheward Partnership Headquarters, a 9,150 SF fit-out in Philadelphia, achieved LEED v4 Platinum and is pursuing WELL v2 Platinum and Living Building Challenge Petal certifications. It includes indoor air quality monitors, living green walls, wellness areas, ergonomic desks, and acoustical treatments.

See how to two of Philadelphia’s facilities successfully address opportunities with composting work to engage and educate in the community.

Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park Organic Recycling Center (ORC), is at the center of the Fairmount Park and has for 40+ years served the community to turn leaves, brush, fallen trees, and other organic materials into finished products like compost, mulch, and wood chips that are available for free to City residents. This year adding the Reforestation Hub, a public-private partnership that takes fallen trees coming into the ORC and upcycles them into lumber. While also providing training opportunities for future urban foresters.

Bennet Compost is a small business public-private partnership between the City of Philadelphia. The tour will demonstrate how a compost facility can succeed in a dense urban environment. Get a behind the scenes tour to view their process and the tools they used to succeed.