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Urban Sustainability Revolution: 

Engaging Environment, Systems, & People

Luke Leung, PE, LEED Fellow, P Engluke.leung@som.com

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP

Urban Sustainability Revolution: 

Engaging Environment, Systems, & People

Revolution:

a dramatic and wide‐reaching change in the way something works or organized or in people's ideas about it 

(Oxford Dictionary)

Two “Hockey Stick” Curves

New Stone Age Commences

New Stone Age Bronze Age Iron Age Middle Ages

Old Stone Age Modern Times

Source: UN Population Fund

1000 2000A.D.B.C.100020003000400050006000

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70008000

Global Population Growth

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill © 2012

1900 ≈ 1.7 Billion2013 ≈ 7.0 Billion2025 ≈ 8.0 Billion

Global Population Growth in Urban Environment

53%2014

70%2050

US Life Expectancy and Carbon Emission(Source: Gapminder)

1800‐188039.0

US Life Expectancy and Carbon Emission (Source: Gapminder )

US Life Expectancy and Carbon Emission(Source: Gapminder)

78.6

39.01880‐2014

Singapore Life Expectancy

82.1

64.0

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http://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/SP.DYN.LE00.IN/compare?country=jp#country=se:us

USA vs. Asian Countries – We Are Behind 

http://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators/SP.DYN.LE00.IN/compare?country=jp#country=se:us

USA vs. Asian Countries – We Are Behind 

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0.0 10.0 20.0 30.0 40.0 50.0 60.0 70.0 80.0 90.0TokyoJapan

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LondonUnited Kingdom

JarkartaIndonesia

SeoulKorea

MoscowRussia

Rio De JaneiroBrazil

New YorkUS

Credit:"CountryComparison:: LifeExpectancyatBirth." CentralIntelligenceAgency.CentralIntelligenceAgency.Web.16May2014.

City vs. Nation Life Expectancy

Taller, Longer Living

Source: CTBUH Journal 2014 Issue II

Air Contaminants

Air ‐ PM 2.5 Pollutants

www.nasa.gov

Urban Sustainability Revolution: 

Engaging Environment, Systems, & People

Can URBAN ENVIRONMENT DENSITY impacts CARBON per Capita?

Houston Paris

New York Tokyo

Chicago Hong Kong

Density and Carbon in Transportation

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill © 2012

Density = 18,428 People/Sq kMPopulation =  557,000

Density: 123 People/Sq kMPopulation : 1,159,869

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Population density (persons per km2) 2008 

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Population density (persons per km2) 2008 

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Edmonton                     

Macau                      Singapore

Urban Sustainability Revolution: 

Engaging Environment, Systems, & People

http://newbuildings.org/sites/default/files/2014_Getting_to_Zero_Update.pdf

Net Zero Buildings/District

Level 99CMechanical room for turbines, motors, BMU

Level 99BObservation Deck

Level 99ARestaurant with back of house spaces beyond for elevator machine rooms

Level 99Restaurant

Wind Turbine Tunnel

500m

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill © 2014

Pertamina  vs. Current Largest Net Zero Building

≈ 4,000,000  vs. 369,000 sf

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Site EUI (Btu/sf/yr)

Building Area (sq ft)

Site EUI ‐ Chicago, ILSite EUI ‐ New York, NY

Energy Use Intensity Per Square Feet

Johann Sebastian Bach Chaconne from Partita for Solo Violin N.º 2, BWV 1004 _ Hilary Hahn (1) (mp3cut.net)

If A City Is Similar to a Large Orchestra, We Are Making Better Music At The Individual Instrument (Building) Level

Renewing Chicago’s Southeast LakefrontLegacy

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Big Data Around the World

Big Data in Chicago

Big Data Standard Indicators

Chicago

New York City

San Francisco

London, United Kingdom

Paris, France

Stockholm, Sweden

Combining Big Data and System to Form SYPMHONIES IN CITES

If A City Is Similar to a Large Orchestra, We Need a New Generation of Musicians to Write Harmonized Symphonies

Urban Sustainability Revolution: 

Engaging Environment, Systems, & People

http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/_wordpress/wp‐content/uploads/2010/07/PatentDensityWages.jpg

Average Wages and Patent Density(R2 = 45%)

Urban Sustainability Revolution: 

Engaging Environment, Systems, & People

Luke Leung, PE, LEED Fellow, P Engluke.leung@som.com

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP

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