(TF03) TOUR: Carbon + Well-being Stroll on the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus
Friday, November 4, 2022
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Location: Meet at Tour Desk in Moscone South Lobby
Earn 8 Credit(s)
Silicon Valley is constrained by access, resources and the competition for talent. In order to meet Microsoft’s business and talent expectations, a refresh to their Silicon Valley campus meant thinking of its region and people in a new light. To grow, Microsoft needed a different diet: driving out and using waste, reusing 30% of campus buildings, investing in a blackwater system, using thermal storage, and designing the largest two-story mass timber project in the USA. With these strategies came an improved aquifer, restoration of the local ecosystem, easy access to vistas and connections to nature, a reimagined food delivery, reduced embodied and operational carbon, and a healthy glow.
Tour the 643,000-sf campus, including a stroll on the 3+-acre living roof, and learn how Microsoft’s culture of innovation, collaboration and social responsibility inspired this holistic design approach.
MSV is targeting LEED Platinum, LBC Petal, WELL v2 Pilot, ILFI Net Zero Carbon.
Learning Objectives:
Learn how integrated innovative leadership, long-term vision, and brand culture drove the design of 643,000 sf, and apply these visioning strategies to your own projects.
Understand the integrated systems strategy that tied water, biology, community, carbon and resiliency (through blackwater, thermal energy storage, improved ecology etc) to health.
Learn the key project priorities, lessons learned and alignments with the benchmarking of LEED, WELL v2 and LBC Net Zero Carbon and LBC 3.1.
Understand how material selection and building reuse, tracked through LCA analysis and decision making.
