MIT Sustainable Design Lab
Symposium on Sustainable Urban Design | Case Studies and Design Workflows
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 6 2013

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Agenda
8.00 – 8.30 Registration
8.30 – 9.00 Welcome and Cambridge Community Compact for a Sustainable Future
(Signing Ceremony)

Christoph Reinhart (MIT)
Bob Healy (City Manager and emcee)
Henrietta Davis (Mayor of Cambridge)
Rafael Reif (President, MIT)
Drew Faust (President, Harvard)
Tom Leighton (CEO, Akamai Technologies)
9.00 – 9.20 Symposium Opening Remarks
Christoph Reinhart
Adele Santos (Dean, SA+P - MIT)
Matthew Allen (German American Chamber of Commerce)
9.20 – 9.30 Questions of Today
Christoph Reinhart
9.30 – 10.00 From buildings to neighborhoods and cities - Research on energy efficiency in Germany
Andreas Wagner (KIT Karlsruhe)
10.00 – 10.30 Integrated design strategies for urban buildings and places
Matt Noblett (Benisch Architekten)
10.30 – 11.00 High density - challenges and opportunities
Matthias Rudolph (Transsolar)
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee Break
11.15 – 11.45 A sustainable solutions framework for planning and urban design
Greg Havens (Sasaki)
11.45 – 12.15 Sustainable urban design through integrated resource management
Cliff McMillan (ARUP)
12.15 – 12.45 Urban Information Modeling at SOM
Keith Besserud (SOM)
12.45 – 13.00 Summary of Morning Session
Christoph Reinhart
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.00 UMI | MIT's New Urban Modeling Platform
Overview (Christoph Reinhart)
Operational Energy (Alstan Jakubiec)
Accessibility (Tarek Rakha)
Daylight (Timur Dogan)
Embodied Energy (Carlos Cerezo)
15.00 – 15.30 Studio Projects Overview
Miho Mazereeuw
Kent Larson
Harvey Michaels
15.30 – 16.30 UMI Poster Session
16.30 – 17.00 Open Discussion – Computational Tools for Urban Design
17.00 Symposium Ends