DesignColumbus 2020

Education Day & Expo

KEYNOTE & PRESENTATIONS

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Keynote

Monday, April 26

8:30 AM - Monday, April 26

101 Achieving Carbon Neutrality via Adaptive Reuse

The rehabilitation of existing buildings is considered by many to be the ultimate recycling project, and focusing on historic buildings has added benefits for the larger community.
  • Understand the concept of embodied energy and compare new construction with the benefits of reusing our historic building inventory.
  • Learn how adaptive reuse of existing building materials can serve as the basis for sustainable, ecological solutions to climate change.
  • Learn the impacts of Construction & Demolition debris on our community and on the nation’s landfills as a whole. Compare adaptive reuse vs. new construction.
  • Learn how historic preservation has positive social justice and economic impacts on the local community in terms of utilizing local specialized skilled labor, supporting well-paying jobs for residents, reducing the manufacture and transportation of new replacement materials, and generating new local sources for products and materials.

1 AIA, GBCI credit (pending)

When comparing buildings of equivalent size and function, building reuse almost always offers environmental savings over demolition and new construction. Reuse of buildings with an average level of energy performance consistently offers immediate climate-change impact reductions compared to more energy-efficient new construction. The rehabilitation of existing buildings is considered by many to be the ultimate recycling project, and focusing on historic buildings has added benefits for the larger community. Old habits die hard, but why do we persist in “clear cutting” our way to accommodate new growth? In this session we’ll take a look at several recent adaptive reuse projects and measure their impact over new construction. As preservationist Donovan Rypkema warns, “You’re a fool or a fraud if you call yourself an environmentalist and yet you throw away buildings.”

10:30 AM - Monday, April 26

102 Resiliency in Midwestern School Design

Highlights include: designing for emotional and psychological well being, implementing a campus approach to energy efficiency, and incorporating benefits of biophilia and natural playscapes all within the context of a 21st 1/2 Century school.
  • Learn how to incorporate design for better emotional and psychological well being.
  • Gain insight on thinking across buildings for shared high performance.
  • Understand how the design of a building can help develop change agents of the future.
  • Learn how to learn from students.

1 AIA, GBCI credit (pending)

Through a collection of short stories, gain valuable lessons of resiliency as told by students and professionals. Learn how Bethany Schools became a leader in sustainability while serving and learning from an ethnically diverse student population. Highlights include: designing for emotional and psychological well being, implementing a campus approach to energy efficiency, and incorporating benefits of biophilia and natural playscapes all within the context of a 21st 1/2 Century school. The Midwest’s 1st LEED Platinum, Net Zero Energy school becomes the backdrop for these important lessons for our time.

1:30 PM - Monday, April 26

103 Columbus Hilton Downtown Expansion Project Profile and Case Study

This presentation will focus on the challenges of designing a structure on a complex site and how the Design Team has taken advantage of the irregular site to strengthen the circulation and connectivity in and around the Hotel Destination.
  • Understand and gain familiarity with sustainability goals and challenges with Hospitality projects, and how the Columbus Hilton Expansion has overcome some of these challenges to achieve our sustainability goals.
  • Gain exposure and understand the complexities with design and construction on a complicated site, and how the Columbus Hilton Expansion takes advantage of these site complexities.
  • Understand the economics behind the use of multiple framing methods (CIP concrete and structural steel) and observe how they are designed and blended together in one building through the use of BIM coordination.

1 AIA, GBCI credit (pending)

North High Street and Ohio Center Way in Columbus is an elevated roadway that raises the pedestrian level of the city above the lower service and rail level. This creates a roughly pie shaped hole between the Ohio Center Way and the Convention Center. At the bottom of the hole there is Convention Center Way, a bike path, a rail line, service and egress for the Convention Center, water mains, telecommunications trunk lines, and a small piece of land. The Columbus Hilton Downtown Expansion will be on, under, over, and through all of the site complexities as we squeeze a 343 foot tall tower into the wedge. Ultimately, hotel guests that come to the hotel destination may never know what’s down there as they experience a vibrant pedestrian friendly experience on High Street, all leading to a 1000 room Hilton hotel, two premier food and beverage destinations, and 75,000 SF of meeting and conference space, all located at the Columbus Hilton Downtown.

This presentation will focus on the challenges of designing a structure on a complex site and how the Design Team has taken advantage of the irregular site to strengthen the circulation and connectivity in and around the Hotel Destination. Through the use of Building Information Modeling, the Design Team has coordinated multiple structural framing methods in order to provide the most economical structural solution for both foundations and superstructure, while also navigating the complicated surroundings. The final product will be the region’s largest hotel destination, and has been designed with sustainability as a primary goal. The presentation will outline the LEED rating system as it relates to this project and some strategies the Design Team has used to achieve our sustainability goals.

3:00 PM - Monday, April 26

104 Getting Decisions That Stick! (IDCEC)

In “Getting Decisions That Stick!” you will learn ten techniques you can use today to reduce costly changes by helping others make better-informed decisions.
  • Learn about the psychology of decisions and decision-making styles.
  • Assess the types of information most people need to make decisions.
  • Examine ten specific techniques to foster informed decision-making.
  • Identify steps that any project participant can take to improve decisions.

1 AIA, GBCI, and credit IDCEC (pending)

Are your projects sometimes troubled by indecision and/or changing decisions? Do the so-called “decision-makers” delay needed decisions or make last minute changes–costing everyone time and money? In “Getting Decisions That Stick!” you will learn ten techniques you can use today to reduce costly changes by helping others make better-informed decisions. Don’t miss this interactive and highly acclaimed presentation.

Tuesday, April 27

8:30 AM - Tuesday, April 27

201 Innovation in Engineering Education at ONU

The presentation will illustrate the importance of the collaborative design process that was applied and was the basis for the project success.
  • The importance of a clear Project Vision, and the Design Process.
  • Application of Sustainable Features.
  • Strategies for Flexible Multidisciplinary Labs.
  • Designing Spaces that enhance the Student Experience'.

1 AIA, GBCI credit (pending)

The presentation will illustrate the importance of the collaborative design process that was applied and was the basis for the project success. We will demonstrate how Project Vision, Design Drivers, and Success Measures have been incorporated in the building. With Images and Diagrams, we will show the design solutions applied to create a highly inspiring, flexible, and sustainable facility, Finally, we will demonstrate the effects of the design on the student experience.

10:30 AM - Tuesday, April 27

202 Biophilic Design: An Opportunity for Sustainable Healthcare Resiliency

Biophilic design has been used within healthcare settings to increase patient connectivity to the natural world.
  • Learn the fundamentals of biophilic design and how it translates into today's healthcare environments.
  • Discover innovative biophilic design approaches that not only address patient connectivity but help achieve indoor environmental quality.
  • Learn new approaches to reducing energy use through LED lighting.
  • Gain a better understanding of lighting in healthcare facilities.

1 AIA, GBCI credit (pending)

Biophilic design has been used within healthcare settings to increase patient connectivity to the natural world. This kind of design, used at a variety of scales, has health, environmental, and economic benefits for patients and the surrounding environments, with few drawbacks. This presentation will focus on one aspect of biophilic design specifically: light. Through the lens of 2020 and what has been witnessed by many in the healthcare setting, we will dive deeper into the concepts and evolution of humans and our response to light. We will dissect the mental and emotional benefits of light and its ability to help heal. Finally, we will demonstrate ways in which these concepts can be pulled into practical application of design from both natural daylighting to artificial lighting. We feel this will help healthcare institutions to be more “resilient” as they look to the future of their healthcare environments.

Link to more background: https://designgroup.us.com/expertise/resiliency-healthcare-look-nature-q-and-judith-heerwagen

1:30 PM - Tuesday, April 27

203 How a Company became Healthier during a Pandemic (IDCEC)

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1 AIA, GBCI, and IDCEC credit (pending)

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3:00 PM - Wednesday, April 28

204 Universal Education: Key Design Factors in Therapeutic, Inclusive, and High Performance Spaces

Explore how Well concepts and brain science can influence design decisions and bring about more purposeful spaces that are designed for all life.
  • Define the attributes of therapeutic learning environments.
  • Discuss the architectural implications of health intelligence and staff wellness.
  • Explore how visual balance and color can improve way finding and learning clarity.
  • Dissect high performance educational facilities based on measurable outcomes.

1 AIA, GBCI credit (pending)

Presenters will engage the audience with our research on therapeutic, inclusive, and high performance educational environments. We will share data and architectural implications on nine approaches including health intelligence and consultation, assistive technologies and adaptive education process, teachers and staff wellness, visual balance and color, movement, nutrition, natural lighting, artificial lighting, and acoustics. Examples of each approach will be demonstrated in high performance educational facilities in Ohio and across the Midwest.

Wednesday, April 28

8:30 AM - Wednesday, April 28

301 Quarry Trails

Quarry Trails will be a neighborhood inside of a natural, unmanicured, park. The park will be the foremost defining feature and amenity of the development. This is accomplished through a partnership formed with the Columbus and Franklin County Metro Parks.
  • Re-use of forgotten land.
  • Brownfield Remediation.
  • Public/Private partnership.
  • Mixed-Use Development.

1 AIA, GBCI credit (pending)

Quarry Trails will be a neighborhood inside of a natural, unmanicured, park. The park will be the foremost defining feature and amenity of the development. This is accomplished through a partnership formed with the Columbus and Franklin County Metro Parks. While the development will gain an amenity, the Metro Park will receive the benefit of access and utilities to the park; critical, and expensive, infrastructure.

Altogether, the Quarry Trails site is ±607-acres. The development will occur on a ±80-acre parcel comprising the southern edge of the site. Metro Parks owns ±180-acres directly west and north from the Wagenbrenner’s parcel, encompassing the development in parkland.
Until June of 1974, portions of the former limestone quarry were used as a solid waste landfill. The remediation of the former landfill is being completed pursuant to plans approved by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency through their Voluntary Action Program (VAP). When the remediation is complete, the site will receive a No Further Action letter (NFA) and a Covenant Not to Sue (CNS).

Wagenbrenner’s plan is to create the experience that the development is an extension of the park itself. To do so, Wagenbrenner is developing a nature complementing architectural style that takes advantage of local building materials to create a “rocky prairie landscape” style. Further, Wagenbrenner is actively planning and designing the development with “green” features in mind. Possible features include energy efficient homes, ecological stormwater management, and native landscape plantings.

Phase 1 of the development is ±26-acres (this is inside of the ±80-acre parcel). It includes a downtown area and multiple residential blocks. The downtown area is comprised of several uses including; a ±40,000 square foot office building; up to 20,000 square feet of retail; a 10,000 square foot community center; and ±300 apartment units. The for-sale residential blocks contain; 72 condo flats; 28 townhomes; and 45 detached homes.

Homeowners, office tenants, and retail customers will be able to walk out the door and visit a 60-foot waterfall, rock climb on a 160-foot vertical rock face, hike over 2-miles of river front trails, and much more.

10:30 AM - Wednesday, April 28

302 Integrating Health & Wellbeing into the Foundation of the Built Environment (IDCEC)

Using the WELL building standard as the main catalyst, this course examines the number of ways buildings have an impact on occupant wellbeing through design, quality of space, products as well as the benefits and the types of effects it creates.
  • Explain what constitutes to overall wellbeing of individuals and community and summarize the multiple factors associated with it.
  • Identify the relationship and impact of the built environment on health and wellbeing.
  • Describe the 10 concepts of WELLv2 and apply the pre-conditions and optimizations in each of them towards their projects.
  • Compare and explore how green buildings and healthy buildings complement each other and explain the importance of them to coexist, to include LBC, LEED and WELL.

1 AIA, GBCI credit (pending)

This course discusses built environment and its impact on human health and wellbeing. With the increased awareness and rapidly growing focus on health and wellness, there is data and research that proves the impact buildings can have on human health. It is also important to understand the true meaning of overall wellbeing. Using the WELL building standard as the main catalyst, this course examines the number of ways buildings have an impact on occupant wellbeing through design, quality of space, products as well as the benefits and the types of effects it creates. It also addresses the 10 new concepts of the WELLv2 and how those patterns are incorporated into products and architectural design. Additionally, the course focuses on understanding how green building and healthy building complement each other and are important to realize true benefits of holistic sustainability.

1:30 PM - Wednesday, April 28

303 Scarlet, Gray & Green - Exploring Sustainable Excellence in OSU's Athletic District

Explore the new Covelli Arena and Ty Tucker Tennis facilities with Executive Associate Athletic Director, Mike Penner, and the Moody Nolan Team.
  • Define the projects' passive design approach to maximizing occupant and athlete experience while driving sustainable design.
  • Summarize efforts to consider sustainable design planning at a campus-wide level and supplement on individual projects.
  • Discuss how these efforts and those of other campuses drive sustainable practice and climate goals at colleges and universities.
  • Articulate unique LEEDv2009/LEEDv4 divers for both the Covelli/Ty Tucker Tennis Facilities.

1 GBCI CE LEED Specific BD+C, 1 AIA LU/HSW

Explore the new Covelli Arena and Ty Tucker Tennis facilities with Executive Associate Athletic Director, Mike Penner, and the Moody Nolan Team. We will discuss how sustainable design has been implemented both at the project level and from a master planning effort, as well as highlight how this correlates to industry-wide patterns and trends in sustainability, health and wellness.

3:00 PM - Wednesday, April 28

304 Preserving and Sharing Ohio’s Stories: Modern Trends in Museum Curation

This presentation is an opportunity to learn behind-the-scenes programming of collections management in museum collections storage facilities and the strict building design requirements to curate, preserve and restore priceless collections.
  • Learn current trends in visitor experience and collections management.
  • Learn components of collections management (such as cataloging, curation, digital curation, deaccessions, loans, conservation, security).
  • Learn the primary environmental conditions that require specific protocols in collections management policy ( temperature, relative humidity, light, contaminants).
  • Learn how daylighting, temperature and humidity setpoints vary based on the items being stored.

1 GBCI CE, 1 WELL specific, 1 AIA LU, 1 IDCEC CE

This presentation is an opportunity to learn behind-the-scenes programming of collections management in museum collections storage facilities and the strict building design requirements to curate, preserve and restore priceless collections. This presentation will showcase the new Ohio History Connection storage facility as a deep dive into the environmental needs and building systems design guidelines for this building type.

Located on the grounds of the Ohio History Center, this building will include many sustainable building features, a few of which are being sited to preserve the historical heritage of the existing Center and historic site plan, access to public transit, water efficiency, and indoor environmental quality.

Thursday, April 29

8:30 AM - Thursday, April 29

401 EMS Station 51: Athens County's First Net-Zero Building

The design of Station 51 meets several objectives. It provides a state-of-the-art, highly functional facility for emergency services in an underserved geographic area while being the first in the county to fulfill the high standards of net-zero building.
  • Understand how net-zero buildings can be achieved on a limited budget by using traditional construction technology and a simple HVAC system.
  • Examine passive solar design strategies for achieving net zero.
  • Learn how to marshal the political will to pursue net-zero building.
  • Learn how to bring the entire project team together to achieve net zero, even in areas where there is a learning curve and no local examples to follow.

1 AIA, GBCI credit (pending)


This new construction project provides Athens County EMS with a new 8,700 SF station. Their previous station, a rented building on West Union Street in Athens, suffered from inadequate space and maintenance issues. The newly constructed facility comprises EMS offices, training room, kitchen/dining area, crew quarters, and a 3-bay garage. 2,262 SF of solar panels are housed on the south-facing sloped roof.

The design of Station 51 meets several objectives. It provides a state-of-the-art, highly functional facility for emergency services in an underserved geographic area while being the first in the county to fulfill the high standards of net-zero building. Net-zero structures consume no energy beyond that which can be produced on site using a combination of energy efficiency and renewable energy generation. It was constructed on a limited budget; the final cost of the building was only 5 percent greater than the estimated cost of standard construction for an equivalent structure. The project brought jobs to its Appalachian locale, using exclusively local contractors. Station 51 exemplifies how small-scale, local projects can nevertheless lead the way in the pursuit of national sustainability goals, serving as a model not only for Athens County but for the nation as a whole. With Station 51, BDT hopes to set a precedent to inspire future sustainable development in this largely rural area. This project is in alignment with the broader goal of Athens County to become a leader in sustainable design.

10:30 AM - Thursday, April 29

402 Lakeland Community College Campus Transformation: An Integrated Learning Environment

This LEED Gold development is unique both in the way interior and exterior learning spaces are seamlessly integrated and for it's building envelope design.
  • Discuss the value proposition and approach for a fully-integrated, performance-driven design process that creates a greater sense of place.
  • Explore the integration of sustainable design strategies as both an educational and design performance opportunity.
  • Discuss the impact and benefits of natural lighting, daylight harvestings and energy efficient glazing systems.
  • Discuss the reorientation of the campus through architecture and landscape master planning to create a new campus gateway.

1 AIA, GBCI credit (pending)


Lakeland Community College is transforming its approach to providing education to a predominately commuter based student population. The College embarked on a journey to transform its 400-acre car-oriented suburban campus through the development of a Learning Environments Master Plan, authored by AECOM. The driving force behind this transformation was shaped by the commuter centric nature of the College which lacked the informal and passive benefits of residual learning, networking, and collaborating that occurs beyond the classroom walls. The Learning Environments Plan, in conjunction with the Health Technologies Building, addition and renovation moves the College beyond the notion that students must learn in a classroom. This new vision removes cars from the campus core and creates the opportunity for collaboration in newly created outdoor leaning environments. The plan is underpinned by sustainable design principles that are highlighted throughout the building and landscape for the purposes of interpretation and education. This LEED Gold development is unique both in the way interior and exterior learning spaces are seamlessly integrated and for it’s building envelope design. An experimental rooftop greenhouse, geothermal energy production, and the largest green roof in Lake County are some highlight features.

KEYNOTE Address

NOON - Thursday, April 29

KEYNOTE Mayor of Columbus

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1 AIA credit (pending)

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1:30 PM - Thursday, April 29

403 Virtual Reality in Architecture

The panel will discuss how Virtual Reality Platforms assist business owners, community leaders, architects, planners, interior designers, and the public to be immersed into a building and its surroundings to interact and understand proposed development.
  • Understanding how the use of VR impacts proposed designs on the built environment.
  • Demonstrate where VR is best used to understand and communicate architectural design.
  • Learn how the advances of VR is changing architectural design and the built environment.
  • Compare the different techniques of using VR for architectural design.

1 AIA, GBCI (pending)

Project examples will be reviewed of what the abilities of people to walk inside and around buildings, and experience the outcome of their actions. Examples include Nike, Sprint, Tito’s Cafe, Fairfax Residence, plus more. The panel will discuss how Virtual Reality Platforms assist business owners, community leaders, architects, planners, interior designers, and the public to be immersed into a building and its surroundings to interact and understand proposed development. The panel will explore how a greater understanding of our proposed built environment can be understood through VR creating more environmentally concession design. The experts will compare the advantages and disadvantages of available platforms such as Revit, Unreal Studio, 3D Studio Max, and Twinmotion. And, drawbacks and disadvantages of VR will be scrutinized.

3:00 PM - Thursday, April 29

404 Trends Influencing the Future Workplace (IDCEC)

John has extensive workplace design experience with a wide range of client and project types over the last 23 years. His background includes Interior Design for prominent A&D firms in Chicago and Grand Rapids. In both positions, John developed strong expertise in the areas of workplace strategy, organizational culture, and design development. As a knowledge leader on Haworth’s Ideation team, John’s focus is on the translation of workplace research into conceptual design recommendations. His role is to help clients understand the linkages between design and business performance, and to explore how new ways of working impact cultural and organizational change. Prior to Haworth, John was an Interior Designer at Design Plus in Grand Rapids, an A&D firm that specializes in commercial, residential and higher education design. John’s background also includes several years with Perkins+Will in Chicago, developing customized and creative design solutions for clients. John is a NCIDQ qualified practitioner, a Fitwel Ambassador, and a LEED accredited professional. John holds a BFA in Interior Design from Kendall College of Art & Design in Grand Rapids, with an emphasis on Interior Architecture.
Customer Learning Program featuring key trends impacting the future design of the work environment.
  • Comprehension and understanding of the STEEP strategy model.
  • Learn the trending topics shaping and driving change and how they can influence the future of work.
  • Examine the trends in social, technology, economic, environmental and political categories.
  • Connect how these trends will influence the creation of environments that will evolve, change and impact the future of the work.

1 AIA, GBCI, and IDCEC credit (pending)

Customer Learning Program featuring key trends impacting the future design of the work environment. This CEU will seek to give an overview of the current insights and trends in (STEEP strategy model) categories of social, technology, environmental, economic and political. This CEU will seek to give an overview of the current insights and trends in (STEEP strategy model) categories of social, technology, environmental, economic and political.