BUILDING HEROes

UMC; the University of Mechanical Contractors, has a long history of providing clients with unique, budget-sensitive systems, completed on time. They reduce energy and operational costs, help improve tenant and employee productivity, promote sustainable building environments, and remain accountable for the ongoing system performance of their clients' facilities. Throughout this podcast, we dive into the importance of communication in a building, both horizontal and vertical. It is essential to efficient operations and productive occupants. this podcast helps paint for the potential of mindful design and long-term maintenance costs in regard to overall building efficiency.

Barbara Erwine is an architectural consultant, educator, and writer focusing on sensory design and sustainable architecture that celebrates the integration of the built environment with the natural world.

Drawing on her background in science and architecture, her work, ranging from commercial buildings to sustainable urban master plans, integrates passive design strategies with sensory aspects of architectural place-making.

She has worked as a senior consultant at Paladino and Company, managed the Daylighting Lab at the Seattle Lighting Design Lab, conducted research in daylighting at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and taught classes in lighting, sustainability, and sensory design at the University of Washington.

Her book, “Creating Sensory Spaces: The Architecture of the Invisible,” explores the potential of sensory design to reclaim the role of the senses in creating memorable experiences of place and belonging. An early advocate of sustainable approaches to urban-dwelling, she was on the development team for one of the first US cohousing communities, where she now resides.

Additional Sources:

➔ Paladino and Company:

https://www.paladinoandco.com

➔ Seattle Lighting Design Lab:

https://www.lightingdesignlab.com

➔ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory:

https://www.lbl.gov

➔ The Architecture of the Invisible:

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315688282/creating-sensory-sp aces-barbara-erwine

➔ Lisa Heschong’s Book - Thermal Delight In Architecture:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4638315?origin=crossref

Ms. Heschong is a Fellow of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES). She was a founding principal of the Heschong Mahone Group (HMG) and a licensed architect for 30 years. She has a B.Sc. from UC Berkeley, and Masters of Architecture from MIT, where she was awarded the AIASchool Medal. At HMG, Ms. Heschong led the research team that found a correlation between daylight in classrooms and improved student performance.