That's right.

I'm right here from

Capitol.

Hill.

All right.

Thanks for coming so
what I thought I would do is just sort of

start with a little framework about
how we think about projects at

Georgia Tech and so
it's an evolutionary process and

then we'll sort of get into
the specifics of how or.

What we've been doing for many many years
forwards into sort of the next step and

that is the renewal of the laboratory
detect so I would like to start with

this slide so this is Georgia Tech in
the one nine hundred twenty S. and.

The buildings are all red brick which is
because in Georgia we have red clay so

it's very indigenous material you have
an athletic field that is baseball track

and football all in the same piece of dirt
and you don't see that on college campuses

anymore so back in the twenty's Georgia
Tech was a pretty sustainable campus.

To now all athletic facilities in every
sport needs their own piece of dirt.

So I said to show this slide so at one
point in time there were streams that

roamed our campus so
you see tech tower right there and

as a point of reference that
orange dot is the first Center for

the Performing Arts So that's
the Hemphill corridor that's ten st and

that's the new engineer Biosystems
building so just as a frame of reference

and you see why this is
important just a few minutes or.

So before you all got to
Georgia Tech back in the seventy's.

This is what the campus looked like so
the orchid you know a lot of.

Asphalt the cliff building is just
here adjacent to the library there was

no architecture West building and in
the middle of tech ring was a building and

will sort of come back to that in a moment
so a view from the front of the student

center which was built in the early
seventy's that you again in the ninety's

when they did the stamps Commons
edition and then that view today so

pretty big transformation so
you know getting rid of.

Impervious surface putting
in pervious surface greens

trees things of that nature and
you see why that's important this image is

sort of interesting So here we are you
know the transit hub is sort of in

the foreground here the scowls
building is just off to the right.

A lot of asphalt as far
as the eye can see and

then here's that building was the textiles
building and then Georgia Tech really

never had a formal green space in
the center of campus and now we do so

then I had a friend of mine who works
at Coca-Cola center that picture and

said Can you get a picture about this
same viewpoint looking at our campus so

this she took about a month ago and
sent it to me so

that sea of asphalt is gone tech green is
there you see all this tree canopy here

the architecture West
buildings right there Clark.

It's right there and.

So I asked her how they took this picture
so if you look in the upper left so

they have security cameras
on their building so

there are a lot of eyes on our
campus not just by cameras we have.

And then this is sort of the tech walkway.

You know back then they
didn't really care about.

Putting construction trucks in
the middle of the sidewalk and

making students walk around it and

you can park on the curb back then and
there was very little in force meant so

our parking enforcement folks have gotten
really really good at their jobs so

I suspect this is in the seventy's just by
the age of the and the SAL of the cars and

then this is sort of the same
view in the early ninety's and

I can tell because this guy's mullet
here in the foreground here so

there was a big parking lot
that was right there and

then here's what have you looks like
today so this is sort of looking towards

a student center take reading class
from the right Skiles on the left so

he was just up the stairs a little
bit very different kind of place.

And then the view from the student
center looking east from that balcony so

we had all these concrete benches in
the foreground these walls and the parking

lot and then this is what that view looked
like just a couple of months ago so vastly

different environment and culture and sort
of based on a foundation of sustainability

and doing thoughtful integrated holistic
approach to everything that we do.

So there you see the library will come
back and talk about price Gilbert and

crossing tower in just a few minutes so
in one thousand nine

hundred six Anyone know what happened in
Atlanta in one thousand nine hundred six.

The Olympics in Georgia Tech
was the Olympic village so

shortly after that the following
year we did a campus master plan and

at that point in time we had about seven
and a half million square feet and

about twelve thousand students and we
weren't across Texas where did not exist.

A lot of things did not exist North AVG
did not exist and then in two thousand and

three we did an update
to that master plan and

it projected out ten years to
two thousand and fourteen and

it projected we would be a little bit
north of fifteen million square feet and

about twenty two thousand students and
we're right about that right now so

last year we were about twenty two
thousand students we took that this year

with enrollment and we were just a little
bit south of fifteen million square feet

and we finished the library
renewal will be over that mark.

So our annual growth over all these
years has been pretty significant so

we've added about four hundred thousand
square feet of space every year for

this entire period on average about seven
hundred people every year coming to our

campus in population and then with
that Georgia Tech sort of also moved

into the forefront of being a premier
research university with our.

Grants and contracts and research and
development expenditures.

With that as well we're also investing
in renewal of our cultural assets and

our facilities so again when we finish the
library will be about two million square

feet of renovations and they're asked to
stay Nibley design and and you know for

me would lead anyone heard of that
leadership and a gene environmental design

so it's sort of a benchmarking
process to be able to measure.

Decisions and things that are implemented
into a building project so

from the planning design construction and
operation and so

you know we were one of the first campuses
in the border region system to do a campus

historic preservation plan and then we
updated that about four years ago and

the buildings that you
see here on the right so

the old C E The have been building seven
C. Hall and lead gold buildings so

there's our minimum benchmark for pursuing
sustainable design and construction.

And you.
One of the unique things so

I was in private practice for many many
years and when I came to Georgia Tech in

two thousand and six one of the unique
things about Georgia Tech where most

campuses have a campus master plan very
few have a landscape master plan so

the landscape master plan really focuses
on the space between the buildings so

that human an ecological landscape and
this performance landscape you know what

we want to do we want to increase our tree
canopy and you saw that from some of those

photographs I showed you we want to reduce
our storm water runoff because in Atlanta

we have combined sewer so storm water and
Senate Terry sewer pipes all come together

and they go travel miles and miles away it
gets processed and then it comes back and

it becomes part of the water that we can
drink so one of our goals and you'll

see the moment is to not use possible
water to flush toilets in buildings so

close Commons has a one point four
million gallon cistern in tech green

that saves about sixty five hundred
gallons of possible water per day in

this building alone we don't want to use
potable water to meet our irrigation needs

so you know what we want to do is look at
the campus landscape and this ecological

landscape and you know basically that's
everything that rain is rained on so

there are things the landscape
sidewalks streets.

Whatever is rain is part
of that campus landscape.

So it's sort of ventured So

this is another photo you
know at this building is.

Britain dining hall.

So really nice building so this is an
older photo this is going to look like two

years ago so you couldn't see the building
so all these trees were overgrown

they weren't in great shape when we did
the renovation of Glen towers we had to

run some steam lines over to
this part of campus and so we.

Took down these trees and

some of them some of them were just
volunteer trees are sort of evolved over

time they weren't sort of thoughtfully
planned and then we also ran some.

Pipes there are some cisterns under
the East stands of the stadium and we ran

some pipes to provide irrigation to the
lawn in front of Britain dining hall and

the glen towers lawn so when we did all
that that's what it looks like today and

I had you know people come up to me and

say Howard the renovation of Britain
dining hall excrete I said well we didn't

do anything to it you know we did
was get rid of those trees so

it's really a beautiful building and
now we could showcase it once again.

So this is a pretty come important
component you know part of the landscape

master plan is this notion
of an eco commons so

I'm showed you that slide earlier about
the streams that roamed our campus so

the idea of the eco Commons is
this engineered waterway where so

this is between the state street
parking deck and the market's

nanotechnology building systems sort
of the first leg of a much longer and

larger green donut that
will wrap around campus but

the idea is to make this
water visually exposed so

it becomes an educational research and
recreational amenity to the campus so

this is after a rain event so in my office
went out there and took a photograph

you know we're not going to encourage
people to come to campus with kayaks and

canoes because this is not a steady state
but it's really a beautiful feature

on our campus and
I suspect it was streaming with water.

Over the weekend and last week.

So one of things that we did after I got
here we had a few cisterns there but

you know what a cistern is it's basically
just a big vessel could be above ground or

below ground it stores.

Rain water and storm water runoff and
building condensation and there wasn't

really sort of a plan to figure out
how to connect these cisterns or to

integrate them into the entire campus
landscape so here you can see the cistern.

In tech greens that's about one point four
million gallons so it's about the size of

a tennis court about thirty feet deep and
the cisterns work great.

And you see everything in blues about half
of the areas that are irrigated on our

campus are irrigated with harvested water
and when we do the renovation of Cranston

tower and price Gilbert we'll extend that
cistern into the irrigation and also

the flushing of the toilets will connect
back to this cistern as well so it's.

You know it's a pretty smart network
that we're trying to develop here but

what happens when you do cisterns they
work really well when there's rain

a few years ago we had a drought and
they didn't work quite so well so

we didn't really we could rely on the
cisterns to meet those irrigation needs so

he can sort of see that that sector where
we're sort of it's about sixteen acres or

thirteen acres of of water
that we're collecting.

So we do we develop a storm water master
plan and then we did a feasibility study

and he civil engineers in the room and
the engineers.

And people who want to be an engineer.

And people want to be an architect.

But I want to be.

You know now.

You have time to decide so that little
red boomerang that you see there

we did this feasibility for a black water
treatment facility on our campus so

what that does it it harvest water from
the combined sewers so that you know that

and it sort of cleans it through bio
digesters and plant material and

then it can be used for irrigation it
could be used to flush toilets and

it can be used even more importantly we
have a central plant up on Tenth Street

it would be used to provide the water for
the chillers that are there and

that accounts for about one hundred
million gallons of possible water per year

so it's pretty significant you
know irrigation accounts for

about seven percent of our water use so
Emory University just

installed a system like this they
call it the water hub sever.

I've been over there a couple of
times when it takes some very senior

leadership over there to morrow and
tour it and you know we don't want to be

serial numbers zero zero zero one So we
let our colleagues at Emory do that it's

been working really well you may recall
about two months ago to cap county had

a water main break and you couldn't use
water yet to boil water well they couldn't

they didn't have potable water but
they had water from their water hose

to feed their chillers to air
condition their laboratories So

imagine if we lost water for a week and
the During the summer when they did

who'd be a pretty big problem
in our research environment.

So then we're looking at
sort of the sector so

here's the engineer Biosystems building
you see up there on the right.

The markets nanotechnology building
right there couch park is right there so

when we were sort of looking at
this system this integrated system

where this infiltration reclamation and

then retention and eventually will
have a pond on our campus and

then maybe can bring your kayak or your
canoe but when we're looking at a recall

putting the stamp field we saw
that as an opportunity to.

Do an infiltration zone so
we put in these large corrugated pipes so

we're capturing a significant amount of
water before so this is at the top of

the basin so before it runs down it
goes into the combined sewer system.

And this is you know looks like but
you can't see all of the technology that's

under that turf so
what we're doing with this and

working with some folks in the College of
Architecture is developing an augmented

reality app so it can talk about
the technologies that you cannot see so

the cisterns were developing
campus tree arboretum status for

the campus so you'll be able to you
know download this app it's free and

they can sort of see all of this
technology that we have on campus so.

Really we're sort of looking at
opportunities of roof scapes where we

might be able to install photovoltaics you
know solar panels on roofs you know once

we sort of get to the stage of thinking
about implementing it then we'll need to

do further analysis you know there are
trees in the way a shade in the structure

of the existing building support that but
at least it sort of puts it on the agenda

that we have to think about
renewable energy resources.

There's a student organization called the.

Called the bicycle infrastructure
improvement Committee It's chaired by

students has faculty and
staff on this well and through this group

you know we're seeing more and more
bicycles on campus and bike safety and

pedestrian safety were really important so
we developed a buy school master plan for

the campus so have the streets are in the
shadows or bike lanes we still have some

things to do about you maybe creating
dismount zones in front of a long

walkway as an example because you know
cyclists sort of zooming through there so

but we're making progress with that but
this is really important to

think about alternative means of
transportation on our campus so

I mean I have bikes on campus anybody so
if you go.

So this is just a map we had then it
sort of is a snapshot of you know

the sustainable sustainably designed
buildings on our campus so you can see

there's you know nearly three million
square feet of certified buildings.

On our campus and I don't know
where's the mouse on this but there.

And then I sort of came up with the
metrics I just took their enrollment and

said that we have almost one hundred
thirty grow square feet of LEED certified

space per student and I did a presentation
with some colleagues that at

Emory at Agnes Scott and Spelman in Clark
Atlanta and they were sort of writing

that down trying to figure out what
their metric was and then the president

used the slide co-presenting with
a few other university presidents.

They were sort of jotting it down so
we just sort of created our own metric and

it was kind of fun.

And then there's a little you know where
that we have a little wind power wind

turbine up on north have so it doesn't
generate a whole lot of electricity but

it was a little pilot project we don't
have enough wind here to do much and

then the other part that's And I think
it's important and I sort of include this

into sustainable campus design we did
a sculpture exhibit there so this exhibit

was it Florida International University
and we were able to have it come to

Georgia Tech there were fifteen pieces the
provost set up an arts advisory board and

through that leadership we were able to
purchase eight of these fifteen pieces and

so we want to expose our students to
left brain right brain activities and

make them aware of their surroundings and

not just sort of be zooming from from
building to building and space to space

you'll never notice any of these
sculptures Thank you that's good.

So you also may have heard you may
have seen some construction fencing

on the northwest corner of tech green.

And this is a.

Photoshop drawing so we're getting
a sculpture of Albert Einstein so

it's a bronze sculpture he's
twelve feet from head to toe and

there are three of these in
the world one is in Jerusalem and

it's at the Academy of Arts and
Sciences there's one in D.C.

on the Mall and
that one is twenty four feet and

then the third was in the backyard of
the widow of the sculptor Robert Bork's on

the tip of Long Island so
that's Madison Kerio So she's the.

Director for the Arts at Georgia Tech
she and I went up to New York

looked at the sculpture came
back reported back to folks and

that sculpture will be on campus
we'll have the dedication

on October twenty third so
in a week and a half we hope so.

And so the significance of this is
twofold and why it's important so

Albert Einstein how do you know
you don't know Albert Einstein.

Scientists basketball player what is a.

Scientist physicist.

But he was also.

A huge proponent of human rights and.

What better place than Georgia Tech in the
city of Atlanta to have an Albert Einstein

sculpture of this stature here
because you know Atlanta's

sort of the epicenter of civil and
human rights you know Martin Luther King

you know the whole civil rights
movement so so right there would be

this granite and
there are these stainless steel.

Dots in the granite that it will be the
night sky on December tenth one thousand

nine hundred eight anybody know
the significance of that date.

And he guesses.

None.

So that's the date that the United Nations
sign the Declaration of

Human Rights So it's the night sky in
Atlanta December tenth one thousand

nine hundred eighty eight so we're up
there last week looking a mock up so

there you can sort of see the little
stainless steel dowels that are sort of

paid all the way through there no teeth so
don't steal any please.

Looking at There's a provost
actually thought my bald spot

was the size of a quarter but.

Disappointed to see this picture of
someone in my office took this and.

So you know cuff comments everybody

knows this building Well you
open up to the roof garden.

Which is pretty spectacular.

And you know we experimented it so this.

Commons is I think one of the largest LEED
Platinum buildings on a university campus

in America it's about two hundred
thirty thousand square feet.

And then you are willing to try things so
this really has an eighty five killer what

P.V. array solar hot water
heating I talked about the.

Cistern you know we
experimented with astroturf and

bean bags the beans are out of the bag I'm
not sure where they all went we needed to

buy more beans or do now it is sort of
the pancakes that they're not sure where

all the students were before we built this
building and we were waiting outside we

thought all the people lining up out there
were coming into this presentation so

little bit disappointed
that they weren't but so

you know I know that this was the side
of the movie The Internship and

you would see that movie was in the
theaters for a week or two maybe so and

if you look really closely
end there's a cameo so.

Me and my buddy Rose Byrne.

So again so this evolution is
an evolutionary process so

this is the condemned building and that we
renovated so this glass façade faces east

so how do you mitigate the sun the heat
gain you know on a building like this and

you know we had interviewed
several architects and

you know people trying to come up with
creative screens on the facade and

this firm came up with this projected
overhang sort of big hat if you will and

it's a several things when.

It did not require us to use any sort of
high performance glass because the glass

was always in shadow but the added benefit
it also created shadow on the sidewalk so

this way people walking in the shade and
that's really important in a sunny day.

In Atlanta and some really nice you
know sort of low slung kind of spaces

exposed truck Sure so the building can you
can learn from the sort of flex space.

So it's really quite nice so we each time
we do a building we sort of alone in

applying things that we wish we would
have done in the previous project and

when we do the library renew or
we will sort of.

The other will be the next evolution
that had been building anyone been

in this building.

A few of us so it's pretty spectacular So
this is our first free standing research

building at Georgia Tech this is where
they did research on the gyroscope for

the helicopter they did
research on the microwave

that you have in your kitchen and now
it's for the College of Architecture so

they had this big overhead crane and
they suspended cables down and

rods and suspended this platform there so
it's really a pretty cool thing and

they you know so the most sustainable
thing we can do is reuse our existing

physical environment and
that's exactly what we've done here.

Over in the north of the research
area we got a matching grant from

the National Institutes of Standards and
Technology So

we're going to live in point six million
dollars So this we aspired to for

it to be a carbon neutral
net zero energy building and

we knew once the research was going on
that the plug loads we would not be there

but we would knew we'd be in a much
better circumstance than if we just had

a conventional building so you know we
made some assumptions so in the high base

space here we did not condition it and
we have heating cooling in the slab

because you really don't need to condition
the bottom six feet where people are.

But we have livers down low and louvers
up high in these very large fans that

circulate the air and I've been in here
the one in there the past two summers

when it's ninety five degrees outside and
it's seventy eight degrees inside so

by starting with the assumption of doing
less so not putting in air conditioning.

We said we would try that if it didn't
work we could always add air conditioning

but now we don't have to and then the P.V.
is our technologies that were developed

at Georgia Tech it's a company
called Soon Eva but.

In E.C. It's technology that he
developed than film technology

again we're doing existing
assets Glenn towers and

then sort of creating capturing
attic space there so we.

Added more square feet without
adding more square feet so

these are sort of the the cool rooms.

And then a little connector
building between the two.

And I think this will be the last project
I'll talk about engineer about a system

building anybody into this building at
a few of you so this will probably be

one of the largest fleet platinum
research buildings on a college campus

when we're done so they occupied
the building over the summer time and

it's really pretty spectacular it's
all interdisciplinary research so

based on thematic areas of research so
again you know we're always trying

to sort of define the research university
of the twenty first century so by creating

research neighborhoods we have biologist
in chemists and biomedical engineers and

chemical engineers chemical engineers
co-locating in a laboratory finding.

Developing vaccines for childhood cancer
as an example that if they're working in

isolation in their own thousand square
foot lab that would never happen so

it's a very very exciting program and they
sort of see these trees here this is sort

of a temporal forest we'll build another
building another phase to this building

and then those trees will
get transplanted on campus.

And then there's some underground stream
that image I showed you earlier so

there's an underground stream
under this building so

we have to take that water out so
we don't flood the building and

there's a water real that sort of
comes down adjacent to the stairs and

sort of sweeps through the landscape
then settles in here which is really

quite beautiful in the labs are all
open natural light exposed concrete so

in class we experimented with exposed
polished concrete we'd never done

that before we just assumed it would
be carpet and we said if it didn't work

we could always carpet it it worked
really well it cost less to operate and

maintain So now in many of our
buildings we're using polished and

stained concrete So a big open lab so
instead of every Reese.

Which are having their own lab it's one
big lab and everybody is playing in

the same sandbox together just like they
did when they were in kindergarten and

it works really nicely and then you know
Atlanta drive we put it on a diet we took

out the sidewalks and
it's just all pedestrian and

we will continue that all the way to tech
green and this is just sort of a D.N.A.

sequence that the faculty came up with so
we do lose trees on campus whether through

storm disease or through construction we
had a couple of trees on this site and we

didn't want to put them into the chipper
So we cut them we mirrored them and

then they became the stairs that connect
each of the floors in the building and

the same with the benches here so
it's really quite beautiful so

now the building tells a story about its
sense of place so we do have an ambitious.

Portfolio of projects so

there's the library renewal right
in the center of it all and

so that's Cherry Street and all the photo
before class Commons was built.

So just so Stuart will talk about this
another sort of touch on a couple of

things before I turn it over so
you know here's the library so we're doing

a partnership with Emory University
to do a library service center so

it ninety percent of our collections will
move offsite So that will enable us to

renovate the library and convert it
from a warehouse for books to place for

scholarly research for people so
the scholarly research goes on now and

you'll hear me talk about some of the
metrics of the evolution of the library

now we also have a library
facility off of Marietta Street.

So the Emily library service
center the really nice thing so

talk about sustainable design so

Georgia Tech had its collection now
we have Georgia Tech's collection and

Reese collection so you guys now have
access to their full collection.

Through this collaboration So here's the.

The building it's under construction and
then here are these.

Shelves high stool high impact or high.

Capacity storage and what's interesting so
I learned a word called Plan not graffiti

or plan a graph so that person right there
Jay Forrest who works in the library so

he drew elevations of these shelves and
unlike and

figure out what's going to go on each
shelf and unlike the library today were

books are stored by category so
if Tom Brooks atrip books in all that

this is where being stored by size and so
the space between the top of the book and

the underside of the shelf will be about
one inch So talk about the economy of

space and space utilization
this does it incredibly well so

if you need a broke you can sort of
you know send an e-mail log on and

you'll have it tomorrow.

So there's our library we did spend a lot
of time you know creating a vision so

we wanted to find the technological
research library the twenty first century

some old photos and so from the fifty's
to the front door was right there.

The back so
close Commons is off to the right and

beautiful reading rooms with north
facing glass so question towers

actually designed to have several
more stories never got constructed so

the steel frames of the bridge isn't
there there were tons is not there yet.

So the sewer looks like
in the seventy's and

this is sort of funny so things happen
between the seventy's and recently but

it's hard to tell who have the same little
spin the trees there and there were tons

of there was a fountain there that
was there for a while so anyway.

So the bridge is pretty opaque so

we're going to try to open that up and
I think that's.

Who peeled off the skin and Stuart talk
more about this some Peaveys on the roof.

And then so the.

Very last thing we talk about so

some of you may have heard about
the Living Building Challenge So

Georgia Tech got a grant from foundation
called the can do to fund and

this got thirty million dollars gift
from them and we will do what's called

a Living Building Challenge and the Living
Building Challenge has a series of metrics

that's much much higher then lead and
the other metrics that are out there and

you see sort of these seven petals and
then there you have to meet and

one of them is beauty which is sort of
somewhat arbitrary but sort of nice but

the idea is that it has
to be generate more.

Electricity than it will use and
it needs to be net zero on the water use.

So that will be somewhere in this zone
of campus between ten and first and

between state and Hemphill So if a few
things that will need to occur there.

And you know so again we'll expand that
equal comes a little stream that I showed

you was back right through here
it will continue on and and

go on through so so we tried to do
is this holistic integration of

architectural landscape
engineering technology ecology and

fiscal stewardship So it's that
integration of all those things so.

That's all I've got so
I'll turn it over to.

I

meet.

You I want to do that right.

You have slides here.

So as you can see some pretty remarkable
things happening and have been

happening here in Georgia Tech first quite
some time in regards to sustainability and

we think that trend is going to
continue with the library project so.

We're in the club Commons which is
meant for interaction interactive

kind of activities and and
this is not going to be an exception so

what I'd like to ask you
all to do is to pair up and

what we're going to do is write a headline
It's pretty simple exercise but

imagine you're writing the headline
about the library renewal project for

green building News in the year
two thousand and twenty.

So think blue sky think aspirational
What is that headline going to read

I'll give you an example.

Georgia Tech creates the library
of the future and saves.

Reduces energy by sixty
percent that's just

an example you could make that percentage
whatever you think is appropriate or

Georgia Tech library creates
green library reusing.

Materials concrete from
construction another idea so

pretty straightforward
just take five minutes.

Library people are not excepted from this.

From this exercise Pep I think we have
an even number here you're welcome

to join the group here and
well let's circle back in five minutes and

share what you come up with doesn't
have to be poetry so no pressure.

I do want to preface his presentation with
just a very brief overview of what we're

doing in the library you know the projects
been moving quickly and so you're

probably familiar with some of the big
ideas but maybe not all of the details or

even the reasoning behind it.

We're data driven here at Georgia Tech
in the library is no exception so

we've seen our print usage go
down pretty dramatically and

at the same time our gate
count continues to rise.

So that's kind of set the stage for
what we're doing now but

we're mine to some call.

Principles that have persisted over
the last hundred years even some

would say thousands of years for libraries
but we're developing those laws those laws

of libraries with this project so
when people debate you know

is this still a library I think when you
look at what we're doing with this project

you sense that it's still a lines
with our core principles.

And of course as Howard mentioned you'll
now have access to a much broader

array of materials with collaboration.

And I think this is also a critical point
you know our culture at the library and

at Georgia Tech is to be user driven so
our students been have been asking for

more outlets better facilities.

More daylight in the tower especially
better study environment for

decades and we're responding to that and
then we also have a culture here of

piloting prototyping testing our to talk
about some of the things we've even learn

things from from Cluff that will
apply into the library design so

we're doing a number of pilots over
the next year to test this like.

And a smart app that knows.

You know when you're in the building and
can provide location aware messaging.

It's pretty exciting it's
pretty cutting edge so.

I'm not going to go into
all of the details.

But here are some of those data trends
are pretty easy you don't have to be

a statistician to see what's going on
here our gate count is on the left and

our print book at
checkouts are on the right.

And over fifty percent of the library
footprint is print material.

Also a big piece of the picture is we're
very unique at Georgia Tech because so

many so much of your information
diet consists of electronic

materials ebooks and eagles.

So when you stack up
something like twenty seven.

Thousand print books with over a million.

Clicks to eternalism
e-books you know it really

provides a good picture of where
we're at here in Georgia Tech.

We also see where e-books are going
which is also pretty dramatic trend.

This is our current state.

In terms of seats per students with
some of our peer institutions.

And you know we want to go up that
list and we'll be doing that with this

project so with cloud we're
still down at the bottom and

bottom third but we increase pretty
dramatically after the renewal.

And these are those labs
that I mentioned So

these were first created in one
nine hundred thirty one and and

some of these was actually haven't
changed much because they're so

universal in the library has been
changing for five thousand years

this is another manifestation
of that change.

But at Georgia Tech the library is
changing as well as our skills that sort

of thing to meet the challenges
of the twenty first century.

Just as.

The librarian in one hundred thirty
one knew exactly where the book

was on the shelf and
would save the time of the user.

We're doing that by creating a great user
experience on our website which will be.

Radically renewed as well as the building.

And anticipating user needs so

aligning the program with where its
research teaching learning is headed.

You know in one hundred thirty one
to the latter was books are for

use make sure the books are available and
a usable format and

we expand that to all scholarly
resources so whether it's e-book or

a dataset copyright
expertise that's all for for

use.

And this is a little bit more
about the Emory collaboration.

That's a picture of our
faculty advisory board.

On the left.

And this is the student advisory board
that really kicked off this project about

three years ago they wrote a resolution
in support of the library renewal

that you know the executive leadership
team at Georgia Tech saw and.

And they were highly influential You
might recognize Jasmine she was one of

the invention for
inventor Prize winners last year.

These are some of the pilots and
prototypes so the one that I think many of

us are already excited about all of these
but the one that I think we're really.

Excited about is this geo fencing
beacon how many people have used.

It When you say to Brett So
it's location where technology.

That's using G.P.S. geo fencing but

beacons allow you to look within a three
dimensional space so now you know

the big win with this technology
is students have been asking for

like a dashboard of table availability and
seat availability.

So that you know when you come into
the library you know where the hot spots

are and you know where there's
available spaces we're hoping that this

technology will eventually allow us to do
that which would be a real benefit for

the students and make your time worth
fission saving the time of the user lot

number one number four.

We also heard that students need where
they can charge their device and

go get a bite to eat come back so that's
something they're going to be piloting in

January beginning in January and
these are emerging technologies where

you can check out our laptops from a
basically vending machine using a bus card

there's no cost and you can return
it there as well twenty four hours.

So some exciting pilots projects coming up

I do want to mention that the retro
tech this is one that's already begun.

The idea here is that you can design
the future by hacking the past so what was

Steve Jobs thinking in one thousand
nine hundred two with the Apple two.

Well you can go to Rob here in the library
and find out and actually work inside that

interface and
get into the code it's a pretty exciting.

Experiment and so I encourage you have to
check it out it's on the first floor of

the library you can at the library service
desk where it is Cherie's involved with

that pilot.

So this is a big idea and I think Stuart
will take over here and and really.

I think inspire you I'm
certainly I've been inspired by

the work that they've been doing.

So well handing over to you.

But thanks to me to have to say
frankly I hope what you'll see

you know will emerge over time to be
inspiring to the whole campus but

I have been and
the architecture design team on this

project has been inspired frankly by
the process that has been going on for

almost two years now again the in volved
lot of students like yourselves and

other faculty and Howard and
facilities and campus planning is

just been an incredible effort to try to
see how this could be a transformative.

Building renewal and just a rethinking
of how you and your generation and

others to follow will use libraries in
the future and live up to the in fact

incredible pioneering work of this campus
under powered stewardship for many

years that's become really the forerunner
of green design on campus wide for

the whole country and it's a challenge
to do it starts out actually

with using existing buildings
that we often as architects think

on these Thanks that we love
the you know creativity.

Of designing new buildings on a blank
site but in fact using buildings and

restoring them renewing them is really
an exciting challenge and it is ultimately

very very the most sustainable things
that we do in making our world and so

the renewal of existing buildings the
mission that was given to the design team

at the very core level of renewing
an existing building changing its use from

libraries where it was storing and
dispensing books to the uses and

creativity's that the meat has alluded to
and then of course that useful change over

time it inevitably does so how do we
build in a long term flexibility and so

that was our challenge in fact this is
the one that you just saw put up there in

the course involves by way of that
inspiring spaces curated content

expert guidance that's already here
scholarly communities all of these words

are really the touchstones of a very new
facility that will emerge over the next

few years and so
I'm going to concentrate mostly on the.

Green design aspects of it we are suiting
for a very very high standard of

sustainability the in the lead green
rating system platinum we have many

gold on campus and now new buildings that
are platinum but renovation building

upon platinum is a tall order but we think
we're on our way to doing that and so

the asset renewal is again taking historic
reading rooms and renewing them for

the contemporary age but in this building
which actually the building connected

to it price Gilbert It really is a
historic landmark We don't think of those

often from the mid twentieth century but
it is about fifty years old and

it's a style of architecture and craft of
architecture that actually is not easily

reproducible again it was really
quite a pioneering building for

its time by the former chair of the School
of Architecture Paul Heffernan and

who did the architecture of
the old East building so that.

It's exciting for us to bring that
back to life as a kind of legacy for

I'm in the architecture colleges faculty
too so I should mention by the way I

did pass that title slot say
the design team I am introduced is

part of L P three architecture part
praxis three here in Atlanta so

at part time here teaching a part
time practicing but our partners and

leading the design team are a B N I M
architecture firm out of

Kansas City that were the forerunners of
green design really in the someways help

create the lead green rating system so
they're great partners and so

they are science that they bring to it
has just been fantastic but again these

are some slabs of opposites that we're
going from the physical to the digital and

some of the great physical libraries of
the past on many of you have been to some

of these wonderful libraries that
are inspiring in themselves just by

the incredible grand spaces and the rows
and aisles and aisles of books that

we will not have so much of will have some
but how through digital means might we

create that sense of awe and inspiration
that has you know that you're at

the center of this vortex of all of this
knowledge and information that is passed

along through millennia and
that's again another tall order will miss

many of us will miss the books but
we will have access to them through and

credible technological resources of
the retrieval from the tech live system so

we're trading out that we're getting
a lot more in return and so we in fact

instead of book space and book storage we
get people places and so many more spaces

that I'm not going to get in detail
that will be for converging and

collaborating and
connecting with the library faculty and

staff in ways that I think will seem so
much more fluid and

interactive than you've experienced
now the librarians have been on other

floors and not seemingly little bit hidden
I think is going to be an incredible.

Interactive space one of the models for
how that will happen is really more

retail like the Apple Stores and
others where you know Rovers and

others can kind of interact with
you without barriers and things so

it's going to be a very open space and
very much people oriented and

it's longevity the flexibility
is a motto the D.N.I.

M has for their architectural
practice called Long Life loose

fit it's a way of building in adaptability
and flexibility in the future so

that we will see lots of spaces
that can become different uses

at different times of the semester
at different times of the day and

over the years it will adapt to is this
will and then the other thing that I think

we heard a headline about the way several
those headlines were amazing to me

to hear because they we didn't want to
show you this first to steer you but

you actually came up with ideas that have
been other students like yourselves have

been trying to trumpet for us and
that idea of turning the inside out or

bringing the outside in what is
the Khan had been a very inward

very closed off malls a Liam like
building is going to be opened up and

will in fact connect outwardly to the
natural settings the landscape settings

of this urban campus that is again
a very green campus for being so

urban as it is so this one is the last
of those pairs we really also hope and

to and we are planning in the design
to relieve what is been a congestion

a very security conscious building about
preserving the books that was like

going to gate tubes and
tunnels that you can see by this is why

in fact it was built the addition cross
on was in addition to the price go over

a library you had to really channel
everybody through very tight quarters and

that's going to open up now that this
will be a very open porous building so

it then we think achieves much more.

Or porousness connectivity from inside to
Al and from people in spaces within it so

campus connectivity is what Howard
mentioned is really again the overall

vision of this campus is connecting on
many levels of circulation there's transit

of people transit walking there's biking
there's still some automotive traffic and

trucks and things but connecting
in ways that really are fluid and

open harmonious actually is a fish and
that saves energy and

many aspects of green design is
about optimizing connectivity and

so that of course is where the Einstein
monument is going to be at the end of that

that of the concourse
that goes north south

near the student center between Cluff and
the student center and

this shows a diagram of it I'm just this
is the only plan you're going to see I'm

not going to show the plans and I know how
the new price go because Lynn renewal will

change very much the internal
workings of the library but

it's been attached to Cluff you go through
gates and it's not quite as fluid as we

think it can be in the future but
this we think what's not there at all now

that's going to happen is a totally open
fluid concourse that best tree and you

know interaction at the Grove level the
lower level the price go because a little

connects from Bobby Dodd's stadium coming
up the hill going into cross one tower

there will be dining reading cafés places
to go out we hope on porches ways to

make a very open concourse that will be at
this crossroads there will be what we're

calling like the Apple store the kind of
interactive areas for seeing what's going

on on campus through interactive displays
lots of digital technologies and

then interaction not behind
the circulation desk but librarians many

of your peers helping you with service and
transactions and research Guidant.

All in one very big open fluid exploiting
kind of crossroads that will then

also flow in the cloth and down Alps so
that we really feel like indoors and

when it's cold or super hot you know
people will use this area to kind of

connect through the campus and we're very
excited about that opening that up takes

a lot of our that's a good amount of our
renovation but it we think it ultimately

pays off in a kind of flow that will be
you know help to the sustainability and

that connectivity overall doing those
kinds of design things and lead.

Goals and objectives are to try to
in fact reverse some of the more

negative impact of United States buildings
in general what we build in the architects

we feel you know a certain
responsibility toward helping to in fact

reduce carbon footprint and the impact the
negative impacts of buildings in general

on this campus particular on the resources
and this is just some statistics

from the lead us G.P.C.
United States Green Building Council.

On how much we think of cars as being the
you know the scorch of the environment and

they certainly are in certain ways for
carbon monoxide and those and

depletion and things but forty percent
of energy consumption in this country is

really by buildings not just while they're
being built but as they're being used

day to day so how can we reduce that it's
electric tricity consumption it's C O two

emissions the potable water consumption
these are high impact of buildings that

the design team is trying to reduce so
and you'll see in significant ways so

the strategy as I mentioned under
the banner of longlife loose fit and

then the sciences of high performance and
upgraded design is a very measurable

it's engineering and those of you are in
engineering classes architecture engineer.

You know there's ways now that
we can really measure and

increase those performances
through technologies and

techniques some of them are old
fashioned passive techniques and

some are high tech new techniques
to integrate design systems to

really bring down the energy consumption
and impact on the environment but

what it was so nice to hear isn't there
from you is here and I think Howard helped

prod that through talking about the arts
program here on the campus the left brain

right brain is that in fact that
sustainability is not just science but

it is the art of it and
that in fact this more in

depth little paragraph to talk about
environmental responsible responsibility

over the life of the building functionally
appropriate responsive to locale and

beautiful and sometimes we forget
that beauty is in fact kind of

outcome of sustainability it has to
be both an input and an elk come and

I think that's a really important part of
the design effort here as you'll see so

I just wanted to just briefly touch
on a few of the ways we're doing

this there's so
many THE LEAD platinum benchmark has so

many different aspects of building design
and system that the design team and

our engineers are focusing on to in
fact take into account neighborhood and

site although the campus plan is already
so much a in the lead scoring we have so

many points that we get for
in fact already the cisterns and the.

Water Reclamation the transit systems the
trolleys the biking the pedestrians that

already work on behalf of the building
at the larger context of the site but

we're aware of the solar orientation
you'll see how those of you that are in

engineering architecture know how we
take those issues into our design and.

Learn how we can optimize our buildings
through proper day lighting and

bringing in now.

Natural day lighting reducing artificial
lighting lighting controls the on

that's the building skin design efficient
heating and cooling systems new

technologies chill beams and so much we
don't have time we wouldn't go over but

flexible workplace controls
you know what are the.

Habitable live environmental temperatures
that you're willing to live in are you

willing to bring a sweater in and
when it's winter and

not need the temperature turned up to hide
those kinds of things we're looking at and

then action with nature and
think that was one of the headlines that.

One of your teams just came up with that
has been really a kind of inspiring goal

too but this shows use of before your
eyes glaze over all of the different

kinds of factors in the layers of
design we consider you know security

community movement systems vehicle access
circulation function sustainability

structure mechanical it's a lot of that's
why it's taken us almost two years to get

to this point it's a very it's one of the
biggest capital improvement projects on

the campus and it's involved lots of input
from and student groups like yourself and

other was so that these show you all of
the ways that if you look at the aerial

view of the building that we're looking at
how do people flow how does water flow how

to wind blows all these flows of knowledge
flows energy flows everything flowing

you know we so we look at all that and
I'm just going to kind of because again

I don't want to take up too much more time
but just give you hell few of those have

gutted the design but that connection
to nature and this is above us on

the rooftop has been a real that
most transformative change I think

hopefully most of you could see from
the history to it from walking this campus

back in the sixty's from asphalt
to Green has been one of

the biggest transformations I had friends
come through for the a convention and

they were just shocked that had
been here that just didn't record.

As the campus but that's the connection
to nature is not just beautiful but

it actually is shown to
be a really important.

Aid to return ssion and knowledge
retention for learning and it has to

do with psychology in the way our brains
work so it's an important mission for

us not just for beauty but for the main
mission of the school is to teach and

learn and research and so you're going to
see that we're going to that kind of roof

garden idea will be also now use in one
of the most spectacular vantage points

on campus if you've ever gone up out of
the first room on the top of the cross and

towers not always open but this it will
be an open reading room with outdoor

roof terraces that will have a look
out into the nature look to the views

connecting back to the city and
with a canopy a photo voltaic P.V.

electric car you know Sun harvesting for
electricity so the building reuse and

revitalization is the main
one of the main sustainable.

Outcomes that we're doing just
reusing the building it was by the way

you should know that it was thought
maybe to tear it down sometimes it's

easier to tear down a building and
start over but

it's not necessarily because of
the old building was so obsolete and

not conducive to the functional
usage of the new use but

and it's frankly was there was a lot of
thought about that because it's hard to

change a building that was so solid
like a vault into a people building but

there are advantages and sustainability
to Reese using that building and

so we do have that as I said this very.

Almost you know bunker like
solid building that is

not conducive to people it was conducive
to keeping the light off the books U.V.

is not good for books so
it sounds simple will just peel off the.

Brick it will open it up
to all of this glass and

people will be able to see out
those views would be incredible and

they will be and that is in fact
the direction that we will be going in so

that same view the brick gets peeled
off not as easy as peeling but

it will be taken off and glass on the
north and south sides will be incredibly.

Opening up those facades but it's not
always that's not so simple I mean

we do get the benefits of the Open this is
you'll see is you'll be in this this is at

the lower level of cross-line you look out
onto a green roof and into the grove so

it will be open and airy a very conducive
to reading what we already have in

the price Gilbert historic reading rooms
will be able to create more of that but

it does take a lot of consideration and
engineering when you take off Brick and

you lit all of this light N.
it's it's much more it's better for

daylight in and for seeing without reading
without so much artificial light but

it does in fact bring in a lot
of heat gain from the sun and so

I know this science is not that new
to most of you know that he again

is something that creates a lot of.

Energy consumption for cooling and so
we have to look and model all of the ways

that it's daylight coming in a good
thing how do we kick buffer the bad

heat gain altitude and there's different
ways to do that this is a section through

across one tower showing the SAL sun
we do differently than the north facing

the grove that is not
the way this you know the.

Solar path it doesn't create the problems
that we have on the south so

we can measure that we can model
that through a lot of computer

software that's incredibly sophisticated
this engineering group or working

with the integral Roop has an incredibly
subtle sophisticated modeling of exactly.

How the good light enters how
to keep the beds sun glare and

heat out and so
we learn from Again the past B.N.

I am own very pioneering design for
solar shading using

louvres at various angles that are tuned
to the various angles of the sun

was already pioneered in certain ways at
the Iowa Utilities Board building and

this shows again some of the geometry and
math of solar diffusers and

angles summer sun winter sun how
to create these sunscreens and

so that is we will be
adapting versions of this for

our climate onto the craws South
facade we're working on that

all of the different kinds of high
tech glass and solar shading and

then different as Howard mentioned then
say could Dell did with a canopy this is

a different approach to doing the solar
shading in the daylight harvesting so.

This in fact shows you one of the
incredible simulations in animations of

the model that we can do to show how
the sun tracks across the day and

the different seasons this
was the first one we did

that one looks pretty
interesting to see but

that's actually letting in too much sun
as you can see this could go on for

a while as you go through every calendar
day we won't we'll show you the over

in the last couple months where this was
bringing in that much sun we said that's

too much to Clary we change the angles
of the louvers the shades Now if you can

see the sun never penetrates too deep into
those spaces that will be for the faculty

to be working and so most of you if
you're in any of the building sciences or

engineering will no doubt harness
the this kind of software to be help you

design in the future and so as we wrap up
this is the roof terrace the photovoltaic

canopy over the seventh
floor roof terrace is the.

The sum ation is that our energy model
is showing an incredible opportunity to

really reduce the energy consumption
of the building from the existing

buildings these are bts
British thermal units.

Is a term many of you will probably hear
in the future energy usage intensity that

is going to be a metric for how buildings
around the country will be compared in

the Living Building Challenge the twenty
thirty challenge is how can we bring that

down and it's very high now even though
it's not that many people in the building

so many books but
we think that with these different.

Savings we can realize by optimizing
the design of plug loads lighting heating

hot water consumption cooling pumps and
fans that if we can slam all

of that down as you see on the bar graph
the big picture that we like to show

is that actually from now till
the renewal the population these people

will over double will have twice as
many almost twice as many seats for

people for you to be studying reading
collaborating and yet twice as many

people as now we will actually bring
down more than half we hope down to one

third of the energy consumption
the energy use intensity measured in

thousands of BT use per square foot if you
do that per person we think we're actually

it looks like it's even going to get
that's what you see what that going up and

going down that it's a drastic
reduction of energy use.

If our energy models are correct and
we keep will refine those as we keep

designing and where we're getting close to
finishing the design so how will all that

be we anticipate it we model it we
need feedback on it over time and

that's IT tech techs buildings already
have sustainability dashboards that do in

fact measure and record the.

Consumption the cost of energy in
transportation water site recycling and

we would want that to happen here too so
that you know users know they're

sensitive they realize how their
buildings are performing and

so that metric is something that would
be on a dashboard I'll leave you with

two slabs lastly we're thinking about
maybe that is something that the kind of

apex of the hill the center of campus that
the library complex represents the high

point that it's a real crossroads would it
be a possibility we don't know we're just

experimenting now with the possibility
that that class bridge we want to make it

transparent relieve the congestion but
maybe it will in fact be

a sense a kind of new invention of a print
a glass prism that could have readouts and

many different kinds of information but
one could be how is the building

performing different times a day
different seasons or even the campus or

lots of information that could there be
an art of information telling us what

the science is doing how we perform
how well the building performed and

hopefully it just gets better and
better every year so

it might be we're experimenting with these
kinds of digital technologies if it had

it might be just cell finished this last
lab on augment reality maybe some of it is

revealed not only on the building but
through applications that Geo and

Spain could there be ways there's
science is an art behind that too so

that's that's what we're trying
to do any any questions or

thoughts but I think that's kind of
wrapping this up for today but anything

questions.

Yeah.

This.

So.

What's the schedule for
the renovation so how

Cranston tower will be renovated first and
then price Gilberton So

after this semester crossing Terra will be
closed so we're making accommodations for

additional seating in Cluff and
in priced Gilbert it won't quite be

the same number of seats but
at least accommodate some of that so.

So after January will and Jan will
start moving the collections over to

the library service center and
that will take several months.

We have you know the state of Georgia
has to sell bonds they will sell in

July I will get that money in October we
will be putting some of our own money into

the project so
we hope to do some selective demolition.

Probably in the late
spring early summer and

then this time next year will be
well into construction we hope so

take about sixteen or eighteen months to
do cross and tower and then will move over

to price Gilbert.

But other things.

It's all being designed together so
we're sort of wrapping up but

it's known as one hundred percent
construction documents and

the sort of do some quality
assurance reviews and

quality control reviews of those documents
we already have a contractor on board so

we're doing detail pricing and
making sure that.

All those short little lines on a piece of
paper are within our stated cost imitation

and then they will go out to
the subcontractor market and

sign contracts and
will be ready to go so it will be

one right after the other certain things
will sort of defer your furniture and

technology because that changes
quite frequently so we want.

Sort of we don't want to buy those
components today because in three years

they'll be out of date and we want to sort
of have the most appropriate furnishings

and technologies as possible.

Some other questions.

So you guys came here to learn
something about the library renewal.

Did you learn anything.

Anything surprise anyone.

This is what you expected.

Did you all know
the collections were leaving.

So the other thing you
know I meet talked about.

The geo fencing and the i Beacon
technologies so if you think about

all the buildings on campus
the library is the only one

during normal business hours that
you need your buzz card to get in so

we're going to change the culture of
the library but still maintain a very high

level of security like we do
in all of our buildings so

you can walk in just like Cliff there are
many points of entry into cloth you come

in from the library come in from tech walk
way to different levels you can come in

from fourth Street by the architecture
building and you don't need a bus card for

the gates will go away so maybe with this
technology that we're piloting it may be

that if you have the collections that
do remain here when you walk out.

It may alert you on your smartphone
that you've just checked out a book and

it's due on October twenty seventh.

So you know we're trying to
leverage technology as we should

at the Georgia Institute of Technology so.

We're exploring that we think
it has great potential.

And we're so we don't doing a pilot
in that as a meat said you weep.

I lived it and you know the library I
think is probably the most innovative

organization the Georgia Tech you know
when we they were piloting things in

the library like the east and west Commons
that were precursors to what we did in

Cluff you know so you know we have
in a range of outlets on the floor

access to power was really important
movable furniture was really important

writing surfaces on multiple walls so
you can do different modes allergies all

the same time these things are all piloted
in the library before we declare and

then we did Cluff we we took
those to the next level but

then we also did things like scale up
classrooms which we had never done before

so there's a building that
aerospace engineering E.S.M.

building we did a room we as
a pilot technology for scale up so

rather than being face forward
like this is organized.

You know there would be groups of nine so
that room actually had twenty seven

seats and you had projection and
writing on all four walls so

that and in essence is what
this room has evolved into and

several other rooms in class commons so
it allows Georgia Tech and the faculty

to be innovative with the pedagogy and
how they teach which is pretty

exciting.

A great question and so you know.

Part of the sustainability
initiatives that we have on campus

is we want to divert as much
construction waste from landfills as we

possibly can how many fellow
reading car biology anybody or

anyone see it human the other day I
mean it's a huge issue so we're looking.

Are there ways to take that brick and
grind it and

use it as a base for pavement or perhaps.

You know we're always looking to
recycle you saw what we did in engineer

Biosystems building with some trees
rather than turning into mulch or

hauling it away let it be someone else's
problem we invested so probably cost a few

dollars more than just buying milled
lumber from some lumber shop but

we felt we wanted to reuse it and recycle
it on our campus in a meaningful way and

we hope to do the same with some
of the components in this building

yeah definitely the core of cross on has
travertine and we're trying to get those

panels off of where they were cubbies for
old phones and things that you don't

use anymore rather than just you know seal
all that up as if that was never there

were using to make an end of it of pattern
of recycled wood recycled travertine

plaster and ways to just use every bit
of the original building we can use and

even if it looks a little funny we think
that's the whole is Thetic of using

things resourcefully rather than just
you know sealing everything over and

ways that ships you know waste material.

In fact we there are a couple of trees
that we lost recently some of you may have

noticed in front of the van we're building
there were that's a big gaping holes and

they were going to fall in
the next door so there's for

safety reasons we remove those so
we took the logs and

were storing them and we've talked
to Stuart in the design team so

in that entrance you see to the right
they're causing tower that goes down way

it'll be a sort of step stair seating
similar to what is out here in the club

to maybe use that would be some of the
seating for that so it's you know they may

not be a one to one direct relationship
from one project or site to the other but

the way I look at our campus that every
building site is four hundred acres.

That's a bigger campuses so

it's not there are no boundaries
based on you know Cherry Street and

Bobby Dugway and Fourth Street or planting
because everything interconnect So

you have utility distribution
you have transportation systems

you have storm water runoff you have
tree canopy you're pedestrian pathway so

abuilding sites are all
four hundred acres.

Slightly different way of looking
at planning and design so

I had to educate some of my colleagues
across campus who wanted to find areas and

we get there but yet to start.

From a much bigger perspective
I think to be successful at it.

And the other burning questions.

Any non-burning

questions.

There will be actually essentially
you say that when you survey as to

what people want besides the interactive
we thought that would be by far the most

because it's so much cleverer but
in fact the highest desires were for

still quiet spaces and so
there will be lots of that and

at the way the library design is
in a nutshell it's going to be

more interactive as I mentioned on that
grove level and then as you move up and

up and up in the building it will
gradually be zoned more quieter and

quieter and quieter so
there will be lots of still quiet spaces.

They're very valued.

Well this presentation is
going to be archived in

the library.

Presentation of the archives being that so
please encourage your classmates to check

it out I think they'll be inspired and
excited about the project what's to come.

And many of you guys will see this happen

while you're here
especially if you're first.

So.

Yeah there's and
there's a video on the library website and

the library renewal website feel
free to share it's one minute.

It's gotten over five thousand views
on You Tube which is pretty good for

a library video we're not
competing with Taylor Swift but.

That's not bad and it's all it's just one
minute animation that tells the story of

what we're doing.

I believe the Provost is going to
be doing a town hall later this

month.

You know it should be
on the campus calendar.

So.

All right well thanks so
much thanks to Stewart and

Howard for everything you guys have done.