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JB Monnier, PhDSr VP, Bentley Asia Pacific

Sustaining TALL Infrastructure

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San Francisco Federal Building•600k sq ft•18 Stories•154k sq ft skin

GSA sought exceptional:•Architectural design•Building performance•Project delivery•Lifecycle cost benefits•Avoid negative impact in first cost

"The San Francisco Federal Building establishes a new benchmark for the intelligent use of natural resources in the United States."

-Pritzker

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BIM for design, analysis,documentation and fabrication•Shared architectural & structural model•Passed to fabrication•Virtual shop drawings

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High Performance Building• first tower in the United States to forgo

air-conditioning in favor of natural ventilation

• design boasts energy performance at more than 50 percent below the GSA’s criteria

• influence the productivity and health of the working population through natural ventilation, operable windows, non- hierarchical space planning, and day-lit interiors

San Francisco Federal BuildingMorphosis Architects

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Building Performance

• Building Performance Simulation– Large number of simultaneous green strategies– More interactions w/ owner– Multi-discipline Integration– Faster Iterative analysis (what ifs)– Advanced “Front End” (early) design

• Take Building Information Modeling (BIM) to the next level

© 2008 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

© 2008 Bentley Systems, Incorporated

JB Monnier, PhDSr VP, Bentley Asia Pacific

Sustaining TALL Infrastructure