Building Performance Trends and Best Practices with Natural Stone
Stephanie Vierra
Format: Video of Slides with Synchronized Audio

An integrated design and construction process can result in much more than energy savings, whether designing a single residence or an entire community. Improved sites, reduced waste, long term performance, and ecological benefits are all possible and becoming increasingly more important within the built environment. Building materials play an important role in addressing these issues. Stone is naturally a sustainable material and can contribute to a wide range of project goals over a project’s life cycle. Learn about the inherently sustainable characteristics and features of natural stone in order to maximize them utilizing a high-performance model and an integrated approach. This seminar will also present current trends, programs, and industry advancements driving the movement toward higher levels of sustainability and performance.

At the end of this seminar, participants should be able to:
Define objectives of sustainable, high-performance design
Implement the benefits of an integrated team process when designing with natural stone
Recall the intent of the natural stone ANSI standard and its impact on selecting and sourcing stone
Discuss how sustainability and performance issues were resolved upon reviewing a case study example