Sustaining TALL

Infrastructure
JB Monnier, PhD
Sr VP, Bentley Asia Pacific
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San Francisco "The San Francisco Federal Building establishes a new benchmark
for the intelligent use of natural resources in the United States."
Federal Building -Pritzker

• 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

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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
San Francisco Federal Building
Morphosis Architects
• 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
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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

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 Sustaining
TALL Infrastructure
JB Monnier, PhD
Sr VP, Bentley Asia Pacific
© 2008 Bentley Systems, Incorporated