Design That Pays Back: Energy Efficiency, Wellness, and the Bottom Line
Discover how early goal setting, integrated design, and sustainable strategies—illustrated through Brightview Senior Living case studies—deliver energy-efficient buildings that enhance resident wellness, reduce long-term costs, and meet evolving climate legislation.
About the live course
It’s time to challenge the commonly held belief that sustainable design is out of financial reach for senior living providers. With early goal setting and a process that stays true to set goals, an energy-efficient building results in first and long-term cost benefits, increased wellness for residents, and can help owners stay ahead of the curve of climate legislation.
Using Brightview Senior Living projects as real-world case studies, the presentation will analyze the process needed to implement effective follow-through on energy goals, both from the owner’s and design team’s perspectives, and findings from post-occupancy evaluations. Analyzing energy model data, the team will discuss how decisions are made from a holistic perspective of understanding the building’s predicted energy use, with financing and operations in mind. Additional funding resources, including utility incentives and opportunities presented by the Inflation Reduction Act, will also be discussed.
The presentation will expand upon Brightview’s sustainability initiatives, and the impacts and benefits to residents, the environment, and the bottom line, derived from design decisions that naturally co-exist with sustainable design. These include connections to nature, the use of biophilic patterns, and their contribution to resident wellness and carbon modeling goals. With an integrated team and aligned goals, an energy-efficient portfolio with environmentally mindful design provides multiple benefits to the owner-operator and increased wellness to residents.
- Understand the long-term financial benefits of energy-efficient buildings for owner-operators and where to seek incentives for green building technology.
- Understand the processes that Brightview Senior Living has utilized to design energy-efficient buildings across its portfolio, including goal setting, energy modeling, who needs to be involved, and when, to reduce overall energy use and carbon footprint for building longevity and lower environmental impact.
- Understand the increased value that an environmentally mindful design brings to the owner-operator, and how it works in harmony with the mission to provide healthy spaces for increased resident and occupant well-being.
- Understand the impacts and benefits of acting on environmental stewardship now, and how carbon modeling can help owners stay ahead of the curve, and how to balance first cost decision making with long-term energy and carbon missions thinking.
Learn practical strategies for inclusive design through a real-world case study at the Washington State School for the Blind.
