{"id":10021,"date":"2014-05-20T16:31:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T21:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=10021"},"modified":"2014-05-20T16:31:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T21:31:09","slug":"get-ready-for-san-francisco-with-the-sustainability-committee-the-worlds-greenest-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2014\/05\/20\/get-ready-for-san-francisco-with-the-sustainability-committee-the-worlds-greenest-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Ready for San Francisco with the Sustainability Committee: The World's Greenest Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThis is the third\u00a0in a series of <\/span>posts by the Sustainability Committee in the run-up to the 2014 Annual Meeting, describing sustainability issues and initiatives in the city of San Francisco. The first blog post<\/a>\u00a0explained\u00a0plastic bag and container laws. The second blog post<\/a>\u00a0described\u00a0the water crisis in California.<\/span><\/em>
\nDid you know that the California Academy of Sciences<\/a>, located in San Francisco, is the world’s greenest museum? It is also the largest public LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum-rated building<\/a> in the world. Designed by architect Renzo Piano, it was built from recycled materials where possible, it has a green\u00a0‘living’\u00a0roof with six inches of soil for insulation and skylights that open to vent hot air, solar panels, radiant heating in the floors, and insulation made from recycled denim (yes, denim!<\/a>).
\nThe green roof<\/a> is\u00a0comprised of seven hillocks to pay homage to the landscape of San Francisco, and also to blend in with the setting of Golden Gate Park. It\u00a0also has weather stations to provide data to the automated passive ventilation systems.\u00a0The benefit of a living roof is absorption of moisture\u00a0and\u00a0carbon dioxide, and natural cooling of\u00a0the building. \u00a0It was planted with native plants<\/a>\u00a0intended to survive well in the San Francisco climate.\u00a0There has been some critique of that idea<\/a>, because native plants may not be suited to a city environment, but any new idea takes a while to be perfected. Hopefully, green roofs will become more and more\u00a0common within the next decade and difficulties will be smoothed out.\u00a0 If you visit Golden Gate park, check out the building and see for yourself.
\nFor more information on the LEED program and how it relates to preservation concerns take in the talk by architect Scott Schiamberg and conservator Rachael Arenstein at AIC’s Opening Session, May 29 10:50am – 11:10am\u00a0 A LEED primer for conservators: or, what should I do when the architect proposes daylight in our new galleries? <\/a><\/span>
\nI also recommend\u00a0the de Young Museum<\/a>, with\u00a0its copper\u00a0exterior that is\u00a0intended to turn green over time to match the park setting,\u00a0and the Japanese Tea Garden<\/a>\u00a0because it is beautiful.
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This is the third\u00a0in a series of posts by the Sustainability Committee in the run-up to the 2014 Annual Meeting, describing sustainability issues and initiatives in the city of San Francisco. The first blog post\u00a0explained\u00a0plastic bag and container laws. The second blog post\u00a0described\u00a0the water crisis in California. Did you know that the California Academy of … Continue reading “Get Ready for San Francisco with the Sustainability Committee: The World's Greenest Museum”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":9985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,39],"tags":[73,483,484,897,977,978],"class_list":["post-10021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-meeting","category-sustainability","tag-aics-42nd-annual-meeting","tag-green-museum","tag-green-roofs","tag-san-francisco","tag-sustainability-2","tag-sustainability-committee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}