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OVERVIEW ENERGY & MATERIALS HEALTH & RESILIENCE WORK & PROSPERITY GOVERNANCE APPENDIX FY22 IMPACT REPORT 17 Lake|Flato Architects Matta Sur Chile's Matta Sur Complex links a 19th-century school building Every design has an to a new medical facility, bringing the past into the future impact. Total carbon through adaptive reuse. Learn more Image courtesy of luis vidal management helps +architects make it a positive one. Lake|Flato Architects, a leader in sustainable architecture Fjord City design in the United States, has received 13 AIA COTE awards for Fjord City brings unique design to sustainable development sustainable design excellence—more than any other architect. in Norway and sets a new standard for urban regeneration. The firm is driven by the goal of total carbon management and making the best decisions possible for the design itself and impact on the climate. Learn more To manage operational carbon, Lake|Flato uses Autodesk Insight Image courtesy of Oscar software for high-performance building design. Insight enables Daniel Rangel/Unsplash Lake|Flato to quickly, easily, and accurately model the impacts of design decisions on the overall energy consumption of each project. Tally—the first lifecycle assessment app to calculate the environmental impacts of building material selections directly in SK ecoplant a Revit model—is another key tool in Lake|Flato’s arsenal for The Paju fuel cell plant in South Korea offers green, efficient measuring and managing embodied carbon. The list of materials power to a rural area and serves as a model for future projects. and quantities generated in Tally imports directly into the EC3 tool, fostering a more efficient workflow that optimizes both Learn more tools’ capabilities. Located in the heart of downtown Austin, Lake|Flato’s recent Image courtesy of SK ecoplant Hotel Magdalena project is the first mass timber boutique hotel constructed in North America and demonstrates the total carbon benefits of this approach compared to more conventional construction. According to Lake|Flato, “Results indicate that when including biogenic carbon, switching to a mass timber structural afterFIT Japan system can provide a tremendous carbon reduction, ranging In Japan, solar power innovator afterFIT is realizing from 38% to 58% depending on how much mass timber is replacing low-carbon goals using drones, 3D design, and simulation. concrete or steel. When biogenic is not included, the carbon reduction ranges from 7% to 17%.” Learn more Learn more Image courtesy of Casey Dunn Image courtesy of afterFIT

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