Drink specials and special buildings. 

Join the AIA San Joaquin for a lecture by Ed Dean regarding zero net energy design. 

Ed Dean AIA is a practicing architect in the Bay Area and has been a champion of low energy aspects of green building design for the past 35 years. After teaching design studio at UC Berkeley for 10 years, he turned to full time architectural practice working for Joseph Esherick in San Francisco as lead designer in the 1980’s/90’s on a number of projects noted for their innovative aspects in “green design”, including a project at Berkeley with an early example of a “living roof” but primarily focusing on good daylighting design practice.

Currently, Ed has become one of the leaders of the profession in the design of Zero Net Energy buildings. He has designed a ZNE library for the City of Berkeley that will soon start construction. This building embodies almost every passive design principle for this locale—daylighting, natural ventilation, and other appropriate strategies for this microclimate—as well as the latest low energy technologies. It is innovative and at the edge of practice today, but it also points the way for mainstream practitioners who are committed to meet the AIA 2030 Challenge.