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Nathan Ogle AIA LEED AP Short Portfolio Highlights 2012 (60 slides)

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Nathan Ogle Portfolio Highlights 2012 (117 slides)

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Licensing and Affiliations

• Licensed architect in California since 1998.
• Member of the San Francisco Planning & Urban Research Association (SPUR); the American Institute of Architects, San Francisco Chapter; and the LEAP charitable organization.
• With a special interest in global issues first inspired by study abroad, participated in the International Urban Design Symposium in Brussels and the Soviet-American Physical Planning/Urban Design Conference in Moscow.

Selected Project List

• Houston Baptist University Student Dormitory Housing ($32m)
• City of Piedmont City Center Master Plan, California (LEED Silver) ($60m)
• 1470 N. Fourth Street Multi-family Residential Apartments, San Jose, California (LEED Silver) ($33m)
• Villa Montgomery Multi-family Residential Apartments, Redwood City, California(LEED Gold) ($28m)
• San Ramon Civic Center, San Ramon, California (LEED Silver) ($150m)
• Rohnert Park City Hall, Rohnert Park, California ($5m)
• San Francisco Civic Complex, High Rise State Office Bldg and Historic Renovation ($325m)
• El Cerrito Swim Center, El Cerrito, California ($2m)
• UCSF Mission Bay, Student Housing Project, San Francisco, California ($87m)
• Sonoma State University, Beaujolais Student Apartments, Rohnert Park, California ($24m)
• BSC Highrise Residential Towers, Reno, Nevada (LEED Silver) ($205m)
• Verakin Town, Residential Towers Complex, Chongqing, China ($45m US)
• Peninsula Habitat for Humanity Townhouses, Redwood City, California ($1.5m)
• 1451 Fruitdale Avenue Multi-family Residential Apartments, San Jose, California
• 801 Brannan Street Multi-family Residential Apartments, San Francisco, California ($108m)
• Peninsula Jewish Community Center, Foster City, California ($58m)
• Alta Bates Medical Hospital Facility Improvements ($12m)
• Kaiser Medical Hospital Facility Improvements ($7m)
• South Coast Plaza Pedestrian Bridge & Garden Terrace ($38m)
• San Jose International Airport Master Plan, San Jose, California
• Rincon South Urban Design Plan, San Jose, California
• Westside Marina Master Plan, Dubai Saudi Arabia
• Stanford University, Littlefield Link Building Addition, Graduate School of Business ($24m)
• Gloria Davis Academic Middle School Addition & Renovation, San Francisco ($5m)
• Sunnydale Housing Complex Renovation & Community Center, San Francisco ($3m)
• The Grande Mall Retail Complex, Surabaya, Indonesia ($40 m)
• Seattle/Tacoma International Airport Tenant Improvements, Seattle, Washington

Professional Experience

Consultant, Ongoing
- Real estate and architectural project consultant for projects, both domestic and overseas.
- Published articles on LEED green building projects.

Fisher Friedman Associates, Emeryville, CA
Vice President, Senior Project Manager, 2001 - Present
- Joined Fisher-Friedman Associates as Senior Project Manager in 2001.
- Works with project consultants and manages the complex details of the design, scheduling, documentation and construction of active projects.
- Leads and oversees marketing and business development efforts.
- Acquisition, maintenance and the follow-through of multilevel efforts at firm.
- Firm specializing in public planning, public/private projects, and most recently university and community planning projects.
- Executes prime contracts.
- Travels for projects throughout the country.
- Meets and advises UC, CSU and private universities to determine upcoming projects needs.

Ellerbe Becket, San Francisco, CA 1998-2001
Project Architect- Including project architect for the Pedestrian Bridge and Garden Terrace project

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), San Francisco, CA 1995-1998
Architect & urban designer on high-rise, historic renovation and urban design projects.
- Including work on sophisticated capital and State of California projects

Mechanical and Architectural Coordination for Energy Efficiency

By Nathan Ogle, AIA, LEED AP of FFA
Villa Montgomery photo gallery

Villa Montgomery, a LEED Gold certified project, is a 58 unit building consisting of 4 stories of residential units and a landscaped courtyard above a podium with a management office, common room, retail space and two levels of parking. The apartments are intended for low-income families and will carry long-term affordability restrictions making them affordable to households earning from 20-50% of the areas’ medium income. The building is on an urban brownfield site, located on a major traffic artery in an area zoned for general commercial use, adjacent to a medium density residential neighborhood and less than half a mile from the downtown district.

We began the design of this project with one goal in mind: energy efficiency and improving the efficiency of the total MEP system. Methods for doing this involved careful evaluation of individual mechanical components, waste reduction, peak demand analysis, usage of renewable energy systems, whole building analysis (e.g. day lighting, glazing, heating and cooling, thermal mass, natural ventilation and programmable controls), and most importantly, understanding of the long-term life cycle economics of the building systems.

The building employs a high performance envelope including a cool roof, insulated windows with low-E glass and formaldehyde-free fiberglass insulation. The building’s mechanical system is an innovative design with individual parts of the building heated and cooled by water source heat pumps, fed by a hydronic loop with efficient evaporative cooling integrated with the mechanical exhaust that is required for the garage.

The interrelationships of these strategies are complex, and careful analysis of their effects on one another is required to determine the best combination of the various choices available. Note, most of the above methods require close collaboration between the architect, the MEP engineers and the owners.

It is important to incorporate these considerations early, as changes are easier to accommodate in the onset stages, whereas changes to design, drawings, specifications and compliance calculations are difficult to make later. It is possible for the mechanical designer to estimate the various relevant loads and climatic effects with reasonable accuracy with only the most basic information about the proposed building.

Also, it is very important to follow-through after construction for commissioning, management and maintenance. Measurement and verification of system performance is key to improvement in future design work, and the political value of a high efficiency building is only increased by the existence of a data set that illustrates the systems are performing as efficiently as intended.

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Article featured in Guidebook to the LEED Certification Process:  For LEED for New Construction, LEED for Core & Shell, and LEED for Commercial Interiors (Wiley Series in Sustainable Design) - Amazon link for the book

Home among the trees

My wife Jeanne and I were able to track down the architect of our humble, little mid-century modern home, Paul Hamilton. It was actually the first house that Paul built for himself, built in 1951. It was published in the California Book of Homes, 11th edition, in 1954.

About our house

Another home by Paul Hamilton we found online: http://www.homeasart.com/property/2935/3987-Chevy-Chase-Drive.html.