Winter 2014

WINTER NEWS
2014
Greetings Friend!
California and Wine have
become almost
synonymous in people's
minds. In turn, the
colossal industry that
has evolved certainly has
left its impact upon the
land. Beginning at the
turn of this century, a
movement among ecoconscientious winegrowers and makers started plotting a
course for a more sustainable wine industry. Today the
sustainable wine industry is proactive and committed to
developing energy efficient buildings, technologies and farming
practices that strive towards benefiting the environment.
This issue will be to literally look at 'getting on top' of the
sustainable wine industry. Meaning, quite literally, covering
winery's storage & operational facilities with vegetative living
roofs and walls and understanding the tangible performance
benefits that can be gained.
In This Issue
Featured Article
Research
Industry News
Symbios News
Symbios Projects
Symbios News
SYMBIOS EARNS 2
GREEN ROOF
AWARDS
Please enjoy our winter issue. Happy New Year to all!
Sincerely,
Kerrie Lee & Kevin
"His lips drink water but his heart drinks wine"
-E.E. Cummings
Featured Article
Benefits of Building Integrated Vegetation
for Wineries
The wine industry in California has taken great initiatives
towards creating and evolving more sustainable building & land
development practices. The California Sustainable Wine
Growing Alliance (CSWA) envisions sustaining the California
Our company received
Two National Awards
of Excellence from
Green Roofs for Healthy
Cities (GRHC). The 2013
GRHC Design Award
stands as recognition and
appreciation for
extraordinary examples
of Living Roof
Architecture and Green
Roof initiatives across
North America.
The award ceremony was
held at the 2013
Growing Alliance (CSWA) envisions sustaining the California
wine community by promoting growing and winemaking
practices that are "environmentally sound, socially
equitable and economically feasible".
Sustainable
building practices
that have
resulted from
these programs
include using
solar & wind
energy in
vineyards and
wineries; energyefficient HVAC &
Symbios conceptual design
R systems; LEED
& green building
design; and
recycling & composting. Although the use of vegetative building
systems has not yet been commonly incorporated into winery
design, they do hold tremendous potential to fulfill the mission
towards a more sustainable industry.
Integrated approach to energy efficiency
Processing grapes and the requirement for controlled cold
storage is an energy intensive operation and accounts for
typically 70% of the vineyards total energy consumption. Water
use can also be a significant demand with the industry average
being up to 8 gals of water for every gallon of wine produced.
Stormwater discharges coming from large processing
warehouses and surrounding hardscapes can literally be in the
millions to 10 of millions of gallons.
By integrating vegetative roofs and/or walls into new winery
facilities, one can mitigate many of these impacts upon the
environment. Foremost, vegetative roofing systems are
superior at providing passive cooling for structures and
reducing solar heat gain. Since temperature control is a vital
component of wine making, a living roof sheltered building can
significantly reduce the amount of supplemental energy
required to maintain the proper and stable temperature
required for cold storage of barrels. Similarly, living walls or
green walls placed along the southern or west walls of the
facility would also reduce solar heat gain into the building.
Depending on the actual vegetative roof design, these systems
can result in 50% up to 75% savings in cooling and heating
costs.
Vegetative roofs also have the ability
to absorb most winter rain storms
and thereby help with meeting many
of the new stormwater regulations
required by the state. A buildi
ng's stormwater runoff onto the
land/rivers or sewer system c
an be reduced by 65% to 80% while
the remaining rainwater can be
held at the 2013
CitiesAlive Green Roof
Conference in San
Francisco on October
25th. It was the first time
any design company had
won two awards in one
year in the history of the
award ceremony. The
winning awards
categories were for (a)
best extensive
industrial/commercial for
the Ellis Creek Water
Recycling Facility in
Petaluma, California and
(b) best small-scale
residential for the
Skyhigh Residence in
Fairfax California.
Read more online:
Living Architectural
Monitor
SYMBIOS SHARES
AWARD FOR
GREEN HOME OF
THE YEAR
Green Builder
Magazine awards 'Best
Exterior Integration' to a
LEED platinum house in
Sonoma California. The
home is a combination of
straw bale and wood
frame construction,
passive solar design, 2
living roofs, solar shade
arbors and a host of
alternative energy
systems. SYMBIOS
designed and installed
the vegetative roofs. In
addition, the old
swimming pool on the
site was converted into a
20,000 gal rainwater
the remaining rainwater can be
collected, stored and used to water
the living roof in thesummer. When
living roofs are combined with LID
designs on the ground, like
permeable pavement and bioswales,
it is quite viable to obtain a net zero
runoff scenario for the entire wine
production facility.
The living plants of these systems
can be instrumental to help offset
carbon emissions. Plants, as well as
the green roof soil mix, can work to sequester atmospheric
carbon which helps comply with California's Assembly Bill 32
that requires that at least 49% of carbon sequestering occur at
the site of operations.
Additional Benefits
Wastewater can even be handled by having an integrated onsite water system that can deliver the filtered wastewater to
the roof for irrigation. In specially designed systems, roofs can
be utilized as 'wetlands roofs' where significant volumes of
water flood irrigate the vegetation on the roof and the plants
are selected to bioprocess or bio-filter the water and evaporate
it into the atmosphere.
20,000 gal rainwater
storage cistern. The
rainwater irrigates the
living roofs throughout
the dry summers, as well
as, supplies the homes
with water to flush their
toilets.
Project Team
Architect:
Dan Smith Architects
Civil Engineer:
Sherwood Engineers
Landscape Architect:
Sentient Landscapes
General Contractor
Hammond & Company
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The ecological benefits of creating living rooftops that are
10,000 to 200,000 square feet in size become literally islands of
biodiversity in the sky. Habitat creation for beneficial insects
and pollinators can be developed right adjacent to the vineyard
in many cases.
Symbios Projects
Summary
Cloverdale Residence
Utilizing vegetative systems with sustainable building design
principles can allow above-ground winery facilities to improve
their building performance, reduce operation costs while
simultaneously benefiting the environment - locally, regionally
and globally. That is not only 'smart' but also it's something to
raise your glass to and toast- Cheers!
Research
Sustaining
Generations to Come
Italy has a lot to boost when
it comes to wine culture. The
country is home of the oldest
wine-producing regions in
the world dating back some
2800 years. It has earned
the title of the largest wine
producing country in the
world and has over 2000
Cantina Mori della Zugna Winery
A pre-fab modern Method
home with 2 living roofs
flanking either side of the
second story. Also
features an outdoor
second floor rooftop deck
with outdoor cooking
area, lounge seating,
container planters and a
vegetative shade trellis.
Building Design:
Method Homes
Construction:
MAC Construction
Living Roof:
Symbios eco-tecture
world and has over 2000
grape varieties planted.
Currently, they are poised to gain yet another title- the world
leader in utilizing green roof technology upon winery facilities.
There have been several projects over the last few years that
have integrated 'living architecture' into the building program of
the new winery facilities. Notably, Antinori Winery in the Chianti
region and Cantina Mori della Zugna Winery located in the
province of Trentino.
The primary driver for these designs has been the functional
benefits of improved building performance resulting in
significant saving in energy costs. Building integrated
vegetation (BIV) has a powerful temperature stabilization effect
upon the indoor environment of the winery's cold storage
facilities.
Beyond the plethora of
functional benefits that
can be achieved from
living roofs (as noted in
our Featured Article),
these projects
masterfully used the
technology to integrate
these large-scale
industrial facilities into
Antinori Winery
their surrounding
landscapes. In both cases, by planting vines on the roof, they
extended their own grape production while effectively creating
a vineyard that is unbroken and seamless in appearance.
Symbios eco-tecture
Emerisa Nursery
Santa Rosa
in-progress
Anticipated completion of
a living roof for a new
storage facility
800 sq. ft.
March 2014
Building design:
Symbios
Construction:
Emerisa
Living roof design &
installation:
Symbios
Urban Rooftop Farm San Francisco
The winery's production and bottling center also features a
restaurant, museum, library, retail outlet and a wine-tasting
area. Day-lighting the facility was achieved through a series of
circular cutouts or skylights that flooded and infused the
interior (both the lower and upper levels) with natural light.
Industry News
Wine industry has a carbon calculator
The International Wine Industry Greenhouse Gas Accounting
Protocol, developed through a partnership between the Wine
Institute of California, New Zealand Winegrowers, South
Africa's Integrated Production of Wine program, and the
Winemakers' Federation of Australia, will soon be released for
use by the global wine industry. With increased attention to
climate change and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and
offsets, the goal of the project partners is to provide a free,
easy-to-use, wine industry specific, greenhouse gas (GHG)
protocol and calculator that will measure the carbon footprints
of winery and vineyard operations of all sizes.
Green Roof Winery Club
Conceptual design is
underway for an urban
agriculture farm on top of
a 4-story warehouse
building. Fresh produce
will supply a
neighborhood CSA, local
restaurants and urban
farmer markets.
108,000 sq. ft.
Design & planning:
Symbios
EVENTS:
Living Roof Lecture:
Kevin Falkerson of
A small number of winery operations along the west coast have
integrated living roofs into the design of their facilities. Here is
a list of west coast green roof wineries we are aware of. Note:
not all of the listed establishments are open to the public;
please call the winery before visiting. Should you know of other
such living roof installations on a winery, please email us with
the winery name and location.
William Selyem Winery, Healdsburg, CA
Martorana Family Winery, Healdsburg, CA
Quixote Winery, Napa County, CA
Odette Estate Winery, Napa CA (in-construction)
Sokol Blosser Winery, Oregon
Portland Wine Storage Company, Portland Oregon
The Jess Jackson Sustainable Winery
Building
This $4 million dollar state-of-the-art structure is a shining
example of the industry's commitment to a sustainable future.
It was the first building in California to receive a LEED Platinum
certification and has applied for Net Zero Energy certification
under the Living Building Challenge. Although the facility does
not feature a living roof, it has integrated an impressive
number of cutting edge green technologies. The sustainable
winery building is located at the Mondavi Institute for Wine and
Food Science complex, which is adjacent to U C Davis campus.
Kevin Falkerson of
Symbios will be giving a
lecture to the Healdsburg
Garden Club on February
10th at 2:15-3:00 pm
Villa Chanticleer Annex
1248 North Fitch
Mountain Road
Healdsburg, CA
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