IONIC and Sustainable Design

Sustainable Design

Assessments / Energy Audits / Energy Modeling / Project Documentation / USGBC Submittals / Commissioning and Start up

Four Square Retail located in Norfolk Virginia

According to the US Green Building Council (USGBC), buildings are responsible for 39% of U.S. CO2 emissions and use 71% of the nation's electricity. Operating with tight margins, retailers are asking IONIC for guidance on designing, constructing and modifying multi-unit buildings to control energy costs and minimize environmental impact.

A USGBC member, IONIC offers "best practices" in sustainable design. Our LEED-accredited professionals (LEED APs) approach sustainable design from a variety of disciplines, including interiors, architecture, and electrical, mechanical and civil engineering.

Smart sustainability solutions strike the right balance between client objectives, and financial requirements.  IONIC understands the importance of evaluating life-cycle cost to benefit, not simply lowest first cost.

Each year more and more companies are making sustainability and energy efficiency a part of their brand. Some choose not to pursue LEED certification because of concerns about cost and speed of the certification process. In response to these justifiable concerns, the USGBC launched the “LEED Volume Program.” This program is most suitable for brands planning to certify a large number of new construction projects or existing buildings.

The new program offers a path to LEED certification that is less complex than the individual certification process. With LEED Volume, a brand can simply create a “prototype” that details how the building will obtain LEED credits and ultimately obtain LEED certification. After receiving USGBC approval, the certified prototype can be used as a template for any other stores the company builds for the same general purpose — meaning that all buildings based on that “prototype” are also LEED certified.

Once a client’s prototype is approved, IONIC acts as LEED advocate, validating the submittal. Whether you are pursuing LEED certification or simply seeking a greater level of efficiency, we will help you determine what level of energy efficiency is best for your company.

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BID ALERT: Wendy's Addition

Please note the Wendy's Addition and Renovations Project located on Independence Blvd in Virginia Beach Virginia is now out of bidding. Project includes renovations of interiors and exterior finishes with an addition onto the front of the existing structure.  Bid requests are being handled directly by Wendy's Corporate.

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Virginia Beach the NBA and IONIC

News from the report about the findings for the new sports arena in Virginia Beach. For a small firm like IONIC it would be difficult to be too involved however our office and designers have worked on multiple sports facilities in different capacities.  IONIC would offer our services to work on all the signage and graphics packages that would be involved with such a facility.  That would be an excellent design project. We can dream can't we?

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Working out at the Beach

Working down at the beach is always a wonderful experience.  Okay it is getting a little cold right now down there but that is when we, as architects, are called upon to begin the process. Work has to be completed within a window that allows construction to be completed during off season and open once the tourists are hitting the waves at the beach. Here are a few rendering of our work begin planned for a new retail and restaurant facility on Atlantic Ave.  SURF'S UP!

 

 

Ionic DeZign Studios, Inc.

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D. Eugene Thompson - Pitcher

D. Eugene Thompson, AIA, NCARB
President/Sr. Architect

D. Eugene Thompson brings an innovative approach to architecture and design. Thompson, founder of the Virginia Beach-based firm Ionic DeZign Studios, has achieved distinction throughout the community as a theorist, artist, teacher, and architect.

Born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Thompson describes his home town as the “Cradle of Architecture”, where he grew up in the shadows of the Price Tower by Frank Lloyd Wright & Shin’en Kan by Bruce Goff-- inventors of architecture in their time… Their examples defy commonality and left a lasting impression, which continues to drive his creative engine; promoting his own new and sophisticated imagery.

Eugene received his Bachelors of Architecture from Oklahoma State University in 1989. He received the William Caudill Traveling Fellowship allowing further studies throughout Europe. He also received the Sydney Katz Memorial Graphics Award for his work in Van Alan International Design Competition for which he earned an Honorable Mention. He has completed extensive studies in lighting design, including those he received while attending the GE Lighting Institute.

 

Most recently Eugene has been working towards implementing ‘green design’ into several large development projects including office buildings, housing developments and entertainment facilities.  All of these projects will be dedicated to sustainable design and intend on becoming a major focus of the firm as these design concepts are incorporated to more of his work.

Thompson is firmly committed to the practice of architecture as a collaborative enterprise, where the architects and designers at Ionic DeZign Studios can foster the connective tissue between an owner and project; allowing for all to participate in the reinvention of architecture.