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Our Stellar Speaker Line-Up
inspiring. engaging. knowledgable.expert speakers Living Future 07
A full schedule of workshops and seminars - led by
the leading practitioners in their fields - provides professionals the
means to learn what works, who is making it work, and how they can
integrate these new technologies and processes into their own
practice. We will explore the ways in which our built environment
impacts human health, how building performance relates to safer and
healthier environments and how renewable energy plays the key role in
making it all happen. But what makes Living Future 07 so special, is
the opportunity for professionals from so many fields the chance to
join a community that complements their own work. |
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Partner Cobalt Engineering Albert T. Bicol, P.Eng, LEED AP
“Sustainability is not an option. Our actions today affect the lives of tomorrow.” Albert Bicol champions the use of sustainable solutions in his projects. He has extensive expertise in modeling building energy usage, thermal comfort and indoor air quality conditions. He has spearheaded the company’s education in energy and thermal comfort simulation, introducing and overseeing the implementation of several different programs.Albert has a wide range of experience in Canada and the U.S. including the Sustainable Master Plan Design for the Kwantlen University college and a ‘heritage’ retrofit for the Edgewater Casino (the largest application of displacement delivery ventilation in North America). Other projects include building systems modeling and design for the Montenay Burnaby Incineration Plant’s office building, a fully underground library for a private college (both with a goal of zero net purchased energy/GHG emissions) and a new 75,000 SF lab-based teaching facility for the University of British Columbia. Albert provided the concept design for the new Langara College Library, which won an international Holcim Award. Albert’s latest project includes leading the Sustainable Master Planning of the 20-building (8 city blocks) site for Southeast False Creek, the future home of the 2010 Olympic Athletes villages. As a LEED Accredited Professional, Albert performed reviews for the USGBC on projects applying for LEED certification and now heads Cobalt’s team for the review of project applications for the Canada Green Building Council. He was also recently appointed by the City of Vancouver Council to serve on its Urban Design Panel – only the second mechanical engineer to serve in this capacity. |
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Sustainable Building Analyst, Stantec Alex Hutton, P. Eng, LEED AP
As part of Stantec’s Concepts Group, Alex specialises in sustainability consulting; analysing resource and energy flows within new and existing buildings, as well as community scale developments. She assists green design initiatives through energy and thermal modeling, life-cycle cost analysis, greenhouse gas quantification, existing building audits, LEED facilitation and coordination, research, and incentive procurement. |
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Director Sustainable Building Practices, RAFN Company Ann SchuesslerAnn joined the Rafn Company in 1990 and has worked in various capacities as a project engineer, foreman, estimator, projectmanager, and project superintendent. Her immersion in innovative environmentally-friendly construction has earned her recognition throughout the industry, and is a resource for the Rafn Company. Ann is committed to changing today’s “standard building practices” in a way that will benefit our society, our environment and our economy. |
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Senior Consultant, Paladino & Company Barbara Erwine, LEED AP
Barbara is a nationally recognized expert in lighting, daylighting, and the integration of the two. For the past 20 years Barbara has consulted on over 150 projects, providing clients with highly productive, highly energy-efficient and cost-effective spaces. She has also created tools to assist in the design of well-daylit spaces such as a computer-based tool to predict daylight levels in commercial buildings.She participated on the steering committee that developed the Lighting Design Lab in Seattle, a nationally acclaimed facility that performs extensive modeling and simulations. Barbara has also written and spoken extensively on the topic, and most recently co-authored the daylighting chapter of the California Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS). In addition to running green building projects, Barbara also leads the firm's research and post occupancy evaluation team. She participated in the seminal Heschong Mahone Daylighting Study, which directly correlated student achievement with the amount and quality of daylight. Barbara conducted applied research on building performance in her roles as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Research Assistant and City of Seattle Building Energy Research Specialist. She also served as the lead consultant on the Washington Sustainable Schools Pilot Program research project into the cost effectiveness of a LEED-based sustainability protocol on schools. Barbara also serves on Paladino's technical consulting team to the U.S. Green Building Council, conducting LEED Application reviews for a variety of project types and sizes. |
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Principal, BNIM Architects Bob Berkebile, FAIAAny list of accomplished, influential environmentalists and preservationists includes Bob Berkebile. Highly regarded by fellow professionals and recipient of numerous awards, Bob focuses on improving the quality of life in our society with the integrity and spirit of his firm’s work. He is a founding Principal of BNIM Architects and brings over 37 years of experience to the architectural profession.By combining his design and leadership skills, Bob has consistently created new approaches to holistic, integrated community building. He utilizes education, historic preservation, quality housing, mental health and public safety, and neighborhood conservation as tools to restore social, economic and environmental vitality. Bob is a board member of the U.S. Green Building Council, the Nature Conservancy and the Center for Global Community and has been a juror and/or guest lecturer at numerous universities from Harvard to Rice to Cambridge University, United Kingdom, Berkebile and his firm are setting new design standards for resource efficiency at the building and community scales including energy, materials and human resources on a broad range of projects including Greening of the White House, Greening of the Pentagon, Greening of the Grand Canyon, two facilities at the University of Texas at Houston, and a 3,000-acre redevelopment in North Charleston, South Carolina. As one of the nation’s leading authorities in the field of sustainable design, Bob was the founding chairman of the AIA’s National Committee on the Environment. He has conducted numerous sustainable design charettes and workshops for the National Park Service, the US Department of Energy, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Canadian Provincial Architects. He has been particularly effective in assisting opponents with diverse attitudes to identify their common interest and collectively apply their resources for the common good. For this reason, local municipalities, national organizations, universities, governors, U.S. Senators and Representatives, and organizations such as the National Trust for Historic Preservation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Urban Land Institute seek his advice and participation. He was a delegate to the Earth Summit in Rio and has presented lectures and workshops at international environmental conferences in Stockholm, Helsinki, Cambridge, Caracas, Vancouver, and Ottawa. Berkebile assisted the National Park Service (NPS) and the International Eco-Tourism Society in assembling and organizing a diverse team of 80 consultants who traveled to Maho Bay in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands to establish these guidelines during an intensive one-week workshop co-led by Berkebile and John Reynolds, Deputy Director of NPS. The Denver Service Center of NPS published the results in the fall of 1993. Berkebile has conducted national and regional workshops for the NPS since 1991. These workshops have focused on sustainable strategies, with scope and audiences varying from conservation and Interpretation, to design and construction, to management and operations. |
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Chris Webb, PE
Christopher J. Webb is a licensed professional civil engineer in the States of Washington and Oregon and a LEED™ Accredited Professional whose passion and technical expertise is focused on providing civil engineering designs that demonstrate the highest degree of sustainability and are based on ecological principles. Chris is a frequent speaker on the technical aspects of sustainability as it is applied in civil engineering. Chris’ sustainable development project experience includes working with many local and state governments, private and public entities, utilities, and non-profit groups. As the principal of Chris Webb and Associates, he works as part of diverse design teams across the spectrum of project scales from the single lot to large multi-unit developments and from master planning through permitting and construction documents. |
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Clark Brockman, AIA, LEED AP
Clark brings over 18 years of architectural experience to SERA that spans across an array of project sizes & types, including complex renovations, schools, affordable housing, churches and aquatic centers. Technically oriented and an excellent communicator, he particularly enjoys facilitating and participating in group processes whether they are related to projects or policy. He is involved with many of SERA's LEED projects as an in-house coordinator and he works within (and outside of) SERA's office to promote sustainability, believing the Northwest must continue to raise the bar in this area. In this capacity he speaks regularly at Natural Step workshops on sustainability within the workplace, summarizing SERA's processes and continued progress in this area. Clark served for 6 years as a member of the City of Portland's Adjustment Committee and is currently a member of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council Board of Directors, the Oregon Natural Step's Advisory Board and is also a Steering Committee member of the Portland Chapter AIA's Committee on the Environment (COTE). He has a Bachelor of Environmental Design from the University of Colorado, and is a registered Architect in the states of Colorado and Washington. Prior to working at SERA Clark and his wife Kacia took an 18 month sabbatical touring Asia by bicycle. They also enjoy sea kayaking, backcountry skiing and practicing yoga together. |
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Cynthia GirlingAssociate Professor Cynthia Girling is Director of the Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design Programs at the University of British Columbia. . Her research focuses on neighborhood scale planning, open space systems and design for stormwater management. With Professor Ronald Kellett, she co-directs the neighborhoodsLAB, an interdisciplinary research and community service group who are collaborators in the UBC Design Centre for Sustainability The lab creates tools and processes to assist communities with designing neighborhoods that are more energy conserving, lower environmental impact, of better design quality and more affordable. They are co-authors of Skinny Streets and Green Neighborhoods Design for Environment and Community, (Island Press, 2005). With Kenneth Helphand, Girling co-authored Yard Street Park the Design of Suburban Open Space in 1994. |
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Manager of Planning and Sustainability for the UniverCity Project at Simon Fraser University Dale MikkelsenDale Mikkelsen is the Manager of Planning and Sustainability for the UniverCity Project at Simon Fraser University – a community being developed around “Four Cornerstones of Sustainability”, including Environment, Equity, Education, and Economy. Dale was formerly the lead project planner for the 2010 Athlete’s Village for the City of Vancouver, and acted as the City’s Green Building Planner. Dale has a graduate degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of British Columbia. He is a board member for the Cascadia Chapter of the Canadian and US Green Building Council, and sits on the British Columbia Green Building Round Table. Dale is a father of 2 wonderful little kids, and tries to live an active and sustainable lifestyle as a model for his children. |
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Dr. David KortenDr. David C. Korten is the author of The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community. His previous books include the international bestseller When Corporations Rule the World; and The Post-Corporate World: Life after Capitalism. Korten is co-founder and board chair of the Positive Futures Network, which publishes YES! A Journal of Positive Futures; founder and president of the People-Centered Development Forum; a founding associate of the International Forum on Globalization; a board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE); and a member of the Social Ventures Network, and the Club of Rome. He holds MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the Stanford Business School, has thirty years experience as a development professional in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and has served as a Harvard Business School professor, a captain in the US Air Force, a Ford Foundation Project Specialist, and a regional adviser to the US Agency for International Development. He is known internationally through his writing and lectures as a leading critic of corporate globalization and visionary proponent of a planetary system of local living economies based on the organizing principles of healthy eco-systems and properly regulated market economies. |
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Deb GuentherDeb Guenther is a landscape architect and senior associate with Mithun. She brings an interest in creating sustainable and visually engaging places to her projects. These have included Nordheim Court, LEED™ certified student housing for the University of Washington; Teton Science School in Jackson, Wyoming; South Lake Union Sustainable Resource Guide for the Urban Environmental Institute; System-Wide Urban Design and Landscape Study and West Seattle station designs for the Seattle Monorail Project; and the parks and infrastructure strategies for Seattle's IMPLEMENT, a sustainable program tool. Prior to joining Mithun, Deb worked with HOK/DC on the headquarters for the National Wildlife Federation (a 2001 AIA COTE Top Ten Green award winner), the Nature Conservancy (one of the original LEED™ pilot projects) and the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam that achieved the GSA sustainable benchmarks. |
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Dennis J. WildeDennis has been active in construction and real estate development since 1980. Before joining GED as a senior project manager, Dennis was the vice president of a large regional construction company. He has guided GED's efforts introducing environmentally responsible efforts in all of their projects over the last 8 years. The firm has succeeded in demonstrating that building and managing projects with an environmental ethic is good business. In addition to his construction background, Dennis has more than twenty years of experience in urban planning and design. His education includes master's degrees in both Architecture and City and Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania. Dennis is also active as a board member of The Oregon Natural Step Network and Caldera. He and his wife Jean, live in Portland, they have two grown children, Kirsten and Patrick. |
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Freda Pagani, Ph. D
Freda Pagani is the Director of Sustainability at the University of British Columbia. She is responsible for assisting the university community in implementing a Sustainable Development Policy which calls for the university to demonstrate the means to a sustainable community on the campus. In her previous role as Associate Director, Campus Planning and Development, she was responsible for more than half a billion dollars worth of new projects. During that time she initiated the concept of the C. K. Choi Building for the Institute of Asian Research as a demonstration green building. This building has received numerous awards and is visited regularly by delegations from around the world. Freda is a registered architect and has recently completed a Ph. D. at the University of British Columbia. Her research topic was using creativity in the project design process for more sustainable buildings. She believes that sustainability is a value and that each of us must take responsibility for contributing to the goal of creating equitable, cohesive and just communities while minimizing our impact on the natural environment. |
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Founder, Architecture 2030 Edward Mazria, AIAEdward Mazria, mastermind of the 2030 Challenge, kicks off Living Future 07. Edward Mazria, AIA is an internationally recognized architect, author, educator and founder of Architecture 2030, a non-traditional and flexible organization focused on protecting our global environment.His distinguished career includes award winning architecture and planning projects that employ cutting-edge environmental approaches to its design. His published material includes The Passive Solar Energy Book, his strategy for addressing today’s most pressing global challenge, climate change, in his article “It’s the Architecture Stupid!” and in subsequent pieces “Turning Down the Global Thermostat” and “Blueprint for Disaster”. Mazria is the recipient of numerous awards including multiple AIA Design Awards, Commercial Building Awards from the Department of Energy, “Pioneer Award” from the American Solar Energy Society and an Outstanding Planning Award from the American Planning Association. |
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Director- Northwest Certified Forestry Ian HannaIan is a forest products market development expert, with a broad background in ecosystem forestry, small-scale manufacturing, FSC market development, and wood product sales. Prior to joining NNRG in June of 2004, Ian provided market and business development consulting for clients involved in FSC and other regional certification programs. His experience includes national level market development for FSC and reclaimed wood products as a regional manager for Certified Wood & Paper Association and Certified Forest Products Council. Ian also co-founded Windfall Lumber in Olympia, one of the first FSC businesses in western Washington. Previous to the sustainable forest products industry, Ian was a restoration ecologist with the Nature Conservancy of Washington. He holds a B.S. in Ecological Sciences from The Evergreen State College. His professional affiliations include the Washington Farm Forestry Assocation, Cascadia Region and U.S. Green Building Councils, and Northwest Ecobuilding Guild. |
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James Weiner, AIA
James Weiner, a principal with Collaborative Design Studio, is senior LEED faculty, serves on the USGBC Professional Education Committee and is principal designer of award-winning LEED projects. He has been a practicing architect for more than 20 years and is a frequent educator, workshop coordinator, and panelist on a variety of topics for groups including the American Library Association, Community College Facilities Coalition, Pitzer College, UCLA, USC, UCSB, SCI-ARC, Association of Energy Engineers, American Solar Energy Society, the International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment, AIA, ASHRAE, CTAC, Energy Resource Center, and the USGBC. He is an original instigator of the Greenbuild Slam. |
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CEO, Cascadia Region Green Building Council Jason F. McLennan, LEED AP
Jason is a nationally recognized leader in the sustainable building industry. He is trained as an architect and has been a principal at BNIM, an architecture firm in Kansas City and an innovative force in green building for the last decade. As a thought leader on sustainable issues, Jason is highly attuned to the challenges and opportunities that exist in this period of rapid transformation in the building and development industry. He brings a desire to create change and recognizes that the Cascadia chapter is in a unique leadership position nationally as USGBC and Canada Green Building Council's most mature chapter. He is personally connected to the Northwest and Lower Mainland as someone born and raised in Canada and who received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Oregon. |
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Johanna Brickman
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J.H. Heerwagen & Associates, Inc. Judith H. Heerwagen, Ph.D
Dr. Heerwagen is an environmental and evolutionary psychologist whose work focuses on the links between building design and human health, well being, and productivity. Prior to starting her own business, Dr. Heerwagen was a senior research scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and a research faculty member at the University of Washington, College of Architecture and Urban Planning. She has lectured widely on sustainability and bio-centric design and is currently co-editing a book on Biophilic Design: Theory, Research and Practice to be published by John Wiley in 2007. She is the author or coauthor of numerous other articles and book chapters on workplace productivity, biophilia, and habitability. She has conducted numerous post occupancy evaluations of sustainable buildings, including the Philip Merrill Environmental Center in Annapolis, the Herman Miller Greenhouse, and Seattle City Hall. She also is working with the U.S. General Services Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of California, Berkeley on the development of a protocol for assessing sustainable buildings, using organizational metrics, on site measures of physical conditions, and occupant surveys. In 2005 she was selected as an “environmental champion” by the American Society of Interior Designers. |
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Julie SilasJulie Silas, JD is with the Healthy Building Network, a national network of green building professionals, environmental and health activists, sociallyresponsible investment advocates and others who are interested in promoting healthier building materials as a means of improving public health and preserving the global environment. Ms Silas is a lawyer with more than fifteen years experience in health and environmental advocacy. She is on the project team for the Pharos Project and is a consultant to Kaiser Permanente's Sustainable Fabric Alliance. Before joining Healthy Building Network, she was Program Director for San Francisco Bay Area Physicians for Social Responsibility and co-chair of Health Care Without Harm's Safer Materials workgroup, partnering with health care Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs), manufacturers, health systems, individual institutions, and health care practitioners to promote more environmentally responsible practices within the health care system. Ms. Silas's written work has been published and distributed in journals and magazines, as well as to community-based organizations throughout the country. |
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Kathy Wardle, MES, BA, LEED AP
As Associate and Director of Research of Busby Perkins+Will, Kathy directs the firm's national Sustainable Design Initiative. Through her 5 years at Busby Perkins+Will she has amassed considerable experience with the LEED rating system, high performance green buildings and the Integrated Design Process, managing certification for a number of the firm's buildings including the successful LEED Gold White Rock Operations Center, and overseeing product research and feasibility studies for the firm. She has a strong commitment to sustainable design and construction and has a detailed knowledge on sustainable product procurement. Kathy is active in the local green building community and often disburses her green knowledge through courses and lectures to diverse groups and through her involvement on project integrated design teams. |
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Chair-Elect, World Green Building Council Kevin Hydes, P.Eng., PE, C.Eng., FCIBSEKevin is the current Chair of the World Green Building Council, past chair of the USGBC, past Chair of the Cascadia Chapter, Founder & Director of the CaGBC and he is also a CaGBC LEED Faculty Member. Recognized for his contribution to the building community, Kevin is also an honorary member of the AIBC & RAIC. Kevin's sustainable vision led to the achievement of the first LEED Gold Certified project in Canada and the first LEED-EB Gold Certified project in North America. His enthusiasm has motivated the successful completion of 14 LEED Certified projects with more than 30 registered projects awaiting official certification. Kevin is Vice President of Buildings Engineering and Sector Leader for Sustainable Design. This dual role represents Stantec's desire to infuse every practice area with green design. Bringing over 30 years of experience to the industry, Kevin has spent the past 15 years focusing on green design and advancing its cause. Kevin takes an active approach to promoting and supporting the green building marketplace transition here and abroad. |
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Lisa RosenowLisa is a consulting mechanical engineer and certified sustainable building advisor for CDi Engineers in Lynnwood, Washington. In concert with her engineering design and energy evaluation experience in various building sectors such as healthcare, schools, cultural buildings andpublic zoo facilities, Lisa's focus has been as an advocate and educator of sustainable design concepts. She is currently chair of the ASHRAE Puget Sound Chapter TEGA Committee and an active member of various ASHRAE national technical committees that focus on sustainable building design education. |
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Founder & Director, 2020 ENGINEERING Mark BuehrerMark is the founder and director of 2020 ENGINEERING located in Bellingham. He is a registered professional civil engineer, author, and inventor with broad experience in engineering design, construction and project management. Since 1995, 2020 ENGINEERING has been dedicated to providing simple and innovative solutions for the long-term economic and environmental sustainability of local, national and international communities. The firm develops and implements civil engineering designs that utilize the best of today’s conventional engineering practices along with new and alternative technologies. Mark conceived and developed the concept of Wholistic Engineering, which provides an integrated “problem solving” approach that considers all issues and possible conditions related to the development of a project, such as: laws & regulations, social concerns, politics, special interests, economic & environmental issues, technology, and resources. With this philosophy, 2020 ENGINEERING’s site development and water resource management projects received a “whole system” design method that provides practical solutions. 2020’s civil engineering work includes tasks such as Low Impact Development (LID) site design and stormwater management including natural raingarden systems and porous pavements, ecologically based wastewater treatment & water reuse systems, rainwater harvesting, and material recycling and composting, which are designed to help meet sustainable design goals. |
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Technical Director, New Buildings Institute Mark FrankelMark Frankel has been consulting on sustainable design and energy efficiency for 15 years, encompassing a broad range of technical topics, including building and site design, energy use, occupant health, daylighting, high performance mechanical systems, stormwater management, efficient irrigation strategies, and others. This work has included extensive evaluation of comparative life cycle costs for a range of public and private development models. Mark has consulted on hundreds of capital projects, ranging in scale from single and multi-family residential projects to large commercial office buildings all over the country. Prior to joining NBI, Mark worked as a Senior Consultant on sustainable design at Paladino and Co. in Seattle, and as a Consultant on energy efficiency at Ecotope Inc, in Seattle. At NBI, Mark is responsible for the development of technical publications, training material, and program development to support the incorporation of energy efficiency strategies in new commercial construction. NBI works with utilities, government agencies, and other organizations all over the country to research and promote energy efficiency strategies in buildings. |
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Greg NickelsSeattle Mayor Greg Nickels has earned a national reputation for innovative leadership in transportation, public safety, jobs, climate disruption and other challenges facing Seattle. On February 16, 2005, the Kyoto Protocol took effect in the 141 countries that ratified it. That day, Nickels challenged mayors across the country to join Seattle in taking local action to reduce global warming. On March 30, 2005, ten mayors representing more than three million Americans joined together to invite cities from across the country to take additional action to reduce global warming pollution. And on June 13, 2005, the US Conference of Mayors unanimously passed the Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. Cities continue to sign on to the agreement and formalize their commitment. At this time 435 mayors representing 61 million Americans have accepted the challenge. |
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Michelle ConnorMichelle is in charge of implementing the Cascade Agenda, a far-reaching program to conserve more than 1.25 million acres in the Central Cascade region. Michelle has been with Cascade Land Conservancy since 1994, and has been involved in overseeing conservation transactions, stewardship activities and special projects. She has a track record of successful acquisition negotiations accomplished through a wide range of innovative strategies. |
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Paul Anseeuw, P.ENG, LEED AP
Paul has over 28 years experience in the consulting and construction industry. He has successfully applied his expertise to projects all along the West Coast of North America as well as to many countries overseas. Paul is a recognized leader in the sustainable design field with a variety of project types. Paul is a major contributor to Stantec’s commitment to being on the cutting edge of new technology and to sustainable design practices. He is committed to providing clients with innovative solutions through his experience in Green Engineering using resource-efficient designs such as radiant cooling, natural ventilation, renewable energy systems and many other sustainable features. Paul’s passion is working with architects to bring together the emotional green and technical green aspects of a project that creates a sustainable building with true meaning to the design. Paul Anseeuw’s primary responsibilities at Stantec are Senior Design Principal, Stantec Sustainable Solutions (s3) Group Leader, client relations, conceptual design and continuous quality control throughout construction documentation to assure the design concept becomes a reality. Paul leads a highly qualified team of technical experts who all have a passion for sustainable design who are committed creating better places for people and generations to come. Paul provides clients with Stantec Consulting’s quality service, expertise and experience throughout each project. Paul has been a frequent guest lecturer at the UW School of Architecture, a speaker at many AIA events and was on the judge’s panel for the 2002 What Makes It Green and a moderator for the 2004 What Makes It Green panel discussion. He is also a past chair for Cascadia Chapter of the USGBC and currently a board member of the Cascadia Chapter. |
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Penny BondaPenny Bonda, FASID, LEED AP works in the field of environmental communications and is a prominent writer and lecturer. As the Eco Editor of Interior Design magazine, she is a monthly contributor to their online resource, The Green Zone. She is the founding chair of the US Green Building Council committee for LEED Commercial Interiors and the ASID Sustainable Design Council, and is currently the co-chair of the Green Residential Renovation and Interior Remodeling Program.Bonda serves on the ASID Foundation Board of Trustees, Council for Interior Design Accreditation Standards Council, and the USGBC’s LEED training faculty. She was named to the National Register of Peer Professionals for GSA’s Design Excellence Program. Bonda is the recipient of ASID’s 2007 Designer of Distinction award and the 2003 USGBC Leadership Award. She authored Creating Sustainable Interiors, a monograph for NCIDQ and is co-author of a book, Sustainable Commercial Interiors, published by Wiley & Sons. |
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Associate, Arup Peter AlspachPeter Alspach is a mechanical engineer in Arup’s Seattle office and Arup's lead building physics analyst for their North American offices. He is a specialist in the design of low energy HVAC systems for a wide variety of building types, including commercial offices, educational facilities, museums, laboratories, and theaters. His expertise also includes the design and analysis of active and passive renewable energy systems as well as advanced facade systems. Peter also works with clients to develop long term energy master plans for campuses and communities, examining both supply and demand with a focus on environmental and economic sustainability. |
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Peter DobrovolnyPeter Dobrovolny is the Commercial Specialist on the City of Seattle’s Green Building Program. In this role he works with the private sector development community to fulfill the mission of the City’s Sustainable Building Policy and other City of Seattle initiatives to accelerate green building in the private sector of Seattle. Among many other projects, Peter administers the City of Seattle’s LEED™ Incentive and Built Green™ Incentive Programs which provides up-front, soft-cost assistance to projects whose design and development teams commit to having their project comply with LEED™ or Built Green™ registration and certification. Prior to this City of Seattle employment, Peter attended the University of Washington, receiving a Master of Urban Planning degree. Peter has over twenty years experience as a solar architect, practicing in Basalt, Colorado. He is the recipient of a number of local and national awards for energy efficient design projects. Peter has participated in the American Solar Energy Society, as well as in numerous local community planning and energy issues. In addition to a Master of Urban Planning, Peter holds a Bachelor of Architecture and is a member of the American Institute of Architects and American Planning Association. He is a registered architect in Colorado and sits on the board of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council. |
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Peter Steinbrueck, FAIA
Peter Steinbrueck was first elected to the Seattle City Council in 1997, and is now serving his third term, through 2007. Steinbrueck is the Chair of the Urban Development and Planning Committee. Steinbrueck, a licensed architect, has a passion for the urban environment and is currently focused on finding ways to improve and enhance our Central Waterfront, as well as finding ways to make downtown Seattle more livable for people of all incomes, especially families. |
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Ralph DiNola, LEED AP
Ralph Dinola serves as a green building consultant and project manager on numerous LEED™ registered projects. He has extensive experience with the LEED documentation process and the costs associated with green building. He also assists in conceptual design for green building strategies, green product specifications, and project feasibility studies, as well as plan and specification analysis for projects seeking LEED certification. Ralph specializes in green building workshops, the facilitation of eco-charrettes, as well as delivering the LEED Advanced Training Workshop as a LEED Advanced Faculty member. Ralph has over 10 years of experience as a designer and historic preservation specialist. He was project manager for LEED documentation for the Ecotrust Natural Capital Center, the first LEED Gold certified historic renovation in the U.S. He was also instrumental in developing LEED documentation for Viridian Place, the first LEED certified building in the Pacific NW. While working as a historic preservation specialist with the National Park Service (NPS), Ralph helped to preserve and restore more than 50 architecturally significant structures. While at Roger Williams University, Ralph was also honored with the Historic Preservation Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement. |
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Stuart CowanStuart Cowan is a General Partner of Autopoiesis LLC (www.apoiesis.com), which offers research, design, development, and finance services for green development and bioregional restoration projects. He is the co-author with Sim Van der Ryn of Ecological Design, recently reissued in an updated 10th Anniversary Edition from Island Press. He was a Transaction Manager at Portland Family of Funds, a community investment bank committed to green real estate projects and sustainable businesses. He led a research team at Ecotrust in the development of an innovative framework for bioregional sustainability (www.conservationeconomy.neT). He received his doctorate in living systems at U.C. Berkeley. |
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Principal, atelierjones Susan Jones, AIAatelierjones specializes in architecture and planning, with a particular focus on sustainable urban housing. The firm is led by Susan Jones, AIA, Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Washington. The firm focuses on sustainable urban housing projects, large scale urban design, and smaller scale design projects. Recent projects include sustainable housing projects in the urban northwest, retrofit of existing urban buildings and spaces, developing urban waterfront visions for the cities of Seattle, Bellinghma and La Conner, corporate and family retreats and several small identity projects. With 20 years of experience in large urban scale projects as a former design partner of nbbj, her work has won multiple design awards and been published nationally and internationally. Susan grew up in Bellingham, Washington, received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Stanford in 1983 and her Masters in Architecture from Harvard in 1988. She is registered in over 15 states as a professional architect, in additioin to being a LEED accredited professional. She spend several years working in cities around the word, both as a Fulbright Scholar and as an architect, including San Francisco, Boston, Vienna and Berlin. |
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Recovery 1 Terry GillisTerry Gillis is the Managing Owner of Recovery 1, Inc. a Construction, Demolition and Land-clearing debris recycling company located in Tacoma, Washington. 1.15-Million Tons of CDL-debris has been processed by Recovery 1 with an overall recycling rate of 98%. The company was recently awarded King Counties Green Globe Award for Leadership in Market Development and last year Terry was inducted into the Washington State Recycling Associations Hall of Fame. Terry is obsessed with the concept that waste is a resource out of place and is driven to find new and innovative ways to convert refuse into resources. |
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President, Canada Green Building Council Thomas MuellerThomas Mueller has 20 years experience in sustainable resource management and planning for urban sustainability in local government, consulting and non-profit environment. He has been President of the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) since July 2005. The CaGBC is a national coalition of leaders in the building industry, with the mission to advance and promote green building design, construction and operation, along with sustainable community development in Canada. Thomas was a Director of the Canada Green Building Council since its inception in 2002. He chaired the LEED BC Steering Committee responsible for the first adaptation of LEED building rating system outside the U.S. Thomas chaired the Vancouver Chapter of the CaGBC from 2002-2005 and is a past Board member of the USGBC Cascadia Chapter. Over the past 12 years, Thomas has held various positions in the Policy & Planning Department of the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) focusing on advancing demand side management strategies in the business sector. In his last position with the District he was Division Manager, Business & Community Services. Thomas has an Undergraduate Degree in Geography, Planning and Applied Ecology from the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany; and a Master's degree in Regional Planning & Resource Development from the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He is a LEED accredited professional and a provisional member of the Canadian Institute of Planners. |
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Tom Marseille, PE, LEED AP
Tom's passion is to deliver high performance, healthy building solutions that provide triple bottom line value. An author of numerous published papers and journal articles, Tom has a diverse technical background that underpins his current mechanical sustainable design focus and helped foster the integrative thinking such work demands. Tom started his career at Carrier Air Conditioning, gaining a strong fundamental and practical understanding of HVAC&R equipment and systems that have been foundational to his career. After receiving his post-graduate degree at UC-Berkeley Tom joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratories. As a senior research scientist there he engaged in building’s research, with an emphasis on the development and simulation of advanced building energy systems and equipment fault diagnostics. He also investigated the environmental benefits and tradeoffs of non-CFC alternative refrigerants. During the mid-90s Tom worked as an energy and IAQ consultant and design engineer for Grumman/Butkus Associates in Chicago. Here he integrated a life cycle cost methodology into optimization studies for new and existing buildings. He also assisted clients with energy procurement, utility demand side management programs, campus and district cooling and heating, load curtailment strategies and the use of energy performance contracts for capital renewal and conservation acquisition. Prior to returning to the Northwest in 2004, Tom was a founding member of Honeywell’s building and energy information services business, serving in the role of director of technology and analytic services. Here he led development of the technology, analytic techniques and business processes needed to collect, store, analyze, aggregate and deliver enterprise wide interval energy and building information to multi-site clients, helping them close the gap between design intent and real building performance. Tom’s current role is Managing Principal at Stantec’s Seattle office. He is proud to be a member of a practice that boasts numerous award winning sustainable designs and a team of bright green consulting professionals. Tom is currently a member of the USGBC/ASHRAE/IESNA jointly sponsored technical Committee tasked with drafting the first ANSI-accredited high performance green building standard. The USGBC’s goal for this standard perfectly aligns with Tom’s aspiration to help bring sustainable building practices into the mainstream. |
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Tom Paladino, PE, LEED AP, Associate AIA
A nationally recognized leader in the green building industry, Tom is the founder and president of Paladino & Company. Drawing upon his technical expertise in both architecture and engineering, Tom brings innovative ideas, a building science knowledge and perspective, and a proven process for design integration to the over 250 green and LEED projects he has consulted on. From concept and system design assistance, to cost/benefit evaluation and analysis, Tom contributes inspiration, expertise, and implementation-focused tools to each project team. Credited with creating the widely adopted Eco Charrette method, Tom is also a significant contributor to the development of the LEED Green Building Rating System: his firm conducted the LEED Pilot Program, authored the LEED 2.0 Reference Guide, and continues to serve as certification reviewers on behalf of the U.S. Green Building Council. Tom was Vice Chair of the USGBC Board and was formerly co-chair of the LEED Steering Committee. As a past chair of the Seattle AIA Committee on the Environment, Tom helped found the City of Seattle Sustainable Building Task Force, a regional initiative that ultimately led to the adoption of LEED by the City of Seattle, the first city in the country to do so. He recently received the 2005 Betterbricks award for leadership and excellence in high performance buildings. |
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Starbucks Coffee Company Tony Gale, FAIA
For over thirty years Tony Gale has been a prime motivator in the development of environmentally sensitive design at the building and city scale. His reputation in this pursuit promoted him to City Architect for Seattle in 1999 and to the 146 year-old American Institute of Architects College of Fellows in 2003. Most recently, in October 2006 he was elected to the USGBC’s Board of Directors’ corporate retail seat. For over thirty years Tony Gale has been a prime motivator in the development of environmentally sensitive design at the building and city scale. His reputation in this pursuit promoted him to City Architect for Seattle in 1999 and to the 146 year-old American Institute of Architects College of Fellows in 2003. |
