Join green building professionals, researchers, decision makers, and industry for an interactive dialogue on effective strategies to enhance sustainable building on Vancouver Island. Participants will have a chance to identify challenges and share new ideas on how we can work collaboratively to develop the next generation of green buildings.

Keynote presenter: Jessica Woolliams, BC Co-Director, Cascadia Region Green Building Council

Jessica will be discussing the future of buildings. The talk will cover LEED, the Living Building Challenge, and Cascadia's recent Code Analysis for Affordable Housing Projects (Commissioned by the City of Vancouver and Clark County, WA, this prototypical study is a comprehensive analysis of the city and county's land use, development and building codes against the goals of the Living Building Challenge).

Jessica Woolliams has been working to mainstream sustainable buildings through advancing critical policy, programs and training for almost a decade. Jessica comes to Cascadia from Light House Sustainable Building Centre, where she was a founding director. Jessica brings extensive green building consulting experience in both the public and non-profit realms. Through her work at Harvard University she managed the design and implementation of Harvard’s first GHG Inventory, Harvard’s first LEED certification and Harvard's first renewable energy purchases that brought Harvard to being the 2nd largest higher-educational purchaser of green power in North America. As a consultant, Jessica was helped establish Green Buildings BC, Canada's first green building program in 2000. Jessica has published both academically and professionally and has lectured at Harvard, BCIT, SFU and UBC.

$20 per person including lunch.  Directions to the University club can be found here