Ecodistricts are a new, performance-based approach to neighborhood and city planning. Ecodistricts take the goals and principles of green building and stretch them over a neighborhood to achieve deeper, more meaningful sustainability goals than a single building can manage. They will eventually create interconnected infrastructure to more efficiently use resources that individual buildings often waste.

• Participants will be able to propose performance baseline criteria for a city district or neighborhood in terms of Building Energy Use, Water Use, and Vehicle Miles Traveled, and set performance goals based on these baselines
•  Participants will be able to construct a framework for building community involvement and commitment towards achieving district performance goals against an established benchmark
• Participants will be able to identify and employ appropriate tools for improving existing building operations
• Participants will be able to evaluate district infrastructure solutions for different neighborhood types

About our presenter:

Brian Geller, Associate AIA, LEED AP | ZGF Architects

Brian has worked for ZGF architects as a sustainable designer since 2008, overseeing sustainable design of major projects at the Seattle office, including Seattle’s King Street Station and Nintendo of America’s new corporate headquarters in Redmond, WA. He won the 2008 national Natural Talent Design Competition hosted by the U.S. Green Building Council. Brian started the Seattle 2030 District in December of 2009 and has been acting as its director since then. Brian has a Masters Degree in Architecture from Parsons School of Design and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Skidmore College.

Agenda:

Networking & Continental Breakfast - 7:30 - 8:00 am

Program - 8:00 am - 9:00 am

Thank you to our breakfast sponsor, Trane Commercial Systems