Presenters:

Peter Busby, Busby Perkins + Will, Vancouver, BC

Jennifer Sanguinetti, Stantec, Vancouver, BC

James Tansey,  Offsetters Climate Neutral Society

Convener:

Kathy Wardle, Busby Perkins + Will Vancouver, BC

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With buildings responsible for more than 40 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, how can we design buildings that are carbon neutral? Can good building design enable us to reach carbon neutrality or do we require carbon offsets? This session will present projects designed by Busby Perkins+Will and Stantec Consulting that are striving for carbon neutrality and Offsetters.ca will explore the complexities of the carbon offset market.

Presenter Bios

As Managing Director of Busby Perkins+Will, Peter is involved in the design and sustainable direction of each project the firm engages. A founding member of the Canada Green Building Council, Peter is recognized internationally as a leader in green building design and Busby Perkins+Will is considered one of North America’s leading green practices with the largest portfolio of built green projects in Canada. With more than 20 years of successful projects completed under Peter’s guidance and across market sectors, the firm has received more than 90 design honours including 6 Governor General Awards, 9 Lieutenant Governor Awards, and an American Institute of Architects Top 10 Green Building Award for the City of White Rock Operations Building, the first new building in Canada to be certified LEED Gold. In recognition of his professional and community contributions, Peter was admitted to the College of Fellows of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 1997.

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Jennifer is one of Stantec’s original environmental design leaders and currently manages Stantec's Concepts group, a team that specializes in sustainable design services, looking for opportunities to optimize a client's building for the occupants, the environment and the bottom line. She is also one of Stantec's energy specialists with considerable expertise in both building and community scale energy choices, and seeks low-tech solutions for her sustainable designs, with a preference for simple designs, with more natural systems. She is a LEED Canada faculty member and a member of one of the Canada Green Building Council's LEED assessment teams. She was named one of Business in Vancouver's "Top 40 under 40" achievers and entrepreneurs in 2003.

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James Tansey
James co-founded Offsetters Climate Neutral Society in 2005, and currently sits as its Chief Executive Officer. Since 2006, he has been a professor of Business Ethics at the University of British Columbia, jointly appointed between the Sauder School of Business and the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics. James’ research activities cover a number of areas including social enterprise, climate change, and the social impacts and acceptability of new technologies. His current research focuses on emerging international markets for carbon exchange, social determinants of health in developed countries and the governance of biotechnology and genomics in Canada.

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Kathy Wardle
As Associate and Director of Research of Busby Perkins+Will, Kathy directs the firm's national Sustainable Design Initiative. Through her 4 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. 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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