Presenters:

Peter Wilcox, Economist-Architect-Historian and President, Renewal Associates, Portland, OR

David Eisenberg, Co-founder and Director, Development Center for Appropriate Technology, Tuscon, AZ

Convener:

Clark Brockman, SERA Architects, Portland, OR

Features of this session:
Part I: Developer's Proformae for Very Green Buildings
• Guided tour of the development of a Living Building pro forma: Its components and analysis
• Development strategies: How to make a site reach its highest sustainability potential through integrated financial and physical design
• What are the new goals and methods that Living Buildings require for their appropriate financial analysis

Part II: Getting the Regulatory System to Meet Our Approval
• A co-evolutionary look at sustainability and codes—a larger context for codes, revealing the deeper alignment between regulatory goals and LBC goals - AND showing how the LBC can help shift current regulatory practices toward a more (r)evolutionary paradigm -
• Overview of the LBC Code Barriers White Paper Project: the current work-in-progress to identify and understand code, regulatory and other approvals barriers to Living Building Challenge projects
• Initial insights and observations from the White Paper Project
• How you can help with this process – starting today…

Session attendees will take away:
Part I:
• A basic understanding of financial modeling for real estate projects
• An understanding of the particular financial challenges of revolutionary green projects such as Living Buildings and the new tools that this requires
• How to develop strategies for solving revolutionary green project financial challenges
• How to work interactively with an integrated design, construction, and occupant team to achieve your highest green building goals
• Lessons learned from a Living Building project in construction [by the time of the unconference]
• The perspective of a community and environmentally oriented architect/ developer with over 35 years of experience doing highly green buildings

Part II:
• A larger conceptual and (hopefully) practical understanding of the building and development regulatory realm
• A more detailed understanding of some of the regulatory challenges for Living Building Challenge projects
• Some best practices and potential solutions to the challenges
• A better sense of how you can help identify and address the barriers
• Some approaches to shift the odds for approval in your favor

Presenter Bios

Peter Wilcox
R. Peter Wilcox, President of Renewal Associates LLC, a sustainable development advisory and investment firm, is a trained economist, licensed architect, and multiple award winning green real estate developer. He led Portland Community Design for nearly 10 years as its founder and diretor, and was Multnomah County’s first Housing Director. His advanced degrees are from Dartmouth College (Economics), Cooper Union (Architecture), and U. Cal. Berkeley (Architectural History).  Peter has published many articles and booklets on community and sustainable design through the years, and garnered over a dozen major awards for sustainable design. Peter is currently developing the first LEED (Gold/Platinum) multifamily residential project on the east side of Portland, the Mississippi Avenue Lofts (mississippiavenuelofts.com), and also what will hopefully be one of the first Living Buildings in the nation in the Portland neighborhood of Kenton. Peter has over 35 years of experience in triple bottom line sustainable design, development, policy and education.

Click here to listen to Peter Wilcox's presentation podcast.

David Eisenberg
David is co-founder and Director of the Development Center for Appropriate Technology (DCAT) in Tucson, Arizona. His three decades of building experience range from troubleshooting construction of the cover of Biosphere 2 to building a $2 million structural concrete house, a hypoallergenic structural steel house, and masonry, wood, adobe, rammed earth, and straw bale structures. David has led the decade-long effort to create a sustainable context for building codes. A two-term member of the Board of the U.S. Green Building Council, he founded and chairs the USGBC Codes Committee. He is co-author of The Straw Bale House book and has written dozens of published articles, forewords, book chapters and papers. David and DCAT were named 2007 International Code Council Affiliate of the Year and received a 2007 USGBC Leadership Award.

David Eisenbergs Powerpoint from this presentation is here.

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Clark Brockman
Clark is Director of SERA Architect’s Sustainable Resource Team, as well as Chair-Elect of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council Board and serves on The Oregon Natural Step’s Advisory Board.  He is a green building advisor to policy makers throughout the state.  He is also a frequent lecturer and panel participant on sustainable design, green building policy change, and the impact of the built environment on climate change.  He is conducting green building workshops in China on a US Department of Energy grant.  Clark was the 2007 Oregon Betterbricks award winner in the “Designer” category and was a judge for the USGBC’s first Living Building Challenge competition at Greenbuild 2007.  He was published in Who’s Green? 2008 and in Solar Today in November 2007.

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Audio edited by http://h2opodcast.com.