Presenters:

Jonathan Westeinde
Vice President, Ledcor RENEW
Ledcor Construction Limited

Moderator:

Andrew Hull, Manager, Business Development,
Ledcor Construction Limited

Existing buildings are responsible for 35 percent of carbon emissions in North America and use more than half of our continent’s energy. New construction accounts for only 1.5% of all buildings. If we built all new construction to ILBI standards we would not have a major impact on reducing green house gases (GHGs) over the next 20 years.
 
Participants will learn how our greatest opportunity to reduce GHGs from buildings is by impacting existing buildings in a positive way.
 
Targeted towards designers, suppliers, building owners and building operators, using a combination of formal presentation and thought provoking studies, the panel members will encourage open audience participation to get at the core principles of why building renewal should be an integral part of our thinking and our future.

 
The take away will be an understanding of how a Single Point Accountability approach to Green Performance Solutions™ can make retro-fit of existing buildings profitable, sustainable and create healthier live and work environments.

Presenter Bios

Jonathan Westeinde
Jonathan recently joined Ledcor ‘s Green Building Initiative and has been involved in sustainable building technologies for the last eight years. Jonathan oversaw the greenest mixed use development in North America as CEO of the Windmill Development Group, a leading North American Green Developer. Windmill has achieved LEED® Platinum on three mixed use residential buildings and currently has the highest LEED rated building in the world as part of its Docksidegreen Development. Jonathan also has expertise in distributed utility systems having implemented wasterwater, biomass, solar, passive solar and micro-turbine infrastructure on various
development sites.

Andrew Hull
With 25 years construction experience in Australia and Canada, Andrew emigrated to Canada with his family and joined Ledcor in 2004. With a structural drafting and engineering back ground, he has lead teams on Design Build, Construction Management and Design-Bid-Build projects in the Commercial, Retail, Institutional and Industrial sectors. In 2008 he took on a business development role to grow the Vancouver Island business and oversea marketing and business development on Vancouver Island and Greater Vancouver.

Active in the community and within professional associations, he is a vocal advocate of new technologies and is an early adopter of those technologies that will create a better world for future generations. He was also a finalist in the 2009 Cascadia Region Green Building Council election for board membership.