Presenters:

Peter Rumsey, PE,FASHRAE, RMI fellow; Director of Integral Group Oakland

Trevor Butler-Principal Archineers, Integral group  BC (affiliate) 

Moderator:

Kevin Hydes, PE,PEng  ,CEng , RAIC(hon), Cascadia Fellow; Past Chair Cascadia; Past Chair, USGBC; Past Chair, WorldGBC; Founder CaGBC; LBC Ambassador.

The speakers will focus on the interrelationships between the trends and the techniques of design that influence a continuous search for innovation and ultimately replication. Curiosity is paramount to success as we move towards our goals of living buildings and communities.How do we keep asking open ended questions and avoid falling into cynical and repetitive behavior.

As 3 prominent designers with a collective legacy of 5 decades and dozens of award winning work , the panel will describe principles and approaches to innovation that have worked, partly through project experience partly through personal journey and insight.

The notion of educated incapacity is that the more we learn the less able and open we are to new ideas , unless we continue to look at our work and world , through the eyes of children. That anything is possible..always.The intention of the session is to lay basic building blocks around innovation , how to replicate and how to continually ask “why not?” when faced with traditional response to new thoughts and then engage the broader audience in a dialogue of best tips techniques to take away.

Presenter Bios

Peter Rumsey
Peter has long been noted for his drive and search for engineering excellence in the Green Building community.He has worked internationally , writing energy policy for developing economies and established Rumsey Engineers in 2001 to focus on deep green MEP engineering solutions.
In 2009 He joined the Integral group to gain larger influence on delivering designs around North America and the Globe Hs focus has shifted  to Zero Energy Energy buildings in recent times and is working on increasingly large scale projects taking this path. His current leading edge thinking has moved to a deep understanding of plug loads and their reduction.

Trevor Butler
Trevor arrived to Canada recently from the UK where he had a distinguished career and headed one of the UK’s largest multi discipline firms Green Team. He was voted Green eco warrior by CIBSE in 2007. Trevor has 20 years of practical engineering and architectural innovative experience from projects around the globe ,He worked on the UK eco town projects for the UK govt. before leaving. He currently is involved with large scale urban redevelopments in Montreal , Halifax ,Edmonton and Vancouver. He is a visiting  professor at Dalhousie University school of architecture  and now resides in Kelowna BC working on innovative projects now in Cascadia .

Kevin Hydes
Kevin has dedicated the past 20 years to the movement.In leadership positions as a designer, NGO officer and Business he is always looking to build capacity across the system and a philosophy of continuous  improvement  personally and professionally. His goal when publishing Ecological Engineer  ,was to share techniques that had helped KEEN engineering become green leaders in their field. His belief in systems thinking  and human spirit enable him to work with great teams striving for excellence. He now is building his new firm Integral Group to continue the tradition of leading the industry through collaborative networks.