Presenters:

Peter Busby, Managing Director, Busby Perkins+Will, Vancouver, BC

Ray Cole, Professor and past-Director, School of Architecture & Landscape
Architecture, UBC 

Moderator:

Robin Guenther, Principal & Sustainable Healthcare Design Leader at Perkins+Will; Principal author of the Green Guide for Health Care

Regenerative buildings offer the most comprehensive opportunity for rethinking the role of building as a catalyst that can positively support the co-evolution of human and natural systems.  Can we create tools and frameworks that assist us in developing the “new mind” required to shift prevailing design models? The University of British Columbia School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture and Perkins+Will are in the process of developing a framework to support regenerative design in practice – the key elements of this framework and questions will serve as a foundation for the presentation and interactive discussion with workshop participants.  Participants will explore potential ways of envisioning buildings as ‘value adding’ to the places where they are located as a component of a single and co-evolutionary system.

Presenter Bios

Peter Busby
Founding member of CaGBC and past Chair of its Board of Directors; Awarded the Governor General’s Order of Canada In 2005 in recognition of his sustained contribution and service to Canada; Numerous public, professional and academic presentations on green building design.

Ray Cole
Professor and past-Director, School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture, UBC: Past director member of CaGBC; Recipient of 2008 Sustainable Buildings Canada’s Life-time Achievement Award, 2008 Cascadia Fellow, Cascadia Chapter of USGBC/CaGBC, and 2009 CaGBC Life-time
Leadership Award; Holds UBC designation of Distinguished University Scholar.

Robin Guenther
Robin Guenther, Principal & Sustainable Healthcare Design Leader at Perkins+Will; Principal author of the Green Guide for Health Care, the most commonly used method of tracking sustainability in healthcare spaces today: Author of Sustainable Healthcare Architecture, released in 2008; Currently working with US Green Building Council to create LEED for Healthcare Reference Guide; Recipient of the 2005 Changemaker Award from The Center for Health Design for her efforts in improving and supporting the environment.