Host
"This Old House" and "Ask This Old House"

Nominated for an "Outstanding Service Show Host" Emmy Award in his debut season, Kevin O'Connor is the host of America's favorite home improvement team. This year he enters his sixth season of the Emmy Award-winning PBS series “This Old House” and the Emmy-nominated series “Ask This Old House.”  Mr. O’Connor also serves on the editorial board of This Old House magazine, published by This Old House Ventures, Inc.

Owner
Bensonwood Woodworking Company

Ted Benson is the founder of Bensonwood, a woodworking company specializing in timberframe structures and prefabrication. Since 1974, the company has built over 700 timberframe structures throughout the world. Mr. Benson was instrumental in forming the Timber Framers Guild of North America. Over the past three decades, Mr. Benson’s unwavering search for a new and better way to build has resulted in an exclusive design and building system called Open-Built®. Equally balancing the craft culture of the past with technological advances of the 21st century, Open-Built acknowledges what actually happens in the building process and seeks to eliminate inefficiencies through its unique and adaptable process.

Founding Partner
Kieran Timberlake Associates, LLP

 Steve Kieran is a founder of KieranTimberlake Associates LLP, an award-winning architecture firm noted for its research and innovative design. KieranTimberlake has practiced environmental responsibility since its inception in 1984, long before green design gained the widespread relevance it now enjoys in architectural practice and in the building industry. Mr. Kieran is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design and an Endowed Professor in Sustainability at the University of Washington College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Mr. Kieran is an inaugural recipient of the Benjamin Latrobe Fellowship for architectural design research (AIA College of Fellows).

Thursday, November 20, 2008

7:30am – 8:00am

Continental Breakfast

8:00am – 9:30am

Affordable Green
Using Project Management Tools to Ease the Green Transition
Elegant and Efficient Solutions for our Aging Building Stock
USGBC Alliance Building

10:00am – 11:30am

Costs of Going Green
Extreme Green
Green Production Homebuilding: State-of-the-Art
The Midrise Dilemma

11:30am – 2:00pm

Exhibit Hall Access

2:30pm – 4:00pm

General Session - The Future of the American Home: Kevin O'Connor, Tedd Benson, Steve Kieran

The American home has changed dramatically over the past 100 years and these changes will accelerate over the next 50 years. What will tomorrow’s homes look like, how will they be built, how will we live?

The American home is unique throughout the world, a reflection of the unique American way of life. Framed with wood, built on site, located far from urban centers, filled with amenities, and surrounded by large swaths of land, the size of our homes is surpassed only by the resources they consume – features that reflect a boundless country with abundant wealth.

Is this model sustainable? What changes are likely over the next 50 years that will see 135 million new Americans and 65 million new homes? Hear from two renowned thinkers and practitioners on the subject in a lively discussion moderated by the Host of the acclaimed television series This Old House.

4:00pm – 5:30pm

High Performance Renovations
Marketing Green
Transformational Development: Integrating Environmental, Social, and Economic Responsibility

4:30pm – 6:00pm

Green Products and Technologies: Making Sound Choices in the Age of Hype

5:30pm – 7:00pm

Closing Reception