Wednesday, Nov. 19, 3:00pm - 6:00pm

OF09 Solar Powered Green Television Studio
Location: 1 Guest Street
This educational forum will trace the decisions and difficulties of the process from design through construction, commissioning and occupancy, describing the tradeoffs and challenges involved in realizing their green goals for the new headquarters and studio complex of Boston’s PBS affiliate, WGBH TV.

Speakers:
David Norton, WGBH TV
Steven Strong, Solar Design Assocaites, Inc.


OF12 Green Schools as Teaching Tools
Location: Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA
This session explores how two technically-oriented schools, the Upper Cape Technical Regional High School and the Cape Cod Community College, have collaborated to optimize funds and facilities for their clean technology programs. Faculty guest speakers from the schools will discuss the use of on-site renewable energy systems as teaching tools and how they combined resources to access federal funding through the National Science Foundation.

Speakers:
Leo Bedard, Upper Cape Technical Regional High School
Richard Lawrence, Cape Cod Community College
Andrea Ranger, KEMA


OF10 Weston Aquatics Center
Location: 508 Boston Post Road
This session will provide an interactive tour of the Weston Solar Aquatics facility. This facility is an example of a plant-based small-footprint advanced treatment plant that cleans wastewater to a high standard while providing an attractive amenity. It is one example of a repertoire of vegetated systems that can clean wastewater and stormwater onsite, providing efficiencies as well as the benefits of greenscapes.

Speakers:
David Del Porto, Ecological Engineering Group
Carol Steinfeld, Ecowaters

Thursday, Nov. 20, 8:00am-11:00am

OF06 Boot Camp for Design Firms
Location: 38 Chauncy Street
This interactive session will present ten easy steps To transform your design practice. Being a truly green design firm depends on more than knowing green products and technologies, but on shifting fundamental business practices and aligning current corporate culture with green project delivery.

Speakers:
Barbra Batshalom, The Green Roundtable
Kathy Wislocky, The Green Roundtable
Siobhan Steyn, The Green Roundtable


OF07 City of Boston LEED Requirements
Location: One City Hall Square
In January 2007, Boston became the first major municipality to use zoning to require that private development projects over 50,000 square feet be planned, designed, and constructed to meet US Green Building Council LEED building rating system requirements. This session will offer the City's perspective on this landmark legislation and highlight other efforts that the City has engaged as a part of its Climate Action Plan.

Speakers:
James Hunt, City of Boston
Kairos Shen, Boston Redevelopment Authority


OF05 The Harvard Sessions
Location: Harvard University
This offsite session will give Greenbuild participants the chance to visit Harvard’s campus and hear directly from a range of campus planners, project managers, building managers, operations staff and green campus staff on a wide range of related topics. Three parallel sessions will be offered including: 1) Planning Design and Construction; 2) Green Building Operations; and, 3) Greening Occupant Behavior.

Speakers:
Doug Garron, Harvard University
Jeffrey Smith, Harvard Unviersity
Nathan Gauthier, Harvard University
Tom Vautin, Harvard University
Jaclyn Olsen, Harvard University


OF13 Walkability: Urban Design to Improve Public Health and Decrease VMT
Location: 155 Seaport Boulevard
Participants will be engaged in discussion, presented successful case studies and asked to brainstorm on the different aspects of development that contribute to walkability and adding components of walkability to the LEED certification process. The workshop will also look at new research related to health benefits of walkable communities and LEED-ND specifically.

Speakers:
Doug Farr, Farr Associates
Wendy Landman, WalkBoston

Thursday, Nov. 20, 3:00pm-6:00pm

OF04 College & Univ - Climate Commitment
Location: 65 Forsyth Street
The American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment is guiding over 400 institutions toward the ultimate goal of climate neutrality. This session will explore a local universities commitment to this important goal.

Speakers:
Gregory T Havens, Sasaki Associates
Elaine Clark, University of Maine


OF01 Implementing Daylight - Harvard
Location: Harvard Design School
This session will introduce ongoing research activities related to daylighting buildings at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). We will cover a whole range of topics from rules of thumb to state-of-the-art simulation techniques. This session will also explore new educational approaches of how to effectively teach these techniques to architects.

Speakers:
Christoph Reinhart, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Jennifer Sze, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Cynthia Kwan, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Diego Ibarra, Harvard Graduate School of Design


OF02 “Revolutionary” Ways to Save Energy and Cut Your Carbon Footprint:
Location: 55 Chapel St.
This session will feature presentations by the architect, engineer and owner involved in the design of the Aircuity Center for Green Building Technology. This ambitious project was designed to be the most sustainable, highest scoring LEED-CI Platinum Project ever done. It also was to incorporate what was likely the largest number of different energy efficient building systems ever included in one facility in the world. Furthermore, it was to be constructed as a historic restoration of about 27,000 sq ft of a 125 year old woolen mill building. Unfortunately, after the detailed design effort of about 100 drawings was completed and bid the project was recently shelved for budget reasons. However, before the project was stopped, all the exterior features of this project such as a white roof, green roof and solar tracking skylights were completed as well as a sustainable interior demolition project.

To accommodate a larger audience, the presentation is now planned to be done at a nearby hotel in Newton, “offsite” from the planned 55 Chapel St., Aircuity Center location. As such no tour will be provided, but the presentations will focus on the many different energy efficient systems and sustainable approaches of the project and the lessons learned from the design and the construction work that was completed before the project was suspended.

Speakers:
Gordon P. Sharp, Aircuity, Inc.
Thomas W. White, Andrew Cohen Architects
David W. Madigan, van Zelm Engineers


OF11 Why We Go Green? Museum, for Profit Developer etc.
Location: 308 Congress Street
Everyone has a different reason for going green. This session will compare and contrast a local health insurance company, a real estate development company, a children’s museum, and an architecture firm—each has different reasons for its commitment to “go green”. Exploring the motivations behind developing green commercial buildings, we will examine the market forces that influence green design and how the definition of green building success varies among markets.

Speakers:
Daniel P. Perruzzi, Jr., Margulies & Associates
Larry Healey, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Donald Oldmixon, Hobbs Brook Management LLC
Amy L. Auerbach, Boston Children's Museum