Educational Sessions
Greenbuild 2007 will feature over 90 educational sessions. The diverse array of sessions will address the full spectrum of green planning, design, construction, operations, and the green building industry.
Sessions by Day:
Blue Series, Wednesday, November 7
2:00-3:30 pm
BL01 A Tale of Two Cities
BL02 Pioneering Thresholds of Sustainable Urbanism
BL03 Case Study of the Gulf Islands National Park Operations Centre
BL04 Open Space Conservation and Green Affordable Housing
BL05 Advancing Green Building in Mexico
BL06 Green Attitudes: The Consumer Mindset
BL07 Carbon is the New Gold
BL08 Indoor Environmental Quality in Healthcare: What About Noise?
BL09 Green Roofs
BL10 Waste Not
BL11 Expanding the Comfort Zone: Increasing Green Building Through Social and Behavioral Change
BL12 Learning from Our Buildings: A New Protocol for Performance Evaluation of Occupied Buildings
BL13 Master Speaker: Thom Mayne
Green Series, Wednesday, November 7
4:00-5:30 pm
GR01 The Development of Sustainable Communities - A Developer's Perspective
GR02 Getting Around the Climate Problem: Streets, Transit, Parking, and Car Dependence
GR03 Achieving Green Goals in Homes
GR04 The Public Health Impact of Building Green Low-Income Housing: Recent Activities in Minnesota, Seattle and at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
GR05 Creating Green Guerrillas: How Chicago is Using Environmental Accountability to Turn Pilots into Programs
GR06 Existing Buildings: They're Everywhere - How to Profit From a New
Market that is Old
GR07 Carbon Reduction: Strategies That Work
GR08 Green Lighting: Getting Beyond Just CFLs
GR09 Taking a Comprehensive Approach to Water Management
GR10 Green Guideline Specifications: taking it public, making it real
GR11 Solar Decathlon: Integrating Green Curriculum for Tomorrow's Professionals
GR12 LEED in Practice
GR13 Master Speaker - Prem Jain
Red Series, Thursday, November 8
8:00-9:30 am
RD01 International Infill and Global Greenfields: Accelerating Large-Scale Green Development Worldwide
RD02 Community Wastewater Systems Provide Environmentally Sound and Cost Effective Solutions
RD03 The Center for Health & Healing: A Green Beginning to a New Community
RD04 Converging on High-Performance Building: Perspectives on Organizational Change from Historic, Affordable and Brownfield (Re)Developers
RD05 Creating and Implementing Sustainable Development Policies in Local Governments and Institutions
RD06 A Business Case for Sustainably Designed Commercial Office Buildings
RD07 New Mexico Climate Change/Green Building Initiative
RD08 Underfloor Air Distribution (UFAD): Energy Performance and Cost Effectiveness
RD09 From Winter Gardens to Desert Tents: Advancements in the Science of Facade Design
RD10 California Raises the Bar: Environmental Product Standards and Specifications
RD11 How an Urban University Reflects and Reinforces Portland's Leadership in Sustainability
RD12 The Right Tool for the Job: The Wows and Woes of Modeling Green Buildings
RD13 Master Speaker - Sadhu Johnston
Specialty Updates:
RD14 How To Build a LEED School: Saving Money through Best Practices and Integrated Design
RD15 Green Residential Remodeling Guidelines
RD16 Solar Decathlon '07: Highlights from the Winning Team
RD17 Green in the Academy: Sustainability in the Design Curriculum
RD18 ASHRAE's Advanced Energy Design Guides and LEED
Orange Series, Thursday, November 8
10:00-11:30 am
OR01 From Great Streets to Green Streets: Integrating Sustainable Street Design into the Urban Landscape
OR02 Brilliant Communities: The Role of Utilities in Advancing Smart and Green Neighborhoods
OR03 Solar Umbrella House: Responsible Living for the 21st Century
OR04 The Land Ethic: A Convergence of Ecology, Aesthetics, and Engineering
OR05 Best of Greenbuild: Women in Green
OR06 LEED Prototypes for Volume Builders: Lessons Learned Through PNC Prototype Branch Bank and Volume Build Certification Program
OR07 Starting from Zero: A Masterplan for a Carbon-Free Community
OR08 Indoor Air Quality: Answers to Many Questions
OR09 Rainwater Harvesting Systems: Practical, Promising, and Profitable Technology
OR10 Success & Efficiency with Forest Products: Strategies & Resources for Sourcing Local FSC Certified Wood
OR11 An Integrated Design Eco-charrette: A Model for Sustainable Campus Building and Landscape Design
OR12 BIM - Integrating and transforming green buildings with building information modeling
OR13 Master Speaker - Joe Romm
Specialty Updates:
OR14 LEED for Homes: The Field Perspective
OR15 LEED for High Performance Operations: Overview of USGBC's New Rating System for Existing Buildings
OR16 BuildingGreen's Top 10 Products of the Year
OR17 The Green Marketplace: McGraw-Hill Construction's Research Looks at Corporate America, Healthcare, and Homeowners
OR18 A Long-Term Sustainability Plan for New York City
OR19 A No Cost Recipe for Sustainable Development: How Syracuse and DestiNY USA Baked a Unique Public/Private Partnership
Yellow Series, Thursday, November 8
4:00-5:30 pm
YL01 Green Communities: Approaches to Sustainability
YL02 Clean and Green Onsite Power Generation: California Leads the Way
YL03 LEED Platinum Showcase #1
YL04 Social Green
YL05 Greening a Country: Taiwan Goes Green
YL06 Two Powerful Drivers for Enterprise-Wide LEED: The Business Case and the Growing Carbon Market
YL07 The Art (Architect) and Science (Engineer) of Net-Zero
YL08 Strategies Achieving Water Efficiency
YL09 High Performance Windows and Facades: Research and Development, Tools, and Market Transformation Programs
YL10 Demystifying Sustainability: A Life-Cycle Perspective
YL11 Ecoliteracy in Architectural Education Roundtable
YL12 LEED Building Performance Metrics
YL13 Master Speaker - Jaime Lerner
Specialty Updates:
YL14 High Performance Green Building Codes ASHRAE/IESNA/USGBC Standard 189
YL15 Volume Certification Process Implementation
YL16 Piloting LEED for Neighborhood Development:: News from the New Frontier of LEED
YL17 GreenSource’s GreenBuild Editors’ Panel
YL18 Developing Sustainable Standards for Landscapes
Purple Series, Friday, November 9
9:00-10:30 am
PL01 Attain LEED-ND without Jail Time: Making Green Neighborhoods Legal
PL02 Rethinking the Urban Watershed:: Using Stormwater as a Nexus for
Change
PL03 LEED Platinum Showcase #2
PL04 Sustainability Initiative of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
PL05 The Faith Case for Green
PL06 Risk Management for Sustainable Development in a Changing World
PL07 Addressing Climate Change by Greening Existing Buildings
PL08 Trends in Green Cleaning: Can we predict the future?
PL09 Cool Designs: Strategies toward Energy Efficiency
PL10 The Precautionary Principle: A Powerful Framework for Making Difficult Decisions
PL11 L.E.A.F. - Leadership in Ecological Applications and Functions
PL12 Performance: Energy, Environment, and Occupants
PL13 Master Speaker - Maria Atkinson