Green Building Design and Operations: Benefits, Strategies and Resources

March 12, 2010
Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
UO in Portland, White Stag Block 152
Presenter: Chris Forney
Erin Leitch

Course Description

This workshop will provide the business, environmental, and practical rationale for pursuing green strategies on all types of building projects, from tenant remodel to new construction. The course will also address practical strategies for maintaining the performance of those green features and integrating greener operational practices into existing buildings not originally constructed under a green framework.

Attendees will gain clarity on the ever expanding and increasingly complex green building industry in order to be able to ask the right questions and make sound decisions on projects. Deeper discussions of and activities around the immediately practical topics will make this class useful for both, the future project planning and for achieving efficiencies in existing facilities.

Topics include:

What makes green buildings green:

• Industry overview
• Environmental impacts of buildings
• Opportunities to reduce impacts
• Human health and productivity

Certification:

• Overview
• Benefits of certification
• Challenges and pitfalls
• Costs and benefits
• Post occupancy evaluations

Financing:

• Policy implications
• Incentives
• Innovative funding

Applied green strategies:

• New construction
• Existing buildings
• Tenant improvements & leases

What's on the horizon:

• Net Zero Buildings
• Living Buildings
• Pharos
• LEED 2009

Registration and Fees

• Non-Credit Fee: $
• Earlybird Fee: $244
• Earlybird Registration Deadline: 02/26/2010
• Register for this course

More Information

• About Chris Forney
  About Erin Leitch
• Download the program brochure

Workshops

• Community Event Design and Management: A Triple Bottom Line Approach
• Public/Private Partnerships for Sustainability
• Equity and Sustainability: How to Balance Your Triple Bottom Line
• Writing Your Sustainability Plan: Process and Framework
• Forming and Facilitating Sustainability Teams: Engaging and Training Employees
• Power of Purchasing: Sustainable Procurement
• Accounting for Sustainability: Reporting Principles and Concepts
• Green Building Design and Operations: Benefits, Strategies and Resources
• Investment in Natural Infrastr.: Ecosystem Services as an Emerging Asset Class
• Carbon Footprints and Climate Risk: Tools for Business and Government
• Sustainability Indicators and Assessment for Government
• Sustainable Economic Development through Public Sector Investment
• Sustainability by Design: Retrofitting our Cities, Communities and Neighborhoods
• Energy Efficiency First: A Map to Reducing Costs and Carbon Footprint
• Land Use Planning: an Ecosystem Approach to Achieving Sustainability
• Sustainable Transportation Strategies: Processes, Indicators, and Measurements
• Writing Your Sustainability Plan: Process and Framework
• Climate Policy, Carbon Credits and Business Risk
• Energy and Climate Action Planning

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