Green Design Solutions - Atlanta, Georgia

USGBC LEED® Workshop
Understanding LEED®
Project Costs & Returns
Hear Lisa Matthiessen talk about strategies for building green with no added costs. Get insights on LEED project cost issues including professional fees, construction costs, and life-cycle costs based on current data from LEED-certified projects and available research. Leave with tools to calculate and evaluate cost and benefits of LEED certification on a given project. Learn how to get maximum benefit from chosen resources.

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Andrew Acho, Keynote Address
Worldwide Director, Environmental Outreach & Strategy
Ford Motor Company

"Environmental Stewardship and Ford Initiatives"
This presentation will encompass Bill Ford's philosophy of striving to make the world a better place through pro-active environmental actions that benefit society - and the company. Included will be specific examples of recycling that provides products that meet or exceed our specifications AND save money. I will touch on sustainable vehicle as well as sustainable manufacturing examples, including the new Ford Rouge plant which has the world's largest living roof, phytoremediation, solar panels, an innovative fumes-to-fuels technology and more.

Sponsored by:

Beth Gray
Director of Environmental Risk Management
Wachovia Corporation

Brian Leary
VP of Design and Development
Atlantic Station

Atlantic Station Case Study

Tom Paladino, PE, Assoc AIA, LEED AP
President
Paladino & Company, Inc.

Sustaining Development Through The Triple Bottom Line
The development industry drives our economy, our personal prosperity, and our quality of life. Yet how often do we ask where this drive is taking us? It could lead to a scarcity based existence limited by degraded and diminished resources, enabling us to survive but not thrive.

Or it could lead to an abundance based existence where community and economy grow stronger and better as they get denser and older. The triple bottom line is a robust and self perpetuating paradigm – the multidimensional shift we must master to create sustainable patterns of development and abundance.

Steve Winter, FAIA
President
Steven Winter Associates, Inc.

Residential Mixed Use
Winter will showcase green projects that exemplify housing built in conjunction with retail, office, educational, recreational, and other structures. He will address commissioning and other issues of concern to decisionmakers.

Richard Schoen, FAIA, LEED AP
Director, Building Integrated Photovoltaics
Stellar Energy Solutions

Research Professor Emeritus, UCLA Department of Architecture & Urban Design

Renewable Hydrogen Via Solar Energy & Distributed Power

Carl Smith
CEO & Executive Director
GREENGUARD Environmental Institute

“Take a Deep Breath: A Comprehensive Look at Indoor Air Quality”
How to address indoor air pollution and resulting negative health and economic effects by designing, constructing, furnishing, and operating buildings with the goal of protecting the health of the occupants. This presentation attempts to shed some light on the importance of healthy indoor environments using current statistics and case studies.

Participants will learn how to minimize indoor air pollution and how to maintain good indoor air quality. They will learn about recent technological advances both in building construction both in building construction techniques and building operation, and material manufacturing that allow for healthier, indoor environments.

The presentation will feature how green building rating programs such as LEED approach indoor air quality. Participants will hear about state and federal indoor air quality regulations, various certification programs in the marketplace, and resources for indoor air quality and low emitting products and materials. Case studies and actual construction/building examples are used throughout the presentation.

Jim Nicolow, AIA, LEED AP
Architect & Sustainable Design Specialist
LORD, AECK & SARGENT Architecture

Vikram Sami, LEED AP
Sustainable Design Specialist,
Lord, Aeck & Sargent Architecture

Optimizing Performance:
Integrating Quantitative Analysis into the Design Process
Nicolow & Sami will outline the quantitative analysis tools now available to A/E teams, providing an overview of the state of the art in building energy simulation software, including whole building energy analysis, daylighting simulation, shading analysis, and computational fluid dynamics. Using real-world case studies from Lord, Aeck & Sargent's portfolio, the presentation will demonstrate how to harness these tools to inform the green building design process, creating high performance green buildings.