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

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.


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

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


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


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

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

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


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


 “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 and construction of the Aircuity Center for Green Building Technology.  The Center, expected to be the most sustainable LEED-CI Platinum project ever done, is being built as a historic restoration of about 27,000 sq ft of a 125 year old woolen mill building.

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


Why we go green? Museum, for profit developer etc.
Location: 300 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