TM02: The Navy Yard as a Sustainable Business Campus
Visit The Navy Yard, originally America's first naval shipyard, now reemerged as one of the region's most important centers of employment, attracting new businesses and investment to Philadelphia. Today, The Navy Yard is a dynamic, urban 1,200-acre business campus with more than 10,000 employees occupying over 6.5 million square feet of office, industrial/manufacturing, and R&D space. Since the base closure in 1995, over $1 billion of public and private funds have been invested into the campus. In early 2013, the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) updated The Navy Yard's Real Estate Master Plan and created a community-wide Energy Master Plan to accommodate the continuing investment and job growth, providing the roadmap for future development.

This tour features a range of sustainable development, including: the Corporate Center, developed by Liberty Property Trust/Synterra Partners, which houses five LEED® buildings ranging from LEED certified to GlaxoSmithKline’s double LEED Platinum headquarters; the Historic Core with renovated historic buildings like Urban Outfitters, Inc.’s award-winning corporate campus; the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Efficient Buildings (EEB) Hub; and highlights include innovative stormwater management initiatives, open park space, and the unregulated energy grid. (Highlights of this tour & TM10 will be included on the TS06 Saturday morning tour.)

TM03: Getting to Scale in the Suburbs: Master Plans and Masterful Retrofits
Whether it’s new master-planned communities or retrofitting our nation’s commercial building stock, we won’t get sustainability to scale until suburban solutions are part of the agenda. This tour offers examples of how to create attractive new and renovated suburban buildings that are not only energy efficient, but cost competitive for commercial developers. The tour includes three 30 + year-old class B office buildings that have been totally transformed into state-of-art LEED certified workplaces. The collaborative planning, design, and construction practices will be explained with recognition of the demanding financial and timing constraints.

TF01: Sustainable Urban Living at any age
Whether it’s a house of roommates, the parents who have seen them off to college, or the proud grandparents that started it all, there are options for sustainable urban living at any age. This tour will feature four dwellings whose ages span 237 years: a new LEED Platinum house in University City, a retrofit and addition that offers an example of aging-in-place design, a LEED-Platinum gut renovation to a traditional Philadelphia row home in a historic area, and an 18th-century home that boasts the first solar array approved for a historically certified house in the city.

TF02: Lighting & Garden Design on Philadelphia's World- Class Parkway
Start this walking tour with an early-evening stroll at the Barnes Foundation on Philadelphia's world-class Parkway. Along the Parkway, stops will include the famous Rodin Museum, and a climb up the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps. Then tour historic sites along the Schuylkill River with stops at Philadelphia Waterworks and Boathouse Row. We will focus on examples of how lighting design and attention to sites can help make public spaces inviting and sustainable. In visiting historic buildings on this tour, participants will be able to understand subtle ways that light can open onlookers’ eyes to the beauty of a structure that has been around for years. Participants will also understand the importance of color temperature in lighting design. A delightful way to experience the City of Brotherly love!

TF03: Walking the Talk: Urban LEED for Commercial Interiors Leaders
This half-day walking tour of LEED for Commercial Interior Space features a range of high quality office spaces where each office demonstrates integrated high-performance green building practices and environmental leadership to employees and clients alike. Included on the tour east of the Schuylkill River are WRT’s LEED-CI Gold architectural design office and real estate leader Jones Lang LaSalle’s LEED-CI Platinum Philadelphia office. As we travel across the Schuylkill River to the west, we will tour two spaces in the acclaimed Cira Centre, core and shell by architect Cesar Pelli. The first is the HUB, a green conference center where every meeting’s green footprint is kept to a minimum. The final stop in the Cira Centre is SCA Americas US headquarters LEED-CI Gold space.

TF04: Sustainable Philadelphia Skyline
This walking tour visits iconic buildings of Philadelphia. Friends Center, one of Philadelphia’s first LEED Platinum buildings is also a historic building and active Quaker meeting house paired with new office facilities. Comcast Center, at 975 feet tall, is Philadelphia’s tallest building, and it features a public plaza, an eight-story “Winter Garden” and an energy-saving glass curtain that wraps the building, allowing for a 360° view of Philadelphia’s urban landscape. This 1.25 million SF development is also one of the tallest buildings between New York and Chicago to achieve LEED-Gold. Its lobby features the country’s largest indoor LED screen. The 45,000 square feet green roof at the PECO building roof offers stunning views of the city. It is covered with sedums and an “intensive” area featuring planters with native grasses and perennials. Above is the building’s wrap-around LED crown that displays public service announcements visible throughout Center City. 801 Market Street is a LEED Gold office building which is 440,000 SF renovation of the Strawbridges & Clothier downtown department store building, built in 1928.

TF05: Liberty and Justice for All: Innovative Multifamily Housing
Philadelphia has one of the largest urban residential populations in the country and a downtown density that allows people to walk or ride public transportation to workplaces, restaurants and shops. This connectedness drives the city’s high demand for market-rate housing to serve its diverse population. This walking tour will focus on four very different multi-family housing units, three of which are LEED certified and the fourth pursuing Energy Star: Connelly House One, developed by the nonprofit PROJECT Home is a multi-family facility for the formerly-homeless; Anderson House provides LGBT-friendly housing for low-income seniors; 777 Broad Street embodies market-rate luxury apartments on south Broad Street, a hub of new development also called “The Avenue of the Arts;” and Lenfest Hall, Curtis Music Institute’s residential hall that is nestled in another historic neighborhood. These buildings include a full range of sustainable features such as green roofs, recycled materials and energy efficient assemblies. The route includes an insider’s view of historic row homes along streets juxtaposed against bustling avenues of commerce. The urban fabric of “green” live, work and play within blocks of the Convention Center becomes evident as the group sees the diversity and energy of the nation’s fifth largest City. (This tour is a repeat of TM09 on Monday.)

TF06: Rebirth of a Neighborhood: Going Green in Northern Liberties and Kensington
Philadelphia is a city of neighborhoods, each with its own distinct culture, traditions, and community pride. Visit the Northern Liberties and Kensington neighborhoods, which feature an award-winning LEED-Platinum performing arts school, innovative LEED Platinum and Passive House residences, thriving community groups and even a sustainable Brewery that makes Revolutionary Ales from historic recipes. While this neighborhood is just a 30 minute walk from Center City, or 10 minutes by train or bike, it’s an entirely different experience of what Philadelphia has to offer, and it’s a great story of neighborhood revitalization spurred on by smart development, sustainable practices, and community building.

TF07: Urban Placemaking: A Golden Mile of Walkways, Gardens and Public Art
Cities are full of public spaces, both hidden gems and iconic plazas. We will start with the LEED Gold expansion of the Pennsylvania Convention Center and then enjoy a brisk Fall walk outside on this walking tour of Center City Philadelphia to learn how designers are integrating sustainable design and stormwater management into public art and space. Participants will pass by public art pieces in elegant public spaces including Lenfest Plaza, Love Park, Logan Square, Sister Cities Park, and Rittenhouse Square. The tour ends at the Kimmel Center’s rooftop garden overlooking Particle Falls, a public art exhibit which depicts air quality in real time using lighting projection.

TF08: Let Freedom Ring: Energy Independence within Sight of the Liberty Bell
Take a walking tour of Philadelphia’s historic Independence Mall featuring government buildings that are striving to save taxpayer dollars and create healthy places for visitors from all over the world. The first stop is the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, which recently achieved BOMA 360 Certification, where you will learn about the program and see behind the scenes infrastructure upgrades with measured results. Next stop is the Independence Visitor’s Center where you will hear about their quest for LEED-EBOM certification. Stroll down historic Independence Mall to make your way to Independence Square to learn how the National Park Service utilized the Guidelines on Sustainability for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings for Independence Hall, Congress Hall and Old City Hall. The final stop will be the historic US Customs House featuring a LEED-EBOM certified historic renovation.

TF09: The ABC’s of LEED: Achieving High Performance in Urban School Districts
The ABC’s of sustainability are being exhibited in different ways throughout the Philadelphia School District, which for ten years has been a national leader in sustainability for both new and existing buildings. Visit three very different schools in neighborhoods that represent all of the challenges and opportunities facing most urban school districts. our stops include: (1) Cook Wissahickon School, where tour participants will see a unique stormwater management program, a variety of native plants and sustainability education thru their Green Apple Day of Service; (2) Greenfield Elementary where they will effectively communicate how teachers and staff can use sustainable building features as teaching tools, using examples employed at Greenfield; and (3) Thurgood Marshall School where tour participants will understand the planning, financing and implementation process involved with greening an existing school that has achieved LEED EB.

TF10: State-of-the-Art Research Facilities: University City District Labs
The Philadelphia region is home to many world-class research facilities. This trolley/walking tour will focus on four research facilities in the University City District in nearby West Philadelphia. They represent diverse institutional approaches to LEED design for the labs. University of Pennsylvania’s Translational Research Lab showcases site planning, design, materials selection, daylighting strategies, healthy building initiatives, and best practices for its successful repurposing of a building in an urban university campus. Within a few blocks on Penn’s leafy campus is the Richard's Medical Lab Building, designed by world-famous architect Louis Kahn. This National Historic Landmark was recently renovated and achieved LEED-CI. Attendees will hear about the challenges of adaptive reuse of an iconic modern structure that was no longer well-suited for its original purpose. Within several blocks is Drexel University’s Papadakis Integrated Sciences Facility. This recently constructed LEED-Gold research facility features a multi-story living wall which enhances indoor air quality and the perception of a healthy building. Nearby is the Science Center’s LEED Gold research facility at 3711 Market Street. As the nation’s oldest urban research park, the Science Center has launched nearly 350 technology oriented companies, such as SEI, Centocor, Bentley Systems, 3-D Pharmaceuticals and Morphotek.

TF11: Reclaiming the Schuylkill River with Sustainable Sites
After years of hodge-podge development left the city’s pedestrians cut off from its rivers, our universities, nonprofit organizations, and private developers are making strides toward reconnecting with our natural resources with sustainable interventions and planning. What was once a formerly industrial no-man’s land is now a sustainable space that encourages recreation and alternative transportation along the tidal Schuylkill Corridor. This greenway helps people become and stay healthy by creating a welcoming environment for physical activity, while keeping the river and air clean by filtering stormwater, cleaning carbon out of the air, and reducing vehicle miles traveled. In less than a decade, the Center City portion of Schuylkill Banks went from virtually no public use to more than 19,000 user trips per week, and the Grays Ferry Crescent greenway is becoming an increasingly popular spot for fishing, dog walking, picnics, and other community gatherings. Access to this beautiful riverfront space has also increased nearby property values and facilitated development of new residential, commercial and office space along the trail, accelerating economic development within the community. First we will take a look at two innovative University of Pennsylvania sites. Penn Park has transformed 14 acres of urban brownfields into a verdant landscape of mature trees embracing playing fields for soccer, tennis and baseball. Nearby Shoemaker Green is part of the pilot program Sustainable Sites Initiatives (SITES). We then on a river boat to journey to Bartram’s Garden, named for world-famous horticulturalist John Bartram. Here we will witness community oriented programs that are reconnecting urban dwellers back to nature.

Saturday Half-Day Tours:

The University of Pennsylvania is a top-tier institution founded by Benjamin Franklin. It is now the region’s largest employer, and a major force in the University City District. Penn is also one of the region's largest users of energy and resources. This trolley/walking tour will demonstrate how planners are reducing the University’s environmental impact and operating costs while inspiring sustainably-minded students. Strategic stewardship has transformed brownfield sites into playing fields, renovated historic structures into state-of-art learning centers and revitalized the surrounding community with safe streets. Green cleaning, stormwater management, chilled beams, healthy interiors and world-class design complement the fabric of this 302-acre urban campus. The Music School renovation, the Wharton School addition, Penn Park, Shoemaker Green and the Annenberg Policy Center are just a few of the LEED projects that will be viewed on the walking tour of this venerable Ivy League school of 24,725 students. (This tour is a repeat of TM05.)

TS04: Putting America Back to Work: Office Environments for the Jobs of the Future
This LEED Platinum tour features two different project types that house very different office workers in the suburbs. The Ambler Boiler House, an adaptive reuse project has transformed an historic plant that used to make energy for creating asbestos and turned it into a creative new work space. This Transit-Oriented Brownfield Redevelopment project also highlights the journey toward net zero energy with transparency in energy and water and not-to-miss wicked cool architecture! As a finale to this tour, the visually arresting Vertical Screen building is a dynamic work environment for a humming software company. This project incorporated radiant heating, solar panels, automatic day-lighting control and a geothermal system to achieve the ninth highest LEED Certified NC rating in the world. Putting America back to work in super cool and green workplaces!

TS05: Innovations in Healthcare Design: Healthy Hospitals and Bottom-Lines
Healthcare is big business in the Philadelphia region, and healthcare facilities are helping patients and their bottom lines through green design. Visit two facilities in Philadelphia and one across the river in Camden, NJ that are leading the way. The first stop on the tour will be the Lankenau Medical Center Patient Tower Expansion, targeting LEED Silver, and featuring evidence-based design, lean principles and smart “green” technology for real-time energy monitoring. The second stop will take us across the Delaware river to New Jersey, where the relationship between providing healing environments and designing a sustainable building have been interwoven with Cooper University Hospital's new Cancer Center featuring a sustainable facility and a healing garden for patients. The final stop will be back in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania Health System’s medical office building, Penn Medicine at 8th and Walnut, which has embraced LEED not only due to energy savings, but health consideration for their patients. 8th and Walnut is a build-to-suit project that acknowledges the needs of the current medical user while allowing adaptive flexibility for future tenants.

TS06: The Navy Yard as a Sustainable Business Campus & Smart Energy Innovation Center
Visit The Navy Yard, originally America's first naval shipyard, now reemerged as one of the region's most important centers of employment, attracting new businesses and investment to Philadelphia. Today, The Navy Yard is a dynamic, urban 1,200-acre business campus with more than 10,000 employees occupying over 6.5 million square feet of office, industrial/manufacturing, and R&D space. Since the base closure in 1995, over $1 billion of public and private funds have been invested into the campus. In early 2013, the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) updated The Navy Yard's Real Estate Master Plan and created a community-wide Energy Master Plan to accommodate the continuing investment and job growth, providing the roadmap for future development.

This tour features a range of sustainable development, including: the Corporate Center, developed by Liberty Property Trust/Synterra Partners, which houses five LEED® buildings ranging from LEED certified to GlaxoSmithKline’s double LEED Platinum headquarters; the Historic Core with renovated historic buildings like Urban Outfitters, Inc.’s award-winning corporate campus; the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Efficient Buildings Hub; and highlights include innovative stormwater management initiatives, open park space, and the unregulated energy grid.

(This tour is highlights the 2 half-day tour itineraries ( TM-2 & TM10 ) covered earlier in the week.)

TS07: Waste Not Want Not: Green Jobs Through Green Buildings
Jumpstarting our economy with new jobs here in our local area is a pathway towards economic recovery. This tour showcases innovation taking place in Philadelphia’s industrial precinct as a stimulus to create jobs for local people. The LEED-Gold Knight Green Jobs Center is a renovated factory building that features classrooms and lab space to train students how to implement energy efficient technologies. The Center itself is a living laboratory with a spray foam roof, solar water heating, recycled materials and rainwater harvesting system. Over 1,500 men and women have been trained in weatherization skills to help residents reduce their utility bills by 20-30 %. Nearby is the innovative Revolution Recovery recycling facility and the Eco-Complex from Waste Management, North America’s largest recycler. These state-of-the-art facilities harvest resources from waste collected throughout the region in order to create re-purposed materials. You’ll also visit the Burns Recycling Center, where recycling is a family affair. This company started as a one man operation and now employs over 60 employees on a 7 acre site. The innovative waste recovery facility with a green roof, boasts of two LEED certified project managers on staff to help fulfill LEED requirements for materials recovery.

TS08: Building Connections, Building Community: LEED ND, Campus Living and Supportive Housing
Paseo Verde is destined to become one of Philadelphia’s crown jewels. Slated for LEED-ND Platinum, the development offers market-rate housing for residents earning an annual income below $68,000. The development serves the needs of the local community, extends the Temple University campus and connects to public transit. The inspiring goal of this community is to provide a healthy living environment for residents through sustainable practices, as well as cost savings through effective reduction in energy use. The project features energy efficient and water saving architectural design features and high performance building techniques honed by the developer, the Jonathan Rose Company. Just down the street, the Temple North project demonstrates a fiscally-responsible example of incorporating energy efficiency and healthy living into the repurposing of historic buildings into low income housing and on the Temple University campus, the Morgan Residence Hall redefines the skyline of North Broad Street. Students will present metrics on rain harvesting, energy efficiency, recycling and sustainable operations. Just a few blocks away is the JBJ Soul Homes project, which is funded in part by Jon Bon Jovi, a 55-unit complex designed to be LEED silver, providing affordable housing and supportive services complex to formerly homeless individuals. (This tour is a repeat of TM12.)

TS09: Revolutionary Civil Engineering: Municipal Stormwater and Wastewater Leadership
The Philadelphia Water Department has been recognized internationally for its leadership in implementing green infrastructure for stormwater management and developing innovative energy solutions at its treatment plants. Join us as we tour a variety of Philadelphia sites that highlight these efforts and reveal the collaborations, expertise, and spirit vital to urban sustainability. Tour highlights include: a treatment facility featuring biogas cogeneration; a recreation center that manages 1.2 acres of runoff and has helped to revitalize a neighborhood; a 2-acre community-managed park, garden and playground located on a former brownfield site; and a groundbreaking treatment facility that deploys both geothermal and solar energy systems. Throughout the tour water department leadership will provide details and context for each site as well as review the department’s innovative policies and strategies that are having a positive city-wide impact. Discussions will include the award winning Green City, Green Waters plan for managing combined sewer overflows and the innovative Rain Check incentive program for economically beautifying your home while improving the water quality of our rivers and streams. Participants will leave with an understanding of how government/municipal agencies can partner with communities and the private sector to implement green stormwater infrastructure.

TS10: Win-Win Sustainable Sports
Philadelphia is home to some of the most passionate sports fans. Take a behind the scenes look and understand why sustainability is more than a deep green movement for Philadelphia sports teams, and how it is also part of their game. Tour the LEED Gold sports and fitness facility at the University of Pennsylvania. It is constructed within the undercroft of the historic Franklin Field stadium and demonstrates adaptive reuse of a historic structure on a dense, urban university campus. The utilization of found space showcases site planning, design, materials selection, daylighting strategies, healthy building initiatives, and best practices in design & technology. The Drexel University Athletic Center features rainwater harvesting, a white roof, daylight harvesting, lighting control and efficient lighting. Lincoln Financial Field is the home of the Philadelphia Eagles professional football team. The 68,532 seat stadium integrates sustainable energy solutions such as solar panels and micro wind-turbines that together provide annually about six times the power used during all Eagles home games, and their robust sustainable operations program distinguishes Lincoln Financial Field as one of the greenest major sports facilities in the US and the world.

TS11: Philly Goes Platinum
Philly is a platinum music town, from the Gamble and Huff “Sound of Philadelphia” and old-time crooners like Mario Lanza to modern icons like the Roots. The building scene is keeping pace with our tradition of platinum records by leading the way with iconic LEED Platinum buildings. Tour participants will visit The Barnes Foundation, a must-see Platinum certified space whose beautiful architecture houses an invaluable world class art collection, and also boasts a green roof, district energy, locally sourced materials, PV Panels and a remarkable rainwater capture system. After the Barnes, attendees will visit our very special Kensington CAPA High School for the Performing Arts, which also showcases the strong connection in Philadelphia between art and sustainability. The Kensington CAPA portion of the tour will also highlight stormwater management, rainwater harvesting and clean Indoor Air Quality. Last, the tour will visit 2.0 University Place, a platinum office building including all platinum tenant spaces. The building has the first accessible green roof in Philadelphia, with patio and seating amenities for tenant occupants. Don’t miss the significant role that platinum plays in Philadelphia!