Greening the Heartland has been approved for Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI) credits for all 40 educational sessions and 39 sessions with the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Additional information about GBCI categories and AIA HSW or SD designations can be found at the conference registration desk or on the conference website, www.greeningtheheartland.org. All 40 sessions have been submitted for American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) Certification Maintenance. In addition, ten sessions have been submitted to the State of Minnesota for real estate continuing education. Additionally, conference hosts have applied for continuing education credits for the pre- and post-conference workshops and tours. Certificates for course completion will be available in each session for other professionals who need it for their continuing education requirements.
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All 40 conference sessions are approved for GBCI CE hours towards the LEED Credential Maintenance Program.
All 40 conference sessions are approved for GBCI CE hours towards the LEED Credential Maintenance Program.
| THURS |
Conference Activity |
Title |
Presenter(s) |
Description |
| 10:10-10:30 |
Session II |
Manage Your Energy with the ALC Green Screen |
Maria McCarthy - Automated Logic - Twin Cities |
This interactive touch screen monitor can help you educate and demonstrate your green initiatives to your community, employees, or students. This will help you display how our daily habits can impact the environment and your bottom line. |
| 10:30-10:50 |
Session II |
How to Deliver Hot Water--Wasting No More than One Cup |
Gary Klein - Affiliated International Management, LLC |
Do you know anyone who waits a long time to get hot water somewhere in their house, their favorite restaurant, or at their workplace? Would you like to have instantaneous hot water? Have you ever wondered why shorter people need hotter water? This interactive session will explore the answers to these questions and demonstrate how to deliver hot water while wasting no more than one cup waiting for it to arrive. |
| 10:50-11:10 |
Session II |
Novus International - LEED Platinum at No Cost Premium |
Paul Todd Merrill PE, LEED AP -Clayco, Inc. |
Utilizing a well coordinated and planned team effort, the new Novus International Headquarters project resulted in LEED Platinum certification construction value and net lease rate below regional market rates. In addition, operating costs of the resultant new campus are considerably lower than previous expenditures. The presentation will include project details, sustainable achievements, and construction cost information. |
| 11:10-11:30 |
Session II |
Effectively Communicate Your Building's Sustainable Initiatives |
Sarah Erdman - QA Graphics |
Innovative technology such as the Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard offers a creative and innovative way to educate about your organization’s sustainable initiatives and real-time building performance. Create excitement and encourage building occupants and the public to be more sustainable by using an eye-catching display with interactive demonstrations, quizzes, videos, and graphics. |
| 1:00-1:20 |
Session III |
Energy Efficient Glazing |
Bob Schrock CSI CCPR, LEED AP - PPG Industries |
Glazing systems utilizing low e coatings provide an opportunity to reduce energy by limiting solar heat gain and improving daylighting. Learn how low e coatings work and what the important considerations are when selecting low e coatings, reflective glazing, and tinted glass. The different parameters used to measure performance will be defined and matched with their corresponding effect on energy, aesthetics, cost, and overall contribution to a sustainable design and LEED credits. |
| 1:20-1:40 |
Session III |
Living Green Means Living Smoke Free |
Carissa Duke - Live Smoke Free
Warren Ortland - Public Health Law Center |
Smoke-free policies are an important part of creating a green living environment in multi-housing. The Live Smoke Free program provides FREE information and tools about adopting smoke-free policies. Attend this session to learn about the benefits and steps to adopting a smoke-free multi-housing policy and see a demonstration on how secondhand smoke can travel through a building. |
| 1:40-2:00 |
Session III |
Electronically Tintable Glass: The Future of High Performance Facades is Here |
Jeremy Kaeding - SAGE Electrochromics, Inc. |
Electronically tintable glass is now commercially available and is being actively specified and installed in building envelopes. This presentation will briefly review dynamic electrochromic (EC) glass performance characteristics, and will then focus on a number of diverse case studies as well as integration and automation of controls. |
| 2:00-2:20 |
Session III |
What's the "MPG" of your building? |
Stephen Todd - Egan Company |
This presentation will ask the audience to explore the similarities between the vehicles we drive and how buildings consume energy. Do we really know more about the efficiency our automobiles then we do about the facilities we work in, manage, or own? |
| 2:20-2:40 |
Break |
Bridging Green Technology and Existing Site Conditions |
Dylan Van Avery, EIT, LEED-AP - American Engineering Testing, Inc.
Charles Tiller, P.G. - American Engineering Testing, Inc. |
Engineering consultants can help transform existing soil conditions and site materials into LEED points. This presentation seeks to illustrate the differences between contaminated soil vs. suitable fill, design infiltration rates vs. field tested rates, and new pavements vs. those made of recycled materials. The emphasis will be on demonstration. |
| 2:40-3:00 |
Session IV |
Cool Coatings for Metal Roofing |
Bob Schrock |
Cool roof coatings for metal roofing can contribute to a reduction in energy use and meet sustainable design criteria. Learn how cool roof coatings work. Gain an understanding of their attributes and the technology that produces the energy saving benefits. See the wide selection of aesthetic possibilities that also reduce energy, provide long lasting durable coatings, and meet the criteria for LEED. |
| 3:00-3:20 |
Session IV |
Water/Energy/Wastewater Reducing and Recycling Technologies to Help the Environment |
Clint Elston -
Equaris Corporation
Bobbi Elston - Equaris Corporation |
The Equaris Corporation's Technologies have reduced the need for water by 40 to 98 percent, wastewater pollution to the environment by 95 to 100 percent, organic solid waste loading to landfills by 95 percent, and energy for hot water and radiant heating by 50 to 95 percent. Utilizing all of the Equaris Technologies, you can eliminate the need for piped water and sewers and drilled wells and septic systems--thereby making unbuildable lots buildable, while still keeping everybody working. |
| 3:20-3:40 |
Session IV |
Generation Chair by Knoll |
Brenda Lemmer - Knoll, Inc.
Cay Lynch - Knoll Inc. |
Generation by Knoll offers a new standard of comfort and unrestrained movement, supporting the range of postures and work styles typical of today's workplace. Discover how the Generation's flexing and supportive features enable expression, and explore how this revolutionary chair reflects our commitment to environmental sustainability. Join us for an interactive demonstration to sit how you want in the new Generation Chair by Knoll. |
| 3:40-4:00 |
Session IV |
Taking the Natural Step to Savings and Sustainability |
Terry Gips - Sustainability Associates |
This inspiring, interactive presentation will show how the Natural Step Framework can complement LEED to engage clients, architects, builders, occupants, and other stakeholders in having a shared vision, assessment, and action plan for sustainability that will save money and create a win-win-win for your project, community, and the Earth. It is being used by leading architectural and engineering firms (such as CH2M Hill, Cunningham Group Architects, and Serra Architects), business (including IKEA, Interface, and Starbucks), municipalities (Seattle, Santa Monica, Duluth, Madison, and 24 other WI eco-municipalities), American Planning Association, and nonprofits to design green buildings and reduce costs, improve performance, and become sustainability leaders. |
| 4:00-4:20 |
Break |
Passive Solar Design and Thermal Mass |
John Fergus - E3 Coalition |
For many years passive solar design has been in the toolbox of architects and home designers. For most of that time, south facing windows have been tacked on to the common light weight home without calculating the effect of thermal mass. Yet to make the passive solar design work, the flywheel effect of a high mass home is essential. In this session, the presenter will show how to work with this need and how thermal mass can become part of the design of modern high performance homes. |
| 4:20-4:40 |
Break |
Evolutionary Landscaping |
Russ Henry - Giving Tree Gardens |
Calling all garden warriors--lead the way in a landscaping evolution! Learn how to honor this American landscape by composting, capturing rain water, and creating habitat for people and wildlife. During this session, be prepared to get your hands dirty and learn to be an ecosystem protector in your own landscape. |
| 4:40-5:00 |
Break |
A Case Study: Energy Management at the New USGBC Headquarters |
Bill Shadid - Convia, Inc. |
The United States Green Building Council (USGBC) recently took occupancy of their new LEED Platinum 75,000 sq. ft headquarters space in Washington D.C. Learn about the USGBC’s use of innovative energy management and controls strategies to deliver effective and granular lighting and plug load control, meter their energy usage, and also have the ability to reprogram controls simply and quickly to ensure that they achieve their energy savings goals and adapt to changing space needs. This presentation will provide an understanding of how smart building controls can be integrated into a space design to deliver spaces that are both more functional and energy efficient. |
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| FRI |
Conference Activity |
Title |
Presenter(s) |
Description |
| 9:15-9:35 |
Session I |
Living Green Means Living Smoke Free |
Carissa Duke - Live Smoke Free
Warren Ortland - Public Health Law Center |
Smoke-free policies are an important part of creating a green living environment in multi-housing. The Live Smoke Free program provides FREE information and tools about adopting smoke-free policies. Attend this session to learn about the benefits and steps to adopting a smoke-free multi-housing policy and see a demonstration on how secondhand smoke can travel through a building. |
| 9:35-9:55 |
Session I |
Water Efficient Plumbing |
Mike Harrigan - TOTO USA, INC |
This review will better inform the designer on water efficiency and the requirements for today's new high efficiency residential and commercial products, including toilets, faucets, showers, and more. We will also discuss the reasons for and products behind new innovative technology that is shaping bathrooms today. With respect to LEED projects, 30 to 40 percent reductions in water are possible; the designer simply needs to be aware of new water saving technology and the expected performance. |
| 9:55-10:15 |
Session I |
Energy Efficient Glazing |
Bob Schrock CSI CCPR, LEED AP - PPG Industries |
Glazing systems utilizing low e coatings provide an opportunity to reduce energy by limiting solar heat gain and improving daylighting. Learn how low e coatings work and what the important considerations are when selecting low e coatings, reflective glazing, and tinted glass. The different parameters used to measure performance will be defined and matched with their corresponding effect on energy, aesthetics, cost, and overall contribution to a sustainable design and LEED credits. |
| 10:15-10:35 |
Session I |
The Greenest Square Foot is the One You Don’t Build |
Geoffrey Warner, AIA - Alchemy Architects |
This presentation will demonstrate how efficiency, sustainability, durability, and affordability are reflected not only in Alchemy's prefabricated weeHouses, but also in their approach to site-built architecture. The presenter will discuss two contrasting real-life projects: the first weeZero--a net-zero, prefabricated weeHouse in Moab, Utah; and the Green BarnHouse in Blair, Wisconsin--a site-built, custom designed house using 19th-century simplicity and 21st-century technology. |
| 10:35-10:55 |
Break |
Taking the Natural Step to Savings and Sustainability |
Terry Gips - Sustainability Associates |
This inspiring, interactive presentation will show how the Natural Step Framework can complement LEED to engage clients, architects, builders, occupants, and other stakeholders in having a shared vision, assessment, and action plan for sustainability that will save money and create a win-win-win for your project, community, and the Earth. It is being used by leading architectural and engineering firms (such as CH2M Hill, Cunningham Group Architects, and Serra Architects), business (including IKEA, Interface, and Starbucks), municipalities (Seattle, Santa Monica, Duluth, Madison, and 24 other WI eco-municipalities), American Planning Association, and nonprofits to design green buildings and reduce costs, improve performance, and become sustainability leaders. |
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