Agenda

All 40 conference sessions are approved for GBCI CE hours towards the LEED Credential Maintenance Program.

SCHEDULE CHANGE NOTIFICATION:
Wednesday's Track 2 - Green Board Rooms session from 2:45 - 4 p.m. has been moved to Friday at 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Friday's Track 2 - Ecosystem Health session from 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.has moved to Wednesday at 2:45 - 4:00 p.m.

Click here to download a PDF of the full conference program (current as of 2/8/10)

For an overview of each day click the days below:

Wednesday, May 19
Thursday, May 20
Friday, May 21

Wednesday, May 19

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All 40 conference sessions are approved for GBCI CE hours towards the LEED Credential Maintenance Program.

WED	Track 1	Track 2	Track 3	Track 4
	Energy Efficiency/Benchmarking Track	Holistic Green Track	Public Policy Track	Single Family Track
7:30- 8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:45 Session I	Appendix G in Turbo Mode: Capturing More Energy Savings Earlier David Eijadi & Chris Baker	Detroit, Dallas, & Despotism: a 3D view of Sustainability Eric Corey Freed	Community Sustainability Planning—Guided by The Natural Step Framework Lisa MacKinnon	From “Verbluffendste” to “Amazing!”—Translating the Passive House Lance Schmidt
9:45-10:15 Break
10:15-11:30 Session II	Design Trends toward Energy Efficient Buildings Keith Swartz	So, You’re a Green Professional—How Green is Your Own Home? Cindy Ojczyk & Christine Bleyhl	Complete Streets Policies: An Essential Element to LEED-ND Success Faith Cable & Lisa Peterson Bender	If Furnaces Could Speak: Tools for Tracking Performance Lara Greden
11:30-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:15 Session III	Linking Best Practices to Actual Performance in Affordable Housing Rick Carter & William (Billy) Weber	Decarbonization of Our Central Cities Gail Borthwick	Iowa Green Streets Initiative: Main Street & Housing Models Jeff Geerts	Practical Plumbing for Water and Energy Efficiency Gary Klein
2:15-2:45 Break
2:45-4:00 Session IV	Building Performance: A Tale of Two Multifamily Models Sachin Anand & A. Aubrey Swift	Green Board Rooms and Green Buildings: A Perspective from Corporate America Ari Kobb	Healthy Green Community Program—Implementing the Minnesota GreenStep Program Dan Frank, Quinn Swanson, Bob McLean, & Philipp Muessig	Duluth Energy Efficiency Program—Innovative Community/Government/ Business-Based Strategies Jodi Slick, Jessica Kershner, & Dean Talbott
4:00-6:00 Exhibit Hall Opening Reception
7:30-10:30 Conference Evening Social Event at Brit’s Pub

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Thursday, May 20

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THUR	Track 1	Track 2	Track 3	Track 4
	EBOM Track	Holistic Green Track	Public Policy Track	Single Family Track
7:00- 8:00 Networking Run/Yoga
7:30-8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:45-10:15 Break
8:30-9:45 Session I - Keynote Cameron Sinclair, Architecture for Humanity
9:45-10:15 Break/Exhibits
10:15-11:30 Session II	The Dollars and Sense of Green Buildings and Business Practices David L. Pogue & Paul Lilienthal	Sustainability—More Than Gold, Silver, & Platinum Daniel J. Becker	Bridging the Gap to a Green Economy: A Community—Based Approach Anthony Corso & Ginger Johnson	Stabilizing Neighborhoods through Greening Foreclosed Homes Sarah Hannigan, Jodi Slick, & Todd Baumann
11:30-1:00 Lunch (Exhibit Hall)
1:00-2:15 Session III	Green This School: LEED EBOM for K12 Educational Facilities Vuk Vujovic, Paul A. S. OMalley, & Sachin Anand	Minding the Gap: Turning Green Design into High Performance Operations Jenny Carney	Show Them the Money: Public Green for Private Green Chad Edwards & Shawn Hesse	Chemical Cocktails: The Disconnect Between Product Selection, the Final Spec, & IAQ Testing Melissa Ling
2:15-2:45 Break/Exhibits
2:45-4:00 Session IV	Large Multi-Tenant Commercial and Residential LEED-EB: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned Jennifer Wang & Wyllys Mann	Recycle, Reuse, Reduce—Saving Our Water One Flush at a Time Scott Bowman, Matthew R. Brown, Rob Young, & Mike Lipp	Sustainable Coding: Bridging the Gap Between Desire and Implementation Christina Anderson & Todd Fagen	Retrofitting a Home for Passive and Active Solar—A Minnesota Case Study Cindy Ojczyk & Paul Schollmeier
4:30-7:00 Green by Design Reception
7:30-10:30 Other Social Events TBA

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Friday, May 21

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FRI	Track 1	Track 2	Track 3	Track 4
	EBOM Track	H2O Track	Public Policy Track	Multifamily Track
7:30-8:45 Early Sessions	EBOM Budgeting, Estimating, & Financing 101 Samuel D. Pobst & Paulette Alioa	The Living Learning Center—Performance and Lessons Learned One Year Later Daniel F. Hellmuth, Matthew B. Malten, & Neil Myers	Green Historic Preservation: Findings, Surprises, & Solutions Chad Edwards, Mike Morgan, & Sanyog B. Rathod	Reclaimed Material Reuse: Bridging the Gap Between Have and Need Nathan Benjamin
8:45-9:15 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:15-10:30 Session I	EBOM and Commissioning: Maximizing Results in an Existing Building James V. Dirkes II	Geothermal in Midwestern Buildings Scott Hackel	Greening Brownfields through Sustainable Redevelopment Sara Peterson & Kristina Smitten	Healthy Homes Practitioner—A Holistic Approach to Improving Residents’ Health Sam Greene
10:30-11:00 Break/Exhibits
11:00-12:15 Session II	Developing & Implementing An Effective Green Cleaning Policy and Program Stephen Ashkin	Ecosystem Health—a Guiding Principle for Green Communities Kim Alan Chapman & Doug Mensing	Greening Minneapolis—A Comprehensive Approach Barbara Sporlein & Greg Goeke	Affordable and Green, a Case Study: Alliance Apartments Michelle Baltus Pribyl, Rosemary Dolata, & Brad Kruse
12:15 Conference Adjourns
12:45-4:00 Post-conference Workshops and Tours TBA

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