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(Archived CD) Green Building Best Practices 2008 Session 1: Design Considerations - It's More Than Just About LEED Certification
Green Building Best Practices 2008: Webinar Session 1
(Archived CD - Webinar and Audio)
Design Considerations - It's More Than Just About LEED Certification
The burden to achieve certification, whether for new or existing buildings, starts with design. Energy efficiency, renewable resources, acoustics, air quality, conservation, recycling and waste minimization all have a part in the big picture. Complete project life cycle design is the key to successful green building projects.
Whether dealing with LEED, Energy Star or local certification guidelines, you want to make green design and construction a standard practice. Best practices in building performance design is the topic of our first session: Green Building Best Practices 2008: Session 1 - Design Considerations - It's More Than Just About LEED Certification
LEED Platinum - Worthy Goal or Unnecessary Expense?
This 90-minute interactive webinar will discuss specific design issues in the context of achieving maximum building performance and LEED certification, while keeping costs to a minimum. While some design and engineering costs may increase, savings may result in reduced-sized equipment, reduced construction costs and almost always in reduced operating costs.
CTG Energetics, founded in 1997 by Dr. Malcolm Lewis, brings more than 10 years experience to the table, including working with the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) to develop standards, and will provide key insight into the integrated design process. You'll learn:
- How to identify, develop and analyze the various alternatives that exist for any given project
- What items provide the biggest bang for the buck
- Siting, energy management and optimization criteria
- Improved passive energy design reduces HVAC loads
- HVAC sizing and equipment considerations
- LEED and other certification agencies
- Balance between current best options vs. evolving and future technologies and materials
- Balance green benefit vs. cost
- AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!
This event features key insights from our knowledgeable panel of construction experts:
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Sahar Abbaszadeh Ms. Abbaszadeh comes from an architecture background with special expertise in building science - evaluating performance of buildings in operation. She is knowledgeable regarding occupant well-being and productivity in commercial buildings and has experience in conducting post-occupancy evaluations to benchmark building performance. Ms. Abbaszadeh is a LEED Accredited Professional and has a M.S. in Architecture - Building Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Ms. Abbaszadeh's architectural training and knowledge of high performance building design and operation is an asset to the Energetics division of CTG. She has performed research at the Center for the Built Environment (CBE) - University of California, Berkeley; a research center sponsored by the National Science Foundation and a consortium of building industry advisors. Ms. Abbaszadeh has authored several papers examining occupant satisfaction and productivity in relation to the building design and operation, specifically in high-performance green buildings. Ms. Abbaszadeh has participated in authoring the thermal comfort evaluation credit for the recently published LEED-NC 2.2 green building rating system and is currently an active member of the Standing Standards Project Committee maintaining ASHRAE Standard 55- Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy. |
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Ryan Gaylord Mr. Gaylord’s background includes sustainable design and research in a number of different fields including hydrogen production using wind-driven electrolysis. Mr. Gaylord received his Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Irvine with a specialization in combustion and air quality. Prior to joining CTG, Mr. Gaylord was a Sales Manager with FuelCellStore.com where he was responsible for forging new supply chain relationships with major OEMs in the solar, wind, and fuel cell industries as well as the sales of hydrogen fuel cell stacks, electrolyzers, testing equipment, storage systems, and power electronics.
Mr. Gaylord is a project analyst for green building and sustainable design applications with CTG Energetics. He actively assists clients through the LEED® planning, documentation, and certification processes, offering insight and experience into emerging green building practices and technologies. |
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Jason Doyle is currently Assistant Project Manager for Forest City Development, a national developer and operator of commercial and residential real estate. He has been involved in managing construction of residential multi-family new construction and adaptive reuse projects for the company’s San Francisco and Los Angeles offices since 2005. He recently directed the sustainability effort for the 665-unit Uptown Oakland apartment project in Oakland, California which recently received LEED Silver certification. He is a LEED® Accredited Professional and is a graduate of the University of Redlands. |
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