Sustainable Building and Design on Campus—Building A Restorative Educational Environment

Archived Webcast

October 20, 2004
1½ Hours

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Program Overview

What does it take to plan, build, and operate a deep green campus building that will teach students, educate faculty, administration, and staff, and help change an industry? How do we effect positive global and local environmental change through campus planning and building?

Green buildings are buildings of transition; one green building can have a major impact on a campus. It affects the attitudes of students, faculty, administration, and the surrounding community. But it also has the power to change in an entire industry, impacting the process of campus planning , building design, procurement, construction and operation, and bringing change to the materials and products that go into the building, based on evolving science and technology.

Indicators show that the costs of building green are not prohibitive. While there continues to be a perceived risk for sustainable buildings, examples abound of successful, cost effective completion of sustainability projects. What allows projects to be successful are in large part the non-technical decisions.

Over the past year, SCUP has produced two previous distance education broadcasts addressing the responsibility and opportunity for sustainable design on campus, and the cost of sustainable building. This webcast takes the discussion on campus sustainability to another level, with new perspectives from several leading edge sustainability experts. During the webcast, there will be several audience polls, and questions will be accepted live and online.

Discussion Points

• What makes buildings environmentally responsible and restorative? What is a living and restorative building and how are they different from a traditional industry standard building? How do buildings teach?
• Various approaches to building a green building—how can you help green unfold on a campus?
• Team building and collaboration in the service of restorative and pedagogical building
• What we’ve learned about budgeting for a green building, and the cost differences between various levels and types of green projects.
• Outstanding examples of green campus projects that inspire and teach

Who Should Listen?

This webcast is aimed at: architects, campus planners, campus architects, higher education administrators, consultants, program planners, and others who are responsible for facilities, building, and sustainability and campus planning.

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Moderator

Anthony Bernheim is Principal, Green Design, for SMWM, a San Francisco architecture, interior design, planning and graphic design firm, which has brought "green" leadership to numerous large projects on college campuses and other public facilities, including the Capitol Area East End Complex Block 225, a benchmark "Gold" LEEDTM building and the "greenest" public office building in California. He is leading practitioner, researcher, and teacher, who participates in the U.S Green Building Council as a LEEDTM Accredited Professional, and in Society for College and University Planning’s (SCUP) Sustainability Task Force. Bernheim is a recipient of The 2002 Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award "in recognition of meritorious contributions to environmental protection and resource conservation in the State of California".

Panelists

Kevin R. Hydes has worked in the building services industry since 1973. His career with Keen began in Edmonton during the early 1980's. He moved to the Vancouver office in 1986 where he became a Vice President of the firm and eventually President in 1999. Kevin has created an environment at Keen that reflects a vision for Keen to work with clients to find innovative ways to design environmentally sensitive buildings on time and on budget. It has become the Keen vision to over 70 shareholders and 250+ staff. Keen has been involved with five LEED certified projects and the firm currently has 16 LEED registered projects. An initiative by Kevin has produced 150+ LEED accredited professionals which is 60% of total staff and puts Keen in fourth place in the USGBC Top 5 list of LEED Accredited Professional firms. Keen delivered the first and third LEED Gold projects on the west coast, the first in Canada and the first LEED EB Gold in 2004.

Bob Berkebile is principal of BNIM Architects and Elements Consulting, and is a leading authority in the field of sustainable design. He is the founding chairman of the American Institute of Architects’ National Committee on the Environment, and brings 40 years of diverse experience to the profession. He is highly regarded by fellow professionals for creating beautiful environments that are restorative and pedagogical. Bob has consistently created new approaches to holistic, integrated design solutions at scales that include individual buildings, communities and national policy. He has conducted numerous sustainable design charrettes and workshops for the White House, DOD, DOE, NPS, FEMA and the Canadian Provincial Architects. He has lectured extensively at universities including Harvard, Cambridge, Stanford, Rice, the University of British Columbia, and is currently the Bruce Goff Chair at Oklahoma University. His international speaking has included The Earth Summit in Rio, and UN or NSF conferences in Scotland, Sweden and Antarctica. Bob utilizes diverse collaborative teams, integrated design and creates new approaches and tools to restore social, economic and environmental vitality. Bob currently serves on the boards of The Nature Conservancy, Environmental Building News, The Center for Global Community, Athena and New Earth Organization; he was a member of the US Green Building Council board and currently serves on USGBC’s Technical and Scientific Advisory Committee.

Lisa Fay Matthiessen is a Senior Associate with Davis Langdon (DL), has 20 years experience in design and construction, with an emphasis on sustainable design. Lisa directs DLs Sustainable Design Initiative, which integrates cost planning with sustainable design consulting. Lisa was the project architect responsible for the greening of Bren Hall, a LEED Platinum lab project at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has worked with a number of college and university campuses and serves as LEED faculty, and on the LEED Application Guide for Laboratories Core Committee. She is co-author of the white paper, "Costing Green: A Comprehensive Cost Database and Budgeting Methodology," July 2004.

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