Visit the speakers page for more information on workshop leaders. All workshops are on Thursday, June 17. 

campus 2050 — 9:10 a.m.

Stonehill & Taylor presents a brief history of education and its resultant institutions and a provocative forty-year jump forward to multiple possible futures for education, campus planning, state of the planet and humanity!

Creating High Performance Buildings — 10:15 a.m.

Green and High Performance Buildings
Rob Pratt, CEO, ClimateEnergy Solutions
Contrary to what is often thought, many green and LEED buildings are not highly performing, energy efficient buildings.  Indeed, there are some LEED buildings that are "energy hogs."  It is critical for college presidents and administrators to understand the basics behind green buildings, what their incremental cost is, and why an integrated design process is required from day one in order to insure the desired outcome.  Furthermore, by focusing on high performance components such as aggressive energy efficiency, natural lighting, downsized HVAC systems, passive solar gain, on-site cogeneration and renewable energy power generation, solar thermal, commissioning, and monitoring & verification, colleges may be able to move in the years ahead to "net zero energy" buildings whose electricity and fuel use is significantly reduced.

Sustainable Building — Materials, Fixtures, Finishes, and Furniture
Mike Suomi, AIA, Stonehill & Taylor Architects and Planners
Initiatives and challenges to utilize green practices in the selection and purchasing of construction materials, furniture finishes, and fixtures. Topics to include resource preservation and conservation, petroleum reliance reduction. Atmospheric quality and health issues may also be discussed.

The Open-Built Strategy
Tedd Benson, Founder, Bensonwood, Inc.
Buildings are inert. Perhaps their most important service is to sit still and firm no matter what. Aided by code and engineering improvements, most buildings do that pretty well. Beyond that, we demand too little of them. There's no excuse for the energy they consume, the waste they generate (in both construction and renovation), or their inherent resistance to change. The Open-Built strategy addresses these issues with modular, zero-energy, change-enabled buildings.

Greening Sports and Entertainment Complexes and Events - 1 p.m.

Allen Herkowitz, PhD, Natural Resources Defense Council
Allen Hershkowitz coordinates NRDC’s “greening” initiatives with professional sports and global entertainment companies. Greening is the process of reviewing day-to-day operations and supply chain relations with a focus on reducing ecological impacts. The work involves examining the environmental impacts of operations – from paper purchasing to waste disposal to energy use – through mechanisms such as audits of paper and energy use within the organizations and supply chain research related to the paper and other products they purchase. The goal of these efforts is to engage some of the world’s most culturally influential and iconic organizations in behalf of environmental stewardship, and to help them reduce the environmental liabilities they might engender as it relates to their paper procurement, their use of toxic chemicals, and their contribution to biodiversity loss and global warming pollution, by improving their current office and organization-wide practices.

Sustainable Building Technologies and Infrastructure — 2 p.m.

Sustainable Building Technologies
Neill Parker, AIA, Stonehill & Taylor Architects and Planners
Effective utilization of resources for building purposes and ongoing operations, focusing on water usage and energy sources. Additional topics to include atmospheric quality and contaminant elimination.

Geothermal: Maturing Design & Application
Bill Johnson, Haley and Aldrich
The planning and design of ground source geothermal systems has matured from single building residential/institutional applications to multi-building, district level designs incorporating advanced, integrated ground and building system modeling to achieve superior financial and GHG reduction performance.  Three case studies will be presented that illustrate where the current state of the practice is moving to.

Biomass Energy
Kamalesh Doshi, Biomass Energy Resource Center
This presentation will explore: technology options for heating, cooling and combined heat and power; the benefits of biomass energy and components of biomass energy systems; how to determine suitability of biomass systems
for your campus or institution. A number of case studies of biomass systems at university campuses and institutions will also be discussed.

Sustainable Campus and Community Environments — 2 p.m.

Developing Sustainable Communities: Land Use, Transportation, and Planning
Steve Oakley, AIA, Stonehill & Taylor Architects and Planners
How your campus can address smart growth issues including affordable housing, urban revitalization, economic development, and more. Focus of workshop to discuss sustainable development strategies and regulatory / policy requirements.

Sustainable energy, managed expense or managed resource? 
Lowell Rasmussen, Vice Chancellor of Finance and Facilities, University of Minnesota - Morris
What are the institutional consequences of managed expense or managed resources? Can smart micro grids provide a key to answering this question? How one campus has developed a carbon management plan using renewable energy, conservation and a move to a distributed hybrid renewable energy platforms.

Green Dormitories
Thomas Hartman, AIA, Coldham & Hartman Architects and Sam Coplon, Coplon Associates
The College of the Atlantic established a goal in 2003 of creating a residential village that uses zero fossil fuels on site. In 2008, the Katherine Davis Student Village was completed, and has made a significant contribution to the campus' Net Zero Carbon status.This interactive presentation will include discussion on the goals and metrics established early in the design process, the materials used, a thorough description of the thermal envelope and how it has been tested, mechanical systems, and how the contractors were selected and when. We will review the energy data collected over the past year, discuss how these buildings are operated by the students, and discuss lessons learned.