This workshop will provide the business, environmental, and practical rationale for pursuing green strategies on all types of building projects, from tenant remodel to new construction. The course will also address practical strategies for maintaining the performance of those green features and integrating greener operational practices into existing buildings not originally constructed under a green framework.

Attendees will gain clarity on the ever expanding and increasingly complex green building industry in order to be able to ask the right questions and make sound decisions on projects. Deeper discussions of and activities around the immediately practical topics will make this class useful for both, the future project planning and for achieving efficiencies in existing facilities.

Topics include:

What makes green buildings green:

• Industry overview
• Environmental impacts of buildings
• Opportunities to reduce impacts
• Human health and productivity

Certification:

• Overview
• Benefits of certification
• Challenges and pitfalls
• Costs and benefits
• Post occupancy evaluations

Financing:

• Policy implications
• Incentives
• Innovative funding

Applied green strategies:

• New construction
• Existing buildings
• Tenant improvements & leases

On The Front Edge

• LEED 2012
• Pharos and Materials Red List
• Living Buildings
• Design Using Nature's Guiding Principles

Registration and Fees

• Non-Credit Fee: $279
• Earlybird Fee: $254
• Earlybird Registration Deadline: 02/13/2012
• Register for this course

More Information

• About Chris Forney
• Download the program brochure