TRACK TWO
Residential Buildings:
High Performance Homes
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Track Chair: F. L. Andrew Padian, Steven Winter Associates, Inc.
Zero Energy Homes: This Year's Crop
11-12:30 Wednesday March 14
Session Chair: Robb A. Aldrich, PE, Steven Winter Associates
Session Speakers:
Robb A. Aldrich, PE, Steven Winter Associates
Betsy Pettit, AIA, Building Science Corporation
Duncan F. Prahl, RA, IBACOS, Inc.
Level: Intermediate, Advanced
With rising energy costs, interest in the "zero-energy" home concept continues to grow across the country. Through the U.S. DOE's Building America Program, designers and builders have been working around the country to create homes targeting this ambitious goal. Hear about successes, roadblocks, technologies, and strategies of creating homes nearing "zero energy."
Designing Livable Small Homes
2-3:30 Wednesday March 14
Session Chair: Thomas R. C. Hartman, AIA, Coldham & Hartman Architects
Session Speakers:
Gordon Tully, RA, LEED®, Tully Architectural Consulting, LLC
Bruce Coldham, AIA, Coldham & Hartman Architects
Level: Intermediate
Practitioners' Panel on Affordable Housing:
What Are We Doing Right (or
Wrong)?
4-5:30 Wednesday March 14
Session Chair: F. L. Andrew Padian, Steven Winter Associates
Session Speakers:
Naomi Mermin, Naomi Mermin Consulting
F. L. Andrew Padian, Steven Winter Associates, Inc.
Henry Gifford, Gifford Fuel Saving Inc.
Raphael Herz, Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust
Bruce Hampton, AIA, LEED® AP, Elton+Hampton Architects
Level: Intermediate
The 22nd Century Home: Build it Today!
8:30-10:00 Thursday March 15
Session Speakers:
Duncan F. Prahl, RA, IBACOS, Inc.
William Zoeller, RA, Steven Winter Associates
Level: Advanced
The construction industry rarely listens to itself, so years go by before simple technologies are embraced by architects, engineers, and builders that can make homes more efficient, durable, safe, comfortable, and affordable. Learn from these well-known practitioners about the technologies that have been on the shelf for generations, decades, and even years that can be adopted by anyone today to make your new home the home of the future.
Best Practices in Multifamily LEED® New Construction
10:30-12:00 Thursday March 15
Session Speakers:
Kevin Grady, Albanese Organization
Charlotte Matthews, Bovis Lend Lease LMB, Inc.
Level: Intermediate
Under the direction (and requirements) of the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) in lower Manhattan, new multifamily buildings are required to meet standards that meet or exceeded LEED standards. These high-profile buildings had to overcome significant hurdles, from the 9/11 attacks through the education of developers, contractors, and tenants. Learn the real world experiences in the construction, maintenance, and management of three of BPCA's crown jewels: The Solaire, Tribeca Green, and Verdesian on the Park.
Good Single Family Rural Houses
2-3:30 Thursday March 15
Session Chair: Anne Perkins, Rural Development, Inc.
Session Speakers:
Bill Austin, Austin Design, Inc.
Anne Perkins, Rural Development, Inc.
Level: Entry, Intermediate, Advanced
Across the Northeast, rural housing needs to be built to withstand both our cold winters and construction practices that do not always guarantee a good building. Learn from these practitioners about the details that need to be addressed as well as the pitfalls to avoid in designing and building affordable high performance rural housing.
Green Building Materials: Current Solutions
and Future Directions
4-5:30 Thursday March 15
Session Chair: Dennis Carlberg, LEED® AP, Arrowstreet, Inc.
Session Speakers:
John E. Fernandez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Level: Intermediate
This presentation will survey the criteria that currently define “green” materials that have contributed to general acceptance of resource efficiency measures such as embodied energy, associated carbon emissions, renewable and nonrenewable. While these criteria have been helpful to set the stage for the first wave of green buildings, they may be considered as an initial and mutable set of resource efficiency indicators. Fernandez will outline the next steps in defining and measuring the resource content of the products of architectural design.