Schedule

GULF COAST GREEN 2008 - SYMPOSIUM
Attendees of the conference will earn 9 CEUs.

Thursday, April 3, 2008 

07:00-12:00 Registration

07:00-08:30 Breakfast

08:30-10:00 Keynote Address - Dr. Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break, Jared Diamond Book Signing
 
10:30-12:00 SESSION 1 (concurrent breakout sessions)

   Meeting The Carbon Neutral Challenge - Featured Speaker: Kent Peterson
   PE and ASHRAE President
   Ecological Design - The Significance of Water
   Introduction: Sponsor – Houston, TX
   Bob Shemwell, Overland Partners, Architect – San Antonio
   Hozerfa Abbas Haidery, Overland Partners, Architect – San Antonio
   Sustainable Land Use &Development -
   Unity Homes – Modeling Green Affordable Housing
   Introduction: Sponsor – Houston, TX
   Lilli Bender, Healthy Building Network- Mississippi
   Julie Silas, Healthy Building Network – Mississippi
   Innovations in Sustainable Design - Design to Avoid Building Failure
   Introduction: Sponsor – Houston, TX
   David Odom, Liberty Building Forensics Group- “building science expert”- Florida
   Richard Scott, Liberty Building Forensics Group- “ building science expert”- Florida

12:00-02:00 Lunch

12:30-01:00 Mayoral Address - Mayor Bill White

01:00- 01:45 Keynote Address - Ira Magaziner

02:00-03:30 SESSION 2 (concurrent breakout sessions)

   Meeting the Carbon Neutral Challenge - “Innovative Energy Systems“
   Moderator: TBD - Houston
   Kim Shinn, TLC Engineers- Tennessee
   Patrick McAleese, SEI Engineers- Boston
   Ecological Design - “LEED-Homes“
   Moderator: Carrie Shoemake, Architect – Houston
   Kathleen Carrier, Evergreen Design Studio, Designer – Houston
   Chris Fry, Dovetail Builders, Contractor - Houston
   David Murrah, LEED Home Rater – Houston
   Sustainable Land Use &Development - Featured Speaker: Ila Berman
   Assoc. Dean of the Tulane School of Architecture, Founding Director of URBANbuild
   Innovations in Sustainable Design - “BIM & LEED – the future and the now“
   Introduction: Sponsor – Houston, TX
   Eddy Krygiel, BNIM, Architect – Kansas City, MO
   George Pontikes, Satterfield & Pontikes, General Contractor – Houston, TX
   Brian Richard, Kirksey – Architect - Houston
   James Jacobi, Walter P. Moore – Houston, TX

03:30-04:00 Break

04:00-05:30 SESSION 3 (concurrent breakout sessions)

   Meeting the Carbon Neutral Challenge - “City of Houston – Green Initiatives”
   Introduction: Sponsor – Houston, TX
   Moderator: Peter Brown, Sustainable Neighborhoods- Houston
   Sheila Blake, COH, Code Green- Houston
   Issa Dadoush, COH, Building Services Director- Houston;
   Sara Mason, COH – Houston, TX
   Karl Pepple, COH, Houston’s Emissions Inventory- Houston
   Steve Stelzer, COH, Mayor’s Green Building Advisory Council- Houston
   Jim Broughton, GHP “How to green our communities” – Houston
   Ecological Design - “Restorative Landscape Design”
   Introduction: Sponsor – Houston, TX
   Moderator: Mark Simmons, Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center, Ecologist- Austin
   Brian Gardiner, Austech Roof Consultants, Roof Consultant- Austin
   Kevin Topek, Permaculture Design- Houston
   Sustainable Land Use & Development - “Neighborhood Revitalization“
   Introduction: Sponsor – Houston, TX
   Lynn Edmundson, Historic Houston- Houston
   Beth Galante, Global Green- New Orleans
   Innovations in Sustainable Design - Featured Speaker: Bill Walsh
   Founding Director Healthy Building Network

06:00-09:00 USGBC Event

Friday, April 4, 2008

07:00-12:00 Registration

07:00-08:30 Breakfast

08:30-10:00 Keynote Address - Dr. Ken Yeang, visionary architect and inventor of the Bioclimatic Skyscraper;
author of Ecodesign

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break, Ken Yeang book signing
 
10:30-12:00 SESSION 4 (concurrent breakout sessions)

   Meeting the Carbon Neutral Challenge -
   “Advanced Cool, Dry, Low-Energy Systems”
   Introduction: Sponsor – Houston, TX
   Art Hallstrom, ASHRAE
   Dan Pollock, Controls and Systems Consultant- Wisconsin
   Ecological Design - Featured Speaker: Sergio Palleroni
   University of Texas at Austin, Professor, Founding Director BASIC Initiative
   Sustainable Land Use & Development - “Sustainable Landscape Architecture”
   Introduction: Sponsor – Houston, TX
   Margaret Robinson, Asakura Robinson, Landscape Architect- Houston
   Heather Venhaus, Lady Bird Wildflower Center – Austin
   Innovations in Sustainable Design - “Green Building Interiors”
   Introduction: Sponsor – Houston, TX
   Marilyn Black, Greenguard – Atlanta
   Gabriole Van Bryce, Van Bryce Associates- Interior Designer- Florida

12:00-02:00 Lunch + Closing Remarks in Expo

01:00-04:00 EXPO OPEN

02:00-05:00 Symposium TOURS
 
02:00-05:00 Symposium WORKSHOPS

Saturday, April 5, 2008

08:00-10:00 Mayor's plenary

10:00-05:00 EXPO free and open to the public
 
05:00 EXPO CLOSES

Sunday, April 6, 2008 

10:00-05:00 EXPO free and open to the public

05:00 EXPO CLOSES