Track 1: Commerical Real Estate

Presenter | Mark Casey
Session Title | Applying the Triple Bottom Line to Commercial Real Estate
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People from all walks of life are recognizing that good business requires healthy, functional communities and vibrant ecosystems. For those interested in sustainability, a term that is making its way into business lexicon is “TripleBottomLine.” This expression was coined by John Elkington, co-founder of the business consultancy SustainAbility. As this term, “TripleBottomLine”, suggests there are three measure of success: economic prosperity, social fairness, and environmental health. Those of us who work in the green building have much to learn by other outside of our industry. For example, Gary Hirshberg, CEO of Stonyfield Farm Yogurt says the TripleBottomLine is imbedded in everything they do at Stonyfield. He gave the example of a project they embraced to reduce waste generated from yogurt containers. The tradition plastic container tops with a thin film. As Hirshberg described it, the change not only dramatically reduced waste that was heading toward landfills, but instantly saved Stoneyfield millions of dollars per year. Green building practitioners, as shapers of the built-environment has a unique opportunity to implement 3BL. If we embrace this challenge, the question becomes how can this model for sustainability be applied to real estate development and investing? The TripleBottomLine suggests three lenses through which to view financial success or failure. This talk addresses the unified application of these three values.
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Presenter | Ed Bush
Session Title | LEED Certification: How much does it cost?
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Calculating the expense or savings associated with LEED certified construction can be daunting. This presentation will demonstrate how to use life cycle cost analysis to calculate the present value cost or savings associated with individual LEED credits and determine break-even points. Earning LEED Sustainable Sites Credit 7.1: Heat Island Effect – Nonroof through the use of concrete pavement will be used to illustrate this process.
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Presenter | Ryan E. Warren
Session Title | The Legal Risks of Green Building
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This presentation is designed to educate building professionals about the legal risks and pitfalls of green building, especially with respect to their marketing and their contracts. The presentation will discuss what to include and, importantly, what not to include in marketing materials including brochures and websites. It will also discuss specific issues that building professionals should make certain their attorneys at least analyze with respect to their contracts with not only clients, but also subcontractors or sub-subcontractors.
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Presenter | Lisa Stanley
Session Title | LEED for ExIsting Buildings Portfolio Certification
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This presentation will address how companies are successfully implementing sustainable operations in order to achieve volume LEED EB certification across multiple buildings. Ms. Stanley, an industry expert, will address the successes, challenges, and opportunities related to this dynamic process. Hear how the various companies have chosen to address the human capital component of implementing sustainable operations across a portfolio. Should you hire and train in-house staff to successfully implement or retain an external consultant to develop and roll out a program? What technology is available to support this process? Do you simply use LEED On-line for each building, or do you need to develop an in-house technology pre approved by the USGBC? Learn about the USGBC Volume Certification Pilot Program. How successful has the pilot been – what is the next step? What is the review process? How does the USGBC ensure that a full level of rigor and quality is upheld? How about recertification plans? The speaker will draw on the tension and variety between the different approaches to rolling out and embracing the volume approach to LEED EB certification. The speaker has personally worked with two clients in the pilot program, and has a great working relationship with two others. Stories regarding all four clients will be shared with the audience. The pros and cons of each method of implementation explored for the audience to learn from.
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Presenter | Steve Zanolini and Paul McCown
Session Title | The Greening of Caterpillar Financial
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In April of 2009, the Caterpillar Financial center in Nashville was awarded LEED EB Gold from the U.S.G.B.C. Achieving the certification made the CAT Financial Center the first building in the Caterpillar family and the first privately owned, commercial building in Tennessee to become LEED-EB certified. But what is most interesting about this story is how the company, and in particular Steve Zanolini, Global Facility Manager for Caterpillar Financial, converted the metaphor of “green” in the novice sense of the word, to “green” an environmental steward and advocate of sustainability, high performance, and healthy workspaces. Highlights of the CAT Financial Center’s green features include: • Restructured building operation and maintenance practices • Reduced consumption of electricity by over 20%, water by 22% and reduced solid waste by 49% • Initiated a recycling and composting program • Formed a sustainability committee to sustain progress • Retro-Commissioning • Continuous Commissioning™ Accompanying Steve is Paul McCown, PE, CEM, CxA, Manager for the Sustainable Solutions Group of SSRCx, the firm who guided CAT through the certification process.
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Presenter | Holli Baumunk
Session Title | Sustainable Practices...It makes good business sense
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The Colorado Energy Coalition (CEC) is a consortium of clean tech and traditional energy companies, utilities, and research institutions dedicated to growing Colorado's Balanced Energy Economy. The CEC's Sustainability Committee is developing a regional approach to educating all business that implementing sustainable business practices in not only the right thing to do but it makes good business sense. This business panel will highlight four businesses that exemplify best practices in sustainability, briefing the audience on how they developed a plan, the amount invested, the energy savings, and the the amount of time it took to recoop costs and the ROI. Suggested speakers would include include: XCEL's new platinum office building, Amgen's sustainable best practices, Well's Fargo's new sustainability program and/or the Denver Zoo's Biomass Gasification Project in conjunction with NREL.
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