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Green building conference planned for 9/11 in Cinci
I received the following press release, regarding a half-day program on green building and LEED certification to be held in Cincinnati tomorrow, Sept. 11. Read on, and share your thoughts here if you get a chance to attend.
Here’s the release:
“Some of the biggest names in the business of building throughout Greater Cincinnati will be turning out in force this Thursday to break down the big picture - and sweat the small stuff - at a first-of-its-kind local symposium dedicated to providing answers to the question: Can’t I just build using sustainable practices and save money on LEED certification?
“The big thing you’re always going to hear about with Green is ‘What’s the cost? Where’s the ROI?’ My typical response is look at the hard facts and economics of an approach to building Green,” said the keynote speaker Alan Whitson, president of Corporate Realty Design & Management Institute, based in Portland, Oregon.
The co-presenters of the mini-conference are the Greater Cincinnati chapters of Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) and the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP). It’s the largest event focusing strictly on the Green vs. LEED debate that the two leading professional organizations have organized as a collaborative effort.
From Whitson’s perspective, there have been “levels of acceptance” of the Green life. “I have seen who’s really into it, and who’s not. I can tell you who is, and who should be: the legal community, the insurance community, and the investment community,” he continued.
“The gut feeling that I get, in talking to people from the Greater Cincinnati market, is some people feel Green building and the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) system are things that we ought to look at. Then there are the tree-hugging people who say we HAVE to do something, and those who have a very ambivalent, yukky feeling about the whole thing,” Whitson said. “In the major marketplaces, the big boys are taking a more pragmatic approach. They want to know where the money is in Green, and how to get it.”
Whitson is a national authority on the Green movement, which he addresses with his trademarked “Turning Green into Gold” program at www.SquareFootage.net. He’s also an officially certified Education Provider of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
Whitson will be joined by a virtual Who’s Who lineup of local professionals from the commercial real estate, development, construction, leasing and property management, architecture, environmental and engineering fields.
Other speakers include opening comments from Norwood Mayor Thomas Williams and Jim Neyer, president of the local NAIOP chapter and an executive from Al. Neyer Inc., followed by presentations from Tom Stapleton from Eagle Realty Group, Nadja Turek from Woolpert Inc. , and Ken Kreider and Dave Meyer, two attorneys from Keating Muething Klekamp’s Green Team. Later, Tom Kennedy from the USGBC will present an overview of the new LEED Core and Shell training followed by a cocktail reception and trade show.”
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By Debbie
January 3, 2009 6:15 PM | Link to this
I just started reading this column and really appreciate it. While there should be little doubt about the urgency in “going green” at every corner, even though I am not doing so yet, many people refuse to believe there is a problem. The more information we put out there, the better for the generations to come. Could it be that there may not BE a return on investment that satisfies the individual or corporation interested only in self-gain?
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