The Build2Sustain Podcast
By Build2Sustain
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Podcast Description
A monthly discussion of green and sustainable building with professionals and experts from around the country.
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LEED: Checklist or Inspirational Tool? Part 2 | We continue our discussion with Lauren Glasscock, Michael Anchsel, Matt Cole and Elaine Hsieh about whether LEED is or could be inspirational. Let us know what you think in the comment section below! | 6/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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LEED: Checklist or Inspirational Tool? Part 1 | Is LEED just a checklist? Is it inspirational? Can any rating system be inspirational? Should it be? These are some of the questions that came up in a debate on Twitter. So, we invited the participants to flesh it out in exquisite detail on our podcast. What we got was a passionate, in depth discussion that we will present in two parts. Here is more about our participants: Lauren Glasscock For the last three years Lauren has been a Green Building Consultant for KEMA, specifically focusing on LEED projects. Starting in a couple weeks, she will be the Sustainability Coordinator for Housing at Stanford University. Michael Anchsel Michael, a nationally recognized expert on Green remodeling, writes, trains, and speaks for various publications and events around the nation. He is the owner of Otogawa-Anschel Design-Build a nationally recognized design-build firm, and CEO of Verified Green Inc. which consults with Local Government, product manufacturers, suppliers, builders, and architects on Green building. Michael is the director of research and development for MN GreenStar, and serves on the board of directors for the City of Lakes Rotary Club. Matt Cole Matt is a project manager at Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago with a background in community development, historic preservation, and green building. Elaine Hsieh Elaine is a Senior Green Building Consultant with KEMA’s Sustainable Buildings and Operations (SBO) team with over 11 years of experience in consulting and is a member of the Build2Sustain advisory board. You can read more about Elaine on the B2S Team page. | 6/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Adaptive Reuse in Green Building | Paul Prosser of Prosser Architects talks with Build2Sustain about adaptive reuse--its value and synergy to sustainability. As founder of Prosser Architects, L.L.C, Paul Prosser has twenty-eight combined years of successful experience in the fields of architecture, code consulting and construction. His interest in sustainability has led him to recently re-focus his professional energy and business on contextually sensitive design and construction projects. Mr. Prosser has been involved in many project types of with all kinds of clients including: single family post and beam homes, large mixed use developments, retail and restaurants, medical and dental facilities, public schools, high rise office buildings, high rise condominiums, corporate campuses, manufacturing and warehouse facilities, fire stations, and churches. He has worked with several architectural firms in a variety of positions, run a small contracting firm early in his career and is the face of Prosser Architects. In his down time he designs and builds custom furniture, enjoys photography and rides his bicycles as long and as often as possible. You can also follow him on Twitter @ProsserArch For more information about the adapative reuse project Paul references in the podcast: Liberty Market Home Page: http://www.libertymarket.com/ Liberty Market Featured Project Page : http://www.prosserarchitects.com/news/featuredproject/ Liberty Market Photo Galley: http://www.prosserarchitects.com/projects/retail/libertymarket/ | 5/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Taiga Company on Sustainability | This month, we talk with Julie Urlaub, founder of the Taiga Company about the definition of sustainability and how to engage individuals and businesses in it. You can also follow Julie on Twitter @TaigaCompany In this episode, Julie refers a couple of times to a blog post published on the Harvard Business Review. You can access this post here. Julie also recommends some of the sources that she follows. We've provided all the links to these below: Fabian Pattberg Elaine Cohen Chris Jarvis - Realized Worth Timberland Intel IBM Wal-Mart Just Means 3BL Media Pew Center on Climate Skoll Greenbiz.com Environmental Leader Taiga Company Blog | 5/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Homepath Products and Adaptability in Green Building | This month, we talk to Mike Hines, co-founder of Homepath Products, about his company, their product and the importance of adaptability in green building. Be sure to check out Mike's blog for more information and insight. You can also find him on Twitter @eXapath | 4/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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LEED, The Living Building Challenge and the Future of Green Building...Part Two. | Last week we brought you the first part of our discussion with Scot Horst and Jason Mclennan. This week part two... We discuss the future of LEED, the role of the Living Building Challenge as a leader in the sustainability movement and the possibility of a global green building standard. After listening, tell us what you think. Are there questions you still need answered? Curious about any other rating systems? The comment section awaits! | 3/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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LEED, The Living Building Challenge and the Future of Green Building | We're thrilled this month to be joined by Scot Horst SR. VP of LEED at the USGBC and Jason McLennan CEO of Cascadia and leader of the Living Building Challenge. We decided to break our discussion into two parts (look for part two next week) in part one we outline the complimentary missions of the two organizations, their roles as leaders in the green building movement, and current initiatives. Scot Horst, Senior Vice President for LEED at the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), is widely recognized as a key leader of the sustainable design movement. Scot was previously president of 7group, a leading green building consultancy, and president of Athena Institute International, a non-profit committed to the evaluation of environmental impacts of buildings through lifecycle assessment. Since 2005, Scot has served as chair of USGBC’s LEED Steering Committee, the body with principle responsibility for developing and implementing the LEED rating system. For this work, he is the 2008 recipient of USGBC’s Leadership Award in the LEED category. He has recently co-authored “An Integrative Design Manual: Redefining the Practice of Sustainability” published by Wiley and Sons. Scot is a LEED AP, a past LEED faculty member and has been a contributing author to the LEED reference guides. He is a sought-after speaker and a frequently interviewed expert on green building and its intersection with humanity. Jason McLennan serves as the CEO of the Cascadia Green Building Council, the Pacific Northwest’s leading organization in the field of green building and sustainable development. Cascadia is a chapter of both the US Green Building Council and the Canadian Green Building Council. He is the author of the Living Building Challenge an international green building program and co-creator of Pharos, the most advanced building material rating system in North America. Jason is known as an international thought leader in the green architecture movement and has lectured on sustainability across the US and Canada. His work in the sustainable design field has been published or reviewed in dozens of journals, magazines conference proceedings and books including Architecture, Architectural Record, Dwell, Plenty, Metropolis, NY Times, The Globe and Mail, The World and I, Ecostructure and Environmental Design and Construction Magazine. He is the author of four books; The Philosophy of Sustainable Design, The Dumb Architect’s Guide to Glazing Selection, the Ecological Engineer and Zugenruhe. The Philosophy of Sustainable Design is currently used as a textbook in over 60 universities and colleges and is distributed widely throughout Europe and North America. He is a former Principal at BNIM Architects, one of the founders of the green design movement in the United States, where he worked on many of the leading high performance projects in the country including LEED Platinum, Gold and zero energy projects. At BNIM he created the building science team known as Elements, which set new standards for energy and resource efficiency on many of its projects in various building types. Jason is also the founder and CEO of Ecotone Publishing, the only dedicated green building publisher in North America. Jason was recently named one of the top 40 under 40 most influential individuals in | 3/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Managing Client Expectations and the Green Lease | James Bedell discusses managing client expectations in the new world of green building. Contributors this month are two leaders in green building law. Stephen Del Percio and Shari Shapiro take on the nature of standard of care when it comes to green design, the role of the architect as LEED advocate and the concept of green leasing. The comment section awaits...have follow up questions? Thoughts? We want to hear from you. | 2/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Welcome to the Build2Sustain Podcast | An introduction to the Build2Sustain Podcast... | 2/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 9 Episodes |
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