Be the Change

The Introductory Overview talk will help you better understand the Green Building Council's LEED(r) program fast - today's hottest design support and ratings tool supporting environmental design and construction of successful green buildings. This overview will explore the pre-eminent green building guide and rating tool, and cover sustainable design principles and green building practices. Using LEED(r) is proven effective to help deliver excellence in green building projects through unbiased ratings of project design options and to help project teams compare green construction packages. Green buildings succeed by reducing operating costs, enhancing occupant health and comfort, enhancing durability and decreasing maintenance, all at low, sometimes zero, added construction costs. Holistic, collaborative sustainable design projects are producing not only environmentally superior projects, but also increasing a building's economic viability.

The lecture is to be given by Gunner Hubbard from Fore Solutions, Consultants for High Performance Green Buildings.

For further information and to reserve a place, Please contact AIA/UK Chapter Executive directly by email amanda.vidler@hok.com.

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Other Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_in_Energy_and_Environmental_Design
• http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/03/building_green_china.php

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About the speaker

Green Buildings, the LEED Rating System, and the Role of the Design Team

Gunnar Hubbard, a Green Building Consultant based in the US, will provide a lecture on the role green building rating systems play in today's global economy and climate change. The lecture will start with a brief review of the climate change and green buildings, and then delve into the current specifics of existing rating systems. The emphasis will be placed the LEED rating system and the types of rating systems available for the changing global market, with appropriate comparisons to BREEAM and HQE and others. An emphasis will be placed on the role that architects and design teams play in not just meeting, but exceeding these standards and steering progress towards innovative and inspired solutions for a better built environment and global environmental economy.

Gunnar Hubbard is an architect, a LEED Faculty, and President of ForeSolutions: Consultants for High Performance, Green Buildings located in Portland, ME. He consults on projects ranging from affordable housing to the large national projects like the CityCenter project in Las Vegas. His work brings integrated design and green building approaches to forefront of decision making for the client, design team, contractor, and occupants. He leads workshops, seminars, and charrettes worldwide, and teaches both the LEED NC, CI, and LEED for Schools training courses nationwide for the USGBC.

He is a founding Board Member of the Maine USGBC Chapter, a Board Member for Community Housing of Maine, and is on the City of Portland's Sustainability Task Force. Prior to starting Fore Solutions, he co-founded McCoppin Studios, an architecture firm based in San Francisco which specializes in environmentally-responsible design. He was a research scholar in Green Development Services at the Rocky Mountain Institute where he did research across the country on environmentally-responsible architecture and development.

Prior to his time at RMI, Gunnar was the executive director of Yestermorrow Design Build School.