By Grey Lee
The Massachusetts LEED Project Showcase 2013 is coming!
When: Thursday October 17, 2013 6:00 – 8:00PM
Where: Google's LEED Gold space at 3 Cambridge Center in Kendall Sq.
What to expect: Short presentations, networking, learning, light appetizers and beverages.
Cost: $25 USGBC MA members, $40 for non-members, sponsorship opportunities available
Here is our invitation letter to our members (you too could become a member!) – and please take a look at the links to see the event page and consider registering a project for the Showcase!
Dear Colleagues in Green Building,
Thank you also for being a dedicated Member of the USGBC MA Chapter. As I went through this list, I am amazed at all the great LEED projects I can connect to a name. I want more of these projects to be better known.
Your work has helped move the Commonwealth to the forefront of sustainable planning, design, construction and operation of buildings and communities. We want to celebrate your efforts, and those of your teams, by having your LEED certified projects showcased at an exciting event to be hosted at Google’s facility in Cambridge on Oct. 17th, 2013.
The USGBC MA Chapter is hosting this inaugural LEED Project Showcase as a way of gathering our community of practitioners, raising the profile of our LEED buildings and sharing information about innovative practices in design and construction.
I hope you will consider joining us. There are many ways to participate. We are seeking basic information about each of your projects so we can highlight these stories on our website and create opportunities for team building among the many disciplines involved in projects. We want the story of these projects, whether they are located in Massachusetts or designed/created by you or your firm outside of the state. There are also several sponsorship opportunities to allow for better exposure, including event boards and tie-ins with our media partner the New England Real Estate Journal. We are also seeking sponsors that want to present information about their projects live at the event. If you would like to sponsor multiple projects that you've been involved in, please let me know.
We anticipate an enjoyable and informative gathering and hope that you, as well as members of your project team, will submit your projects' narratives and attend the event.
I'm hoping this may be a way to connect with more of the people who have supported our mission to make every building a green building through your daily work.
Thank you for your efforts in promoting the design, construction, and operation of sustainable buildings and communities in Massachusetts! I look forward to hearing from you.
Grey Lee
Global Head of Sustainability, Superior Essex
Sustainability Director, Steven Winter Associates
PE | Associate, LeMessurier
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Interior Designer, Jacobs, Boston
Senior Vice President, Market Transformation and Development U.S. Green Building Council
AIA LEED AP BD+C | Senior Associate, Gensler Boston 
LEED Fellow, WELL AP | Founder and Principal, Ecoworks Studio
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Assistant Professor of Exposure Science | Director of the Healthy Buildings program
Managing Director, Harvard University Office for Sustainability
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Associate Principal, BuroHappold Engineering
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Co-Founder, Facilitator at The Laurentia Project | LEED AP BD+C, LFA
Vice President of Sustainable Development, Shaw
Founder and President, Board of the Healthy Building Network
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Workplace Strategy Expert and Researcher, EYP
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Senior Vice President, International WELL Building Institute
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