By Allison Maynard, Communications Associate
- Deep Material Vetting That Won’t Chew Through Your Design Budget,
- Embodied Carbon: The Critical Juncture Where Sustainability Meets Building Structure, and
- Don't Build Here: Site Selection Strategies to Protect Our Wild Spaces.
Deep Material Vetting That Won’t Chew Through Your Design Budget will be shown on 11/12/15 in Cambridge at noon. This webinar will explore the new rules surrounding product vetting, materials transparency, and toxicity screening for building materials in your projects. Our experts Chris Lee and Scott Kelly of Re:Vision Architecture also have a rare specialty in product vetting for the Living Building Challenge Red List. Chris and Scott have gotten so good that they travel around, teaching their no-more-tears research strategies and time-saving workflows to other building professionals. And now they're sharing their wisdom in this webcast.
To join this in-person webinar, register here!
Embodied Carbon: The Critical Juncture Where Sustainability Meets Building Structure will be shown on 11/18/15 in Boston at 4:30. It will dive into building life cycle assessment, analysis of embodied carbon, and many things a structural engineer can do to reduce embodied energy and embodied carbon in buildings. The focus is on how structural engineers can reduce embodied cardon in buildings, but this course has valuable information for anyone involved in sustainable building.
To join this webinar, register here!
Don't Build Here: Site Selection Strategies to Protect Our Wild Spaces will be shown on 11/18/15 in Worcester at 6pm. It will focus on selecting a sustainable site for building a LEED project. This course is great for anyone involved in sustainable buildings that wants to reduce the environmental impact from the site selection process for buildings. Participants will learn how to achieve the Sensitive Land Protection credit for the LEED v4 BD+C rating systems and how to utilize tools such as the NRCS web based soil surveys, FEMA Flood Map Service Center, and NatureServe.
To join this webinar, register here!
Global Head of Sustainability, Superior Essex
Sustainability Director, Steven Winter Associates
PE | Associate, LeMessurier
Vice President, AEW’s Architecture & Engineering group
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
AIA, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP
LEED AP BD+C | Environmental Sustainability Manager, Armstrong World Industries
Assistant Professor of Exposure Science | Director of the Healthy Buildings program
Managing Director, Harvard University Office for Sustainability
Principal & Director of Certifications and Consulting, Epsten Group, Inc.
Vice President of Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility, Jamestown
Director of Sustainability Programs, DASNY | LEED AP BD+C
Associate Principal, BuroHappold Engineering
Senior Vice President, Sustainability at Kilroy Realty Corporation
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
Building Technology Director, Kingspan North America
LEED® AP ID+C, BD+C, USGBC Faculty, WELL® AP, WELL Faculty and Fitwel Ambassador
Workplace Strategy Expert and Researcher, EYP
Principal, Integrated Ecostrategy
Senior Vice President, International WELL Building Institute
Principal, Bruner/Cott
Architect, Associate, and Sustainability Design Leader, Stantec Architecture and Engineering
FAIA, LEED Fellow, Long Green Specs
Products & Materials Specialist, BuildingGreen
Director of Acquisitions and Development
Director of Restorative Enterprise, Interface
Sustainability Manager, Consigli Construction Company