The jewel
in the crown of the inaugural conference on healthy and
sustainable architecture features The Center for
Sustainable Landcapes the Phipps Conservatory and
Botanical Garden, a multi-certified building with success
according to WELL ™ standards, Living buildng
Challenge ™, LEED® Platinum and SITES ™
presented by Richard Piacentini and Phil Williams.
By LadyDragon
MONTREAL--(LadyDragon.com)20/10/15--1.21pm EST, LadyDragon wrote
- The day/evening inaugural conference on healthy and
sustainable architecture will be held on November 09,
2015, on the theme of health and wellness at the
heart of buildings.
The event
will seek to support all players in the sector by
disseminating new standards, proven tools and design
strategies most likely to contribute to healthy
buildings, ecological, profitable, beautiful and above
all, capable of offering their owners and occupants
optimal living and working environments.
INTENDED
AUDIENCE
-
Architects and Interior designers
-
Manufacturers of products, materials and building
components
-
Professionals and consultants in sustainable buildings
- Owners
and property managers
- Service
providers for buildings
RATES
- Reduced
rates until October 25, 2015
- Students:
up to 60% off
http://batimentdurable.ca
CREDITS
-
Professionals are eligible for accreditation in their
respected field
Day Conference
Welcoming
the participants - Breakfast
Welcoming
Remarks
PART
1 - Inaugural Conference
-
Buildings in service of the public health and
well-being of the occupants:
Dr.
François Reeves, Cardiologist and Professor,
University of Montreal
PART
2 - Innovative Design Approaches - I
- CHUM,
MUHC and LEED: Air quality at the heart of wellness
in hospitals:
Lyse Tremblay, ecoArchitecture
Inc.
Joel Courchesne, Courchesne
& Associates
PART
3 - Innovative Design Approaches - II
-
Ergonomics at the Grande Bibliothèque, the
importance of a a healthy and practical working
environment:
Patrick Vincent, Certified
Ergonomist, Vincent Ergonomics
-
Natural light: the new GlaxoSmithKline building in
Québec, a necessary passive design strategy:
François Cantin, Coarchitecture
- PANEL - The
architecture of wellness: a question of
profitability:
Three
representatives of companies explained their
conclusions of theirs experiments
Animated
by Lise Castonguay, Castonguay Design
PART
4 - PANEL
- The
Rapidorama ™ hits
and catches: successes, some mistakes and a
lot of lessons learned in healthy and sustainable
architecture:
Five
healthy architecture specialists including
Mr. Guy Favreau, Architect, LEED AP,
architecture Vice President and Sustainability at
Aedifica have ten minutes to place their experiences
PART
5 - Innovative Design Approaches - III
-
Active design: the building as a space for physical
activity;
Eric Robitaille, National
Institute of Public Health
-
Universal accessibility: The building is a safe space
for all:
Sophie Lanctôt, Director
General, Société Logique
PART
6 - Innovative Design Approaches - IV
-
Biophilia in architecture: a new approach to
experience of nature for the benefit of
occupants (English):
Elizabeth
Freeman Calabrese, Architect, AIA, NCARB,
LEED AP, Calabrese Architects
Evening Conference (English)
PART
7 - Featured
presenters:
Richard
Piacentini, Executive Director, Phipps
Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Chair,
Living Future Institute International
Since
1994, Richard V. Piacentini has guided the
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
from public to private management and is
responsible for the green transformation of
its facilities and operations, including: the
opening of the first LEED certified visitor's
center in a public garden, the first LEED
certified greenhouses (LEED Platinum EBOM);
construction of the Tropical Forest
Conservatory, the most energy-efficient
structure of its kind in the world; and the
Center for Sustainable Landscapes, a net-zero
energy and water building designed to meet
the Living Building Challenge, LEED Platinum
and 4 Stars SITES certification for
landscapes.
A
past president, treasurer, and Green
Buildings and Landscapes Committee founding
chair of the American Public Gardens
Association (APGA), Piacentini is the
recipient of a Living Building Challenge Hero
Award from ILFI; U.S. Green Building Council
Individual Leadership Award for an NGO;
Shades of Green Leadership Award from the
Green Building Alliance; Professional
Citation and Service Awards from APGA;
Carnegie Science Environmental and Catalyst
Awards and a Sustainable Champion Award from
he American Society of Interior Designers,
Western Pennsylvania. Piacentini serves on
the board of the Waldorf School of
Pittsburgh, and on the Mission and Community
Needs Committee for Magee-Womens Hospital.
Piacentini holds a Master of Science degree
in botany from the University of Connecticut,
a Master of Business Administration degree
from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a
Bachelor's degree in pharmacy from the
University of Rhode Island.
Phil
Williams, Executive Director, Project
Delivery, Well Building Standard, Delos
Wellness Building
Phil
has spent 30 years in the commercial design,
engineering and construction industry most
recently for the past 12 years as a Vice
President with Webcor Builders where we
initiated and lead the Sustainability,
Engineering and Consulting groups. He brings
a comprehensive approach and experience
appreciation for the dynamics of ownership
and development, the nuance of design, the
detail of engineering, the pace of
construction and the discipline of facilities
and operations. Prior to Webcor he held
management positions with Southland
Industries and Carrier/United Technologies
Corp. He currently serves as the Industry
Chair for the Center for the Built
Environment (CBE) through the University of
California Berkeley, on the Executive Board
of Eco-Districts, on the Board of
USGBC’s Northern California Chapter
(NCC) Healthy Building Challenge and is a
member of the Industry Technical Advisory
Group for Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory (LBNL) FLEXLAB. Phil has an
engineering degree from Washington State
University, is a licensed Mechanical Engineer
and a LEED AP.
Discover
one of the most sustainable buildings in the world,
an architectural project featuring unusual interior
design and landscaping:
The
Center for Sustainable Landcapes the Phipps
Conservatory and Botanical Garden, a multi-certified
building with success according WELL ™
standards, Living buildng Challenge ™, LEED®
Platinum and SITES ™.
http://batimentdurable.ca
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