Green Buildings and Houses: Fads, Facts and Outlooks
What does it mean to be “green” in the real estate world? Half-day practical and applied workshop with local and national leaders in green building.

Thursday, March 6: 7:00-11:30am: Lincoln Center, Fort Collins
Questions: anne.spry@colostate.edu or (970) 491-5522
The Everitt Real Estate Center is hosting its first quarter event focusing on building green at the Lincoln Center.
 
Commencing the event, Brian Dunbar, Colorado State’s executive director of the Institute for the Built Environment, will clarify the definition of green buildings. He will discuss what green building practices use to be, what they are today and what it means to build green for the future. The Institute fosters stewardship and sustainability through research-based, interdisciplinary educational forums within the Department of Construction Management.
 
Breakout session content for those in commercial construction will include case studies, LEED certification and green building appraisal. The session focusing on residential construction will encompass renovating and consulting green as well a presentation by Jammie Sabin from Aspen Homes, the top green development company in Colorado.
 
The keynote presenter, Walter Rakowich, president and COO of ProLogis, will address corporate sustainability. ProLogis is committed to becoming the global leader in sustainable warehouse design and construction. They have responded proactively to the emerging trends regulators are putting in place toward tougher standards for real estate development projects, and are requiring builders to account for carbon emissions and other environmental impacts in a more holistic manner.

Schedule:
7:00-8:00 am               Registration, Coffee, Doughnuts and networkingbr /> 8:00-8:50 am               What is Green? Brian Dunbar, Institute for the Built Environment
8:50-9:00 am               Breakout. Commercial and Residential
9:00-10:15 am             Commercial Breakout
                                    Susan McFaddin, 7 Generations
                                    Randy Swearingen, Aardex
                                    Don Shannon, Shannon & Associates
                                    Residential Breakout
                                    Steve Byers, Energy Logic
                                    Judy Dorsey, The Brendle Group
                                    Jammie Sabin, Aspen Homes
10:15-10:30 am           Break
10:30-10:55 am           Snowmass- The Related Companies
10:55-11:25 am           Corporate Sustainability- ProLogis, Walter Rakowich, President and COO
11:25-11:30 am           Closing Remarks and Green Building Research- Steve Laposa, Everitt Real Estate Center