Speakers at the Summit include leaders and experts from the worlds of policy, technology, design and practice. Learn about effective strategies and innovations from the professionals who have developed and pioneered them!

Note: Sessions and content subject to change.

Continuing Education Credits

All sessions in the concurrent session program are eligible for Continuing Education Unit (CEU) credits from the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA). Members will receive one credit for each session they attend.


AIA members can receive one CEU for each of the sessions noted below.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

MONDAY, OCTOBER 17

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Financing/Funding	Green Facilities	Creating a Green Workforce
10:45 am-12:00 pm Funding & Implementing Renewable Energy Projects – Part 1	10:45 am-12:00 pm Planning for the Future: Incorporating Sustainability into a Campus Master Plan	10:45 am-12:00 pm Market Driven Approach to Clean Energy Education
1:15 pm-2:45 pm Funding & Implementing Renewable Energy Projects – Part 2	1:15 pm-2:45 pm Heading Towards Grid Neutral and LEED Platinum	1:15 pm-2:45 pm Transferable Skills and Green Sectors
3:00 pm-4:00 pm CCC-IOU Partnership: Freeing Up Dollars for the Classroom	3:00 pm-4:00 pm The LACCD Sustainable Building Program: Redefining the Student Experience	3:00 pm-4:00 pm How Green Are Green Jobs and Who is Hiring?

 

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Potpourri	Green Faciities	Green Workforce
9:00 am-10:15 am Using Campus Efficiency Projects to Engage Students: A Green Campus Program Perspective	9:00 am-10:15 am Down With Bridging Documents! (and Up With Greater Project Efficiencies and Greener Design Elements!)	9:00 am-10:15 am Renewable Energy Job Programs
10:45 am-12:00 pm Sustainable Designing with Design/Build Delivery	10:45 am-12:00 pm Innovations in Energy Conservation	10:45 am-12:00 pm Energy Upgrade California
1:30 pm-2:45 pm Getting the Biggest Bang for Your “Green”: A Fresh Approach to FF&E Consumption	1:30 pm-2:45 pm 71 Million Square Foot Mashup of Community College Data to Drive Sustainable Decision Making	1:30 pm-2:45 pm Building Curriculum for Real Jobs

Concurrent Session Descriptions

October 17

Financing and Funding Track

Funding & Implementing Renewable Energy Projects – Part 1

A panel of experts will discuss the major modalities of renewable energy for campuses – wind, solar and fuel cells. Find out which ones are appropriate for your campus and your budget. Covered will be elements of design, financing and legal aspects.

Moderated by:
Mark Williams, Partner, Fagen Friedman and Fulfrost LLP

Electricity Cost Savings Through Solar: Myths and Realities
We will cover some of the misconceptions and risks associated with implementing solar on school sites and ways to mitigate those risks and assess whether and how solar makes sense for your campus. The session will offer basic design guidelines, such as how to determine site solar electricity generating capacity (rooftop, carport and/or ground mounted), how to size a solar facility to optimize energy savings given site load and local utility rate structures. Attendees will also learn how to capture local, state and federal incentives and steps to take to make the project attractive to third-party investors while meeting regulatory requirements. Finally we will include case studies and provide participants an opportunity to apply some of the models and tools presented to specific projects they are involved with, or are contemplating

Speaker:
Rick Brown, President, TerraVerde Renewable Partners

Wind for Schools
This presentation will discuss how schools and colleges can benefit from wind energy. We will briefly cover the technology (basic components, size, performance, and reliability), and how projects are developed and financed. We will also discuss different platforms and partners for curriculum development, and how to integrate a wind turbine into a school’s education program. We will look at how the project can create value beyond a return on investment. There are different programs that can be generated to attract new students, and provide opportunities for workforce development, technical training, and other educational offerings. The presentation will leverage case studies and success stories from trade schools, universities, community colleges, and elementary schools from across the country.

Speaker:
Greg Price, Regional Director, Northern Power Systems (Portland)

Funding & Implementing Renewable Energy Projects – Part 2

Developing Leaner, Cleaner and Greener Community Colleges
This session will discuss how by utilizing fuel cell energy systems, community colleges and schools can reduce their overhead costs, reduce their carbon emissions by up to 40 percent and contribute to a more positive, green learning environment. In addition, architects and building planners will learn how, by adding a fuel cell energy system to their project, they can qualify for additional funding, fast track their project, and more. With real-life examples of how this innovative technology is being used, participants will leave with actionable steps they can take employing smarter, more advanced environmentally friendly technology to meet their energy and heating needs.

Speakers:
Nicole Elovitz, Director of Marketing, ClearEdge Power
Mike Bigelow, Project Engineering, California Center for Sustainable Energy
Jack Brouwer, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC Irvine & Associate Director, National Fuel Cell Research Center & Chair, Technical Committee, California Stationary Fuel Cell Collaborative
Linda Gerber, President, Sylvania Campus, Portland Community College
Laura Ward, Energy Resource Conservation Manager, Portland Community College

CCC-IOU Partnership: Freeing Up Dollars for the Classroom
The CCC/IOU Partnership has been working with Community Colleges since 2006 to translate energy efficiency into sustainable cost savings that free up dollars for the classroom and reduce the district's carbon footprint. Because energy expenditures are second only to labor expenses, it is important for campuses to find creative solutions to reduce energy usage and leverage utility incentives. This presentation showcases energy efficiency projects that offer no-cost/low-cost solutions for Districts facing severe budget cuts.

Speakers:
Lisa Hannaman, Account Manager, Southern California Edison
Dan Estrada, Energy Specialist, California Community College Chancellor's Office
Robert Brunn, Partnership Program Manager, Southern California Edison

Green Facilities Track

Planning for the Future: Incorporating Sustainability into a Campus Master Plan
How does one college, with three separate campuses, unite itself through a master plan rooted in sustainable planning strategies? Located in north San Diego County, MiraCosta Community College District is currently in the process ofdeveloping their Comprehensive Master Plan (CMP), which will guide the district through development for the next 30 years. At the heart of this planning effort, is the goal to "develop interrelated plans that will establish models of environmentally sustainable practices." The plan will connect all three campuses through a network of existing reserves, while simultaneously reinforcing the college's role as a steward of the environment. Still in development, the CMP will incorporate the sustainable planning strategies into a document that will be used for all existing and future development at the MiraCosta Community College District's campuses. Using lessons learned from MiraCosta, attendees will learn how to understand and respond to a college's community context and how to leverage its physical attributes to maximize sustainable approaches to master planning.

Speakers:
Sally Foster, Dean, Mira Costa College
Tom Macias, Director of Facilities, Mira Cost CCD
Sheryl Sterry, HMC Architects
Eera Babtiwale, Environmental Analyst, HMC

Heading Towards Grid Neutral and LEED Platinum
This session will open with an introduction to the grid neutral initiative by the California Department of General Services' Division of the State Architect (DSA) with case studies of community colleges that have been heading toward grid neutral. Then Davis Langdon will go into an in depth presentation on the cost of going LEED Platinum.

After 10 years of USGBC’s green building program, LEED is being accepted by the public and private sector. From voluntary policies at the beginning of the decade, to executive orders and green building code towards the end of the decade, the concepts of measuring sustainability as in the LEED program are being put into use for all programs and policies adopted by various agencies. Local governments and policies are catching up with the LEED program and codes nationwide are drawing equivalencies to the LEED Silver and Gold buildings.

The industry understands that through an integrated design and construction process, review of life cycle costs and available incentives, costs of Silver and Gold buildings can be seriously reduced or even fully mitigated. However, premium costs related to a Platinum building certification still exist. Platinum certification, due to its deeper sustainability attributes is more difficult to achieve and is still widely perceived as being cost prohibitive.

As we step into the next decade of green building practices, and era of the ‘living buildings’, we will review four ‘academic’ buildings in the Davis Langdon cost and sustainability consulting portfolio that have achieved Platinum Certification and the associated costs of the green strategies they employ.

We have reached a point where ‘excellence in sustainability’, ‘net neutrality’ and ‘zero carbon’ are quickly becoming important design parameters. This presentation aims at evaluating the costs of this design parameter in terms of the highest rating systems available in the market today and the future trends in sustainability excellence for the decade ahead.

Speakers:
Theresa Townsend, AIA, LEED A.P., California Department of General Services/Division of the State Architect
Coomy Kadribegovic, Sustainability Consultant, Davis Langdon
Paul Abernathy, Mechanical Cost Consultant, Davis Langdon

The LACCD Sustainable Building Program: Redefining the Student Experience
This session will discuss the collective impact of sustainable practices across the Los Angeles Community College District as it relates to the built environment and to student life. The nine campuses of the Los Angeles Community College District serve nearly 250,000 students annually. As these campuses are being transformed in the course of the Build LACCD Sustainable Building program, the daily student experience is evolving. Sustainable buildings and campus environmental practices are becoming as much a part of the learning process as the classes themselves. Therefore, this presentation will focus on the underlying sustainable campus infrastructure, a detailed look at the buildings as a learning tool, and LACCD's core environmental practices. While discussing the cumulative impact and breadth of the Build LACCD Sustainable Building program, this session will also provide insight to sustainability as a holistic experience, from the moment the student first enters campus. It will illustrate how sustainable buildings and environmental practices affect the journey of a student throughout a typical day, and how sustainable practices are ultimately shaping a new workforce. Along with information regarding the cumulative impact of the Build LACCD Sustainable Building program, attendees will learn how the campus complex as a whole has become intrinsically linked to the student learning experience.

Attendees will become knowledgeable about the details of the Build LACCD Sustainable Building program and the inherent link between sustainable campuses the student learning experience.

Speakers
Thomas Hall, Executive Director, Facilities Planning & Development, Los Angeles Community College District
Bruce Risley, Vice President, ARCADIS US
Girish Kripalani, Senior Project Manager, ARCADIS US

Creating a Green Workforce Track

Market Driven Approach to Clean Energy Education
Successful workforce development relies on strong economic development. In the absence of a robust job market, there are opportunities to develop classes that support market creation and growth. This session explores one case study in clean energy, and includes small group discussions around replicating the model for other regions and industries.

The green and clean energy sector shows great promise as a means to provide an independent and sustainable future, and as a means to provide new jobs for an emerging workforce. This sector is not immune, however, to the economic downturn and has not developed workforce needs as initially anticipated. Skyline College, in partnership with the San Mateo Workforce Investment Board and Strategic Energy Innovations using Department of Labor funding, has created a series of market-driving curriculum for the building performance and renewable energy sectors. The training programs not only provide valuable career technical education, but also are focused on skills and levers to drive industry growth. In this session participants will learn about innovative models to (1) collaborate with industry partners to identify trends and needs for a new and emerging sector (2) create course offerings that seek to stimulate market demand and (3) to navigate difficult job markets and in the absence of market demand. Participants will hear a case study on market-driving career technical education then presenters will facilitate small groups breakout sessions. Each group will identify an industry critical to your college or your local region, and brainstorm mechanisms to partner with industry on economic development.

Speakers:
Anjana Richards, Director of Workforce Development Grants and Services, Skyline College
Kiff Scheuer, Program Director, Strategic Energy Innovations
Aaron Wilcher, Project coordinator, Skyline College

Transferable Skills and Green Sectors
Unemployment remains high in California and many workers are losing their jobs due to mass layoffs. In a buyer's job market, savvy seekers of green employment must look to growing industries and occupations that need the skills they already possess, and be prepared to augment those skills if necessary. The California Multi-Sector Workforce Partnership is a collaborative of the California Employment Development Department, the California Workforce Investment Board, the California Workforce Association, and 21 local workforce investment boards that are helping several thousand dislocated workers do just this. In this session you will receive an overview of the California Multi-Sector Workforce Partnership Project, information on California's green growth job sectors, how unemployed job-seekers can identify their transferable skills, and information on an effective, real time job information tool.

Speakers:
Barbara Halsey, Executive Director, California Workforce Association
Robert T. Mejia, Manager, South Bay Workforce Investment Board & California Green Workforce Coalition
Barbara Nyegaard, Principal, ERISS Corporation
Bonnie Graybill, Consultant, The Conference Board

How Green Are Green Jobs and Who is Hiring?
Is a "green" job reality or myth? What industries are driving growth in "green" employment? What "green" skills and knowledge do employers look for? Where should community colleges invest their resources in developing new programs? The Centers of Excellence of California Community Colleges present the findings of their milestone research studies of 2010-2011. We have surveyed thousands of employers and hundreds of "green" workforce professionals in California. Join us to hear about recent employment and workforce trends in solar energy as well as water/wastewater, biomass, and hybrid vehicles. Also find out the results of our year-long examination of "green jobs" conducted in partnership with the EDD's Labor Market Information Division (LMID), which focused on identifying the impact of "green" in creating new tasks, skills, and knowledge areas for today's workforce.

By attending this presentation and participating in Q&A session, the community college audience will find out:
. The results of the statewide Solar Energy industry research, including current and future employment, occupations in demand, regional concentration of jobs, hiring preferences, and interest in community college offerings
. The highlights from other "green" environmental scan studies, such as Water/Wastewater, Hybrid Vehicles, and Biomass/Biofuels.
. What "green" tasks, skills, and knowledge areas are in high demand and how they have evolved over time.
. How to access the Centers of Excellence reports online.

Presenters:
Zhenya Lindstrom, Regional Director, Centers of Excellence, California Community Colleges, San Bernardino CCD
Michelle Marquez, Regional Director, Centers of Excellence, California Community Colleges, Modesto Junior College
Laura Coleman, Project Manager, Centers of Excellence, California Community Colleges, Los Rios CCD

October 18

Potpourri Track

Using Campus Efficiency Projects to Engage Students:
A Green Campus Program Perspective
This session will introduce attendees to best practice resources in engaging students and staff behind campus energy and water efficiency projects. Using case studies from the Alliance to Save Energy’s Green Campus Program, which successfully implemented many of these projects on three campuses in the Los Angeles Community College District in 2010, the session will demonstrate how to translate energy/water efficiency projects into opportunities for student involvement on community college campuses. The presentation will also guide attendees in ways of using efficiency projects to promote green career pathways, educate the campus community, and introduce students to green technology.

Speakers:
Ellie Kim, LEED AP, Senior Program Associate, Alliance to Save Energy, Green Campus Program
Sydney Pike, Green Campus Student Representative, UCLA

Sustainable Designing with Design/Build Delivery
The Design Build Delivery method can create sustainable innovation through an integrated team approach. Many colleges state long term sustainable goals and Design Build teams create collaborative approaches to support those goals within a project. Far reaching concepts such as zero net energy are now being seriously tested and explored with the effect that projects go beyond standard sustainable design. Innovative strategies like solar chimney designs paired with other passive and high efficiency active systems are being introduced. An integrated design team that includes the construction reality from the very beginning will base concepts on practicality and constructability. We will look at several examples of Design Build projects, including a LEED Platinum police substation and parking structure for Miramar College.

Speakers:
Brent Newby, LEED AP, Preconstruction Director, Parking Structures Group, McCarthy Building Companies
Brent Miller, AIA, LEED A, Principal, Higher Education Studio Leader, Harley Ellis Devereaux
Michael Bulander, LEED AP, Senior designer, Harley Ellis Devereaux

Getting the Biggest Bang for Your “Green”: A Fresh Approach to FF&E Consumption
While not long ago a venture of practicality and goodwill, surplus programs are rapidly becoming a painful and costly operation to maintain. Post-consumer waste reduction/diversion efforts are claiming innovative mindshare, and more than ever a fundamental element of environmentally responsible practice, mounting pressure for this entity to demonstrate positive impact in the realm. Today, whether attributed to saturation or inundation, many programs are in crisis as they struggle with the bleeding of downstream, increasingly unwanted FF&E. "It costs us money to give it away, and that's if anyone will take it" - have you heard (or said) that before? So what's the fresh approach? It is to consider the end of life as a result, not an inevitability, of our traditional actions. It's about forethought instead of afterthought.

Join us for a look at both sides; the “green” (costs), and how you can purposefully realize the "bang" (benefits). This engaging, interactive session will uncover obscurities that thwart reduction efforts, and present realistic techniques that can redefine stewardship for your entire organization.

Speakers:
Joseph Quintana, Executive Director, College Buys, Foundation for California Community Colleges
Stephanie O’Brien, President & CEO, Dovetail Decision Consultants

Green Workforce Track

Renewable Energy Job Programs

Energy Upgrade California
Energy Upgrade California is an unprecedented energy efficiency incentive program designed to help homeowners make their homes more energy efficient resulting in increased building comfort, indoor air quality, and potentially lowered utility bills. An alliance of Southern California Edison, SoCal Gas Companies, and Los Angeles County, rebates of up to $4,500 are available to homeowners to help them offset the cost of doing these home upgrades. Los Angeles County’s funding comes from ARRA stimulus grants that are designed to build demand for home energy upgrades in the marketplace, resulting in job growth to keep up with this demand. A variety of Community Colleges and Workforce Investment Boards have worked together with LA County to subsidize BPI-Building Analyst trainings as well as HERS II and other trade specialties, preparing the workforce for these programs throughout California. With a utility-stated long term goal of 10 years and 60 percent home saturation, this whole-house approach using building science versus estimation towards energy savings, requires a versatile and trained workforce to carry it into the future.

To be an approved contractor working on the program, actually doing the diagnostic testing and renovations, you need to get BPI certified as a Building Analyst, which is a nationally recognized standard.  Many WIBs and Community Colleges applied for grants from the CEC to offer these BPI courses for free or heavily discounted to start building up the workforce to be ready for the demand once this rebate program launches. 

Now HERS II is working its way into the Energy Upgrade program and we’re launching GreenPoint Rated trainings and rebates as well as a Multi-family program which is looking for consultants to be trained to be able to do investment grade audits. This session will lay out the opportunities that Energy Upgrade is bringing to the market, allowing colleges to figure out how they can plan classes and curriculum to meet the upcoming demand, or if not that, to tell the attendees of what opportunities Energy Upgrade is bringing to the market, and then they can decide where to go to get trained on the skills necessary to be part of the program.

Speakers:
David Cohen, Program Manager, Energy Coalition
David Myers, Southern California Acting Director, Build it Green
Lauren Rank, Program Manager, LA County Office of Sustainability

Building Curriculum for Real Jobs

Green Facilities Track

Down With Bridging Documents!
(and Up With Greater Project Efficiencies and Greener Design Elements!)
Design/Build is fast becoming the preferred project approach among Community College Districts for its ability to drive leaner budgets and schedules. But how does Design/Build drive greener projects and campuses? By eliminating the bridging document phase of the Design/Build process, the San Jose Evergreen Community College District found optimal green design solutions for the San Jose City College Multidisciplinary Arts Complex project, including a minimized footprint; photovoltaic solar panels; “urban lumber recovery” of site trees, reused and incorporated into the building as a design element; super-efficient building systems; natural daylighting; tall, and generous north-facing windows; an exterior rain screen; renewable and recycled materials, reuse of concrete from demolished buildings as base rock, etc.. The non-bridging approach brings the owner, the contractor, the designer and the engineers to the table at the very beginning of the design process. Its use on the San Jose City College project has proven to save time and money; however, more importantly, it promoted great synergy of ideas, ensured community buy-in, and collaboratively produced a building targeting LEED® Silver that beats Title 24 energy code requirements by 25 percent.

Speakers:
Joe Vela, AIA, CSI, Architect, Associate Principal, AEDIS Architecture & Planning
Ramon Gomez, AIA, Senior Project Manager, AEDIS Architecture & Planning
Ken Schroeder, Project Executive, Blach Construction
Jeanine Hawk, Vice Chancellor Of Administrative Services, San Jose Evergreen Community College District

Innovations in Energy Conservation
How to Make Your Campus More Energy Efficient Through On-Demand Hot Water Circulation This session provides an introduction to traditional hot water circulation in typical school buildings and how an innovative new system differs from traditional continuous pump illustrated by case studies, data reports, energy saving and green ratings. Included will be update reports on current testing at Pepperdine & LMU, information on how schools and college campuses can join in Enovative's outreach program and receive free testing of an installed system and details of how to take advantage of Southern California Gas Company rebates. Testing done at schools and colleges now will be used to create a state-wide rebate program through Southern California Gas in the future.

Speaker:
Chas Lacaillade, Sales Manager, Enovative Group, Inc.

71 Million Square Foot Mashup of Community College Data to Drive Sustainable Decision Making
The California Community College System (CCC) serves 2.75 million students at 112 California locations and is the largest system of public higher education in the world.

To measure, budget and be green with this many sites, simplicity and immediate access to information is needed. A wealth of CCC and related facility information is accessible visually and in real time in a simple online platform thereby saving time and money through automated synchronization of multiple databases. The CCC FUSION System (Facilities Utilization, Space Inventory Options Net) with the entire California inventory of 71 million square feet of buildings and spaces, along with the CCC Geographic Information System (GIS) Collaborative of campuses and buildings was brought together in a web enabled tool.

California Community Colleges will now be able to visualize facility data in Building Information Models (BIM) that was previously only accessible in tabular format. Dynamic data driven floor plan graphics and site plans will allow for pattern recognition, better decision making and accounting of valuable facilities and assets for the full life cycle.

Speakers:
Frederick E. Harris, Assistant Vice Chancellor, College Finance & Facilities Planning, California Community Colleges chancellor's Office
Kimon Onuma, FAIA, President, Onuma, Inc.