7:30 - 8:15 am

Breakfast & Networking

8:15 - 8:30 am

Opening Comments

Speaker: Derek L. Page, Director, Real Estate Management, Oxford Properties Group

8:30 - 9:15 am

Intelligent Green Buildings

Green Buildings have become the norm of building design and construction. The next evolution of buildings will require us to dig deeper into the building and develop strategies to collect more information and utilize the data to provide ongoing optimization of the buildings performance. This session will investigate intelligent buildings, their benefits and challenges and the things to consider when designing and building an intelligent building. At the same time, we will investigate other aspects of intelligent buildings such as Smart Grid, Converged Buildings, and Virtualization.

Speaker: Leon Hawkins, Business Development Leader, Honeywell (download presentation)

9:15 - 10:00 am

Evolving Standards on Corporate Sustainability Reporting

Worldwide, companies are beginning to recognize that robust sustainability strategies are critical for risk management, improved efficiency and reduced long-term operating costs. There is also growing awareness that quality public reporting of sustainability performance can create business value and improve competitive positioning. Analysis of trends in stakeholder and investor expectations and examples of strategy development, implementation and reporting will be discussed using specific case studies from Asia.

Speaker: Bruce Hicks, Managing Partner, Green Building Services Ltd. (download presentation)

10:00 - 10:20 am

Coffee Break & Networking

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10:20 - 10:50 am

Balancing Indoor Air Quality and Energy Efficiency

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Concerns about indoor air quality (IAQ) in buildings first surfaced in the mid 1970’s. IAQ problems were then associated with misdirected efforts to reduce energy use in buildings. Now in the new millennium the real estate development industries are once again faced with a significant energy management challenge. This time the focus of attention is on energy conservation and efficiency to mitigate the disparity between growing demand and declining supply of conventional sources; and to reduce Greenhouse gas emissions to reverse the effects of Climate Change.

Speaker: Elia Sterling, President, Theodor Sterling Associates (download presentation)

10:50 - 11:30 am

Red Light for Green Buildings

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Building “green” has become wildly popular. Various standards have been adopted in North America and other parts of the world by which to measure whether or not a particular building is worthy of being certified as “green”. Designers, builders and product manufacturers have all jumped on the train and have represented not only that their services and products are “green” but also that they themselves are certifiable in accordance with any one of dozens of standards available in the marketplace. But is the train moving too fast?

As the building industry has demonstrated so ably in the past, moving too quickly into new technologies without fully studying and understanding the potential ramification of the use of those new technologies can spell financial disaster not only for the industry itself but for the end users of the products it produces. Asbestos-containing building materials, ureaformaldahyde and face sealed design are but three of the more noteworthy ill-fated adventures of the industry. There are early signs that the green building industry may also be embarking on an ill-fated journey unless steps are taken to fully assess the direction the industry has been moving in over the past five years or so. Some of the legal issues which have already surfaced in some jurisdictions are the following:

1. "Green" building products initially consumed in this industry are showing signs of early deterioration or generation of adverse human health effects.
2. Certifying a building as a green building today does not necessarily mean it will be certifiable as such tomorrow.
3. Indoor air quality problems are being created by certain green building technologies giving rise to the potential for claims for adverse human health effects.
4. A lack of universally accepted definitions and standards can create misunderstanding and liabilities.
5. Negligent misrepresentation and warranty claims by building owners and tenants are surfacing.

These and other legal issues will be canvassed during the seminar.

Speaker: John Singleton Q,C, Partner, Singleton Urquhart (download presentation)

11:30 - 12:30 pm

Lunch & Tabletop Tradeshow

lunch sponsored by

Autodraft Inc. - www.autodraft.com
Banner Carpets Ltd. - www.bannercarpets.ca
BC Hydro - www.bchydro.com/construction
Built Green BC - www.chbabc.org
Cambria Quartz Surfacing - www.cambriausa.com
Cascadia Ecohomes Ltd. - www.cascadiaecohomes.com
Clean Energy Developments - www.cleanenergy.ca
Colonial Countertops - www.colonialcountertops.com
Constructive Solutions For Business Inc. - www.constructivesolutions.com
Critical Environment Technologies Canada Inc. - www.cetci.com
Design Roofing & Sheet Metal Ltd. - www.designroofing.ca
Fluke Electronics Canada LP - www.flukecanada.ca
Griff Building Supplies - www.griff.ca
Hazmasters - www.hazmasters.com
Honeywell - www.honeywell.com
Hy-Line Sales Ltd. - www.hylinesales.com
Insulspan, A Division of PFB Corporation - www.insulspan.com
Kryton International Inc. - www.kryton.com
Levelton Consultants Ltd. - www.levelton.com
Philips Lighting - www.philips.com
Public Works and Government Services Canada - www.buyandsell.gc.ca
Seasonwood - www.seasonwood.com
TALIUS - www.talius.com
Valley Countertops Industries - www.valleycountertops.com
World Mosaic (BC) Ltd. - www.worldmosaictile.com

12:30 - 1:00 pm

Managing Complexity: Making Networks Work

Many Initiatives of sustainability in the building industry have characteristics like those generally more associated with ‘complexity’. To achieve progress in these areas, hierarchical management and governance approaches have to be augmented by more collaborative, participatory, and consensus developing strategies. The presentation will weave the relationships between complexity, collaborative governance, and inter-organizational network leadership, management, and organization. Examples from the building industry will be referred to for illustration.

Speaker: George Eisler, MASc, MBA, PhD, President, EDC Ltd.

1:00 - 2:15 pm

Sustainable Master Planning: Olympic Village

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The planning, construction and development of Millennium Water - The Southeast False Creek Olympic Village is a story of cooperation, innovation, and commitment to a vision of a community that acts as a socially and environmentally viable place, providing for its residents in a sustainable manner. Roger Bayley of Roger Bayley Inc. acted as the Design Manager for this development, which has attained LEED™ Plantinum for Neighbourhood Development and a minimal LEED™ Gold rating for all buildings within, making it the largest community of its kind in North America. Roger Bayley uses this neighbourhood to discuss current practices of sustainable community development from the perspectives of Climate, Planning, Architecture, Energy, Water, Living, Net Zero and Communication. Albert Bicol from Cobalt Engineering will be speaking on the energy systems of this project.

Speakers: Roger Bayley, B.E. Structural, P. Eng., Roger Bayley Inc.
Albert Bicol, Partner, Cobalt Engineering

2:15 - 2:30 pm

Coffee Break & Networking

2:30 - 3:45 pm

Sustainability and the Bottom Line

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Designing sustainability into communities and facility projects is an imperative for future worth, return on investment, and wellness of users and occupants. Paying homage to Philip Crosby’s concept that quality is free, this dynamic presentation and panel discussion tackles the popular notion that sustainability is unaffordable by demonstrating unequivocally that the reverse is true. Expect provocative ideas and lively thoughts on green issues by a leading edge panel including representatives from the architectural, engineering and contracting communities. Led and moderated by a project manager.

Moderator: Sean F. Rodrigues, MAIBC, MRAIC, Senior Project Manager, Pacific, MHPM Project Management Inc.

Speakers: Blair T. McCarry, P.Eng., PE, ASHRAE, LEED® AP, Principal, Busby Perkins+Will
Vladimir Mikler, Partner, Cobalt Engineering
Tyler Pasquill, LEED AP, Manager Pre-Construction Services, Partner, Ventana Construction Corporation

3:45 pm

Closing Comments

Speaker: Derek L. Page, Director, Real Estate Management, Oxford Properties Group