Program

Morning Keynote

Amy Costello, PE, LEED AP, WELL AP

Amy Costello is the Sustainability Manager at Armstrong Flooring, a global floor design and manufacturing corporation based in Lancaster, Pa. Amy is responsible for developing and managing sustainability strategies and initiatives and chairs the Armstrong Flooring Global Sustainability Steering Committee, which provides governance and sets the business direction regarding material sustainability issues.

Amy chairs the ASTM Sustainable Manufacturing Sub-Committee and serves on the WELL Material Advisory. Costello is a former member of the Board of Directors for both ASTM International and United States Green Building Council (USGBC), and she was appointed to serve on the US General Service Administration (GSA) Green Building Advisory Committee from 2014-2016. Amy was a 2018 recipient of the STEP Ahead Award from The Manufacturing Institute, recognizing excellence among women in manufacturing.

Session 1: 9:15am - 10:15am

After Amy Costello's kickoff keynote, we will begin our first round of breakout sessions... Select your breakout from the four options below.

Meter-free, Energy Consumption Forecasting for Building Managers

Air Force Institute of Technology

Lecture: This session intends to discuss how skillful hindcasts and forecasts of organizational energy consumption can be created using a variety of climate, binary, and periodicity data. We will use principal components regression to calibrate, validate, and forecast city-scale energy use. Our model explains approximately 75% of hourly organizational energy use variability and is particularly skillful during peak energy use times. (Innovation Track)

The Six Sides of Building Enclosure Restoration - Part I

Tremco, Inc.

Demonstration: Rebuilding does not always mean replacing. For the past 90+ years, Tremco has intensely focused on repairing & restoring all six building enclosure sides before replacing. (Operations & Maintenance Track)

Why Embodied Carbon Matters, and What You Should Do About It

Ball State University

Lecture: The building, design, and construction industry is flooded with topics revolving around life-cycle assessment and embodied carbon. It feels nuanced and intimidating. This session will offer a primer on LCA, embodied carbon, and explain how building project teams can evaluate and optimize embodied carbon on projects. (Net Positive Track)

Mitigating SW Ohio's Health Issues Through the Built Environment

emersion DESIGN, The Health Collaborative

Panel Discussion: This session highlights the research efforts to create a guideline that merges Southwest Ohio’s top health concerns with evidence-based building initiatives to create healthier spaces. This session will summarize data from the SW Ohio Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) report and health insurance claims data to compare the top health issues with the design solutions from the International WELL Building Institute. (Healthy Occupant Track)

Session 2: 10:45am - 11:45am

After a 30-minute breakfast break, we will begin our second round of breakout sessions... Select your breakout from the four options below.

Shining a Light on Ohio Energy Utility Data

City of Cincinnati

Panel Discussion: Through an innovative partnership, the City of Cincinnati conducts baselining, benchmarking, and characterization of residential energy data. This will help governmental entities find patterns in energy consumption to significantly increase understanding and targeting of underperforming buildings and potential programmatic and technology solutions. This pioneering approach will help cities unlock critical data for addressing climate and equity goals. (Innovation Track)

The Six Sides of Building Enclosure Restoration - Part II

Tremco, Inc.

Reducing your Building’s Carbon Emissions

Pepper Construction

Panel Discussion: Imagine our collective impact if every construction project was viewed as an opportunity to maximize our carbon reduction and be a catalyst for a healthier world. Paul Hawken conceptualized this idea in his book "Drawdown," focusing on 100 solutions that can reduce carbon emissions over the next thirty years. We analyzed these solutions and identified the strategies that could have the biggest impact on our projects. (Net Positive Track)

Resilient Building Operation: Where Health, Energy, and Comfort Collide

Waibel Energy Systems

Lecture: In this session, building owners, operators, and designers will learn how to confirm the performance of existing systems, verify the optimization of occupant and building health and wellness, and drive energy efficiency goals. All while enhancing occupant comfort through proven technologies in building automation, air purification, mechanical system filtration, and disinfection, building analytics, and fault detection. (Healthy Occupant Track)

Lunchtime Keynote

Eric Corey Freed, RA, LEED Fellow

Good trouble is what Eric Corey Freed, Sustainability Director at Cannon Design, has been getting into throughout his career. His unique combination of practical experience, academic research, and thought leaders thinking helps positions him to champion and optimize their commitment to sustainability in all of its embodiments: how we design buildings, talk about them, operate our own sustainable business practices, and strengthen our overall commitment to corporate responsibility.

A recognized and inspirational voice, Eric has authored 11 books on sustainable building design, has been featured in media ranging from the New York Times and CNN to HGTV, Good Morning America, and Sundance Channel, and has facilitated sustainable design workshops and discussions for more than 300,000 people. A practicing architect with an emphasis on urban design, Eric has contributed to the design of more than 40 LEED and net-zero projects, consulted on a hundred more, and been named one of the 10 Most Influential Green Architects.

Session 3: 1:45pm - 2:45pm

After Eric Corey Freed's lunchtime keynote (sponsored by Four Seasons Environmental) we will begin our third round of breakout sessions... Select your breakout from the four options below.

Right2Win Cities- Rethinking Community Development

Right2Win Cities, Red Tiger Investments

Panel Discussion: COVID has changed every facet of life and humans have developed behaviors and habits to adapt. But what does that mean for the centuries of civic planning we have done? Where do cities have a right to win while weathering disruptions & market realities? This is what Right2Win Cities has been studying and developing over the past year. (Innovation Track)

P&G's Central Plant Optimization Program

PEDCO, P&G, JLL, Siemens

Panel Discussion: Learn about P&G's Global Business Services Organization’s journey to optimize their central chilled water plants to reduce carbon intensity and energy costs, and gain operational efficiency and improved performance. The panel will discuss collaboration between P&G, JLL, the Facility Management partner, and Siemens, the Solutions Provider, to achieve these outcomes. (Operations & Maintenance Track)

Filling the Sustainability Gaps: Solutions for a Net Positive Region

HCDC

Workshop: This session will engage all attendees in identifying barriers that are stopping them from hitting their sustainability targets. The room will work in facilitated small groups to brainstorm barriers in fulfilling sustainability goals, then the small groups will report out to the larger group. After the conference, the list of needs will be compiled in a report for local businesses to engage with and find entrepreneurial solutions. (Net Positive Track)

A Laboratory for WELL and Sustainable Learning

CMTA

Case Study: The first WELL v2 Gold Educational Laboratory in the nation, Western Kentucky University’s Ogden College Hall is redefining “WELLness” and sustainability for science facilities. Passionate project stakeholders participated in an Integrated Design Process that challenged the status quo and ultimately inspired the University’s decision to strive for WELL v2 Gold, even within the constraints of a tight budget. (Healthy Occupant Track)

Closing Keynote

Craig Stevenson, MBA, MS-MIS, CPHC, LFA, LEED AP, WELL Faculty, WELL AP, RESET AP, Fitwel Ambassador, DBIA

Craig is the President of AUROS Group, a technology company based in Pittsburgh, PA. Craig is widely known for his role in establishing Pittsburgh as a leader in "Evidence-based Performance" for the built environment. Evidence-based Performance uses technology to bridge the gap between "hoping" a building is performing as designed to "knowing" a building is meeting its performance goals.

Craig is co-author of the recently released book, “The Power of Existing Buildings—Save Money, Improve Health and Reduce Environmental Impacts” and the ASTM article, “Project Case Studies and the Lessons they Teach about Whole Building Envelope Air Leakage Testing.”

Craig sits on the North American Passive House Network Board of Directors. Craig is a founding member and Vice President of the Passive House Western Pennsylvania organization and a member of CEOs for Sustainability. Craig sits on the City of Pittsburgh Clean Tech Roundtable and P4 Performance Measures Committee. Craig is also a committee member with the AIA+2030 Committee on the Environment.

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