The 2030 Challenge
We are at the crossroads of the most significant crisis of modern times. Two profound, life changing events are converging to create this crisis – the warming of the earth’s atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, and the rapid depletion of global petroleum and natural gas reserves. As these events intensify over the coming years, they will dramatically change how we live, build and how we relate to the natural world.

At the center of this crisis stands the architecture and building community. The keynote talk by architect Edward Mazria will explore the science behind these events and the historic role the design and building must play in addressing them.

Thursday May 25th
Green Building Basics with Brian Dunbar
and education team from Colorado State University

Brian Dunbar is director of the Institute for the Built Environment (IBE) and faculty member in Construction Management at Colorado State University (see Speaker Bios for full information). Brian will join Ed Mazria to begin the day with an overview and insights of green building topics, descriptions of the workshops, and expectations of the day ahead.  Attendees will have options to attend 3 out of 6 different workshops throughout the day, including:

Sustainable Development – Bruce Hendee

Strategies will be presented for planning sustainable mixed use neighborhoods / New Urbanist communities including regional resource considerations and appropriate site selection.
Case Studies:
            •New Urbanism:  Celebration and Seaside,  Florida
            •Prospect New Town – Longmont Colorado
            •Downtown River District – City of Fort  Collins
 
Take Away for Attendees:
Learn different ways of viewing community, creating a sense of civic place, laying out New Urbanist communities, site selection criteria, and importance of architecture.

Day-lighting and Energy Efficient Design – Victor Olgyay

Learn about the importance of natural lighting, and defined steps to achieve good day-lighting through orientation, glazing, window sizing, architectural controls, and interior movement of light.  Learn how insulation, heat gains, heat loss, and ventilation strategies can improve building performance.
Case Studies:

• Stop-n-Shop Groceries

• Hawaii Baptist Academy

• Masami Teroka Studio

Take Away for Attendee:

Learn about the fundamental concepts of day-lighting design, shading, passive solar design, and glazing selection criteria.

Green Building Materials – Jeff Scott and John Gitchell
What makes a material “green”?  Which products are green, and which products are not?  From foundations to roofing materials, learn about renewable, recycled and non-toxic products, their benefits, special requirements, and how to evaluate and select among the emerging materials for your projects based on resource efficiency, health, and life cycle costing.

Interactive Exercise: Discuss materials options and compare based on price, performance, and environmental footprint.

Take Away for Attendee:

Learn about emerging green material options for foundations, wall systems, roofing, and interior finishes, and how to evaluate competing materials based on their environmental performance.

Economics of Green Building – Brian Dunbar

Green building is not always cost effective.  In this workshop we’ll discuss strategies and the top business case reasons for building green, and explore case studies where green building methods and materials have created long term savings and value with little impact on the construction budget.
Case studies:
• Fossil Ridge High School
• Costing Green Study
• Over and on-budget green projects

Interactive Exercise(s):  Small group exercise designed to allow individuals to brainstorm strategies to meet a strict project budget and high life cycle goals.

Take Away for Attendee: (describe resource/ tools / methods)

• Top 7 business case benefits of green buildings
• Exposure to Life cycle assessment tool

• Experience with interactive budget problem solving

Sustainable Sites and Water Conservation – Bruce Hendee

Fundamentals of sustainable site design, landscaping, water conserving irrigation, site specific plant selection, porous paving, and green roofs will be presented to meet the needs for your building while elevating, not depleting local resources. Learn the basic LEED requirements for Sustainable Sites.
Case studies:
• Medical Center of the Rockies
• New Belgium Brewing Company
• Aurora Xeriscape Demonstration Garden

Take Away:
Understand basic considerations for sustainable site design and understand the approach and strategies for developing sustainable sites.

Solar Orientation, Design, and Installation Workshop -
Victor Olgyay and Jeff Scott
This 90 minute workshop will introduce you to solar design, technologies available, and the process for integrating solar into your next building project.  A lecture on building and site issues to incorporate solar energy, and basics on the technologies available, followed by a basic training on installation will teach you the 10 things you need to know about thermal and electric systems, sizing, products, installer selection, available financial incentives and resources, and operation and maintenance.
Case Studies:
• LSR Preserve Center, Grand Teton National Park
• Teton Science School
• Denali National Park and Preserve, Entrance Building

Take Away: Attendees will understand the range of considerations, products, and the sequence for decision making to integrate passive solar, solar hot water/ thermal, and/or solar electric systems into your next building.

Integrated Design –  Brian Dunbar - Attendees will join together at the end of the day for a full group / plenary session

Green buildings achieve successful results because of knowledgeable and interactive project teams.  Over 50% of LEED Certified projects have employed interactive design charrettes.  Brian will discuss both successful and failed project teamwork and will showcase ways to achieve successful designs for your next green building projects.
Case studies:
• Pioneer Charter School
• Research study: Charrette use in LEED projects
• Good and bad project teams

Take Away for Attendee: (describe resource/ tools / methods)

• The significance of well-integrated teamwork

• Top 10 issues in holding successful design charrettes
• Summary of day's lectures and workshops

Thurday May 25, Evening Reception – Profiles of Inspiration
Sponsored by Hotel Terra - Teton Village

An evening reception and short presentations featuring people, organizations and projects that  are positively impacting their communities.

Rob DesLauriers - Managing Member of Hotel Terra will kick off the evening with a profile of their new project in the Teton Village

Arne Jorgensen,  Hawtin Jorgensen Architects (confirmed), describes how the Teton Science School project, built to meet the LEED standard, is having a “leapfrog” effect in greening other schools and community buildings in Jackson Hole.  We will focus on lessons learned, successes, challenges, and opportunities for each of us as community members to expand the level of sustainable construction in our communities.
 
Arne Jorgensen is a Principal with Hawtin Jorgensen Architects and has a long-standing interest and experience with sustainable building issues. Hawtin Jorgensen has worked on several projects that have been exploring the possibilities of building in a more responsible manner in order to reduce the impacts of our built environment. Several of our projects have been collaborations with nationwide leaders within the sustainable building field, including on Teton Science Schools’ Jackson Campus with Mithun Architects and Planners.

Adam Palmer, planner for Eagle County Colorado (confirmed), has developed and passed a high performance building code called ECOBuild for the Vail Valley that is beginning to drive resource efficiency on a grand scale. 

Tom Ward, Ward and Blake Architects (confirmed) – Tom has recently patented his Seismically Stable Rammed Earth Wall System, and has used the system in his own home in Jackson, and another home in Lander Wyoming.  The 18” wall system uses recycled crusher fines, site materials, and 10% Portland cement, with the multiple benefits of solar mass, at a cost competitive with conventional poured concrete.

Friday May 26 – Building Science with Joe Lstiburek

Joe Lstiburek, B.A.Sc., M.Eng., Ph.D., P.Eng., is a principal of Building Science Corporation. He is a forensic engineer who investigates building failures and is internationally recognized as an authority on moisture related building problems and indoor air quality. Joe is the author of the Building Guide for Cold Climates. A concise, graphically rich technical manual, it contains over 150 detailed illustrations showing the latest details and techniques to effectively implement energy and resource efficient residential construction. EEBA's new guide embodies much of what is now known about building homes that are affordable, durable, energy efficient, healthy, safe, comfortable and environmentally responsible.

A clear understanding of Building Science is necessary in order to design any building type in any climate zone.  Whether your concerns are indoor air quality, environmental responsibility, energy efficiency or just plain comfort for the occupants, building science rules.  As stewards of the built environment, we have to understand how things work.  It’s not hard once you understand the basics and see that all you ever needed to know about Building Science, you probably learned in elementary school.

Joe will present a full day workshop on building envelopes, the health related concerns of tighter buildings, and the paradigm shift required to create both energy efficient and healthy commercial and residential structures.  Format will be interactive with continuous opportunity for clarification and questions.  Topics will include:

• Changes to building technology

• The house system concept
• Rain and Ground Water

• Pressures and Mechanical Systems
• Condensation Details

• Construction Details
• Moisture

• Carbon Monoxide and Indoor Air Quality
• Problem Solving
• Specific problems

• Ice damming

• Comfort/heating bill complaints