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Technical Trainings & Interactive Sessions
| Achieving the Living Building Challenge is an ambitious goal for any project. In fact, achieving any section of the challenge shows true leadership. Join leading regional and national experts in technical break out sections as they discuss key strategies and ideas for how project teams could achieve this challenge including examples from projects they know have met the specific requirements already. All aspects of the Living Building Challenge have been built somewhere already - just never all in one project! Break out sessions include technical presentations by expert presenters and facilitators, interactive Q&A, and break out sessions to discuss needed tools, resources and information to inform the Living Building User's Guide and process as well as listing challenges, barriers and opportunities. |
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10:00 AM Pavillion A |
Session 001: SITE DESIGN An expert panel will review the site issues in the Living Building Challenge and get audience involved in evaluating the tool. |
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Moderator: Deb Guenther, Principal, Mithun & Chair, Cascadia Board |
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Michelle Connor, Vice President, Cascade AgendaSuccessful policy strategies for market driven growth management issues, including the Cascade Agenda and "Transfer of Development Rights". |
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Stuart Cowan, Partner, AutopoiesisFinancial incentives for ecosystem services and ecological restoration including carbon credits, and planning for a post-carbon future: from living buildings to living regions. |
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Cynthia Girling, Chair of the Landscape Architecture Department, University of British ColumbiaMonitoring and adaptive strategies at UniverCity @ Simon Fraser University in British Columbia for protection of habitat. |
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10:00 AM Shaw Room |
Session 002: MATERIALS This interactive session will explore the environmental issues surrounding materials use and selection. An expert panel will facilitate a discussion of how designers and builders can remove the worst known offending materials, and reduce and offset the environmental impacts associated with the construction process. |
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Moderator: Clark Brockman, Associate, SERA Architects, Cascadia BoardConvene session and provide context for material issues from the perspective of the Living Building Challenge. Discuss the embodied carbon footprint of building construction and the appropriate materials radius concept. |
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Julie Silas, Healthy Building NetworkPresent research on red list materials and Pharos, the only materials evaluation system to provide users with a a 360 degree view of what is known about products and materials. |
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Ian Hanna, NW Natural Resources GroupDiscuss the impacts of FSC Forestry, the strength of the standard and its impacts on global warming, as well as successful sourcing if FSC products. |
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Terry Gillis, Owner, Recovery OnePresent strategies on cutting edge construction waste recycling systems and new products being manufactured in a closed-loop process. |
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10:00 AM Fidalgo Room |
Session 003: INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY An expert panel will provide an overview of Living Building concepts as related to indoor environmental quality. Concepts such as thermal comfort, lighting, and modulating levels (of light, of temperature, perhaps also of acoustical performance), as well as biomimicry will be explored in this interactive session. |
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Moderator: Paul Anseeuw, Stantec, Cascadia BoardConvene session and present indoor environmental quality topics relative to the Living Building challenge. |
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Judith H Heerwagen, Ph.D. JH Heerwagen & AssociatesDiscuss biomimicry as a means to achieving Living Buildings. |
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Barbara Erwine, Senior Consultant, Paladino & CompanyPresent means and methods for designing lighting, daylighting and the integration of the two to create energy and cost effective buildings. |
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10:00 AM Lopez Room |
Session 004: LIVING CENTER CHARRETTE Help shape the future of Seattle Center! After learning about Seattle Center’s current sustainability plan, participants will be divided into groups who will work collaboratively to create and present a number of solutions for a ‘Living Center’ – utilizing sustainable design concepts based on the Living Building Challenge and One Planet Living. |
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Peter Dobrovolny, Commercial Specialist, City of Seattle Green Building Program, Cascadia BoardPeter works with the private sector development community to fulfill the mission of the City’s Sustainable Building Policy and other City of Seattle initiatives to accelerate green building in the private sector of Seattle. |
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Ralph DiNola, Principal, Green Building Services, Cascadia BoardRalph is a nationally recognized facilitator who leads trainings, eco-charrettes and workshops on sustainability and green building strategies. |
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1:00 PM Pavillion A |
Session 005: WATER An expert panel will inspire participants through words and images, the many ways in which our built environment can try to achieve water independence at all levels - storm, grey, and black water. |
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Moderator: Dale Mikkelsen, Manager - Planning & Sustainability SFU Community Trust, Cascadia BoardConvene session on the water component of the Living Building Challenge and provide presentation on natural stormwater management solutions for ecosystem and habitat health when development within sensitive urban watersheds is undertaken. |
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Chris Webb, PE, Principal, Chris Webb & AssociatesA presentation outlining the design issues related to use of rainwater collection and re-use systems, including environmental benefits and concerns, regulatory issues, application to different project scales and building types, and example projects showing successes and lessons learned. |
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Mark Buehrer, Founder & Director, 2020 EngineeringA presentation focusing on the concept of Wholistic Engineering, visually illustrating how integrated problem solving allows a whole system design method that provides practical ecologically based solutions to grey water and black water remediation and reuse at the building scale. |
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1:00 PM SHAW ROOM |
Session 006: ENERGY An expert panel will facilitate an interactive session exploring the design and technological implications of net zero energy use in buildings. Learn how passive and active technologies contribute to the goal of net zero energy use, along with an understanding of the design process and challenges to achieving this goal. |
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Moderator: Mark Frankel, Technical Director, New Buildings InstituteConvene session and provide context for energy performance strategies such as lighting equipment and plug loads, and building envelope efficiency. |
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Lisa Rosenow, CDI EngineersDiscuss feasibility and implementation of thermal displacement ventilation strategies. |
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Tom Marseille, Principal, StantecDiscuss passive design strategies such as natural ventilation, building orientation and shading based on real world examples. |
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Peter Alspach, Associate, ARUPPresent energy efficient active technologies, renewable energy systems as well as advanced facade systems and their implications on solar array sizing to meet net zero energy buildings. |
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Michael Hatten, SOLARC Architecture and EngineeringDraw from 25 years of energy analysis which includes zero-energy and near-zero-energy project strategies and technologies. |
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1:00 PM FIDALGO ROOM |
Session 007: BEAUTY & INSPIRATION Beauty is the ultimate test of good architecture. Beauty refers to the visual and sensory appeal of buildings. It is what Vitruvius called "delight." Architectural delight can be found in a neatly patterned brick wall, a vaulted stone ceiling, or a tiny window emitting a stream of sunlight. Without beauty, a highly functional building is merely utilitarian without rising to the realm of architecture. |
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Dr. Freda Pagani, BArch, MES, PhD, Cascadia BoardFreda will discuss catalyzing human ingenuity for action towards a sustainable future. |
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Bob Berkebile, FAIA, Principal, BNIMBob Berkebile committed his life to sustainable design even before the term “sustainable” became a buzzword within the design and construction industry. For the past 30 years, he has committed his life to restoring social, economic and environmental vitality to our communities. |
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1:00 PM LOPEZ ROOM |
Session 008: LIVING CENTER CHARRETTE CONTINUED A presentation of a number of solutions for a ‘Living Seattle Center’ utilizing sustainable design concepts based on the Living Building Challenge and One Planet Living from the morning session will be discussed. The session will continue with interactive group discussion and selection of the best alternatives to forward on to the Seattle Center and Mayor Nickels Century 21 Advisory Group for recommendations. |
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Peter Dobrovolny, Commercial Specialist, City of Seattle Green Building Program, Cascadia BoardPeter works with the private sector development community to fulfill the mission of the City’s Sustainable Building Policy and other City of Seattle initiatives to accelerate green building in the private sector of Seattle. |
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Ralph DiNola, Principal, Green Building Services, Cascadia BoardRalph is a nationally recognized facilitator who leads trainings, eco-charrettes and workshops on sustainability and green building strategies. |
