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Three USGBC Board Members Discuss LCA and the Future of LEED, Sept. 9 and 10
Early registration ends Friday, Sept. 3!!
Crossroads – The Intersection of Green Building and Life Cycle Assessment. More Information.
Register Portland -- Register Seattle

This conference brings together some of the top practitioners in the nation on green building and LCA. USGBC Board members presenting include Board Vice Chair and KEEN Engineering CEO Kevin Hydes; Head of the School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, Professor Vivian Loftness; and President of Paladino & Co. and significant contributor to the LEED rating system Tom Paladino. Additional speakers include Rita Schenck, Ph.D.,Executive Director Institute for Environmental Research and Education; Philip White, an expert on LCA software tools; and Glen Gilbert, President of Cascadia Region Green Building Council.

This one day long conference will take place in Portland on Thursday, September 9th. The conference with the same speakers and content will be repeated in Seattle on Friday, September 10th.

Driving Down the Cost of LEED, Driving Up the Value of Your Building
Give us one day, we'll give you a decade's worth of our experience.
September 15th in Vancouver, BC or November 13th in Portland, both 8am - 5pm

A full-day interactive workshop with Tom Paladino and Company on building valuation based on real world project experience and hands-on exercises. Tom covers practical cost/benefit analysis, effective life cycle cost analysis, and actual cost shifting within established budgets, all of which lead to a lower total cost of ownership. Don’t miss the LEED Slam-dunk Scorecard. Register Here

More Friends
To match the Russell Family Foundation's generous grant, Cascadia is in the middle of an annual campaign called 100 Friends of Cascadia. Campaign levels are Platinum-$10,000, Gold-$5,000, Silver-$2,000, and Certified-$1,000. The Russell Family Foundation will match contributions to 100 Friends dollar-for-dollar up to $100,000, thereby doubling corporate and other donations.

Our latest Friends are KEEN Engineering, Wood/Harbinger, Boxwood, Ashforth Pacific, Glacier, Interface Engineering, Northwest Construction Magazine, and BCBC. Thank you to all our sponsors!

Platinum: Russell Family Foundation, Mithun, Energy Trust of Oregon

Gold: Lease Crutcher Lewis, Sparling and Candela, ShoreBank Pacific, Environmental Design + Construction, KEEN Engineering, BCBC

Silver: Fortis Construction, Swenson Say Faget, Skanska, Trane Oregon, Green Building Services, Olympic Associates, Miller Paint, King County, SERA Architects, Sustainable Industries Journal, Coughlin Porter Lundeen , Wood/Harbinger, Boxwood, Northwest Construction Magazine

Certified: PAE Consulting Engineers, Via Architecture, SvR Design, Sellen Construction, O'Brien & Company, Mahlum Architects, Stormwater Management, Bassetti Architects, Rosendin Electric, Magnusson Klemencic Associates, Glacier, Interface Engineering

New VP of Programs

Cascadia is pleased to introduce Kollin Min, our new Vice President of Programs, based in Seattle. Kollin is an attorney with nearly 10 years of experience in the non-profit, governmental, and private sectors. Most recently, he served as the Campaign Director for the Cascades Conservation Partnership, a non-profit effort that has protected over 35,000 acres of threatened forestland in the Cascades. Prior to his work with the Partnership, he served as a Senior Legislative Aide to the Speaker of the Washington State House of Representatives, Frank Chopp, and as an environmental and land use attorney at the law firm of Preston Gates & Ellis in Seattle. Kollin received his law degree from the University of Washington, a Master’s degree in environmental policy from Lund University in Sweden and a BA in political science from Yale. He lives in Seattle with his wife, Katja Shaye, and their son, William.

Cascadia Batting a Thousand
Cascadia is also pleased to announce that all three of our professional staff (Glen Gilbert, Brandon Smith, and Kollin Min) are now LEED Accredited Professionals.

LEED Schools
Congratulations to Cascadia’s Greg Churchill, OR Dept. of Energy and Katrina Shum-Miller, Green Building Services on being elected to the LEED Schools committee. The election for new Core Committee members concluded August 16, and the committee is now full and ready to begin work on the Application Guide for Schools.

Mr. Kerry Comes to Portland
Senator John Kerry ended his Believe in America tour in Portland, OR on August 13 with 50,000 supporters. It was the largest event of the tour and the largest political rally in Portland history. Guest speaker actor Leonardo DiCaprio specifically referred to “green building” in his speech that focused on the environment and sustainability. Teresa Heinz repeatedly mentioned sustainable development and renewable energy. Senator Kerry focused a good part of his talk on energy independence and repeated his goal of having America be run on 20% renewable energy by 2020.

Busby Merges With Perkins & Will
Busby + Associates Architects announced the merger of its firm with Perkins & Will. This new partnership, Busby Perkins + Will Architects Co., is based in Western Canada. Busby + Associates and Perkins & Will have been collaborating on several projects since 2002, including a current project in Los Angeles. Busby’s commitment to sustainable design will not change. See www.busbyperkinswill.ca.

Boxwood 100% LEED Accredited
Boxwood architects announced that 100% of its 11 professional staff is now LEED Accredited. Last year Boxwood completed the first full production winery in the country seeking certification and currently has under construction a $17.4 million training facility for the City of Seattle which hopes to achieve a silver level certification.

EVENTS

Portland LEED Users Group, Sept. 9, 7:30-9 AM, Urban Heat Island, Interface Engineering, 708 SW Third Ave, Ste. 400, bybee@mail.teleport

Vancouver LEED Users Group, Sept. 10, 12-1 PM, Jennifer Sanguinetti, Keen Engineering on EAc1, EAc5, EQc7, 800 Burrard St., Room 1902, ebrault@veleng.com

Seattle LEED Users Group, Sept. 14, 7:30-9 AM, Energy Credits, Lighting Design Lab, 400 E. Pine, dcs@abacus-engr.com

Smart Growth on the Ground - Green Building and Sustainable Communities, Sept. 8, CMHC, Vancouver, BC, Thomas.Mueller@gvrd.bc.ca

Can sustainable building practices turn a sustainable profit?
Sustainable Building Advisor Certificate Program (SBACP) "preview night"
Attend a sneak preview of this comprehensive nine-month program that trains graduates to advise clients and employers on sustainable building strategies and tools.
September 9, 2004, 6:00 - 8:30 PM, Earth Advantage National Center - Portland, OR
Hors d'oeuvres and beverages 6:00-6:30, Presentation 6:30-8:00
Info night is free, but please RSVP to: Shanna Andrus at 503-603-1706

Build It Green! Tour of Homes, Sept. 18, All day, Portland, OR, Information and Registration

Profitable Sustainability: The Future of Business Conference Sept. 26-29, 2004
Westin Hotel, Seattle, Sponsored by Cascadia Green Building Council
Great line up of speakers. See update.