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Paul Hawken

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There is a huge untapped market for energy savings in the $250 billion construction materials industry. The energy and carbon costs of making building materials are about the same as the energy expended driving our cars — we need new kinds of concrete and plastic as much as we need plug-in hybrids and wind farms. The opportunity here is to identify and develop materials for buildings that are not toxic, imported, or dependent on cheap fossil fuels: How will we build for an energy-secure, healthy, low-carbon economy?

Build Well is a forum for exploration and discovery among inventors of the new green economy — an idea party for collaboration, cross-pollination, and acceleration. It is also where good ideas can meet the entrepreneurs and investors who will get them to market, the builders, architects and engineers who will use them, and the policy makers who need to pave the way.

The first Build Well Symposium will be held at Cavallo Point in Sausalito (just north of San Francisco) January 27-30, 2010. It will offer three days of peer-to-peer presentations and roundtable discussions in a secluded retreat center. Conferees will be green materials experts, inventors, industry leaders, researchers, policy makers, and investors. There will be ongoing posters and displays of emerging products, and sessions will focus on identifying, developing and bringing products to market. The symposium also will be the launch event for the ongoing Build Well Institute, a center of research and development of green building materials. Attendance will be limited to 160 participants.

Build Well is a project of the Ecological Building Network, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 1999. Working in collaboration with universities, investors, new and old companies, and inventors worldwide, Ecological Building Network is uniquely positioned to create an event with lasting impact. We also welcome new partners and collaborators in this new venture.
Symposium Format

The Build Well Symposium 2010 will be held at Cavallo Point in Sausalito January 27-30, 2010. The atmosphere will be collegial; most or all conferees will stay and take meals together on site (a beautiful place to be!), and there will be lots of opportunity for informal interaction. There will be a single track of panel sessions and presentations, a display area that demonstrates many of the best emerging building technologies, and an ongoing poster session. Generally, the event will be private, but a public evening may be added to the agenda, depending on available speakers and level of public interest.

Attendance will primarily be by invitation, and limited to 160. Conferees will provide in advance both biographies (text and/or video) and some paper or other publication as contribution to the symposium proceedings, all of which will be compiled on the website as received, and made available to the public.

The symposium demographic is expected to be an even mix of:
  • Inventors, builders and innovators
  • Academic teachers and researchers
  • Investors, both private (“angels”) and institutional
    (venture capital)
  • Building professionals (engineers, architects, contractors)
  • Policy makers from all levels and types of government, such as building officials, EPA and DOE, California Energy Commission, etc.

Wednesday January 27:   Welcome
4 - 7Registration & reception
6:00 Dinner
7:00 Welcome, Introduce organizers. Bruce King
7:15 Panel: Green Pioneers: Perspective and Vision
Moderator: Tom Hahn. Sim van der Ryn, Pliny Fisk, Carol Venolia


Thursday January 28:   Ideas and Innovation
8:45 Opening Introduction Ann Edminster
9:00 Building Well in the 21st Century Bruce King
9:30 Panel: Emerging Materials for the Green Economy Moderator: Bruce King. Anil Netravali, Sarah Billington, Dave Johnson.
10:30 Break
10:45 Green Material Trends Alex Wilson
11:15 Panel: Why Health is an Issue: Our Chemical Buildings Moderator: Jan Stensland. Arlene Blum, Theo Colborn
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Global Materials Focus Pt. 1
  • Canada
  • Europe & UK
  • Brazil & South America
Moderator: John Straube. Peter Walker, Khosro Ghavami.
3:15 Break
3:30 Global Materials Focus Pt. 2
  • Asia & Pacific Rim
Moderator: Yan Xiao, others TBD
4:30 Panel: Innovation Priorities Ann Edminster
5:30 Break
6:30 Dinner
7:30 Humans on Earth Paul Hawken


Friday January 29   Business and Policy
8:45 Welcome, Overview of the Day Jan Stensland
9:00 Google in the Built Environment Dan Reicher
9:30 Investors' Perspective Paul Holland
10:00 Panel: Entering the Marketplace
Moderator: Paul Holland. Karen Slimak, Patrick Govang, Michael Chandler
11:00 Break
11:15 Panel: Practitioners' Perspective
Moderator: Anthony Bernheim, Kirsten Ritchie, Phil Williams, Larry Strain
12:30 Lunch
2:00 Policy & Regulatory Influences
  • Washington
  • Sacramento
Moderator: Ann Edminster. Steve Selkowitz, Alison Kinn Bennet, Norm Bourassa.
3:00 Codes & Standards Marty Hammer & Bruce King
3:30 Break
3:45 Product Assessment & Labeling
Moderator: Jan Stensland. Tom Lent, Jeff Frost, Chris Erickson.
5:00 Poster Reception: Cool New Products
6:30 Dinner
8:00 meet, talk, eat, drink


Saturday January 30   Looking forward
8:45 Welcome, Thank-yous   Tom Hahn
9:00 Panel: Critical Discussions
Special surprise guests
10:30 Establishing the Build Well Forum
Introduction: Bruce King. Facilitator: Ann Edminster. Participants: everyone
12:00 Lunch
Alison Kinn Bennett is Co-Chair of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Green Building Workgroup and founding member of EPA's Sustainable Products Network. Alison began her federal career in EPA's Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics in 1997 working on environmental management system standards and serving on the President's Council for Sustainable Development Environmental Management Taskforce. Since 2001, Alison has served as the Building Projects Manager for EPA's Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program, focusing her efforts on developing comprehensive EPA positions on standards and specifications for greener building products and construction services. In this role, Alison is developing the Federal Green Construction Guide for Specifiers on the Whole Building Design Guide and sustainability standards within ASTM and NSF International. Alison co-chaired two seminal sustainability standards events in the past few years: ASTM's First International Symposium on "Common Ground, Consensus Building, and Continual Improvement: Standards and Sustainable Building" (April 2007) and the American National Standards Institute Workshop "Toward Product Standards for Sustainability" (April 2009). Alison serves as Vice Chair of ASTM International's Sustainability Committee (E60). Alison earned Bachelors of Arts in Political Science and Geography from the University of California at Berkeley and a Masters in Urban and Environmental Planning from the University of Virginia School of Architecture.
Anthony Bernheim, FAIA, LEED® AP, BD+C, Sustainability Principal, AECOM, has been developing sustainable building practices for over twenty-five years. A specialist in integrated building practices and a pioneer in indoor air quality, his work has profoundly influenced the design profession and the building industry. Mr. Bernheim's designs improve a project's long-term sustainability and indoor air quality through an integrated, whole systems building approach informed by practical experience based on current technology and research.

An architect by training, Mr. Bernheim works with multi-disciplinary teams to integrate sustainability into complex projects from their formative phases onward. Some of his most notable sustainable projects include the Command and Control Facility, Fort Shafter, HI; La Jolla Consolidation Project for the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center; the San Francisco Main Library; The Osher Center for Integrative Medicine medical office building project at UCSF; and the Capitol Area East End Complex Block 225, an early USGBC LEED® Gold State of California office building. He has also prepared sustainable master plans for the Alliant International University Scripps Ranch Campus in San Diego, California, and for a visitor center at The Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, California.

Mr. Bernheim is adept at conveying sustainability information to audiences of all types,leading conference presentations, and workshops that include a variety of stakeholders, and bridging the gaps between the technical and non-technical worlds. Currently a member of the U.S. Green Building Council Board of Directors, Mr. Bernheim regards climate change, human health,and water resources as the most pressing issues of the day and positions design and building practices to take a primary role in addressing these issues In 2004, he received the AIA California Council's Nathaniel A. Owings Award in "recognition of a lifetime of service, commitment, and advocacy for the principles of sustainable design and preserving the earth's natural resources."
Sarah Billington joined the Faculty at Stanford University in 2003. Prof. Billington's research focuses on sustainable, durable construction materials and their application to structures and construction. Two current areas of focus are damage-tolerant, high-performance fiber-reinforced cementitious composite materials, and bio-based fiber-reinforced polymeric composites that have a closed loop life-cycle. Prof. Billington received her B.S.E. with high honors from Princeton University, and her M.S. and Ph.D in structural engineering from the University of Texas in Austin.
Arlene Blum is the Founder and Executive Director of the Green Science Policy Institute. Blum is a biophysical chemist, visiting scholar at UC Berkeley's Department of Chemistry , and author of Annapurna: A Woman's Place and Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life. Blum's research contributed to the regulation of two cancer-causing flame retardants used in children's sleepwear in the 1970s, and prevented unnecessary flammability standards that would have led to the use of hundreds of millions of pounds of persistent toxic chemicals each year. Dr. Blum was selected by the National Women's History Project as one of 100 "Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet," received the Society of Women Geographers' Gold Medal, and a top Purpose Prize from Civic Ventures.
Norm Bourassa is an Energy Commission Specialist with the Public Interest Energy Research Program (PIER) at the California Energy Commission. He manages research contracts and provides strategic planning advice for the PIER Building End-use Energy Efficiency program. Prior to joining PIER, he worked the Commercial Building Systems Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Theo Colborn is a Professor of Zoology at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and President of The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX), based in Paonia, Colorado. She is an environmental health analyst, and best known for her studies on the health effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals. Dr. Colborn earned a PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Zoology (distributed minors in epidemiology, toxicology, and water chemistry); an MA in Science at Western State College of Colorado (fresh-water ecology); and a BS in Pharmacy from Rutgers University, College of Pharmacy.
Ann Edminster M.Arch., LEED AP is the author of Energy Free: Homes for a Small Planet, and principle author of the LEED for Homes Rating System. She is an environmental design consultant and educator whose work focuses on investigation of building materials and systems. She also consults to the LEED for Homes Provider team in California, is a past member of the LEED Steering Committee, and a member and past co-chair of the USGBC's Materials and Resources Technical Advisory Group. She consults to builders, owners, developers, supply chain clients, design firms, investors, and public agencies and serves as an advisor to several private companies. She is co-author of Efficient Wood Use In Residential Construction: A Practical Guide to Saving Wood, Money, and Forests, author of numerous technical papers and articles, and has been an invited speaker at dozens of regional, national, and international green building conferences over the past 15 years.
David Eisenberg is co-founder and Director of the Development Center for Appropriate Technology (DCAT) in Tucson, AZ. His three decades of building experience range from the on-site troubleshooting of the construction of the cover of Biosphere 2 to building a $2 million structural concrete house, a hypoallergenic structural steel house, and masonry, wood, adobe, rammed earth, and straw bale structures. For over a decade David has led the effort to create a sustainable context for building codes. He served two terms on the Board of the U.S. Green Building Council where he founded and chairs the Building Codes Committee. He was vice-chair of the ASTM E-06.71 Subcommittee on Sustainability for Buildings for five years. David has presented workshops, seminars, keynote addresses and lectures at dozens of international, national and regional conferences and lectured at universities in the U.S. and abroad. David is on the Advisory Board of Environmental Building News, is co-author of The Straw Bale House book, and has written dozens of published articles, book chapters and papers.
Chris Erickson is the CEO of Climate Earth. Chris is a serial entrepreneur and an accomplished Fortune 500 executive. Chris co-founded Climate Earth to address corporate fossil fuel dependency and climate change. Previously, he led the data mining pioneer Red Brick Systems to IPO, as well as successful venture-backed start-ups in the enterprise software space like Brightware. He also serves as Chairman for ICEsoft Technologies, a leader in commercial Open Source software. Chris holds a BA in Economics from UC Santa Barbara and an MBA from UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business.
Pliny Fisk co-founded the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems ("Max's Pot") in 1975, and currently serves as Co-Director. The Center is recognized as the oldest sustainable design and planning 501(c)3 non-profit in the United States. In addition, Pliny also serves as Fellow in Sustainable Urbanism and Fellow in Health Systems Design at Texas A & M University where he holds a joint position as signature faculty in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Planning. In 2002, Pliny was awarded the U.S. Green Building Council's first Sacred Tree Award in the public sector category. He is also recipient of the Passive Solar Pioneer Award from the American Solar Energy Society, the Herrin Distinguished Fellow from Mississippi State University, the Presidential Team Award for the sustainable relocation of towns displaced by the Mississippi Flood, and the National Center for Appropriate Technology's 15th Year Distinguished Appropriate Technology Award, recognizing significant work in the field of environmental protection. Pliny's special contributions in the research field have been principally in materials and methods; from low-cost building systems development referred to as open building, to wide ranging material development that includes low carbon and carbon balanced cements, and many other low impact materials. He was instrumental in developing the first input/output life cycle assessment model for material flow in the U.S. and connecting this to a Geographic Information System, so that human activities can be placed into the context of natural systems on a national scale. The model represents greenhouse gases, criteria air pollutants and toxic releases of over 12,500,000 businesses. He has also developed an alternative land planning and design methodology referred to as Eco- Balance Design and Planning. Pliny received B.Arch., M.Arch., and M.L.Arch. Degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.
Jeff Frost is the founder of akaGreen in Phoenix, a retailer of green building materials. Jeff has years of experience evaluating materials for practical and ecological value, and for assessing them in the terms of the many rating systems in the marketplace.
Khosrow Ghavami is a Professor of Civil Engineering and Research Fellow at Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and an Honorary Professor and Honorary Doctor at the Federal University of Paraiba. Dr. Ghavami is a Founding Member and presently Chairman of the International Committee on Non-conventional Materials and Technologies, (IC-NOCMAT), Founding Member and presently President of "Brazilian Association of Non-conventional Materials and Technologies (abmtenc)", Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers (FASCE), Member of Brazilian Institute of Concrete (IBRACON), Member of American Mathematical Society, and an Emeritus member of Brazilian Association of Mechanical Sciences, (ABCM). Dr. Ghavami chaired and co-organized many conferences, and is the author and co-author of more than two hundred technical papers. He received his Ph.D. and DIC. from Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, and B.Sc.(with First Class Honors) and M.Sc.(with distinction) from Drudjbi Narodov University, Moscow.
Patrick Govang is president and founder of e2e Materials, LLC, a clean technology start-up company in Ithaca, New York that produces petroleum-free, biodegradable composites that are stronger, lighter, and cheaper than composites filling landfills today.

A spin-out company from Cornell University, e2e Materials offers a technology based on the discoveries of the Netravali Research Group. The company's composite material platform can be tuned to a range of strength properties reaching into midrange steels delivering tremendous strength-to-weight ratios. These fully biodegradable materials are made annually from renewable resources including soy proteins and natural fibers such as bamboo, jute, flax and kenaf.

Prior to founding e2e, Patrick led the Industrial Partnerships Office for the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR), heading a team that leveraged more than $80M in annual materials research funding to develop research collaborations with large corporations, support New York State small businesses through an innovative outreach model, and foster start-up companies.

With more than 20 years' experience in product development, purchasing, and quality/manufacturing management for the automotive industry, Patrick has also worked with Deloitte Consulting and New York's Alliance for Manufacturing and Technology as a lead consultant in corporate strategic planning, lean manufacturing, and Chapter 11 turnarounds. In 1999, he founded ProjectPoint.com, a start-up company focused on collaborative project management in the automotive industry.
Tom Hahn is a registered architect and licensed contractor, and is the Associate Director of the Ecosa Institute of Environmental Design, as well as the Managing Principal of Ecosa Design Studio::Architecture +Planning, both of Prescott, Arizona. His design work of the last 20 years has focused on a "research-oriented" eco+logical architecture, exploring the "edge of green" -- the innovative edge seeking synergy between environmentally- and experientially-sensitive architecture. Previously, Tom founded Sol Source Architecture, of Phoenix, AZ, and led it for 13 years developing those ideals in one of Arizona's first exclusively ecological-architectural practices. He was also one of the founders of Three Rivers EcoBuilders of Phoenix, Arizona, builders of some notably innovative environmental and architectural projects from straw-bale to all-foam. He was formerly a full-time faculty member of the School of Architecture at Arizona State University, and is a former Managing Editor of The Last Straw, the international journal of natural building technology. He is widely recognized as an authority in the use of alternative and ecological design and building ideas and technologies in high-design architecture.
Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author. Starting at age 20, he dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. His practice has included starting and running ecological businesses, writing and teaching about the impact of commerce on living systems, and consulting with governments and corporations on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy. He has appeared on numerous media including the Today Show, Larry King, Talk of the Nation, Charlie Rose, and has been profiled or featured in hundreds of articles including the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Washington Post, Business Week, Esquire, and US News and World Report. His writings have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Resurgence, New Statesman, Inc, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Mother Jones, Utne Reader, Orion, and over a hundred other publications.

He is author and co-author of dozens of articles, op-eds, papers, as well as six books including The Next Economy, Growing a Busines, and The Ecology of Commerce. His book, Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, co-authored with Amory Lovins, is published in fourteen languages and has been read and referred to by several heads of state including President Bill Clinton who has called it one of the five most important books in the world today. His latest book is Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being, and Why No One Saw it Coming.

Companies he has founded or co-founded software companies specializing in proprietary content management tools; Smith & Hawken, the garden and catalog retailer; and several of the first natural food companies in the US that relied solely on sustainable agricultural methods. He is presently the head of PaxIT, PaxAuto, and PaxFan, three companies associated with Pax Scientific, Inc., a research and development company focused on energy-saving technologies that apply biomimicry to fluid dynamics.

Among recognition and awards received are: The 2008 Green Prize for Sustainable LIterature Award by the Santa Monica Public Library, Green Cross Millennium Award for Individual Environmental Leadership presented by Mikhail Gorbachev in 2003; World Council for Corporate Governance in 2002; Small Business Administration "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 1990; Utne "One Hundred Visionaries who could Change our Lives" in 1995, Western Publications Association "Maggie" award for "Natural Capitalism" as the best Signed Editorial/Essay" in 1997; Creative Visionary Award by the International Society of Industrial Design; Design in Business Award for environmental responsibility by the American Center for Design; Council on Economic Priorities' 1990 Corporate Conscience Award; American Horticultural Society Award for commitment to excellence in commercial horticulture; Metropolitan Home Design 100 Editorial Award for the 100 best people, products and ideas that shape our lives; the Cine Golden Eagle award in video for the PBS program "Marketing" from Growing a Business; California Institute of Integral Studies Award "For Ongoing Humanitarian Contributions to the Bay Area Communities"; Esquire Magazine award for the best 100 People of a Generation (1984); and five honorary doctorates.
Paul Holland is a General Partner at Foundation Capital, and with his wife Linda Yates is building a beyond-platinum LEED-rated house. In addition to coordinating the CleanTech practice at Foundation Capital, Paul's primary focus is on helping early-stage start-ups go from zero to $100M in revenue. Paul currently serves on the board of directors for Bella Pictures, CalStar Products, Coverity, Edge Dynamics (acquired by iMany), Ketera, Serious Materials, and TuVox; and previously for Talking Blocks (acquired by Hewlett-Packard) and RouteScience (acquired by Avaya).

He began his professional career at SRI International (formerly the Stanford Research Institute), and has been guest lecturer on entrepreneurship at Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business, Harvard Business School, James Madison University, and the Stanford Graduate School of Engineering. He is an active advisor and supporter of Project BUILD in East Palo Alto, the Bing School at Stanford and Sustainable Silicon Valley. Paul received an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley; an MA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia; and a BS from James Madison University. Watch Paul Holland introduce President Barack Obama at a nationally televised White House Cleantech event. (President Obama Remarks on Energy & New Technology Spending)
James Hutchison is the Founding Director of ONAMI, the Safer Nanomaterials and Nanomanufacturing Initiative, and the Director of the Materials Science Institute/Hutchison Lab at the University of Oregon. He earned his B.S. from the University of Oregon, and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. Postdoctoral work and awards include: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1992-94 (Royce W. Murray); Franklin Veatch Fellowship, Stanford 1987-89; Centennial Teaching Assistant Award, Stanford, 1990; NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, 1992-94; Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award, 1994; NSF CAREER Award, 1997; Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1999; Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, 1999; Oregon Academy of Science Outstanding Teacher of Science and Mathematics in Higher Education, 2003, University of Oregon Fund for Faculty Members Excellence Award, 2006. Lokey-Harrington Chair in Chemistry, 2008.
Bruce King is the founder and Director of the Ecological Building Network (EBNet), a non-profit information resource based in San Rafael, California (www.ecobuildnetwork.org). EBNet organized international conferences on ecological building in 1999 and 2001, conducted extensive, groundbreaking research into low-impact building systems, and helped write improved building codes from California to Mongolia that have facilitated more ecologically-sound methods of building previously hampered by the codes.

Mr. King, a registered engineer for 32 years, has worked on high-rise structures in San Francisco, aircraft remodels in Miami, Tahitian resorts, Buddhist monasteries in the Colorado Rockies, passive solar designs all over the world, and hundreds of houses of every type throughout North America. He has given lectures and talks on ecological building at universities around the world -- from showing young schoolchildren about natural building with clay and straw, to speaking on ecological building at the invitation of Prince Charles' Foundation for the Built Environment in London. He has been featured on public radio in the UK and USA, and print publications such as the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal.

Mr. King is an advisor to GreenBuildingAdvisor.com. With his wife and partner Sarah, he is also the founder of the Green Building Press and author of Buildings of Earth and Straw, Making Better Concrete, and Design of Straw Bale Buildings He recently completed revisions to ASTM 2392 / Standard Guide for Design of Earthen Wall Building Systems, and has contributed dozens of papers and articles for conferences, books and journals.
Tom Lent is an expert in the evaluation of building materials and their impact on health and the environment. Recent projects include the Green Guidelines for Health Care (GGHC), LEED® for Healthcare, Sustainable Bioplastic Guidelines and the Pharos Project developing tools for transparency and scoring for materials.
Anil Netravali After obtaining Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in 1984 Dr. Netravali joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University as a postdoctoral associate. In 1985 he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering as a research associate. In August of 1987 he joined the Department of Fiber Science and Apparel Design in the Fiber Science Program as an assistant professor. His main research is to develop fully sustainable and biodegradable, environment-friendly Green Composites that can be used in place of petroleum based conventional composites. Green composites are made using plant-based fibers and resins that are carbon-neutral and can be easily disposed of or composted at the end of their life. In the past few years, his research group has made significant progress in developing plant-based green resins, e.g. soy protein and starch, with excellent mechanical and physical properties; in some cases, better than commonly used epoxies.
Dan Reicher joined Google in 2007 where he serves as Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives focused on policy, investment, engineering and information to advance clean energy and confront climate change. Mr. Reicher has over 25 years of experience in energy and environmental technology, policy, finance and law, including serving as Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy in the Clinton Administration. He recently was a member of President Obama's Transition Team where he focused on the energy portions of the stimulus package and an advisor to the Obama campaign on energy and climate issues.
Kirsten Ritchie is Director of Sustainable Design, Asia/Pacific Region, for Gensler, a global architecture and design firm. She has more than 25 years' experience in various aspects of high performance building design, green product certification, environmental cleanup, business intelligence technology and sustainable infrastructure. She is widely and fondly known as a green Products Guru, Data Geek, Sustainability Strategist, Foodie and Perpetual Optimist.
Karen Slimak is the founder and CEO of Timber Treatment Technologies, whose goal is to provide the dominant products in the treated wood and composite wood industries. In the long term, her goal is for TimberSIL® products to return wood to the material of choice in the decking, siding, and roofing market sectors. She is responsible for the Company's technical innovations including development of new technologies which will allow TTT to continue to be an industry leader. Ms. Slimak has provided expert guidance and assessments to government agencies, scientific organizations, industry, and private individuals for over 30 years. She holds 30 US and international patents, and has authored over 50 technical articles and presentations. Ms. Slimak holds a Master of Science in Zoology with an emphasis on environmental chemistry from Oklahoma State University, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Southern Nazarene University. Her research interests range from the human effects of chronic exposure to volatile substances in the environment, and developing products that are totally innocuous.
Jan Stensland has worked for decades in green building and design, specializing in indoor environmental quality (IEQ). Through her company, Inside Matters, she has provided IEQ and sustainable design consulting, education and research to clients such as the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence, Alameda County Waste Management Authority, United States Gypsum Corporation Interiors and Kaiser Permanente, where she was the in-house green and healthy building expert for a number of years. Jan serves and has served on a number of boards and councils including the State of California's Environmentally Preferable Product Database Development Group and USGBC's Professional Development Committee. She also served on the USGBC's Indoor Environmental Quality TAG (Technical Advisory Group). When part of the Green Building Group at the City of San Francisco's Department of the Environment, she developed the largest municipal LEED study group training and incentive program in the nation. Her bachelor of interior architecture is from the University of Oregon and she earned her Masters of Science in Human Environment Relations/Applied Research from Cornell University. Jan has been an invited speaker at a number of venues including EnvironDesign conferences, GreenBuild, Healthy Building 2006, NEOCON, several building professional groups and at various universities.
Larry Strain , FAIA is a senior partner with Siegel & Strain, an award winning architectural design, research, and consulting firm committed to sustainable design with a particular expertise in green building materials. Larry Strain's ReSourceful Specifications -- guideline specifications for environmentally sustainable materials and methods -- is an outgrowth of this research and is now incorporated into the GreenSpec Directory, published by Building Green, Inc.
John F. Straube is a world-renowned building scientist and engineer who has pioneered the study of building enclosure design, moisture physics, and whole building performance as a consultant, researcher, and educator. Dr. Straube is on the faculty of the University of Waterloo, and is a principal in the consulting firm Building Science Corporation. John has given hundreds of presentations to thousands of people across North America, Europe and Asia. He has also been involved in the preparation of design and construction guides for numerous organizations, and assisted in the development and delivery of short courses, web-based learning modules, and customer-tailored education programs. Considered an international expert in moisture-related building problems, his building science expertise has been applied to moldy roofs, failed masonry, leaky EIFS cladding, insulating Mongolian yurts, wet basements, rotting crawlspaces and attics, historically sensitive retrofits, and litigation support for buildings as diverse as commercial office towers, manufactured housing, and sustainable strawbale. Dr. Straube has consulted to many major building product manufacturers, government agencies (CMHC, NRC/IRC,UN, NRCan, DOE, EPA), and a range of design professionals and building owners. He has a broad experience in the building industry, having been involved in the design, construction, repair and restoration of buildings in Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia, New Zealand, and the Caribbean. He earned his BS, MS, and Ph.D degrees at the University of Waterloo.

Sim Van der Ryn is a visionary, author, educator, public leader, and internationally distinguished pioneer in ecological design. For more than 40 years, Sim has been at the forefront of integrating ecological principles into the built environment, creating multi-scale solutions driven by nature's intelligence. He has served as California's first energy-conscious State Architect, authored seven influential books, and won numerous honors and awards for his leadership and innovation in architecture & planning. Sim's collaborative approach and meta-disciplinary accomplishments help show the way to an evolving planetary era that values both the integrity of ecological systems and the quality of life. A recent New York Times profile writes, "Long before sustainability became the buzzword du jour, there was Sim Van der Ryn, the intrepid pioneer on the eco-frontier". The 70-year-old architect is part of a generation of visionaries who are more interested in the long term value of their their work than in self promotion. Sim emphasizes, "We are engaged in an Ecological Revolution, every bit as profound as the preceding Industrial Revolution."

Carol Venolia is an architect and educator who has been involved with ecological building for over 30 years. Named a Green Design Trailblazer by Natural Home Magazine, she has designed numerous context-responsive homes of straw, earth, and "good wood", and consulted on schools, healing centers, and eco-villages. Her first book, Healing Environments: Your Guide to Indoor Well-Being, advocates restoring the vital connections between humans and the rest of the living world. In addition to her architectural practice, Carol writes the "Design for Life" column for Natural Home Magazine. Her design work has been featured in The Natural House Catalog, Earth to Spirit, The Healthy House, and Environ Magazine, and she travels widely to lecture and teach.
Gail Vittori is Co-Director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, a non-profit design firm established in 1975 and where she has worked since 1979. She is the 2009 Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council's Board of Directors. She served as a Sustainable Design Consultant for the Pentagon Renovation Program's Commissioning Team from 1999 to 2006, numerous City of Austin design projects, including Texas' first public sector LEED® certified building, the redevelopment of the 709-acre former Austin airport, including piloting LEED for Neighborhood Development, and the first LEED¯Platinum certified hospital in the world, Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas. Since 2000, Ms. Vittori has been a catalyst for several national initiatives focused on greening the health care sector and advancing environmental health considerations in green building. Ms. Vittori was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. She serves on Natural Home's and Environmental Building News' advisory boards. She is co-author, with Robin Guenther FAIA, of Sustainable Healthcare Architecture, published by Wiley in 2008, was featured as an Innovator: Building a Greener World in TIME Magazine in March 2007 and, with Pliny Fisk III, in Texas Monthly's 35th year anniversary issue (February 2008) in the article: 35 People Who Will Shape Our Future.
Peter Walker is the Professor of Innovative Construction Materials at the University of Bath (U.K.), and the Director of Research for the Building Research Establishment (BRE) Centre for Innovative Construction Materials. Dr. Walker previously held lectureships at the University of New England (Australia) and University of Zimbabwe. He is a civil/structural engineer, lecturing mainly in structural analysis and design, and has been a member of Institution of Engineers, Australia, since 1995. His main research interests are in the use of low carbon and renewable construction materials; hemp-lime, straw bales, timber and earthen constructions. His interests in traditional building materials include studies in structural masonry, lime mortars, timber engineering and the conservation and repair of historic structures. He was the main organizer of the 11th International Conference on Non-conventional Materials and Technologies, NOCMAT 2009, and contributing author to Hemp Lime Construction: a Guide to Building with Hemp Lime Composites, and Rammed Earth: Design and Construction Guidelines.
Phil Williams, PE, and LEED AP, is Webcor's Vice President of Systems Engineering and Sustainable Design. He recently served as the Chairman of the San Francisco Mayor's Task Force on Green Buildings which focused on recommendations for private sector green building requirements. These aggressive standards; planned for implementation in 2008, cover virtually all private sector commercial and residential building types with phased escalations to enable industry implementation. In addition he serves on the Advisory for the Business Council on Climate Change (BC3), the San Francisco Building Code Advisory Committee (including Code Advisory Green Building Subcommittee), Chair of the Industry Advisory Board for the Center for the Built Environment (CBE) and California's Green Technologies Advisory Board.

Webcor's sustainable projects of note include the California Academy of Science (LEED Platinum), Letterman Digital Art Center (LEED Gold), Symantec (LEED Gold), Century/Avenue of the Stars (LEED Silver), Grand Ave (LEED Silver) and LA Live (LEED Certified). Phil received his registration as a California Professional Mechanical Engineer in 1985 and is a LEED Accredited Professional. Currently, Phil is heading up over 15 million square feet and over $5 billion of LEED Projects, which ranked Webcor Builders as the #2 Green Contractor in the country by ENR Magazine (2007 revenue).
Alex Wilson is the Executive Editor of Environmental Building News. For more than 25 years Alex has written about energy-efficient and environmentally responsible design and construction. Prior to starting his own company in 1985 (now BuildingGreen, LLC), he was executive director of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association for five years; before that he taught workshops on the construction of solar greenhouses in New Mexico in the late '70s. Alex is author of Your Green Home, and coauthor of the Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings, and the Rocky Mountain Institute's comprehensive textbook Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate. He has also written hundreds of articles for other publications, including Fine Homebuilding, Architectural Record, Landscape Architecture, the Journal of Light Construction, and Popular Science. Along with writing about design and construction, Alex has written four guidebooks on quiet-water paddling published by the Appalachian Mountain Club--covering all of New England and New York State. (You can order Alex's books online). Alex served on the board of directors of the U.S. Green.
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