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Schools of the 21st Century Symposium
Steve Beede
Market Development Manager
Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.
Steve Beede is the Market Development Manager at Lutron Electronics Co., Inc., where he where he leads the company's initiative to develop light control solutions for the K-12 and higher education markets. His work is focused on establishing light control as a viable solution to reduce energy costs, improve the learning environment and support the local community.
Prior to his current position, Beede was a Senior Sales Representative in New York's commercial specification market. He holds a BS in Ocean Engineering from the United States Naval Academy, and served 6 years as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy.
Werner H. Braun
President,
The Carpet and Rug Institute
Werner Braun joined the Carpet and Rug Institute as president in April, 2000. CRI is the national trade association representing carpet manufacturers and allied industries. Under Mr. Braun’s leadership, CRI moved away from a traditional trade association model to a business model with its emphasis on established and measurable goals. He also instituted an annual West Coast CRI membership meeting.
Mr. Braun is a past president of the World Carpet and Rug Council. He has been a featured speaker at the international cleaning industry’s Connections Exposition, Carpet America Recovery Effort annual meeting, International Executive Housekeepers Association, and multiple national sales meetings for member companies.
Prior to coming to CRI, Mr. Braun served as senior director for international affairs for the Chlorine Chemistry Council. From 1967 through 1998, he performed in a number of leadership roles with The Dow Chemical Company. Mr. Braun holds a degree in chemistry from St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas.
Mr. Braun serves on the External Advisory Boards of the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Southern Polytechnic State University. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the International Society of Cleaning Technicians. His many community activities include the Whitfield Healthcare Foundation, Northwest Georgia Boy Scouts, Rotary Club, and the Alzheimer’s Association.
Cliff Brewis
Senior Director Editorial Operations West,
McGraw-Hill Construction Dodge
Cliff is responsible for the newsgathering operation of McGraw-Hill Construction/Dodge for the western half of the United States, which is the source of much of the data used in the McGraw-Hill Construction’s annual Construction Outlook report. Cliff is a graduate in Economics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has an MBA from American University in Washington D.C.
Jill Buck
Founder, The Go Green Initiative
Jill Buck is the founder of the Go Green Initiative, a simple, comprehensive program designed to create a culture of environmental responsibility on school campuses across the nation. Jill wrote the Go Green Initiative in 2002. It is now the largest and fastest growing comprehensive environmental education program in the world, operating in all 50 U.S. states, 13 countries, and on 4 continents. This program has been endorsed by the National School Boards Association (NSBA), the National Recycling Coalition, eight state PTAs, the California Integrated Waste Management Board, the California Resource Recovery Association, and many more. The Go Green Initiative unites parents, students, teachers and school administrators in an effort to make real and lasting changes in their campus communities that will protect children and the environment for years to come.
She is also the host of “Go Green Radio,” a weekly program that appears on Voice America radio.
Jill owns Buck Consulting, which helps businesses "go green", and achieve profitability through sustainability. She teaches business leaders how to drive revenue up and costs down through environmentally responsible business practices, and how to engage in "green marketing" to increase market share. Her techniques and training are applicable across all industry sectors.
Upon her graduation from the University of Illinois in 1991, Jill Buck was commissioned a Naval Officer. While stationed at the Fleet Training Center, San Diego, she served as the Legal, Physical Security, Admin, and Command Inspection Officer, as well as a Damage Control Instructor. She is an honor graduate of the Military Justice School, and a graduate of the Navy's small arms weapons course, taught by former Navy Seals.
Rachel Gutter, USGBC
Senior Manager, Education Sector, U.S. Green Building Council
Rachel Gutter works to promote and facilitate the design, construction and operations of high performance, green schools and higher education facilities. She oversees the USGBC’s National Green Schools Campaign as well as the LEED for Schools Green Building Rating System. Through collaborative efforts with energy service companies, utility companies, foundations, and a variety of other organizations, Rachel is working to create green building incentives to assist the education sector in achieving their green building goals. She promotes and supports new and existing green school policies at the local, state and federal level and works closely with members of the Green School Caucus on Capitol Hill.
Rachel’s recent experience in the fields of green building consulting and high performance educational design includes her work with the Green Building Program of Montgomery County Public Schools – one of the only school systems in the country to mandate green school construction. Rachel has six years of experience in teaching and K-12 curriculum development. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University.
Ellis Kaufman, MS
Director – Small Learning Communities School Redesign
Los Angeles Unified School District
As the Director of Small Learning Communities (SLCs) and School Redesign within the Facilities Services Division of the Los Angeles Unified School District, Ellis Kaufman guides the implementation of SLCs in the construction of over fifty new middle, span, and high schools within the nation’s second largest school district. Additionally, he oversees the $188 million upgrade and redesign of another fifty existing high schools that will become SLCs within the next few years. Recently, Superintendent Ramon Cortines asked Kaufman to lead the planning and implementation of a new small schools effort that will transform nearly 200 large schools campuses of small schools.
Kaufman joined the District as a high school teacher in 1969 after graduating from Central High School for Boys in Philadelphia and completing his undergraduate degree in education at the State University of New York. He later received a Master’s degree in Education Administration from Mount St. Mary’s College. He designed and managed a communications-technology magnet school and supervised instruction and operations at a number of comprehensive high schools. He coordinated the gifted and talented program for over ten thousand K-12 students and guided the implementation of periodic assessments and performance assignments in eighty-eight schools
Trung Le, AIA
Design Director, OWP/P
Trung is the Design Director for the Education Group of OWP/P, a 300-person integrated architecture, interior design, engineering, and consulting services firm with offices in Chicago and Phoenix. Le is dedicated to designing innovative educational spaces that encourage student inquiry and imagination, and believes there is a direct connection between the idea of experience and the idea of place. He creates spaces that promote casual interaction and dialogue where the exchange of knowledge and ideas offers students a sense of what it means to be a part of a democratic community.
Le has won numerous awards, and has also actively participated in the AIA Committee on Architecture for Education and the Design Committee. He earned Bachelor and Master of Architecture degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Charles Linn, FAIA
Deputy Editor, Architectural Record
Consulting Editor, GreenSource Magazine
Charles Linn is Deputy Editor of Architectural Record. He has many roles at the magazine. He leads the editorial development of Architectural Record’s Innovation Conference, now in its eighth year. In 2006 he was a leader in the launch of GreenSource magazine and its Web site, as has been the editor of Architectural Record’s Schools of the 21st Century annual publication for the past three years. He is also editor of Record’s monthly Practice Matters column and website, and helps manage Record’s news department.
He joined Architectural Record in 1990, serving as editor of its Record Lighting magazine and its editor-at-large for the Northwest region. In 1993, he moved to New York to become a managing senior editor for the magazine. He has written and edited hundreds of articles covering every aspect of building design, architectural technology, and firm management. He became Deputy Editor in 2005.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from Kansas State University in 1978, and practiced architecture until early 1986, when he became the founding editor of Architectural Lighting magazine.
Craig Mason, AIA, LEED AP
Principal and K-12 Designer, DLR Group, Seattle
As a DLR Group principal and K-12 design leader for the firm’s Northwestern region, Craig is responsible for all education facilities planned and designed by the firm’s Seattle office. Additionally, Craig is a member of DLR Group’s national K-12 Education Forum, and has served as a senior design team member for a number of award-winning educational projects.
Craig Rececived his Bachelors and Masters in Architecture from the Washington University in St. Louis, and is a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Council of Educational Facility Planners International, and is a LEED Accredited Professional.
The DLR Group is a 43-year old AE firm, with offices in 15 cities.
Sean O’Donnell, AIA
Principal, Ehrenkrantz, Eckstut & Kuhn, Washington, DC
Sean O'Donnell is an associate principal with Ehrenkrantz Ekstut & Kuhn, He has over 15 years experience in the architecture field, and is focused on the design of great learning environments. He works on projects ranging from the development of a program, the evaluation of an existing building, to the design of new campuses to ensure that the learning environment is fully supportive of all of the users’ physical, intellectual, social/emotional, organizational, and technical needs.
Mr. O’Donnell is a recognized leader in educational facility planning and design. He founded and serves as the chair of the AIA/DC Committee on Architecture for Education and has served as a as a juror for many educational architecture awards programs. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo, did graduate studies in urban planning at New York University, and Master of Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Ehrenkrantz Ekstut & Kuhn is an urban design, architecture, preservation and planning firm with offices in New York City, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.
Kenneth Roy, PhD
Senior Principal Research Scientist,
Armstrong Ceiling Systems
Employed by Armstrong Building Products in Lancaster, PA, with R&D responsibilities for acoustic technologies worldwide. Activities include architectural research, teaching programs, and both national and international standards participation. Current focus is on architectural building products R&D involving sound systems and architectural design as affects both speech privacy and speech intelligibility in buildings. Specific research topics include architectural modeling and auralization of design spaces, speech intelligibility in schools, speech privacy design in office and healthcare, and acoustic effects on knowledge worker productivity.
Previously with Owens-Corning Technical Center in Granville, Ohio, and prior to that with the Acoustical Consulting firm of P.S. Veneklasen Consultants in Santa Monica, California. Ph.D. in Acoustics and M.S. degree in Architectural Engineering both from Penn State, and B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maine at Orono.
Steve Turckes, AIA
Leader K-12 Educational Facilities Group
Perkins + Will
Steven Turckes, AIA, REFP, LEED-AP leads the K-12 Educational Facilities Group of Perkins+Will, an international award-winning architectural firm specializing in the research-based planning and design of innovative and sustainable educational facilities. In his 20-year career his work has focused on the programming, master planning and implementation of numerous K-12 projects across the nation and abroad. An avid reader and strategic thinker about the evolving nature of our global society and economy, he often assists schools navigate change to create flexible environments that support critical learning and skill acquisition objectives; helping to prepare students for success now and in the future.
Turckes graduated from Ohio State University with a Masters of Architecture in 1989 and a BS in Architecture in 1984. He is registered in Ohio, Illinois, and Kansas.
John Weekes, AIA
Principal, DOWA Architects
John Weekes is a principal of Dull Olson Weekes Architects (DOWA) in Portland, Oregon, a 55-person firm he and his partners founded in 1986. He specializes in educational design, facility planning and facilitation. John believes that a building is not just about how it looks or works but includes creating an environment that enhances the human experience, that makes people want to be there. Before forming DOWA, he was with Skidmore Owings and Merrill.
Weekes currently is Vice-Chairman of the Leadership Group of the Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) at the American Institute of Architects.
His projects have been honored by the CAE, Portland/AIA, the International Interior Design Association, the National School Boards Association, and several other organizations. Weekes studied at the University of Copenhagen and graduated from Washington State University, where he received the AIA¹s Gold Medal for Educational Excellence.
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