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Ceremony of Three-Star and LEED Projects in China (by invitation only)

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Program Welcome

Harvey M. Bernstein - view bio »
Vice President, Industry Analytics, Alliances & Strategic Initiatives, McGr aw-Hill Construction
Wang Wei - view bio »
Secretary-in-General, Shanghai Green Building Council

Keynote Address I:
Accelerating China’s Green Building Development, Promoting Green Building Labeling System

At its June 2009 conference, China’s Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MHURD) announced a series of new policies aiming at accelerating the country’s Green Building movement. To mobilize local involvement at the ground level, encouraging a more healthy and rapid development, MHURD will decentralize the evaluation of One-Star and Two-Star GB and the issuance of related certifications to qualified local organizations. In his keynote address, Mr. Chen Yinming will comment on the overall development of Green Buildings in China, explain the newly announced policies as in the One-Star, Two-Star GB Labeling Admin Plan, and discuss the government’s plan of building up a local GB network across China.

Speaker:
Wang Youwei
Chair, China Green Building Coucil

Keynote Address II:
Think ahead and Deliver Meaningful Sustainability

With the triple crisis of climate change, energy security and global economic downturn, the prescribers, supporters and implementers around the world are feeling more pressing on the attention and promotion of sustainability. The press reflects not only on the increasing the awareness and acceptance of concept but also on how to convert from attitude to action. We have all recognized that public and commercial buildings represent 60% of lighting electricity consumption and lighting accounts for 35% of the total energy consumption of a building, the second largest energy user…… As the leading brand in the industry, Philips has been working close together with different stakeholders to explore and provide multi dimension solutions and services to tackle the challenges. Energy efficient lighting is a catalyst for innovation; a driver for new sustainable, people-focused businesses. Energy efficient lighting is the opportunity – an immediate, high-impact way to start RIGHT NOW.

Speaker:
Olivier Piccolin - view bio »
Senior Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer, Philips Lighting Commercial Asia

Panel Discussion I:
The Business Case for Investing in Green Buildings – Perspectives from Big Owners

In today’s tenuous economy, owners face a range of evolving challenges to achieving optimal building values, cost savings and building performance. This session will gather big commercial and residential owners and developers who are pursuing green buildings across China to discuss their motivations, the perceived business benefits and financial returns and the actual results.  The panel will also share with the audience the journey they have gone through of selecting partners, design concepts, technologies and products to achieve the goal of sustainability.

Moderator:
Robert Watson - view bio »
Chairman & CEO, Eco Tech International Group

Speakers:
Chan Boon Seng - view bio »
Regional General Manager of Yangtze River Delta, CapitaLand
Christian Costabel
Vice President & Financial Officer, Siemens Building Technologies China
Executive, Niki Greater China

Case Study I:
Shanghai Center, China’s Next Sustainable Skyscraper

The Shanghai Tower represents a new generation of super high-rise towers, integrating strategic environmental thinking to create an unprecedented sense of community. In 2008, plans were announced that this China’s tallest building to come will also set a new benchmark for sustainable design and innovation by achieving China’s Three-Star standards and the U.S. LEED certification. This presentation will explore the Shanghai Tower’s design inspiration and concept, as well as its sustainable features.

Speakers:
Jun Xia - view bio »
Regional Design Director, Gensler
Dr. Han Jihong - view bio »
Deputy Director, the Green Building Construction Technology Center, Ministry of Housing and Urban and Rural Development, P.R.C.; Deputy Director, Institute of Building Innovation, Shanghai Research Institute of Building Science

Networking Tea Break

Case Study II:
Vanke Center, Shenzhen, China

Hovering over a tropical garden, this 'horizontal skyscraper' -as long as the Empire State Building is tall- unites into one vision the headquarters for Vanke Co. Ltd, office spaces, apartments, and a hotel. A conference center, spa and parking are located under the large green, public landscape. As a tropical, sustainable 21st century vision, the building and the landscape integrate several new sustainable aspects. The Vanke Headquarter wing of the floating horizontal skyscraper is aimed at LEED Platinum.

Speaker:
Li Hu - view bio »
Partner, Steven Holl Architects

Panel Discussion II:
Thinking Big: Achieving Higher Impact with Master Planned Green Communities

China’s rapid urbanization is demanding the development of new cities, districts and large scale communities all over the country. Old urban core is also redefined, rejuvenated by injecting new purposes and functions. Public and private owners, city planners and architects face really exciting opportunities as well as enormous challenges. How to plan and design these large communities to ensure sustainability and eco development? This panel features four leading practitioners who will share their insights and vision.

Moderator:
Vincent Cheng - view bio »
Associate Director, LEED® AP, ARUP

Speakers:
Albert Chan - view bio »
Director of Planning and Development, ShuiOn Land Limited  
Sean Chiao
Senior Vice President, Regional Chair, Asia EDAW, Vice President, AECOM China

Networking Luncheon

Case Study III:
Leadership By Example: Investing in a Clean Energy Future

Governments can set a good example and demonstrate leadership by making their buildings and operations much more energy efficient. Not only can that reduce the cost of government by reducing energy waste, but it increases employee health and morale. By doing so, governments can also lead the introduction of new technologies into the market. As a large buyer of energy efficient products, government purchases can help bring the cost of new products down. As part of President Obama's Economic Recovery investments, the US government has undertaken a major effort to make its own buildings much more energy efficient, as a major effort to move toward Zero Energy Buildings and Zero Energy Communities. It has also had very effective collaboration with the Peoples Republic of China. In this presentation, several highly visible examples will be presented.

Special Presentation I:
The Human Dimension in Product and Process Modeling of Green Building Design

Green building design is a complex endeavor requiring integrative inputs from multi-disciplinary professional teams. The emergence of Building Information Modeling (BIM) encourages the flow of information and interoperability between all phases of facility’s lifecycle. Advancements in building performance simulation have also been significant. However, defining human activities “accurately” as input factors in performance modeling remain probably the single most complex and challenging task. For example, actual occupancy rate in modern office buildings is frequently only 40-60% of the design assumption. The challenge lies squarely with the architect, to thoroughly understand the client’s operational requirements and translate that “qualitative” descriptive brief into design solution, accompanied by appropriate quantitative parameters that can be communicated to the entire project team for producing concurrent technical solutions.

Speaker:
Dr. Khee Poh Lam, RIBA - view bio »
Professor of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University

Case Study IV:
“Green Operations” – An Overlooked Opportunity in Existing Buildings

In many global markets, owners and operators of large existing commercial buildings have applied a variety of “low cost” and “no cost” measures that produce dramatic energy cost savings. These documented savings are forming the basis for future broad-based action associated with environmental performance improvement.  Such savings also provide a significant opportunity for rapid and substantial operating cost savings over large facility portfolios.  This presentation will present data from actual case studies in China, and explain how others can benefit from lessons learned over the past decade in China, India, and the US.

Case Study V:
Building Solutions to Climate Change

The building sector accounts for about 40 percent of world’s GHG emissions and has the largest potential for significantly reducing GHG emissions according to the IPCC 4th assessment report. China has an existing building stock of 44 billion square meters, most of which are not energy efficient. While retrofitting existing building would avoid lock-in inefficiency for the next 30 to 50 years, the magnitude and barriers of the market pose a big challenge. The presentation analyzes the Chinese market and recommends a series of policy instruments and tools for existing building retrofit, followed by case studies in China and U.S.

Networking Tea Break

Panel Discussion III:
Innovative Green Building Solutions and Products

The rapid growth of the green building market has encouraged building product and solution providers to rethink their R&D strategies. New products and technologies prospered. Creative building solutions are experimented and received notable results. This panel will feature a select group of building product and solution providers to present their latest development and applications which have helped architects and engineers achieve sustainable design and energy performance targets.

Moderator:
Minda Xu - view bio »
Vice President – China, McGraw-Hill Construction

Speakers:
Bert van den Berg - view bio »
Senior Marketing Director, Philips Lighting Greater China
An Jishen - view bio »
Deputy General Manager, Shanghai Yaohua Pilkington Glass Co., Ltd.
William R. O’Brien - view bio »
Global Innovator Strategic Marketing Leader, Dow Corning
Beres Dowdle - view bio »
Principal, Building Science, Aurecon
Peter Huang - view bio »
Business Director – Building Innovations, DuPont Greater China; General Manager, DuPont Surfaces (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd.

Case Study VII:
2010 Shanghai World Expo – Green Cases and Experience

Construction of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai is currently at its peak. With 192 countries and 48 international organizations confirmed their participation, the 2010 Expo will be dazzling with brilliant architecture, thoughtful sustainable features, and some of the most innovative technologies. Mr. Huang Jianzhi, keynote speaker of our 2008 conference, has accepted the invitation to return to the stage. He will give us an update on Expo construction, and share his takeaways from leading this large scale green development project. Joining him is Mr. Ma Weijun of ECADI, the leading local architectural firm and designer of several permanent Expo sites.

Speakers:
Huang Jianzhi - view bio »
Vice Director, Shanghai World Expo Coordination Bureau
Ma Weijun - view bio »
Deputy Chief Engineer, East China Architectural Design & Research Institute Co. (ECADI)

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Day 2 Welcome

Keynote Address II:
Driving Innovative Change in the Built Environment

Dr. Schwegler created and manages the Simulation-based Design Group at Walt Disney. His team develops new software tools like 4D Simulation as well as formal information models to enable integration of design, construction, and operational data for all capital facility projects of The Walt Disney Company (especially theme parks and resorts). In addition, his team has developed Integrated Infrastructure models, resulting in the most energy efficient theme park and resort design ever built; novel water treatment technologies enabling the first closed-loop control of wastewater treatment plants, and next generation fireworks.

Case Study VIII:
Korea’s New Songdo City and the Northeast Asia Trade Tower

Just outside Seoul, Korea is breaking new boundaries with its master planned Songdo International Business District. Designed to achieve LEED-ND certification in as a pilot project, this brand new city will incorporate office, residential, retail, hospitality and institutional facilities. The city intends to serve as a test-bed for innovative green technologies, and will feature the iconic Northeast Asia Trade Tower.

Speaker:
Taylor Whitman - view bio »
Vice President, Business Development, Gale International

Case Study IX:
Patni Knowledge Centre in Noida, India

This session will provide a case study presentation of the Patni Knowledge Center, the first building to obtain Platinum Certification through the IndiaGBC’s LEED-India rating standard. The building, located in Noida, India near New Delhi, is a software development center spread over half a million square feet which houses 5,000 employees. Featuring notable green elements such as solar water heating and climate-responsive design, this new building represents a symbolic new standard for the construction of India’s commercial facilities.

Speaker:
Vidur Bharadwaj - view bio »
Chairman of Delhi Chapter, Indian Green Building Council

Case Study X:
Carbon Critical Buildings in the Middle East – from Wind Towers to Lighthouses

For generations, oil rich states of the Middle East have benefited from inexpensive electricity and gasoline and obviously this has influenced design solutions. Looking back, designers have applied energy like brut force and in doing have sacrificed many of the core sustainable design values. About a decade ago, Atkins started its journey of continuous improvement to reduce the environmental impact of building projects. Today, some of its designs have energy and water savings in excess of 50% but enhance the quality of life and provide better value. Our speaker will showcase the iconic Burj al Arab, the wind powered Bahrain World Trade Center, among other projects, and ending with an exemplar of carbon critical design.

Speaker:
Richard F. Smith - view bio »
Technical Director for Middle East & India, Chair of Carbon Critical Buildings, Atkins Group; past Vice Chair, the Emirates Green Building Council

Special Presentation II:
An Update on Recent LEED Development

As the green building marketplace continues to grow, US Green Building Council (USGBC) is also transforming its LEED credits and programming to meet the changing needs of the industry. This session will provide a first-hand look at the latest updates on LEED including the launch of the new 2009 version, expanded education offerings and the evolution of the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI) for credentialing and maintenance. The audience will gain insights into the impact of these changes on green building in China, and will examine the role of LEED in the international marketplace.

Speaker:
Tim McEnery - view bio »
Vice President – International, U.S. Green Building Council

Panel Discussion IV – What’s Next? The Future of the Green Building Marketplace

This session will look at what’s next for the global green building marketplace. In a candid, open discussion, the thought leaders from the conference will come back together to talk about their tactics for surviving today’s down economy and share predictions for the future of green building in China and beyond.

Moderator:
Harvey M. Bernstein
Vice President, Industry Analytics, Alliances & Strategic Initiatives, McGraw-Hill Construction

Speakers:
Dr. Benedict R. Schwegler, Jr., M.ASCE
Vice President and Chief Scientist, Walter Disney Imagineering (WDI) Research & Development
Michael Lorenz - view bio »
CEO, KlingStubbins, Inc.
Tim McEnery
Vice President – International, U.S. Green Building Council
Vidur Bhardwaj
Chairman of Delhi Chapter, Indian Green Building Council
Wang Wei
Secretary-in-general, Shanghai Green Building Council

(Optional) LEED® Workshop I: Green Building Basics and LEED

Presented by the U.S. Green Building Council
Limited seats. Pre-registration with USGBC is required.
For those new to green building this instructor-led course offers an introduction to USGBC, green building principles and the fundamentals of the LEED Rating System. It includestopics on climate change and building impacts; motivators for green building; and conventional versus integrative approaches – and the associated benefits – to building design, construction and operations.

(Optional) LEED® Workshop II: Green Building Design and Construction:
The LEED Implementation Process

Presented by the U.S. Green Building Council
Limited seats. Pre-registration with USGBC is required.
This workshop is intended for professionals who are familiar with the LEED NC or LEED Core & Shell Rating System, but new to implementing it on projects or looking to brush up on implementation best practices. It is also appropriate for those pursuing GBCI’s LEED AP Building Design + Construction credential.

Our official LEED Faculty will walk the class through the phases of a typical project, including key decisions that project teams must make and guidance on how to make them. You will engage with other participants in interactive activities that use case examples to enable you to work hands-on with the LEED Rating System. Participants also receive exclusive online access to the reference guide, and the rating system is available for free at www.usgbc.org.