SAN DIEGO GREEN BUILDING CONFERENCE AND EXPO (SDGBCE17)
Thank you for attending the 2017 San Diego Green Building Conference & Expo. Please see below for information regarding CEU’s or Continuing Education reporting.
- GBCI – All of the sessions listed below are eligible for ‘General’ GBCI continuing education, to be reported under the “Education” Activity Type. These sessions are to be self-reported through gbci.org, under “MyCredentials”. For those sessions that you attended, please copy/paste the text below, in order to self-report just those panel discussions you attended.
- AIA – You have been reported by SDGBC Staff. Please confirm that you signed in to each session you attended, with your name and AIA number on the appropriate AIA sign-in sheet. You can e-mail with your AIA number and the sessions you attended ASAP if you did not do so.
Conference Sessions Reporting Info for GBCI Credentials
Sample Session (use the template below and information in the program to complete your GBCI CEU self-reporting):
- Activity Title – Session title (see list below)
- Date – 09/22/17
- Content Type – General
- Activity Type – Education
- Speaker – Session speakers from booklet
- Description–See below
- Hours –1 (per session attended)
- URL –
Partnerships
1A: San Diego 2030 District: Private-Public Partnership for Urban Sustainability
San Diego is the latest city to become a 2030 District – a high-performance building community
that aims to help owners of commercial buildings make their holdings more energy-efficient.
The goal of the 2030 Districts program is to have a 50 percent reduction in energy, water
and transportation emissions in participating buildings by 2030. In this session, private
and public sector representatives from the San Diego 2030 District Leadership Council will
describe the boundaries and goals of the district and explain how energy efficiency targets
will be met and measured in the buildings across the district.
2A: Beyond Triple Bottom Line Policies: How North Park Updated Its Community Plan
At the time of its approval in the fall of 2016, the North Park Community Plan had the most
comprehensive Sustainability Element of any community plan in the City of San Diego,
creating a set of policies to help retrofit an urbanized older community and is a model
currently being followed. This presentation will focus on the role of community volunteers
and pro-bono professionals such as planners, architects, engineers, business leaders, and
developers by contributing in writing a plan with a sustainable future in mind, as they all play
a crucial role in shaping public policy for sustainable urban planning.
3A: Breaking Down Barriers: System-Wide Collaboration for Resilience Planning
This facilitated session will help participants create a strategic, whole-systems approach for
coalition building. The panel will provide a brief background on their organization’s resilience
efforts, a process that successfully brought together groups within the San Diego region to
develop a common, holistic vision for resilience. The group exercise will help participants
identify key stakeholder needs, drivers, and impacts that might impact community wellbeing.
Root cause of obstacles preventing effective collaboration and solutions to remove these
obstacles will be also be discussed. The session will conclude with participants developing a
high-level roadmap for structured, practical, system-wide collaboration for resilience.
4A: Makers Quarter Block D: Building Positive on Urban Master Plan
Makers Quarter Block D is a speculative office building that maximized its marketability
through high performance design. Block D is part of a larger development in East Village that
is rooted in sustainability. The urban setting presents programmatic and site constraints that
challenged the client’s vision. The application of active façade elements such as dynamic
shading and operable windows contributed to the balance of daylight, elimination of heat
gain, and natural cross ventilation. The adaptable building envelope serves as an extension
of the user and provides flexibility for the wide range of tenants that will occupy the building
over time. This new office space will influence future developments to focus on human
centered design.
Frameworks
1B Here & Now: Our Living Building Challenge (LBC) Studio and JUST Certification
This presentation will present lessons learned from the Miller Hull’s Seattle Studio
tenant improvement which was recently Petal certified through the ILFI’s Living Building
Challenge Program. Navigating energy reduction through lighting and “red list” material
selection management were key design processes to reach petal requirements. Miller Hull’s
certification as a JUST firm was also a requirement and the presentation will cover lessons
learned during the certification process as well as positive cultural shifts resulting from the
certification. Transparency is a key thread in this presentation both from an organization’s
cultural standpoint as well as implementation in the built environment
2B: Design Practices from the WELL Building Standard and How Testing Can Augment
Success
The WELL Building Standard is an innovative approach to our built environment in two ways:
it focuses on the health and well-being of a building’s occupants, and is a performance-driven
standard. Unique to green building standards, prescriptive design requirements are rather
light in the WELL Building Standard, creating an opportunity for flexibility in design choices.
However, there are stringent on-site measurement requirements that must be met during
the Performance Verification, to achieve a WELL certified building. Join us in a conversation
about the dynamic impacts of good design practices and the value of testing in delivering
buildings that use air, light, and acoustics to improve productivity, health, and wellness.
3B: Zero Waste Approach to Clean Production
This panel will provide a brief overview of the Zero Waste Approach to clean production. Case
Studies will be presented about businesses, State and Community Colleges that are working
toward Zero Waste facilities operations as a stated goal. The new GBCI certificate program
for validating clean production procedures toward Zero Waste Certification will be outlined.
A class exercise will be conducted to identify barriers, and programs that overcome barriers,
toward the adoption of Zero Waste goals and plans to get there. This panel will help large
facility managers understand the ways and means toward initiating a zero-waste facility.
4B: County of San Diego Zero Net Energy Framework
The presentation reviews the framework that the County has developed for reaching statewide
2030 goals of Zero Net Energy and 50% energy use reduction in existing buildings. Starting
with the planning document just completed, County of San Diego: Zero Net Energy Portfolio
Plan, continuing with the tools the County has put into place for successful Zero Net Energy
project delivery and performance tracking, and ending with strategies that one design-build
team is using to provide the County with a successful new facility.
Systems
1C: Relationship between Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) and Commissioning
Services
All energy codes require commissioning for the systems included in the code. The emphasis
for compliance with these codes is energy savings. A hidden part, though a very important
part, of commissioning services is the Indoor Environmental Quality. This presentation will
focus on presenting the interactions of the different systems that a commissioning services
provider should focus on for any given project in order to have a well-designed, installed and
maintained whole project that should ensure acceptable IEQ.
2C: Successful Daylighting for Wellness and Sustainable Design
This course is approved for 1 CEU: LEED BD+C specific, in addition to general education
GBCI Number: 0920014257
Participants will learn about the role of natural light in building interiors for improving
human health and achieving sustainable design goals. Multiple perspectives from industry
professionals will demonstrate the positive impacts for people, the environment, and
financial considerations. After a brief overview of key energy and human performance-based
reasons for daylighting buildings, we will review innovative applications toward achieving
LEED credits, applying WELL concepts, and understanding Net Zero Energy strategies. A
simple interactive exercise of a daylight model illustrating the options to consider and how to
understand the data will show how to apply the results to drive project decisions.
3C: Sustainable Solutions Measured by Quality of Space: A Focus on Human Purposed
Design
Palomar Community College recognized a need for space optimization, while providing a
diversity of spaces that meet its multiple user groups. In addition, the collaborative design-build
team was challenged to provide a facility that would set the precedent for Palomar College in
high performance building design and construction. Sustainable solutions were successfully
implemented by reallocating confined budgets towards a holistic design. Innovative design
strategies, such as thermal chimneys, rainwater harvesting, daylight harvesting, and a PV
shade canopy, took on multiple uses to create an environment that promotes wellness and
collaboration, and has a positive impact to the larger campus community.
4C:Energy Storage to Help Reduce Customer Electric Costs and Support Integration
of Renewables on the Grid
To appreciate the benefits of energy storage technology it’s important to understand how
electric rates are structured, how storage helps make renewable energy more viable, and how
it helps the electric grid. This session will discuss how rates are structured in California and
how shifting peak loads can reduce energy costs. Energy storage can be used when renewable
forms of energy are unavailable due to natural weather events or when output diminishes
at the end of the day. We will describe in detail the benefit of thermal energy storage for
commercial power consumers and broader benefits for sustainable building design.