Green Building United is thrilled to showcase the work being led by Called to Serve CDC to redevelop the historic Zion Baptist Church Educational Annex as the Rev. Leon H. Sullivan Community Impact Center. Speakers from the project team will share their insights on how the project came about, how community needs and resilience influenced the concept, and how support from the William Penn Foundation through the new Climate Ready Capital Projects program is enabling the project team to consider sustainability in new ways.
Room: Main Building Auditorium
Worth 1 GBCI and 1 AIA Credit
Join USGBC and several partner organizations who are working with building portfolios that are achieving sustainability goals through LEED certification with GBCI and tracking building performance in Arc. Hear how these teams are able to verify improvements around environmental performance, equity, and well-being at the portfolio scale.
Room: Main Building Auditorium
Level 100/Awareness
CEU Credits: 1 GBCI & 1 AIA
If you've always wondered about doing more good in your business, Architecture Engineering & Construction (AEC) firm leaders who have gone through the BCorp/Just certification process will answer your questions in this interactive session.
Room: Creese #1
Level 100/Awareness
CEU Credits: 1 GBCI & 1 AIA HSW
Built to Last is Philadelphia's first-in-the-nation program to deliver holistic home repairs that start with fixing basic systems and end with electrification and solar.
Room: Creese #3
Level 200/Understanding
CEU Credits: 1 GBCI & 1 AIA HSW
In a conversation between the owner, architect, and sustainability consultant of Muhlenberg College's Fahy Commons, this session will review how advocacy can move a project from “doing less bad” to “doing more good.”
Room: Classroom 301
Level 200/Understanding
CEU Credits: 1 GBCI, 1 AIA, & 1 Phius
Explore the opportunities and challenges that go along with different methods of energy modeling using Wufi, REM/Rate, and ASHRAE 90.1 models. Case studies will demonstrate costs and benefits.
Room: Classroom 302
Level 200/Understanding
CEU Credits: 1 GBCI & 1 AIA
Join a tour of Drexel's outdoor spaces with Director of Grounds Scott Dunham and the Climate & Sustainability team, Jen Britton and Bo Solomon. As an urban campus, Drexel's green spaces are limited but offer a wide range of opportunities for getting creative. Porous surfaces for stormwater control, smart irrigation, a native tree canopy, and a student project to shift the management of Drexel Park to all-organic management are some of this tour's highlights. We'll also stop by the indoor biowall in the Papadakis Integrated Sciences building.
CEU Credits: 1 AIA
A separate registration is required for each tour.
This session discusses policies that Circular Philadelphia and its partners are working on to stop illegal dumping and increase recycling of construction materials, and how architects, contractors, developers and haulers can benefit from these policies.
Room: Main Building Auditorium
Level 100/Awareness
CEU Credits: 1 GBCI, AIA
Diverse spiritual leaders will offer community, hope, and resources for navigating the spiritual, ethical, and existential challenges of living in the age of climate change with strength, faith, and compassion.
Room: Creese #1
Level 100/Awareness
CEU Credits: 1 GBCI, AIA HSW
Preservation Sustainability is a new movement that unifies developers, preservationists and sustainability professionals
Room: Creese #3
Level 200/Understanding
CEU Credits: GBCI, AIA
Participants will discuss approaches to practicing and advocating equity, diversity, and inclusion through the work of their respective organizations and professional practice.
Room: Classroom 301
Level 100/Awareness
CEU Credits: GBCI, AIA
In this case study, the design team considered lighting design not just for energy and control, but also for quality, ambiance, and wellness.
Room: Classroom 302
Level 200/Understanding
CEU Credits: GBCI, AIA
Witness the excellent performance of induction technology via a live cooking demonstration, as well as learn about its human health and environmental benefits. PA Department of Environmental Protection will also share information about their related learning and funding opportunity, Cooking in Healthy Electrified Commercial Kitchens (CHECK)..
CEU Credits: 1 AIA
The Symposium will take place just a few days after the May primary in Philly. What do the outcomes of that election and the conversation (or lack thereof!) around sustainability mean for the city in 2023 and beyond?
Room: Main Building Auditorium
Level 100/Awareness
CEU Credits: GBCI, AIA
Combining Passive House and mass timber construction presents an opportunity to optimize both operational and embodied carbon. Two case studies will illustrate the synergies making those projects possible.
Room: Creese #1
Level 300/Application
CEU Credits: GBCI, AIA, Phius, PHI
As communities work to tell their stories and advocate for climate justice, community leaders and policy-makers must tune in and support their efforts for an equitable environment. This panel will give three examples of on-the-ground efforts that started with stories and led to meaningful action.
Room: Creese #3
Level 100/Awareness
CEU Credits: GBCI, AIA
This educational session will review student energy education partnerships between Practical Energy Solutions (PES) and multiple clients including the School District of Philadelphia, West Chester Area School District, Green Building United, and energy service companies (ESCOs). PES has performed energy audits of many K-12 schools in partnership with students and educators, to help students understand how we use energy in buildings and what we can do to cut energy consumption and transition to clean energy solutions. We'll take you on a tour through our student-led energy education program - from energy audits of the schools to data analysis, to creation of recommendations and student-led school board presentations of their findings and recommendations. Other program elements will be discussed, as well, including tools for teaching any sustainability-related issue, such as leading students through debates on climate change and resource preservation, and holding Energy/Sustainability Expos in their schools, to creating poster presentations for parent back-to-school nights and other events.
Room: Classroom 301
Level 200/Understanding
CEU Credits: GBCI, AIA
This panel will explore the intersectionality between our sustainable building community and the healthcare community through the lens of the built environment and environmental justice in our region.
Room: Classroom 302
Level 100/Awareness
CEU Credits: GBCI, AIA HSW
The West Tower at 3025 JFK Blvd is an elegant new addition to University City's skyline, rising directly adjacent to Amtrak's 30th Street Station. Designed for a mix of office, life science, lifestyle, and residential uses, the West Tower delivers integrated, elevated work + life experiences in Philadelphia's most exciting new neighborhood.
Safety note: Since this is an active construction site, the number of attendees will be limited to 20 people and hard sats and safety vests will be required.
CEU Credits: LA CES
This presentation discusses a methodology to balance the goals of reducing embodied carbon and operating carbon by analyzing the time value of carbon. The proposed methodology utilizes traditional life cycle cost analysis to determine if the reduction in embodied carbon taken today is offset by long-term gains in operating carbon.
William Smarzewski, Associate at EwingCole
Jason Fierko, Principal and Director of Energy Management at EwingCole
Room: Main Building Auditorium
Level 300/Application
CEU Credits: GBCI, AIA
Environmental engineering company AKRF proposes a three-part presentation and discussion of how new stormwater management policies can help communities adapt to the fast-evolving effects of a changing climate.
Room: Creese #1
Level 200/Understanding
CEU Credits: GBCI, AIA, LA CES
Through recorded interviews with practitioners around the world, a diverse panel of women architects will highlight how Passive House principles need to be adapted to human behavior, cultural context, and climate.
Room: Creese #3
Level 200/Understanding
CEU Credits: GBCI, AIA, Phius, PHI
Over nearly two decades, ESG has become a trusted standard by which companies, their investors, and their clients, use to understand a company’s environmental, social, and governance operations. In recent years, however, ESG has come under fire for not being robust enough to have real meaning. This panel offers audience members a variety of perspectives on how and why ESG emerged, what its value is, and what its future could hold.
Room: Classroom 301
Level 100/Awareness
CEU Credits: AIA
We invite you to join a panel discussion with the co-leads of the Philadelphia Region's Climate Resilience Research Agenda (CRRA) Working Groups and to hear the updated CMIP 6 climate projections for the Philadelphia Region.
Room: Classroom 302
Level 200/Understanding
Drexel's URBN Center at 3501 Market Street houses the offices and departments of the Westphal College of Media Arts and Design. This building, originally created as the Institute for Scientific Information by the firm Venturi Scott Brown, had a redesign that was completed in 2013, by Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle LTD. The new design is about facilitating collaboration and complex problem-solving across disciplines. Inviting in natural light, and with features that allow shifting and flexible use of the spaces, the URBN Center is one of Drexel's campus treasures. Kim Miller, head of Drexel's Planning, Design, & Construction division, will lead this tour along with Nicholas Haas, Assistant Vice President of Technical Services.
3rd Floor Patio of the Bossone Research Center, located at:
3140 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104