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Online courses and certification ( CSD , GCSD )

www.the-bac.edu/green 320 Newbury Street Boston MA 02115 USA [email protected] +1 (617)585-0101

The courses have been developed in partnership with BuildingGreen, providers

of authoritative information on sustainable design and constru ction since 1985.

Many of our online, instructor-led courses are part of the USGBC’s Education Providers

Program that endorses high quality offerings from proven green building leaders.

Study online at your convenience

Interact with expert aculty in small,graduate-level classes

Prepare or LEED and beyond

New courses each semester

Earn AIA HSW Learning Units



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Sustainable Design Certifcate Contents

5 Welcoe o Ssaiable Desi

6 Wa o Epec/Ce Seese Scedle

7 Coses

Sustainable Design

as a Way of Thinking pg 7

Learning from Sustainable Design

through History pg 7

The Zero Energy Home:

What, How, And If pg 7

Site Design, Landscaping

and Site-Water Issues pg 7

Green Practice: Energy and Air

Quality Principles pg 8

Materials, Resources, and Indoor

Environmental Quality pg 8

Building Envelope pg 8

Environmental Systems pg 8

Sustainable Transportation pg 8

Sustainable Communities: Land Use,

Transportation, and Planning pg 9

High Performance Buildings

and the LEED Rating System pg 9

Sustainable Design in Practice pg 9

Sustainable Design and Building

Information Modeling (BIM) pg 9

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Olie Ssaiable Desi Coses ad Ce ificae

Poa offeed b e Boso Aciecal Collee

The Boston Architectural College (BAC) has oered the Sustainable Design Certiicate

Program since 2002. There are more than a dozen college-level courses in the program,

all o which are available online. These eight week courses, which are instructor-led and

interactive, may be taken individually or applied to the certiicate program. Through the

online oerings, courses are accessible to practicing proessionals and green building

enthusiasts around the world.

The certiicate provides a ocused course o study that leads to a credential representing

knowledge and skill in sustainable design. To complete the certiicate, students choose six

o the available courses, which provides them the opportunity to customize their studies

and ocus on their particular areas o interest. The certiicate program is appropriate

or individuals seeking LEED accreditation, as well as or those who are already LEED

accredited and are seeking more in-depth knowledge. Students in the certiicate program

gain a strong oundation in green building practices and principles, as well as exposure

to LEED accreditation requirements, processes, and resources. Additional study areas

include site design, lie cycle costing, renewable energy sources, materials, indoor air

quality, and sustainable community and regional planning.

The strength o the program is evidenced in the act that all o the BAC’s sustainable

design courses are accepted or AIA Health, Saety, Welare Learning Units and several

have been approved as part o the USGBC’s Education Providers Program.

The BAC’s courses and certiicate program have been developed in partnership with

BuildingGreen, LLC., a trusted source o unbiased inormation or building industry

proessionals concerned with environmental perormance. Alex Wilson and Nadav Malin

o BuildingGreen have collaborated on curriculum and course development, and Alex

Wilson is an instructor or the Sustainable Design as a Way o Thinking online course.

For more inormation about the Sustainable Design oerings at the BAC,

visit ww w.e-bac .ed/ee or contact:

Lace Flece, AIA, LEED APDirector o Sustainable Design

Boston Architectural College

320 Newbury St. Boston, MA 02115 USA

Phone: +1 (617) 585-0129

Email: [email protected]

Welcome




6

JunE 8 - AuguSt 1

Online, no prerequisites:

Sustainable Design as a Way o Thinking

Green Practice: Energy and

Air Quality Principles

High Perormance Design and the

LEED Rating System

Sustainable Design and Building Inormation

Modeling (BIM)

The Zero Energy Home: What , How, and I

Online, with some prerequisites:

Environmental Systems

2009 Fall Scedle

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pcoi cose ifoaio!

Wa o epec i a olie Ssaiable Desi cose

Online course technical requirements

include: Access to a computer with a stan-

dards compliant browser (most recent

versions o Internet Explorer or Fireox

preerred; Mac users must use Fireox)

and an internet connection (broadband

preerred). For more inormation, please

visit: www.e-bac.ed/ee.

The online courses do not have speciic

meeting times but are highly interactive.

For the duration o an online course,

weekly correspondence via email and the

discussion orums is required. Courses are

eight weeks long and are all instructor-

led. Materials and assignments are posted

on an assigned day/time and are available

to students throughout each week.

tuItIOn (PEr COurSE)

Certifcate Credit $1,150

Graduate Certifcate Credit $1,725

Audit $730

2009 Se Scedle

Sustainable Design Certifcate




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SuStAInABLE DESIgn AS A WAy OF thInkIng

1.5 Credits • 24 AIA HSW

USGBC Education ProvidersLevel 300Instructors: Alex Wilson, Tristan Korthals Altes,

David Foley, Elena Douvlou-Beggiora

This course traces the history o the sustainable design move-

ment then introduces its primary tenets using the LEED Rating

System as the organizing structure. Readings in the online ver-

sion o the course are drawn largely rom Environmental Build-

ing News. Online discussions are design to acquaint the stu-

dents with the language, philosophy, and principles o sustainable

design. This course examines the underlying principles o sustain-

ability and design. The class ocuses on environmental sustain-

ability and thought processes that c an help proessionals design a

more sustainable world. Major aspects o environmental building

that will be addressed include energy eiciency, indoor environ-

mental quality and land use. Ways o evaluating the sustainabil-

ity o the built environment are discussed including the LEED™

rating system.

LEArnIng FrOm SuStAInABLE

DESIgn thrOugh hI StOry

1.5 Credits

Instructor: Suzanne Sowinski

This course will explore the evolution o green practices in archi-

tecture as expressed in buildings over time. Sustainable building is

not new to architecture. Our buildings have been sustainable over

time, by connecting to nature, using local resources, using climate

and geographical relationships. Each time period has had quali-

ties, expressions, and advances in sustainable design. The pro-

tection o natural resources, conservation o energy, use o the

climate and site planning concepts, designing or end users, and

use o holistic principles will be examined or established periods

o architecture. The student will be given an overview o green

architecture as seen through the lens o its evolution and under-

stand how sustainable building has been integral to architecture

and building throughout our history. The course will also tie the

LEED rating system ive environmental categories into the lec-

tures. Peeisies: Sustainable Design as a Way o Thinking,

and Green Practice: Energy and Air Quality Principles or equiv-

alent knowledge/experience. Please contact the CE oice i youare in doubt about meeting the prerequisites.

thE zErO EnErgy hOmE:

WhAt, hOW, An D I F

1.5 CreditsInstructor: Thomas Hartman and Andrew Webster

Zero is simply a number, an absolute; yet it is neither positive

or negative. A Zero Energy Home is currently a goal and ever

present in the media, but not yet accomplished at theLevel o

our technical potential. We will explore the various de initions o

Zero Energy and understand t he implications o the term within

several contexts: bioregional, local and site-constrained. The var

ious energy loads being counted toward the absolute o zero wil

be explained, as well as the design opportunities to reduce them

The occupant’s behavior and habits in the home are critical to the

successul energy outcome, and eedback opportunities and data

rom case studies will be presented and examined. Metrics o con

sumption, peak load, and annual use will be presented and com

pared. The principles o orientation, thermal envelope, renewable

energy systems that produce (positive), as well as mechanical

electrical, and ventilation systems that consume (negative) will be

explained and investigated or both case studies and theoretica

projects or exploration.

SItE DESIgn, LAnDSCAPIng

AnD SItE-WAtEr ISSuES


USGBC Education Providers Level 300

Instructor: Beth Paulson

Structures are sustainably sited based on an assessment o site

speciic climatic and natural conditions. An understanding o the

geologic, hydrologic, and ecosystem processes, as well as regiona

climate, and site-speciic microclimates, are the oundations upon

which sustainable planning and design are based. This course wil

introduce principles and practices, and materials and methods

that allow the realization o responsible solutions in today’s bur-

geoning green marketplace. Students will explore the role that

architects and other design team proessionals share in generating

sustainable site design as site elements are used to increase com

ortLevels, and lower energy use and operating costs. In green

practice, the site’s climatic and environmental eatures directly

inluence orm and location as architectural design moves beyond

the building envelope and into the landscape.

Sustainable Design Certifcate Courses




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grEEn PrACtICE: EnErgy

AnD AIr quALIty PrInCIPLES

1.5 Credits • 24 AIA HSWUSGBC Education Providers Level 300

Instructors: John Boehs and Elena Primikiri

The concept o an environmentally conscious building should

take into account energy consumption, the quality o indoor air,

and most importantly human comort. Indigenous strategies that

adapt to the rigors o the local climate and contemporary biocli-

matic architecture are part o this introductory course to sustain-

able design. Participants will be introduced to the human needs

or comort and shelter as well as psychrometrics and the phys-

ics o heat transer and heat loss calculations. Building orm, ori-

entation, and indoor spaces will also be discussed as they relate

to sun, wind, and site, as well as bioclimatic design, passive solar

design, natural cooling, and daylighting.

mAtErIALS, rESOurCES, AnD InDOOr

EnvIrOnmEntAL quALIty

1.5 Credits • 24 HSW AIA Hrs/LUsLevel 300

Instructors: Margie McNally

This course gives students the tools they need to evaluate a

material based on how it impacts the built and natural environment.

Since people in western cultures tend to spend most o their time

indoors, speciic attention will be paid to Indoor Environmental

Quality (IEQ). Environmentally responsible materials selection

will be discussed, including the importance o waste, Lie Cycle

Assessment (LCA), and all aspects o the manuacturing process.

Interior design issues that are covered include the importance

o natural daylighting, Indoor Air Quality (IAQ), and acoustics.

Current materials rating systems and speciication writing aids

will be reviewed. Case studies representing best practices in

sustainable design o interiors will be presented or discussion.

This course is directly useul to anyone selecting materials or any

kind o building project.

BuILDIng EnvELOPE



Instructor: TBA

It is the building enclosure where many sustainable design inten-tions ind their physical expression. Here, as well, is where the

majority o legal claims against designers ind their expression.

The building enclosure has three major assemblies-oundation,

walls, and roo- each with as many as 10 (or more) components.

Sustainable design requires integration o these assemblies and

their components in a way that manages the major degradation

vectors- water, air, heat, radiation, pests, and even occupants.

This course covers the building enclosures or both commercial

and residential structures. A major ocus o the course is the

relationships among green building, building science, energy e i

ciency, durability, and risk management . Students leave the course

with a new way o understanding, analyzing, and designing sustainable enclosures. An equal emphasis is placed on design, specii-

cation, construction, and commissioning o building enclosures

Peeisies: Sustainable Design as a Way o Thinking, or equiv-

alent knowledge in sustainable design. Working knowledge o con-

struction documents, including detail sections and specifcations.

EnvIrOnmEntAL SyStEmS


Instructor: Asesh Raychaudhuri

Designed as a ollow-up course to Energy and Air Quality Prin-

ciples, this course covers environmental systems undamentals

HVAC system types, ventilation requirements, demand-con

trolled and energy recovery ventilation, underloor-air sys-

tems, air distribution, uel choices, understanding energy ei-

ciency, zero-energy buildings, renewable energy systems

solar thermal systems, building-integrated photovoltaics, bio

uels, energy modeling, and plumbing/water conservation

Peeisies: Green Practice: Energy and Air Quality Princi

ples. Please contact the CE o ice i you are in doubt about meeting

the prerequisites.

SuStAInABLE trAnSPOrtAtIOn

1.5 Credits

Instructor: John Hersey

In the pursuit o a model t hat meets needs o the present with-

out compromising the needs o the uture, sustainable transpor

tation is inextricably linked to sustainable development. Start-

ing rom a context o land-use planning, this course will examine

current transportation models and their impac t on our environ

ment, consider alternatives to these models, and discuss meth

ods to aect change beyond the academic setting. The course

provides an overview o sustainability as envisioned by the Smart

Growth paradigm and explores issues o transport ation policy as

they pertain to a variety o modes, uses and users. Students wil

learn to think about transpor tation in close relation to land use

and gain amiliarity with local, national and international models

o sustainable transportation.





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SuStAInABLE COmmunItIES: LAnD uSE ,

trAnSPOrtAtIOn, AnD PLAnnIng

1.5 Credits • 24 AIA HSW Instructor: James O’Connell

This course will examine how communities across the nation are

grappling with such smart growth issues as aordable housing,

sprawl, urban revitalization, economic development, transporta-

tion investments, and open space protection. These issues are

also collectively reerred to as sustainable development, growth

management or New Urbanism. The course will cover the his-

tory o sprawl and current policy debates about land use, urban

design, regulation, and public and private investment. The course

will eature critiques o speciic development projects, tailored to

the interests and communities o students.

hIgh PErFOrmAnCE DESIgn

AnD thE LEED r AtIng SyStEm



Instructor: Ashley Muse

High perormance design is changing the way buildings are built

and the way design and construction proessionals work. The US

Green Building Council developed the LEED Rating System as a

tool to promote and propagate high perormance building design;

LEED has become the dominant green building rating system in

the US and is being adapted or use around the world. This course

presents integrated design and sustainability principles through the

lens o the LEED or New Construction Rating System. Students

will learn how to use LEED on projects both as a design tool and

or building certiication. They will gain an understanding o the

evolving role o LEED in proessional practice and in larger issues

o human & environmental health. S peciic topics include in-depth

look at the six major LEED categories: Sustainable Sites, Water

Eiciency, Energy and Atmosphere, Materials and Resources, and

Indoor Environmental Quality, plus the use o integrated design

practices, inancial costs and beneit s o green building, and more.

This course is appropriate or students with some back ground in

green building who are interested in learning how to apply the

LEED Rating System principles into building design. It covers, but

does not ocus solely on, preparation or the LEED AP exam.

Peeisies: Green Practice: Energy and Air Quality Princi-ples, or equivalent experience in design and construction; and

Sustainable Design as a Way o Thinking, or equivalent knowledge

in sustainable design.

SuStAInABLE DESIgn In PrACtICE


Instructor: Richard Sullivan

Eective organization and design process are as essential to green

design as technical knowledge. This course will address tech-

niques or mobilizing support or sustainable building among cli

ents, unding sources, sub-consultants and the project team. A

variety o strategies will be discussed with regard to integrateddesign, goal setting, speciications, commissioning, post-occu

pancy evaluation, LEED certiication, construction administra

tion, and policy implications. Resources or urther learning wil

be provided and discussed as well as case studies representing

best practices in orchestrating sustainable design projects. Pe

eisies: Sustainable Design as a Way o Thinking or equiv-

alent knowledge in sustainable design, and one o the ollowing

courses: Green Practice: Energy and Air Quality Principles, Build

ing Envelope, or Materials, Resources and Indoor Environmenta

Quality. Courses in our Planning track.

SuStAInABLE DESIgn AnD BuILDIng

InFOrmAtIOn mODELIng (BIm)

1.5 Credits

Instructors: Bradley Nies

Buildings are the largest single resource consumer in the world

The United States consumes 25% o the world’s energy and the

US building industry accounting for 40% of those resources. In

order to solve the problem o global warming, we need to look

at the AEC industry and move towards a truly sustainable build

ing practice built on solutions which embrace conservation, e i

ciency, health, prosperity and elegance. Building Inormation

Modeling (BIM) allows designers to change communication and

worklow, making the practice o architecture more eicient and

better equipped to address global climate change and resource

issues. It allows the design team to create the building in a vir-

tual environment and test a number o design variables with cli

matic givens to test and streamline building perormance opti-

mizing resource and material usage. This class will investigate the

solutions currently available using BIM to provide more sustain

able building solutions.

We recommend having a computer that meets the speciications

below. Also, knowledge o a BIM application is not necessary but

it is strongly recommended to gain the ull beneit o the lesson

in this class. I you do not own a BIM application, you can down

load a ree copy o Revit using your student email address at s

des.aodes.co with a license valid or one year.

For system requirements, go to ww w.e-bac .ed/ee

select Course Descriptions, then click on System Requirement

ater this course.





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mArA BAum

High Perormance Buildings & the LEED Rat ing System

Mara Baum, AIA, LEED AP, is a designer and researcher atAnshen+Allen Architects in San Francisco. She received her

Master o Architecture and Master o City Planning rom Uni-

versity o Caliornia Berkeley and a Bachelor o Arts in architec-

ture rom Washington University, and has been a LEED Accred-

ited Proessional or 7 years. Her proessional interests include

holistic approaches to net zero energy and water use, human

health and well being, and urban and regional planning and design.

Much o her current work in hospital design ocuses on the inter-

section between ecological considerations and the creation o a

healthy and healing built environment. Mara’s diverse proessional

experience includes work in green building consulting, a building

science research, higher education, architecture and urban design.

She was the US Green Building Council’s 2006 Ginsberg Sustain-

ability Fellow and is currently a liaison to the national USGBC

Research Committee. Mara also teaches LEED and sustainability

classes within Anshen+Allen and in the Bachelor o Architecture

and Master o Architecture Programs at Caliornia College o the

Arts.

JOhn BOEhS

Green Practice: Energy and Air Quality Principles

John obta ined mechanica l engineer ing degrees rom the Univer-

sity o Massachusetts at Amherst (MSME) and Lehigh University

(BSME). John is licensed in the Commonwealth o Massachusetts

as both a Mechanical Engineer and a Construction Supervisor and

is a LEED Accredited Proessional.

ELEnA DOuvLOu-BEggIOrA


Elena is a registered Architect both in the UK and Greece. She has

a special research interest in sustainable design and urban regen-

eration, building monitoring, simulation and post-occupancy eval-

uation and has presented her research on the subject and lectured

in various institutions in UK, as well as in Greece, Dubai, Tunisia,

Estonia, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Brazil. Within her area

o expertise she has published articles and ha s presented papers in

international conerences. Her interest in the environment led her

to complete a Masters in Advanced Architectural Studies at theUniversity o Sheield ocusing on passive cooling techniques and

later, as a scholar o the State Scholarships Foundation o Greece,

to complete a PhD in the area o climatic responsive design and

occupant comort.

Elena joined the University o Portsmouth rom October 2003

until August 2008 as a Senior Lecturer. She taught studio design to

both undergraduate and diploma students including projects such

as the Eco-House Live Project and coordinated units on the sub-

jec t o Susta inable Development . She al so acted as the direc tor o

the MSc Sustainable Architecture and Environment course and ha

supervised more than 20 MSc projects.

While at Portsmouth, she successully completed the Post Grad

uate Certiicate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in

UK, and is a Fellow o the British Higher Education Academy

She is currently an independent environmental consultant. As an

architect and environmentalist she is able to draw on her under

standing o sustainable approaches to design rom dierent cul-

tures with a view to establishing a best practice dependent upon

climatic conditions.

DAvID FOLEy


David Foley has worked in the ields o energy eiciency envi-

ronmental building since 1980, as a designer, builder, teacher and

researcher. Since 1994, he has been a partner in Holland and Foley

Architecture, LLC, a small irm engaged in environmental build

ing design and consulting. Prior to 1994, David has worked fo

the Maine State Energy Oice, the Lawrence Berkeley Nationa

Laboratory, Fisher-Friedman Architects o San Francisco, Wil

liam R. Sepe Architect and Planner o Camden, Maine, John Scholz

Architects o Camden, Maine, and Tanglewood Camp and Learn

ing Center o Lincolnville, Maine. David has a Master o Architec

ture rom the University o Caliornia, Berkeley, a Master o Pro

essional Studies in Resource Economics rom the University o

Maine, and a Bachelor o Arts (cum laude) in Community Design

rom Dartmouth College. In 1996, he was one o six U.S. recip-

ients o a German Marshall Fund Environmental Fellowship, to

research “green” buildings in Europe. His design or an aordable

environmental house was awarded “Best Lie-Cycle Cost” by the

Maine State Housing Authority in 2006. David lives with his wie

Judy Berk in Northport, Maine , in a home he designed and built

He is an avid gardener, sea-kayaker and crosscountry skier.

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thOmAS rC hArtmAn, AIA

The Zero Energy Home: What , How and I

Thomas RC Hartman is a partner at Coldham & Hartman Archi-tects in Amherst, MA. The irm provides proessional design ser-

vices or residential, commercial and institutional clients com-

mitted to creating green buildings and communities throughout

the Northeast. The irms completed work includes the Student

Housing and the College o the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, ME, the

Moomaw residence in Williamstown, MA, the Harris Center or

Conservation Education in Hancock, NH, t he Hawthorne Valley

Farm Store in Ghent, NY, and Rocky Hill Cohousing in Northamp-

ton, MA among other notable green and high per ormance build-

ings. He has served on the Board o Directors o the Northeast

Sustainable Energy Association or two terms and has been Trea-

surer. Additionally or NESEA, he has been Chair, Co-Chair, and

organized and presented at numerous Building Energy Coner-

ences. He is currently the Treasurer and President-Elect o the

Western MA Chapter o the American Institute o Architects.

Tom graduated with a Proessional Bachelor Degree rom the

School o Architecture o the University o Southern Caliornia in

Los Angeles, and an Associate in Architectural Engineering Tech-

nology rom Wentworth Institute in Boston. Ater graduation

rom USC in 1995, he was awarded the USC Architectural Guild

Traveling Fellowship and studied and visited intentional commu-

nities in Scandinavia, Holland and Great Brit ain. Prior to joining

as a uture partner at C&H in 1999, he worked at DiMella Shaer

Associates in Boston, DMJM Keating in Los Angeles, and various

consulting positions including construction documentation anal-

ysis and 3d computer model representation or a Thelen Marrin

Johnson & Bridges on a public transit lit igati on case. He is a Reg-

istered Architect in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Ver-

mont, New York, Connecticut and holds an NCARB Certiicate.

JOhn hErS Ey

Sustainable Transportation

John Her sey is a t ransportation pl anner or the Centra l Transpor-

tation Planning Sta, the technical and policyanalysis support to

the Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization and other

members o the region’s transport ation community. He received

a Bachelor o Arts in sustainable urban planning and a Mastero Regional Planning both rom the University o Massachusetts

at Amherst. As a student, his work earned the 2006 Student

Planning Award rom the Massachusetts Chapter o the Amer-

ican Planning Association. He has worked at the municipal and

stateLevel on a variety o planning-related issues, including eco-

nomic development, civic engagement, community branding and

placemaking, urban saety, homelessness, environmental preser-

vation, and multi-modal transpor tation policy. A lielong resident

o the North Shore, John enjoys community engagement, work-

ing and playing outside, ruminating about planning concepts, and

his riends.

mArgIE m CnALLy

Materials, Resources, and Indoor Environmental Quality

Margie McNally is an interior designer and environmental con

sultant specializing in sustainable design. Her approach to inte

rior design is a relationship between sustainability, resource ei

ciency, good indoor environmental quality and health. Margie

has an associate’s degree in interior design and is licensed with

NCIDQ (National Council or Interior Design Qualiication) in

the state o Massachusetts or the practice o interior design. She

also is a USGBC (United States Green Building Council) LEED

Accredited Proessional (Leadership in Energy and Environmen

tal design) as well as an ALA Lighting Associate (American Light

ing Association). She has more than15 years o experience in the

ield. Margie worked as The Environmental Program Coordi

nator or the American Lung Association in a team eort with

southeastern Massachusetts schools to address indoor air quality

issues. For several years Margie was the Lighting Program Coor

dinator or Massachusetts Energy Star Homes where she also

administered the LEED or Homes pilot program. She has con

ducted many workshops on green building including a BSA spon

sored LEED or Homes training or architects and workshops at

area colleges and technical high schools. Margie has written and

published several articles on green design including a recent ea

ture in Antiques and Fine Arts Magazine. In an eort to assist he

clients in the selection o more healthul and resourceul materi

als and urnishings or their homes and o ices, Margie works as a

consultant as well as a workshop presenter. Materials selection

speciication review and energy eicient lighting design are ser-

vices she oers. Indoor air quality, healthier alternatives in build

ing materials and design methods are subjects that her workshops

explore.

AShLEy muSE

LEED 2009 AP Test Preparation

Ashley Muse has experience in creating high perormance, sus-

tainable buildings. Through her work with Rocky Mountain Insti

tute’s Built Environment Team, she provides recommendations

and integrated design strategies or a range o project typesincluding institutional and educational buildings, large mixed-used

developments, and campus master plans. She ha s expertise within

the subjects o energy and water use, resource eiciency, day-

light analysis, material selection, and indoor environmental qual

ity. Ashley has held leadership roles in RMI’s LEED certiication

team and the US Green Building Council’s Emerging Green Build

ers Committee and Colorado Chapter.





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AnnE nICkLIn

Green Practice: Energy and Air Quality

Anne Nicklin is a designer with the sustainable group at GenslerArchitects in San Francisco. Her work ocuses on LEED certii-

cation, integration o HVAC and architectural designs, as well as

innovative handling o construction waste and salvaged materials.

Prior to her work in Caliornia, she was with Atelier Ten Envi-

ronmental Designers in New York City and received her MArch-I

rom Pratt Institute in Brooklyn,NY. Anne is a LEED accredited

proessional, a certiied deconstruction specialist, and sits on the

Advisory Board o the Away Station in Marin, CA.

BrAD nIES

Sustainable Design and Building Inormation Modeling (BIM)

Brad is director o Elements, a division o BNIM Architects that

ocuses on sustainable design consulting. He is a registered archi-

tect in the state o Missouri with 13 years o experience and a

LEED® Accredited Proessional. Brad has worked on several

LEED Certiied projects including two that achieved Platinum

Certiication. Brad was the sustainable design consultant or the

USGBC LEED Platinum Certiied Heier International Center in

Little Rock, Arkansas, which won a 2007 AIA COTE Top Ten

Green Project Award and a National AIA 2008 Institute Honor

Award. Volunteering as part o the Greater Kansa s City Chamber

o Commerce Climate Protection Partnership Br ad is co-leading

151 irms through inventory and action plan development. In 2002

Brad led the team that created Implement: The City o Seattle’s

Sustainable Building Tool. Brad is co-author o “Green BIM Suc-

cessul Sustainable Design with Building Inormation Modeling”.

JAmE S O ’COnnELL

Sustainable Communities: Land Use, Transportation, and Planning

James C. O’Connell is a Community Pl anner at the Boston O ice

o the National Park Service. He has worked in planning positions

in Cape Cod and Springield, MA.. He has written our books

and many articles on planning and New England history. His

books include Becoming Cape Cod: Creating a Seaside Resort.

He serves as chair o the Massachusetts Zoning Reorm Work-

ing Group, which has developed the Community Planning Act . He

has written the report “Ahead or Behind the Curve?: Compact

Mixed-Use Development in Suburban Boston” (2004) for the Lin-coln Institute o Land Policy.

BEth PAuLSOn

Site Design, Landscaping and Site-Water Issues

Beth Paulson is a landscape designer who promotes the use oEcology and Plant Community Models in her work with private

clients and design irms, most recently at Walter Cudnohusky

Associates. She has studied Environmental Design and Landscape

Architecture at the University o Massachusetts. She currently

works as an Energ y Specialist or the Center or Ecological Tech

nology, where she is an EnergyStar Homes and a LEED or Home

Rater and landscape consultant.

ASESh r AyChAuDhurI

Environmental Systems

Asesh is a Senior Mechanical Engineer at the U.S. Depar tment o

Veterans Aairs in Washington, DC, where he works on greening

the department’s buildings. He is a registered Proessional Engi

neer and a Certiied Energy Manager. He has extensive experi

ence in engineering and project management. Asesh is a member

o ASHRAE and AEE. He has also been teaching at dierent uni

versities/colleges in Boston area or a number o years, includ-

ing the BAC and Northeastern, where he has taught Environmen

tal Systems.

trIStAn rOBErtS


Tristan Korthals Altes is Managing Editor at BuildingGreen, Inc.

publishers o Environmental Building News (EBN) and the Green

Spec product directory. At EBN, the leading source or green

building news and inormation, Korthals Altes has applied his

experience in residential construction and renovations while

exploring key topics in green building such as historic preser

vation, green product selection, designing buildings or hygiene

nanotechnology in building materials, and third-party green prod

uct certiications. Korthals Altes has recently spoken at Yale Uni

versity, the Southace Energy Institute, the State University o

New York, and the Governor’s Institutes o Vermont, and his

writing has appeared in Landscape Architecture, Energy Design

Update, and GreenSource magazines. Korthals Altes holds a mas

ter’s certiicate in Sustainable Design rom the Boston Architec

tural College and is a LEED Accredited Proessional.





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SuzAnnE SOWInSkI

History o Sustainable Building

Suzanne Sowinski is the director o sustainable strategies or Sow-inski Sullivan Architects. Named by NJ Biz as one o New Jersey’s

“Top 50 Women in Business” this year, her designs have been rec-

ognized in various national and international publications, includ-

ing, The NY Times, Landscape Architecture, and Architectural

Record. Currently, Ms. Sowinski has the ollowing notable proj-

ects underway through her irm. A zero energy ootprint rail sta-

tion in the Meadowlands; research on sustainable strategies or

the Harmon Shop Facilities, which include a $300 million LEED

Silver building within a larger, multi billion dollar complex, a

green parking garage study and LEED strategies or stations or

the MTA/Metro North Railroad; Currently there are over $800

million worth o buildings that are being designed to meet LEED

certiication or better status under her responsibility within the

irm. Additionally, she recently received a grant rom the BAC

to write a new class on the history o sustainable building. Cer-

tiications and Accreditations: USGBC – LEED AP, US Depart-

ment o Energy’s Energy Code 2007 Cer tiication o Compliance,

Licensed Architect – NJ, NY, CT, VA, ME, VT, PA and NCARB

Accredited Proessional.

rIChArD SuLLIvAn

Materials, Resources, and Indoor Air Quality

Richard Sullivan has over 20 years o technical and design expe-

rience has been built on designing and building architecture in

the public realm. He has designed and/or managed the design

for over 4 miles of New York City’s new waterfront parks from

Roosevelt Island to Brooklyn, Long Island City and Manhattan. He

has designed improvements to over seven dozen rail proper ties

over the past two decades, most recently or the new $65 mil-

lion Yankee Stadium Station in the Bronx. Long a proponent o

green building and the eective reuse o urban inrastructure, he

has also received local and regiona l awards or his historic preser-

vation and building rehabilitation projects. With his wie Suzanne

Sowinski and their irm o 25 people, he provides creative archi-

tectural services to a broad spectrum o public clients throughout

the northeast as well as private entities such as the Four Seasons

and Intercontinental Hotel companies. Certiications and Accred-

itations: USGBC – LEED AP, Registered Architect – NJ, NY, CT,FL, MT, ME, DC, NCARB Accredited Proessional.

StEPhEn tuCkEr

Building Envelope

Stephen Tucker is a registered architect in Boston. Throughouthis career he has designed, speciied, and managed the construc

tion o buildings large and small. Ater graduation rom the Har

vard Graduate School o Design in 1970, Steve worked or severa

prominent Boston design irms and in 1975 won the irst EOCD

design competition in Massachusetts or housing or the elderly

which was sponsored by the Boston Housing Authority. Severa

o his early private residential projects won design awards and

have been published. In the late 1970’s, ollowing his natural incli-

nation to technical matters, he began a decade-long independen

practice as a construction speciier. In the e arly 1980’s he joined

with two riends to orm Dean Tucker Shaw, Inc. which grew to

a ity-person architectural irm specializing in buildings or medi

cine and biotechnology as well as providing design services in the

areas o corporate interiors and building preservation. He served

as the irm’s Technica l Principal. Since the mid-90 ’s he has devoted

his energies to working with younger designers to improve their

Level o technical expertise and as a reviewer o building detailing

within an overall quality assurance program under his direction

Most recently this has involved him in designing building envelope

incorporating high-perormance air barriers and new approaches

to exterior wall and window construction and sealing.

AnDrEW WEBStEr

The Zero Energy Home: What, How and I

Andrew Webster’s ocus has long been on the translation o com

plex ideas into understandable orms. His career in visual commu

nication began in documentary ilm, producing, writing and edit

ing. When the technology subjects he ocused on grew stale, he

moved to the more complex world o commercial production

managing dynamic projects with large teams and even larger bud

gets. He began teaching at that time, writing and instructing on-

line classes in digital production.

He moved with his amily to Western Mass to begi n work in archi

tecture, based on the conviction that “green design” would pro

vide the only rational way orward into an uncert ain energy uture

He has studied energy e icient and passive solar design, renew

able energy systems, and building science undamentals, with aneye on “deep energy retroits”. He is currently a project manager

at Coldham&Hartman Architects, working on residential renova

tions and small-scale commercial projects.




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ALEx WILSOn


Alex Wilson is president o BuildingGreen, LLC, the Brattleboro,Vermont-based publisher o Environmental Building News (EBN),

GreenSpec Directory, and BuildingGreen Suite, an integrated

online resource on green building. Alex has been the executive

editor o EBN since the newsletter’s ounding in 1992, and he is

coeditor o GreenSpec, which is available in print and as part o

the BuildingGreen Suite. He wrote Your Green Home (New Soci-

ety Publishers, 2006) and is coauthor with Rocky Mountain Insti-

tute sta o Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real

Estate ( John Wiley & Sons, 1998), and coauthor o ACEEE’s Con-

sumer Guide to Home Energy Savings (9th edition, 2007). He has

also written hundreds o articles on energy conservation, build-

ing technology, and the environment or such magazines as Fine

Homebuilding, Architectural Record, Landscape Architecture,

The Journal o Light Construction, The Construction Speciier,

and Popular Science. He served on the board o the U.S. Green

Building Council rom 2000 through 2005, and currently serves as

a trustee o The Nature Conservancy – Vermont Chapter. When

he’s not researching and writing about green building topics, he

might be ound exploring New England’s lakes and ponds—he

has written a series o our books on quiet-water paddling or

the Appalachian Mountain Club. Alex lives with his wie and two

daughters in Dummerston, Vermont, just outside Brattleboro.

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