Valley Green Building Education Conf & Expo

1st Annual Valley Green Building
Education Conference & Expo
June 23, 2011
California State University Northridge
Northridge Conference Center Complex

San Fernando Valley Green Team
Energy efficiency and water conservation practices for commercial and residential buildings. The focus of the event will include financial and practical considerations and real world examples and success stories in the San Fernando Valley.

The conference will have four tracks: Commercial, Residential, Financial and LEED/CalGreen.

Event Schedule

California Watch: Green Building Code

Environmental Groups Try to Block Parts of California's Green Building Code. The Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council are among six groups waging a last-minute campaign to derail some of the rules, saying they aren't tough enough.
LA Times: January 11, 2010 by Margot Roosevelt

Environmental groups are mounting a last-ditch effort to derail key elements of the state's first-in-the-nation green building code -- a major initiative of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration.

The proposed code, likely to be adopted Tuesday, would slash water use, mandate the recycling of construction waste, cut back on polluting materials and step up enforcement of energy efficiency in new homes, schools, hospitals and commercial buildings statewide.

"It is going to change the whole fabric of how buildings are built by integrating green practices into our everyday building code," said David Walls, executive director of the California Building Standards Commission. "The rest of the nation will be looking at what we have done."

But critics say the rules fall short of rigorous standards adopted by Los Angeles, San Francisco and more than 50 California jurisdictions in league with the U.S. Green Building Council, a national nonprofit group of architects, engineers and construction companies. READ MORE !

Business Watch - Hangar 25

Fabulous 50 + One
World Trade Magazine: June 10, 2009

This year’s dynamic list of the people, places, and innovations that are shaping global supply chains is more environmentally-driven than ever. A testimony to the long-term value and commitment to green and lean business practices, despite the current economic conditions.

Worth Their Weight in GREEN, by Lara L. Sowinski

Hangar 25 in Burbank, California is the most sustainable airplane hangar in the world. It produces 110 percent of its total energy needs with on-site solar; uses 61 percent less water indoors and 51 percent less landscape water outdoors than a typical building; and sourced nearly half of the construction materials locally. The Hangar is also the world’s first aviation hangar to achieve Platinum certification under the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Rating System—the highest rating from the Washington, D.C.-based organization. Hangar 25 is an extreme makeover story as well. A former industrial lot with a cement slab, the property now houses a state-of-the-art green aviation hangar minimizing the 51,000 square-foot building’s carbon footprint.

Business Watch - Empire Center Office

LEED-ing the Way: Valley and L.A Buildings Going Green - Burbank, Other Locations Seeing Increase in Activity. SFV Business Journal: May 25, 2009 by Eric Billingsley

There’s been quite a bit of activity around LEED-certified buildings in the past couple of weeks. A sign of more green building and rehabbing to come in the Valley?

First is a large-scale building project in Burbank. For some reason city officials and businesses in that city really seem to be forward-thinking when it comes to environmental sustainability.

The 2300 Empire Center Office building, located at 2300 Empire Ave., received LEED Silver Pre-Certification in July 2008. It’s currently under final review for the Core and Shell LEED Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Once the latter is achieved the building will be the first to obtain such certification in the city of Burbank. Higgins Development Partners of Chicago developed the Empire Center project, Ware Malcomb provided architecture and interior design services, and McCormick Construction Company was the general contractor.

The project consists of a speculative seven-story, steel-framed, 363,000 square foot office building, an adjacent 1,260 stall parking structure, and additional surface parking on the 6.5 acre site.

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Burbank Green Building Program

Community Development Department: Building Division is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).

Ask for a copy of these USGBC publications at the Building Division counter:
~ LEED Green Building Rating System
~ Making the Business Case for High Performance Green Buildings Environmental Regulations
~ Green Building & Sustainable Architecture
~ Diversion of Construction & Demolition Debris
~ Burbank Municipal Code Title 9, Chapter 1 Article 10
~ Green Building & Sustainable Architecture Reference Manual