Friends Center Tour: On the Road to Carbon Neutrality

Date/Time: 04/19/2010 - 5:00pm to 04/19/2010 - 7:30pm

Interest:

The Delaware Valley Green Building Council Presents...

Friends Center Tour: On the Road to Carbon Neutrality

Time: 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Presenters:
Christopher Kenney, Associate, UMJN Architects + Designers
The Rev Fletcher Harper, Executive Director of GreenFaith

Program:
More and more religious communities – churches, synagogues, mosques, temples and religious schools – are interested in addressing environmental concerns, but are not certain how to get started. This interest in the environment has been accompanied by an interest in green building – a brand new concept to the religious community.

In this two-part workshop we will get to tour the recently completed FriendsCenter designed by UJMN Architects + Designers. The project has just received LEED Platinum certification, making it the first of it's kind in the state of Pennsylvania, and is the first location in Pennsylvania to utilize deep-standing column wells for geothermal heat exchange. The project also includes a gray water recycling system and a green roof. Christopher Kenney of UMJN and Rob Diemer of AKF will lead tours of the building and will give a follow up presentation.

The second part of the workshop will feature the Rev. Fletcher Harper of GreenFaith. He will describe GreenFaith’s Building in Good Faith project and resource – a web-based resource to educate religious groups about green building and the LEED standards, and to address the questions and concerns that many religious groups pose when considering green building.

GreenFaith conducted research on religious attitudes and questions about green building for two years prior to designing Building in Good Faith. Harper will present a summary of GreenFaith’s findings, along with recommendations about how green building professionals can work effectively to help religious groups make their building and renovation projects models of environmental sustainability.

Cost: $15 for DVGBC Members, $20 for Non-Members, $10 for students

This program has been approved for 2 AIA CE Credits

View the Event Flier Here

Register by April 16, 2010
Register Online Here

Thank you to our event sponsors:

Platinum Sponsors