Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Government Green Building Day in Region 3
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1650 Arch Street - Ground Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103
9:15 am to 12:00 pm

Green buildings are designed to increase energy and resource efficiency, cut waste, and improve the performance of buildings and facilities. Run at the taxpayers expense, it is critical that government buildings meet the highest possible standards for building construction and operation. Collectively, American federal, state and local governments construct and operate more buildings and administer more resources than any group in the world. With this in mind, a tremendous opportunity exits to use government purchasing power to positively impact both the environment and the economy.

On October 20, 2004 from 9:15 to 12:00 at the EPA Regional Office 1650 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA the US Environmental Protection Agency – Region 3 and the Delaware Valley Green Building Council will present: Green Buildings in Government Day. National and local experts will present the latest green building policy and successes as they impact governments at the federal, state and local level.

This workshop is free of charge and open to anyone in facilities management, design and operations to learn about how their buildings are being impacted by this new thinking. If you are working on a project and would like to share your experience, ideas or issues, please feel free to stay for some personal conversation with national experts from GSA, EPA and the US Green Building Council.

AGENDA
9:15 am
Welcome/Introduction
Barbara D'Angelo, Deputy Director, EAID
Lorna Rosenberg, Exec. Director, DVGBC

9:30-10:45 am
Standards for Government High Performance Buildings
Panel Discussion and Q& A

Richard Fedrizzi, President, CEO & Founding Chairman, US Green Building Council,

Donald Horn, Architect, General Services Administration, Washington, DC

Kenneth Sandler, EPA - HQ, Washington, DC

10:45-11:00 am BREAK

11:00-12:00 pm
Government Successes and Challenges in Region 3
Panel Discussion - Q&A

US Park Service - Purchase of Green Power

PA Department of Environmental Protection, Southeast Regional Office

GSA Regional Successes
Local government takes on green buildings with a bang.

12:00-1:30 pm
Brown bag lunch and "ask the experts" roundtable - discuss your green building questions with national experts.

PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED BY 10/15/04.
Send an email to: provenzano.anita@epa.gov
Contact Anita at 215/814-5180, provide Name, Organization, Phone Number and E-mail address.

All visitors to use the 17th Street Entrance. Each person will pass through a stationary magnetometer (metal detector) while at the same time their items shall pass through an X-Ray machine to be screened for any dangerous items. After completing screening process, visitors will report to EPA Security Desk for registration and receive an EPA Visitor Badge for that day. All visitors must present PHOTO-IDENTIFICATION.
Note: Visitors without PHOTO-IDENTIFICATION will be denied access to EPA.

DVGBC programming made possible by our sustaining sponsors – The Homasote Co., Liberty Property Trust, Forbo, The Hankin Group, Haworth, Interface, Inc., Mannington, Powell Trachtman, 7group, and Urban Engineers.

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PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED BY 10/15/04.
Send an email to: provenzano.anita@epa.gov
Contact Anita at 215/814-5180 Provide Name, Organization,
Phone Number and E-mail address.

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