Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Carpenter Hall Educational Programs
Vivian Loftness, FAIA, speaks on
"The Productivity & Heath Justifications
for Sustainable Design"

5:30 pm-7:30 pm
Carpenters' Hall 
320 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106

Continuing Ed. Credits:
This program is worth 1.5 AIA CES (HSW) LUs.

Learn which design methods are more effective in yielding a healthier living and working environment.

Vivian Loftness is an internationally known researcher, author and educator with over 30 years of focus on environmental design and sustainability, advanced building systems and systems integration, climate and regionalism in architecture, as well as design for performance in the workplace of the future. Supported by a university-building industry partnership, the Advanced Building Systems Integration Consortium, she is a key contributor to the development of the Intelligent Workplace - a living laboratory of commercial building innovations for performance, along with authoring a range of publications on international advances in the workplace.

Ms. Loftness is a University Professor in the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon as well as a University Senior Researcher at the Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics there. She currently serves on the National Boards for USGBC and TSAC, AIACOTE (2005 national chair), AIA Communities by Design, Turner Sustainability, and the Global Assurance Group of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. She has served on six National Academy of Science panels as well as being a member of the Academy’s Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, and given three Congressional testimonies on sustainable design.

Schedule:

5:30 - 6:00
Refreshments (hors d'oeuvres and beverages)

6:00 - 7:30
Presenter: Vivian Loftness, FAIA

Special thanks to Carpenters’ Hall for their hospitality.

DVGBC programming made possible by our
sustaining sponsors.

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