Thursday, July 15th, 8:30 - 10:30am

Life Cycle Assessment Workshop

Speaker:  Casey Johnson
Casey Johnson, National Sales Manager, Forbo Flooring Systems, has more than 30 years in the floorcovering industry.  He has been with Forbo Flooring Systems for 18 years and has been actively involved with the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) , serving as a team member for Forbo.  During that time, Mr. Johnson has presented and lectured on several key issues relating to sustainable building, Environmental manufacturing, Sustainable Product Standards and Life Cycle Assessments. 

Thursday, July 15th, 3:00 - 5:00pm
City of Dallas Building Code Workshop 

An introductory workshop into the new Dallas Green Code, introduced at last year’s North Texas Sustainable Showcase.  This workshop will provide hands on experience in using the new code. 

Speaker:  Betsy Del Monte, AIA LEED AP 
Betsy is the Director of Sustainability and a principal in the architecture group at Beck, and has been focusing on issues of sustainability in commercial and institutional projects for many years. She is also an adjunct faculty member at the Lyle School of Engineering at SMU where she teaches courses in sustainability. Betsy was 2007 President of AIA Dallas, and 2006 Chair of the North Texas Green Building Council. She is involved at local and national levels with the USGBC and other groups focused on sustainable construction. She is also active with other community and professional groups such as ULI and Vision North Texas, and has been named a Senior Fellow by the Design Futures Council.

Thursday, July 15th, 11:00 - 12:00pm
Optimal Lighting, Minimal Energy
Good buildings need good lighting.  Ideally "good lighting" means that it is visually appealing, enlivening, provocative, engaging, and comfortable.  The public demand for high performance buildings necessitates that "good lighting" must also be efficient, resourceful, intuitive, thrifty, and sustainable.  Regulations, standards, codes, and rating systems are imposing more and more stringent quantitative limits.  Good buildings need good lighting.  Ideally "good lighting" means that it is visually appealing, enlivening, provocative, engaging, and comfortable.The public demand for high performance buildings necessitates that "good lighting" must also be efficient, resourceful, intuitive, thrifty, and sustainable.Regulations, standards, codes, and rating systems are imposing more and more stringent quantitative limits. 

Good lighting design now finds ways to create a desirable visual experience in buildings that is well within these limits.  The new role of the lighting designer addresses the entire visual experience from effective daylighting design, to shading strategies, to furniture arrangements, to finish material reflectivity, as well as the traditional tasks of lighting layouts, luminaire specification, illuminance calculations, and control recommendations.  The successful integration of architecture, lighting, and environmental performance depends on a few key attitudes shared by the architect and the lighting designer: 1) an enthusiastic embrace of energy conservation and efficiency goals as the new design reality; 2) an appreciation of light as an essential architectural material; 3) the ability to design daylighting and electric lighting together for a high-performance, visually pleasing place to work, learn, or live; and 4) a thorough understanding of available lighting technologies and the relative merits for a given application. 

To exemplify these values and illustrate how the lighting design profession is leading this transformation, this session will explore state-of-the-art sustainable buildings, as well as emerging technologies and design tools.

Speaker:  Mark Loeffler, IALD, LEED AP
A director of Atelier Ten and head of the New Haven office, Mark is an accomplished lighting and environmental designer.  Emphasizing integrated and resourceful design to enhance the visual experience of buildings, he has lectured widely and consulted on many significant green building projects both in the United States and abroad. His recent projects include several award-winning, LEED-certified university student centers, academic research buildings, and sports facilities.  An editorial advisor to Architectural Lighting magazine, he is a professional member of the International Association of Lighting Designers, a member of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, Lighting Certified (LC) by the National Council on Qualifications for the Lighting Professions, and a LEED Accredited Professional. Mark holds a B.A. in Humanities from the University of Texas at Austin and a M.F.A. in Architectural Lighting Design from Parsons The New School for Design where he is a visiting lecturer.