Course No. BD+C 254: LEED 2009 for Healthcare: An Overview of the New Credits Through a Project Lens
This session will dive into the specific credits added and modified from the LEED for New Construction rating system.
Prior to registering for this webinar session, we recommend that all audiences take a listen to our LEED 2009 for Healthcare podcasts on USGBC’s Knowledge Exchange Podcast Station.
The Webinar Series is hosted by the NY Chapter of the USGBC and cohosted by The Albany Pine Bush Preservation Discovery Center.
Presenters:
Mara Baum is HOK’s firmwide Healthcare Sustainable Design Leader. Based in San Francisco, she oversees sustainability implementation, research, consulting and education across the firm’s global healthcare market sector; her current projects include large hospitals in California, Indiana and Germany. Much of her work has focused on regenerative healthcare design, both in project work and in research on the conflicts and synergies between healthcare and sustainability best practices.
As a principal at Perkins+Will and a national leader in the conversation linking public health, regenerative design and sustainability, Robin Guenther synthesizes newly developing ideas and diverse groups to further the values she promotes. Robin is particularly skilled at achieving consensus for sustainable ideas, a quality valued by clients as well as the many advocacy groups with whom she works. Her work has helped shape healthier, more welcoming facilities for nearly every medical institution in New York City.
Arash Guity is the Chief Environmental Performance Engineer with Mazzetti Nash Lipsey Burch. He is primarily focused on delivering solutions for improving the environmental performance for healthcare facilities and a wide range of building owners. Arash heads up BLUE, M+NLB’s environmental performance consulting division and specializes in energy and emissions management, strategic planning, and financial analysis of environmental improvement projects.
Learning Objectives: •
- Summarize key credit intents and requirements, and understand unique issues of healthcare projects
- Discuss the value/business case for the use of LEED for Healthcare
- Articulate the connection between evidence based design and LEED for Healthcare
Facililator: James A. Comegys
Moderator: TBD
Refreshments: Coffee and snacks will be available.
Credits: This session is approved for 1.5 hours of LEED Specific (BD+C) GBCI hours as well as 1.5 AIA/CES LU/HSW/SD hours.
