2012 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo Preview

by Jonathan McGaha | September 27, 2012 12:00 am

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Greenbuild -the largest expo dedicated to green building-will be held November 14-16 in San Francisco at the Moscone Center. San Francisco marks an exciting new chapter for Greenbuild. Why?

This year is the 11th year of Greenbuild.
San Francisco is the perfect location to offer Greenbuild tours where attendees can learn about the Bay Area’s sustainable buildings and neighborhoods.
With more than 900,000 square feet of exhibition space the Moscone Center offers plenty of room for the many events and programs surrounding Greenbuild. Greenbuild 2012 Highlights
This year’s Greenbuild theme is @ Greenbuild that focuses on bringing technology and sustainability together. Through the theme @ Greenbuild professionals will find new ways to connect and interact at the world’s largest green building expo.
New to Greenbuild this year are a series of apps and ways to interact including:
A mobile app to search exhibitors and sessions
An education app to download slides and take notes
Wayfinders, an app to map your route to exhibitors and sessions
Greenbuild Connect, a new way to schedule your sessions
More than 140 sessions have been approved for LEED CE hours.
The opening plenary will feature Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, co-hosts of MSNBC’s weekday morning show Morning Joe, and Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter.
The Master Series features a diverse line-up of professionals including Candy Chang, artist, designer, and urban planner as well as Philippe Cousteau Jr., a member of the legendary Cousteau family, an explorer, entrepreneur and social advocate.

Education

In addition the 140 continuing education sessions, there will be 27 LEED specific sessions, such as “LEED=Performance, Learning and Feedback,” as well as “LEED v4: Tools and Resources.”

Summits

Greenbuild offers a number of interesting and educational summits on a diverse array of topics including:

National Affordable Green Homes & Sustainable Communities Summit designed to continue to educate, advance challenge and inspire those who are already involved in providing affordable green housing and community development, as well as engage those who are just being introduced to this development sector.
Green Jobs Summit will provide a forum to develop a shared plan of action to accelerate the creation of green jobs in a clean energy economy.
International Summit will feature inspirational plenaries, engaging educational sessions, and networking at the 6th Annual Greenbuild International Summit.
Residential Summit is the 5th Annual Greenbuild Residential Summit on how to continue to move the residential market further and faster towards high performing, healthy homes.
Legal Summit will bring together attorneys working in sustainable real estate, construction and manufacturing fields for networking and education.
Codes Summit focuses on 2012 as a major year for codes including the final stages of development for LEED v4, as well as the introduction of the International Green Construction Code and inclusion of Standard 189.1 as a design option.

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