Welcome to the 2010
TEXAS
GREEN BUILDING SUMMIT
Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Fairmont Hotel
1717 North Akard St., Dallas, TX 75201
7:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.
Click here for Map and Directions

Building upon last year's inaugural Summit, the U.S. Green Building Council-North Texas Chapter and the HBA of Greater Dallas have expanded this event to include a full day of in-depth building science education. Sessions will focus on all facets of new and existing residential and commercial construction.

With Lunch Without lunch

Price per attendee: $55 $40

Walk-ins enjoy the same price

Online Registration has ended! If you have not registered, you may walk in on the day of the event.

Day of Event Information:

Parking:

Valet Parking will be available at the Fairmont Hotel.

Parking is available in the surrounding area at the parking garages and surface lots depicted in the map below.

Alternate Transportation:

The Fairmont Hotel is located within blocks of the Dart Light Rail Akard Station and within one block of the McKinney Avenue Trolley.

downtown parking map

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Five Reasons to Sponsor the Texas Green Building Summit

Exposure – There will be 1200 to 1800 building professionals attending. Title Sponsors and Exhibit Sponsors will have exhibit booths to communicate with a targeted profile of potential customers interested in sustainability and efficiency in buildings. Sponsors will also be exposed to several thousand industry professionals thanks to event correspondence and marketing outreach.
Value – Sponsorships are priced to provide a quick return on your investment (see the sponsor packages on page two of this flyer). This is a low cost, high impact DFW event!
Education – A superior line up of local and national green building professionals presenting a “how to” and responding with answers to your questions
Targeted Audience – There will be no other event with more attendance from the target audience of professionals who need your products and services.
Networking – See and be seen by the people who make buying decisions.

Please Join Us for Presentations and Discussions
on the State of Green Building

Special Appearances by Industry Leaders and Policy Makers

Opening General Session

Closing General Session

Ralph Hawkins

Chairman and CEO of HKS, Inc.

The Honorable Mayor Tom Leppert*

Mayor of Dallas

Steve Mouzon

Founder of New Urban Guild and Principal of Mouzon Design.

Rick Fedrizzi

Founding Chair of the US Green Building Council

Other Scheduled Speakers:

· Ann McGee Cooper – Ann McGee-Cooper & Associates

· Larry Taylor - AirRite A/C

· Bill Gietema – Arcadia Realty

· Walt Massey – Balfour Beatty Construction

· Peter Pfeiffer – Barley & Pfeiffer Architects

· Betsy del Monte – Beck Architecture LLC

· Zaida Basora - City of Dallas

· Bob Morris - EVP, HBA of Dallas

· Tom Leppert – Mayor of Dallas

· Philip Williams – Emerson Partners

· Brad Miller - Fore Property Co.

· Rick Fedrizzi – Founding Chair of the USGBC

· Maci McDaniel – Fox Energy Services

· Chris Miles - Green Craft Builders

· Phil Crone – HBA of Greater Dallas

· Ralph Hawkins – HKS, Inc.

· Kirk Teske – HKS, Inc.

· Jim Niewald – ICF Consulting

· Paul Mogote – Johnson Capital

· Ken Sidebottom – Johnson Controls

· Mike Rosamond – KDC Development

· Mychele Lord – Lord Green Real Estate Strategies

· Steve Mouzon – Mouzon Design

· Nate Kredich – National USGBC

· Cathy Boldt – Interim Executive Director for USGBC North Texas

· Lee Hall – Sustainable Structures of Texas

· Harold MacDowell – TDIndustries

· Garrett Boone – Texas Business for Clean Air and The Container Store

· CT Loyd – Texas Hero

· Tom Fitzpatrick – Texas Hero

· Jerold Davis – TexEnergy Solutions

· Russell Daniels - The Bush Firm

· Rick Perdue - Tonti Properties

· David Rodriguez – Ware Architecture

· Sandra Heffernan – Sustainable Partners, LLC

· Jackson Murphy – Green Bean Analysis, LLC

· Don Brooks – DMC Developers

*Scheduled to Appear

Presented By

U.S. Green Building Council-North Texas Chapter and
The Home Builders Association of Greater Dallas

What are Green Built Texas and LEED?
LEED and Green Built Texas are both programs that certify that a home is green. Green Built Texas, a program from the HBA of Greater Dallas, is a voluntary partnership of local home builders, industry supporters and sponsors committed to market-driven green building across the State of Texas. Green Built Texas has a climate specific green building construction protocol created by HBA members and building science experts. LEED is administered by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). It is the national benchmark for green building, and LEED for Homes focuses on the specific challenges and opportunities presented by homebuilding. Like a nutrition label, it scores a home's performance in eight key environmental and human health categories.

How Do They Work Together?
A memorandum of understanding between USGBC and the HBA allows LEED and Green Built Texas to complement each other, furthering green home awareness, education and access across Texas. The agreement establishes LEED for Homes as a path toward participation in the Green Built Texas program, and it enables Green Built Texas to serve as a conduit toward LEED certification. As always, homebuilders can choose to voluntarily participate in just one of the programs, both of the programs, or neither program. The new agreement simply makes it easier for projects to maximize what each program has to offer.

The agreement also promises to bring greater education and awareness among homebuilders, trade specialists and consumers. USGBC and HBA's diverse memberships, chapter programs and existing partnerships will assist in the creation of education programs. The partnership will also give each organization a greater opportunity to work with local governments and state agencies to craft green building policies that promote a credible, accessible and consistent policy landscape.

USGBC Initiative Expands LEED for Homes Resources

HBA of Greater Dallas, Minnesota GreenStar to take part in new green affiliate program.

By: Jennifer Goodman

Eco Home Magazine
September 2, 2009

Two regional green building groups have signed on as inaugural participants in a new U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) initiative.

The LEED for Homes Affiliate Program will help local groups promote green building, sustainable design, and energy and resource efficiency, according to the USGBC. One of the first participants in the free program is the Home Builders Association of Greater Dallas, an affiliate of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) since its founding in 1944.

The affiliation with LEED for Homes means that Greater Dallas HBA members will have access to technical resources, training, and education from another one of the nation’s top green building programs, says Phil Crone, director of government affairs and green building programs with the Greater Dallas HBA.

“For our members we wanted to be able to offer any of the good, bonafide ways to build a green home in our marketplace,” says Crone. In the Dallas area, green building program choices include the Greater Dallas HBA’s local Green Built North Texas program and the ANSI National Green Building Standard. With the new agreement, members can also receive additional in-depth training and education regarding the USGBC’s LEED for Homes program.

“We try to be that centerpiece that can bring together all three of these green building programs to our members,” says Crone. “It doesn’t matter which one they pick.”

The announcement will not change the Dallas organization’s relationship with the Washington, D.C.-based NAHB, whose Model Green Home Building Guidelines, the basis for the ANSI National Green Building Standard, is seen by some as a competitor to LEED for Homes.

Crone says the decision to affiliate with USGBC was based partly on the current economic downturn that has ravaged the U.S. home building industry. “By becoming a LEED for Homes Affiliate, we are providing our members with another tool to remain competitive in a soft market,” he says.

This is not the first time the two groups have worked together. In January, the USGBC’s North Texas chapter and the Greater Dallas HBA co-presented the Texas Green Homes Summit in January, which drew more than 800 attendees. Planning is under way for an expanded summit in February 2010.

The new partnership will allow the Greater Dallas HBA to continue to offer educational programming, Crone adds. “We would not be able to do something like the summit without the partnership and help of the USGBC,” he says.

Roseville, Minn.-based Minnesota GreenStar also joined the Affiliate program. Founded in 2005, the group is focused on green building issues of local importance, such as energy efficiency for extreme climates, water conservation, and natural resources protection.

The new Affiliates will work closely with their local USGBC chapter to develop programming and educational opportunities tailored to their specific market, according to Nate Kredich, USGBC’s vice president of residential market development.

“The chapter will partner with the local program or HBA to put together the priorities for that market,” he says. “We think those priorities need to be driven locally.”

Kredich says he expects more groups to sign on as Affiliates in the coming months.

“We’ve seen strong interest in the program, driven in large part by the fact that many HBAs are running out of money to do the kind of programming they want to do,” he says. “We want to be able to fill that void.”

Jennifer Goodman is Senior Editor Online for EcoHome.

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