Conference Chair
Mark Edlen
Managing Principal
Gerding Edlen
Edlen is the managing director of Gerding Edlen, the Portland-based development company he founded in 1996 with Bob Gerding. Gerding Edlen develops sustainable projects that enhance communities and create value for investors. Understanding that environmental sustainability contributes to a healthy economy and makes good business sense, Gerding Edlen has created sustainable communities in Oregon, California, Arizona, Utah, and Washington. Over the next three years, the company is dedicated to constructing buildings that generate more energy than they consume, and consume more waste than they generate, including their recent commitment to decrease energy use in their buildings by 50 percent.
Special Feature:
Conversation with Mark Edlen
Who Should Attend
Office, mixed-use, hotel, retail, apartment, and residential developers; suburban and downtown property owners, planners, public officials, architects, urban designers, and contractors; landscape architects; real estate market and business consultants; investment bankers and institutional investors; real estate brokers and real estate lenders.
Conference Program
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.
Registration and Networking Coffee
8:00 a.m. to 8:15 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Mark Edlen
Managing Principal
Gerding Edlen
8:15 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Keynote Address
Mary D. Nichols
Chairman
California Air Resources Board
Sponsored By:
9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
General Session
Opening Remarks
The Honorable Darrell Steinberg
President pro Tempore
California State Senate
California’s New Climate Change Regulations and What It Means for Real Estate Development
California is once again a trendsetter with adoption of groundbreaking climate change regulations, AB 32 and SB 375. Implementation, however, is the tricky part. What does it all mean for new development and your business? What are the challenges of putting these pioneering regulations into practice? Should they be a model for other states?
10:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.
Break
10:45 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
General Session
Dollars and Sense of Green Retrofits
Discover why retrofitting existing buildings is worth the effort. Learn how to generate cost savings as an owner and add value to your project, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. What are the costs and benefits of green retrofits? Find out how you can pay for them using public and private funding sources and energy performance contracting (EPCs).
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Networking Lunch
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions (choose one)
Water: The New Development Constraint?
Volatile energy supplies make the news, but will dwindling water sources have a bigger impact on new development? How do droughts, climate change, population growth, water infrastructure and scarcity impact the entitlement process for your projects in the West? Explore potential new solutions.
Go Local: Are Self-Sustaining Communities the Future?
What if your community created its own power, had its own water supply and grew its own food? It’s not as farfetched as you’d think. In a world that grows more global and interconnected by the day, are self-sustaining local communities the future?
2:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.
Break
2:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions (choose one)
New Evaluation Tools for Assessing Carbon Output and Project Feasibility
New policies will create a bewildering set of choices for lowering carbon in new development. How will they affect the feasibility of your projects? Hear from several firms across the country that are pioneering evaluation tools to help sort out this complexity and assist in finding the most logical and cost-effective measures for energy savings and greenhouse gas reductions.
Green Neighborhoods: A Cost-Benefit Analysis
Ask experts and practitioners your questions on the cost benefit analysis of new neighborhood certification programs. As carbon laws become the norm in communities throughout the United States, do LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED ND) and Sustainable Sites (an interdisciplinary effort by the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the United States Botanic Garden) represent a path to compliance?
3:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.
Break
3:45 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
General Session
Opening Remarks
Kevin Kampschroer
Acting Director of High-Performance Green Buildings
U.S. General Services Administration
How to Capitalize on Federal Economic Recovery Investment Opportunities
With over $100 billion explicitly targeted for Green investments, what are the incentives and benefits for sustainable development? Who will control spending of the funds and how will this investment result in private sector opportunities? How is the Recovery Act going to serve as a “down payment” on a Green economy and what does it portend for future policy.
5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
General Session
Global Eco Cities: Innovative Sustainability Practices in New Development
New developments around the world are incorporating sustainable energy, carbon management and water conservation systems into their sites. Take a tour of several revolutionary projects and hear about the innovative practices being implemented to achieve their sustainability goals.
6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Networking Reception
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.
Networking Coffee
8:00 a.m. to 8:45 a.m.
Keynote Address
F. Barton Harvey, III
Former Chairman and CEO
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
8:45 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Break
9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Case Studies (choose one)
Retrofitting Existing Buildings to Be Green: A Case Study from Concept to Certification
How does an owner decide to seek LEED for Existing Buildings (LEED EB) certification? What are the financial rewards? What is the process? How has it been implemented in the field? And, what about the future?
Getting Green Deals Done Through Public-Private Partnerships
This case study of the Los Angeles Community College District describes how a public-private partnership can lead the way as a model of sustainability. The partners share how they got the deal done and how they are achieving energy efficiency and sustainability on a campus-wide basis.
10:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
Break
10:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
General Session
Opening Remarks
Richard M. Gollis
Co-Founder and Principal
The Concord Group, LLC
Does the Current Economic Downturn Mean a Boom or Bust for Sustainable Development?
Green is here to stay, but how will adverse economic conditions affect sustainability efforts in the coming year or two? With growing job losses and rising vacancy rates, will companies and institutional investors continue to pay a premium for sustainable development?
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Interactive Town Hall Discussion: The Future is Now, Are You Ready?
Bring your most important questions, insights, and lessons learned. Our panel of industry experts from the previous session will answer questions and offer feedback. This session is guaranteed to be lively, stimulating, insightful, and relevant to your day-to-day business activities. Be ready to share and participate.
12:30 p.m.
Adjourn
Guest Speakers
Kay Brothers
Deputy General Manager
Southern Nevada Water Authority
Las Vegas, NV
Daniel M. Cashdan
Co-Head Investment Banking
Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P.
Los Angeles, CA
John J. Christmas
Senior Vice President
Hannon Armstrong
Annapolis, MD
Steve Churchwell
Partner
DLA Piper
Sacramento, CA
Steve Done
Principal
Arup
Los Angeles, CA
Mark Edlen
Managing Principal
Gerding Edlen
Portland, OR
James F. Finlay
Vice President and Appraisal Manager
Wells Fargo
Los Angeles, CA
Lisa Galley
Principal
GalleyEco Capital LLC
San Francisco, CA
Gordon Gill
Partner
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture LLP
Chicago, IL
Richard M. Gollis
Co-Founder and Principal
The Concord Group, LLC
Newport Beach, CA
Bert Gregory, FAIA
President and Chief Executive Officer
Mithun
Seattle, WA
F. Barton Harvey, III
Former Chairman and CEO
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
Columbia, MD
Cylvia Hayes
Founder and Executive Director
3E Strategies
Bend, OR
Jack Hoagland
Principal
Sterling Ranch LLC
Lakewood, CO
Michael G. Hodgson
President
ConSol
Stockton, CA
Hasan Ikhrata
Executive Director
Southern California Association of Governments
Los Angeles, CA
Kevin Kampschroer
Acting Director of High-Performance Green Buildings
U.S. General Services Administration
Washington, DC
Steven R. Kellenberg
Principal and Vice President
EDAW, Inc.
Irvine, CA
Sophie Lambert
Director of LEED for Neighborhood Development
US Green Building Council
Washington, DC
Mychele Lord
President
LORD Green Real Estate Strategies
Dallas, TX
Deron Lovaas
Federal Transportation Policy Director
Natural Resources Defense Council
Washington, DC
Molly McCabe
Founder and President
HaydenTanner
Bigfork, MT
John McIlwain
Senior Resident Fellow for Housing
Urban Land Institute
Washington, DC
Edward T. McMahon
Senior Resident Fellow for Sustainable Development
Urban Land Institute
Washington, DC
Jim Meacham, P.E.
Director of Advanced Energy Systems
CTG Energetics, Inc
Irvine, CA
Ronald I. Miles
Managing Director
Transwestern Investment Company
Chicago, IL
James G. Moose, Esq.
Partner
Remy, Thomas, Moose and Manley, LLP
Sacramento, CA
Craig A. Moyer
Partner and Chair of the Land Environment and Energy Division
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
Los Angeles, CA
Mary D. Nichols
Chairman
California Air Resources Board
Sacramento, CA
Dan Probst
Chairman of Energy and Sustainability Services
Jones Lang LaSalle
Chicago, IL
Matthew C. “Quint” Redmond
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
The TSR Group, Inc.
Golden, CO
Sue Reynolds
President and CEO
Community HousingWorks
San Diego, CA
Judi G. Schweitzer
President
Schweitzer + Associates, LLC
Lake Forest, CA
Lance Shepherd
Manager of Design and Construction Programs
Office of the State Architect
State of Colorado
Denver, CO
Allan Skodowski
Senior Vice President
Transwestern
Milwaukee, WI
The Honorable Darrell Steinberg
President pro Tempore
California State Senate
Sacramento, CA
Vernon D. Swaback
Partner
Swaback Partners
Scottsdale, AZ
Jonathan G. Thorpe
Senior Vice President and Managing Partner
Gale International
Irvine, CA
Leanne Tobias
Founder and Principal
Malachite LLC
Bethesda, MD
Maureen Versen
Head of Commercial Real Estate
Siemens Building Technologies
Buffalo Grove, IL
Wolfgang Wagener
Director of Sustainable Cities
Cisco
Santa Clara, CA
Rick Walker
Vice President
Transwestern
Milwaukee, WI
Gregory J. Weaver
President
Catellus Development Group
Denver, CO
Douglas White
Attorney
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Santa Monica, CA
Steve Windhager, Ph.D.
Director of Landscape Restoration
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Austin, TX
Optional Tours
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
1:00p.m. to 5:30p.m.
The Evolution of South Park, Downtown Los Angeles
The South Park project is a partnership between Gerding Edlen and Williams & Dame Development that has set out to create a mixed-use, vibrant neighborhood that incorporates housing, goods and services, opportunities to experience art and culture, inviting gathering spaces and substantial greenspace. All of the buildings in the South Park project are designed to achieve at least a LEED certification, contributing to neighborhood-wide sustainability and enhanced quality of life. Elleven (the first building completed in the project) is the first green residential building in downtown Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Community College District Builds Green
The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is currently undertaking the largest public sector sustainable building effort in the United States, funded by a voter-approved $2.2 billion Bond Construction Program. Numerous projects, all sustainably designed, are underway at nine colleges of the LACCD. Hear about some these exciting projects and visit a few with the Executive Director of the LACCD for Facilities Planning and Development. Hear about the Renewable Energy Program that will take all nine colleges “off the grid” and about more than 40 new buildings being built to meet or exceed LEED standards.
An additional fee applies; box lunch included. Tour space is limited. You must be registered for the conference in order to participate with the tour.