9:45 AM - 10:45 AM | Education Sessions
+ Healthy and Responsible Material Selection for Sustainable Buildings
While sustainable building requirements are rapidly evolving, one constant is transparency. Healthy and responsibly sourced building materials help bring into focus the human side of sustainability and impacts on occupants/communities. Material transparency helps reveal the potential health risks of the materials in a product, providing the opportunity to choose safer options. Also, the transparency of responsible supply chain practices mitigates concerns of compliance and forced labor (modern slavery) in the building materials supply chain.
This presentation will detail how material and supply chain transparency relate to green building certification programs and principles such as LEED, the Living Building Challenge, the WELL Building Standard, and the Design for Freedom movement to clarify the market drivers for healthy buildings, responsibly sourced materials, and the crossover between them.
Attendees will leave with a clear plan and new skills to enact healthy materials selection and advocate for responsible supply chain practices through clear, concise, correct, and complete specifications.
Learning Objectives:
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Recognize how LEED, Living Building Challenge, and the WELL Building Standard evaluate healthy materials to contribute to building certifications.
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Understand the Design for Freedom movement and how to advocate for compliance with this concept.
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Learn about material ingredient transparency tools (Health Product Declarations, Declare Labels, the Red List) as well as supply chain evaluation tools (Toxnot by 3E, Certified Sustainability Facts Certifications that highlight DE&I efforts).
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Learn how to implement a five-step process for incorporating healthy and responsible building materials into sustainable buildings projects through clear, concise, correct, and complete specifications.
Speakers:
Erin Spadavecchia, CDT
Program Manager, Sustainability, ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions
Amy Musanti
Director, Sustainable Building Solutions, ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions
This session is approved for 1 AIA LU|HSW
+ Let's Experience Collaboration
Redesign, rework, late changes, RFIs, etc. are the bane of the industry. Precious time is wasted and frustration levels boil up. There is a better way of decision-making and management that enables transparency and collaboration, reducing challenges the design team faces and resulting in better project outcomes for everyone, including the building occupants.
Standard structured formats provide a way to organize owner project requirements and design information, and then to test, revise, validate, and implement an optimal solution confidently and efficiently. This hands-on exploration—utilizing LEGOs and your imagination—will clearly illustrate the knowledge of the decision-making process. Attendees will understand the history, purpose, and usage of structured data so it becomes a tool in collaborating with appropriate team members and communicating their design intent.
Learning Objectives:
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Recognize conditions and processes contributing to redesign and rework. Identify the risks of not including all parties in the entire design process and the benefits of equity and including all voices at the design table.
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Practice concepts that encourage team participation and design development. Gain understanding of the value the owner, end users, and contractor can bring to early design processes to get it right the first time.
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Model team collaboration strategies for improved design results and better building performance. Discover ways to create more sustainable projects when facility maintenance and life cycle are reviewed from multiple perspectives.
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Identify decision-making and continuous flow through the entire design process, and learn how clear communication, using tools like UniFormat®, can pave the way to streamlined projects.
Speaker:
Steve Gantner, RA, CCS, CCCA, CDT
Executive Vice President, Senior Specifier, Conspectus, Inc.
This session is approved for 1 AIA LU|HSW
+ Firestopping: Managing Barriers in Today’s Construction Environment
Managing barriers is an inherent challenge in today’s construction environment. Many processes generate these barriers, involving a variety of trades and personnel. Usually, the approach to handling compliance issues is reactive, but this is a costly approach that does not supply a true compilation of work being performed, often leaving the facility to repair infractions themselves. Improper penetrations in barriers continues to be among the top 10 citations by inspection professionals. While code requires anyone penetrating a barrier to seal it to a specific standard, the necessary application is often incomplete, misunderstood, or completely disregarded. This session focuses on taking a proactive approach to managing, documenting and inspecting barriers within a facility, and implementing a standard from the conception of design. With tightened budgets, increased regulatory requirements, and reduced staffing, the implementation of a barrier management protocol is essential to save time, money, resources, and create healthier surroundings.
Learning Objectives:
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Identify the issues associated with managing barriers.
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Explain the concept of a barrier protocol.
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Recognize the need for a standard operating practice.
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Recognize how an initiative-taking protocol saves time, money, and provides a safer environment.
Speakers:
BW Brisco
Pathway Solutions Specialist, Ewing Foley Inc.
This session is approved for 1 AIA LU|HSW
+ The Pain of the Claim: Liabilities Associated with Insurance Recovery
This comprehensive learning session delves into insurance claims recovery, construction and design liabilities, regulatory compliance and code challenges, mitigation strategies, real-world scenarios, and best practices.
Learning Objectives:
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Gain a comprehensive understanding of the insurance claims recovery process, from initial reporting to final resolution, identifying key milestones and stakeholders involved.
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Recognize and analyze the diverse range of liabilities associated with insurance claims recovery, with a focus on construction and design-related challenges, to proactively address potential issues.
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Acquire practical knowledge of effective mitigation strategies and best practices to alleviate and manage liabilities in insurance claims recovery. This includes proactive measures to minimize risks and enhance the recovery process.
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Actively engage with real-world case studies and scenarios, applying learned concepts to analyze past challenges and successes in insurance claims recovery.
Speaker:
Angela Andrews, CLMP, CPAU
CEO, Green Public Insurance Adjusting
This session is approved for 1 AIA LU
+ Introduction to Intumescent Fire Protection and LEED
This session will focus on intumescent fireproofing and its relation to LEED. We will discuss coatings and systems for every area of your facility to help you reduce the carbon footprint and comply with LEED and green building requirements.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn why it is necessary to fireproof steel.
- Understand how intumescent fireproofing works.
- Learn and understand how testing is required for intumescent fireproofing.
- Analyze the different types of intumescent fireproofing and LEED.
- Understand the relationships between environmental product declarations (EPDs,) carbon content, and intumescent fireproofing.
- Learn when and where intumescent fireproofing is used.
Speaker:
Zak Galla
Sherwin-Williams
This session is approved for 1 AIA LU | HSW