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LEEDing Green Planning and Design: HOK Presentation

Purpose and goals: 

Emphasizing a wholistic approach to building green, including sustainable planning and landscape design for watershed protection, and cost effective, multi-functional building-integrated design elements.  Considerations include sustainability and order of magnitude.

Desired Outcomes:

A greater understanding of the interrelationship between healthy environments, green building practices, and the preservation of our natural resources

Potential Presenters:

• Katrin Scholz-Barth, Director of Sustainable Design, the HOK Planning Group     
• Lisa McCabe, HOK Architects, Washington, D.C.     
• Qasim Mansoor, HOK Architects, Washington, D.C.  

Session Format:

Four presenters will each give a short 15 minute presentation structured around the US Green Building Council’s LEED Green Building Rating System.  The presentations will emphasize the importance of an integrated, multi-disciplined team in accomplishing an adaptable, building integrated green design.

During the remaining two hours of the breakout session HOK invites the audience to an open panel discussion.

Resources:

www.hoksustainabledesign.com

Session Organizer:

Katrin Scholz-Barth
Director of Sustainable Design, HOK Planning Group

Questions? conference@NCSEonline.org