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Darren Bouton – Manager,
Sustainable Communities
Pacific Gas & Electric Company
(Plenary)
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Darren Bouton is the Manager of Sustainable
Communities for the Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E).
He is currently leading the development of PG&E’s
strategy for assisting communities with implementing sustainability
goals and climate change action plans. Darren’s team
is developing a comprehensive suite of products and services
that will include education, incentives, and technical services
for builders, developers, and local governments who want
to go green.
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Jeff
Jacobs – VP Community Development, Meritage Homes (Keynote)
Just
do it … Green: for the Production Builder (PDF, 2.78 MB)
Jeff Jacobs has been involved in the design and construction
of energy efficient homes since 1980. In 1981 the first building
that he completed won the PG & E Passive Solar Award
for design and energy efficiency. For 17 years Jeff ran his
own homebuilding business building over 300 homes and developing
more than 15 neighborhoods. Jeff has been in the production
builder world for over 8 years.
Jeff was involved with the creation and revision of the
New Home Construction Green Point Guidelines. In 2001 he
built the first Zero Energy Home in Northern California and
in 2006 rolled out the first Zero Energy Home (85+ Green
Points) in Alameda County.
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Don Mull, J.D. – Director,
California Green Builder Program, Home Builders Association
CBIA
Green Program (PDF, 452 KB)
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Ann Edminster – Principal, Design AVEnues
Leed
for Homes Rating System (PDF, 1.26 MB)
Ann Edminster, M.Arch., is an environmental design consultant
whose work focuses on investigation of building materials and systems. As a member and past co-chair of the USGBC’s LEED Homes Committee, she is one of the principal authors of LEED for Homes. She also consults to the LEED for Homes pilot team in California, is a past member of the LEED Steering Committee, and member and past co-chair of the USGBC’s
Materials and Resources Technical Advisory Group. She consults to builders, owners, developers, and other design firms. She is co-author of Efficient Wood Use In Residential Construction: A Practical Guide to Saving Wood, Money, and Forests, author of numerous technical papers and articles, and has been an invited speaker at dozens of regional, national, and international green building conferences over the past dozen years. She
has both a bachelor's and a master's degree in architecture and has designed more than 100 home remodels. Her own home remodel won a green building award in January 2007.
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Michelle Kaufmann – AIA, Michelle Kaufmann Designs
Let
the Green In (PDF, 8.74 MB)
Michelle Kaufmann received her Masters of Architecture from Princeton University and her Bachelor of Architecture from Iowa State University. In 2002, she
founded Michelle Kaufmann Designs and began the crusade to create cost-effective, thoughtfully designed, green buildings that are accessible to more people.
Kaufmann is a leader in the green design community, and her commitment to sustainable design remains constant with all of her work, including the Glidehouse, the Sunset Breezehouse, the mkSolaire, as well as custom homes and a monastery in
Big Sur.
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Heather Larson – Project
Manager, Heschong
Mahone Group
Multifamily
New Construction Energy Efficiency Program (PG&E) (PDF,
320 KB)
Heather Larson, a Project Manager at Heschong Mahone Group, has extensive experience in architecture and sustainable building consulting. She is managing the California Multifamily New Homes program sponsored by PG&E, and previously managed the ENERGY STAR® Multifamily New Homes program sponsored by SCE. Ms. Larson coordinates with
developers, design teams and HERS raters, from schematic design through construction to assure quality design and implementation of energy saving measures. She provides design
assistance, plan checking, energy efficiency analysis as well as trainings for architects, engineers and building officials on CA multifamily building standards. She has been
instrumental in cross promoting energy efficiency programs with green building programs such as LEED NH and Green Point Rated in California. BA Architecture; UC Berkeley, MS Building
Science & Sustainable Design, University of Sydney, AU.
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Peter Liu – Initial Founder and
Vice Chairman, New Resource Bank
Green
Money for Green Buildings? (PDF, 736 KB)
Peter Liu founded New Resource Bank after nearly two decades of experience in the banking and energy industries. Peter had been a Senior Vice President and Vice President, respectively, of Credit Suisse First Boston and the Chase Manhattan Bank, where he completed $6 billion in financing transactions as well as providing corporate and strategic guidance. He has been a private investor and strategic advisor to several clean energy technology companies and currently serves on the Clean Technology Investment Advisory Boards of the California Public Employees Retirement System and the California Teachers’ Retirement System, respectively the largest and the third largest pension funds in the United
States. He is also the co-founder and Vice-Chair of the China-U.S. Energy Efficiency Alliance.
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Brian Gitt – Executive Director, Build It Green
Green
Point Rated (PDF, 1 MB)
As Executive Director of Build It Green, Brian directs green building programs and initiatives that promote healthy, energy and resource efficient buildings in California. He combines passion and extensive experience working in the environmental and construction industries.
Brian was instrumental in organizing and launching a diverse
network of building industry stakeholders committed to mainstreaming green building including the Public Agency Council, Builders Council, Suppliers Council, and Non-Profit Network. Brian
is a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Accredited Professional certified by the U.S. Green Building Council and a Certified Green Building Professional.
In 2003, the Environmental Leadership Program (ELP), a national
fellowship program recognizing leaders in the environmental field, awarded Brian a two-year fellowship. Brian received his education in ecological design and environmental studies
at Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona.
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Phil Williams – Vice
President, Webcor
Builders
Sustainable
Design and Construction (PDF, 1.39 MB)
Phil Williams heads the "Sustainability" and "Systems Engineering" groups as a Vice President at Webcor Builders. Webcor's approach to sustainability is to, very early in the design process, offer owners and the entire design team the types of options that could enable the project to obtain at least LEED Certification. On every project, Webcor provides a LEED Accredited Professional as a full time member of the project team. This team member is assigned from within the company and as an integral part of the project, assures that the project team has the in-site and experience of a LEED AP, independent of any LEED rating (or non-rating).
This approach successfully allows Phil and Webcor to design and build several high density multi-family residential projects in California that are LEED Registered or are being engineered and built with a concentrated focus on "Sustainable" design. They include:
- Central Place (San Jose, CA)
- Campus For Jewish Life (Palo Alto, CA)
- The Infinity (San Francisco, CA)
- Grand Ave (Los Angeles, CA)
- LA Live (Los Angeles, CA).
In addition Mr. Williams is also personally working on such notable LEED Registered projects as:
- Symantec (Gold), Culver City, CA
- Letterman Digital Arts Center (Gold), San Francisco, CA
- The California Academy of Sciences (Platinum), San Francisco, CA
Phil Williams is a licensed Professional Mechanical Engineer in California, a LEED Accredited professional and he is also an active member of the US Green Building Council (USGBC), San Francisco Mayor's Green Building Task Force, Center for the Built Environment (CBE), Sustainable Silicon Valley, Business Council on Climate Change (BC-3) and Center for Integrated Facilities Engineering (CIFE).
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Darren Bouton
Manager, Sustainable Communities
Pacific Gas & Electric Company (Plenary)
Jeff Jacobs
VP Community Development, Meritage Homes (Keynote)
Ann Edminster
Principal, Design AVEnues
Michelle Kaufmann
AIA, Michelle Kaufmann Designs
Peter Liu
Initial Founder and Vice Chairman, New Resource Bank
Brian Gitt
Executive Director, Build It Green
Phil Williams
Vice President, Webcor Builders
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