Managing Lean and Green - Green Building Technologies

This workshop will explore the benefits and challenges of using alternative energy and green building technologies in affordable multi-family developments and retrofits. Reducing fossil fuel use is imperative, but are advanced technologies the most cost-effective way for affordable housing developers to achieve their goals? Hear from those who have implemented solar thermal, photovoltaic, geothermal and passive house technologies in their own affordable buildings.

Agenda

9:55 – 10:00: Welcome and Introduction

10:00 – 10:10: Introduction of speakers and laying the groundwork for discussion
Moderator: Tony Daniels of Cycle Architecture

10:10 – 10:30: Passive House
Project & Agency: Knickerbocker Commons, Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizen’s Council
Panelists:  Chris Benedict, Chris Benedict Architect and Scott Short, Housing Director, Ridgewood Bushwick

10:30 – 10:40: Solar Overview: Solar Technologies and Financing Issues
Panelists:  Noah Ginsburg, Sustainable CUNY

10:40 – 11:00: Solar Photovoltaic
Project & Agency: Lead-Safe House, Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation
Panelist: Dan Rieber, Northern Manhattan, Weatherization Director

11:00 – 11:20: Solar Thermal
Project & Agency: 300 Putnam Avenue, Bridge Street Development Corporation
Panelist:  Christopher Pope, Project Manager, Bridge Street

11:20– 11:40: Geothermal
Project & Agency: Ceders/Fox Hall, The Lantern Group
Panelist:  Carol Jackson, Lantern Group and Tony Shitemi, UAI Architects

11:40 – 11:45: Guest Speaker
Chris Mahase, HPD Director of Sustainability

11:45 – 12:30: Open Discussion
 

Please note the new day and room number for this workshop. Managing Lean and Green has found a space that can accommodate the large audiences that it has attracted this year, and we have adjusted the date to fit this new space.

Register online for the workshop, but payment cannot be accepted online. Payment can be mailed in with the registration form or paid by cash or check on the day of the session. For a complete list of the workshops, please click here.

The “Managing Lean and Green” training series is sponsored by the Supportive Housing Network of New York, Pratt Center for Community Development, the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development, and the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board.