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Building Green Chicago Conference & Expo
We joined Joseph Maguire and the “SERF Team” (www.SERFgreen.org) from Lansing, Michigan, at the “Building Green Chicago Conference & Expo” in Chicago today. This was an interesting conference with discussion topics and vendors focused on new environmentally-sensitive building components, energy saving ideas and new initiatives, and valuable peer-to-peer discussions.
The Keynote Address was made by Ms. Susan Hedman, the EPA’s Region-5 Director. I was encouraged to learn about the number of different initiatives the EPA is working on to encourage environmentally responsible development! Ms. Hedman noted that the EPA recently launched a new “Energy Star” certification system for commercial buildings. You can find supporting tools, energy reduction ideas, and certification tools on their web site at: www.EnergyStar.org, under “Portfolio Manager”. It was also interesting to learn that this certification is an annual rating process, which gets systematically more difficult to achieve as new Energy Star certified buildings enter the program.
SERF was a program sponsor for this year’s Building Green Chicago Conference. They were able to use this conference to share their green building certification model with a number of new Chicago area building owners, engineers and architects.
