Agenda

Registration:                    8:00 – 8:30 am

Morning Session:             8:30 – 11:45 am

Lunch (On your own):       11:45 am – 12:45 pm

Afternoon Session:           12:45 – 4:30 pm

Development and Impact of California Green Building Standards Code

History of the Code and California’s Environmental Initiatives
Relation of the Code to conventional building codes and energy codes
Relation of the Code to third party green building certifications (LEED, Well etc.)


Code Administration

   Applying CALGreen to your project
      Agencies
      Project types (15)
   Documentation, verification and enforcement
   Overview of forms and tools


Nonresidential Mandatory Measures

   Planning and design
   Erosion and sedimentation control
      Accommodating alternative transportation
      Dark sky
      Grading
   Energy efficiency: A look at the California Energy Code


Chapter 5 Continued

   Water efficiency and conservation
   Material conservation and resource efficiency
   Indoor environmental quality/pollutant control
   Commissioning


Nonresidential Voluntary Measures

   Tiers and how are they applied
   A look at Tier 1 and Tier 2 requirements
   Voluntary standards for health facilities
   Looking ahead
      California Green Building & energy goals
      What to expect in the 2019 code cycle

Credits

Architects
     Non-Credit CA Continuing Ed.
     6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units

Professional Engineers
     Non-Credit CA Continuing Ed.

Certified Interior Designers
     .65 CEUs (6.5 Hours)

International Code Council
     .65 CEUs – Building

Contractors
     Non-Credit Continuing Ed.

Continuing Education Credit Information

This seminar is open to the public. It offers a 6.5 non-credit continuing education opportunity to California architects and 6.5 non-credit continuing education opportunity to California professional engineers. This activity does not fulfill the California architect continuing education requirement in Accessibility. Continuing education is not mandatory for engineer license maintenance in California.

This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885).

Architects and engineers seeking continuing education credit in other states will be able to apply the hours earned at this seminar, in most cases. Refer to specific state rules to determine eligibility.

This seminar offers California certified interior designers .65 CEUs (6.5 hours) of continuing education credit. The California Council for Interior Design Certification accepts courses related to interior design that have been approved by the AIA.

The International Code Council has approved this activity for .65 CEUs in the specialty area of Building.

This course also offers a non-credit continuing education opportunity to construction contractors. Credit approval is not being sought in any state with a contractor continuing education requirement.

Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.

Speakers

Isaac Chambers

Harrison Thomas Group

PE, CCP, LEED APMr. Chambers is a partner at Harrison Thomas Group in San Francisco. He entered the engineering field as an HVAC designer and design review specialist after obtaining his degree. After working in the design field for several years, Mr. Chambers decided to concentrate his appreciation for details in the commissioning arena. For the past eight years, he has served as commissioning project manager for LEED and CALgreen commissioning projects for key large clients such as USC, UCLA and Kaiser Permanente. Representative projects include educational facilities such as laboratories and dormitories, office buildings, and other highly-technical facilities such as vivariums. His services include basic MEP commissioning through total building commissioning and Level 5 integrated systems testing. Mr. Chambers has contributed to several building commissioning conferences by speaking on the latest best practices in the commissioning industry

Susan Di

Architect, LEED APMs. Di Giulio is a senior project manager at Zinner Consultants.She has served as a green building project manager there since2008, providing strategy, coordination and direct client support for LEED, CALGreen and various municipal green building programs.Ms. Di Giulio has a track record of successfully interpreting CALGreen and harmonizing its requirements with LEED. She has been a LEED AP since 2006 and is also a Build-It-Green certified green building professional. In her capacity as a Member of the U.S. Green Building Council Los Angeles Chapter, she has served as a volunteer program development consultant. Ms. Di Giulio came to ZC from a varied career in architecture. She designed and managed mixed use/multi-family housing projects for Los Angeles-area firms such as Carde-Ten Architects, Killefer Flammang Architects, and Togawa and Smith (now Togawa Smith Martin). As sole proprietor of Di Giulio Design, she designed and executed residential, retail, restaurant and commercial projects. Prior to that, Ms. Di Giulio worked on institutional projects in Boston and Los Angeles, and worked in Italy for two years on a variety of high-end, contemporary retail installations within centuries-old buildings. This experience led to her special interest in the sustainable reuse of historic structures. Ms. Di Giulio has published several articles on sustainable development including coverage of the first Green Building conference in Brazil (GreenBuild Brasil + Rio 2016, Footprint, 2010). She holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from UCLA and a B.A. degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she first studied the relationship between land use and ecosystems.