iMod: Renovate Existing Schools as High Performance

Tuesday, September 21, 2010
9 AM to 12 noon

PG&E Pacific Energy Center
851 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

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Join CHPS for a free workshop! This workshop generously provided by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E).

iMod: Renovate Existing Schools as High Performance (3-hr workshop)
For a variety of reasons, states and school districts are increasingly looking toward modernizing rather than building new schools. Many states have had to reconcile serious budget limitations and shrinking student populations with existing facilities in need of repair. In California, while state school bond funds for new construction have been largely exhausted, about $1.6 billion in modernization funding and $75 million in high performance incentive funding remains.

Learn how the Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) Criteria specifically addresses major and minor modernizations, new buildings on existing campuses, and additions. See case studies on what school districts are doing around the country to renovate or modernize their schools using the CHPS Criteria. Hear how the results of recent post-occupancy studies confirm the importance of integrated design to realize the benefits of high performance schools.

CHPS is a registered provider of continuing education through the American Institute of Architects (AIA). The courses will offer AIA Learning Units in Health Safety and Welfare, as well as Sustainable Design (a new mandatory continuing education requirement). 3 AIA HSW/SD learning units will be provided per session to attendees who sign in with their AIA membership number at the training.

About the Presenters

William "Bill" Orr, C.E.G
CHPS Executive Director

William "Bill" Orr became the leader of CHPS in July 2009, after working for the state of California for almost thirty years. For a majority of career in state government, Bill worked for the California Integrated Waste Management Board where he managed their Green Building and Environmentally Preferable Purchasing programs from 2000-2007.

On the CHPS Board from 2002 to 2007, Bill was the head of the CHPS Technical Committee from its inception through 2007. During that time, he led the development of the 2006 Edition of the CHPS Criteria for California and was on the national LEED for Schools committee. Bill was inducted into the California Green Schools Hall of Fame in 2007 for his pioneering work with CHPS. Bill is a registered Engineering Geologist in California.

Rob Samish, AIA, LEED
Lionakis

Rob Samish is a Senior Associate in the Education Studio at Lionakis, an architectural, engineering and planning firm based in California. Rob has maintained a long-standing involvement in sustainable architecture over his twenty-eight year career in architecture. He was the project manager for Alder Creek Middle School, which was one of California's first demonstration schools for CHPS. He has presented numerous workshops dealing with various aspects of green high performance school design - green renovation projects, daylighting, high performance modular classroom criteria, and what the latest post-occupancy studies say about green buildings.

Rob is on the CHPS Board of Directors, is a member of the High Performance Planning Committee for California's K-12 advocacy organization Coalition for Adequate School Housing (CASH) and also a member of the Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI).

Nick Semon
CHPS Technical Programs Coordinator

Nick Semon holds an MS in Civil Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and a BS in the same from Pennsylvania State University. Nick led the development of the CHPS Operations Report Card, a programmatic approach to benchmarking the performance of existing schools and providing suggestions for improvement. Prior to his work at CHPS, he worked in the sustainable construction industry in central Pennsylvania, focusing on renewable energy systems.