New Solutions for Green Schools in Colorado - Colorado Springs

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

The Lodge, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway
Colorado Springs, CO 80918

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Agenda

Morning Session - Introduction to CO-CHPS, CHPS Verified and CO-CHPS Credit-by-Credit

Time	Topic	Presenter
9:00 AM	Welcome, CHPS Overview and CO-CHPS Development Review	Bill Orr, CHPS
9:20 AM	CHPS Verified	Ed Wansing, CHPS
9:55 AM	Break
10:05 AM	CO-CHPS Credit-by-Credit	Ed Wansing, CHPS; Rodney Vanderwall, Office of the State Architect; and Mark Ferguson, Energy Manager, Colorado Springs District 11
12:15 PM	Questions
12:30 PM	Lunch

Afternoon Session - CHPS Implementation and Case Studies

Time	Topic	Presenter
1:00 PM	Welcome	Bill Orr, CHPS
1:05 PM	CO Governor's Energy Office High Performance Building Program and Performance Contracting Program	Margaret Pauls, GEO
1:15 PM	CHPS Implementation	Ed Wansing, CHPS
2:15 PM	BEST Program	Cheryl Honigsberg, CO Department of Education
2:35 PM	Break
2:45 PM	Case Studies	Mark Ferguson, Energy Manager, Colorado Springs District 11
3:45 PM	Questions

3 AIA Learning Units (HSW/SD credit) provided for each session.

About the Presenters

Mark J. Ferguson, PE, CEM

Energy Program Manager, Colorado Springs School District 11

Mark Ferguson currently manages the energy program for Colorado Springs School District 11, including over 4.5 million square feet of space at seventy-two sites, with a current internal rate of return of 131% to the District.

In addition, Mark has served as a project manager for Colorado Springs District 11, and managed planning, design, construction and commissioning as part of a $150 million bond program.

Cheryl Honigsberg, AIA, CEFPI

Senior Consultant, Division of Capital Construction Assistance, Colorado Department of Education

Cheryl Honigsberg joined The Colorado Department of Education (CDE) in 2008 as part of the technical assistance team for the Building Excellent Schools Today or BEST after a career as an architect working in the public sector. The program provides grants for projects to address health and safety issues, major maintenance, renovations and additions, and sometimes new schools. It also provides technical assistance to school districts and charter schools as they develop their master plans for school facilities.

Cheryl provides technical assistance to the local and many of the rural school districts, BOCES program and the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind. She has assisted a number of the currently funded school projects and is in process with assisting the districts with the current BEST grant cycle FY10-11. The program will be looking at health and safety needs as main focus for the upcoming grant application. In addition, the Division provides extensive technical support for public school facility needs, oversees a federal “interest free” loan program, administers the SchoolHouse facility database, administers the charter school capital construction grant program, and the full-day-kindergarten facility grant program.

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.

Margaret Pauls

High Performance Building Consultant to the Governor's Energy Office (GEO)

Margaret Pauls has a decade of professional architectural design experience, which includes the Parker Library Remodel, the Douglas County Elementary School Prototypes #43 and #46, and a sustainable modular classroom design for Jefferson County Schools. Her passion is finding ways to influence change and to realize a more satisfying, healthier, and more energy-efficient built environment. She strives to apply creativity, collaboration, and common sense solutions to daily challenges. This is a passion she shares with her fellow USGBC's Green Schools Advocacy committee members.

Rodney Vanderwall, LEED AP

Energy Programs Manager, Office of the State Architect

Rodney Vanderwall is the Manager of Energy Programs for the Office of the State Architect. In this capacity, he works with all state agencies affected by Colorado’s energy and green building statutes, assists the Governor’s Energy Office on Greening the State activities, and provides assistance to state agencies in implementing energy performance contracts. Rod worked on the AIA Denver, Sustainable Design Resource Guide, 2ed edition, published in 1995.

Rod has a Bachelor of Engineering degree (Energy and Power Systems Option) from the University of New Mexico and a Masters in Engineering degree (Building Energy System) from the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Ed Wansing, Associate AIA, LEED AP

CHPS Technical Programs Coordinator

Ed has a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Kansas State University. He is the Emerging Green Builders National Committee Chairman and is a member of the Middle Tennessee USGBC board of directors. Ed joins the CHPS team to champion and run the CHPS Verified program and to support the CHPS Technical Committee.

Transportation information and parking at The Lodge

Parking is available at the venue in the pay parking sections on campus; level #3 of the garage; or parking lots 1 or 8. Please consider carpooling to this event!

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Hear from the CO-CHPS Advisory Board

Why are you a member of the CO-CHPS committee and why is the work we are doing important to you?

"The overall value of the work of the CO-CHPS committee is to give Colorado schools a high performance building process that is tailored to the unique and varied landscape of Colorado -- especially in the rural parts of our state.

The CO-CHPS criteria is both comprehensive and not burdensome. By using CO-CHPS, a school will be both affordable to build and affordable to operate over the long life of a well-made building.

The CO-CHPS criteria is very suitable for large urban schools, small rural schools and high-altitude mountain schools. Because of the very inclusive process, the criteria makes sense for all of Colorado."

--Dan Bihn
FLEX Energy
CO-CHPS Advisory Committee Member