New Solutions for Green Schools in Colorado - Denver

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Colorado Convention Center
700 14th Street
Denver, CO 81501

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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 Dan Bihn, FLEX Energy
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	Conor Merrigan, GEO
1:15 PM	CHPS Implementation	Ed Wansing, CHPS
2:15 PM	BEST Program	Scott Newell, CO Department of Education
2:35 PM	Break
2:45 PM	Case Studies	Stu Reeve, Poudre School District
3:45 PM	Questions

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

About the Presenters

Conor Merrigan

Commercial Buildings Program Manager, Governor's Energy Office (GEO)

Conor is a sustainable building specialist with experience in the project management of LEED-ND pilot projects as well as the development of Sustainable Infrastructure Guidelines and Vertical Development Guidelines and Compliance Protocol (Private entity building code).

Scott Newell

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

Scott Newell joined The Colorado Department of Education (CDE) in 2007 to help develop and administer a program to assist school districts, charter schools, and institute charter schools with capital construction needs. The program provided grants for projects to address health and safety issues, major maintenance, renovations and additions, and sometimes new schools. It also provided technical assistance to school districts and charter schools. Scott also administers a charter school capital construction grant program.

In 2008, Scott moved into the newly created Division of Public School Capital Construction Assistance, commonly called Building Excellent Schools Today or BEST. The BEST program provides financial assistance to school districts, charter schools, institute charter schools, BOCES, and the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind for facility needs. 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.

While at CDE, Scott has visited school districts and several charter schools to walk-through their facilities help with BEST grant submittals and is familiar with facility conditions statewide.

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.

Stu Reeve

Energy Manager, Poudre School District

Stu Reeve currently serves as energy manager for the Poudre School District (PSD), Ft. Collins, Colorado. For the past thirty-five years, he has held several positions in facility services and business services, managing the installation and maintenance of electrical/electronic systems throughout the district. Under Stu Reeve’s leadership, PSD created an energy management plan and an energy efficiency team, which has evolved into an award-winning program, recognized both by the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Stu Reeve also spent a great deal of time in renewing PSD partnerships and resources, and in November 2000 saw the goal of a successful $175 million bond election to build more schools come to fruition. To improve the performance of these new schools, the Technical Specifications were updated and a Sustainable Design Guideline and Educational Specification were added to the plan. In 2006 PSD collaborated with The Brendle Group, Inc. and completed a Sustainability Management System and has now incorporated environmental stewardship as a “corporate culture” at PSD.

In addition to energy management during the past nine years, Stu Reeve has been involved in the district’s integrated/sustainable/high performance design approach to building schools and managing the commissioning services. Zach and Bacon Elementary schools were the first high performance schools in Colorado.

Stu has been an active member of the Association of Energy Engineers since 1996 and is a founding member and past chairperson for the Colorado Association of School District Energy Managers established in 1998.

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 Colorado Convention Center

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The Colorado Convention Center provides on-site parking for up to eight hours for $12. Hybrid and electric cars may park for free on level P1. Please consider carpooling to this event!

To enter the parking facility:

Enter the parking garage via northbound Speer Boulevard, just after Stout Street and before Champa Street. The parking garage has its own designated right turn lane leading to the garage.

Enter the parking garage via westbound Champa Street, just before Speer Boulevard. It will be a left-hand turn from Champa Street that merges into the garage entry lane from Speer Boulevard.

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Hear from the CO-CHPS Advisory Board

What is unique about the CO-CHPS criteria from your perspective?

"The CO-CHPS tool stands out with the focus of achievable high standards for energy efficiency, indoor air quality, and quality learning environments that will serve our children for the next generation. A CO-CHPS school will also reduce operating & maintenance costs, and provide schools that teach about the importance of environmental stewardship that will directly benefit the mission of providing a high quality education for all Colorado K-12 students."

--Stu Reeve
PSD
CO-CHPS Advisory Committee Member