September 9-12 will be exciting for the Illinois Chapter and Heartland Region of USGBC. Greening the Heartland and BUILDINGChicago are joining forces to present four days of education, networking opportunities and more.
The Advisory Committee of the co-located BUILDINGChicago/Greening the Heartland events is now accepting proposals for presenters and topics. Click here to learn more. All proposals must be submitted online by February 8, 2013.
In this tenth anniversary of Greening the Heartland (GTH), the U.S. Green Building Council's Midwest regional conference, we want to encourage robust discussion of how the Heartland's building industry is evolving to embed resilience into its solutions for the built environment as focused in the topic following topic areas: Health & Environmental Quality, High Performance Buildings & Building Science, Design for Resilience, Green Technologies & Materials, Natural Capitalism, Sustainable Community & Campus, Process, and more. The GTH track will be extended to run through the BUILDINGChicago conference offering added opportunities for sharing green building best practices and continuing education for LEED Accredited Professionals.
BUILDINGChicago is a new event sponsored by the publishers of Building Design+Construction magazine. BUILDINGChicago will provide a wide variety of educational and networking opportunities built upon the strong track record of high quality, AIA-accredited education for architects through BD+C University. BD+C University offers architects, engineers, contractors, and building owners/developers who specialize in the commercial, industrial, and institutional markets a convenient educational platform available online 24/7 from anywhere in the world.
All proposals must be submitted online. You may begin the submission process and return to your saved proposal any time up until the submission deadline of February 8, 2013. Faxed or mailed proposals will not be accepted.
Questions regarding the call for proposals: Contact Tina Vickery at tvickery@heiexpo.com or 800.752.6312.
For more information on Greening the Heartland 2013 please contact Katie Kaluzny, Interim Executive Director, 312.245.8300, ext 203, or kkaluzny@usgbc-illinois.org.
View event press release here.
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