November Lunch Session: LEED for Homes – Opportunity knocking for Nebraska

 Over the past few years, LEED for Homes has been the fastest growing USGBC rating system. The LEED for Homes rating system applies to single family, low-rise multi-family, and mid-rise multi-family residential units (up to 8 stories). Between 2006-2014, LEED for Homes has grown exponentially from 31 buildings certified in 2006 to over 21,000 LEED for Homes certified units in 2014 with the majority of these units coming from the multi-family and affordable housing sector. But of the 136,731 certified LEED for Homes units in the U.S., only 3 are in Nebraska. Why? Nationally, 75% of the LEED for Homes multi-family units were built at local market rates, so cost is not a major factor. Grab your business manager and come find out what other firms and states are doing to drive LEED for Homes construction.

Presenter - David Holtzclaw PhD, PE, CEM, CEA - Transduction Technologies

Lunch will be proivded

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CE Academy

Green Building Products & Technologies Seminar

Seminar schedule and topics include

7:30 AM - Registration and Warm Breakfast

8:00 AM - Understanding Stone wool in Interior and Exterior Commercial Applications

9:10 AM - Geothermal Heating and Cooling a Renewable Energy Resource

10:20 AM - AV & IT Connectivity in the Business Environment Today

11:30 AM - Air, Water and Moisture Management in the Light Commercial Building Envelope

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Designing a New Edible City

There are many ways to “Go Green”. Find out the innovative approaches taking shape across Nebraska to advance reduction in district costs, increase STEM skills and engagement, of both school staff and students, and engage students in 21st century civic responsibilities. Join us at The 2015 Green Schools Summit to learn how you can develop more energy-efficient, innovative and healthy schools in your own district. Hear from experts on STEM, service learning, and community partnerships.

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USGBC Flatwater May Lunch

Design for Life: Lessons from Nature

What would our world look like if we rediscovered the lessons of nature? What if the places we live and work engaged our senses in a healthy way and celebrated culture with nature, encouraging human delight? How can a leaf inspire a solar cell? Or organizations learn from a tree or a coral reef? Biomimicry is an innovation method that seeks new ways of living sustainably—from new products and processes to policies—by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies. Janine Benyus, the founder of biomimicry, introduces an era based not on what we can extract from organisms and their ecosystems, but on what we can learn from them. Instead of technology working separately from nature, imagine a world where technology is in relationship with nature. Biophilic design articulates the relationships between nature, human biology and the design of the built environment so we experience the natural environment more in our daily world. Academics, researchers and others have codified valuable design research for improving health and well-being in our built environment into patterns of biophilic design; Patterns “that nurture the innate human attraction to natural systems and processes.” Come learn how to bring nature back into our buildings, neighborhoods and lives.

Please joins us on Monday, May 18th at the UNO Community Engagement Center.

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