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Redesigning Cleveland
for the 21st Century: Applying Ecological Design
RELATED STORIES
SEPTEMBER 22, 1999-- Beginning next month, nine of the nation's top experts in green design will visit Cleveland to discuss the latest building innovations in a seven-part series hosted by Cleveland's new Green Building Coalition (GBC), an outreach activity of the Oberlin College Environmental Studies Program.
The discussions, which will run through April, will take place at 5:30 P.M. in the Louis Stokes wing of the Cleveland Public Library. The events are free and open to the public and to those in the design, development, building, and related professions.
The Environmental Studies Program founded GBC earlier this year as an umbrella organization for Cleveland-area architects, builders, developers, civic administrators, engineers, and environmentalists interested in green design. Sadhu Johnston '98 heads the organization.
The coalition serves as a clearing house and project coordinator for area individuals, companies, and other groups interested in residential, commercial, and industrial green building.
The speakers'
series will begin Tuesday, October 12, with a talk by
William McDonough, lead designer of the Greening of the
White House project and of Oberlin's Adam Joseph Lewis
Center for Environmental Studies, which will open this
fall.
"The series is part of a larger community effort to realize
the economic, social, and environmental benefits of green
development," says Johnston. "The speakers will present new
design concepts that can save money and the environment as
well as make buildings and cities healthier places to
live."
Some of the
topics to be covered are
- incorporation
of ecological or green design into new construction,
- building
envelopes and energy use,
- air quality
and lighting,
- water
management,
- landscape
design,
- green
retrofitting versus new construction,
- re-evaluation
of banking and real-estate policies, and
- green-building
marketing.
A wide range of
northern Ohio professional, corporate, and community groups
supports the GBC series. They include
- Oberlin
College and the George Gund Foundation,
- the
Cleveland chapters of the American Institute of
Architects,
- the
International Interior Design Association, and
- the
International Facilities Managers Association.
Corporate
sponsors include
- Andersen
Windows,
- Iron City
Commercial,
- Inter-face
Flooring,
- S. Rose
Inc.,
- USG
Interiors,
- Herman
Miller,
- Knoll,
- Paramount,
- KA
Architects,
- eQuest
Engineers,
- Shaw
Contract, and
- Mannington
Commercial Carpet.
Organizational
partners are
- the
Cleveland Waterfront Coalition,
- Cleveland
section of the American Society of Civil Engineers,
- Commercial
Realestate Women,
- Committee
for Public Art,
- EcoCity
Cleveland,
- Urban Land
Institute,
- Cuyahoga
County Planning Commission,
- Urban
Design Center of Northeast Ohio,
- Downtown
Cleveland Partnership, and
- Cleveland
Public Library.
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