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| Phil Williams – Webcor Builders, Inc. Conference Moderator
Phillip Micheal Williams, PE, and LEED AP, is Webcor's Vice President of Systems Engineering and Sustainable Design. His career focus has been in the California marketplace with extensive experience in the design, application, sales, installation and service of HVAC, plumbing, electrical, fire protection, data and related systems. Most recently he served as the Chairman of the San Francisco Mayor's Task Force on Green Buildings which focused on recommendations for private sector green building requirements. These aggressive standards; planned for implementation in 2008, cover virtually all private sector commercial and residential building types with phased escalations to enable industry implementation. In addition he serves on the Advisory for the Business Council on Climate Change (BC3), the San Francisco Building Code Advisory Committee (including Code Advisory Green Building Subcommittee), Chair of the Industry Advisory Board for the Center for the Built Environment (CBE) and California’s Green Technologies Advisory Board.
www.webcor.com | 
| Stephany Cull – RetroCom Energy Strategies, Inc. "RCx: Low-Hanging Fruit for Energy Savings"
Ms. Cull is the Co-founder & CEO of RetroCom Energy Strategies Inc., an independent consulting firm focused on Existing Building Commissioning (Retrocommissioning), Green Building Services and Energy Engineering. Ms. Cull has extensive experience in facility maintenance & operations and energy conservation, in both public and private sector buildings, and she developed her company’s Support RetroCommissioningSM offering. Her experience and knowledge of Existing Building Commissioning led to her selection as the submitting author of the Retrocommissioning section in the Encyclopedia of Energy Engineering & Technology published by Taylor & Francis. Ms. Cull is currently the Energy Subcommittee Chair of the BOMA San Francisco Environment Committee and a member of the BOMA California Energy Committee.
www.retrostrategies.com | 
| Hank Koning – KoningEinzenberg Architecture "The Architect’s Studio – Building Green & Why it Matters"
Hank Koning is a founding Principal of Koning Eizenberg Architecture, established in Santa Monica in 1981. Under his and partner Julie Eizenberg’s lead, the firm has earned more than 60 awards for their projects. In 1992, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and in 1995, became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. As a member of the U.S. Green Building Council, Mr. Koning is leading the effort to integrate sustainable design ideas into quality design for healthy, environmentally-friendly buildings.
www.kearch.com | 
| Len Beyea – RetroCom Energy Strategies, Inc. "Reducing Building Energy with Siting, Shape & Orientation"
Len Beyea is co-founder and Principal of RetroCom Energy Strategies, Inc. He has nearly 30 years of experience in two areas that integrate perfectly for today’s Green Buildings: energy-efficient design and retrofit, including extensive work with control systems and central heating and cooling plants; and climate-responsive building and site design as it relates to energy and resource demands. Mr. Beyea is a Certified Building Commissioning Professional, a Certified Energy Manager, and a LEED Accredited Professional.
www.retrostrategies.com |  | Ryan Park – REC Solar, Inc. "Solar Options - New Products, Financing & Installation"
Ryan Park manages REC Solar's rapidly growing commercial sales division. Mr. Park has been involved with the company since 2001 and is responsible for working with businesses, establishing new strategic partnerships, and developing the commercial sales team for REC Solar. Through his work and dedication, REC Solar has grown to become one of the largest residential and commercial solar system integrators in the United States.
Mr. Park is actively involved on all levels of the solar industry and participates in SEIA, as well as serving on the advisory board for the Sustainable Agriculture Resource Consortium (SARC). Mr. Park understands the financial details associated with solar electricity and how it can benefit industry and our world. He has been a featured speaker addressing numerous groups on the financial benefits of solar electricity including the Bay Area Facilities Management Conference, Southern California Gaming Association, and the Energy Management Congress.
www.recsolar.com | 
| Ted Reiff – The ReUse People of America, Inc. "Reducing the Solid Waste Stream through Building Deconstruction"
Ted Reiff is founder and president of The ReUse People of America, Inc. (TRP), an environmental organization that salvages used building materials and markets them in California, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas and Mexico. TRP is a leader in the emerging field of deconstruction, which, unlike traditional demolition, involves the careful dismantling of buildings in order to preserve their reusable components. In the 13 plus years since its founding, TRP has diverted over 260,000 tons of materials from local landfills. Mr. Reiff has consulted with private as well as federal, county and municipal governments on demolition waste diversion, deconstruction feasibility studies and demolition vs. deconstruction cost estimating.
www.thereusepeople.org | 
| Richard Hodges – GreenIT, Inc. "Green Solutions for Information Technologies"
Richard Hodges is Founder and CEO of GreenIT Inc. Since the early 1970’s, he has had a personal commitment to environmental responsibility, development of appropriate technologies, and the evolution to a sustainable built environment. In 2004, Mr. Hodges established GreenIT as the first consultancy to combine those strands into a systemic, systematic, and strategic approach to sustainability for Information and Communications Technology Systems. GreenIt creates effective programs that drive improved financial results and measurable environmental benefits.
www.greenit.net
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| Joe Bessler, Silverwood Energy "Hydrogen Fuel Cells – Fact vs. Myth"
Joseph Bessler is the founder and CEO of Silverwood Energy, Inc., a nation-wide distributor and installer of large scale stationary hydrogen fuel cells and alternative energy systems for large scale commercial and governmental projects. Mr. Bessler’s responsibilities include commercial sales, project management, and overall corporate operations. He has overseen the installation of over 10 megawatts of alternative energy solutions. Mr. Bessler graduated from San Diego State University with a BA in Political Science and an MBA.
www.silverwoodenergy.com
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| David Anderson – DLR Group "Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Sustainability"
David Anderson is an experienced mechanical engineer and has provided services on a variety of project types, including corporate, sports, health care, educational as well as correctional facilities. He is recognized for his ability to make mechanical systems understandable to the non-technical client.
www.dlrgroup.com | 
| Premnath Sundharam – DLR Group "Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Sustainability"
Prem Sundharam is an experienced project coordinator and LEED team administrator for educational projects. Prem evaluates sustainable design options and energy studies, and is also experienced in design development and construction documentation phases. He uses an integrated approach in achieving efficient design solutions with sustainable features.
www.dlrgroup.com | 
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Les Lo Baugh – Fulbright & Jaworski LLP
"Legal Considerations in LEED projects"
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. partner Les Lo Baugh began his legal career as a litigation and environmental lawyer. Over his more than 30-year career, Les has counseled clients on projects related to utilities and alternative/renewable energy projects, LNG projects, oil and gas matters, LEED issues and both U.S. and international transactional and M&A matters. He has served as the LEED counsel for the largest LEED project in history. Mr. Lo Baugh has also had substantial experience with Native American legal matters.
www.fulbright.com | 
| Michael Lehrer – Lehrer Architects LA "Case Study of The Water + Life Museums in Hemet, California"
Michael B. Lehrer, FAIA founded his practice, LEHRER ARCHITECTS LA, in Los Angeles in 1985. His work, from the intimate to the monumental, is grounded in the idea that beauty is a rudiment of human dignity. He reveres light and space as the spiritual essence of architecture. Lehrer Architects LA has won over 40 design awards since 1996, including honor awards from the national, state, and local chapters of The American Institute of Architects. Mr. Lehrer has been an adjunct member of the faculty at the University of Southern California since 1986, teaching all levels of design studio from 1st Year through Masters Thesis. He regularly sits on academic and professional AIA design juries around the country. Licensed in California in 1981, Michael was educated at Berkeley and Harvard after attending LAUSD public schools. Mr. Lehrer recently completed the Museum of Water + Life under a joint venture partnership, Lehrer + Gangi Design + Build. The project has been certified by the U. S. Green Building Council as the first LEED™ Platinum museum in the world. The $35 Million Phase I project, including buildings and landscape, is an energy efficiency showcase, featuring a 550 kilowatt photovoltaic rooftop installation. The Museums have won the Beyond Green™ 2007 High Performance Building Award from the Sustainable Building Industry Council, the Gold Nugget Award for the Best Sustainable Commercial Building, and Honor Awards from AIA Los Angeles and the AIA Pasadena Foothill Chapters. Metropolitan Home magazine has included it among its "Design 100 best designs in the world" for 2008.
www.lehrerarchitects.com | 
| Mark Gangi – Gangi Architects "Case Study of The Water + Life Museums in Hemet, California"
Mark Gangi formed Gangi Architects in 1990 as a division of Gangi Builders Inc., a 50-year-old family run construction and development firm spanning three generations of Southern California builders. Mark is simultaneously an Architect, a builder, a developer, an educator, a researcher, and a leader in the profession. Architecture is reality intervention, transforming the human experience with architecture as a sensory and choreographic device – and the architect who leads is the one who understands the entire process. Mr. Gangi is an adjunct member of the faculty at the University of Southern California, where he was also educated. He was licensed as an architect in California in 1997 and is the 2009 President Elect of the AIA Pasadena Foothills chapter. Mr. Gangi recently completed the Museum of Water + Life under a joint venture partnership, Lehrer + Gangi Design + Build. The project has been certified by the U. S. Green Building Council as the first LEED™ Platinum museum in the world. The $35 Million Phase I project, including buildings and landscape, is an energy efficiency showcase, featuring a 550 kilowatt photovoltaic rooftop installation. The Museums have won the Beyond Green™ 2007 High Performance Building Award from the Sustainable Building Industry Council, the Gold Nugget Award for the Best Sustainable Commercial Building, and Honor Awards from AIA Los Angeles and the AIA Pasadena Foothill Chapters. Metropolitan Home magazine has included it among its "Design 100 Best Designs in the World" for 2008.
www.gangidevelopment.com |
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