James River Green Building Council

This Month
>Save-the-Date: Second Annual JRGBC Green Building Leadership Awards
>Leadership Awards Nomination Form
>Greening America's Schools
>JRGBC Board Nomination Form
>Greenbuild 2006
>Public Owners Using LEED® Standards
>Brownsfields 2006 Comes to Boston
>Deadline for LEED AP Exam Extended
>Ecobuild Federal, Washington Convention Center
>FSC-Certified Wood Distributor in the Northeastern United States
>GSA and EPA Dedicate One and Two Potomac Yard
>2006 JRGBC Board

Second Annual JRGBC Green Leadership Awards Luncheon
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
University of Richmond ~ Jepson Alumni Center
10am-Noon ~ Trade Show Exhibits
Noon-2pm ~ Lunch, Program & Awards
2-4pm ~ Trade Show Exhibits

Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Stewart D. Roberson
Superintendent, Hanover County Public Schools
Mr. M. Douglas Lowe, LEED AP
President & Owner, Artisan Construction, Inc.

“Public and Residential High Performance Buildings”

Admission to the Exhibits and Luncheon is $50 per person.
You must RSVP by November 22nd.
For a PDF Invitation, please click HERE.
For directions and a map to the Jepson Center, please click HERE.

Sponsorships and Exhibit Space are Still Available!
Please click HERE for more information or contact Mary Kidd at the JRGBC office at (804) 288-2950 or mail@jrgbc.org.

Earn Tickets for Great Door Prizes!
Get Out of Your Single-Occupancy Vehicle!

Arrive to the Awards Luncheon on foot or by bike and receive 4 tickets.
Arrive in a bus and receive 1 ticket.
Arrive in a hybrid car and receive 1 ticket.
Arrive in a carpool and receive 1 ticket for every passenger.
Visit all of the exhibitors and receive 2 tickets.

Thank You to Our Sponsors to Date!
Gold Sponsors:
Enviro Mechanical Sales
Moseley Architects

Silver Sponsors:
First Market Bank / Ukrop’s
McKinney & Company
Riverside Brick & Supply Co., Inc.
Virginia Housing Development Authority
York, A Johnson Controls Company

Certified Sponsors:
ACF Environmental
American HydroTech
Carmax
Columbia Forest Products
Conquest, Moncure & Dunn, Inc.
Creative Building Products
Draper Aden Associates
Dunlap & Partners Engineers
EarthCraft Virginia
Folkes Electrical Construction Co., Inc.
Froehling & Robertson
Gillies Creek Industrial Recycling
Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas & Co.
Kjellstrom & Lee Construction
Luck Stone Corporation
Performance Food Group
Sustainable Design Consulting
Taylor & Parrish, Inc.
Trane
Virginia Sustainable Building Network
Watershed
W.H. Stovall & Co., Inc.

Friends of the Chapter:
Atlantic Constructors, Inc.
Dunbar Milby Pittman & Vaughan
GreenVisions Consulting
M.P. Barden & Sons, Inc.
S.B. Cox, Inc.
SMBW Architects, PC
Tate Access Floors

Exhibitors to Date
ACF Environmental
American HydroTech Lawrence Sanitary
Columbia Forest Products
Creative Building Products
Enviro Mechanical Sales
Falcon Waterfree Technologies
Froehling & Roberts
Horizon Engineering
McKinney & Company
Moseley Architects
Riverside Brick & Supply Company
Sustainable Design Consulting
Tate Access Floors
York

Study shows going "green" would save average school $100,000 a year, paying for two new teachers
A new national report finds that building “green” would save an average school $100,000 each year – enough to hire two new additional full-time teachers. The report breaks new ground by demonstrating that green schools – schools designed to be energy efficient, healthy and environmentally friendly -- are extremely cost-effective. Total financial benefits from green schools outweigh the costs 20 to 1. With over $35 billion dollars projected to be spent in 2007 on K-12 construction, the conclusions of this report have far-reaching implications for future school design.

For the complete press release, please click HERE.
To view the report, please click HERE.

Greenbuild 2006
November 15-17, 2006
The Colorado Convention Center
Denver, Colorado

The 2006 registration brochure is now available for download. Please click HERE. Hardcopies will be sent soon.

Fellow JRGBC member Maureen K. Roskoski, REPA, LEED AP, Senior Project Manager with Facility Engineering Associates, PC, will be presenting "The Sustainability Scorecard: Developing Key Performance Indicators to Measure Sustainable Operations in Existing Buildings” on November 16th, from 8-9:30am.

If any of our other JRGBC members are planning to attend Greenbuild, please let the JRGBC office know and we will try to connect you with each other ahead of time.

Public Owners Using LEED Standards, Says PinnacleOne Survey
According to a new study by PinnacleOne, one of the nation's leading construction consulting firms, almost half (48 percent) of public owners in the United States have implemented construction projects with energy efficiency designs in the past year. Of those owners who implemented energy efficient designs, the vast majority (87 percent) were familiar with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building standards and more than two-thirds (70 percent) used LEED standards in their designs. More than two-thirds (70 percent) of the owners who implemented energy efficient designs in the past year say their designs received LEED certification. Of those designs, 71 percent received a silver certification and 29 percent achieved a gold certification. More info at: http://www.greenbuildingcommunity.com/news_full.php?cpfeatureid=16585&id=13892

Brownfields 2006 Comes to Boston, November 13-15
Not attending Greenbuild this year? Cosponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and International City/County Management Association, Brownfields 2006 will feature nearly 100 educational sessions and a multitude of other learning opportunities, including an exhibit hall, poster presentations, and mobile workshops. Anyone with an interest in brownfields redevelopment is encouraged to attend. Registration information at: www.brownfields2006.org.

Deadline for LEED AP Exam Extended to November 30
To accommodate unprecendented d emand, the deadline for taking the current LEED Professional Accreditation Exam has been extended through November 30, 2006. If you have an existing appointment in October you will be able to reschedule without penalty. Please contact the national call center at Thomson Prom etric at 1-888-215-4154 to schedule, reschedule or cancel an examination. Call center hours are Monday – Friday 8:00am through 8:00pm EST. Please note that exam appointments cannot be scheduled, rescheduled or canceled online. Please note that due to the high candidate volume, availability at test sites may vary.

Ecobuild Federal, Washington Convention Center, December 4-7
Ecobuild Federal and AEC-ST Federal is the annual gathering place for the federal government and AEC professionals who design, construct, manage facilities, and specify building products, materials and services. This event is strategically located inside the famed D.C. beltway, where you'll gain direct networking access to the most powerful and important people influencing our built environment and the policies shaping it. Our comprehensive exhibit is accompanied by a cutting-edge 3-day conference program, more than 100 technical sessions in 10 educational tracks. For more information and registration, visit: http://www.ecobuildfederal.com.

FSC-Certified Wood Distributor in the Northeastern United States
The Rainforest Alliance's SmartWood program has awarded Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification to West Elizabeth Lumber, a wholesale distribution facility in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania. This certification will open up a much-needed supply of lumber and plywood from responsibly managed forests to help meet the growing demand of green building projects in the Northeast. For more information visit: http://www.usgbc.org/News/USGBCInTheNewsDetails.aspx?ID=2677.

GSA and EPA Dedicate One & Two Potomac Yard
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Crescent Resources, LLC, has dedicated One and Two Potomac Yard, located on the 300-acre Potomac Yard site that straddles the Arlington-Alexandria border. These two buildings are the centerpiece of the Arlington, Va., portion of the former rail yard. Included in this par of over 300,000 square feet office building is 412,590 square feet of leased space new home for EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) and Office of Prevention Pesticides and Toxic Substances (OPPTS). Both buildings achieved USGBC's LEED Gold-level certification, making them the first LEED-NC v2 Gold certified buildings in the MD, VA and DC area. More information at http://www.greenbuildingcommunity.com/news_full.php?cpfeatureid=14975.

2006 JRGBC Board
Bryna Dunn, Chair, Moseley Architects
Patrick Farley, Vice-Chair, Watershed
Andrew McBride, Treasurer, University of Richmond
Don Guthrie, Secretary, McKinney & Company

Matte Anderson, Director, Trane
Karl Bren, Director, GreenVisions Consulting
Matt Carr, Director, American Hydrotech
Chris Earley, Director, Timmons Group
Scott Kyle, Director, SKAAT
Sandra Leibowitz Earley, Director, Sustainable Design Consulting
Scott Wheeler, Director, BCWH


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	November 2006 Newsletter	From the Website
	This Month >Save-the-Date: Second Annual JRGBC Green Building Leadership Awards >Leadership Awards Nomination Form >Greening America's Schools >JRGBC Board Nomination Form >Greenbuild 2006 >Public Owners Using LEED® Standards >Brownsfields 2006 Comes to Boston >Deadline for LEED AP Exam Extended >Ecobuild Federal, Washington Convention Center >FSC-Certified Wood Distributor in the Northeastern United States >GSA and EPA Dedicate One and Two Potomac Yard >2006 JRGBC Board Second Annual JRGBC Green Leadership Awards Luncheon Wednesday, November 29, 2006 University of Richmond ~ Jepson Alumni Center 10am-Noon ~ Trade Show Exhibits Noon-2pm ~ Lunch, Program & Awards 2-4pm ~ Trade Show Exhibits Keynote Speakers: Dr. Stewart D. Roberson Superintendent, Hanover County Public Schools Mr. M. Douglas Lowe, LEED AP President & Owner, Artisan Construction, Inc. “Public and Residential High Performance Buildings” Admission to the Exhibits and Luncheon is $50 per person. You must RSVP by November 22nd. For a PDF Invitation, please click HERE. For directions and a map to the Jepson Center, please click HERE. Sponsorships and Exhibit Space are Still Available! Please click HERE for more information or contact Mary Kidd at the JRGBC office at (804) 288-2950 or mail@jrgbc.org. Earn Tickets for Great Door Prizes! Get Out of Your Single-Occupancy Vehicle! Arrive to the Awards Luncheon on foot or by bike and receive 4 tickets. Arrive in a bus and receive 1 ticket. Arrive in a hybrid car and receive 1 ticket. Arrive in a carpool and receive 1 ticket for every passenger. Visit all of the exhibitors and receive 2 tickets. Thank You to Our Sponsors to Date! Gold Sponsors: Enviro Mechanical Sales Moseley Architects Silver Sponsors: First Market Bank / Ukrop’s McKinney & Company Riverside Brick & Supply Co., Inc. Virginia Housing Development Authority York, A Johnson Controls Company Certified Sponsors: ACF Environmental American HydroTech Carmax Columbia Forest Products Conquest, Moncure & Dunn, Inc. Creative Building Products Draper Aden Associates Dunlap & Partners Engineers EarthCraft Virginia Folkes Electrical Construction Co., Inc. Froehling & Robertson Gillies Creek Industrial Recycling Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas & Co. Kjellstrom & Lee Construction Luck Stone Corporation Performance Food Group Sustainable Design Consulting Taylor & Parrish, Inc. Trane Virginia Sustainable Building Network Watershed W.H. Stovall & Co., Inc. Friends of the Chapter: Atlantic Constructors, Inc. Dunbar Milby Pittman & Vaughan GreenVisions Consulting M.P. Barden & Sons, Inc. S.B. Cox, Inc. SMBW Architects, PC Tate Access Floors Exhibitors to Date ACF Environmental American HydroTech Lawrence Sanitary Columbia Forest Products Creative Building Products Enviro Mechanical Sales Falcon Waterfree Technologies Froehling & Roberts Horizon Engineering McKinney & Company Moseley Architects Riverside Brick & Supply Company Sustainable Design Consulting Tate Access Floors York Study shows going "green" would save average school $100,000 a year, paying for two new teachers A new national report finds that building “green” would save an average school $100,000 each year – enough to hire two new additional full-time teachers. The report breaks new ground by demonstrating that green schools – schools designed to be energy efficient, healthy and environmentally friendly -- are extremely cost-effective. Total financial benefits from green schools outweigh the costs 20 to 1. With over $35 billion dollars projected to be spent in 2007 on K-12 construction, the conclusions of this report have far-reaching implications for future school design. For the complete press release, please click HERE. To view the report, please click HERE. Greenbuild 2006 November 15-17, 2006 The Colorado Convention Center Denver, Colorado The 2006 registration brochure is now available for download. Please click HERE. Hardcopies will be sent soon. Fellow JRGBC member Maureen K. Roskoski, REPA, LEED AP, Senior Project Manager with Facility Engineering Associates, PC, will be presenting "The Sustainability Scorecard: Developing Key Performance Indicators to Measure Sustainable Operations in Existing Buildings” on November 16th, from 8-9:30am. If any of our other JRGBC members are planning to attend Greenbuild, please let the JRGBC office know and we will try to connect you with each other ahead of time. Public Owners Using LEED Standards, Says PinnacleOne Survey According to a new study by PinnacleOne, one of the nation's leading construction consulting firms, almost half (48 percent) of public owners in the United States have implemented construction projects with energy efficiency designs in the past year. Of those owners who implemented energy efficient designs, the vast majority (87 percent) were familiar with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building standards and more than two-thirds (70 percent) used LEED standards in their designs. More than two-thirds (70 percent) of the owners who implemented energy efficient designs in the past year say their designs received LEED certification. Of those designs, 71 percent received a silver certification and 29 percent achieved a gold certification. More info at: http://www.greenbuildingcommunity.com/news_full.php?cpfeatureid=16585&id=13892 Brownfields 2006 Comes to Boston, November 13-15 Not attending Greenbuild this year? Cosponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and International City/County Management Association, Brownfields 2006 will feature nearly 100 educational sessions and a multitude of other learning opportunities, including an exhibit hall, poster presentations, and mobile workshops. Anyone with an interest in brownfields redevelopment is encouraged to attend. Registration information at: www.brownfields2006.org. Deadline for LEED AP Exam Extended to November 30 To accommodate unprecendented d emand, the deadline for taking the current LEED Professional Accreditation Exam has been extended through November 30, 2006. If you have an existing appointment in October you will be able to reschedule without penalty. Please contact the national call center at Thomson Prom etric at 1-888-215-4154 to schedule, reschedule or cancel an examination. Call center hours are Monday – Friday 8:00am through 8:00pm EST. Please note that exam appointments cannot be scheduled, rescheduled or canceled online. Please note that due to the high candidate volume, availability at test sites may vary. Ecobuild Federal, Washington Convention Center, December 4-7 Ecobuild Federal and AEC-ST Federal is the annual gathering place for the federal government and AEC professionals who design, construct, manage facilities, and specify building products, materials and services. This event is strategically located inside the famed D.C. beltway, where you'll gain direct networking access to the most powerful and important people influencing our built environment and the policies shaping it. Our comprehensive exhibit is accompanied by a cutting-edge 3-day conference program, more than 100 technical sessions in 10 educational tracks. For more information and registration, visit: http://www.ecobuildfederal.com. FSC-Certified Wood Distributor in the Northeastern United States The Rainforest Alliance's SmartWood program has awarded Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification to West Elizabeth Lumber, a wholesale distribution facility in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania. This certification will open up a much-needed supply of lumber and plywood from responsibly managed forests to help meet the growing demand of green building projects in the Northeast. For more information visit: http://www.usgbc.org/News/USGBCInTheNewsDetails.aspx?ID=2677. GSA and EPA Dedicate One & Two Potomac Yard The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Crescent Resources, LLC, has dedicated One and Two Potomac Yard, located on the 300-acre Potomac Yard site that straddles the Arlington-Alexandria border. These two buildings are the centerpiece of the Arlington, Va., portion of the former rail yard. Included in this par of over 300,000 square feet office building is 412,590 square feet of leased space new home for EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) and Office of Prevention Pesticides and Toxic Substances (OPPTS). Both buildings achieved USGBC's LEED Gold-level certification, making them the first LEED-NC v2 Gold certified buildings in the MD, VA and DC area. More information at http://www.greenbuildingcommunity.com/news_full.php?cpfeatureid=14975. 2006 JRGBC Board Bryna Dunn, Chair, Moseley Architects Patrick Farley, Vice-Chair, Watershed Andrew McBride, Treasurer, University of Richmond Don Guthrie, Secretary, McKinney & Company Matte Anderson, Director, Trane Karl Bren, Director, GreenVisions Consulting Matt Carr, Director, American Hydrotech Chris Earley, Director, Timmons Group Scott Kyle, Director, SKAAT Sandra Leibowitz Earley, Director, Sustainable Design Consulting Scott Wheeler, Director, BCWH	Have You Joined the Local Chapter? If your company is not a member of the USGBC yet, please convince them to join. You can Join locally as an individual through the JRGBC Website. There is a discount for National Members and for students.*(Note: This pdf form may take as long as a minute or two to load the first time. Alternately you can send in this form with a check via standard mail if you would like.) Or click Here to register on-line. Did you miss the last meeting? We've got you covered. See the list below for an archive of selected meetings and newsletters. Also, visit our Library for additional information, resources, and presentations. Meetings coming soon LEED Workshop Search and Register To find LEED Workshops, or to register for a LEED Workshop, please click Here. Thanks to Our Sponsors! Thank You Founding Sponsors . We are now able to look ahead to sponsorship for upcoming Events and Annual sponsorships thanks to your initial help. Please Contact Us if you are interested in Sponsoring our upcoming programs.



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