Breakout Sessions : Green Communities Track

Monday, June 23: 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.

GC1-A: Affordable Housing

• Dovetail Partner’s Eco-Affordable Housing Program – It’s Not Just About the House: Bringing Sustainable Design Education and Economic Stimulation to Rural Communities in Minnesota.
  Alison Lindburg, Dovetail Partners, Inc.
• Case Study: Green and Healthy Affordable Housing in Southwestern Minnesota.
  William Weber, University of Minnesota

GC1-B: Transforming Communities Through Green Development

• PDF 2.3 MB - The Greening of Surburbia: Vernon Park Village, a Conservation Community.
  William Worn, Worn Jerabek Architects
• Renaissance Place at Grand HOPE VI Community & Carver Elementary School - Affordable Green Development in a School-Centered Urban Community.
  William M. Carson, Michael Saunders, Julie DeGraaf Velazquez - McCormack Baron Salazar, Inc.
• The New Frontier of LEED: Piloting LEED for Neighborhood Development.
  Stefanie Young, U.S. Green Building Council

GC1-C: Water Management

• PDF 2.2 MB - Bringing Rain Gardens to the Southern Midwest: Case Studies of Large and Small Scale Rain Gardens in Commercial, Residential Subdivision and Single Housing Unit Settings.
  Shane Staten, Terra Technologies
• PDF 11 MB - Stormwater Management for Urban Environments.
  Charles R. Taylor, Advanced Pavement Technology
• Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS).
  Christy Butero, Oldcastle; David Smith

Tuesday, June 24: 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon

GC2-A: Design Approaches

• Greening the Public Realm: Cutting Edge Sustainable Design Technologies Revitalize the Landscape for Two Different Communities.
  Jay Womack, Wight & Company
• The Aldo Leopold Legacy Center: A Convergence of Ecology, Aesthetics, and Engineering.
  Wayne Reckard, The Kubala Washatko Architects, Inc.; Tom Kubala

GC2-B: From Eye Sore to Show Place

• PDF 9.7 MB - Brownfield to Greenfield – The Transition of a Dilapidated Inner City Building into a Platinum Experience.
  Tim Montgomery, TMA Architects LLC; Dr. John Sweet, trustee of Wm. A. Kerr Foundation
• PDF 6.5 MB - Healing Whole Communities: Tar Creek beyond Superfund through Integrative Sustainability Design.
  Ivan Weber, Weber Sustainability Consulting

GC2-C: LEED-Homes: Marketing Benefits, Learning from Challenges

• From the individual home to tract-building economies of scale, high-end custom to affordable homes, single-lot to sustainable neighborhood developments – this facilitated panel discussion will explore participants’ experience with certified residential building – with audience input encouraged. Sponsored by USGBC-St. Louis Regional Chapter.
  Panelists: Rick Hunter, Managing Principal, Sage Homes; Phil Fingerhut, Director of Operations, The Meyer Company; Chris Andrews, Certified Eco-Broker, Coldwell Banker Premier; Amy Walker, Certified Green Rater, Hathmore Technologies LLC; Anthony Schroeder, Property Owner, Wellspring Development Company; Paul Henckler, CEO, Trumpet LLC.

Tuesday, June 24: 1:30 to 3:00 p.m.

GC3-A: St. Louis Transformation Successes

• Greening our Grayfields: Sustainable Community Redevelopment Along the Fourth Street Corridor in DeKalb, Illinois.
  Daniel F. Hellmuth, Hellmuth + Bicknese Architects, LLC; Mark Meyer; Jim Wolterman
• Neighborhood Transformation: Old North St. Louis and the Crown Village Developments.
  John Burse, Mackey Mitchell Architects; Sean Thomas, Old North St. Louis Restoration Group; David Dodson; Regional House & Community Development Alliance

GC3-B: Chicago Residential Story

• Government Guided Green Residential: The Creation and Application of the City of Chicago’s Green Residential Standard.
  Susan F. King, Green Works Studio; Paul Knight, DomusPlus

GC3-C: LEED H and the Eco-Village

• PDF 783 KB - Building True Green Affordably: A Look at How One Builder Obtained a LEED for Homes Platinum Rating Without Breaking the Bank.
  Jay Swoboda, Nate Forst - EcoUrban Homes
• One Year's Results From a LEED Platinum Home.
  Maren Engelmohr Engelmohr, Forum Studio; Matt Belcher
• The Eco-Village Experience: A 10 Year Process.
  Grady O’Rear, EcoVillage of Loudoun County Virginia

Tuesday, June 24: 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.

GC4-A: Sustainable Landscape Standards

• Sustainable Sites and Low-Impact Development
  Hunter Beckham, SWT Design; Valerie Vartanian, The Nature Conservancy
• PDF 4.2 MB - Leveraging Low Impact Development (LID) Principles to Drive LEED-ND at the State and Local Level.
  Wesley Horner, Cahill Associates, Inc.; Andrew Potts; Scott Dierks, JF New

GC4-B: Growing Hope and Change

• PDF 10.8 MB - Gateway Greening's USDA Community Food Project: Growing More than Food.
  Andrea Meyer, Gateway Greening, Inc.
• GREENING THE VILLE: A Community Market Design Collaboration.
  Donald N. Koster, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts / Washington University in St. Louis; John Berendzen, AIA, LEED AP

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Viewing Times: Monday, June 23; 3:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday, June 24; 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. and
Tuesday, June 24; 3:00 - 3:30 p.m.

A Case Study: Challenges of Producing FSC Certified Wood Products in the Missouri Ozarks.
Hank Dorst, Value Missouri

A Landscape System: Conservation Site Design for the Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center.
Sarah Gibson, the HOK Planning Group

Comparison of the Life Cycle Assessments of an Insulating Concrete Form (ICF) House and a Wood Frame House. 
Medgar Marceau, CTLGroup; Daniel F. Hellmuth, AIA LEED AP; Mark Meyer, PE; Jim Wolterman, ASLA

Multi-Use Paths, Bikeways, and Greenways within the St. Louis Region.
James Roseberry, Trivers Associates