Green Goings-On

5/22/2012

Looking to network with like-minded, green building professionals? Check out our Green Goings On listing, which is regularly updated with information about important upcoming green conferences and events.

 

May

23, Uponor continues its factory training schedule and new Professional Webinar Series.

23, Washington, DC
International Geothermal Energy Showcase.  The Geothermal Energy Association (GEA) will be holding the fourth annual GEA International Geothermal Energy Showcase to highlight international geothermal projects, policies, and development in top international markets. GEA is hosting the Showcase with collaboration from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Agency for International Development, and the Export-Import Bank of the United States. Industry leaders, government officials, and other power sector representatives from the U.S. and around the world are exp3-5ected to participate.

June

5, Washington, DC
Downtown DC BID: ecoDistrict.  Join the Alliance to Save Energy as Steven Jumper, director of corporate public policy at Washington Gas and Chairman of the Downtown DC BID Committee, and Scott Pomeroy, environmental programs manager at Downtown DC BID discuss this exciting initiative.  More information and registration information here.

10, Pacific Palisades, CA
Join the Green Builder Media Team and Structure Home as we open VISION House Los Angeles. Come for self-guided or guided tours and grab a bite to eat from a food truck while you're there! 11:00am to 5:00pm. 1162 Via de la Paz, Pacific Palisades, CA. To learn more about this event click here.

22-24, LA Convention Center, CA
Dwell on Design is the West Coast’s largest design event. Curated by the editors of Dwell Magazine, the three-day celebration brings together the best and brightest products, services, and thought leaders in modern design today for a series of conversations, demonstrations, tours, and much more. In addition to featuring over 350 exhibitors on the show floor, Dwell on Design encourages an ongoing design dialogue, showcasing over 70 presentations on three separate stages. Held at the LA Convention Center. To register go to http://dod.dwell.com/

24, Southern California
VISION House Los Angeles will be part of the Dwell on Design West Side Home Tour Sunday, June 24. Join Dwell magazine for what promises to be three days full of interesting architecture and people during the annual Dwell Home Tour. A portion of the Home Tour ticket proceeds will go to our non-profit partner, Architecture for Humanity. To register visit http://dod.dwell.com/home-tours

27-28, Moscone Center, San Francisco
PCBC is a gathering of America’s most prominent residential builders, developers, architects, building scientists, lenders, investors, marketers and product manufacturers. Although PCBC made its name as a homebuilding event, it now draws major builders of a wide range of housing forms—single-family, multifamily, mixed-use, seniors’ and resort development. To register visit www.pcbc.com.

July

24-26, Denver, CO
Building America hosts meetings with industry partners and stakeholders to provide a forum for research and communication related to various aspects of residential building research, including webinars that are open to the public and free of charge. To register, or for more information, click here.  To download the agenda, click here.

October

3-5, Las Vegas, NV
5th Annual WaterSmart Innovations (WSI) Conference and Exposition.  Early bird registration opens May 1 and ends June 1.  WSI is the world’s pre-eminent urban water efficiency conference. 

 November

9-10, Scottsdale, AZ
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture and the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture, have announced they will host an international symposium dedicated to exploring the relationship between neuroscience and architecture. The symposium titled: Minding Design: Neuroscience, Design Education and the Imagination, will be held at Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Ariz., the desert campus of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture.
 

 

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