This document provides an agenda and details for an office's Environmental Awareness Week. Each day of the week features presentations or visits from representatives of green building product companies. Presentation topics include sustainable design resources and standards, engineering for sustainable design, and LEED certification. Films will be screened one night on industrial sustainability. Staff are encouraged to identify the top 10 ways to be green in the office and submit entries to win prizes.

1. ALL WEEK > EXHIBITS
CHI& PHX
PROJECTS >Built, Unbuilt, Sustainable Design Competition Submissions, look for our work displayed throughout the office > PRODUCTS >A variety of environmentally friendly products will be displayed throughout the office. > GOING FOR THE GREEN
>What are the top 10 ways to be more ‘green’ at the office? Find the signs posted throughout the office and submit an entry to a drawing during Thursday’s Party. Fabulous prizes await! Forms will be available Monday via the intranet.
VIDEOS > ALL WEEK > CHI 17 Game Room
Blue Vinyl > A toxic comedy. With humor, hope and a piece of vinyl siding firmly in hand, Peabody Award-winning film-maker Judity Helfand travels from her hometown to America’s vinyl manufacturing capital in a search of answer about the nature
of polyvinyl chloride (PCV).
Pennsylvania’s First Green Building > Situated on a reclaimed brownfield site, the new regional headquarters of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is the state’s first green building. This film documents a new way of building for
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Building Sustainability with the Natural Step: University of Texas-Houston’s Journey > This film clearly explains the Natural Step principles of sustainability and applies those principles to the realization of a large scale, complex and long term project,
The Nursing and Biomedical Sciences Building at the UT Texas-Houston Health Sciences Center.
The Next Industrial Revolution > We live in a tine of increasing environmental concerns. Doomsday scenarios about based on increasing human population competing for ever scarcer natural resources. Bill McDonough and Michael Braungart offer a
different version of the future-one where humanity works with nature.
ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS WEEK
MONDAY 10.27 TUESDAY 10.28 WEDNESDAY 10.29 THURSDAY 10.30 FRIDAY 10.31
Go Green
TIME DATE >
>
9AM 10AM
> REP VISIT REP VISIT REP VISIT REP VISIT REP VISIT
CHI 22B CHI 22B CHI 22B CHI 22B CHI 22B
USG - All products The Bahr Co. - Wood Flooring Herman Miller&Maharam - Furniture Interface & Dupont Carpets -Carpet Armstrong -Floor & Ceilings
11AM 12PM PST OPENING ADDRESS
> PRESENTATION PRESENTATION PRESENTATION PRESENTATION
12PM 1PM CST
> CHI 21 Lobby CHI 22C CHI 22C CHI 22C CHI 22C
Standards & Regulations for Green Buildings.
PHX Lab This session will provide a
PHX Lab PHX Lab PHX Lab
John Syvertsen will kick-off the Design Resources. Demonstrating what Engineering for Sustainable Design. LEED for Commercial Interiors. Aramark was
summary of existing standards
festivities for Environmental we have as a firm internally for Incorporating sustainable selected by the U.S. Green Building
and regulations to green buildings.
Awareness Week with a brief Sustainable Design Resources. design in civil, structural and Council to test proposed guidelines
The primary focus will be the LEED
10.27-10.31 opening address to all staff. Please Maurya Cohan will discuss the MEP engineering and project for LEED Certification of interior
Green Building Rating System, the
join us in support of our firm’s organization of the interiors library, specifications. The following design projects. A 160,000 SF
upcoming Chicago Standard, and
commitment to sustainable design. and how things are denoted as individuals will present sustainable interior renovation of an Aramark
the Chicago Energy Conservation
“environmentally friendly”. Jessica design issues per their respective property was used as the basis for
Code. We will outline the basic
PRESENTATION Wojtas will review the backbone of discipline: Karen Steingraber with the test. This session will feature
elements of these standards,
the Environmental Design Database, Terra Engineering Tom Harrison likely points for LEED certification.
CHI 22C what projects they apply to, and
and instruct how to navigate with OWP/P Structural Engineers This pilot conducted nationwide,
what resources to use for more
PHX Lab information. Time allowing, there
through its various channels. Erik Erik Olsen with OWP/P MEP assesses the proposed characteristics
Sustainable Design Submissions Representatives Olsen and Leslie North will touch Engineers and Rich Ray regarding in actual interior projects.
may be additional discussion
from each market will present a on the engineering tools available project specifications. 1CEU
of other rating systems and
project that has ‘green’ features. and how they can be applied in 1CEU
benchmarking tools for green
This is a good opportunity to see everyday projects.
buildings.
what other people at OWP/P are 1CEU
1CEU
doing with sustainable design and
to learn about strategies that could
be used on any project.
1CEU
3PM 4PM> REP VISIT REP VISIT REP VISIT REP VISIT REP VISIT
CHI 22B CHI 22B CHI 22B CHI 22B CHI 22B
Architectural Woodworking Institute Len-Tex -Wall covering Teknion -Furniture & Wall Systems Trespa -Composite Panels, Shannon Sales (Dinoflex, Metroflor & Marley Floors)
-Millwork Ecophon -Ceilings - Rubber & Sheet Vinyl Flooring
4:45PM 7PM > MOVIE NIGHT TOUR Chicago Center for Green Technology PRESENTATION Chicago Interface Showroom GREEN HALLOWEEN
CHI 22C 445 N 44O N Wells CHI 22nd Floor
The Next Industrial Revolution. We live in a
time of increasing environmental Sacramento (Leave from lobby @ 4:45) Biomimicry PHX Lab
David Oakey, founder of David Sustainable Design Competition Jury results
concerns. Doomsday scenarios (Leave from lobby @ 4:45) In 1999 after
Oakey Designs, collaborated with announced Going for the Green
based on increasing human having taken over the site from the
Interface Inc. in 1994, and has Drawing for fabulous prizes
population competing for natural previous owners and subsequently
been leading efforts in sustainable Costume Party Prizes for creative
resources. Bill McDonough and cleaning up this brownfield site,
or “smart design” and mass costumes plus plenty of food and
Michael Braungart offer a different the Chicago Department of the
customization manufacturing. With drink to celebrate!
version of the future- one where Environment decided to renovate
great passion, he will discuss an
humanity works with nature, where the existing building utilizing LEED.
approach to sustainability through
technical enterprises are continually Three environmentally focused
process, product and people. In
reinvented as safe and renewing tenants currently occupy space at
this session hosted by Interface
natural processes. the center. Join us for a showcase
David will discuss the philosophy
for green technology.
1.5 CEU of utilizing Biomimicry in design.
1.5 CEU
1.5 CEU