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Thursday February 8, 2007 - 5:30PM to 7:30 PM

International Green Building:
France, England & Beyond

Sponsors: Benjamin Moore, Computer Floors Inc./ASM, C/S Group, Forbo, Natural Cork, Tate Access Floors, Zeftron and Zumtobel Staff Lighting, GreenDepot

                     STATEWIDE SPONSOR:      NYSERDA

Speakers:

Alia Bengana, Architect, AIA Delano & Aldrich Fellow 2006
 
Byron Stigge, Associate, Buro Happold
 

This lecture will cover:
 

  • A comparison between England's BREEAM system and the LEED system.
  • Case studies of several projects in Dubai, Korea, Moscow, Spain and Italy and others.
  • A discussion of Green Building practices in France. An Introduction to HQE®, Haute Quality Environemmentale, A French approach to sustainability
  • The French HQE®, a non profit public association that promotes sustainable environmental quality of buildings and environmental management of projects
  • The 14 environmental targets of HQE® Association
  • The Methodology of the French certification, the procedure and process, what kind of operations it concerns.
  • Public and private organizations that govern environmental issues in France, how they work together
  • Government incentives
  • Presentation of four recent case studies of green architecture in France

    • Speaker Bios:
     

    Alia Bengana

    Alia Bengana, French architect, graduated in 2000 from the School of Architecture of Paris in Belleville. She also studied for a year in Rome and worked for the past six years in France, Italy, Spain and North Africa. During the past four years in Paris, Ms. Bengana worked mainly on residential projects, offices, hotels and refurbishments. She was a project architect for Pier Luigi Copat Architect, in collaboration with Renzo Piano Building Workshop for two buildings in Lyon, France. Ms. Bengana won the 2006 AIA Delano Aldrich & Emerson Fellowship for French architects, to study and travel in the United States for six months, focusing on the topic "Sustainable architecture in the United States and the LEED rating system".

    Byron Stigge, Associate, Buro Happold

    Byron has focused his engineering and design career on environmental building consulting with the UK-based firm Buro Happold since 1998 and has worked in their London, Bath and New York offices. His passion for sustainable development of the built environment has offered him the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects around the world from active facade simulations to LEED consulting to Environmental Planning projects. Recent projects include: Orange County Great Park in Irvine, CA, CSOB Bank LEED Assessment in Prague, Governors Island Strategic Plan in New York City; Genzyme Center in Cambridge, MA; The World Trade Center Competition with "Team Think"; Lotte Super Tower in Seoul, Korea; and Lifestyle Hotel at MGM CityCenter in Las Vegas. Byron completed his BSCE at Washington University in St. Louis then went on to receive his MSBT from MIT and his M. Des from Harvard Design School.

     

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