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Tuesday, June 3, 2008 (Day 1)
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7:30 AM
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On-Site Registration and Welcome Breakfast
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8:25 AM
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Opening Remarks
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8:30 AM
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Town Hall Meeting: The State of the Green Buildings Market
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Setting the stage for a day of discussion, this panel of leading owners, developers, lenders and brokers will gauge the current green real estate climate and how it is interacting with the investment, finance and capital markets, development, and leasing of commercial property nationwide. Topics covered will include how office, industrial, multifamily and retail asset owners, investors and developers can both better their ROI and the environment by adopting green building standards and elements for both new and existing buildings, the challenges and benefits of increasing regulation at the local level, the increasing demand to meet LEED certification standards, breaking down the costs of green improvements and designs and how to get them financed, and how brokers can position themselves to gain new agency or tenant rep assignments through understanding green elements.
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| Moderator(s) |
Raymond Quartararo
International Director/Managing Director NE Region
Jones Lang LaSalle
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| Panelist(s) |
Paul Beckwith
Vice President Construction, Northeast
Regency Centers
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Aaron Binkley
Director, Sustainability Programs
AMB Property Corporation
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James Finlay
VP, Comm Appraisal Mngr
Wells Fargo
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Aaron Liebert
Sr. Vice President and Area Managing Partner
JPI
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9:20 AM
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Coffee Break
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9:40 AM
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Green Buildings Power Panel: Leading Owners Speak Out on Retrofitting
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Everyone by now has heard general benefits that can be reaped from "going green," but for major developers and owners who have retrofitted existing buildings to include sustainable elements or put up buildings built and certified to green standards, what specific sorts of benefits are they realizing? What challenges did they overcome in the planning, design, certification, permitting, and construction stages? What has been their return on investment and how have business costs been lowered? How are they gauging the vital yet difficult-to-measure improvements to the work environment for employees? Where do they see the "green bandwagon" headed and, having been involved are they convinced of its benefits and on board for the long haul? This Power Panel, representing owners from all property types, will cut through the hype to present working strategies and practical knowledge from the market’s most active players.
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Roger Platt
Senior Vice President
The Real Estate Roundtable
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Tim Helmig
Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer
Monday Properties
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Stanley Roualdes
EVP, Director of Property Management and Construction
Shorenstein Company
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10:30 AM
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Networking Break
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10:45 AM
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Corporate Perspectives: Tenants Discuss the Importance of Green
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Corporations large and small are embracing green, whether when constructing a new LEED-certified asset from ground-up or when retrofitting an existing building. Directors of sustainability and corporate real estate executives from the most active green firms will discuss what ROIs they’re realizing from their green efforts, how they’re marketing their efforts to both the public and to employees, how they’ve balanced their costs, what sorts of productivity increases they may be realizing, and more.
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Olivia Millar
Director of Sustainability and Workplace Strategies
Studley
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John Hirschfeld
Chief Executive Officer
Class Green Capital Partners, LLC
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Jim Mayer
Partner
Holland & Knight
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11:35 AM
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Refreshment Break
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11:45 AM - 12:35 PM
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CONCURRENT SESSIONS - Select As Appropriate
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11:45 AM - 12:35 PM
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Elective:
A1 Green for Green: Financing and Investing in Green Buildings
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Reality in the debt and equity markets continues to be a flood of capital seeking deals of all sorts and increasingly, value-add deals that include green buildings. How does a building being green impact the financing of that sale and deal, and how are investors--both buyers and sellers--looking at the deal compared to a non-green asset. Will there come a day when a certain class of investors will only look at buying green buildings? Will green deals set better financing terms than non-green? Leading lenders and investors of all stripes will discuss new practices, mitigating risks, how they're getting deals done, and assessments of current and near-future markets for financing and investing in green buildings.
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Paul Collins
Senior Managing Director
Colliers International
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Steve Gossett Jr.
Vice President of Development
Transcend Equity
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Nicholas Stolatis
Director - Strategic Initiatives Asset Management
TIAA-CREF Global Real Estate
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11:45 AM - 12:35 PM
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Elective:
A2 From The Ground Up: Greening During Construction
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This panel of leading developers and architects will discuss moving forward on green building construction, from site selection, planning and approval, to taking advantage of available tax deferrals, and meeting and exceeding the demands of everything from the client to certification.
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Tom Boeck
Senior Vice President
Transwestern
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Panelist(s) |
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Christopher Gorthy
East Coast Sustainability Manager
DPR Construction, Inc.
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Dean Newins
Principal, Design Architecture
Opus Architects & Engineers
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Jake Ragusa
Senior Vice President/Partner
Koll Development Company
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Steven Shapiro
The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
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11:45 AM - 12:35 PM
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Elective:
A3 The Importance of Commercial Interiors in Today's Tenant Leasing and Operations Market
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Equipment and service providers active in bringing green buildings up to certifiable standards take the stage to discuss cost-effective options for the processing and delivery of a facility's water, plumbing, lighting, heating and cooling as it relates to sustainability, as well as improving ergonomic standards in the workplace, ranging from office settings to furniture and carpet.
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Moderator(s) |
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Stephen Rizzo
Director
CodeGreen
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Panelist(s) |
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Jonathan Baron
Baron Design
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Mark Bisbee
Owner
GreenFloors
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Lew Brode
SVP and Branch Manager
GPI / Greenman-Pedersen, Inc.
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Bobby Croghan
Designer
OTJ Architects
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12:35 PM
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Networking Luncheon
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1:15 PM
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Special Presentations
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Steven Hubert
Partner
Buchanan Partners
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Doug Gatlin
VP, Market Development
U.S. Green Building Council
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2:00 PM
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Coffee Break
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2:15 PM
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The Business Case For Green
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No one can dispute the importance of green initiatives to our environment. But real estate practitioners have a dual challenge in that they must embrace sustainability and maintain their fiduciary responsibility. This expert panel will cover the balance and conflicts of the two often-conflicting missions of green and the bottom line, focusing on how building owners, investors and developers can both better their ROI and the environment by adopting green buildings standards on existing buildings. Specific topics to be addressed will include LEED ratings, breaking down the costs of green improvements and designs and how to get them financed, how improvements and retrofitting can add resale value to an asset, how long-term cost savings can be realized via building features including HVAC, lighting and construction materials, and how brokers can position themselves to gain new agency or tenant rep assignments through understanding this issue.
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John Salustri
Editorial Director
ALM-Real Estate Media Group
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Shelby Christensen
Senior Vice President & Director of Property Management
Liberty Property Trust
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Victoria Kahn
Managing Director
ING Clarion Partners
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Al Skodowski
Senior Vice President
Transwestern
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Brenna Walraven
Chairman
BOMA International
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Sally Wilson
Global Director of Environmental Strategy
CB Richard Ellis
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3:10 PM
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Cocktail Reception
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