We are excited to be partnering with Pittsburgh's Green Building Alliance, our local tour host, for our upcoming Living Product Expo. This is one of many tours made available to both locals and out-of-town conference attendees.
Our tour of Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens offers an inside look at one of the greenest buildings in the world. Phipps has long been a leader in green buildings and sustainability, and most recently its Center for Sustainable Landscapes achieved Living Building Challenge and LEED Platinum certifications, and is the first and only building to achieve Four Stars Sustainable SITES Initiative for landscapes (pilot), and the WELL Building Platinum (pilot) certification.
Participants of this tour (offered in both the morning and afternoon) will get an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the Center for Sustainable Landscapes, offering an up close and personal reflection of all that was involved in becoming one of the greenest buildings in the world. Next, tour participants will have free time to explore all that Phipps has to offer, including the stunning Summer Flower Show and Butterfly Forest.
This tour also includes a box lunch. REGISTER HERE. Registration cost is $35.
Whether you are a Pittsburgh resident or an out-of-towner attending the Living Product Expo, this tour offers an intriguing look at what it takes to achieve the Living Building Challenge. It’s particularly great for architects, engineers, designers, landscape architects, nature enthusiasts, educators and professionals interested in learning about the Living Building Challenge process.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
**Please note: All our ILFI Living Product Expo Tours will pick-up and drop-off from the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.
We are excited to be partnering with Pittsburgh's Green Building Alliance, our local tour host, for our upcoming Living Product Expo. This is one of many tours made available to both locals and out-of-town conference attendees.
Join us for a biking tour of green buildings in Pittsburgh’s historic Southside. After riding though Point State Park to see “the Point” where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers converge to form the Ohio River, we will pedal over to visit Green Building Alliance’s own LEED-CI Platinum office space to see how new construction can be incorporated into an historic industrial space.
The next stop on the bike trail will be Schwartz Living Market which has been registered as a Living Building Challenge project since 2010 and is a prototype of a Materials Petal Recognition Project. Tour participants will also enjoy a short film by Mark Dixon about the development of the project and enjoy an organic juice from one of the tenants in the Market.
Our final stop on the trail will be Conservation Consultants, Inc. (CCI). CCI’s mission is helping local residents through education to identify energy efficiency improvements they can make to reduce the cost of their utility bills and live in a safer, healthier, and comfortable home. After our site visits we will ride along the riverside trails and have a box lunch along the river.
This tour includes a boxed lunch. REGISTER HERE. Registration cost is $35.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Whether you are a Pittsburgh resident or an out-of-towner attending the ILFI Living Product Expo, this tour offers an intriguing look at what it takes to achieve the Living Building Challenge. It’s particularly great for architects, engineers, designers, landscape architects, nature enthusiasts, educators and professionals interested in learning about the LEED and Living Building Challenge process.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES**Please note: All the Living Product Expo Tours will pick-up and drop-off from the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.
We are excited to be partnering with Pittsburgh's Green Building Alliance, our local tour host, for our upcoming Living Product Expo. This is one of many tours made available to both locals and out-of-town conference attendees.
Nestled on the edge of Pittsburgh’s verdant Frick Park, participants of this tour will visit the construction site of the latest building in Pittsburgh to pursue the Living Building Challenge: the Frick Environmental Center. The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, in partnership with the City of Pittsburgh, has begun the first phase of construction and they will be our tour guides for this project.
The Frick Environmental Center will be a cutting-edge, environmentally sensitive building that will act as a living laboratory, providing children from all parts of the city with access to hands-on, experiential environmental education. The new Center will complement and restore the ecological and historical landscape of the park while enhancing visitor experience and understanding. Designed to meet the Living Building Challenge and LEED Platinum standards for energy efficiency, the new Environmental Center will support its own needs for water and energy.
In addition to the construction site, we will have some extra time to walk through beautiful Frick Park and learn more about this 644 acre urban oasis and the ongoing storm water management projects taking place throughout the park.
A box lunch picnic will be included on the tour. REGISTER HERE. Registration cost is $35.
Whether you are a Pittsburgh resident or an out-of-towner attending the Living Product Expo, this tour offers an intriguing look at what it takes to achieve the Living Building Challenge. It’s particularly great for architects, engineers, designers, landscape architects, nature enthusiasts, educators and professionals interested in learning about the Living Building Challenge process.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES**Please note: All the Living Product Expo Tours will pick-up and drop-off from the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.
We are excited to be partnering with Pittsburgh's Green Building Alliance, our local tour host, for our upcoming Living Product Expo. This is one of many tours made available to both locals and out-of-town conference attendees.
Our tour of Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens offers an inside look at one of the greenest buildings in the world. Phipps has long been a leader in green buildings and sustainability, and most recently its Center for Sustainable Landscapes achieved Living Building Challenge and LEED Platinum certifications, and is the first and only building to achieve Four Stars Sustainable SITES Initiative for landscapes (pilot), and the WELL Building Platinum (pilot) certification.
Participants of this tour (offered in both the morning and afternoon) will get an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the Center for Sustainable Landscapes, offering an up close and personal reflection of all that was involved in becoming one of the greenest buildings in the world. Next, tour participants will have free time to explore all that Phipps has to offer, including the stunning Summer Flower Show and Butterfly Forest.
This tour also includes a box lunch. REGISTER HERE. Registration cost is $35.
Whether you are a Pittsburgh resident or an out-of-towner attending the Living Product Expo, this tour offers an intriguing look at what it takes to achieve the Living Building Challenge. It’s particularly great for architects, engineers, designers, landscape architects, nature enthusiasts, educators and professionals interested in learning about the Living Building Challenge process.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
**Please note: All our ILFI Living Product Expo Tours will pick-up and drop-off from the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.
REGISTER HERE
Take a deep dive into the real world of the Materials Petal. This workshop will feature two presentations that together will give an in-depth look into the realities of applying the Materials Petal to projects and integrating it into a design practice.
Team members from the Brock Environmental Center, targeting Full Living Building Challenge Certification, will share their working model and approach to materials, vetting procedure, and documentation process. They will highlight several examples of struggles with the red list, responsible industry, appropriate sourcing, and conservation and reuse and how they overcame them.
Representatives from ZGF Architects, LLP will share how they are integrating a philosophy and approach to healthy materials selection across their firm. They will describe how they are breaking down the seemingly insurmountable materials transparency effort into realistic tasks that project teams can implement immediately. This process is creating staff buy-in and accountability and ultimately changing practice.
Real world tips, lessons learned, and best practices will be shared. Presentations will be combined with interactive activities to engage participants in hands-on learning related to materials vetting and incorporating healthy materials into everyday practices firm-wide. There will also be time for large group and small group discussions to explore challenges, ideas, and solutions brought forward by attendees.
This summit will challenge architects, contractors, manufacturers, and product designers to rethink their respective roles and integrated influence on material selection in living buildings. Everyone will walk away with new ideas for creating real and lasting change in their projects and companies.
Hosted by the Green Building Alliance
Date + Time:
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
8:00 - 9:30pm
Location:
The Society for Contemporary Craft
2100 Smallman Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15222 [map]
http://www.contemporarycraft.org/
Join attendees and keynote Arlene Blum at the kick off party of the Living Product Expo, hosted by the Green Building Alliance at the Society for Contemporary Craft! Attendees will get a sneak preview of their newest exhibit that explores mental health through art: Mindful. Beauty meets health in seeking positive self-expression.
Join Pittsburgh-based yoga instructor Felicia Lane Savage in the beautiful third-floor foyer of the David L. Lawrence Convention Center to practice some early morning yoga overlooking the Allegheny River. Do a little downward dog before digging in to the conference and expo sessions. Practice your bridge pose as the sun rises over the city of bridges. We’ll stretch you out and wake you up, with enough time to shower and change before you hit the expo hall floor!
We’re offering this pre-conference yoga free of charge to all conference attendees. No advanced registration is necessary: just wear comfortable clothes (and your conference name badge for entry). See you at sunrise!
PRE-REGISTRATION HAS CLOSED FOR THE TESLA MODEL S TEST DRIVES. THERE ARE NO REMAINING APPOINTMENTS AVAILABLE.
What does it feel like to go from 0 to 60 mph in 3.1 seconds without a drop of gasoline? Living Product Expo attendees have the exclusive opportunity to test drive the award winning Model S at the Living Product Expo on Thursday, Sept. 17th between 10am – 3pm.
Drivers may bring up to three guests to ride in the back seat during their drive, guests do not require registration and can be chosen day-of. Driving sessions will be 30 minutes long over a predetermined route designed to highlight the capabilities of Model S. A Tesla Product Specialist will accompany all drives to ensure you optimize your time in Model S. Appointments will be confirmed by a Tesla representative from their California headquarters.
Registration is full. Attendees can seek out Tesla representatives on the trade show floor to potentially reserve and schedule a private test drive.
Educational Track: Healthy Materials for Designers
What can we learn from nature’s 3.8 billion years of experience? Does nature hold the answers to sustainable products? Join a product designer, sustainability strategist and biomimicry expert to take common building products and reimagine them using nature as inspiration. Can we go beyond creating carpet that looks like moss, and creating carpet that actually acts like moss, providing ecosystem services, capturing carbon and becoming vital nutrients for other systems at the end of its life? In this innovation workshop participants will have the opportunity to try their hand at reimagining and redefining true sustainability inspired by nature.
Our society is facing new challenges in terms of resource management and people’s health and well-being due to the increase of global population. The Circular Economy framework can be the front-end design and disruptive innovation leverage to bring the change through companies that can make a beneficial contribution to the economy, quality of life and equity. Herman Miller and Tarkett have both improved supply chains and raw materials to create the pieces of a more circular manufacturing economy. The collaboration with key suppliers has created handprinting opportunities, such as using of recycled materials in popular products; renewable energy solutions; and recycling of product scrap to increase material efficiency flows.
Educational Track: Net Positive Products + Enterprise
LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics is a worldwide leader in the cosmetic industry, responsible for setting new standards in ethical sourcing and green business practices. LUSH has now set a goal of purchasing 100% regenerative materials, and for 4 years has developed a global investment fund to create long-term resiliency and regeneration in direct relationship with suppliers. This case study will reveal real-life challenges and replicable successes from LUSH’s experience. We will also explore the Regeneration Frameworks that LUSH uses to guide supply chain re-design, materials research, and investment decisions.
For anyone who wants to improve their supply chain through innovation and regeneration.
Hosted by Tarkett & BNY Mellon
Date + Time:
Thursday, September 17, 2015
7:30 - 10:00pm
Location:
Phipps Conservatory
1 Schenley Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 [map]
https://phipps.conservatory.org/
Join Expo attendees at one of the greenest buildings in the world and recently certified Full Living Building at Phipps Botanical Gardens and Conservatory. While mingling and networking you'll also be able to explore all that Phipps has to offer, including the stunning Summer Flower Show and Butterfly Forest.
Join Pittsburgh-based yoga instructor Felicia Lane Savage in the beautiful third-floor foyer of the David L. Lawrence Convention Center to practice some early morning yoga overlooking the Allegheny River. Do a little downward dog before digging in to the conference and expo sessions. Practice your bridge pose as the sun rises over the city of bridges. We’ll stretch you out and wake you up, with enough time to shower and change before you hit the expo hall floor!
We’re offering this pre-conference yoga free of charge to all conference attendees. No advanced registration is necessary: just wear comfortable clothes (and your conference name badge for entry). See you at sunrise!
Educational Track: Net Positive Products + Enterprise
The Living Product Challenge has been launched to set an inspirationally, aspirationally high bar for products – a vision for products that don’t just meet a user demand, but meet the fundamental and pressing needs for planetary healing, increased social equity and human well-being, and do so with beauty and inspiration. It is likely that no product on Earth yet could meet the full 20 imperatives of the Living Product Challenge, but this hasn’t stopped a set of bold leaders in product sustainability from digging in deep to see how they can either re-work an existing product or develop a new one that actually fulfills the Living Product vision. In this session we will hear from leaders about the adventure they have embarked upon: lessons learned so far, motivations both internal and external to the company for trying to develop and certify a Living Product, and a sense of what to expect from them in the months to come.