IES’s Matt Root recently presented Better Materials Managed Digitally at the BE+ Building Tech Forum at The Foundry, Cambridge, MA. The theme was Accelerating Change in the Built Environment, with five-minute talks from a diverse group of innovators showcasing building technology advancing this vision–including our own Red2Green materials management platform.
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The 2022 BE+ Green Building Showcase Award Winners
Both IES’s Charley Stevenson and Matt Root were honored to attend the BE+ 2022 event, which was hosted at Harvard University’s Science and Engineering Complex (SEC).
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IES’s Charley Stevenson and Matt Root will be on hand as Built Environment Plus holds its 2022 Green Building Showcase on Oct. 27, 5-9:30 p.m. The event happens at Harvard University’s Science and Engineering Complex (SEC), the BE+ 2021 Green Building of the Year. IES was Living Building Challenge consultant for SEC, researching 5,600 building materials using IES’s healthier materials management platform, Red2Green. Join us for a night of project boards, presentations, discussions and awards for everyone involved in designing, operating and constructing the built environment, which is sponsored in part by Red2Green.
IES will join representatives of Williams College to speak at the International Living Future Institute’s (ILFI) 16th annual Living Future unConference, taking place May 2-13. IES’ Charley Stevenson, principal, and Carlye Woodard, project coordinator, will join Williams’ Mike Evans, associate director, Zilkha Center for Environmental Initiatives, and Mike Wood, assistant director, Planning, Design and Construction, to present Integrated Materials Management: Volume Strategies for Maximizing LBC Materials Petal Efficiency. The session will be held May 11 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ET.
Focusing on healthier materials, Integrated Materials Management (IMM) explores lessons gleaned from the decade-long sustainability collaboration between Williams and IES. Attendees, including owners, architects and builders, will learn how IMM strategies can leverage the gains of LBC Materials Petal certification, particularly when employing LBC Volume Certification. The Volume process allows owners and project teams to economically and efficiently scale their certification efforts and results over multiple building projects.
Covered topics include recognizing the vital role of contract documents in achieving specific materials goals and reducing risks; identifying key responsibilities for various stakeholders; and choosing target metrics to guide the process and assess results. Participants will leave knowing how to gauge project performance and ensure continual process improvements.
With a theme of Restoration + Justice, ILFI promises “ten days of inspiring keynotes and plenaries, collaboration and daily networking sessions, and more than 80 educational sessions.” The online conference will offer opportunities for “learning and networking in ten tracks, including Climate Justice, Resilience, Zero Carbon, Innovation in Ownership, Beauty+Biophilic Design, and more.”
Recently, IES Principle Charley Stevenson addressed Lever’s Innovation Summit 2019 in Williamstown, MA, which also featured a keynote presentation by Steve Case, former CEO and chairman of America Online and now chairman and CEO of Revolution. In a video provided by WiliNet TV, Charley discusses the evolution of our materials tracking platform, Red2Green. What started out as a single project (and a resulting stack of spreadsheets) has lead to nearly 60 projects neatly organized in our proprietary software, now used nationwide. Check out the video below to learn more about how a unique challenge evolved into a great opportunity.
Those who have accomplished it will tell you—full disclosure— addressing sustainability at the building level can be a challenging feat. Our newest member at IES, Amy Johns, who is also an endurance runner shares her philosophy of running and a moving approach to achieving the Living Building Challenge in ILFI’s, Trim Tab.
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