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Demystifying Green Buildings
AN OPEN COMMUNITY ROUNDTABLE
» Thursday 12 Febuary 2009 | 5 pm
» The Bohemian Café, 524 Bernard Avenue
An informal afternoon hour showcasing people and ideas featured in Okanagan HOME. Join us as moderator George Hutchison, along with JoAnne Adamson, Shane Lapp and Gustav van Niekerk provide answers from engineering, design and construction professionals at work in the Okanagan.
» This is a free event. Refreshments will be available at a modest cost.
» Seating is limited, please reserve yours HERE
Experts Explore the Great Green Hope
Building green may be the best and most cost-effective way to address global warming, but the actual bricks and mortar of it remains shrouded in mystery for many of us.
Who sets green building standards and who enforces them? What does it cost to build this way and how do we know if and when we've achieved green?
On Thursday, February 12th at 5 pm the ongoing weekly Okanagan Institute Express series at the Bohemian Café presents Demystifying Green Buildings in which moderator George Hutchison, along with JoAnne Adamson, Shane Lapp and Gustav van Niekerk open windows and doors on these and other questions with answers from engineering, design and construction professionals at work in the Okanagan.
From certifications and specifications to costs and construction, this session will clear up our misconceptions and explain the differences between various green building rating systems. We'll find out too whether we're wrong to think that being green means giving up contemporary ideas about luxury, comfort and beauty.
The presentation will appeal to anyone curious about the greening of our built environment.
 George Hutchison is an Associate in the Mechanical Engineering division of Stantec Consulting Ltd.'s Kelowna office. Since his entry into the Mechanical Engineering field in 1990, George has acted as a designer and Project Manager for various firms and has been with Stantec for the past last 11 years. More recently, George has focused on Administrative and Marketing roles for Stantec. George has managed the design of many large building projects including Hospitals, Universities, Municipal facilities, Wastewater facilities and has acted as the Prime Consultant and Project Team Leader for various projects involving major HVAC and plumbing projects/renovations, building additions, steam boiler installations, and fire protection retrofits.
 JoAnne Adamson is a Development Manager for The Mission Group. JoAnne received her Bachelor of Commerce from Okanagan University College and worked in the financial service industry for several years before entering the development industry in 2002. Currently, JoAnne is the chair of the City of Kelowna's Housing Committee, is enrolled in SFU's Urban Design Program, and is studying to become a LEED Accredited Professional."
 Shane Lapp is a mechanical engineer with Stantec Consulting specializing in energy efficiency and renewable energies such as geo-exchange and solar. He is a member of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council and Living Building Community. He has successfully passed the Certified Geo-Exchange Designer course through the Association of Energy Engineers and the International Ground-Source Heat Pump Association. Having completed over 25 successful geo-thermal designs, he is at the forefront of geo-exchange technology.
 Gustav van Niekerk is a senior quantity surveyor at Kelowna based professional quantity surveying firm, Spiegel Skillen and Associates. He has offered Integrated Cost Consulting services during the design and construction phases on a range of high-profile and high-efficiency projects in South Africa, England and Canada. Projects which he has worked on include international airport terminals, shopping malls, hotels and multi-family residential developments. More recently he has worked closely with the design teams for the Kelowna Mission Aquatic Centre and the Okanagan College Centre for Learning.
Demystifying Green Buildings is a free event, and takes place at the Bohemian Café. This marks the 77th event the Okanagan Institute has held since the Express series got underway in July 2007. Since that time, the series has played host to many Okanagan luminaries, including former deputy secretary general of Amnesty International Derek Evans, artists Lee Claremont and Gary Pearson, BC Book Award nominee Don Gayton, CBC Literary prize winner poet Harold Rhenisch, distinguished editor and author Jim Taylor, poet and professor John Lent, animator and filmmaker Jim Cliffe, community activist Don Elzer, dancer David LaHay, architect Jim Meiklejohn, culinary artist and writer Heidi Noble, broadcaster Marion Barschel and others from a wide range of creative fields.
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER ONLINE CLICK HERE
Where Enquiring Minds Gather. Okanagan Institute at the Bohemian Café A hearty feast of lectures, presentations, workshops and showcases celebrating our culture and community. Produced by the Okanagan Institute in association with Wheat King Publishing magazines: Okanagan Arts and Okanagan Home. Express is sponsored in part by the Arts Council of the Central Okanagan, Wood Lake Publishing, UBCO-FCCS, and in support of Project Literacy Kelowna.
The Okanagan Institute is a group of creative professionals that have gathered around the goal of providing events, publications and services of interest to enquiring minds in the Okanagan. We partner with individuals, organizations, institutions and businesses to achieve optimal creative and social impact.
Our mission is to ignite cultural transformation, catalyze collaborative action, build networks and foster sustainable creative enterprises. We invite the participation by all members of the creative community.
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