SustainABuild Conference | Calgary 


June 2, 2011 | 2:15 – 3:45pm
BMO Centre


Net Zero Emissions: The Dream is Still Alive

Is it possible to build a multi-tenant office building that produces zero carbon emissions?The answer is yes according to the "Net Zero Co2urt" experiment. That was in St Louis where HOK designers and daylighting and energy consultants at the Weidt Group designed and modeled an affordable, 170,000-square-foot office building that would produce zero carbon emissions. But can it be done in Calgary? What strategies can be implemented? What incentive programs should be in place?Is there a premium on capital costs? What’s the payback period? Join HOK's Veronica Gillies, VP|Regional Leader in Vancouver and Gerry Faubert, VP| Director of Integrated Design as they participate in a panel discussion to argue the case based on a comparison between Calgary and St. Louis. 

For more information, go to: www.sustainabuild.com/calgary/program2011.htm

Symposium on Information Visualization in Commercial Buildings: Design, Technology, and Human Behavior

Wednesday, April 13, 2011 | 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
PG&E Pacific Energy Center, 851 Howard Street San Francisco

New web-enabled technologies coupled with powerful information visualization methods can provide valuable insight to building occupants, managers, and designers. Join Barbara Ciesla, VP at HOK as she and other leading designers, software developers, researchers, and usability specialists present theoretical approaches for influencing behavior change, discuss the challenges inherent in such efforts, and provide a wide range of examples and case studies. 

This event is free and open to the public. It is organized and sponsored by the Center for the Built Environment (CBE), at the University of California, Berkeley, and the PG&E Pacific Energy Center.

Information Visualization in Commercial Buildings: (284 KB)

 

HOK's Zero Energy Design Charette: Challenging the Frontiers of Carbon Neutrality  - A free online course

April 7, 2011 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Internet


Join Gerry Faubert, Director of Integrated Design at HOK, as he presents how a design team led by HOK, and The Weidt Group, undertook a 10-month virtual design charrette to create a market-rate, zero-emissions design for a class A commercial office building.

Utility Sponsor: PG&E 

Joe Pettipas at BUILDEX Vancouver Conference and Tradeshow 2011

Joe will join a panel of experts to discuss current and future issues in the world of interior design as outlined in the new book, The State of the Interior Design Profession.

Hear about the impetus for the book and why certain issues and authors were chosen to be highlighted. The editors and four Canadian and U.S. authors who contributed to the book will be with us to continue the dialogue with you on issues critical to the interior design profession, such as factors influencing practice, globalization, evidence-based design, and the body of knowledge. These issues among a total of 12 were addressed by over 80 authors in The State of the Interior Design Profession.

Session Title:  Interior Design Keynote Panel: The State of the Interior Design Profession

Wednesday, February 23, 2011
8:00am – 10:00am
Location:  Vancouver Convention Centre – West (The New Vancouver Convention Centre)

Denis Seguin, HOK's Regional Leader in Ottawa, will particpate in 
Design Futures: Regional Think Tank at Algonquin College on
August 25^th, 2010.