Forest Certification & Green Building Programs

Great Opportunities or Great Big Headaches?

Wednesday, December 13th , 2006

Forest Products Lab, Madison, WI

Agenda & Presentations

  
8:30 - Registration Opens

9:00 - 9:15 AM  Program Overview & Introductions

9:15 -  10:15 AM  Forest and Building Material Certification: The big picture – Global trends in certification and Sorting it all out - history and discussion of the different systems and how they interact   Speakers: Kathryn Fernholz & Dr. Jeff Howe

Presentation:   Forest Certification Systems: History & Trends (pdf, 18 MB)

10:15 - 12:00 PM  Green Building Programs:  LEED , Green Globes- What are they and what are the implications for the Wood and Building Industry?    Speakers: Alison Lindburg & Dr. Jim Bowyer

Presentation:   Green Building & LEED   (pdf, 23 MB)

Presentation: Determining Environmental Attributes of Building Materials Under Various Green Building Programs    (pdf, 4 MB)

12:00 - 1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 - 2:00 PM Certification and Green Building Impacts and Trends - What are the results of green building?    Speaker: Dr. Jim Bowyer

Presentation:   Environmental Impacts of Green Building Programs   (pdf, 18 MB)


2:00 - 3:00 PM Selling “Certified” & Selling to the Green Building Marketplace -  An interactive discussion on the challenges in the manufacture  and sale of certified products.    Speaker: Dr. Jeff Howe

3:00 PM Adjourn

To download a pdf of the workshop agenda and registration form, click here.(27 kb)

The Forest Products Society - Midwest Section and Dovetail Partners are hosting this workshop.   For more information, please contact Scott Bowe at 608-265-5849, sbowe@wisc.edu or Dovetail Partners at 612-333-0430, info@dovetailinc.org .

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The work upon which this program is based was funded through a grant awarded by the Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry, USDA Forest Service.   This institution is an equal opportunity provider.