Great Opportunities or Great Big Headaches?

Wednesday, December 13th , 2006

Forest Products Lab, Madison, WI

First there was the alphabet soup of FSC and SFI and now there is LEED, GreenGlobes, and something called “MR7”. This workshop provided the latest information about forest certification, trends in green building programs, and strategies for the wood and building industry to find opportunites within the maze of programs and acronyms.

The Forest Products Society - Midwest Section and Dovetail Partners hosted the 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 .

To download a pdf of the workshop agenda and registration form, click here.(24 kb)

Agenda and Presentations

8:30 AM

Registration

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, 884 kb)

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, 1.6 MB)

Presentation: Determining Environmental Attributes of Building Materials Under Various Green Building Programs (pdf, 3.5 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, 2.8 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