Building Lasting Change 2022: Lead The Transition to Zero
After two years of online delivery, CAGBC is excited to bring its annual conference back to an in-person format. This June 1-3, Building Lasting Change returns to Toronto’s Beanfield Centre. For many, this will be an important milestone, bringing together the green building sector for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
Our goals are simple – provide a safe experience for conference goers with plenty of opportunities to reconnect and relevant programming focused on helping Canada’s building sector Lead the Transition to Zero.
Carbon at the core
CAGBC continues to focus on carbon reduction as a critical way the building sector can contribute to Canada’s climate targets, help slow global warming, and mitigate the worst impacts of climate change in our communities. Starting June 1 with the Reaching Zero Summit, conference sessions, plenaries and symposiums on June 2 and 3 will examine how to accelerate decarbonization, enable deep carbon retrofits, and reduce the impact of materials as Canada moves toward a zero-carbon future.
Celebrating 20 years of green building
2022 marks CAGBC’s 20th anniversary. That’s 20 years of working with the green building sector to advance sustainable, green and zero carbon buildings. Throughout the conference we’ll be celebrating our past as well as looking to the future.
Concurrent Themed Sessions, June 2 - 3
This year, in addition to the Reaching Zero Summit, Building Lasting Change is offering concurrent learning sessions focused around 3 core themes necessary for the building sector to Lead the Transition to Zero: Accelerating Decarbonization, Enabling Deep Carbon Retrofits and Reducing the Impact of Materials. Conference attendees have the flexibility to attend all sessions within a theme or select individual sessions across themes depending on their interests.
Designing for Decarbonization
Transitioning to a zero-carbon future requires all buildings to achieve zero by 2050. Buildings being designed today must completely eliminate onsite fossil fuel combustion, or achieve substantial reductions, and facilitate complete decarbonization through future retrofits. This series will examine the latest updates in green building standards and challenges and strategies to achieve deep decarbonization.
Enabling Deep Carbon Retrofits
CAGBC’s most recent research has found that every large building in Canada can achieve deep reductions in carbon. Most are able to achieve near-zero operations today, while others can position themselves for the clean electricity grids of the future. This series will feature thought-leaders addressing knowledge gaps that can often serve as barriers in the implementation of deep carbon retrofits and proactive strategies and solutions to drive retrofits at scale.
Reducing the Impact of Materials
Generally, building occupants have little to no knowledge of the components of the building that surrounds them. Yet, properly sourced building materials can have one of the greatest impacts on the environment and human health. Design teams and building owners have the power to holistically enhance the environmental performance and outcomes of new construction and retrofit projects, particularly through the sourcing and specifying of sustainable products and materials. Join industry leaders who have prioritized healthy, low carbon materials in their specification processes and have integrated environmental performance across all aspects of projects.
Program content, sessions and session participants subject to change.
Agenda
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Adam Alaica
GeoSource Energy Inc.
Annie Bevan
CEO at mindful MATERIALs
Robert Cumming
Head, Sustainability & Public Affairs at Lafarge Canada
Sarain Fox
Activist, Storyteller, & Entrepreneur at Land Back Studios
Sarah Gray
Principal at RDH Building Science Inc.
Lee Hodgkinson
Head of Sustainability & Technical Services at Dream Unlimited
Steve Kemp
Principal at RDH Building Science
Mark Hutchinson
VP Green Building Programs and Innovation at Canada Green Building Council
Rachel Lieberman
Managing Principal at Integral Group
Fin MacDonald
Manager, Zero Carbon Building Program at Canada Green Building Council
Jolene McLaughlin
Director - Corporate Sustainability at EllisDon Corporation
Stephen Montgomery
Building Systems Manager at PCL Constructors Inc.
Doug Webber
Principal at Purpose Building
Ben Welch
Sustainability Manager at Manulife Investment Management
Lisa Westerhoff
Principal at Integral Group
Lara Yousif
Product Development Manager at Lafarge Canada Inc.
Ryan Zizzo
Founder & CEO at Mantle Developments
Peter Busby
Josée Lupien
President - LEED Fellow & WELL AP at Vertima Inc.- Environmental Certification: LEED, WELL, Zero Carbon + Materials experts LCA HPD EPD
Karen Jalon
Vice President, Sustainability, Energy, Smart Technologies at The Cadillac Fairview Corporation
Brandon Law
Technical Director | Associate Principal at RWDI
Ariel Feldman
Senior Director, Sustainability at Choice Properties
Philippe Bernier
VP, Strategy, Operations and Sustainability at JLL Canada
Rob Cooney
Project Manager at National Research Council Canada
Stephanie Fargas
Associate at DIALOG
Andrew McAllan
Principal at McAllan Inc
Joanna Jackson
Director, Sustainability & Innovation at Minto Apartments
Alison Chave
Vice President, National Lead, Debt Capital Market at JLL
Sean Pander
Green Building Manager at City of Vancouver
Natasha Soobramanie
Principal, EDI and Talent Development at BentallGreenOak
Dave Black
Executive Vice President & National Practice Lead at JLL
Chris Pyke
SVP at Arc/USGBC
Scott Armstrong
Senior Facade Specialist at WSP
Jody Becker
Chief Strategy Officer at EllisDon Corporation
Laurel Christensen
Director of Outreach & Engagement at mindful MATERIALS
Anthony Cupido
Research Chair, Sustainable Building Technologies at Mohawk College
Rob Simpson
Senior Director, Sustainability at Ivanhoe Cambridge
Joseph Brown
VP Building Technology & Decarbonization Lead at Kingsett Capital
Brent Gilmour
Chief Commercial Officer at Canada Green Building Council
Vivian Patel
Urban Planner at JLL Canada
Daniele Magditsch
Manager, Sustainability at QuadReal
Hemant Grover
Manager: Office of Climate Change. at The Regional Municipality of Peel
Anna Murray
Bentall Green Oak
Wendy Macdonald
Sustainability Consultant at RJC Engineers
Hugh Lindsay
Global Solution Architect at Schneider Electric
Lisa King
Senior Policy Planner at City of Toronto
Darryl Neate
VP/ESG at REALPAC
Daniel Snodgrass
Associate at RJC Engineers
Jeff Oatman
Head of Collaboration and Membership at Green Building Council of Australia
Brian Hall
Lisa Brylowski
Ms. at Brookfield Asset Management
Louise Hamot
Global Lead of Sustainability Research at Integral Group
Laura Husak
Manager - GHG Mitigation at Infrastructure Canada
Dom Costantini
Vice President, Operations at Bird Construction
Levi Higgs
CEM, PMP at Colliers
Cara Sloat
Senior Engineer at Hamerschlag and Joffe
Lori Mabardi
N/A
Elaine Kasperek
Regional Sales Manager Eastern Canada at Superior Essex
David Fox
Low Carbon Concrete at Entuitive
Luka Matutinovic
Principal at Purpose Building
Peter Busby
Global Design Principal at Perkins&Will
Pushpinder Rana
Senior Manager at Mitsubishi Electric Sales Canada Inc.
Stephen Smith
Manulife
Pratima Divgi
Head of Capital Markets at CDP North America
Andrew Posluns
N/A
Gregory Balycky
Director, Investments at Canada Infrastructure Bank
Christianne Aussant
Project Director at Purpose Building Inc.
Kevin Hydes
Chair & Founder at Integral Group
Antoni Paleshi
Technical Lead, Net Zero at WSP
Beverly Tay
Senior Director, Real Estate Management at Oxford Properties
Lora McMillan
Manager of Special Projects at Ledcor
Karen Saarkoppel
Senior Sustainability Manager at JLL
Andrea Yee
Project Director at WSP
Nick Gaudio
Dream
Graeme Stewart
ERA Architects
Mikael Sydor
Architect at ERA Architects
Lori O'Malley
Building Envelope Engineering Specialist at PCL Constructors Canada Inc.
Thomas Mueller
President & CEO at Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC)
Akua Schatz
Vice President, Market Engagement & Advocacy at CAGBC
Allison Koronyi
N/A
Seth Dworkin
Professor and Canada Research Chair at Toronto Metropolitan University
Christina Basan
Partner, Development at Carttera
Bram Atlin
N/A
Jack Bolland
Program Manager at City of Toronto
Steve Orchard
Partner at TMP
Eric Visser
Sr. Mgr. Bus. Development, Commercial Real Estate at Vancity Community Investment Bank
Aaron Berg
Director Investments at Canada Infrastructure Bank
Mike Greidanus
President - BGIS at BGIS
Rick Buhr
Bird
Laurie Caldi
Tap Strategy & HR
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