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April 23-25, 2008 A three-day premier industry event focusing on:
The Conference includes a tour of Boulder Community Hospital Foothills Campus and Medical Center Of The Rockies. Including hands-on case studies from America’s leading hospitals featured on the Top 10 Green Hospitals In The U.S. list and from other nationally recognized institutions. Conference Fee: $2,390; Conference Documentation CD: $615 (Documentation CD includes copies of all proceedings on CD and shipping is included) REGISTER 3 & GET 1 FREE! Any organization registering three persons at the same time will be entitled to a fourth registrant FREE of charge! To register: 312.780.0700 or www.acius.net.
Legislative, educational, environmental and nonprofit leaders gather with representatives from building and design companies to discuss how Colorado schools will implement green building principles into their design and construction. Presenters include Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff and Tom Plant, Director of the Governor’s Energy Office. The seminar is being sponsored by the Donnell-Kay Foundation, UBS Paine Weber, the Governor’s Energy Office and the US Green Building Council. House Bill 1335, Building Excellent Schools Today (B.E.S.T.), would establish a Public Schools Facilities Authority to fund repair and construction in public schools. In order to apply for the funds, schools will have to meet certain green building and energy efficiency criteria. The Summit will educate builders and school leaders about high performance school building design and construction so that they may receive funding from the B.E.S.T. legislation.
Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) will hold a Telephone Seminar Wednesday, April 30, at 2pm EDT (1pm CDT, noon MDT, 11am PDT, 10am Alaska, 8am Hawaii) on Fire Safety Guidelines for PV Systems. The seminar will last for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Pre-registration is required. Over the past several years various fire districts in California and throughout the U.S. have raised concerns about the safety of fire fighters working on buildings with PV systems. Many of these concerns centered on how to ventilate a roof covered with PV modules, or how to disconnect the live circuits so that fire fighters will not be shocked by exposed conductors. The California Solar Energy Industries Association (Cal SEIA) worked with the California State Fire Marshall’s office to set up a series of meetings between representatives of the solar industry and interested parties in the fire protection community. The meetings produced set of guidelines for PV fire safety. The guidelines focus on the required area on rooftops for access of firefighters to the roof and to ventilation requirements for residential and commercial rooftops. Bill Brooks of Brooks Engineering will discuss the guidelines and the issues that lead to their development. Mr. Brooks participated in the meetings which developed the guidelines.
The 2007 Colorado Legislature provided funding to the Governor's Energy Office (GEO) to create the Clean Energy Fund. The Clean Energy Fund provides funding for the purposes of advancing energy efficiency and renewable energy throughout the state. Under GEO's stewardship, the Solar Innovation Grant (SIG) portion of the Clean Energy Fund will be used to support innovative programs that can demonstrate a strategy and implementation plan for breaking down financial, educational, political, and technical barriers to greater penetration of solar electric and solar thermal technologies in the residential and commercial sectors. Approximately three hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($350,000) is available during the current competitive cycle. Individual awards will not exceed $50,000. Click here for more information.
The Green Professional’s Conference is for students and professionals; providing learning, networking and employment opportunities within the sustainability industry. This event is structured to provide both overviews and detailed information on emerging trends as well as link those looking for work with employment opportunities in this growing industry. The conference is hosted by: Fluid Marketing Strategies, Smashing Ideas Inc., The Future of Energy Group and Compass Human Resources. For more information, visit www.fluidms.com/gpc.
HHigh Sun Engineering, the West Coast's leading solar engineering firm, presents an intensive 3-day solar workshop for design professionals on the skills needed to produce high quality PV system designs, feasibility reports, drawings and specifications that are currently in high demand by architectural design teams, engineering firms, developers, and discerning property owners. This class covers grid-tied PV systems. Off-grid system design and bulk power plants for remote distribution are not covered. Who Should Attend: EEs, MEs, PV Designers, Engineering Students, PV Industry Professionals, Utility/Building Dept Personnel. Course Mat'ls: Workbook & CDR with references, calculation tools, sample specifications & sample drawing sets to use as a guide for your future designs. Course Fee: $950 - $1,050. Student discounts available. Register at www.sunengineer.com. Call Christina Manansala at 707 869 9391 or christina@sunengineer.com for more information.
The Colorado Energy Office (CEO), Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc (Tri-State G&T, Western Area Power Administration (Western), the American Public Power Association (APPA), and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) are hosting a Geothermal Technologies workshop June 10-11, 2008 at TriState G&T’s facilities in Westminster, Colo. The target audiences for these workshops are APPA and NRECA member utility staff who are interested in learning about geothermal technologies – including geothermal heat pumps (GHP) and geothermal power production – or who want to learn how to improve on existing programs. Registration fees are $ 90 for one day and $ 130 for two days. Reduced rates are available for members or customers of sponsoring organizations. The fee covers workshop materials, meals, and refreshments. Continuing Education credits are available. There are also a limited number of display tables available. A similar workshop will be held in August in the Seattle, WA area. Questions? Contact Guy Nelson at 541-994-4670.
Presented by AIA Seattle in partnership with AIA Committee on the Environment. Biomimicry is a new discipline that studies nature's best ideas and imitates them to solve human problems. Applications range widely, from architecture, product design, and engineering, to software development, communication systems and organizational evolution. Visit the event website for more information or to register.
Cost is $1,900 / $1,800 for SEI members. Register online at www.solarenergy.org or call 970-963-8855. PV Design and Installation will include energy efficient solutions for homes, incorporate local climate and site conditions in a PV system, explore the differences between commercially available supplies, obtain and apply module data from a spec sheet, and perform load analysis for a home business. Participants will also learn how to size a grid-tied system, identify advantages/disadvantages of mounting types, list order of commissioning/decommissioning and safety, define net metering and state incentive programs, and perform detailed site evaluation.
Establishing a basis for measuring performance of buildings is the focus of the technical program at ASHRAE’s 2008 Annual Meeting. The program features more than 100 sessions on a wide range of HVAC&R related topics. These include failed moisture management, water conservation in systems, and the recently published Advanced Energy Design Guide for K-12 Schools. For more information or to register, visit www.ashrae.org/saltlake. |
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