Green Building Professionals Guild
The Green Building Professionals Guild (Guild) is a venue for building professionals to receive green building education and training and share their first-hand experiences with green products and practices. The Guild meetings can also help Certified Green Building Professionals (CGBPs), who have completed a green building certification course through Build It Green, receive continuing education units (CEUs) for recertification.
Benefits of participation
- Learn about cutting edge green building practices, products & technologies
- Share your experiences with other building professionals
- Network with fellow green building professionals
- Earn CEUs for CGBP recertification
Requirements for becoming an Affiliate
Participation in the Guild is available to anyone who works in the building industry or another industry that helps support the market for green building. Build It Green Company Membership is encouraged but not required.
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Chapter and meeting information
Build It Green currently supports four Guilds in the San Francisco Bay Area:
Each chapter meets monthly, and affiliates are welcome to attend meetings in any region regardless of their place of work.
Green Building Professionals Guilds are administered and implemented by Build It Green, and rely on available funding and staff resources. We are currently only able to support four regional Guilds. If you are interested in having a Guild in other regions in California, you are welcome to contact Annette@BuildItGreen to begin a dialogue. We will, however, not be able to organize a new Guild chapter until new funding and staff resources come available. Build It Green cannot support, or sanction with the Build It Green name, independently organized guilds, though you may apply for independent meetings to qualify for Certified Green Building Professional CEUs.
Upcoming meetings
South Bay
Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Topic: Sustainable Design
Speaker: Susan Davis, CGBP, CKBR, CAPS, Allied Member ASID
Susan Davis is Design Principal and co-owner of Spectrum Fine Homes, Inc., a seventeen-year-old Design/Build/Interior Design firm in Mountain View. Susan has taught classes in Sustainable Design and Green Building at West Valley College and at the ASID/NKBA/IIFA Student Career Forum in San Francisco, and has been a featured speaker and on panel discussions for several community events in both the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Susan was part of the committee responsible for developing the National NARI Green Remodelers Education/Certification program and helped facilitate several of the national online study group sessions in 2006/07. She currently facilitates the NARI Green Study Group, which meets weekly at the Spectrum Fine Homes office. In January of 2008, Susan was invited to be on the GreenHomeGuide.com Advisory Board and contribute to the "Ask-the-Pros" community forum on the website.
Topic Description: "Design" is planning and communication of intension, and the best Green Building projects begin with the Sustainable Design process. Understanding the principles of Sustainable Design can give building professionals a way to bring a more comprehensive green focus to their projects and design professionals a fresh and satisfying approach to their practice. This presentation will give a brief overview of the Principles of Sustainable Design.
Certified Green Building Professional CEU Value:
1.5 - Subject Area: General
Time:
5:00-5:30 Sign in & Networking
5:30-6:00 Topic presentation
6:00-7:00 Open discussion
Cost: $15 (includes food); those choosing not to eat still are required to pay the meeting fee
Place: Harrell Remodeling, 1954 Old Middlefield Way, Mountain View (Google Map) - Cross Street: Rengstorff
East Bay
***Note venue change for May's East Bay meeting***
Date: Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Topic: Greywater Systems
Speakers: Laura Allen, Greywater Guerrillas
Peter Renoir, Renoir Plumbing
Laura Allen lives in the Bay Area and is an active gardener, elementary school teacher and aspiring inventor. As well as the three R's (readin', ritin' and rithmetic), she teaches urban gardening, creek restoration, and sustainable technologies. Co-author of the notorious Guerrilla Greywater Girls Guide to Water, she has been scheming and constructing greywater systems throughout the north coast for the last six years. Laura presented on greywater, rainwater and composting toilets at last year's West Coast Green conference, and her writings can be found in Urban Wilds: Gardeners' Stories of the Struggle for Land and Justice, Clamor, and Home Power magazine.
Peter Renoir of Renoir Plumbing will add insight and expertise from a plumber's perspective on the installation process of greywater systems.
Certified Green Building Professional CEU Value:
1.5 - Subject Area: Site/Landscaping/Water
Time:
5:30-6:00 Sign in & Networking
6:00-7:30 Topic presentation
7:30-8:00 Open discussion
Cost: $15 (includes food); those choosing not to eat still are required to pay the meeting fee
Place: Stopwaste.org, 1537 Webster St., Oakland (Directions)
North Bay
Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Topic: Concrete
Speaker: Luke Pustejovsky
Luke Pustejovsky was VP of Business Development at GigaCrete, Inc., a green building materials startup where he worked as a management consultant, board member, and ultimately provided the core management team. He also spearheaded the Company's efforts in sustainability, managing the LEED scoring project, the GigaCrete study on carbon dioxide reduction for precast and finishing products, and the creation of revenue models for the Company's various 'green' value propositions.
Mr. Pustejovsky has credentials and expertise in the areas of green building materials, next generation power, clean energy, water purification and infrastructure technologies. He has consulted with clients like GreenFuel Technologies, NanoVapor Systems, WorldWide Energy and other cleantech companies with 'disruptive' technologies and is currently on the board of Biomass Energy Carbon Corporation and on the Alumni Council Board of the United World College.
Topic Description: The presentation will provide an overview of the industry-wide environmental impact of concrete production, as well as give an update on cutting edge innovations in cementitious materials, including the commercialization of a new brick made of 100% flyash.
Certified Green Building Professional CEU Value:
1.5 - Subject Area: IAQ / Materials
Time:
5:00-5:30 Sign in & Networking
5:30-6:30 Topic presentation
6:30-7:00 Open discussion
Cost: $15 (includes food); those choosing not to eat still are required to pay the meeting fee
Place: Marin Builders Associaton, 660 Las Galinas Ave, San Rafael (Google Map)
San Francisco
Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Topic: The Inside Story: What's New In Green Residential Interiors
Speaker: Dietmar Brand
Dietmar Brand, founder of Brand Kitchens & Design and the Green Home Center, studied interior design and cabinetry in his native Austria and in South Africa before deciding to make California his home. BK&D has been designing and remodeling kitchens and baths in the Bay Area since 1987.
The Green Home center came to life on San Francisco's Polk Street in April of 2007, enabling homeowners to visualize their dreams through a diverse array of partner displays, products, and services. The design center acts as a full-service liaison between the contractor's/developer's clients and the products, offering project management and pre-filtered, healthy choices while building relationships to last.
Topic Description: TBA
Certified Green Building Professional CEU Value:
1.5 - Subject Area: IAQ / Materials
Time:
5:30-6:00 Sign in and Networking
6:00-7:00 Topic Presentation
7:00-7:30 Open Discussion
Cost: $15 (includes food); those choosing not to eat still are required to pay the meeting fee
Place: San Francisco Department of the Environment, 11 Grove St., San Francisco (Google Map), near Civic Center Bart Station.
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For more information...
Please email the Green Building Professionals Guild or call 510-845-0472 ext. 101.
