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East Bay Guild #GE100901A

Wed, Sep 1, 2010 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM PDT

We were unable to register you for this event as the event registration deadline has passed.

Seats are still available so folks can attend at the $20 Door Price.

Total Seats: 50

Reserved: 28

Region: San Francisco Bay Area

Truitt & White - Conference Room

1817 Second St.
Berkeley CA 94710 US
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Phone: (510) 649-2660

Speaker Patrick Sheaffer, Babak Tondre, Cynthia Tanyan and Paul Kephart

Event Description

Topic: Residential Living Roofs

Description: This presentation will provide an overview of residential living roofs with a focus on homes in the Bay Area. The speaker panel will look at the various roles and benefits of living roofs as well as provide examples of innovative living roof projects being done in other parts of the world.

Topics will include:

Landscape: Examples of plants, soil, irrigation, drainage as well as consideration of local habitat and maintenance over time
Installation: Step by step ideas including pre-planning and setup for doing a green roof
Architecture: Basic building designs and sites appropriate for living roofs including typical details, waterproofing and structural considerations
Cost: Initial and life cycle cost considerations
Stories from the field: Through case studies exemplifying what's working and not working

Certified Green Building Professional CEU Value: 1.5 credits

Schedule:

5:30-5:45 Sign In

5:45-6:00 Networking Exercise

6:00-7:30 Topic Presentation

7:30-8:00 Open Discussion

Registration: Pre-registration on our website is encouraged and incentivized and is available until noon on Wednesday, September 1st. When preregistering online, folks can pay by credit card or choose to pay at the door with check or credit card.

Pre-Registered Prices:

$10 /Members

$20 /Non-Members

Door Price (Not Pre-Registered):

$20 /Members and Non-Members

Transportation Tips: Street parking is available for attendees. Build It Green encourages carpooling to our events and we recommend posting comments in the section below to make arrangements with other attendees.

Things To Bring: Attendees are encouraged to bring business cards for networking purposes.

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Cancellation Policy: No refunds will be given for cancellations or no-shows due to our limited venue capacity. Registered attendees can transfer their credit to another colleague (i.e. go in their place) for the same Guild Meeting - not for another Guild Meeting.

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Event Registration Contact
Michele Brown
510-590-3360 ext 105

Comments for East Bay Guild #GE100901A:

East Bay Guild #GE100901A

Wed, Sep 1, 2010 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM PDT

Speaker Patrick Sheaffer, Babak Tondre, Cynthia Tanyan and Paul Kephart

Biography

Patrick Sheaffer, Full Circle Architecture
Born into a family of artists, architects, teachers and carpenters, Patrick began his studies of sustainability, green design, and construction as a teen on the jobsite of a passive solar home in the early 1980s. Patrick attended university in San Luis Obispo and soon continued architecture studies in Denmark as the Berlin wall crumbled led to an introduction to the principles of Bau Biologie and sustainability. After work in varied contexts from NASA to private offices in San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland, Patrick co-founded Full Circle with architect Serena Trachta. Full Circle has been practicing green building design from the outset in 1996. Full Circle’s work ranges from residential architecture of all scales to light commercial projects and consulting in design, construction administration, project management and green building. Patrick is a LEED AP (2003), CGBP (2005), GreenPoint Rater (2007), and Bau Biologie Practitioner (2009). Patrick has taught college courses in sustainability and green applications for residential construction and continues to develop an understanding of sustainability concerns through ongoing studies of indigenous cultures of the U.S. and Canada.

Babak Tondre, DIG Coop

Babak works as a permaculture designer, a green builder and a teacher with the DIG coop. In addition he has been an environmental and social justice activist for the past 15 years. Born and raised in Oakland/ Berkeley he completed his B.A. from U.C. Berkeley College of Env. Design via Affirmative Action in 1993. In 1994 he became a certified Permaculture Designer. He has taught workshops on living roof installation at the Ecology Center in Berkeley, the Solar Living Institute in Hopland and the Green Schoolyard Alliance in San Francisco. He has worked extensively training inner city youth in green building. Babak has built several living roofs on detached buildings on residential sites in the Bay Area. He is the co-founder of Berkeley’s EcoHouse, an ecological demonstration home open to the public, where he coordinated and helped spearhead the first city approved residential scale constructed wetland graywater system in California. He is a graduate of the First Voice Apprenticeship program at KPFA, and has traveled to Palestine and Chiapas to share his radio skills.

Cynthia Tanyan, Mozaic Landscapes

A Utah desert survival trip in ’87 prompted Cynthia to move and live off the grid among native plants for eight years. Following Master Gardener training, she obtained a Master’s in Sustainable Design from Conway School of Landscape Design, Massachusetts ’95. Since 1991, her company Mozaic Landscapes has designed over 350 varied residential gardens throughout the SF Bay Area, including: a master plan for a Stanford Lands horsepark, a suburban backyard bicycle pump track, a Native American sculpture garden, as well as an extensive modern greenroof. Following the latter, she went on to obtain certification as a greenroof professional (GRP) in 2009. A recipient of Sunset magazine’s Best in the West award (1999), Cynthia’s greenroof design can be seen in People magazine, and The American Meadow Garden, by J. Greenlee (Timber Press). She frequently works on-site during installation and shares credit with the many skilled and talented professionals who work from the heart to insure excellence.

Paul Kephart, Rana Creek

Paul is the executive Director of Rana Creek and is a lead Horticulture and Technical Consultant for Living Architecture. As a restoration ecologist and resource planner, Paul came to Rana Creek in 1996 and founded what we now know as Rana Creek Habitat Restoration and Living Architecture. Paul has more than 20 years of comprehensive consulting experience in land use planning and resource management. He has also established himself as the leading ecologist and technical design consultant in the field of living architecture/vegetative structures and sustainable landscapes. A trained biologist, Paul has a profound understanding of natural processes, sustainability, and how they impact our developed landscapes. Paul uses art, ecology and science to reclaim our natural resources. He is a registered contractor and horticultural expert and is uniquely committed to restoring biodiversity in our cities and suburbs. “A Biologist by training and self-proclaimed ‘restorative ecologist,’ Kephart has fashioned a calling that in the US didn’t exist a decade ago. He makes roofs come to life”- John King