Keynote Speakers
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Presenter: S. RICHARD FEDRIZZI
President, CEO and Founding Chairman
U.S. Green Building Council
Washington, DC
www.usgbc.org
Topic: “Revolutionary Green”
Bio:
- Rick Fedrizzi is the current President, CEO and a founding chairman of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). Prior to his appointment with the USGBC in April 2004, Fedrizzi was president of Green-Think, Inc., a consulting firm he founded after a 25-year career at United Technologies Corporation.
- Under his leadership, the USGBC has embarked on a number of critical initiatives, such as the development of LEED® Version 3.0 and the sustainable reconstruction of the Gulf Coast region. Fedrizzi is also driving the Council’s comprehensive agenda on global climate change, which includes a major partnership with the Clinton Climate Initiative to implement green building programs in the worlds’ 40 largest cities, commitment to green school and residential construction and internal imperatives to reduce carbon emissions.
- Since he joined the Council, Fedrizzi has spearheaded a number of operations including major refinement of the LEED® Rating System in 2005, integration and capacity building for the 60+ local chapters, and an internal reorganization to align the Council’s resources with its strategic goals. He has also helped the USGBC launch three new LEED® rating systems, upgraded and increased its educational offerings, nearly tripled in staff size and welcomed more than 3,000 new members, including a new category for professional and trade associations.
Presenter: VALENTINE A. LEHR, P.E.
Founding Partner
Lehr Consultants International
New York, NY
Topic: “’08 From Entropy to Innovation”
Bio:
- Valentine A. Lehr, the founding partner of Lehr Associates, has over 40 years of experience as an internationally known Engineer, lecturer, and participant in numerous technical associations. Lehr holds degrees from Manhattan College, Bachelor of Civil Engineering, and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from Polytechnic University. He is actively registered in 26 states and is registered as a Chartered Engineer to the Engineering Council of U.K. He is Past-President of the New York Association of Consulting Engineers.
- Lehr has also developed mechanical/electrical design standards for corporate clients as well as national standards organizations. He has served on industry committees that define construction technology standards and practices in areas such as co-generation, consumer safety, and professional education.
- Currently, Lehr provides direction in the technical concepts for his firm’s major engineering assignments, maintains key-client contacts, and monitors the development of projects from concept through occupancy. In addition to the conventional array of diversified projects in the private, commercial, and government sectors, Lehr is noted for his leadership in sustainable environmental design, having both lectured on the application of green design and undertaken significant green projects. He is a frequent lecturer at a number of top colleges and universities, including New York University, Cornell, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, and Pratt.
General Address Speakers
Presenter: KARAN GROVER
Principal
Karan Grover & Associates
Vadodara, India
Topic: “WHAT THE KHISKOLI SAID” notes towards understanding the self, stewardship and touching the Earth gently.
Bio:
- Karan Grover has been passionately advocating the need to look at ones culture and heritage for clues as to the direction for a contemporary architecture and sustainable development relevant to the Indian context today. He has enthused children in conservation and been nominated a “social entrepreneur” as a Fellow of the Ashoka Foundation, Washington. Winner of all the Indian Awards for Excellence in Architecture and Interior Design; he almost single handedly won India’s nominations for UNESCO’s World Heritage Site status for Champaner after a 22-year old campaign. In 2004, Grover became the first architect in the world to win the USGBC “Platinum” Award for the greenest building in the world. He also went on to win his second Platinum Award for the interior of ABN AMRO Bank at Ahmedabad. Four more “Platinum” buildings are in the pipeline.
- He has been differently labeled on several occasions – as a “Man of Taste” in the Economics Times for his interest in food; on the cover of the Construction Journal magazine as one of the “Hot Architects” in India; recently as one of the “500 Visionaries of the 21st Century” along with the Dalai Lama, Bill Clinton, Tiger Woods and Mohammad Yunnus who recently won the Noble Peace Prize; and complimented for his sense of style by being selected as one of “India’s 50 Most Stylish Men” along with Amitabh Bachchan.
- He was the closing plenary of the World Green Building Congress in London in February 2008; the keynote in the Energy Forum in Delhi, and a speaker at the personal invite by President Clinton from the Clinton Global Initiative last year.
- Today he is working towards the need for practicing “Green Architecture” inspiring students and fellow architects – a need based on ecological and environmental concerns; a need which involves us all as inhabitants of this planet.
Presenter: ROBERT F. FOX, JR., AIA
Partner
Cook + Fox Architects
New York, NY
Bio:
- Bob Fox is one of New York City’s most highly respected leaders in the green building movement. An advisor to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, Fox has been honored with many awards, including a Leadership Award from the US Green Building Council, the New York City Council’s inaugural “Big Green Apple” Award, and the Urban Visionary Award from the Cooper Union. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University.
- As a founding partner of Fox & Fowle Architects, Fox guided the firm to a position of national leadership in the design of sustainable high-rise buildings, including the influential 4 Times Square/Condé Nast Headquarters. He led the team that created the original “Green Guidelines” for the Battery Park City Authority in Lower Manhattan, which will eventually result in 5 million square feet of LEED® Gold buildings. Fox was also the Founding Chair of the US Green Building Council New York Chapter.
- In 2003, Fox joined with Richard Cook to form Cook+Fox Architects, a firm devoted to creating beautiful, environmentally responsible high-performance buildings. He currently serves on numerous boards and advisory committees and speaks widely about green building.
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