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  • Annual Green Building Showcase

    Click here to view a video recording of event Click here to view list of attendees Our Annual Green Building Showcase featured the following projects and speakers:  Mastercard's Path to Zero - LEED v4 Operations + Maintenance: Existing Buildings PLATINUM LEED Zero Certification, presented by Lindsey LaGesse, Environmental Sustainability Manager, Mastercard. Mastercard's Operations Center, headquartered in O'Fallon, Missouri - contributes to their commitment to net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050; receiving a LEED v4 O+M Platinum certification in April 2021. Focusing on Mastercard's overarching sustainability goals, Lindsey LaGesse will dive into how their commitment to net-zero emissions led to achieving green building, wellness, and waste certifications. Currently all Mastercard owned properties in the U.S. are fitted with solar panels and all owned properties across the world are LEED certified. Mastercard operates close to 180 facilities across the world and is prioritizing renewable energy and energy efficiency programs, including the expanded use of solar panels in data centers, which account for more than 50 percent of energy usage across the company. A Call to Action - Promoting Inclusive Sustainability, Environmental Equity & Eco-Action in our Schools, presented by Sharonica Hardin-Bartley, Superintendent of Schools, The School District of University City Joy and Well-Being… Continue Reading Annual Green Building Showcase

  • COFFEE BREAK: Long-Duration Energy Storage

    Coordination Chemistry Flow Battery (CCFB), have you heard of them? They are not your typical battery, sealed battery such as lead acid, or lithium-ion, flow batteries separate the power and energy portions of a battery system. Energy is stored in a liquid electrolyte which is flowed through a stack of electrodes! Lockheed Martin, Senior Mechanical Engineer, Hannah Chapin-Eppert will present their GridStar Flow system, providing flexible, durable, long-duration (>6 hours) energy storage for utility scale projects. For large-scale industrial energy management, microgrid support, utility reserve capacity, and transmission and distribution within large-scale renewables integration -- having batteries designed to exhibit lower system cost, higher efficiency, and longer useful life is powerful.   FEATURED GUEST: Hannah Chapin-Eppert, Senior Mechanical Engineer, Lockheed Martin Advanced Energy Storage Hannah Chapin-Eppert is a native St. Louisan living in Boston Massachusetts as a lead mechanical engineer with Lockheed Martin Advanced Energy Storage, LLC designing their new flow battery, GridStar Flow. Hannah attended Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, earning a degree in mechanical engineering. Before working with Lockheed Martin, Hannah worked at Rolls-Royce on-board U.S. Navy ships, focusing on gas turbines, generator set package design for the U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke Flight III Destroyers, and gas turbine waste heat recovery… Continue Reading COFFEE BREAK: Long-Duration Energy Storage

  • Member Social @ Forest Park!

    Current and past members - Green Schools Quest Mentors, Committee champions, Board members, Sponsors, Emerging Professionals, students - all are welcome to join us for our FIRST in-person event since February 2020! REMARKS Frank Kartmann, Senior Vice President, Park Operations, Forest Park Forever Providing an update on Nature Playscape engagement and the East Waterway project, both featured in our 2020 Green Building Showcase!  USGBC-Missouri Gateway Chapter Committee Chairs and Representatives Connect with your 7 committees of champions, who make this work possible, and learn what they're looking forward to PLUS how to get involved! Click here to view list of attendees

  • Solving the Split Incentive Problem – Reframing Investment in Energy Efficiency, for Building Owners & Tenants

    In rental properties, there is a common obstacle to investment in energy efficiency. If the owner invests in efficient HVAC equipment, the tenant receives the benefit of lower utility bills. This reduces the financial incentive for building owners to make these upgrades. Seen more broadly, the “split incentive” exists whenever the responsibility for a proposed improvement is held separately from its benefits. Since rapid implementation of energy efficiency is critical to addressing the climate crisis, the split incentive is an obstacle that endangers our collective future. Luckily, there are numerous solutions to the problem. This program will present concepts for reframing how we think about the split incentive as well as practical tools, including: commercial and residential lease language; organizational changes; staff incentives, policy proposals in other cities; and marketing, cultural, and informational solutions. Click Here to View List of Attendees SPEAKER Aaron Michels, Director of Operations, Energy Resources Group, Inc. - Aaron Michels is the Operations Director at Energy Resources Group, Inc. (ERG), and is responsible for ERG’s tools used in utility, HVAC loads, and ventilation analysis. He works primarily on energy efficiency in buildings; projects from controls retro-commissioning to energy master planning. Aaron has approached earth-friendly living from many different angles.… Continue Reading Solving the Split Incentive Problem – Reframing Investment in Energy Efficiency, for Building Owners & Tenants

  • COFFEE BREAK: Indoor Air Quality Sensors Show & Tell

    Continuous monitoring of indoor environmental conditions is the future of building operation and designing for occupant comfort and health. The IAQ sensor market specifically has exploded as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic as well. Green building standards (LEED, WELL, RESET) are adjusting from point in time measurement to encourage more continuous monitoring. Receive a live demo of real life IAQ / IEQ (Indoor Environmental Quality) sensors, data, and dashboards currently being tested at Morrissey Engineering's 4940 Building. Watch or Listen to this Coffee Break Recording! FEATURED GUEST: Sarah Gudeman, PE, BCxP, CPHC, WELL AP, LEED Fellow, Mechanical Engineer, Director of Sustainability, Morrissey Engineering Sarah Gudeman has been researching, writing, and creating videos on various Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) sensors constantly for nearly the last two years. Through conversations with manufacturers, work on EQ TAG committee O+M v4.1 development, and commercial building design and certifications, her goal is to be a central repository of information on Indoor Air Quality and share that information with other practitioners as well as contractors, building owners, and others. EQ TAG committee is the Indoor Environmental Quality - Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of our national U.S. Green Building Council LEED committees. Sarah is a compulsive volunteer who seeks to make the world a better place through engineering, education,… Continue Reading COFFEE BREAK: Indoor Air Quality Sensors Show & Tell

  • Building Decarbonization: Why Does It Matter and Where do YOU Fit in?

    View list of attendees. The New Buildings Institutes' (NBI) Building Decarbonization Code presents the building industry with an actionable tool to leverage buildings in meeting the climate objectives of cities and states. We will review this tool, present its place within a spectrum of tools, policies, and funding opportunities related to building decarbonization and discuss concerns and opportunities of decarbonization from an equity perspective. Presented in partnership with: American Institute of Architects (AIA) St. Louis' Committee on the Environment (COTE®), ASHRAE St. Louis (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers), International Sustainable Institute for Laboratories St. Louis (I2SL) and Missouri Gateway Green Building Council.  Learn what tools are available and how you can implement solutions, what is happening around the country, and what the future brings when it comes to building decarbonization. SPEAKER Kim Cheslak, (she/her), Director of Codes, New Buildings Institute PANELISTS Colleen Autry, (she/her) Director of District Operations, Cortex Innovation Community J. Gregory Carl, City Council Member & Mayor Pro-Tem, City of Olivette, Missouri  Carlos Trejo, AICP, Director of Planning & Community Development, City of Olivette, MO

  • Coffee Break – Does the Building Industry Need a Paradigm Shift?

    In the past few weeks in St. Louis, we have experienced record drought, record heat and record rainfall. We know extreme weather events like this are exacerbated by the climate crisis and will likely accelerate further. How should we be building - or not building - to address climate mitigation and adaptation? How can we pursue new and different solutions now?  View a recording of this Coffee Break FEATURED GUEST: Wyly Brown, Founding Partner, Leupold Brown Goldbach Architekten and Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis, Sam Fox School Wyly Brown is a Founding Partner of Leupold Brown Goldbach Architekten, and the partner responsible for the projects conducted in North America. He holds a Bachelors of Art in Anthropology, and spent a number of years researching the connection between cultures and monuments through the reconstruction of full-scale, functional objects, often using historically accurate methods. After receiving a Masters of Architecture from Harvard University in 2006, he spent two years conducting research at the Institute of Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design, University of Stuttgart on the topic of rapidly deployable disaster relief structures. In 2014, he founded LBGO architects in Munich, with Andreas Leupold and Christian Goldbach. He approaches design through a process of… Continue Reading Coffee Break – Does the Building Industry Need a Paradigm Shift?

  • Evening Educational Program: Net Zero Building Showcase

    Net Zero Building Showcase featuring three projects: You Work to Solve the Problems You Created - meeting campus net zero goals with a paradigm shift in building design. In the traditional approach to building design, the design solution creates other problems and creates a chain reaction of resource hungry solutions. Focusing on a paradigm shift from this traditional approach, James Moler, Mechanical Engineering Specialist and Kyle Nottmeier, Sr. Design Architect of Jacobs will provide a small aspect of the building design shift needed and process that went into their recent design of an international net zero technology campus. Presenting their insight on the balance of Quality, Quantity, and Budget; how they defined the difference between resources and limited resources, and how they used this insight to constrain and form the design in order to meet the net zero goals of this technology campus My Journey to a Net Zero Single Family Home - continuing the conversation of building decarbonization. Returning to the podium this month is Greg Carl, a panelist from August's evening program, Building Decarbonization: Why Does It Matter and Where do YOU Fit In? Greg Carl will be discussing the net zero resources and methods used building his residential home in Olivette, Missouri and the obstacles to implementation. Presenting energy programs and tax credits applicable to achieve net zero locally and the design, build, and implementation solutions from… Continue Reading Evening Educational Program: Net Zero Building Showcase

  • Coffee Break – Corporate Responsibility & ESG

    Does it seem like you are hearing a lot about ESG (Environmental Social Governance) lately? From utilities to major corporations to dozens of ESG job opportunities, it seems like ESG is everywhere. Join us to learn the basics of ESG, why it's so prevalent and how it connects to green building.  Watch or Listen this Coffee Break Recording! FEATURED GUEST: Chris Laughman, Senior Energy & Sustainability Professional - Chris is an accomplished subject matter expert in sustainable real estate operations with over 20 years of experience in real estate operations, the past 10 focused on sustainability, energy efficiency, water conservation, and waste management in commercial office and multifamily residential real estate. A LEED AP O&M certified professional, Chris has proven success in developing ESG strategies built on data analysis, transparency, and reporting. He has worked with clients across multiple real estate vehicles to help develop what ESG programs should focus on; benchmarking energy, water, waste, and Greenhouse Gas emissions data to identify opportunities to reduce their impact. Chris also provides measurement and verification and ongoing surveillance of performance once projects are executed. In addition, he authors the weekly ESG Blog, ThirtyNine. 

  • Coffee Break – U.N. Sustainable Development Goals

    The UN Sustainable Development Goals are a global roadmap for peace and prosperity, serving as a call to action for the most pressing social issues currently facing the planet and its people. It is important that businesses, in addition to governments, drive for results that contribute to the intent of the goals. In this session, we will outline how Edward Jones, a Fortune 500 investment firm, has begun to incorporate the SDG’s into their business practices, philanthropy strategy, culture, and corporate goal setting. Watch or listen to this Coffee Break recording!  FEATURED GUESTS Lisa Johnson, Senior Sustainability Project Leader at Edward  Jones - Lisa joined Edward Jones in 2006 after 15 years at McDonnell Douglas / Boeing. She has been responsible for Construction Administration of large and new construction projects, department costs, and measures and processes at Edward Jones and has spent the last 11 year's working on the firm's environmental sustainability efforts.  She is responsible for initiating and submitting a proposal to incorporate sustainability into the firm culture, to preserve and progress the Jones family legacy of conservation. Lisa received her B.S. in Architectural Engineering from Tennessee State University in Nashville, TN and her M.S. in Construction Management from Washington… Continue Reading Coffee Break – U.N. Sustainable Development Goals

  • 2022 Fall Member Social

    We have an amazing opportunity to explore an historically renovated building in Midtown St. Louis, home to three design-build, prefab construction manufacturing, and electrical contractor companies; DIRTT, built., and Coltrane.  Join your fellow members supporting the work of making every building a green building. Enjoy networking and exploring the building, getting to know your Missouri Gateway Green Building Council Leadership and fellow members! 

  • Connect on the Quest: Climate Change Communications

    Having positive and productive conversations about climate change is a great way to open the door to solutions-focused thinking and a problem-solving mindset. During the Nov 2nd Connect on the Quest, Hannah Phillips, Manager of Docents and Interpreters for the Saint Louis Zoo will review the principles of both climate change and climate change communication to help us learn the most productive ways to discuss the topic. Presentation material is informed by the National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation network (NNOCCI) for which Hannah is a certified trainer.