Green California Summit and Exposition Coming to Sacramento
SACRAMENTO — Green builders and stakeholders are gearing up to attend the Green California Summit and Exposition at the Sacramento Convention Center April 8 to April 9 to share best practices and survey the latest technologies in sustainable building.
A wide array of green building topics will be covered at the two-day conference. The summit will provide forward-thinking education programs through various education tracks. Each education track will present three distinctive educational sessions.
Education tracks include: Green Innovation, EVs and EV infrastructure, Local Government Best Practices, Green Schools, Potpourri, Energy and Buildings, Innovative Funding Strategies, Water and Energy, USGBC and Farm to Fork to Fuel. In total, 33 sessions will provide insight and strategies to an assortment of green building subjects.
The education tracks will feature presenters who are experienced practitioners, managers and policy makers who will share strategies and best practices that can help green programs succeed. Session content partners include the Department of General Services, Institute for Local Government, USGBC California and Clean Cities Sacramento and East Bay.
Attendees to the education sessions are able to receive continuing education credits from Build It Green, the International Code Council and the Construction Management Association of America. One AIA credit is offered for each session attended.
Keynote speakers at the summit include Anne Simpson, senior portfolio manager and director of Global Governance at CalPERS, and Wade Crowfoot, deputy cabinet secretary and senior advisor to Gov. Jerry Brown. Crowfoot will lead a presentation on the governor’s response to the California drought emergency.
Pre-summit workshops, including a daylong seminar dedicated to providing education and resources on Prop 39, are also offered April 7. Prop 39, which promises to bring more than $2.5 billion to California schools for energy-efficiency projects, has the potential to enable every local education agency to progress toward more efficient and healthier facilities, and to help schools save money that can be invested in teachers, supplies and other aspects of program delivery, according to summit leaders.
The presentation will detail proposal preparation and submittal, what kinds of projects that are most likely to be approved and best practices that will enable project leaders to make the most of their funds among many other subjects. Speakers at the workshop include Marcia Smith, program director for Prop 39 Implementation at the California Energy Commission; Bob Chase, deputy state architect; Bill McNamara, director of Energy Programs at the California Conservation Corp;, Tim Rainey, executive director of the California Workforce Investment Board; Jim Kelsey, founding principal of kW Engineering; and Ariel Dekovic, senior program manager from the Collaborative for High Performance Schools.
The exposition, which will occur only April 8, will feature numerous exhibitors from various green sectors and products such as green vehicles, solar streetlights, waste to fuel technology, energy monitoring systems and much more.
The Leadership Awards will also be announced April 8. The awards will honor outstanding environmental achievements in eight categories to recognize state and local government projects implemented in California in 2013.