VIRTUAL SUMMIT
Approaches to a sustainable built environment through mass timber, zero-carbon design, and adaptive reuse
DECEMBER 18, 2024
San Francisco
January 23
12
Atlanta March 21
New York City April 3 + 4 Houston
24 Vancouver
6
22
WELCOME
WELCOME TO RENEW-REUSE-REGROW !
ABOUT RENEW REUSE REGROW:
Over the last two decades, cities across North America have undergone something of a renaissance, reversing years of demographic and commercial decline in the process. There is an unlikely, but potent source behind this renewal: underutilized and abandoned historic structures. Because existing buildings require upgrades to mitigate thermal bridging, outdated mechanical systems, and repair decayed facades, their revitalization presents growth opportunities for the AEC industry writ large. Moreover, environmental concerns will only continue to push preservation and re-use at the forefront of practice as green codes and sustainability goals transform the way we design. Renew Reuse Regrow: Virtual Summit foregrounds exemplary projects, identifies best-case practices for their completion, and spotlights emerging technologies within this exciting field such as the growing use of mass timber and the opportunities that working with existing building stock affords to designers.
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Diana Darling CEO / Creative Director AN Media Group
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
DIANA DARLING CEO / Creative Director, AN Media Group
DIONNE DARLING VP of Brand Partnerships, AN Media Group
MARTY WOOD VP of Events, AN Media Group
AGENDA
December 18, 2024 6 AIA / HSW CEU's
9:15 AM VIRTUAL DOORS OPEN
9:30 AM WELCOME
Dionne Darling | The Architect’s Newspaper
9:35 AM PARTNER WELCOME
Lauren Rogers | Sherwin Williams
Liana Giacherio | Bison IP
9:40 AM PARTNER INTRODUCTION
Robert Levit | University of Toronto
9:45 AM KEYNOTE
UMBAU: Non-Stop Transformation
Stephan Schütz | gmp
Jack Murphy | The Architect’s Newspaper
10:30 AM SPOTLIGHT
Educational Futures: Mass Timber in Texas
Michelle Old | Kirksey
11:00 AM NETWORKING BREAK
11:15 AM ROUNDTABLE
Circularity In Construction
Stephanie Phillips | City of San Antonio Office of Historic Preservation
Alexis Feitel | KL&A, Inc
Dave Bennink | NYC Circular Construction Network
12:45 PM LUNCH BREAK 1:15 PM ROUNDTABLE
Designers Disrupting the Waste Stream through Circular Approaches
Meredith Miller | T + E + A + M
Eric Law | Urban Machine
Stephen Pallrand | Carbonshack
2:00 PM PANEL
Wood for Good: Regional Approaches to Mass Timber Multifamily Housing
Susan Jones | atelierjones
Brent Buck | Brent Buck Architects
Jack Murphy | The Architect’s Newspaper
2:45 PM CLOSING REMARKS
AGENDA
2:50 PM NETWORKING BREAK
3:00 PM CEU
Biophilic Design & Rooftop Deck Systems: A Natural Connection
Liana Giacherio | Bison IP
Credit for this course is 1 AIA LU/HSW CE Hour and 1 GBCI CE General Hour
4:00 PM CEU
Achieve Sustainable Performance for Decades with Coil and Extrusion Metal Coatings
Lauren Rogers | Sherwin Williams
Credit for this course is 1 AIA LU/HSW CE Hour and 1 GBCI CE General Hour
2025 WORKSHOPS SCHEDULE
Mid-Atlantic - Jan 15
Mountain States - Feb 12
Tri-State - Feb 19
Midwest - Mar 5
Southwest - Mar 13
West - Mar 19
Pacific Northwest - Apr 2
Northeast - Apr 30
Southeast - Jun 18
Mid-Atlantic - Jul 16
Midwest - Aug 6
Mountain States - Aug 13
Tri-State - Sep 10
Southwest - Oct 8
Southeast - Oct 15
West - Nov 5
Pacific Northwest - Nov 19
Northeast - Dec 10+11
SPEAKERS
KEYNOTE
STEPHAN SCHÜTZ
Executive Partner / gmp
Stephan Schütz studied architecture at Braunschweig Technical University. After qualifying he joined gmp · von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Architects in 1994 and was appointed Partner in 2006. Since 2009, Schütz has been regularly leading workshops at the Academy for Architectural Culture (aac), which he helped to initiate. His most important projects include the Civic Center in Weimar, the New Tempodrom in Berlin, the Christian Church in Beijing, the CYTS Plaza office building in Beijing, the Grand Theaters in Qingdao and Tianjin, the National Museum of China in Beijing, the Universiade Sports Center in Shenzhen, the conversion and refurbishment of Dresden’s Kulturpalast as well as the Isarphilharmonie Gasteig HP8 in Munich.
DAVE BENNINK
Owner / RE-USE Consulting
Dave Bennink is Director of the Building Deconstruction Institute and owns Re-Use Consulting. He trains groups focusing on reusable materials and embodied carbon, and has salvaged/deconstructed over 5000 projects in North America, existing within the circular economy since 1993. Significant to the city, Dave has formed the NYC Circular Construction Network whose goal is to unite various projects in the NYC area that are working towards a circular economy, spurred by the recent “Circular Design and Construction Guidelines”. The network’s focus is on driving action and facilitating “material matchmaking” between current and future projects.
BRENT BUCK
Principal / Brent Buck Architects
Raised in the American Midwest, Brent grew up in a family of makers–masons, carpenters, plasterers, and machinists. At a young age he developed a respect for people who work with their hands, which impacts his viewpoint on architecture and design today. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a Master of Architecture degree from Yale University. He was awarded the John Stewardson Fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania, which he used to travel throughout India to study the centuries-old tradition of stepwells. He was awarded the Drawing Prize from Yale University.
ALEXIS FEITEL
Team Carbon Unit Director, KL&A Engineers & Builders / KL&A, Inc
Alexis is a licensed structural engineer with nearly 10 years of experience in custom highend residential, high seismic residential, multifamily, concrete high rise, existing building renovation, construction engineering, material salvage, and sustainable design experience. She is the KL&A Team Carbon Unit Director, a team of inhouse expertise focused on embodied carbon quantification, reduction strategies, and implementation into the current design and (de) construction practice at KL&A.
LIANA GIACHERIO
Business Development Manager, Sales & Marketing / Bison
Liana Giacherio is an experienced Business Development Manager at Bison, bringing 15-years of expertise in supply chain management, deck systems, and green roof manufacturing/sales. Liana has been instrumental in forging partnerships with architects to drive the growth of eco-friendly roofing systems across commercial, residential, and public sectors. With a firm belief in the transformative power of outdoor spaces and their positive impact on mental well-being, she invites collaboration to create something beautiful and enduring.
SPEAKERS
SUSAN JONES
Architect,
Owner and Founder/ atelierjones
Susan Jones, FAIA is an architect with over 30 years of experience and is founder of the award-winning architectural Seattle firm, atelierjones focuses primarily on designing and building lower-carbon, mass timber buildings. With eight completed mass timber projects, atelierjones is a national leader. atelierjones, a solely woman-owned and woman-led architectural firm, designs tall and mid-rise, multi-family mass timber housing, as well as mass timber institutional buildings and single-family homes. In June 2023, atelierjones completed the new workforce housing tall mass timber 126-unit project, Heartwood in Seattle, the first Type IV-C building in the US.
MEREDITH MILLER
Founder / T + E + A + M
Meredith Miller is a licensed architect and Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where she was an A. Alfred Taubman Fellow in 2009 – 2010. She received her Masters of Architecture from Princeton University and holds a BS in architecture from the University of Virginia. Her work has been exhibited at the 2012 and 2016 Venice Biennales, Van Alen Institute, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and Boston Society of Architects. Her writing has been featured in Journal of Architecture Education, Scapegoat: Architecture, Landscape, and Political Economy, MONU, Pidgin, Thresholds, and ARPA Journal. Meredith has received research support from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the American Institute of Architects. Meredith led the design practices Mer-Mer (20132015) and MILLIGRAM-office (2009-2014).
ERIC LAW
Co-Founder & CEO / Urban Machine
Eric Law is the co-founder and CEO of Urban Machine, a robotics company on a mission to reclaim the millions of tons of wood waste from construction and demolition for reuse as high volume, locally sourced, premium lumber products. Previously, Law built an industry-leading innovation team at Swinerton, and he led the Construction Product team for Bentley Systems after his company, EADOC, had been acquired. Eric earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. When escaping technology, Law heads to the mountains with his family to ski, mountain bike, and climb a rock or two.
ROBERT LEVIT
Acting Dean & Associate Professor/ University of Toronto
A partner in the design firm Khoury Levit Fong, Robert Levit is associate professor and acting dean at the University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. His work links the urban and architectural scales, and his design work and writing on architecture have appeared in numerous anthologies and journal publications. Levit has been the director of both the Architecture and Urban Design programs at the Daniels Faculty, and holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University. Prior to starting his own practice, he worked for the architect Alvaro Siza in Portugal.
JACK MURPHY
Managing Editor / The Architect’s Newspaper
Jack Murphy is Managing Editor of The Architect’s Newspaper. Previously, he was Editor of Cite: The Architecture and Design Review of Houston and Adjunct Professor at the Gerald D. Hines University of Houston College of Architecture and Design. He earned an undergraduate degree in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a graduate degree in architecture from Rice University. He has worked for award-winning architects in New York City, Houston, Austin, and Boston. His writing has appeared in Places Journal, Dwell, Architectural Record, The Architect’s Newspaper, Texas Architect, Cite, PLAT, Paprika!, New York Review of Architecture, The Houston Chronicle, and SF Gate, among other publications. He was Co-Editor-in-Chief for PLAT 7.5 Oversharing and PLAT 8.0 Simplicity and Assistant Editor of Totalization, edited by Troy Schaum and published by Park Books. He lives in Brooklyn.
MICHELLE OLD
Partner / Kirksey
Michelle is an experienced senior project designer, and a Design Director at Kirksey. She is passionate about designing spaces that promote creativity, collaboration, and health. Michelle frequently speaks at conferences and has been honored with an AIA Ben Brewer Young Architect Award, and named as one of BD+C Magazine’s 40 Under 40, Houston’s Emerging Voices by the AIA Young Architects Forum (YAF) and one of the nation’s Diverse Designers in 2021. Her work has garnered design awards from Texas Architect, AIA Houston, SCUP, and IIDA. She has become an expert in mass timber projects as well.
SPEAKERS
STEPHEN PALLRAND
Founder / Carbonshack
Stephen Pallrand founded Home Front Build approximately 20 years ago, design/build company that specializes in renovating and restoring homes of L.A. vernacular architecture. He and his team also have long encouraged clients to incorporate sustainability as part of the renovation process. Stephen also launched his sustainable- only design-build and interior design products company, CarbonShack, a few years ago, to dive heavily into his eco-focus and where he feels design-build needs to go.
STEPHANIE PHILLIPS
Senior Deconstruction & Circular Economy Program Manager / City of San Antonio Office of Historic Preservation
Stephanie Phillips is the Senior Deconstruction & Circular Economy Program Manager at the City of San Antonio Office of Historic Preservation. In this role, she administers the largest deconstruction ordinance in the United States, scales reuse workforce development, and advances local building material recovery and reuse through the City’s Material Innovation Center. Her work contributes to nonprofits and coalitions that focus on embodied carbon and circular economy policy and advocacy, including the Climate Heritage Network and Build Reuse. She is the co-founder of Circular San Antonio, a local circular economy nonprofit, and is a 2023 J.M.K. Innovation Prize awardee.
LAUREN ROGERS
Sustainability Marketing Manager / Sherwin Williams
Lauren Rogers joined Sherwin Williams Coil Coatings Division as a Sustainability Marketing Manager. She graduated with a B.S. in Biology, B.A. in Spanish Language and Culture, and a minor in Sustainability from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul. She is passionate about creating a more sustainable, equitable environment in both her personal and professional life.
MARTY WOOD
Program Director / The Architect’s Newspaper
Marty Wood is the Program Director for The Architect’s Newspaper’s Facades+ Conferences and other AN events and initiatives that bring together AEC professionals to share their stories, expertise, and projects. As a writer, he’s contributed to The Architect’s Newspaper, Metropolis, and other design publications. He is also a visiting instructor at Pratt Institute. Wood has a BA in Communications from San Francisco State University and a M.S. from Columbia University GSAPP.
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