Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure at Harvard University
ZOFNASS PROGRAM WORKSHOP:
Putting Together the Puzzle of Sustainable Infrastructure
Making the Business Case and Opportunities for Sustainable Infrastructure. Speakers from: 100 Resilient Cities / Rockefeller Foundation, Bentley Systems, Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec, CH2M, City of Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering Environmental Engineering Division, County of Los Angeles Public Works, HNTB, IFC, Impact Infrastructure, Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure, LA Metro, Louis Berger, Nathan Associates, NYC-Department of Design and Construction, Port Authority of NY & NJ, Riverkeeper, Stantec, The Nature Conservancy, Zofnass Program Harvard University, Zurich Financial Services Sustainable Infrastructure Advisory Board (SIAB): Autodesk, Bentley Systems, CDM Smith, CH2M, Ecology & Environment, Golder Associates, HNTB, Louis Berger, NV5, Power Engineers, Stantec, The Nature Conservancy October 25, 2017 8:00 am to 6:45 pm Location: Williamsburg Room, New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge
4. Is Sustainable Infrastructure more costly?
8. The role of Pension Funds.
1. The relationship between “resiliency” and “sustainability”.
5. The role of the Infrastructure Banks.
9. The role of Charitable Foundations.
12. The Growth in Demand by Major Corporations.
2. The ability to measure sustainability.
6. The role of the Insurance Industry.
10. Technical Support for Sustainability.
13. The Role of the Big Cities.
3. The Economic, Financial and Business Case for Sustainable Infrastructure.
7. The role and development of “Green Bonds”.
11. Investment Firms and Potential Benefits of “P-3” Projects.
Special thanks to all guest speakers and SIAB Members!
Workshop Coordination: Judith RodrĂguez, jirodrig@gsd.harvard.edu
ZOFNASS PROGRAM WORKSHOP:
Putting Together the Puzzle of Sustainable Infrastructure Making the Business Case and Opportunities for Sustainable Infrastructure. Wednesday, October 25, 2017. From 8:00 am to 6:45 pm at the Williamsburg Room, New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge 333 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY This one-day Zofnass Program Workshop is focused on identifying the key drivers for the future of sustainable infrastructure with special emphasis on the business case for sustainable infrastructure. The Puzzle of Sustainable Infrastructure is based on what are the key parts that need to come together to make the goal of sustainable infrastructure achievable. The workshop will be composed of various presentations focused on discussing each of the proposed 13 key parts of the Puzzle of Sustainable Infrastructure. 1. The relationship between “resiliency” and “sustainability” 2. The ability to measure sustainability 3. The Economic, Financial and Business Case for Sustainable Infrastructure 4. Is Sustainable Infrastructure more costly? 5. The role of the Infrastructure Banks 6. The role of the Insurance Industry 7. The role and development of “Green Bonds” 8. The role of Pension Funds 9. The role of Charitable Foundations 10. Technical Support for Sustainability 11. Investment Firms and Potential Benefits of “P-3” Projects 12. The Growth in Demand by Major Corporations 13. The Role of the Big Cities The outcomes of this workshop will be presented at ASCE’s International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure: Sustainable Cities for an Uncertain World, on October 26-28 at the same venue (www.icsiconference.org). Paul Zofnass and several SIAB members and guests will be presenting at the plenary morning session to summarize and discuss the insights of the Wednesday ZPH Workshop.
Location in Brooklyn & Lunch Options
Marriott Hotel Location in Brooklyn:
Brooklyn Bridge Marriott
Lunch Options:
333 Adams Street Brooklyn, NY
Inside the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott: The Brooklyn Pantry (Sandwiches and snacks), inside Marriott Nearby the Marriott: Panera Bread (American, Sandwiches), 0.1 miles Rocco’s Tacos & Tequila Bar (Mexican), 0.1 miles Potbelly Sandwich Shop (Sandwiches), 0.1 miles Shake Shack (American Burgers), 0.1 miles Public transportation is recommended, as well as other mobility options such as Uber, or Lyft. Parking available at the Marriott.
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Location at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott
Workshop Venue Location:
Williamsburg Room Second floor Brooklyn Bridge Marriott
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Agenda Williamsburg Room Brooklyn Bridge Marriott
Welcome
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Putting Together the Puzzle of Sustainable Infrastructure. Prof. Spiro Pollalis Paul Zofnass
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Director of the Zofnass Program Harvard University President and Zofnass Program Founder Environmental Financial Consulting Group
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Measuring Sustainability with Envision / Relationship Between “Resiliency” and “Sustainability”. Moderated by Prof. Spiro Pollalis, Director Zofnass Program Harvard University
Marty Janowitz Prof. Spiro Pollalis Dr. Andreas Georgoulias Judith Rodríguez Anthony Kane
Vice President Sustainable Development Stantec Director of the Zofnass Program Harvard University Zofnass Program Harvard University Research Associate, Zofnass Program Harvard University Managing Director Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI)
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Agenda
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Session 2 (Part I)
Role of Pension Funds and Green Bonds.
Moderated by Thomas G. Lewis, President Louis Berger
Mariana Silva Ana María Vidaurre Dr. Cris B. Liban
Managing Associate, Infrastructure Planning & Finance Nathan Associates Regional Director, Infrastructure Investments, Latin America Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec (CDPQ) Executive Officer, Environmental Compliance and Sustainability Program Management, Los Angeles Metro
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Session 2 (Part II)
Role of Infrastructure Banks and Insurance Industry. Moderated by Thomas G. Lewis, President Louis Berger
Benjamin J. Harper
AVP, Technical Underwriting, Head of Environmental Zurich Insurance
Giridhar Srinivasan
Senior Operations Officer, Global Partnerships (Infrastructure Investment Lead) International Finance Corporation (IFC)
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Agenda Williamsburg Room Brooklyn Bridge Marriott
Case Study 1: US 84 Mississippi River Bridge
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Rehabilitation of the US 84 Mississippi River Bridge. Moderated by Jim Grant, Associate VP Energy & Fueling Systems Director, HNTB
James Gregg Jim Grant
Bridge Department Manager HNTB Associate VP - Energy & Fueling Systems Director HNTB
Case Study 2: Fort Tilden
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Fort Tilden Shore Access and Resiliency Project. Moderated by Niek Veraart, Vice President, Louis Berger
Niek Veraart Heather Unger
Vice President Louis Berger Corporate Sustainability Manager Louis Berger
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Session 3 (Part I)
Role of Big Cities in Sustainable Infrastructure. New York City
Sofia ZuberbĂźhlerYafar Sarah Korapati Salman Javed
Moderated by Dr. John Mogge, SVP, Global Environmental Market Director, CH2M with Elizabeth J. Bradford, CH2M Project Executive for Sustainable Infrastructure Project Manager in Sustainable Infrastructure Project Manager in Sustainable Infrastructure NYC Department of Design and Construction
Melissa Targett Josh DeFlorio
Sustainable Design Manager Chief, Resilience & Sustainability Port Authority of NY & NJ
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Session 3 (Part 2)
Los Angeles
Moderated by Dr. John Mogge, SVP, Global Environmental Market Director, CH2M with Elizabeth J. Bradford, CH2M
Dr. Youn Sim
Sustainability and Innovation Officer County of Los Angeles, Public Works
Mike Sarullo
Division Manager City of Los Angeles, Bureau Oo Engineering, Environmental Engineering Division
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Agenda Williamsburg Room Brooklyn Bridge Marriott
Session 4
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Technical Support for Sustainability. Moderated by Prof. Spiro Pollalis and Cristina Contreras, Zofnass Program Harvard University
Chris Barron John Williams
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Chief Communications Officer Bentley Systems CEO Impact Infrastructure
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Role of Charitable Foundations in Sustainable Infrastructure. Moderated by Prof. Spiro Pollalis, Director Zofnass Program Harvard University
Jennifer Molnar Paul Gallay Andrew Salkin
Lead Scientist & Managing Director, Center for Sustainability Science The Nature Conservancy President Riverkeeper Senior Vice President, City Solutions 100 Resilient Cities / Rockefeller Foundation
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<6:40 pm> Director of the Zofnass Program Harvard University
Welcome Detailed Agenda
<7:00 am> Sustainable Infrastructure Advisory Board (SIAB) Breakfast Meeting in Williamsburg Room, Brooklyn Bridge Marriott. <8:00 am> Welcome to the Zofnass Workshop Prof. Spiro Pollalis, Director of the Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure, Harvard University <8:05 am> Introduction: Putting Together the Puzzle of Sustainable Infrastructure Paul Zofnass, President and Zofnass Program Founder Environmental Financial Consulting Group
1. The relationship between “resiliency” and “sustainability”.
4. Is Sustainable Infrastructure more costly?
8. The role of Pension Funds.
5. The role of the Infrastructure Banks.
9. The role of Charitable Foundations.
12. The Growth in Demand by Major Corporations.
2. The ability to measure sustainability.
6. The role of the Insurance Industry.
10. Technical Support for Sustainability.
3. The Economic, Financial and Business Case for Sustainable Infrastructure.
7. The role and development of “Green Bonds”.
11. Investment Firms and Potential Benefits of “P-3” Projects.
13. The Role of the Big Cities.
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Detailed Agenda <8:20 am>
Panel 1: Measuring sustainability with Envision Relationship between “resiliency” and “sustainability”. Moderator Prof. Spiro Pollalis, Director of the Zofnass Program, Harvard University Resilience, Sustainability and the Infrastructure Bottom Line - Making and Defending Choices Marty Janowitz, Vice President Sustainable Development, Stantec Resilience has become the central theme in much of the thinking, planning and response to all manner of unforeseen or catastrophic events disrupting or damaging our communities, particularly in this epoch of climate change disorder. But it is a term that suffers from simplistic or inconsistent understanding – from ‘bounce back’ or rebound-recover, to adaption or transformation; and approaches ranging from engineering to social-ecological orientations. Things get even murkier when we add ‘Sustainability’ into the mix. Resilience and Sustainability have a lot to do with each other but are not the same – resilience an attribute of dynamic, adaptive systems, and sustainability about the continued assurance of human and natural well-being. This presentation proposes that the resilience we are trying to plan and design for actually helps us move towards desired future sustainable systems states, and not, by lack of forethought, undesirable ones. Linked with care, they become lynchpins in understanding and executing the sustainable infrastructure business case supported and enhanced by the use of Envision.
The Business Case for Sustainable Infrastructure (research in progress) Prof. Spiro Pollalis, Director of the Zofnass Program, Harvard University The current research project of the Zofnass Program focuses on the cost of sustainability to the project owners; to those who pay. Arguments fall short unless sustainability makes business sense for the owner of the infrastructure project and those who finance it. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive methodology to quantify the costs and the avoided risks in sustainable projects and understand the economic benefits of sustainability as a value proposition rather than value imposition. The first step has been the literature review, with objectives: (1) to identify the main themes in the area of the business case of sustainable infrastructure, (2) to document available information regarding the factors that affect the cost of sustainable infrastructure,
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Session 1 Measuring sustainability with Envision Relationship between “resiliency” and “sustainability”. (3) to examine available information directly related to the research question, such as: (a) the different approaches, (b) the attempts to detect a systematic relationship between sustainable and economic performance, (c) methodology, (d) statements by researchers regarding the research question, (e) sector-specific evidence, and (f) the gaps and shortcomings of the existing research. The literature review was based on academic papers, reports produced by government agencies, by multilateral financial institutions and by consulting firms and organizations involved with sustainable development. Two main streams of research are identified in the available literature resources: Theoretical studies based on frameworks that aim to explain the nature of the relationship between financial performance and sustainability; and empirical/descriptive studies that examine approaches in practice, through the use of specific case studies. Many of the findings direct to “corporate sustainability” and “assessment” of sustainable infrastructure in terms of social/ environmental performance but not financial. Economic performance is evaluated in the long-term but not always through quantified data. The most metric-specific studies are the ones related to Green Infrastructure and Low-Impact Development. These studies explicitly state that sustainable measures cost less than conventional ones, through project-specific case studies. Resiliency is also considered as adding value as climate change mitigation, emphasizing the link between risk and cost.
Measuring Sustainability in Hydropower Development: A Case Study in the Brazilian Amazon Dr. Andreas Georgoulias, Zofnass Program, Harvard University Judith Rodríguez, Research Associate, Zofnass Program, Harvard University Hydropower infrastructure development in the Amazon faces great challenges in mitigating significantly large-scale social and environmental impacts. The main goal of the research is to better understand the impacts of infrastructure development through the study of the Jari River basin, in the post-development context of the hydroelectric plant. The study can help generate opportunities to improve the quality of urban life in the area, integrate sustainability into the hydroelectric power planning process, and help inform how municipalities and hydropower investments could be geared towards planned sustainable growth. Ultimately the project intends to contribute to the debate on the improvement of the quality of urban living in the Amazon, and for the development of guidelines for sustainable and resilient hydropower in the region that can withstand the increased uncertainty towards climate change impacts. The objectives are addressed through field research, documenting the urban conditions of relocated communities, cities and towns along the river, as well as meeting with stakeholders, researchers, developers and operators of hydroelectric power, affected municipalities, communities, and environmental regulators. This project created a platform of collaboration with an extensive network of researchers from various academic institutions and government agencies in Brazil to discuss the research, gather information, and learn about each other’s work. 13
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The Next Generation of Envision-- Envision v3 Anthony Kane, Managing Director, Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) After five years of applying Envision on billions of dollarsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; worth of infrastructure assets, the industry has progressed significantly, and ISI has learned a great deal about the Envision assessment process and how Envision is applied to real-world projects. ISI has captured these lessons learned and is incorporating them into the next version of Envision, known as Envision v3. For example, the industry understanding of resilience has grown tremendously, especially in the wake of recent natural disasters, which has led ISI to expand Envision to better incorporate a more advanced appreciation and understanding of resilience. ISI also identified the need to place greater emphasis on evaluating the economics of infrastructure projects, as well as the need to extend the framework to more comprehensively include sustainability aspects of construction. Thirteen committees made up of 75 Envision users across the United States and Canada with specific technical expertise contributed to the development of the Envision v3 draft, currently available for public comment. The presentation will provide a brief overview of broad conceptual changes from Envision v2 to Envision v3. A more detailed review will be provided of the newly retitled Risk and Resilience category.
Q&A Led by Prof. Spiro Pollalis. <10:10 am > Coffee break.
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Detailed Agenda <10:25 am>
Part I: Role of Pension Funds and Green Bonds. Moderator Thomas G. Lewis, President, Louis Berger The Impact of Green Bonds on Sustainable Infrastructure Mariana Silva, Managing Associate, Infrastructure Planning & Finance, Nathan Associates The explosive growth of green bonds in the capital markets is increasingly attracting attention from private investors. This surge in interest has created a demand for accessible information on the green bond market, standardization and scale. This briefing will cover the principles, history and best practices related to this relatively “new” financial instrument. Mariana Silva, sustainable finance global expert, will explain during her short intervention the nature and history of green bonds. The content of the presentation will aim to distinguish green bonds from other traditional financial instruments. It will also provide insight into the potential of green bonds to mobilize new sources of climate finance for closing the 50 trillion infrastructure deficit in a low carbon resilient manner.
Why Pension Funds Care About Sustainability Ana Maria Vidaurre, Regional Director, Infrastructure Investments, Latin America Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec (CDPQ) LA Metro’s Interest in Sustainability Dr. Cris B. Liban, Executive Officer, Environmental Compliance and Sustainability Program Management, Los Angeles Metro The business case for sustainable infrastructure is specially challenging when designing and building infrastructure in the public sector. There are competing interests in the perspective of the owner, the developer/constructor, the governing body, and the general public. This talk will outline the options for one government agency in developing their business case; and how the agency is able to capitalize on what is available in the financial marketplace to provide a vision, develop, grow, and maintain its sustainable infrastructure. This is particularly important in a situation where the infrastructure needs to be resilient for 50 to 100 years under an evolving set of regulatory requirements, design and construction techniques, economic drivers and stakeholder needs.
Q&A Led by Thomas G. Lewis.
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Session 2 Role of Infrastructure Development Banks, Insurance Industry, Pension Funds and Green Bonds. NOTES
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Detailed Agenda <11:30 am>
Part II: Role of Infrastructure Banks and Insurance Industry. Moderator Thomas G. Lewis., President, Louis Berger Insurance Industryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interest and role in Sustainable Infrastructure Benjamin J. Harper, AVP, Technical Underwriting, Head of Environmental, Zurich Insurance Impact and role of multilateral development banks in Sustainable Infrastructure Giridhar Srinivasan, Senior Operations Officer, Global Partnerships (Infrastructure Investment Lead), International Finance Corporation (IFC) Given the massive demand for infrastructure, there is an acute need for investment from the private sector. Investments in infrastructure come with environmental, social and governance risks that must be managed over the life of the asset. The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is the private sector development and investment arm of the World Bank Group. IFC has a portfolio of over $10.3 billion invested in infrastructure across emerging markets. IFC has found that ESG risks directly impact financial performance. Therefore, managing ESG risks should be an integral part of investment decisions and risk management. Multilaterals have a critical role to play in addressing ESG risks in infrastructure projects, as MDBs help with policy reforms, create standardized approaches and common understandings of ESG issues with large groups of investors. E.g., IFC led the creation of the Equator Principles. As more investors start investing in infrastructure, there is a growing view that managing ESG risks is a core part of managing the risks in an infrastructure portfolio.
Q&A Led by Thomas G. Lewis.
<12:20 pm > Lunch Break (55 minutes). Various food options available on page 4.
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Image credits: HNTB
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Case Study 1 Rehabilitation of the US 84 Mississippi River Bridge
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Case Study 1 US 84 Mississippi River Bridge <1:15 pm>
Case Study 1: US 84 Mississippi River Bridge Moderator Jim Grant, Associate VP Energy & Fueling Systems Director, HNTB Rehabilitation of the US 84 Mississippi River Bridge James Gregg, Bridge Department Manager, HNTB The US 84 Mississippi River Bridge is a 5 span cantilever truss bridge crossing the Mississippi River in Natchez, Mississippi. Two lower truss pins on the bridge shifted transversely and were flush with the outside gusset. The existing truss pins and links were removed and replaced. Temporary restraints were used to bypass the load in the truss pins and link and instrumentation used to evaluate stresses in the truss during removal.
Q&A Led by Jim Grant.
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Case Study 2 Fort Tilden Shore Access and Resiliency Project
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Case Study 2 Fort Tilden Shore Access and Resiliency Project <2:00 pm>
Case Study 2: Fort Tilden Moderator Niek Veraart, Vice President, Louis Berger Fort Tilden Shore Access and Resiliency Project Niek Veraart, Vice President, Louis Berger Heather Unger, Corporate Sustainability Manager, Louis Berger Fort Tilden is a former U.S. Army installation in Queens New York and is now part of the Gateway National Recreation Area. It is administered by the National Park Service (NPS) and serves as active and passive open space, includes historic resources, and provides coastal habitat. Hurricane Sandy caused physical changes to the Fort Tilden coastal area, displacing the established foredune system and creating a new environment with safety, access, and resource issues. These changes affected historic resources on and adjacent to the beach, including Shore Road, the bulkhead and groin system, Battery Kessler, several historic buildings, and created new beach habitats. NPS initiated a project to understand the potential impacts from future storms on existing natural and cultural resources, infrastructure, and safety of surrounding communities, and to use this project as a guide for siting and designing future coastal protection measures. A full range of alternatives was developed and evaluated, including evaluation of resiliency and sustainability. The resulting solution, which is currently being implemented, seeks to balance the various goals and objectives.
Q&A Led by Niek Veraart. <2:45 pm > Coffee break. NOTES
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Detailed Agenda <3:00 pm>
Part I: New York City Moderators Dr. John Mogge, SVP, Global Environmental Market Director, CH2M with Elizabeth J. Bradford, Global Technology Leader: Resilient & Sustainable Infrastructure Planning, and Envision Sustainable Infrastructure Rating System, CH2M A Workplan for Integrating Sustainability Sofia Zuberbühler-Yafar, Project Executive for Sustainable Infrastructure Sarah Korapati, Project Manager in Sustainable Infrastructure Salman Javed, Project Manager in Sustainable Infrastructure NYC Department of Design and Construction Infrastructure owners and managers are expanding the use of the ENVISION program as a design tool across various infrastructure typologies. The objective of this presentation is to share NYCDDC’s current approach on integrating Envision into planning efforts and project design. Establishing baselines and analyzing the level of effort required to attain the next level of achievement in each credit gives useful insight on how to prioritize projects and improve the scope of NYC capital projects, with an emphasis on big picture sustainable planning. The score on the Envision Sustainable Infrastructure Rating System helps highlight current levels of achievement, as well as addressing opportunities for improvement and sustainable growth by incorporating lessons learned into key decision making processes. Baseline evaluations are established from various NYC infrastructure project typologies.
PANYNJ Sustainable Design Guidelines & Envision Melissa Targett, Sustainable Design Manager (primary speaker) Josh DeFlorio, Chief, Resilience & Sustainability Port Authority of NY & NJ The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (PANYNJ) conceives, builds, operates and maintains infrastructure critical to the New York/New Jersey region’s trade and transportation network. As part of this role and pursuant to the Agency’s Sustainability Policy, the PANYNJ develops and implements Sustainable Building Guidelines (SBG) and Sustainable Infrastructure Guidelines (SIG). The Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) manages the development and implementation of the Envision Sustainable Rating System. At the beginning of 2014, the Sustainable Design Group within the Authority’s Engineering Department, embarked on an exploration of the Envision Rating System, comparing it to PANYNJ’s Sustainable Design Guidelines. Because Envision’s criteria align closely with the SIG, the PANYNJ decided to conduct an Envision pilot study focused on one of the Agency’s signature infrastructure projects – the Bayonne Bridge Navigational Clearance Project.
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Q&A Led by Dr. John Mogge with Elizabeth J. Bradford.
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Detailed Agenda <3:50 pm>
Part II: Los Angeles Moderators Dr. John Mogge, SVP, Global Environmental Market Director, CH2M with Elizabeth J. Bradford, Global Technology Leader: Resilient & Sustainable Infrastructure Planning, and Envision Sustainable Infrastructure Rating System, CH2M Envision and The Way We Manage Infrastructure Youn Sim, Sustainability and Innovation Officer County of Los Angeles, Public Works After 5 years of learning and examining Envision as applied in various infrastructure projects, in 2016 the Los Angeles County adopted the use of Envision as a standard for County infrastructure projects and programs as appropriate, including those related to energy, water, waste, transportation, landscape, and information. The County’s vision for Envision was beyond a tool to develop a sustainable project, rather it was to transform the entire process of infrastructure management from planning to delivery and contracting to operations and maintenance. This new vision will also have regional influence across other public agencies and private industry involved in infrastructure. The presentation will provide an overview of early years of pilot Envision implementation followed by specific actions taken to integrate Envision into various phases of infrastructure management and vision for next steps.
Taking Envision to a Program Level in the City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Engineering Mike Sarullo, Division Manager, City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Engineering, Environmental Engineering Division In 2015, the Mayor signed the City’s first Sustainable City pLAn, a comprehensive document that establishes sustainability goals across City functions, including greening its infrastructure. While the City has adopted sustainability standards for buildings, the Bureau of Engineering (BOE) - along with other leaders in sustainability have recognized the necessity to expand the sustainability standard to encompass infrastructure projects. The BOE has embraced Envision as the sustainability standard for infrastructure projects and on November 4, 2016, the Los Angeles City Council adopted a motion supporting the City Engineer’s decision to utilize Envision as a rating system for measuring sustainability and certification for BOE infrastructure projects. Over the past several years, the City of Los Angeles including its Departments, Bureau’s, Facilities and Divisions have implemented several Program Level policies that address sustainability. These documents fall into the category of “Program Level Documentation” (PLD) and remain constant for every BOE project.
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For Programs such as ours that design approximately 50 projects each year, this results in extensive efforts by the project team to compile the PLD for each submission. Establishing a programmatic approach to Envision will allow the BOE to establish a baseline rating level to use as a starting point thereby requiring the PLD to only have to be verified one time. This will make it will be easier and faster for our Program to submit multiple projects for verification as staff can focus efforts on providing project level documentation only. It should also reduce verification costs allowing the BOE to expand the use of Envision more broadly across its Programs. This presentation will focus on the BOE efforts to review, categorize and inventory existing City-wide Program Level documents and determine their applicability to each Envision credit category.
Q&A Led by Dr. John Mogge with Elizabeth J. Bradford. <4:40 pm > Coffee break. NOTES
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Detailed Agenda <4:55 pm>
Session 4: Technical Support for Sustainability Moderator Prof. Spiro Pollalis and Cristina Contreras, Zofnass Program Harvard University Envision and The Way We Manage Infrastructure Chris Barron, Chief Communications Officer, Bentley Systems Delivering and operating sustainable infrastructure is not only environmentally responsible, it is a sound business practice. To realize the full value of sustainable infrastructure, we must define sustainability broadly to include the notions of resilience and adaptability, and consider not just environmental sustainability, but economic and operational sustainability, as well. New advances in engineering software and cloud computing enable engineers, contractors, and owner-operators to leverage information-rich, digital engineering models throughout the infrastructure asset lifecycle for better project delivery and asset performance, increasing the sustainable value for all stakeholders.
Triple Bottom Line Cost Benefit Analysis John Williams, CEO, Impact Infrastructure Engineers and their peers in the design community have been reluctant to incorporate economic performance in the development of project solutions. There inhibitions are being overcome by growing expectations from asset owners to know more about the value design products will produce. Recent hurricane damage and the federal funding to follow will come with strings attached. FEMA, EPA, HUD, and US DOT all rely on economic assessment criteria to evaluate and prioritize federal funding. During this presentation, the audience. They will see evidence of engineers stepping up to provide economic assessments to tune their work to optimal returns including mini case studies of projects that are focused on stormwater management. Each case involves engineers using automated economic assessment tools to craft business cases that assign values to the Triple Bottom Line with outputs to shown by stakeholder groups. Each case will be relevant in dealing with federal funding criteria.
Q&A Led by Prof. Spiro Pollalis and Cristina Contreras.
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Detailed Agenda <5:40 pm>
Session 5: Role of Charitable Foundations in Sustainable Infrastructure. Moderator Prof. Spiro Pollalis, Zofnass Program Harvard University The Nature Conservancyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Work on Sustainable Infrastructure Jennifer Molnar, Lead Scientist & Managing Director, Center for Sustainability Science, The Nature Conservancy A key question The Nature Conservancy seeks to answer is how can we efficiently reconcile priorities of sustainable development for all, climate mitigation and adaptation, and global infrastructure development, so that people and nature can continue to thrive. Our answers include: Green the Grey - large landscape-scale planning for traditional infrastructure and compensatory mitigation of ecological impacts; and Grow the Green - invest in nature as a cost-effective infrastructure solution. Up front, system-scale planning results in faster, cheaper infrastructure and better biodiversity and climate outcomes. As a global conservation organization working in all 50 US states and in some 70 countries around the world, we are able to bring together ecological science and economics, landscape-scale planning expertise and experience implementing projects to partner with local to global actors in the private, public, and non-profit sectors to advance these strategies.
Building Public and Political Support for Sustainable Infrastructure Paul Gallay, President, Riverkeeper Sustainable infrastructure isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just an opportunity -- itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a necessity. Yet, government planners adopt truly sustainable project designs far more rarely than they simply do things the way they always have. The visionary engineers, planners and economists working to advance sustainability are, in effect, designing the engine that will move us towards a more resilient future. A prime example is ENVISION, a joint project of the Zofnass Program For Sustainable Infrastructure at Harvard University and the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure. But, this engine will take us farther if we wrap it in an exterior that gains public and political support, because governments tend to respond positively to thoughtful, active constituent pressure. Riverkeeper has succeeded in advancing a number of sustainability-based policy initiatives in our home communities of New York City and the Hudson River Valley. My presentation will summarize several of these campaigns and offer ways in which they might be applied in other communities and situations to help take the cause of sustainability to scale.
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100 Resilient Cities Role in Building Urban Resilience and Lessons Learned Andrew Salkin, Senior Vice President, City Solutions, 100 Resilient Cities / Rockefeller Foundation Cities face a growing range of adversities and challenges in the 21st century. From the effects of climate change to growing migrant populations to inadequate infrastructure to pandemics to cyber-attacks. Resilience is what helps cities adapt and transform in the face of these challenges, helping them to prepare for both the expected and the unexpected. 100RC defines urban resilience as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the capacity of individuals, communities, institutions, businesses, and systems within a city to survive, adapt, and grow no matter what kinds of chronic stresses and acute shocks they experience.â&#x20AC;? Building urban resilience requires looking at a city holistically: understanding the systems that make up the city and the interdependencies and risks they may face. By strengthening the underlying fabric of a city and better understanding the potential shocks and stresses it may face, a city can improve its development trajectory and the well-being of its citizens. Please join Andrew Salkin, Senior Vice President of City Solutions from 100 Resilient Cities, as he discusses the burgeoning urban resilience movement, the 100RC organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role in building that movement, and lessons learned to date in helping cities incorporate resilience thinking into how they do business going forward.
Q&A Led by Prof. Spiro Pollalis. <6:40 pm > Closing Remarks Prof. Spiro Pollalis <7:00 pm > SIAB Dinner, by invitation only.
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Bios Introduction Prof. Spiro Pollalis
Director of the Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure, Harvard University After 30 years as full Professor at Harvard, Spiro N. Pollalis has moved to the Research Professor position to spend more time on research and consulting. Since 2008, he is the Director of the Zofnass Program for the Sustainability of Infrastructure that has led to the Envision Rating System and the development of Planning Guidelines for Sustainable Cities. He is also the Principal Investigator of the project Gulf Sustainable Urbanism for 10 cities in the Arab Gulf, sponsored by the Qatar Foundation. He has taught as a visiting professor at the ETHZurich, Switzerland; TU-Delft, Holland; and UniStuttgart, Germany. He serves as the co-chair of the Advisory Committee for the Future Cities Lab of the Singapore-ETH Center (SEC) and chairs the Sustainability Workgroup for the Future of Construction at the World Economic Forum. Prof. Pollalis is the chief planner for the DHA City Karachi for 600,000 people, currently under construction, for the Lahore Development Authority City, for the Lahore Knowledge Park and for the master plan of Faisalabad. He served as the Chairman and CEO of the public company for the redevelopment of Hellinikon, the former Athens airport, and he developed the base master plan and business plan (www.pollalis-hellinikon.com) and as a member of the Planning Committee of Athens. Prof. Pollalis serves as Board member in large engineering firms and consults governments on sustainability. Professor Pollalis received his first degree from the University in Athens (EMP) and his Master’s and PhD from MIT. His MBA in high technology is from Northeastern University. He has an honorary Master’s degree in Architecture from Harvard.
Paul Zofnass
President, Environmental Financial Consulting Group, and Zofnass Program Founder Paul is President of the Environmental Financial Consulting Group (EFCG), a firm he founded in 1990 to provide strategic and financial advice to the environmental and infrastructure engineering/ consulting (“e/c”) industry. EFCG currently serves as a retained advisor to over 50 major e/c firms, and has served as an advisor to over 300 firms over the past 27 years, and completed over 140
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M&A assignments. Prior to that he spent 17 years in finance at Citibank and at Oppenheimer, where he was Managing Director in Investment Banking. He is an alumnus of Harvard College, Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. He is a long-term environmentalist, having assisted Harvard to establish its Environmental Studies Program in the 1990’s and providing its first Environmental Scholarship; initiating and contributing the Zofnass Tree Identification Program to NYC’s Central Park; creating the Zofnass Family Preserve/Westchester Wilderness Walk, a 250 acre nature preserve with a 10-mile long hiking trail in Pound Ridge, NY, 45 miles from NYC; donating a permanent New England Forest Exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, and creating the Zofnass Infrastructure Sustainability Program at Harvard to develop a rating system to evaluate Sustainability as it applies to major civil infrastructure projects. He serves as a Faculty Member for Harvard’s Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; served on the Visiting Committee to Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum; a Board member of Riverkeeper; a Board member of the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, and served for 20 years on the board of the Westchester Land Trust.
Session 1 Marty Janowitz
Vice President Sustainable Development, Stantec As Stantec’s Vice President, Sustainable Development Marty has been responsible for guiding Stantec’s efforts to become an exemplary model of sustainability in its operations and to advance integrated services addressing important evolving trends. He has played a prominent role in the emergence of sustainable infrastructure within integrated urban systems, to optimize lifecycle triple bottom line (economic, environmental, and social) benefits and efficiencies. Marty is a member of the Sustainable Infrastructure Advisory Board of the Zofnass Program at Harvard GSD and the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure Envision Review Board. A hands-on practitioner, he was senior advisor on the world’s first waste water treatment and transportation projects to achieve Envision Award and for more than 10 other completed and ongoing Envision-related designs and verifications including as lead Verifier on the largest Envision awarded project. Marty was selected a member of Canada’s Clean 50 - outstanding contributors to sustainable development and clean capitalism.
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Andreas Georgoulias
Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure, Harvard University Andreas Georgoulias is an expert on sustainable infrastructure and large scale developments. He is a researcher at the Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure at Harvard, and with QStone Capital, a private equity firm focusing in waste water. He has published three books and numerous papers on his area of work. He is the lead developer of the Zofnass Economic Tool, a comprehensive analytic model that quantifies the external costs and benefits of infrastructure. In the past, he was part of the team that developed the first rating system to assess sustainable infrastructure in the US, now deployed globally as Envision. He has collaborated with Obermeyer, Hochtief, UniCredit Markets and Investment Banking, and the US General Service Administration. He has consulted widely for multilateral development banks, and in specific assignments for the Economist Intelligence Unit and the United Nations Development Program. He has led urban development plans in Cameroon, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Georgoulias holds degrees in Engineering from the University of Athens, a Master’s and a Doctorate from Harvard.
Judith Rodríguez
Research Associate, Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure, Harvard University Judith Rodríguez is a Research Associate and Program Administrator at Harvard University Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure. She focuses on key questions surrounding the sustainability of infrastructure, landscape, and cities. Her experience in sustainability and resilience includes assessments of large-scale infrastructure in the transportation, sanitation and energy sectors, and mapping vulnerabilities to climate change. She also developed a database on flood resilience strategies based on cities’ best practices and the Envision Rating System. As Zofnass Program Administrator, Judith leads symposia bringing together global infrastructure industry leaders, experts, academics, and public officials. Judith has co-founded an initiative, the Climate Adaptive Just Urbanism (CAJU) to articulate community-based urban resilience with replicable and accessible design strategies for climate change adaptation. The pilot project “Refresca Sao Paolo” was voted top 3 Best Climate Practice from the International Center for Climate Governance.
Judith holds dual Master’s degrees in Landscape Architecture and Urban Design from Harvard University GSD, and a Master in Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She is an Envision Sustainability Professional (ENV SP) accredited by the Institute of Sustainable Infrastructure, a LEED Accredited Professional (LEED AP) by the U.S. Green Building Council, and a Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) provider certified by the MA Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.
Anthony Kane
Managing Director, Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure Anthony Kane is Managing Director at the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure in Washington, DC where he oversees and directs the research and further development of the Envision rating system for sustainable infrastructure. His work has focused primarily on sustainability in the built environment and advanced fabrication methods. He is co-author of Ceramic Material Systems in Architecture and Interior Design and a contributing author of Infrastructure Sustainability and Design. He has published articles for the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC) and his work is also featured in Fabricating the Future published by Tongji University. Kane holds a Bachelor of Architecture summa cum laude from Virginia Tech and a Master in Design Studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Session 2 Dr. Cris B. Liban
Executive Officer, Environmental Compliance and Sustainability, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Dr. Liban is an internationally recognized expert in the field of resource management, clean technologies, transportation, environment, and sustainability. In December 2016, he received from President Rodrigo Duterte the Philippines’ Highest Prize for Filipinos living overseas, the Pamana ng Pilipino Award. His influence reaches across the globe through the introduction of technology advancements, creative financing, and leveraging non-traditional partnerships to effect social change in the communities he serves. He is currently the Executive Officer for Environment and Sustainability at the LA County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. LA Metro is the 3rd
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largest transportation agency in the United States in the 20th largest economy in the world. Among his numerous professional and civic responsibilities, Dr. Liban is a member of the USEPA National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology; and holds concurrent Commissioner positions in Transportation and Beach Commissions for the City and County of Los Angeles, respectively. He leads numerous initiatives notably through the National Academies of Sciences’ Transportation Research Board, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Public Transportation Association, California Transportation Association. Dr. Liban had also been a technical adviser in numerous infrastructure projects and plans most recently with the California High Speed Rail Authority and the City of Santa Monica, CA Climate Action Plan.
Ana María Vidaurre
Regional Director, Infrastructure Investments, Latin America. Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) Ana Maria Vidaurre heads CDPQ’s transactions in infrastructure in Latin America. In her role, she is responsible for the deployment of capital in this asset class in the Latin American region. Ana Maria has over 18 years of infrastructure finance and investment experience in Latin America and the Caribbean. Before joining CDPQ, Ana Maria held the position of Principal Investment Officer at the structured and corporate finance department of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC, and prior to that she was an Investment Officer at CAF Latin American Development Bank. Ana Maria holds a Bachelor’s of Business Administration from Universidad Metropolitana as well as an MBA from ESSEC Business School.
Mariana Silva
Associate Infrastructure Planning & Finance, Nathan Associates Inc. Mariana H. Silva is a sustainable infrastructure project finance specialist at Nathan Associates. Ms. Silva has ample experience in the capitalization of resilient low carbon infrastructure, with emphasis in project finance, credit due diligence and Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the clean energy, water and sanitation, and transportation sectors. She has advised several governments on policies in a manner that provides for economic growth, social justice and stewardship of the natural environment.
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Mariana was retained by the Swiss Ministry of Finance to design targeted financial policies and fiscal interventions aimed at positioning Switzerland as the Global Green Financial Hub. Also, she led the UNEP Inquiry project aimed at redesigning Bangladesh’s financial system for higher capital flows into green infrastructure projects. Her expertise in capital markets include fixed income securities and structured products. While working for the international Institute for Sustainable Development, she managed a five year project in collaboration with NDRC and the People’s Bank of China aimed at developing a secondary market for green bonds. Four years after project inception, China is currently the biggest green bond issuer globally. Mariana is an expert member at the United Nations Economic Commission team developing Public Private Partnerships financing guidelines for the capitalization of sustainable Water and Sanitation projects in emerging economies. Mariana H. Silva has pursued her studies and working experiences in different regions to gain an international markets perspective: born in Mexico, she has since lived in Switzerland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and The United States. She is fluent in Spanish, German, French and English.
Giridhar Srinivasan
Senior Operations Officer, Global Partnerships (Infrastructure Investment Lead) , International Finance Corporation (IFC) Giridhar Srinivasan is a Senior Operations Officer in the Global Partnerships team at IFC. He is responsible for developing new business and products, with a focus on infrastructure. Over his career, he has worked on over $9 billion of infrastructure transactions, across both developed and emerging markets. Previously, he worked with IFC InfraVentures, an internal venture capital fund for infrastructure projects. His responsibilities included making investments, developing projects and developing the fund’s strategy. Before joining IFC, he was a founding member of Lehman Brothers Infrastructure Fund, and was an investment banker in Rothschild’s Global Infrastructure M&A team. Earlier in his career, he worked at Katzenbach Partners, a management consulting firm based in New York. Giridhar received a BA with Honors from Swarthmore College, and an MBA from Wharton.
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Benjamin J. Harper
AVP, Technical Underwriting, Head of Environmental, Zurich Insurance Ben is the Environmental leader in Zurich’s Technical Underwriting division, and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. He is responsible for providing technical, policy, and underwriting guidance in support of Zurich’s global environmental and pollution coverages. Prior to his current role, Ben was the Product Officer in Zurich’s Climate Office, where he was responsible for developing new risk transfer products to address climate change and sustainability risk. Ben and his team have developed products to address concerns ranging from renewable energy sources and carbon emissions to geologic sequestration. Ben began his Zurich career in ZNA’s Environmental business unit where he managed a group of engineers and geologists responsible for all aspects of environmental risk management in support of Zurich’s environmental business. Ben has served on multiple stakeholder committees including the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Risk Assessment Partnership (NRAP), the European Zero-Emissions Platform (ZEP), and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Hydraulic Fracturing Focus Group. He has been a guest speaker and panelist at the United Nations, and contributing expert to the International Energy Agency. Before joining Zurich, Ben worked in engineering consulting with a focus on large-scale environmental remediation projects, impairment assessments, remedial design, regulatory compliance and civil/ environmental construction.Ben holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and is a Certified Cost Engineer (CCE).
Thomas G. Lewis
President, Louis Berger U.S. Thomas (Tom) Lewis is the president for Louis Berger’s U.S.-based operating company. Lewis previously served as the company lead for its environmental practice and founded and led the disaster management and recovery practice, personally taking part in many disaster recovery and resilience programs over the past 25 years. Prior to joining Louis Berger, Lewis spent 5 years at the Connecticut Department of Transportation as an engineer and project manager. He has expertise and has presented frequently on the topics of sustainability, renewables, waste management and resource efficiency, resilience,
and disaster planning and recovery. He earned a bachelor’s in civil engineering and a master’s in geoenvironmental engineering from the University of Connecticut, and a Juris Doctorate in environmental law from Rutgers University. He is a licensed PE in multiple states, is active in multiple professional organizations, and serves on multiple company boards as well as for the Transportation Research Board.
Case Study 1 James Gregg
Bridge Department Manager, HNTB James Gregg served as the project manager for US 84 Mississippi River Bridge Rehabilitation project as well as assisted with several NBIS inspections of the bridge. Mr. Gregg has over 10 years’ experience with design and rehabilitation of complex structures, design-builds, and bridge construction inspections.
Jim Grant
Associate VP, Energy & Fueling Systems Director, HNTB Mr. Grant has over 35 years’ experience and currently serves as Director for the Energy & Fueling Services Group in HNTB’s Bellevue, Washington, office. He has expertise as a mechanical engineer, working primarily in the areas of central utility plants, renewable energy systems, energy conservation and aviation fueling systems for airports. At his home airport of Seattle-Tacoma International, he was responsible for a $100 million mechanical infrastructure upgrade program. For the Santa Barbara (Calif.) Airport, he successfully completed a greenhouse gas inventory and carbon footprint reduction plan. At Los Angeles International Airport, he led the planning and programming of the new $300 million central utility plant which included cogeneration and thermal energy storage. He led Utilities Master Plans for George Bush Intercontinental and Los Angeles airports resulting in over $300 million in capital improvement projects. Mr. Grant’s recent projects include a $9M/4 Year Master Utilities Infrastructure Study at SFO and shepherding the Envision Credentialing process for the Los Angeles 6th Street Viaduct project.
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Corporate Sustainability Manager, Louis Berger Heather Unger, LEED AP, ENV SP, is a senior planner and manager of corporate sustainability at Louis Berger. Ms. Unger chairs the Louis Berger Corporate Social Responsibility Committee, and is responsible for incorporating sustainability into Louis Berger projects and operations and managing Louis Berger’s philanthropic activities. Ms. Unger has over 10 years of environmental and planning experience. Ms. Unger currently serves on the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) technical advisory committee and the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) sustainability committee. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Resource Management from The Pennsylvania State University and a Master in Liberal Arts in Sustainability and Environmental Management from Harvard University Extension School.
Niek Veraart
Vice President, Louis Berger Niek Veraart is Vice President at Louis Berger in New York, where he directs the firm’s environmental, resiliency and Smart Cities practice. He led the firm’s environmental and transportation planning services for the post 9/11 recovery and redevelopment of Lower Manhattan, in particular the World Trade Center Memorial and Redevelopment Plan, the National September 11 Memorial, the Fulton Street Transit Center and infrastructure restoration in Lower Manhattan.
Session 3 Sofía Zuberbühler-Yafar
Project Executive for Sustainable Infrastructure, NYC-Department of Design and Construction Sofía Zuberbühler-Yafar is Project Executive for Sustainable Infrastructure with the New York City Department of Design and Construction. She manages design contracts and ensures the on-time delivery of NYC’s Department Environmental Protection’s various multimillion dollar city-wide green infrastructure contracts. Currently she is integrating sustainable design measures and goals within the agency standards and contracts. Sofia is the only NYC public agency certified ENV SP Trainer and is preparing fellow colleagues to become ENV SPs.
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Mrs. Zuberbuhler-Yafar is a licensed Landscape Architect with a Masters in Urban Design and over 16 years of varied experience including urban design with the NYC Department of City Planning and landscape architecture design and planning in the private realm. She resides in New York City with her family and enjoys travelling.
Sarah Korapati
Project Manager in Sustainable Infrastructure, NYC-Department of Design and Construction Sarah Korapati is a Project Manager in Sustainable Infrastructure from the New York City Department of Design and Construction. Along with the team, she manages sustainable infrastructure projects including area-wide CSO contracts, great street with integrated green infrastructure projects, and in-house design projects. She is currently conducting baselines and analysis of Envision for the Department of Design and Construction in order to encourage the incorporation of sustainable practices within everyday used infrastructure. As graduate from Rutgers University with a bachelor of science in landscape architecture, Sarah is working towards becoming a licensed landscape architect.
Salman Javed
Project Manager in Sustainable Infrastructure, NYC-Department of Design and Construction
Salman Javed is a Project Manager for Sustainable Infrastructure in the Infrastructure Division of the New York City Department of Design and Construction. He and his team help manage and ensure the on-time delivery of design and construction of the New York Department of Environmental Protection’s various city-wide green infrastructure contracts. He is also working with his team on the in-house design of Green Infrastructure in the Right-of- Way in multiple areas in South East Queens, NY. Salman obtained a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the City College of New York and worked as a Technical Associate for an education technology start-up before joining DDC. His work is driven by a passion for clean energy, sustainable infrastructure and high efficiency processes. and as a visiting Professor at Chalmers Institute, Gothenburg Sweden. He is also Institute Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria, and a King’s Professor in Sweden. He is noted for his work on technological forecasting, life cycle assessment, mass-balance accounting, energy efficiency and
the role of thermodynamics in economic growth. He originated the concept of “industrial metabolism”, known today as “industrial ecology” with its own journal. He has conducted pioneering studies of materials/energy flows in the global economy. He is author or co-author of 21 books and more than 200 journal articles and book chapters. The most recent books are The Bubble Economy (MIT Press, 2014), and Energy, Complexity and Wealth Maximization (Springer, 2016).
Melissa Targett
Sustainable Design Manager, Port Authority of NY and NJ Melissa Targett, LEED AP BD+C, ND, CSBA, ENV SP, is the Sustainable Design Manager in the Engineering Department at The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey. As part of the Resilience and Sustainable Design Group, Melissa manages the implementation of the Agency’s Sustainable and Climate Resilience Design Guidelines and serves as the department’s technical resource for Sustainable Design across Agency projects and programs. Prior to joining the PA in March 2014, Melissa performed project management and sustainable design consulting on numerous transportation infrastructure projects for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Major MTA / NYCT projects included MTA’s first LEED building at the Corona Yard in Queens, second LEED building at the Mother Clara Hale Bus Depot in Harlem and the Rehabilitation and Resilient Design for the South Ferry Station following Super Storm Sandy.
Josh DeFlorio
Chief, Resilience & Sustainability, Port Authority of NY & NJ Josh DeFlorio, AICP is Chief, Resilience and Sustainability at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ). He leads a team that focuses on ensuring that the aviation, port, urban rail, tunnel, bridge, terminal, and real estate facilities called for in the agency’s $32 billion capital plan are designed and delivered to be both environmentally sustainable and climate resilient.
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Sustainability and Innovation Officer, County of Los Angeles, Public Works Youn Sim, Ph.D., P.E., ENV SP is a 20-year veteran at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works and is currently the Head of Strategic Planning and Sustainability Office of the Department. As the Department’s Sustainability and Innovation Officer, he leads the Department’s sustainability initiatives through strategic planning, policy development and implementation, and longrange planning of sustainable infrastructure management. He has been invited to give numerous speeches at Universities, and national conferences and workshops. He received a Ph.D. from University of California at Irvine in Civil Engineering. He is the former chair of the Sustainability Committee of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He is a member of ASCE Committee on Sustainability and Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure. Prior to joining the County, he has 10 years of research and consulting experience in water resources protection.Argentina, Kuwait and Jordan among others.
Mike Sarullo
Division Manager, City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Engineering, Environmental Engineering Division. Mr. Sarullo has a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Michigan State University. He has over 29 years of Civil Engineering experience - 22 managing Wastewater Projects for the City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Engineering. He currently serves as the Division Manager of the Environmental Engineering Division (EED) which has over 75 employees – 40 of which are Envision Specialists (ENV SP’s). Mike’s Division is responsible for implementing wastewater and water reclamation projects at the Cities’ four wastewater treatment plants and performs Project Management, Design and Construction Management delivering an average of $75 million dollars of Wastewater Projects annually. Mike is also responsible for managing the wastewater an environmental engineering oncall consultant list to assist with the delivery of the Wastewater Capital Improvement Program.
Prior to joining PANYNJ, he was national Practice Lead for Risk and Resilience at Cambridge Systematics, a transportation management consultancy, and served as a Senior Project Manager in NYCEDC’s Ports & Transportation group.
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Senior Vice President, CH2M. Global Environmental Market Director, PhD, RA, REM 16 year veteran of CH2M, Dr. Mogge serves as CH2M’s Global Environmental Market Director and Practices Director for the National Governments Sector. His doctoral work was driven by his belief that the governmental entities and industries of the built environment must transform and become orders of magnitude more resource efficient. His Georgia Institute of Technology 2004 dissertation examined the economics of sustainable planning, design, and construction. Dr. Mogge has specialized experience in large program delivery management, prototypical and definitional project development as sustainable outcomes. His experience includes the successful delivery multiple large scale military weapon system bed down programs for the US Army and the US Air Force, large program sustainability planning and start-up operations, including the London 2012 Olympics Sustainability Program Plan, and the MASDAR City (UAE) Sustainable Transportation Technical Integration Program Plan. Dr. Mogge is a USAF Colonel and retired from active duty in 2001.
Elizabeth Bradford
Global Technology Leader: Resilient & Sustainable Infrastructure Planning, and the Envision Sustainable Infrastructure Rating System, CH2M Ms. Bradford is the Global Technology Leader for CH2M’s Resilient & Sustainable Infrastructure Planning practice, which includes over 80 Envision Sustainability Professionals (ENV SPs). In this role, Elizabeth provides management consulting services to address client challenges, using a balanced business case approach that considers an organization’s economic resiliency and sustainability while planning environmentally and socially resilient and sustainable projects and programs. Additionally, Ms. Bradford developed CH2M’s Resiliency and Sustainability Framework for infrastructure which offers public and private sector planners a comprehensive program development and decision support system that provides for economic considerations. The framework, nominated for a 2016 Climate Change Business Journal Business Achievement Award, elevates resilient and sustainable design principles to the program and organization level, ensuring consistent implementation across the portfolio of projects.
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Education Before joining CH2M, Ms. Bradford served 7 years in the US Navy Construction Force (1994-2001), where she pursued an AA from St. Leo University (2000). After leaving the armed forces, Ms. Bradford pursued a BS in Geology from the University of South Alabama (2004) and an MS in Earth Sciences (hydrogeochemistry) from Dartmouth College (2007).
Session 4 Chris Barron
Chief Communications Officer, Bentley Systems Chris joined Bentley as vice president of corporate marketing in 2008 and was appointed to chief communications officer in 2016. A registered architect, Chris left architectural practice in 1983 to pursue a career in the marketing of computer-aided-design software to the AEC industry. Prior to joining Bentley, he served as marketing director for the AEC Market Group at Autodesk, corporate marketing manager of Softdesk, and senior marketing manager at Intergraph. Chris holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and geography from Middlebury College and a master’s degree in architecture from Harvard University.
John Williams
CEO & Co-Founder, Impact Infrastructure John has over 37 years of experience as an advisor to infrastructure and building development programs, 16 years as a principal owner of an international architecture and engineering company, and 13 years as an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University. He developed a series of awarding winning business practices including a framework for determining the value of GREEN. He was an original member of the SAIB and is currently a Member of CERES Presidents Council, is Chair-Elect for the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure, is a Subject Matter Expert for Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), served as Co-Chair of the West Coast Infrastructure Exchange Business Standards Committee, and serves as a Trustee for the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Cristina Contreras
Research Associate, HZofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure, Harvard University Cristina Contreras is currently a Research Associate in the Zofnass Program for Sustainable
Infrastructure at Harvard University. Her work focuses on promoting sustainable practices in infrastructure projects on a global scale, examining and exploring the challenges and opportunities that sustainability can provide to countries and companies. She has presented her work on assessing sustainable infrastructure at several international conferences, and was a lecturer in the School of Civil Engineers at Polytechnic University of Madrid and a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Before coming to Harvard, Ms. Contreras worked for six years in the private industry, in collaboration with some of the largest construction companies in the country. Ms Contreras is an accredited Envision Sustainability Professional (ENV SP), and a certified Envision trainer. She holds Bachelor´s in Technical Architecture and Building Engineering, both from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), as well as Master’s Degree in Sustainability and Environmental Management and a Professional Graduate Certificate in Corporate Sustainability and Innovation both from Harvard University.
Session 5 Jennifer Molnar
Managing Director & Lead Scientist, Center for Sustainability Science, The Nature Conservancy - NatureVest Jen Molnar is lead scientist at The Nature Conservancy and managing director of TNC’s Center for Sustainability Science. The Center seeks to scale up outcomes for both the environment and the economy by developing actionable, sciencebased solutions with the private and public sectors. Jen has almost 20 years of experience using science to improve decision-making. She is science lead for the TNC-Dow Chemical Company collaboration, which led to Dow’s ground-breaking Valuing Nature Goal – a commitment to assess nature in all of their projects, aiming to generate $1B in economic value by 2025. She has led interdisciplinary global research teams, most recently as TNC’s Director of Science. Jen received a master’s degree from Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and is an Executive Fellow with the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale. She has an S.B. in environmental engineering from Harvard, and previous private sector experience in remediation.
Paul Gallay
President, Riverkeeper
private practice of law and went to work for the New York State Attorney General. In 1990, Paul began a ten-year stint at New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation, where he brought hundreds of corporate and government polluters to justice. Paul subsequently spent a decade in the land conservation movement before becoming Riverkeeper’s President in 2010. Paul is a graduate of Williams College and Columbia Law School and has held a number of teaching positions, including his recent appointment with The Beacon Institute/Clarkson University.
Andrew Salkin
Senior Vice President, City Solutions, 100 Resilient Cities / Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Salkin joined 100 Resilient Cities from New York City’s Department of Finance, where he was the Deputy Commissioner of Operations, managing more than 800 people and responsible for collecting $30 billion annually through real estate, business, and excise taxes, as well as parking summonses. In this role he improved efficiencies and customer service, including introducing webbased payment options. Previously he served as the First Deputy Commissioner of the Taxi and Limousine Commission, overseeing day-to-day operations of the agency, including the regulations of New York City’s medallion taxi fleet, livery vehicles, commuter vans and paratransit vehicles – comprising 50,000 vehicles and 100,000 drivers. Some of his hallmark projects included equipping taxis with credit card payment machines and New York City’s Taxi of Tomorrow competition. During the transit strike of 2005, he developed and oversaw the implementation of the Transit Strike Plan that allowed for an additional 1,500,000 taxi rides a day. Prior to joining the Taxi and Limousine Commission, Andrew worked at the Department of Transportation as Lower Manhattan Borough Commissioner, the “Downtown Construction Czar,” where he led the City’s efforts to balance the needs of residents, employees, and tourists of Lower Manhattan amidst the clean-up, construction, and rebuilding post-September 11. Andrew holds a Master of Public Administration degree from Syracuse University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Paul and the Riverkeeper team work to protect the Hudson River and the drinking water supplies for nine million New Yorkers. An attorney and educator, Paul has dedicated himself to the environmental movement since 1987, when he left the
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