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ec nference INTRODUCTION

Meet the lineup for the 2013 ECOnference Old Dominion University and Inside Business have again joined together to present a one-day, intensive learning experience on innovative green technologies.

It is designed to provide information on new developments in sustainable building for engineers, executives, managers, entrepreneurs and the military.

In this publication, you’ll learn about the speakers in the three tracks offered – Green Building, Alternative Energy, Green Infrastructure – and special event highlights.

The details What ECOnference – Engineering, Energy, Environment – Building Toward Sustainability When Tuesday, April 16, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Where ODU Ted Conference Center Cost $225 Credit Attendees will receive 8 continuing education hours for attending the entire day.

To register Visit http://www.econferenceva.com/

What’s inside MEET THE SPEAKERS John R. Broderick Lisa L. Schmidtke Majora Carter Kevin Smith Tal Ezer Joshua G. Behr Rafael Diaz Hua Liu John “Tim” Cole Chris Stone Christy Everett Chris Brandt Billy Almond E. Mitchell Swann Keith Oliver Russell Carlock

Sylvain Marsillac Terry Hendricks Guy Chapman Grayson Walker David Stokes Solar Decathlon Team – David Peronnet, Marcus Thomas and Horace Woolard Adrian V. Gheorghe Joseph McCloud Terry Neimeyer Erika Marsillac Heather Wood

Keith Litz

The section Produced by the staff of Inside Business, the Hampton Roads Business Journal Publisher Ed Power Associate publisher Mike Herron

Sponsors

KE YNOTE SPE AKERS OPENING REMARKS

MORNING KEYNOTE

8 to 8:15 a.m.

8:20 TO 9:10 A.M., BIOMIMICRY

John R. Broderick

Lisa L. Schmidtke

President, Old Dominion University John R. Broderick is the eighth president of Old Dominion University.

He oversees an operating budget in excess of $526 million and more than 2,500 faculty and staff members. More than $338 million in new buildings and building renovations have been authorized or completed on his watch.

The university has six colleges, more than 10 economic development and research centers, and numerous partnerships with government, military and business organizations and agencies.

QUOTE “Sea level rise affects our entire region, from critical infrastructures to the average homeowner.

Old Dominion University is committed to harnessing its intellectual capital and innovative technologies to find solutions.

ECOnference provides an excellent platform for our researchers to collaborate with government, business and industry experts in this endeavor.”

Certified Biomimicry Professional Lisa L. Schmidtke, CID, ASID, LEED AP BD+C, grew up in the Ohio Valley and earned her bachelor’s degree at Kent State University, where she studied architecture and interior design.

Schmidtke’s professional career has been focused on the design of commercial buildings, and she has more than 25 years of experience in the design of health care, corporate, educational, and government facilities.

Schmidtke has worked as a senior planner and programmer for projects all over the world, and she is also trained as a strategic planner and project manager, and is a LEED Accredited Professional.

Her current focus revolves around the exciting new science of biomimicry, innovation inspired by nature.

Schmidtke fulfilled the requirements of the first-ever master’s level two-year certificate course offered by the Biomimicry Institute. She shares the distinction of being a Certified Biomimicry Professional with few others in the world, fellow students representing the interdisciplinary fields of design, engineering, biology and business.

Since her first encounter with biomimicry in 2002, Schmidtke knew that this would eventually be her path for tying together her love of design, problem-solving and nature.

Her colleagues describe her as “energetic” and “optimistic,” “a value extractor,” “a leader and motivator,” a “highly organized and structured thinker, able to link broad concepts,” and “someone who brings new points of view to push ideas and innovation further.”

QUOTE “Enhance your design creativity in meeting truly healthy and sustainable outcomes by taking advantage of nature’s 3.85 billion years of R & D! Nature has distinct and proven strategies that it uses to achieve sustainability and create conditions conducive to life.”

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ec nference LUNCHEON KEYNOTE

AFTERNOON PLENARY SESSION

12:15 TO 1:15 P.M., HOME(TOWN) SECURITY

3:30 TO 4:10 P.M., SEA LEVEL RISE PANEL

Kevin Smith

Rafael Diaz

Senior Engineering Geologist, Fugro Atlantic

Research Assistant Professor of Modeling and Simulation, Old Dominion University

No biographical information provided.

Tal Ezer Majora Carter Founder and CEO HomeTOWN Security Laboratories Majora Carter is an internationally renowned urban revitalization strategy consultant, real estate developer and Peabody Award-winning broadcaster. She is responsible for the creation and successful implementation of numerous green-infrastructure projects, policies, and job training and placement systems.

After establishing several local and national organizations to carry on that work, she built on this foundation with innovative ventures and insights into urban economic developments designed to help move Americans out of poverty.

Her long list of awards and honorary degrees include accolades from groups as diverse as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., John Podesta’s Center for American Progress, Goldman Sachs, as well as a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship.

Her 2006 TED talk was one of the first six videos to launch their groundbreaking website.

Carter has continually set new standards of excellence with projects in her South Bronx community, while expanding her reach nationally and internationally. Her philanthropic pursuits and business interests have all pointed toward greater self-esteem and economic potential for low-income people everywhere.

QUOTES “If we had placed our energy, transport, waste and agribusiness infrastructure near wealthy people as easily as we have poor people, we would have had a clean and green economy decades ago.”

“Concentrating subsidized housing for low-income Americans in poor communities exacerbates the negative social and health effects of poverty. We can create economic diversity by harnessing the power of so-called ‘gentrification’ and build opportunities for people to be less poor.”

Professor of Ocean, Earth and Atmosphere Sciences, Virginia Modeling, Analysis & Simulation Center, Old Dominion University Tal Ezer holds a bachelor’s in math and physics, a master’s in atmospheric sciences and a doctorate in physical oceanography. He spent 18 years as a research scholar faculty at Princeton University, before moving in 2007 to the Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography at Old Dominion University.

Ezer’s expertise is in the area of computer ocean circulation modeling and various ocean dynamic processes, from small-scale mixing to global climate change.

His research involves modeling ocean circulation patterns in various locations around the globe, such as the Dead Sea, the Caribbean Sea, the Bering Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Ezer has been part of ODU’s Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Initiative, conducting research on sea level rise in the Chesapeake Bay and the mid-Atlantic coast. His recent studies received attention in the media, as they try to explain why sea level is rising faster in the Hampton Roads area than in other regions, and how sea level rise affects the frequency of coastal flooding.

Rafael Diaz graduated from Old Dominion University with a doctorate in modeling and simulation in 2007, and became a research assistant professor at ODU’s Virginia Modeling, Analysis & Simulation Center. He has an MBA in financial analysis and information technology from ODU and a bachelor’s in industrial engineering from Jose Maria Vargas University, Venezuela. He has nearly a decade of experience in conducting research in modeling and simulation methodologies in general and, in particular, researching M&S applications in public health and health care.

Since 2006, he has been involved in building advanced quantitative and qualitative models that consider socio-economic, environmental and public health factors that characterize population dynamics. Since 2010, he has modeled and investigated the effects of sea level rise on vulnerable communities with a particular focus on the complex interactions between population health and environmental and social issues. In the past five years, he has collaborated with researchers at ODU, William and Mary, and EVMS on other research activities related to climate change and population dynamics in Hampton Roads. He is director of the Advanced Analytic and Complex System Laboratory at VMASC. A focus of this lab is the development of real-world representations that provide insights into health care and public health policy-making and training issues. His research interests include operations research, operations management, health care and public health policy-making, dependence modeling for stochastic simulation, and simulation-based optimization methods.

He is an adjunct assistant professor in the Public Health Program at EVMS.

Joshua G. Behr Research Associate Professor, Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center, Old Dominion University Joshua G. Behr is also a professor within the School of Health Professions at Eastern Virginia Medical School. He received his training at the University of New Orleans, specializing in urban and minority politics. Currently, he is applying a systems science approach to the study of the impact of non-recursive relationships among the structural environment, policy interventions and choice of health venue on under-served populations with chronic conditions. In addition, he is mapping vulnerable and medically fragile populations and building system dynamic modes of behavioral responses to severe storm events.

Hua Liu Assistant Professor, Old Dominion University Hua Liu received a doctorate degree in geography from Indiana State University in 2007. She earned a master’s in cartography and geographic information systems from Wuhan University, People’s Republican of China, in 2003. She received a bachelor’s in computer-assisted cartography from Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping in 2000.

Liu supervises two certificates, GIS Certificate and Spatial Analysis in Coastal Environments Certificate, at ODU. Her teaching activities are mainly focused on geospatial technologies, remote sensing. Liu has worked extensively with thermal remote sensing data, primarily for urban heat island study, land-cover mapping, urbanization analysis, image analysis algorithms and the integration with socioeconomic characteristics. She has also conducted significant study in public health (e.g., West Vile Virus) by using geospatial technologies. Her research interest also includes how geospatial technologies can be used in flood assessment.

Liu is the author of more than 13 peer-reviewed journal articles and other publications. She has presented more than 10 papers at professional conferences and has given multiple invited talks. She was the recipient of the 2010 Erdas Award for Best Scientific Paper in Remote Sensing by ASPRS.

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ec nference GREEN BUILDING

SUSTAINABILITY AND THE 21ST CENTURY LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

A COMMUNITY PLAN FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

VIRGINIA’S FIRST NET ZERO BUILDING: CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION’S BROCK ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER

10:30 TO 11:20 A.M.

11:25 A.M. TO 12:15 P.M.

Chris Stone

Christy Everett

Chris Brandt

William D. Almond

Director, Hampton Roads Chesapeake Bay Foundation

Executive Vice President Hourigan Construction

Vice President and Principalin-Charge, WPL

Christy Everett manages the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Hampton Roads office, located in downtown Norfolk. She oversees the Hampton Roads office’s volunteer recruitment, restoration, outreach and advocacy programs and communicates CBF’s Save the Bay message to the broader Hampton Roads community.

Prior to joining CBF in 2000, she worked for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources as tributary team coordinator focusing on pollution prevention for nutrient pollution. Previously, she held positions with the Sierra Club in Portland, Maine, and with New Jersey Community Water Watch.

Everett received her undergraduate degree in environmental studies in 1997 from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in New York. While at Hobart and William Smith, she examined international environmental issues firsthand through study-abroad programs in Vietnam, Mexico and Ecuador. She also has done graduate work in environmental and conservation studies with the University of Maryland.

Raised on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Everett has lived or traveled extensively in this country and abroad. She currently resides with her family in Norfolk.

Chris Brandt has 40 years of experience as a general contractor and construction manager with specific expertise in design/build, design/assist, LEED certified and sustainable construction. More recently he has gained experience in selfsustaining design and construction through the International Living Building Institute and the Living Building Challenge.

Over the past 35 years he has operated in every position of the technical and management level of the construction industry from a jobsite laborer during college to project engineer, superintendent, project manager, estimator, vice president of pre-construction services, vice president of operations and senior vice president.

Brandt is a graduate of the University of Houston with a bachelor’s in civil engineering technology.

9:40 TO 10:25 A.M.

John “Tim” Cole Chief Sustainability Officer, Virginia Beach Public Schools Tim Cole is the founding chair of Virginia Beach City Public Schools’ Sustainable Schools Committee and is responsible for implementing numerous policies and recommendations addressing sustainability throughout the school division. Cole was instrumental in the promotion and development of the first LEED certified elementary school in Virginia – Hermitage Elementary – as well as the first K-12 LEED Platinum Transportation and Maintenance Facility in the country.

Under Cole’s leadership, Virginia Beach City Public Schools was selected as the “Best Green School District” in the United States by the U.S. Green Building Council in 2012.

Cole holds a bachelor’s in architecture from Virginia Tech.

QUOTE “Our daily routines are filled with seemingly mundane choices that have profound social, economic and environmental consequences. Whether we are turning on a light, washing our car or deciding what to eat, all of our decisions impact our future in ways that most of us do not fully understand. The 21st century learning environment is a tool for understanding the consequences of the choices that we make.”

President Clark Nexsen PC Chris Stone, PE, F.NSPE, F.ASCE, LEED AP BD+C , is the president of Clark Nexsen PC, an ENR 500 firm headquartered in Norfolk, providing architecture, engineering, planning and interior design services with a staff of more than 500 professionals.

A past president of the National Society of Professional Engineers, serving 2011-2012, Stone has served on the society’s Legislative and Government Affairs Committee, Membership Committee and Metrics Oversight Task Force, among others. He was recently named the 2012-2013 chair for the Council on Federal Procurement of Architectural and Engineering Services and he previously served as the NSPE delegate to COFPAES. Educated as a structural engineer, Stone has more than 30 years of experience in the design and management of public, private and commercial projects. He has been involved in more than 600 construction projects, totaling over 10 million square feet of construction.

SESSION TOPIC To assist the city of Virginia Beach in becoming one of the healthiest cities in America, a strategy was needed to realize the city’s vision of being “a community for a lifetime.” Clark Nexsen worked with the city to develop its first sustainability plan – “A Community Plan for a Sustainable Future.”

Since sustainability is such a broad and holistic topic, it was important for the city to develop a plan that addressed environmental, economic and social outcomes – the triple bottom line.

By establishing a vision and developing goals grounded in the local context and reflective of the needs of the community, the plan defines measurable, practical solutions for short- to long-term implementation.

The plan is the result of extensive community participation, and establishing baseline metrics for more than 25 specific goals and more than 100 objectives. From city-wide planning to neighborhood revitalization to building design and energy use, the plan will be the road map to achieving the city’s 2040 vision.

Moving forward, the plan will help focus city government and community efforts to achieve this vision and will serve as a lens through which decision-makers can evaluate actions based on their long-term, sustainable impacts – locally, regionally and globally.

The plan was recently adopted by the Virginia Beach City Council.

William D. “Billy” Almond, ASLA, CLARB, is a licensed landscape architect with 32 years’ experience in a wide range of residential, commercial, municipal, military and institutional projects. Prior to establishing the landscape architectural division at WPL, Almond was senior associate at the Norfolk-based architectural firm of Shriver and Holland Associates for over 21 years.

This, combined with WPL’s extensive practice of landscape architecture, has afforded Almond a broad range of knowledge in all aspects of landscape architecture including site analysis, master planning, site planning, site design and construction detailing, planting design as well as bid and award and construction administration. Almond has served all federal, state and local municipal governments inclusive of all the Tidewater Virginia cities. He has extensive ties to his local community serving on city council-appointed boards and commissions as well as local neighborhood civic leagues.

TOPIC SESSION The Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Brock Environmental Center is designed to be LEED Platinum and meet the Living Building Challenge, which requires it to have “net zero” impact on the surrounding environment.

Come hear the contractor, site planner and owner discuss how every aspect of the center – its location, materials, construction, utilities, operation and use – will raise a new bar for sustainable building to create Virginia’s First Net Zero Building.

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ec nference GREEN BUILDING

CONNECTING GREEN BUILDING OUTCOMES TO ENTERPRISE SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAMS

IT MAKES A VILLAGE: SUSTAINABILITY IN THE PUBLIC REALM, A CASE STUDY OF NORFOLK’S GRANDY VILLAGE

1:15 TO 2:05 P.M.

2:10 TO 3 P.M.

E. Mitchell Swann

Keith Oliver

Russell H. Carlock

Principal, InSites Landscapes and Architecture, Vice Chair Hampton Roads Green Building Council

Senior Staff Architect, Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority

Principal – MDC Systems E. Mitchell Swann has more than 30 years of extensive experience on both domestic and international projects in the areas of management consulting and problem solving, including design, construction, project management, and forensic engineering and analysis. Swann’s career has involved the analysis, evaluation and design of complex systems across a wide range of industries including commercial, institutional and industrial facilities, hospitals, laboratories, pharmaceutical and semiconductor manufacturing, and data centers. Swann has chaired a technical committee within national and international organizations and been a contributing author and editor for a number of technical publications and journals. He is a frequent speaker both nationally and internationally and is a listed member of the speakers’ bureau in the Distinguished Lecturer program of ASHRAE. He just returned from a speaking engagement in Karachi, Pakistan, and he has presented on Green Building Risk issues in Dubai, Delhi, Detroit, Chicago, Seattle, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Virginia. He is a contributing author to the ASHRAE “Green Guide – The Design, Construction and Operation of Sustainable Buildings” and co-author of the ASHRAE Survival Guide to Design|Build Project Execution.

SESSION TOPIC Sustainability burst onto the scene as a buzzword in the early 2000s but it has become more than just a fashion trend. Sustainability considerations have grown in importance and seriousness as we look at volatility in energy prices, supply chain rigor and flexibility and the aftermath of events like hurricanes Sandy and Katrina. In today’s environment, sustainability must be interwoven throughout an enterprise’s decision-making and operations mindset because it’s meaning can take on much broader implications as we look to reduce footprints, improve reliability and foster resilience in systems and operations.

Keith Oliver, ASLA, LEED, AP, has been creating distinctive environments for 29 years, first as staff planner and landscape architect for a public parks and public works department and then as a private consultant.

A Virginia native, Oliver pursued his landscape architectural education in Idaho, Arizona and New Zealand before settling in Tucson, Ariz., and starting his career.

Oliver has honed his talents on a wide range of projects ranging from community, transportation and recreation planning; streetscape, park, campus and commercial design; to public art. He applies his range of skills to instill environments with a heightened sense of place, sensory experience and narrative message.

Oliver founded his firm InSites in Norfolk 2000 and has completed landscape architectural and public art projects from coast to coast and border to border – from Key West to Northern California and New Mexico to North Dakota. His projects include parks, greenway systems and roadways that balance natural resource preservation, restoration, improved access, public safety and visual quality, and that have a light footprint on sensitive public lands.

Oliver serves as vice chair of the Hampton Roads Green Building Council and is a champion of sustainable practices that look beyond the building to consider the entire site and community context.

QUOTE “A 50-year-old public housing community may be an unexpected setting for a series of award-winning sustainable design and environmental restoration projects, but Norfolk’s Grandy Village has become just that. The layers of cooperation between local, state and federal agencies is as remarkable as the outcome at this challenging riverfront setting.”

Russell H. Carlock, AIA , is a licensed architect with 35 years of professional experience. He is a 1978 graduate of Virginia Tech. From 1979 until 1994 he worked for a consulting engineering firm that specialized in the design and construction of satellite communication and television facilities in the U.S. and Brazil.

From 1984 to 1991, he was employed with the Virginia Beach architectural firm of Forrest Coile Associates. His work there included a wide range of medical, educational, industrial and municipal projects.

Carlock joined NRHA in 1991 as a staff architect and has worked on various projects for both the development and housing operations divisions.

His project experience includes: • Development and implementation of comprehensive master plans for various NRHA housing communities.

• The Norfolk campus of Tidewater Community College.

• Interior and exterior renovation of NRHA’s headquarters building at 201 Granby St. • The Attucks Theatre renovation.

• Design and construction of two computer resource centers within NRHA communities.

• Design and construction of the Grandy Village Learning Center, a LEED Gold environmental and early childhood education facility built in the Grandy Village community.

Carlock has also served on the Virginia State American Institute of Architects Committee on Affordable Housing, and currently serves on the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission’s Elizabeth River Steering Committee and the Elizabeth River Project’s River Restoration Advisory Committee.

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ec nference ALTERNATE ENERGY

THE LATEST IN SOLAR ENERGY 9:40 TO 10:25 A.M.

NANO-STRUCTURED MATERIALS TO ENHANCE HEAT TRANSFER

UPDATE ON OFFSHORE WIND IN VIRGINIA 11:25 A.M. TO 12:15 P.M.

10:30 TO 11:20 A.M.

HYBRID POWER SYSTEMS IN ENERGY RECOVERY 1:15 TO 2:05 P.M.

Guy Chapman

Sylvain Marsillac

Terry Hendricks

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University

Energy Recovery Program Director, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio

Sylvain Marsillac received his doctorate degree in materials science and engineering from the University of Nantes in France in 1996. After receiving his Ph.D., Marsillac worked for the University of Nantes until 2000 as an assistant professor. He then joined as a researcher the University of Delaware and the University of Hawaii from 2000 to 2004. In 2005, he joined the University of Toledo where he became associate professor in 2008. He joined Old Dominion University in 2011.

His current research interests include fabricating the next generation of highly efficient and cost-effective thin film solar cells, developing innovative tools for in-situ and real-time analysis, and engineering new systems for large area photovoltaic installations.

Terry Hendricks works in the Energy, Health and Environment Global Business Unit of Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, directing efforts, programs and strategy development in commercial and military energy recovery, energy storage, energy conversion and advanced heat transfer. Prior to his current position, he was a business development leader and senior program manager at the MicroProducts Breakthrough Institute of U.S. Department of Energy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Corvallis, Ore. He was program manager on a recent project in Nano-Scale Surface Texturing to Enhance Boiling Heat Transfer with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and is leading a Battelle IR&D project in this technical field. He was also the Program Manager for Advanced Thermoelectric Power Systems projects with U.S. Army program offices.

Hendricks received his doctorate and master’s in engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor’s in physics from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.

He has more than 30 years of professional experience and expertise in the areas of thermal and fluid systems, energy conversion and energy storage systems, terrestrial and spacecraft power systems, co-generation systems, micro electro-mechanical systems, design optimization, probabilistic design techniques, and project management.

Director, Alternative Energy Generation Technologies – Alternative Energy Solutions, Dominion Since May 1, 2009, Guy Chapman has been directing the unit formed at Dominion to identify business opportunities, provide technology research and participate in the development of the nation’s energy policies relating to emerging energy technologies. Chapman is responsible for leading Dominion’s alternative energy technology research and development activities, including developing the company’s offshore wind development strategy. As part of this strategy, he is involved in all aspects of offshore wind technology evaluation, analysis and due diligence.

Chapman is principal investigator on two Department of Energy awards focused on offshore wind development, including one award focused on developing an offshore wind demonstration facility off the coast of Virginia.

Prior to his current position, Chapman was managing director of the Portfolio Management and Wholesale Power Groups at Dominion. He was responsible for dispatching more than 19,000 MW of generation assets, developing hedging strategies for Dominion’s gas and oil production, and managing trading of environmental markets. He was also responsible for managing the financial and trading analyst group focused on profitability reporting of trading strategies around assets.

Chapman joined Dominion in 1998 as director of risk compliance and analysis, where he provided risk analysis and evaluation of structured energy projects and trading strategies.

He has a bachelor’s from DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. He serves on the Virginia Institute of Marine Science Council.

Terry Hendricks Energy Recovery Program Director, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio See bio under earlier session.

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ec nference ALTERNATE ENERGY

GREEN INFR ASTRUCTURE

THERMOELECTRIC WASTE HEAT RECOVERY FOR MILITARY, COMMERCIAL AND DEVELOPING NATIONS

THE CANOPY HOUSE

ENERGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE

2:10 TO 3 P.M.

4:15 TO 5 P.M.

9:40 TO 10:25 A.M.

Solar Decathlon Team

Adrian V. Gheorghe

Grayson Walker Adjunct Professor, Batten College of Engineering, Old Dominion University Grayson Walker has a bachelor’s in chemistry from Virginia Tech and a master’s in physical chemistry and a doctorate in physical chemistry from American University in Washington, D.C. Both his master’s thesis and doctorate dissertation address research on new electrolytes for acid fuel cells.

As an adjunct professor in the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering at Old Dominion University, he is assisting in developing the curriculum for an energy minor and supported ODU’s participation in the 2011 DoE Solar Decathlon competition. He is working with Mujde Erten-Unal in the Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering Department helping to develop the Solar Decathlon house as a demonstration facility to support the training of students in alternative energy research. Walker is also serving as an adjunct professor in the Chemistry Department of Hampton University teaching freshman chemistry laboratory.

Prior to joining ODU, Walker was employed as the survivability program manager and then as the advanced technologies manager at General Dynamics Land Systems.

While at GDLS, he formed a corporate-wide Alternative Energy Club to foster interest in power and energy. He served as its chairman, arranging for speakers from throughout the alternative energy community to give briefings at the club’s monthly meetings. He served as chairman of the Power and Energy CoTAT, another corporate-wide group under the GD Corporate Engineering and Technology Council, which was tasked with expanding GD’s corporate awareness and competence in alternative energy. He also managed inhouse research programs to explore the application of thermoelectric generators, fuel cells and lithium ion batteries for military use. He worked for 12 years as a research chemist at the U.S. Army’s Belvoir RD&E Center, conducting basic research into the development of fuel cells as replacements to the Army’s diesel engine generators.

Walker is a lecturer in Georgia Tech’s IR and Visual Signature Suppression short course and is a co-administrator of a short course entitled “Military Power and Energy Needs for the Future” in the ODU Business Gateway educational program for professionals.

Walker has numerous refereed journal publications and presentations at technical symposia dealing with alternative energy.

David Stokes Senior Research Engineer RTI International Research Triangle Park, N.C. David Stokes serves as the technology manager for device packaging and system integration in the Center for Solid State Energetics at RTI International, where he has held this position since 2007.

He received his doctorate in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2000 and his bachelor’s in applied math and computer science from Asbury College in 1992. Stokes has more than 15 years of experience in advanced system integration and packaging for semiconductor devices. At RTI, he is working to develop improved microelectronic packaging and integration technology for thermal management and energy harvesting. His research interests include thermoelectric power generation, biomass stove combustion, circuit design for DC-DC conversion and advanced process control.

David Peronnet Marcus Thomas Horace Woolard Old Dominion University and Hampton University Team Tidewater Virginia is Hampton Roads’ local Solar Decathlon team, comprised of architecture, engineering and communications students from Hampton University and engineering students from Old Dominion University. This diverse student team is committed to utilizing its combined talents and strengths to showcase the best in solar home design.

For the 2013 competition, Team Tidewater will be showcasing the Canopy House, which harmonizes two of Team Tidewater’s most important values: design in response to the environment and design for all. Drawing from the principles of universal design, the Canopy House strives to make sustainable living accessible to all people, regardless of physical impairments and limitations. The design harnesses the power of the sun, both as an energy-efficient method for providing heat and electricity, and as an integral foundation for the home’s innovative technology. Through this technology, the house aims to instruct the user about living sustainably as well as to provide the tools to lead a safe and independent lifestyle.

Batten Chair of Systems Engineering, Old Dominion University Adrian V. Gheorghe has a master’s in electrical engineering and is on the power egineering faculty at the Bucharest Polytechnic Institute in Romania. He also has a doctorate in systems science/systems engineering from City University of London, an MBA from Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest and a master’s in engineering-economics from the Bucharest Polytechnic Institute.

Previously he was involved in educational activities as professor of industrial/energy policy and organizational management at Bucharest Polytechnic University, the Department of Physics at the University of Bucharest and a professor for industrial risks and decision analysis with the faculty of chemical engineering at the University Politehnica Bucharest. He was a civil servant with the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, working in the field of comparative risk assessment of various energy systems, and regional risk assessment of nuclear and industrial systems.

He was the director with the Centre of Excellence on Risk and Safety Sciences, and senior scientist with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

In March 2006, he was appointed as professor of engineering management and aystems engineering, and offered the Batten Endowed Chair on System Engineering.

His research interests are in the fields of risk and vulnerability assessment for complex systems, risk assessment transportation of dangerous goods, systems engineering modeling for critical infrastructures (e.g. energy systems, multimodal transportation infrastructures, IT security, and petrochemical and refineries complexes), system of systems engineering, sustainable development, homeland security-related research and policy science implementation.

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GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE

GREEN HOUSE GAS INVENTORY FOR CITIES 10:30 TO 11:20 A.M.

CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS: A SUSTAINABLE WAY FORWARD

SUPPLY CHAIN MODIFICATIONS IN AN ERA OF GREEN ENERGY

STEWARDSHIP AND SUSTAINABILITY 2:10 TO 3 P.M.

1:15 TO 2:05 P.M.

INDUSTRY CHALLENGES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE 4:15 TO 5 P.M.

11:25 A.M. TO 12:15 P.M.

Joseph McCloud

Terry Neimeyer

Erika Marsillac

Heather Wood

Graduate student, Old Dominion University

CEO, KCI Technologies Inc., Baltimore, Md.

Director, Environmental Affairs, Virginia Port Authority

Joseph McCloud is graduate student at Old Dominion University in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department with experience conducting greenhouse gas inventories utilizing a variety of software tools.

McCloud graduated with a bachelor’s in mining and minerals engineering in 2007. After graduation, he worked for a consulting company, concentrating primarily on mine permitting. McCloud has spent the last year working with Mujde Erten-Unal, associate professor and director of the Sustainable Development Institute at ODU, and John Whitelaw, a doctorate candidate on developing a greenhouse gas inventory for the city of Norfolk.

Terry Neimeyer, PE, ENV SP, is CEO and chairman of the board of KCI Technologies, a multi-disciplined engineering firm headquartered in Baltimore, Md., with 25 offices in 17 states. KCI has more than 1,000 employees and over $142 million in annual revenues and is ranked number 96 on the Engineering News Record top 500. KCI designed and occupies a 120,000-squarefoot LEED gold office facility as its headquarters.

Neimeyer is the immediate past chairman of the American Council of Engineering Companies, which represents the business interests of over 5,000 firms nationwide with over 320,000 employees.

He is also the past chairman of the Design Professionals Coalition, ACEC’s large firm roundtable.

Neimeyer now serves on the boards of the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure and the United States Chamber of Commerce.

He earned a bachelor’s in civil engineering from the University of Delaware, a master’s in environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins University, and an MBA from Wilmington College, and is a registered professional engineer in six states.

Assistant Professor of Maritime and Supply Chain Management, Old Dominion University After 15 years in the private sector, Erika Marsillac earned her doctorate in manufacturing management from the University of Toledo in 2010.

Her research interests include green supply chain management, reverse logistics, sustainable manufacturing, behavioral issues in supply chains and international partnerships.

She has published her research in multiple operations journals, and presented it at national and international conferences.

She also performs student and community outreach addressing environmental issues.

Heather Wood joined the Virginia Port Authority as director of environmental affairs in October 2001. Under the direction of the senior deputy executive director, Wood is responsible for the Port of Virginia’s environmental programs and regulatory affairs related to the operation and development of the commonwealth’s marine terminal facilities including Newport News Marine Terminal, Norfolk International Terminals, APM Terminals, Portsmouth Marine Terminal, Richmond Deepwater Terminal and the Virginia Inland Port located in Warren County.

Prior to her arrival at the VPA, she served as a senior environmental engineer for the Virginia Marine Resources Commission and an environmental planner for Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay Local Assistance Department. In addition, Wood served as a Virginia Governor’s Fellow and held positions with McGuireWoods LLP in Richmond and Charlottesville.

In 2011, she was appointed to the Virginia State Water Control Board by Gov. Bob McDonnell, and received the Virginia Port Authority’s W. Wright Harrison Award for distinguished service.

She is vice chair of the American Association of Port Authorities, Environment Committee and chair of the Virginia Maritime Association - Environmental Awareness Committee.

She has an MBA from the Mason School of Business at the College of William and Mary, a master’s in marine affairs from the University of Virginia, and a bachelor’s in economics from Randolph Macon Woman’s College.

Keith Litz Environmental and Energy Specialist, Manufacturing Technology Center Keith Litz is the environmental and energy specialist for the Manufacturing Technology Center of the GenEdge Alliance in Atkins. He has more than 30 years of industry experience in environmental compliance, heat treating, surface finishing and manufacturing.

Before joining the MTC, he was the finishing department superintendent and cold heating supervisor for Acument Global Technologies, formerly Textron Fastening Systems, Wytheville Operation. He is also co-owner of Electro Finishing Inc., a Rural Retreat, Va.-based supplier of surface finishes.

Litz has an associate’s applied science degree in environmental technology from Wytheville Community College. He is also a professional energy manager through the Institute of Energy Professionals.

SESSION TOPIC The session will offer practical guidance for regulatory compliance to industrial environmental requirements. This will include reasons for unannounced visits from regulators, what they will be looking for and how they want it to look.