SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The upcoming New York State Green Building Conference will be held virtually this year between March 28 and April 28.
The SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) hosts the conference, and those interested have until this Thursday to register at the event’s website.
ESF hosts the conference in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council New York Upstate and the Syracuse
Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems.
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The school describes it as the “leading event for the future of buildings, cities, and communities.”
This year’s conference includes keynote speakers Hilari Varnadore from the U.S. Green Building Council and Greg Hale from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). Session presenters include experts in the fields of sustainability, carbon neutrality, healthy workspaces, environmental justice and the built environment, LEED certification, community planning, and urban energy sustainability.
LEED is short for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, a certification program through the U.S. Green Building Council.
In its 20th year, the conference brings innovators and experts in the fields of green building, sustainability, and design to share their expertise. Conference participants represent industries including architecture, engineering, construction, consulting, deconstruction, landscape architecture, government, higher education, K-12 education, state agencies, real estate, and management firms.
Attendees will learn how to implement LEED, meet others in the industry, discover new green-building strategies that help with real-world issues and explore the latest in green building technology platforms, including updates to LEED.
The Mass Timber Symposium will also be held in conjunction with the Green Building Conference, ESF noted. The symposium webinars will be held March 28 to March 30. The symposium will help architects, engineers and construction professionals delve into the potential that mass timber offers to the built environment.
