JULY
12, 2012 | 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Cox Business Services Convention Center, Ballroom C
| Program | Speaker Bios | Green Roof Tours | Contact Us |
The Green Roof Symposium brought together experts from industry, policy, and research to increase public awareness and businesses’ understanding of how green roof technology can be utilized to help solve environmental problems such as air pollution, storm water runoff, biodiversity loss, and the heat island effect in urban areas. An afternoon tour of three green roofs in Oklahoma City followed.
The abundance of dark impervious surfaces in urban areas creates higher
temperatures than in surrounding areas while increasing storm water runoff
that damage and contaminate nearby rivers, streams and lakes. Green roofs
provide areas of ecological services that sequester carbon, minimize heat
absorption and decrease air conditioning loads in commercial buildings,
while capturing and evaporating rain water to alleviate stress on the sewer
system and nearby watersheds.
PROGRAM
Watch the Video from the Green Roof Symposium Morning Session (YouTube)
Welcome
Jennifer Gooden, City of Oklahoma City Office of
Sustainability Director
Russell Claus, City of Oklahoma City Planning Director
Opening Remarks / Kick-Off Keynote
Dr. Reid Coffman, University of Oklahoma, "Oklahoma and the
21st Century City"
Session 1: Policy and Planning
Presentation on how new green roofs are advancing urban
development, followed by a panel discussion with experts on the emerging
green roof market and forthcoming trends.
Steven Peck, President of Green Roofs for
Healthy Cities, Toronto (Download
Presentation)
Paul Kephart, Owner of Rana Creek Design, California
Jeffrey Bruce, Landscape Architect, Kansas City
Researchers Coffee
Presentations by regional experts on current green roof
research investigations, followed by a facilitated group discussion.
Reid Coffman, University of Oklahoma
Bruce Dvorak, Texas A&M University
(Download Presentation)
Lee Fithian, University of Oklahoma
(Download Presentation)
David Hopman, University of Texas-Arlington
(Download Presentation)
Dr. Richard Sutton, University of Nebraska
(Download Presentation)
Dr. Jason Vogel, Oklahoma State University
(Download Presentation)
Break
Session 2: Design and Implementation
Presentation on the design and implementation of green roof projects,
followed by panel discussion with regional experts on current success
stories, impediments and future opportunities.
Paul Kephart, Owner of Rana Creek Design, California
(Download Presentation)
Jeffrey Bruce, Landscape Architect, Kansas City
Dr. Richard Sutton, University of Nebraska
Lunch and Exhibitors Showcase
Buffet lunch and time for attendees to mingle with green roof
supplies, designers and installers
Green Roof Tours
Bus tour of local green roofs, including Q & A from suppliers,
designers and installers.
Cardinal
Engineering,
Downtown OKC, Designed roof garden and green roof
Chesapeake Energy,
“Central Park” turf-topped parking structure
Winnie May House,
1950s residential sloped green roof
REGISTRATION
Registration for the symposium has closed. The symposium was free to attend, but
registration
was required. Full registration for the symposium included morning sessions, an
exhibitor’s lunch, and tours of three green roofs in Oklahoma City in the
afternoon. Attendees who could not attend the full day program could register for
the morning sessions or tour only.
SPEAKER BIOS
Jeffrey Bruce
Jeffrey
L. Bruce, FASLA, is the owner and founder of Jeffrey L. Bruce & Company (JBC)
which provides highly specialized technical support to many of the nation’s
leading Architectural and Landscape Architectural
firms on a wide variety of project profiles including engineered soils,
green roof technologies, urban agronomy, green infrastructure, performance
sports turf, water harvesting, and irrigation engineering. JBC has worked on
over 60 green roofs encompassing over 12 million square feet and has been a
team member of five national Awards of Excellence from Green Roofs for
Healthy Cities and eight national Awards of excellence from the American
Society of Irrigation Consultants for innovative water management and
design.
Jeffrey Bruce is President of the American Society of
Irrigation Consultants (ASIC) and Chairman of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities
(GRHC). Jeff is a lead instructor of GRHC seminars and Chairman of the GRHC
Accreditation Committee. Mr. Bruce is a LEED accredited professional, a
certified irrigation designer and an EPA WaterSense Certified Professional.
He was one of the first accredited Green Roof Professionals (GRP) in North
America. Mr. Bruce is author of the “Integrated Water Management for
Buildings and Sites” seminar for GRHC and ASIC.
Dr. Reid Coffman
Dr.
Reid Coffman is an educator, researcher and practitioner of landscape
architecture. In his work he combines the fields of quantitative ecology and
artistic expression to create places of social and environmental health.
Currently, he is an Associate Professor, Director of Green Lab, and leads
the Experimental Green Roof Project at the National Weather Center at the
University of Oklahoma. Over the last decade his research and writings on
vegetative roof systems have been published widely throughout the U.S. and
Europe.
Bruce Dvorak
Bruce
Dvorak is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture
& Urban Planning at Texas A&M University. He teaches sustainable site
design, planning and construction. Bruce was involved with the design and
management of a number of recognized green roofs including the Chicago City
Hall Green Roof Pilot Project. As a member of the American Society of
Landscape Architects, Bruce served on the Green Roof Task Force for the ASLA
National Headquarters green roof in Washington, D.C.
Bruce is a member of the Green Roofs for Healthy Cities
Research Committee and the ASTM International subgroup Sustainable Buildings
and Construction. In 2009, Professor Dvorak and Dr. Astrid Volder
established the Interdisciplinary Green Roof Research Group at Texas A&M
University. Today, four research colleagues across three colleges at Texas
A&M are working to develop sustainable green roofs for Texas.
Lee Fithian
Lee
Fithian is an Associate Professor in the Division of Architecture. Her
current research and teaching efforts are focused on Net-Zero and
Regenerative architectures within the interdisciplinary research in practice
studio model with a strong focus on the technical development and
integration of deep green sustainable design and BIM in the conceptual
design phase. Her current research collaboration focus with the National
Weather Center Green Roof project is looking into glare mitigation through
the use of vegetated roofs. Lee has a Master’s of Architecture as well as a
Bachelor’s in Engineering and in Computer Science and is pursuing a PhD in
Engineering.
Professor Fithian has licenses in Oklahoma and
Massachusetts with over 17 years of commercial and governmental practice
experience, including Director of Sustainable Design at the Benham
Companies. Within the State of Oklahoma she has helped found the Oklahoma
Sustainability Network and the State Chapter of the US Green Building
Council and currently serves as Chair of COTE and Treasurer for the AIA
Central Oklahoma Chapter. Since joining the faculty of the College of
Architecture in 2005, she has maintained her own firm that consults on a
vast array of sustainable and technical issues both in new construction and
adaptive reuse.
David Hopman
Since
accepting the position as a professor at Graduate Program in Landscape
Architecture at The University of Texas at Arlington in 2004, David Hopman,
ASLA has energetically pursued a faculty role bridging practice and
research. The courses he teaches reflect his research interests in plant
materials and ecology, ecologically performative landscapes, landscape
aesthetics, and computer visualization.
Professor Hopman designed and implemented the first extensive green roof in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in 2008 above the Life Sciences Building at UT-Arlington. He was in charge of the Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES) certification for The Green at College Park on the UT-Arlington Campus; one of the first three projects worldwide to receive certification in February of 2012. This important certification system is being developed by the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, The National Arboretum, and The American Society of Landscape Architects as a landscape corollary, with or without buildings, to the USGBC LEED certification system.
Paul Kephart
Renowned
biologist, restoration ecologist and expert designer of living architectural
systems, Paul Kephart is sought after for his skill as an innovator and
pioneer in the fields of environmental planning and ecological design.
Paul applies ecological
principles to architecture and design by integrating mechanical, plumbing,
and energy systems with living systems, site, and structure.
Paul has applied his ecological design training on some
noteworthy large-scale architectural icons:
Gap Headquarters, a pioneering large-scale living roof in a
Mediterranean climate; California Academy of Sciences, incorporating a
living roof designed for biodiversity; Croton Water Treatment Plant, slated
to be the largest continuous living roof in North America; Museum of
Northern Arizona, designed for science and cultural interpretation; Council
District 9 City Hall, a living roof public park targeting urban renewal, and
Transbay Terminal, a 5.9 acre city park on the rooftop of San Francisco’s
newest architectural icon.
Steven Peck
Steven
W. Peck, GRP, Honorary ASLA is the founder and president of Green Roofs for
Healthy Cities (GRHC), the North American green roof and wall industry
association. Since 1996 he has worked to advance the green roof and wall
industry by facilitating research and demonstration projects; organizing
conferences and workshops; writing articles; judging awards competitions;
building institutional capacity; lecturing; publishing and advocating for
supportive policies and standards at all levels of government. In 1999 he began
editing and publishing a quarterly green roof and wall magazine entitled The
Living Architecture Monitor™. Mr. Peck has written and lectured extensively on
the interrelationship between public policy, research and the socio-economic
benefits of living architecture, as well as on the topics of urban
sustainability and industrial ecology. In 2007 he co-founded the Green
Infrastructure Foundation, the charitable arm of GRHC, dedicated to
advancing all forms of green infrastructure. In 2010 Mr. Peck
co-founded the Green Infrastructure Ontario Coalition in 2010 to lobby for
living green infrastructure protection and investment in Ontario.
Dr. Richard K. Sutton
Dr.
Richard K. Sutton, PLA, FASLA, GRP combines his native prairie plant and
green roof interest and expertise in research at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln. As a member of
the Green Roofs for Healthy Cities Research Committee, Dr. Sutton organized
a Great Plains regional working group in 2010 to examine the use of prairie
plants and stressed prairie communities as templates for green roof use.
His current research is looking at ways to expand the biodiversity
while lowering the costs of green roof plantings.
He obtained his BS degree from Colorado State University, MLA from
Utah State University and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and
has published over 3 dozen popular and reviewed articles while co-authoring
two plant books.
Dr. Jason Vogel
Dr.
Jason Vogel is an Assistant Professor and Stormwater Specialist in the
Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering at Oklahoma State
University (OSU), where he currently leads the Low Impact Development
research and extension team. His
research interests are related to water quality and water quantity issues at
the interface of human and natural systems.
Before joining OSU in December 2009, he worked for the U.S.
Geological Survey in Lincoln, Nebraska for seven years, conducting
water-quality research. He got his Ph.D. from OSU in 2001 in Biosystems and
Agricultural Engineering, and also has degrees from Texas A&M and the
University of Nebraska.
GREEN ROOF TOURS
Cardinal Engineering, Downtown OKC, designed roof garden
and green roof
Rooftop socializing at its best. The roof at Cardinal Engineering holds fun
urbanity atop a historic building on Automobile Alley. By making half the
roof accessible roof garden and half planted green roof, visitors get the
best of both worlds. Sit down and enjoy.
Chesapeake Energy, "Central Park" turf-topped parking
structure
The recreational roof built
over parking on the Chesapeake Energy campus creates a flexible gathering
space for events, concerts and gatherings.
This intensive green roof not only acts as a formal aesthetic green
space for the campus, but also provides great urban cooling and stormwater
regulation. It is a great
civic-scale example of combining social and environmental goals.
Winnie
May House,
1950s residential sloped green roof
Prairie style precedent. Originally installed in 1951 to complete a
prairie-style architectural aesthetic that also reduced summer temperatures,
the Winnie Mae roof has evolved today into a ‘garden style’
sub-canopy green roof that continues its tradition with a more formal
tone. Built on a slope, over the garage, it will inspire all do-it yourself
homeowners. Simple, elegant and efficient.
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