Design & Construction Series - Sustainable Healthcare Architecture
February 08, 2008

1:00 eastern, 12:00 central, 11:00 mountain and 10:00 pacific and will last for 90 minutes.

Topic

AIArchitect describes "Sustainable Healthcare Architecture," the newly released monograph on green building in health care authored by Robin Guenther, FAIA, LEED AP, and Gail Vittori, LEED AP as "a very important book."

Join us for an hour's overview of the best current examples of green building in health care and the authors' vision for the future.

This teleconference has been made possible through a generous contribution by Boulder Associates.

Boulder Associates is a national architectural, interior and graphic design firm specializing in healthcare and senior living environments. Boulder Associates has successfully certified two LEED silver hospital projects, shattering the long-held myth that progressive care settings and sustainability could not be achieved in tandem.

Take Home Value (THV)

1. Participants will be able to
initiate integration of sustainable design strategies in healthcare settings.

2. Participants will be able to
describe the broader context of healthcares fundamental mission to first do no harm as it relates to the design and construction of buildings.

3. Participants will be able to
enumerate the components of a sustainable hospital building and project; discuss a broad range of sustainable building strategies, and understand their background.

4. Participants will gain
A sense of the international market in sustainable health care architecture.

Presenters

Robin Guenther, FAIA, LEED AP, Guenther5/Perkins+Will (1:50 PM)
Email: robin.guenther@perkinswill.com

Robin Guenther FAIA is principal of Perkins + Will Architects, and founding principal of Guenther 5 Architects in New York City. Her work has been published nationally and internationally. Through a wide range of advocacy initiatives embedded within an active practice career, she is defining the sustainable design agenda in health care. Robin has been increasingly at the intersection of health care architecture and sustainable policy. In 2005, Robin received The Center for Health Designâ€™s Changemaker Award for her efforts to continuously improve and support change in the healing environment. She co-authored the Green Guide for Health Care and the recent Wiley book, â€œSustainable Healthcare Architecture.â€쳌 She serves on the AIA Guidelines for Healthcare Construction Revision Committee as well as the LEED for Healthcare Core Committee. She speaks nationally and internationally on the topic of sustainable design in healthcare.
Gail Vittori, Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems (1:53 PM)
Email: gvittori@cmpbs.org

Gail Vittori is Co-Director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, a non-profit sustainable planning and design firm established in 1975, located in Austin, Texas. She was responsible for developing the original framework for the Austin Green Building Programâ€”the only US project recognized at the 1992 UN Earth Summitâ€”in addition to Texas' first public sector LEED certified building, and Texas' first LEED Gold certified building. Since 2000, Ms. Vittori has been engaged in numerous green health care initiatives, including serving on the American Society of Healthcare Engineering's (ASHE) first Green Building Task Force and collaborating on the development of ASHE's Green Healthcare Construction Guidance Statement, the first green guidance document specifically for the healthcare sector; convening and serving as co-coordinator of the Green Guide for Health Care project since its inception in 2002; chairing the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED for Healthcare core committee; and providing sustainable design/GGHC/LEED consulting services for the Dell Central Texas Children's Medical Center and the Ronald McDonald House in Austin, both of which are pursuing LEED Platinum certification. She was identified as one of 20 people who make a difference in health care by Healthcare Design magazine, December 2007.

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