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This is the second in a series of FREE web seminars sponsored by the AIA Residential Knowledge Community that will explore the ways that architects use research to enhance the health, safety, social, economic and environmental performance of buildings as well as the experiences of housing residents.
Experts in research on sustainable building practices will explore the current state of green building research applicable to architectural practice. The latest trends in evidence-based sustainable design will be discussed. A case study will be presented on the analysis and benchmarking of utility usage to inform the design of housing rehabilitation.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will learn to identify various types and methods of research applicable to green building.
- Participants will learn about current trends in evidence-based design.
- Participants will gain an understanding of various strategies for applying research on sustainable building to their own practices.
- Participants will gain an understanding of the limits of and gaps in research that’s being conducted in the field and in the academy.
Speakers
Carlos Martín, PhD studies housing architecture and construction -particularly the social and industrial implications of housing’s physical quality, affordability, building regulation, environmental sustainability, and construction labor. Trained as an architect, construction engineer, and historian of technology, Dr. Martín has over 13 years of experience in government, academia, and industry managing research and advocacy programs in housing technology and policy locally, nationally, and internationally. He has authored numerous publications on technological policy and regulation in housing. He has consulted for construction workforce programs on green jobs, housing advocacy organizations on green building, and foreign governments and the World Bank on construction regulations and sustainable development.
Dr. Martín is currently a Senior Associate in Abt Associates’ Social and Economic Policy Division. Prior, Carlos served as Assistant Vice President for Construction, Codes, and Standards and the National Green Building Program at the National Association of Home Builders. He was also Technical Director for Housing with the Development Innovations Group on two Gates Foundation-funded international housing and community development surveys, a researcher for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's Affordable Housing Research & Technology Division and its Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH), and the SRP Assistant Professor for Energy and the Environment at Arizona State University's Del E. Webb School of Construction and School of Architecture. He received his BSAD in Architecture from MIT and his MS and PhD degrees in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Stanford.
Marty J. Davey, NEI Project Manager, joined New Ecology in 2008. Prior to that, Ms. Davey served as President and General Manager of CleanScape, Inc., helping to create over 30 green-sector jobs in a distressed neighborhood of Providence, RI. During her tenure at CleanScape, Marty helped raise $2.5 million in financing from over 20 sources and presided over the company’s transition to profitability, almost doubling revenue in three years. Ms. Davey worked as a Supervising Environmental Planner at the RI Department of Environmental Management where she was responsible for development of statewide policies and programs for commercial recycling and recycling market development. Ms. Davey has also worked as a grant writer and consultant to several well-known organizations, including EPA New England and the Salvation Army. Ms. Davey’s first position post college was as an engineer with the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics where she broke new ground by becoming the first woman to supervise at-sea systems operability tests. At New Ecology, Ms. Davey worked as the initial project manager for WegoWise, and now concentrates on a variety of Existing Building projects.
Kathleen Dorgan, AIA, LEED-AP, is principal of the widely recognized firm Dorgan Architecture & Planning in Storrs CT. She trained as both an architect (BS and B.Arch. Rensselaer) and an urban planner (MS Pratt). Past president of the Association for Community Design, she is a member of the adjunct faculty at Roger Williams University. She was a 2002 Loeb Fellowship, a HUD Community Builder Fellow and Executive Director of the Capitol Hill Improvement Corporation in Albany NY. Ms. Dorgan is active in local and national volunteer groups and is a frequent speaker, university instructor and writer on issues of design and community renewal. She is a member of the Design School at Harvard’s Alumni Council and the UMASS Architecture + Design Advisory Council.