Great Lakes High Performance Building Conference

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June Green Your Lunch: Taking BIM to the Next Level

Taking BIM to the Next Level

Montcalm Community College has enhanced and extended BIM from a design and construction tool into a useful facilities management tool.  High efficiency buildings are wonderful but there needs to be a focus and means to ensure that these buildings continue to perform at a high level throughout their life cycles.  See how a small, rural community college developed a model that provides useful and almost instantaneous information to aid in maintaining and operating their new high performance building.

Presented by George Germain, CEFP (Certified Education Facilities Professional)

Mr. Germain has been Director of Facilities at Montcalm Community College since the fall of 1998.  Since that time he has been involved with construction projects that have doubled the amount of campus square footage.  During that time the college has built two LEED facilities, the Stanley P. Ash Building in 2007 and the Bill Braman Family Center for Education in 2013.  The Ash Building has achieved LEED Silver certification and the Braman Building is slated to achieve the Gold level.  In addition, Mr. Germain has overseen energy improvements valued at nearly two million dollars.

Mr. Germain also lead the efforts in the creation of a cutting edge BIM for use as a facilities management tool for the new Braman Building on Montcalm Community College’s Greenville campus.

WHEN
June 7, 2013
Noon - 1:00 PM

LOCATION
C2AE
648 Monroe NW, Suite 210
Grand Rapids, MI 49503

Green Your Lunch programs are BYOL: Bring Your Own Lunch
*Jimmy Johns is located on the first floor of the C2AE building.

COST
FREE Chapter Non Member
$5    USGBC Chapter Member

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Tour LEED Platinum Catalyst Partners and M Retail Solutions Building

With both firms growing out of their locations and wanting to expand in downtown Grand Rapids, Catalyst Partners and M Retail Solutions teamed up to find and restore their future home. They sought a location that was convenient to public transportation and bicycle-commuting lanes, provided room for future growth within the downtown area, was a building with character, and had an opportunity to restore a neglected site using restorative building practices.

The building serves as an incubator space for green technologies, including a 6-kilowatt photovoltaic solar power array that provides 20% of the building’s electricity needs. Windows were designed to optimize natural ventilation, provide great daylighting, and to minimize heat gain and thermal heat/cooling loss. Lighting fixtures were designed in concert with window sizing and placement to optimize efficiency. A high-efficiency geothermal heat exchange system has been used to achieve effective energy savings. And following completion of construction, a garden was added in a neighboring parcel to grow produce for the occupants of the building and to share with the immediate neighbors.

This project has received the highest LEED rating in the world.

Tour is under review for 1 GBCI CE

WHEN
July 18, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
4:00 Tour & Presentation
5:15 Drinks & Networking on the Catalyst Deck

LOCATION
502 Second St NW
Grand Rapids, MI 49504

COST
$10 USGBC Chapter Member
$30 USGBC Non Member

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August Green Your Lunch: What part of 40% ROI don't you like, really?

What part of 40% ROI don't you like, really?

Our August meeting will be a combination presentation and discussion about different aspects of commercial building energy audits.  What is different about Level I, II and III audits? Why use one or the other? What inclines owners to conduct energy audits (or not)?  Join us for a free-wheeling information and experience exchange!

WHEN
August 2, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

LOCATION
C2AE
648 Monroe NW, Suite 210
Grand Rapids, MI 49503

Green Your Lunch programs are BYOL: Bring Your Own Lunch
*Jimmy Johns is located on the first floor of the C2AE building

COST
$0 USGBC Chapter Member
$5 USGBC Non Member

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