This in-depth workshop concentrates on the cornucopia of available energy efficiencies that are applicable to existing building stock. The workshop is intended to familiarize today’s property and facility management professionals, as well as other industry participants with the best options to achieve energy efficiency through retrofits and what to look when considering the move to sustainable properties or how to achieve sustainability through retrofitting a current dwelling.

Included in the tutorial are:
• Ways to minimize primary energy consumption for heating, cooling and hot water, per gross floor area
• Optimizing the integration of solar energy use

With case study presentations, the facilitators will address the surprising technical benefits of traditional (historic) design and materials when it comes to retrofitting the structure. Special emphasis will be placed on energy efficiencies that can be retrofitted into historic buildings. The session will also address working around existing constraints.

Barry Giles,
LEED Faculty, CEO,
Building WISE, LLC

This session will explore how greyfields (functionally underutilized or physically obsolescent real estate assets that are often seen in suburban areas in the form of outclassed shopping malls (aka dead malls) or in urban environments where local economies no longer employ factory workers, such as with an abandoned industrial mill or manufacturing plant) can be redeveloped sustainably and cal often be more ‘green” than new ground-up developments. Since greyfields are often acquired empty, a full scale, well organized and green refurbishment is possible. In addition to touching on LEED EBOM, this in depth session will address: • Greening through recycling of old materials • One shot renovation with new green building materials • Greening greyfields that are not currently vacant. • Energy savings tips

Using the complete LEED Existing Building rating system this ‘how to’ workshop will take each prerequisite and credit and give clear defined terms of:

Refreshment Break

This tutorial will address all aspects of Solar Power Purchase Agreements including the basics such as, what is a SPPA and how do they work. Our workshop facilitator will explore the benefits to a host customer such including no upfront costs, predictable energy prices, elimination of operations risk and the possibility of positive cash flow from day one balanced by a discussion of the challenges for the host customer such as higher transaction costs, administrative costs and property tax increase. Other topics that will be addressed include:
• How SPPAs can overcome many of the traditional barriers to solar adoption
• The SPPA model’s impact on the solar market
• Who is doing SPPAs and why?
• Incentives and tax grants
• Cost recovery/payback
• Ideal host customer characteristics
• How solar renewable energy certificates (SRECs) ownership affects a host customer’s carbon footprint and its ability to make environmental claims
• The steps necessary for a successful SPPA

David Kunhardt
VP of Structured Finance
Solar Power Partners, Inc.

John Spilman
Of Counsel
Cleantech Law Partners