Navigating Baltimore City's New Green Building Standards

Roll-Out Festivities and Panel Presentation

Wednesday, October 6th       

5:30 to 8:30 PM

Baltimore City just on September 16th released the regulations that are the Baltimore City Green Building Standards!  

 USGBC Maryland presents a timely panel presentation from 5 individuals who directly influenced the Standards.

This is your inside track to the City's Green Building Standards.

Baltimore City Building Code, Chapter 37 mandates that all newly constructed, extensively modified non-residential, and specific multi-family residential buildings, that have or will have at least 10,000 square feet of gross floor area, "for which a building permit application is filed on or after July 1, 2009 must achieve a silver-level rating in the appropriate LEED rating system, as certified by the US Green Building Council".

The city code further requires that "the Building Official must issue regulations to administer [this law and that] those regulations must specify: 1. The LEED rating system, and any equivalent energy and environmental design standard, that applies to each type of covered building."

The City has just released the regulations.  As the key component of those regulations, the City has developed its own "equivalent" green building standard, based largely upon the LEED 2009 rating standards. 

Learn about the nuances of the City's Green Building Standard from the very people who created, developed and will implement the Standards. 

Panel

Michael Braverman

Deputy Commissioner, Permits & Code Enforcement Division, Baltimore Housing

Nadya Morgan

Project Manager, Baltimore City Green Building Standards (BCGBC), Baltimore Housing

Kim Schaefer, RA, LEED AP

Founder and Prinical of TerraLogos, Eco Architecture. 

Peter Doo, AIA, LEED AP

Founder and partner of Doo Consulting, LLC.  

Moderator

Stuart Kaplow, Esq., LEED AP

Principal of the boutique real estate firm, Stuart D. Kaplow, P.A. Stuart serves as the Chairman of the US Green Building Council Maryland.

Wednesday, October 6th 2010

5:30            Mingle with refreshments of house red & white wine, local beers and heavy 

                                  Hors d'Oeuvres (vegetarian and vegan options available)

6:15            Panel Presentation (we will start promptly at 6:15PM)

7:45-8:30   Q&A and Wrap-up

Gertrude's Restaurant, Outdoor Terrace

Baltimore Museum of Art

10 Art Museum Drive

Baltimore, MD 21218

This is the only place to get a step ahead! 

Space is limited so we recommend early registration!