"Sustainable Materials and Green Building Practices"

Doug Rempel, Residential Energy Specialist, Homeworks Services Inc.

The BC Hydro Power Smart New Construction Program and Cascadia Region Green Building Council are pleased to offer this new full-day workshop for owners, developers,architects, engineers and designers involved in new healthcare and hospital facilities.

Schedule

Morning Session: Executive training for developers, owners, architects,
designers, and others. 8:15 AM to 12:15 PM.

Morning Session Speakers:
Luis Damy, P.Eng., Manager, High Performance Building Program, BC Hydro
Jessica Woolliams,LEED Ap, M. PL, BC Director, Cascadia Region GBC
Dennis Wilde, Principal, Gerding Edlen Development
Ray Pradinuk, MAIBC, Principal, Leader Healthcare Research and Innovation, Stantec Consulting
Chris Corps, BSc MRICS, President, Asset Strategics Ltd.
Joel Loveland, M. Arch; and Heather Burpee, M. Arch; Integrated Design Lab + Dept of Architecture, U of Washington

Lunch and networking opportunities follow the morning session

Afternoon Session: Technical Training for Architects and Engineers.
1:00 PM to 4:30 PM.

Afternoon Session Speakers:
Caesar Ruest, Autodesk's BIM Solutions Executive
Boriana Arguirova, P. Eng., Associate and Project Manager, Building Engineering, Stantec's Health Care Group
Paul Marmion, P. Eng., Senior Principal, Stantec's Healthcare Research and Innovation Group

Panel discussion and networking opportunities follow the afternoon
session

Architectural Institute of BC: The conference has been approved by the AIBC; 7.5 Core Learning Units.

Registration

Please call Jessica Woolliams at 604-909-9559 - registrations will be taken over the phone. For more information, please visit the site http://www.cascadiagbc.org/events/2010/january/121709%20hospital%20flyer%20rev%206.pdf

Please contact Jessica Woolliams if you are interested in group rates or half-day
rates at 604-909-9559 or jessica@cascadiagbc.org. Half day rates are available for
those whose schedule does not permit the full day event, and start at $130 for early
bird Cascadia Members or BC Hydro Partners and do not include breakfast or lunch.
For more information, registration and sponsorship information, please
visit http://www.cascadiagbc.org/events/2010/january/high-efficiencyhospitals-
workshop-bc/.

LOCATION:  Pan Pacific Hotel
                  Oceanview 1 & 2, 999
                  Canada Place, Vancouver

The Energy Council of Canada is holding a series of Energy Forums, the purpose of which is to collect information on Canada’s accomplishments and future plans for presentation at the forthcoming World Energy Congress, MONTREAL 2010. Each half a day Forum will focus on a specific region of Canada and its prime emphasis will be on obtaining, from governments, industry and various stakeholders, perspectives and planned actions to address present and future energy challenges.

It is intended that participants for the respective Forums will be senior representatives from government, industry and stakeholders. This will allow dialogue to be primarily strategic and policy oriented and to be visionary, constructive and pragmatic in terms of addressing the overwhelming challenges being faced by the energy industry in global, regional and national contexts.

Please see attachment for more information.

Source: Natural Resources Canada

An updated version of the RETScreen Clean Energy Project Analysis Software was released on May 26, 2009. The improvements include:

- 5 new languages added (Serbian, Swahili, Ukrainian, Urdu & Vietnamese), to 35 total
- GHG emission factors updated based on more recent national info from UNFCCC, etc.
- solar air heating (SAH) model upgraded, including improved energy algorithms, and the inclusion of unglazed (back-pass) and glazed collectors
- wind energy model (Method 3) upgraded to allow monthly energy production adjustment based on monthly values for temperature and atmospheric pressure
- global wind energy map (5 km resolution) from 3TIER directly linked within software
- Clean Energy Legal Toolkit integrated into manual and website
- Combined Heat & Power (Cogeneration) e-textbook chapter & training slides published
- Legal Aspects of Clean Energy Projects e-textbook chapter & training slides published
- project templates added for various power, heating and cooling applications
- training course material added for power, heating and cooling applications
- product data added for new product lines and for additional manufacturers
- RETScreen Toolbar incorporated into Excel 2007
- bug fixes for a number of minor items in the software
- extensive database of clean energy figures and photos added to manual & website
- manual & website upgrades with a significant amount of new content added

There are now more than 200,000 RETScreen users in 222 countries, where the software has been directly responsible for over $4 billion in user savings to-date.

Click here to download RETScreen 4 (44 MB).

"Incentives for Energy Efficient Upgrades"

Laura Krohn, LiveSmart BC Outreach Specialist, Light House and City of Vancouver Sustainability Group

More than 40 workshops for renewable energy, energy efficiency and cogeneration have recently been scheduled across Canada and around the world. The RETScreen-focused events are being delivered from Calgary, Canada to Manila, Philippines and from Thurles, Ireland to Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, with many locations in between. Click here for further information about these free workshops: http://www.retscreen.net/ang/11_form1.php

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