LEED Project Management: Lessons Learned & Best Practices
With the growing influence and prevalence of the LEED rating system for
design and construction, learning the in's and outs' of managing the LEED
certification process is becoming increasingly important. This month's
presentation features three speakers with an impressive depth of LEED project
management experience in a variety of LEED project types including: New
Construction, Existing Buildings, Commercial Interiors, Core and Shell, and
Schools.
The first part of the program will feature a short presentation
by each speaker focusing on his or her particular project management experience
and lessons learned from the LEED certification process. The second
part will feature a panel discussion with an opportunity for questions from the
audience.
Speakers at this event include:
- Elizabeth Cordero, LEED AP, Principal - Green Building Consulting Co.
- Jordan Daniels, LEED AP, Director of Business Development - BuildingWise LLC
- Joe Piedimonte, LEED AP, CFO - Ausonio Inc.
Space is limited. Please register for the
event before Monday, June 1st.
Thank you to our generous sponsors:

Agenda:
5:30 pm Light refreshments and networking
6:00 pm Program
Directions:
Take Highway 1 to Moss Landing Road. The Marine Lab is directly
after the cemetery when coming from the south, and past the Moss Landing School
when coming from the north. Go up the hill and park in lot on the left. At the
end of the parking lot walk straight to the building closest to Monterey.
Moss Landing Marine Labs is a LEED-EB Gold building.
Informal Carpool:
We encourage offering a donation to the individual who
drives to offset fuel costs. Participants should arrive no later than 5 p.m. at
one of these locations:
1. Santa Cruz County Governmental Office Building, 701 Ocean Street, near the
front doors at the visitor parking spaces.
2. Seaside Home Depot parking lot, near the Shell Station.
About the Speakers:
Elizabeth Cordero is the principal of Green Building Consulting Co.
(GBC) with 20 years of management and design experience focused on facilities
that serve education. She is currently serving as the Green Schools Advocacy
Coordinator for USGBC-NCC Monterey Bay Branch. GBC provides institutional and
corporate clients sustainability design and consulting services, including project
management, life-cycle cost analysis, building performance evaluation, economic
feasibility studies, concept design assistance, daylight analysis, technical
research, construction documents review, green specifications, material
selection, LEED certification and CHPS verification. She has guided project
teams through each phase of the LEED certification process on over a dozen
projects nationwide and has experience with the LEED for New Construction,
Commercial Interiors, and Schools systems.
Jordan Daniels is the Director of Business Development for BuildingWise,
a local green building consulting firm, and a LEED AP since 2005 with over
eight years of experience in the built environment, most recently as Project
Manager for Daniels & House Construction Co., a general building contractor
in California. He has recent experience managing LEED-EBOM projects such
as 525 Market St. (1.1 million square feet) and Chevron Park (14-building
campus), as well as Uptown Monterey, the first LEED certified (Silver) shopping
center in California. Jordan is the Co-Chair of the Monterey Bay Branch
of the USGBC, Northern California Chapter. Jordan recently made a
documentary film (
www.deconstructiondvd.org)
to educate communities about LEED and deconstruction as an alternative to
demolition, which features his experience with the Uptown Monterey project.
Joe Piedimonte is a green building project manager and CFO of
Castroville-based Ausonio Incorporated. Joe has earned the LEED AP
designation for both New Construction (NC) and Existing Buildings (EB). He
currently serves as LEED EB Consultant for Monterey Conference Center and the
Portola Hotel. He is the LEED Project Administrator for eight other LEED
registered projects from Napa to Nevada. These projects include Monterey
College of Law's registered LEED NC project, which is targeting Platinum. He
also serves as Chair of the Environmental Management and Sustainable Design
advisory group to Hartnell College and the Co-Chair for the Monterey Business
Councils Green Building Competitive Cluster Group.
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