Biomimicry offers a holistic and deeply rooted method to achieving true sustainability. Nature embodies more than four billion years of experience perfecting the designs and behaviors that enable organisms and living systems to thrive. In this exciting full-day workshop, a biologist and urban planner and an architectural designer, both professionally trained in Biomimicry and sustainable building design, teach participants how to solve real-life design challenges by applying nature’s design successes. As a planning and design approach for single and multi-building developments or as an auxiliary tool for LEED or the Living Building Challenge, this workshop will provide you with new tools, knowledge and inspiration to design for sustainability and beyond.
Returning Workshop Attendees: You are entitled to a 10% discount off your next workshop. Learn more!
At the door registration will begin one half hour prior to the
workshop, only full Non-Member rates will be available the day of the
workshop. For more information regarding payments, credit card charges, or disputes, please contact Paul Buckman.
Objectives
Define Biomimicry and how to approach design challenges using the Biomimetic methodology
Recognize the difference between well-adapted and maladapted design
Use Life’s Principals as a guiding measure for design success
Learn what it means to use nature as model, mentor, and measure for their own work
Target Audience
Architects, engineers, designers, building owners, anyone interested in sustainability
Included in this Workshop
Copy of PPT presentation, exercise worksheets and references.
7 AIA CEU
About the Instructors
Erin Leitch
As a Brightworks Sustainability Advisor, Erin currently manages a wide range of challenging projects including LEED certification, sustainable product analysis, and strategic sustainability planning. Erin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Design, Architecture and is pursuing a Certificate in Biomimicry with the Biomimicry Institute’s 2-Year Certificate (2YC) Program guided by Biomimicry Institute co-founder Dayna Baumeister. Through the Biomimicry Institute, she actively participates in the thought leadership of Biomimetic process applications to the built environment and in the development of future iterations of the 2YC program.
Nicole Isle
Nicole is a sustainability advisor at Brightworks where she specializes in integrated design strategies for single and multiple building projects as well as for conceptual master planning programs. Nicole leads planning, design and construction teams through this creative process with the use of several sustainability tools including LEED, The Natural Step, and Biomimicry in order to help define and integrate sustainability goals into each project. Nicole holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Aquatic Biology and is a Master’s Candidate in Urban Environmental Planning from Oregon State and Portland State Universities, and is trained as a Biologist at the Design Table (BaDT) under the guidance of Biomimicry founder, Janine Benyus.
Refund and Cancellation Policy
Please email Paul Buckman
at least one week prior to the workshop to cancel attendance, transfer
to another workshop, or replace a workshop attendee. Please note the
following policies:
If you cancel at least a week beforehand, you will receive an 80%
refund. If you cancel within 7 days, you will receive a 20% refund.
Attendees can request a transfer of their
registrations a maximum of one (1) time. All transferred registrations
will incur a cancellation fee of $30.
A colleague from the same company may replace your reservation for a workshop with one week notice.
Should USGBC-NCC have to cancel the workshop, attendees can receive a
100% refund or transfer their registration to another scheduled
workshop.
