Buildings consume well over 30 percent of all primary energy in the world, more than either transportation or industry. By building green, we can reduce energy consumption in the built environment by 30-50 percent and cut greenhouse gas emissions by similar margins—typically at 1-5 percent of total construction costs, which are recovered through reduced energy demand in a few years or less.
 
As a follow up to the successful US|China Green Tech Summit in Shanghai, the Bay Area Council and the Asia Society of Northern California invite you to attend a one-day conference looking at the challenges and opportunities of reducing the carbon footprint of our cities while increasing global prosperity. Today, the greatest challenge for green design is to scale up -- to move beyond pilot projects and piecemeal solutions to building and retrofitting on a massive scale in order to have a meaningful impact on global warming. Green materials must be mass produced, construction techniques must be standardized, and the principles of green design must inform urban planning, not simply the design of individual buildings. These are the critical issues this conference will address.

Conference Program

8:30 am Registration/Continental Breakfast

9:00-9:10 am Conference Introduction: Bruce Pickering, Asia Society, and Jim Wunderman, Bay Area Council

9:10-9:20 am Conference Welcome: Peter Darbee, Pacific Gas and Electric Company

9:20-9:30 am Conference Welcome: Gavin Newsom, Mayor of San Francisco

9:30-10:00 am Keynote Address: Zhang Guangning, Mayor of Guangzhou, PRC (invited)

10:00-11:15 am Green Building Policy
Darrell Steinberg, California State Senate, 6th District (invited)
Dian Grueneich, Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission (invited)
Mark Levine, Director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division and Group Leader, China Energy Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jiang Yi, Professor of Building Science, Tsinghua University
Moderator: Robert Hertzberg, Chairman and Co-founder, G24 Innovations; Former Speaker, California State Assembly

11:15-11:30 am Coffee Break

11:30 am-12:45 pm Panel 2: Green Building Practice
Dan Winey, Managing Principal, Northwest Region, Gensler
Paul Holland, General Partner, Foundation Capital
Jeff Heller, President, Heller-Manus
Marc Porat, CEO, Calstar Cement
Harrison Fraker, Dean, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley (invited)
Moderator: Qingyun Ma, Dean of the School of Architecture, USC (invited)

12:45-1:30 pm Catered Lunch

1:30-2:45 pm Panel 3: Scaling Up: from Buildings to Communities
David Nieh, General Manager of Planning and Development, Shui On Land
John Kriken, FAIA, AICP, Consulting Partner, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP
Stanley Yip, Director of Planning & Development, Arup China
He Dongquan, Sustainable City Program Director, Energy Foundation
Pat Bailey, PE, Product Manager, AEC Sustainability, Autodesk
Moderator: Peter Schwartz, Co-founder and Chairman, Global Business Network

3:00-4:15 pm Beyond the US and China: Greening Megacities Across Asia
Simon Tay, Chairman, Singapore Institute of International Affairs; Chairman, National Environment Agency (Singapore); Bernard Schwartz Fellow, Asia Society
Sabeer Bhatia, Founder, Hotmail; planner and developer, Nanocity (India)
Tadakatsu Sano, Partner, Jones Day; former Vice-Minister, Ministry of International Trade, Japan (invited)
Ross Levy, Board Member, Vietnam Green Building Council; Principal, Levy Art & Architecture
Moderator: Orville Schell, Director, Asia Society Center on US-China Relations

4:15-4:30 Coffee Break

4:30-5:00 pm Keynote Address: John Bilmon, Managing Director, PTW Architects

Event Info

PG&E Auditorium
77 Beale St. (between Market and Mission)
San Francisco, CA
 
$50 Students
$100 Asia Society /Bay Area Council/Co-Sponsor Members
$150 Non-Members
Special Offer: $125 Admission + Asia Society membership ($155 Value)

To register, please visit online or call 415.421.8707.