Driving Toward Sustainability: An Overview of Leadership in
Energy & Environmental Design (LEED)
Event Date: September 19, 2012
RSVP by: September 12, 2012
Buildings that have received a LEED certification are appearing across the globe. Developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) in 2000, LEED is the most widely recognized green building program. The strategy of LEED is to achieve high performance in the five areas of human and environmental health through innovation and process design.
• Sustainable Site Development
• Water Savings
• Energy Efficiency
• Materials Selection, and,
• Indoor Environmental Quality
Colleen Soden of Soden Sustainability has championed an array of LEED projects and programs which have yielded cost avoidance and savings for individuals and organizations. She will take us through an outline of LEED and its rating system. With her, we will journey through the process design and certification process in both work and home environments. As part of that journey, she will share highlights from her experience while implementing LEED sustainability projects and programs.
Schedule:
6:00 - 6:30: Registration, Networking
6:30 - 7:15: Dinner
7:15 - 7:20: SWE announcements
7:20 - 7:35 Thermo Fisher Scientific
7:35 - 8:30: Main presentation, with Q&A
8:30 - 9:00: Wrap up
Location:
ThermoFisher Scientific
2 Radcliff Road
Tewksbury, MA 01876
About the Sponsor:
Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science. The company enables its customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer by providing analytical instruments, equipment, reagents and consumables, software and services for research, analysis, discovery and diagnostics. With annual sales of $12 billion, Thermo Fisher Scientific has over 39,000 employees and serves more than 350,000 customers in pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as well as environmental, industrial quality and process control settings. The company delivers the industry’s broadest selection of analytical instruments, equipment, consumables and laboratory supplies. Its growing portfolio of products includes innovative technologies for mass spectrometry, elemental analysis, molecular spectroscopy, sample preparation, informatics, fine and high-purity chemistry production, cell culture, RNA interference analysis and immunodiagnostic testing, as well as air and water quality monitoring and process control. The company also gives its customers the most convenient purchasing options, including a direct sales force of 7,500 professionals, catalogs and e-commerce.
