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The green building movement has made amazing progress in this region and the country in the last decade. In 2001, green building leaders in the Delaware Valley were helping to implement the first version of the LEED standard. Our regional leaders founded the Delaware Valley Building Council and the U.S. Green Building Council to help the in-dustry grow and develop.

Timeline2001

Delaware Valley Green Building Council founded

2002

DVGBC has 20 members and its first executive director

2003

First LEED-certified building (in Delaware) in the Delaware Valley

2005

DVGBC has 225 memBers

2006

First LEED Platinum (Liberty Property Trust’s One Crescent

Drive at The Navy Yard)

2007

DVGBC hosts first Student Design Competition with Project H.O.M.E.

2008

DVGBC has 1,004 memBers

2009

DVGBC has five staff members and is one of the five largest chapters

of the U.S. Green Building Council

2010

Philadelphia is chosen for a $120 million investment in

energy efficiency research for existing commercial buildings — the Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster is housed at The Navy Yard

2011

Kensington CAPA School, the first LEED Platinum public high school

in the nation; the first LEED Platinum rowhouse in Philadelphia

Our region is now home to 103 LEED-certified buildings, including several hospitals and 10 schools. In addition to the LEED buildings, there are 250 buildings using Energy Star Portfolio Manager, and implementing green projects such as green roofs, solar installations or geothermal wells.

This year, in Philadelphia alone, the green building industry will bring in more than $1 bil-lion in revenues. DVGBC has shaped and led this progress—connecting and educating green building leaders and practitioners, providing practical expertise and experience. Through our education programs and tools, such as our green contractor database and green project directory, we are developing and supporting an integrated industry and network of leaders. By helping to write green specifications for the local Habitat for Humanity chapter, developing the Philadelphia School District’s leadership in LEED projects, supporting Mayor Michael Nutter and Philadelphia City Council in pass-ing green building and cool roof legislation, and creating sustainability language for capital project Requests for Proposals, DVGBC and its members are helping to drive the market for sustainable development.

In 10 years, we’ve grown from an all-vol-unteer working board, to a full-time staff of five, and membership nearing 1,000, in four branches that extend from the Lehigh Valley into Delaware. Our most active volunteers together contribute about 20,000 total hours each year to advancing our shared mission. DVGBC’s members include a broadening spectrum of the green building industry—design professionals, contractors and developers, energy efficiency experts, green product manufacturers (win-dows, building automation systems, flooring and lighting companies), and a growing group of financial services and insurance leaders. Our newest audiences are school teachers and ad-ministrators and health care practitioners.

So, what’s next for our movement? The DVGBC’s new vision, “green buildings for all,” has us focusing our work in four areas:

Greenbuild 2013 in PhiladelphiaThe annual international green building confer-ence will bring more than 30,000 green building leaders to Philadelphia in fall 2013. As the host chapter, DVGBC will be responsible for vol-unteers, offsite education and tours, a legacy project, and engagement with regional industry leaders and decision-makers. The choice of Phil-adelphia reflects a recognition of the long-term “green” leadership at DVGBC and our regional decision-makers and industry leaders.

Public Policy & AdvocacyDVGBC will provide expertise to decision-makers to initiate policies that encourage green building practices. Our staff and members will advocate for progressive policy reforms. The areas where DVGBC sees immediate divi-dends are in energy disclosure, higher rates of construction and demolition waste recycling, increased rates of conservation and graywater recycling, new green building standards for state-owned buildings, and adoption of the new ICC and IGCC codes.

Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster (GPIC)GPIC is a new national hub funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to advance the research, policy, practices and products to spur energy-efficiency adoption in existing commercial buildings. As a partner of GPIC, DVGBC will communicate GPIC’s work to our community, connect practitioners and building owners and operators to the GPIC effort, and support the policy, markets and behavior team.

Green Schools CampaignGreen schools save on average more than $100,000 per year in operating costs, and studies show that students learn better in green schools. Most of the 1,171 schools in DVGBC’s region don’t even measure their energy use and costs, yet energy is the highest school expen-diture after personnel. DVGBC’s green schools campaign will work to help the region’s schools lower operating costs and create healthy learn-ing environments. Learn more and join us at www.dvgbc.org.

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green buildings for all from the executive director

Ten years ago, there was not a distinct “green building industry.” So, as we celebrate DVGBC’s 10th anniversary, I am most inspired by how the industry has grown to encourage sustainable development in full: development that encourages local job creation; works ultimately to restore the natural environment; and builds and sustains our communities. DVGBC’s mission is to support green building practices because we believe that our built environment can improve the health of our planet, our economy and our communities.

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“I’ll tell you how it started,” recalls architect Sandy Wiggins, the godfather of Philly’s green building movement and a current principal at the firm Consilience. “It began with an invitation to anyone who was interested to get together for an evening of discussion about green building.”

As Wiggins remembers it, the invitation was distributed virally, and on that first night, 15 people showed up at Carpenters’ Hall, the site of the First Continental Congress.

“It was a mixed bag of people: architects, a de-veloper, someone from city government, someone from UPenn,” remembers Wiggins. “It was a really amazing evening. … Everyone who showed up was hungry to exchange ideas.”

The next month, a second meeting took place. After three or four months of regular meetings, the 15 or so attendees decided to make their

relationship official. “These 15 people became the board of DVGBC,” says Wiggins, adding that about a half a year later, they’d formed a nonprofit, eventually latching on to the then-fledgling United States Green Building Council.

“In the early days, that handful of people was pretty much the whole community in Philly of folks that were serious about green building,” remem-bers Wiggins. “We were all learning from each other, and about what we could do as an organiza-tion to affect change in Philadelphia.”

The council grew by holding public events, and more people began to show up. From that original core group, the DVGBC has grown into a “very large nonprofit that’s having a regional impact, with a very large community of people,” says Wig-gins. “Obviously it was a good idea.”

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Charlie Tomlinson Charles B. Tomlinson Jr. AIA

Joe Weidle Bedwell Construction

Sandy Wiggins Consilience, LLC

Dan Garafolo University of Pennsylvania

Lorna Rosenberg U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Jeff Hayes Jeff Hayes Architect

Scott Kelly Re:Vision Architecture

Rob Fleming Philadelphia University

Philip Hinerman Fox Rothchild LLP

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Linda Knapp MACREDO/ILSR

George Wilson Meyer Associates Inc.

Jim Lutz Liberty Property Trust

Mark Huxta Mannington

Mark Purcell Nason Construction

David Harrower

Dan Penchin Dick Corporation

Michelle Knapik Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

A Solid Foundationhow the DVGBc started small, then blossomed

Like other influential movements, the Delaware Valley Green Building Council started informally. And like America’s origin story, the seeds of the DVGBC were sown in Carpenters’ Hall.

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Currently, there are 40000 projects, in 50 states and 120 countries, participating in the LEED system, cites USGBC.

Over the past 10 years, membership for the Dela-ware Valley Green Building council has grown from 15 to more than a thousand at its peak, counting it-self as one of the largest and most established chap-ters of the u.S. Green Building council (uSGBc).

the nonprofit supports the lehigh Valley, Bucks and montgomery coun-ties, the metro philadelphia area, as

well as the state of Delaware, and has members of all different skill levels—ranging from students to veteran professionals. Joining DVGBc is an easy way for community members to meet and form partnerships, promote projects, and access

educational resources. individuals are encouraged to join, even if their companies are already uSGBc members. other membership benefits include a searchable profile on the DVGBc website, dis-counts and invitations to events, and the chance to develop green building programming through com-mittee membership and advocacy work. to join, visit dvgbc.org/get_involved/membership

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Collin O’Mara’s first two years as the secretary of energy and the environment have given the state of Delaware some serious sustainability bragging rights. Thanks to its youngest appointed cabinet member (he was appointed in 2009 when he was 29 years old), the state now supports green building and energy efficiency programs, the first statewide curbside recycling pick-up service and legislation promoting green jobs. And that’s just the beginning. O’Mara, who is also a LEED-accredited professional, came to Delaware from San Jose, Calif., where he lead the city’s Green Vision project and a citywide green economic development initiative. GRID spoke with O’Mara about his decision to come to Delaware, the benefits of being a small state and how being young has become an asset.

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GRID: Why did you decide to come to Delaware? Collin O’Mara: In transforming our economy and addressing the climate crisis, it’s really about working on a national solution. … In Delaware, I was fortunate to meet Gov. Jack Markell, who is a very innovative thinker; [he] understands the economics of the environment in a way I think very few politicians do. So, when he offered me the opportunity to come and try to put in place

many of the policies I feel are going to be neces-sary to rebuild our economy as well as address the underlying environmental challenges, it was a really great opportunity.

How does Delaware’s size impact your work? Being a small state where you can get things done very quickly, we’ve been able to attract some of the leading clean tech companies in the world to manufacture in Delaware. We’ve been

able to have deeper renewable energy penetra-tion in the last couple of years than nearly any other state in the country. These are efforts that are important locally, but also show that we can make community progress in a short amount of time nationally, if we have the right set of policies and the right commitment of leaders.

What project or success in Delaware are you particularly proud of or excited about?I was extremely proud of the leadership the Gov-ernor provided… to bring the statewide recycling program to Delaware. It’s a program that requires the hauler to actually provide recycling services at the curb for every single household in the state. And it’s one of the first programs of its kind.

[…] We’ve also done a lot of work on green building and efficiency work for existing buildings. There was a federal program that was debated a few years ago that was never passed called Home Star. The goal was to do massive retrofits of ex-

isting homes. We actually decided not to wait for the feds and implement the program. We’ve had more than 4,000 homes have very deep retrofits already.

That may not seem like a big number, but that’s more than almost 2 percent of the total houses in Delaware. We had another million CFLs that have gone out, and we’ve had tens of thousands of appliances. So, we’ve really been trying to make smart investments.

And we’ve launched an innovative program from the Green Building Council for the construc-tion of new homes where we actually provide a rebate, a grant at closing, so a lot of folks can bor-row less to [pay for green improvements]. Even though there are lots of operating cost benefits, a lot of folks can’t afford to take out an extra couple thousand dollars.

A good amount of press attention has been put on you being so young. How has your age impacted your work?In many ways, the climate crisis is going to be one of the most significant challenges, if not the most significant challenge facing my generation. So, I think I’ve been able to bring a slightly longer-term perspective to some of these issues…. I actually think that my age is an asset in many ways be-cause I’m not necessarily locked into some of the older battles and the traditional dichotomy of us-them: business versus environment.

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Go With the FlowThe Philadelphia Water Department’s Green city, clean waters plan gushes with possibilities by liz pacheco

When Philadelphia received a mandate from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1997 to improve its combined sewer system, the initial solution wasn’t so great. The plan called for replacing old pipes, building more tunnels—using manmade constructions to better handle stormwater. Streets would be dug up, improvements would be made mostly underground and waterway restoration would take a long time. And renovations were expensive.

Residents couldn’t see, nor really appreciate the improvements, says Joanne Dahme, PWD’s manager of public affairs. And “they might not have gotten the total investment they deserve.”

A better plan was needed. For old American cities like Philadelphia, the combined sewer sys-tem is a common problem. In combined systems, stormwater and sewage flow together in a single pipe; during heavy rains or snowmelts, the system can be overwhelmed, resulting in flooding and waterway pollution.

Faced with an aging sewer system and an EPA mandate, the PWD went for a new approach: Go green.

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The Green City, Clean Waters plan, announced in 2007 and officially approved by the state this summer, pledges to install as many green fea-tures as possible. Over the next 25 years, tools like porous pavement, rain gardens, rain barrels, sidewalk planters and stormwater tree trenches

will help capture and man-age Philadelphia storm-water. The plan is about “adding layers of Mother Nature that once existed [but] that we long [ago] erased,” says Dahme.

Updated wastewater treatment facilities and pipe renewal are also part of the plan, but the hope is that the green features will keep water out of the sewer system altogether. Other benefits of Green City, Clean Waters: Waterways will be more quickly restored, and residents will more readily see and enjoy the improvements.

Even before the state approved the plan this summer, the PWD had been working with pri-vate companies, local organizations and com-munities to implement these green stormwater solutions. The first porous street was built last May in Queen Village on South Percy Street, and rain gardens and stormwater planters have been popping up all over the city. To keep track, the PWD has created a Big Green Map Tool, which conveniently shows all green water projects in the city.

“We believe [Green City, Clean Waters] is the best public investment,” says Dahme. “For every dollar invested is a dollar gained in com-munity investment to make a better city to live, work and play.”

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There Is a Light That Sometimes Goes Outlutron has been making cutting-edge, energy-saving light switches for 50 years by ariela rose

In 1959, a light bulb illuminated, perhaps gradually, in Brooklyn native Joel Spira’s head. His proverbial bright idea was for a switch that would allow

people to vary the intensity of their lighting, and at long last, he’d done it. À la Thomas Edison, Spira emerged from the spare

bedroom-turned-makeshift lab in his home with a solid-state rotary dimmer. In 1961, inspired by his innovation, he founded Lutron Electronics, a lighting company with

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The company accomplishes this with more than 15,000 energy-saving prod-ucts, which combined save American customers $1 billion in utility costs each year. For instance, consumers can use dimmers to raise and lower light intensity, while devices with occupancy and daylight sensors either dim or switch off un-necessary lighting. The concept is simple, but ingenious: Lutron’s products help customers use only the light they need, and only when they need it.

Just as the products demonstrate intrinsic environmental awareness, so too do Lutron’s business operations, which include three LEED-certified offices, ardent recycling and conservation practices, and an unexpected Asian pear farm operation. (Enchanted by the fruit on a 1973 business trip, Spira later founded Subarashii Kudamono orchard in nearby Coopersburg.)

“As a company, Lutron was founded on a belief in taking care of the customers, employees and the community,” explains Smith. “This commitment extends to Lutron’s belief in acting as a steward of the local environment.”

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The Annual Green Building Celebration, held at the Waterworks Restaurant in Philadelphia, draws more than 400 green building entrepreneurs, policy leaders and practitioners from across the green building spectrum. The event spotlights regional companies and organizations instrumental in imple-menting sustainable practices in the Delaware Valley, our 2011 leadership award presentation, and our 10th anniversary!

Thu., Sept. 22, → 6:30–9 p.m., the Water Works Restaurant & Lounge, 640 Water Works Drive. For more information and to register, visit dvgbc.org/green-building-celebration

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The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is no stranger to innovation. Consider it’s new EcoCHOP initiative, which aims to implement responsible practices—from recycling, building and purchasing, to more healthcare-specific areas—that ultimately care for the health of the environment.

“The healthcare industry is among the most wasteful on earth,” explains Tyler Weaver, who heads the EcoCHOP program. “It’s our duty to change how waste is perceived, from being a costly burden to an opportunity and a commodity. The majority of waste gener-ated is able to be reused or recycled in some way, so we’d rather work towards that and take responsibility for our environment, being that we’re a healthcare facility.”

One way that EcoCHOP hopes to reduce healthcare waste is through educating employees on the proper disposal of “red-bag”—or biohazard—waste. This is done via “red-bag audits,” hands-on training during which red-bag waste is sorted in front of employees to show which of its contents are trash, and which could actually have been recycled. According to Weaver, techniques like this have led to a 70 percent reduction in regulated medical waste, and a hospital-wide recycling rate of 49 percent.

“I want recycling to be an enjoyable part of everyone’s life and something that trans-fers to future generations,” says Weaver, an ardent anti-waste advocate (and author of the GRID column “Tyler Talks Trash”). “It’s the best feeling when employees tell you about a new recycling initiative they’re trying at home with their kids, or how they would have trashed something but then found another use for it.”

Along with statistical successes, EcoCHOP has also led to the construction of the Colket Translational Research Building (CTRB), a LEED-certified laboratory that is an impressive display of the hospital’s commitment to environmental stewardship. The

building was designed by local architecture firm Ballinger, which worked to seamlessly integrate the building’s green elements.

“Designing the most energy-efficient building feasible was the single most significant green building goal for the CTRB,” explains Zoe Sanderson, marketing director at Ballinger. “Research buildings and hos-pitals, by their nature, require substantial energy resources to operate.”

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