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Constructing Green conference, May 20-22, Ann Arbor, MI

  • 1.  Constructing Green conference, May 20-22, Ann Arbor, MI

    Posted 03-05-2010 13:26

    Hello all,

     

    If you are interested in Green Construction, you may wish to sign up as an attendee for the conference listed below.  To register, go to:  http://www.bus.umich.edu/Conferences/ConstructingGreen-AnnArbor2010/ViewConference.aspx.

     

    Keynotes by:

    ·         William Browning (Partner, Terrapin /Bright Green, LLC)

    ·         Monica Ponce de Leone (Dean and Eliel Saarinen Collegiate Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan)

    ·         Jill Lerner (FAIA Principal, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC)

    ·         Scott Caesar (Senior Vice President /Director, Sustainable Design, Cosentini Associates)

     

    Andy

                                                              

    Andrew J. Hoffman
    Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise
    The University of Michigan
    701 Tappan Street, R4472
    Ann Arbor, MI 48109
    Phone: 734.763.9455
    Fax: 734.764.2555
    Email: ajhoff@umich.edu
    Web:     http://www.andrewhoffman.net/ 

    Forthcoming: Builder's Apprentice: A Memoir (Huron River Press, April 2010).
    http://webuser.bus.umich.edu/ajhoff/memoir.html

                                                              

     

    Constructing Green:

    Sustainability and the Places We Inhabit

    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

    May 20 – 22, 2010

     

     

     

     

    "We shape our buildings, and thereafter they shape us."

     

    Winston Churchill's statement highlights the duality of the green building imperative. We all want to live and work in a healthy environment. However, to create healthy environments we must re-examine the principles from which buildings grow. This conference will explore the strategies, relationships, and opportunities inherent in green building, as a technological, industrial, institutional and cultural shift. Our goal is to discuss and encourage the advancement of organizational theories to understand the field and its impacts. 

     

    The built environment creates substantial environmental and economic impacts. Buildings consume 40% of the world's materials, 12% of all freshwater, 40% of the world's energy and 71% of US electricity, produce 40% of US nonindustrial waste, and create 36% of the carbon dioxide emissions that cause climate change. Simultaneously, buildings have a profound impact on human productivity and well-being. We spend more than 90% of our time in buildings, locales that contribute to organizational and employee identity, working arrangements, and quality of workspace. They also function as cultural artifacts imbued with meaning.

    And yet, while buildings garner little attention in organizational research, the norms of practice are in flux. Deciding to build with either "green" or conventional techniques has become a requisite choice in new construction or the renovation of existing structures, particularly on college campuses. As a result, green building has become an emerging opportunity for rich scholarly study. Green building presents a fundamental challenge to centuries-long traditions and routines relied on by the design and construction industry. At the most basic level, architects, contractors, and clients create the minimum triumvirate of the temporary organization from which our buildings emerge. Concerns for environmental sustainability alter the goals, skill sets and political arrangements within this process, thereby altering fundamental meaning associated with our built environment. In this conference, we intend explore a wide range of facets related to the relationship between green building and organizational scholarship.

     

    The conference will be held May 20-22, 2010 and hosted by the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan www.erb.umich.edu in Ann Arbor. We are receptive to a wide range of research perspectives and methodologies. We also invite practitioners of the craft to join the discussion and help us hone and refine our research questions, design and conclusions. This event is open for registration regardless of whether you are submitting a paper for consideration.

     

    PAPER AGENDA:

     

    1. Introduction

    Rebecca Henn and Andrew Hoffman

     

    I.      Enactment of Energy Efficiency

    1.  "Building expertise: A system of professions approach to low-carbon practice"

    Kathryn Janda (Oxford University)

    1. "Energy efficiency in construction – Coordinating controversies"

    Satu Reijonen (Copenhagen Business School)

    1.  "Empowering the inhabitant: Communications technologies, responsive interfaces and living in sustainable buildings"

    Kathy Velikov (University of Michigan)

     

    II.    Organizational Values and Comparative Cases

    1.  "Building up to organizational sustainability"

    Christine Mondor (Carnegie Mellon University)

    1.  "Lessons in the design of sustainable campuses: eBay First Avenue Campus and the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools"

    Joe Valerio and Bob Webber (Valerio Dewalt Train Associates)

    1.  "The nitty-gritty of going green: Lessons from the design process of a Dutch green town hall on niche-regime interaction"

    Ellen van Bueren and Bertien Broekhans (Delft University of Technology)

     

    III.   Organizational Change and Team Processes

    1.  "Becoming a leader in sustainable building: Organizational change and issue framing in a public school district"

    Jennifer Cross, Zinta Byrne and Michelle Lueck (Colorado State University)

    1.  "Collective institutional entrepreneurship in green fields: The creation of the US Green Building Council"

    Rebecca Henn (University of Michigan) and Jeffrey York (University of Virginia)

    1.  "LEED as collaborative planning vs. LEED as public policy"

    Nicholas Rajkovich (University of Michigan) Alison Kwok (University of Oregon), and Larissa Larsen (University of Michigan)

     

    IV.  Social Narratives and Decision-Making

    1.  "Living walls in the built environment"

    Clayton Bartczak and Brian Dunbar (Colorado State University)

    1.  "Constructing Grey in a UNESCO-World Heritage site: Pacing the rise of competing rationalities in organizational fields"

    Olivier Berthod (Freie Universitaet Berlin)

    1.  "Conveying greenness: Sustainable ideals and organizational narratives"

    Beth Duckles (Bucknell University)

     

    V.    Quantitative Determinants of Green Innovation

    1.  "Adoption of green building practice innovations within the US states: The cases of LEED and ENERGY STAR"

    Ann Olsen (Vanderbilt University)

    1.  "Periphery-to-Core: Network perspective of residential green building certification adoption"

    Ruthairat Protpakorn (Penn State University)

    1.  "Building green industries: Socio-cultural determinants of environmental entrepreneurship"

    Jeffrey York and Michael Lenox (University of Virginia)

     

    VI.  Social Dimensions of Economic Valuation Metrics

    1.  "Innovations for mutual benefit: The business case for greening the built environment"

    Ronald Fry and Garima Sharma (Case Western Reserve University)

    1.  "Balancing real estate valuation and operating performance: A panel study of sustainable development in the hospitality industry"

    Nitin Joglekar (Boston University) Rohit Verma (Cornell University) and Jie Zhang (Boston University)

    1.  "Sustainability and the dynamics of green building"

    Nils Kok (UC Berkeley/Maastricht University) Piet Eichholtz (Maastricht University) and John Quigley (UC Berkeley)