Green Buildings: New Construction and Existing Buildings

10:00 am - 11:00am

East Madrone (4th Floor)

Building use accounts for a large amount of resource usage and pollution. Learn how buildings are being built, operated, and maintained to have smaller environmental impact.

Speakers:

Judy Chess

Judy Chess is the Assistant Director for Green Building Programs for UC Berkeley Capital Projects, where she has worked since 1988 in capital development areas including master planning, CEQA compliance, disabled access, emergency preparedness, and historic preservation for campus structures.  She now specializes in developing implementation practices to meet campus green building and energy conservation goals.  A former co-chair of the Berkeley Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Sustainability, Ms. Chess is a LEED Accredited Professional and has been most recently working with the campus’s Cal Climate Action Partnership, an initiative to inventory and reduce UC Berkeley’s greenhouse gas emissions. 

Lindsey Sanders

Lindsey Sanders is a second year Environmental Science major at UC Berkeley.  For the past semester, Lindsey has been working in University Hall as the Class Building Leader through the “Building Sustainability at Cal” ES 84 participatory action course.  She is also the Coordinator for the Overflyeration Partnership, a group working in Wheeler Hall to reduce the paper waste created by excessive flyering.  Last year Lindsey served as the Unit Residential Sustainability Education Coordinator (URSEC) for Clark Kerr, educating her peers about living green in the dorms. 

Participating in the ES 84 class this semester has sparked Lindsey’s interest in Green Buildings.  She hopes to pursue this subject further as she continues her education at Cal.

On the weekends, Lindsey works as a Student Aide in the Tilden Nature Area—an East Bay Regional Park located in the Berkeley Hills.  Here she enjoys exploring pond creatures with children and making friends with the local squirrels, who are always trying to steal her peanut butter sandwiches.