Green Your School Workshop: Take your energy and sustainability programs to the next level

Green Your School Workshop: Take your energy and sustainability programs to the next level

Friday, 06/07/2013 - 11:00am - 2:00pm (Lunch included)

Corbett, Inc. 56 Buttonwood St., Norristown, PA 19401

FREE! REGISTER HERE

Program follows a meeting of the Delaware Valley School Facilities Manager Association at the same venue.

Program:

Session 1: Funding Resources for Energy Projects

• Review of PECO's Phase 2 Act 129 Program
• Steve Saile, Supervisor of Facilities, Abington School District
• Yvette Brown, Executive VP, Clean Market, PECO
• Performance Contracting: A New Look
• Steve Saile, Supervisor of Facilities, Abington School District
• Bruce Stultz, Director of Energy Management Services, Whitman Company

Lunch Keynote: "The Energy in Schools:  Hidden in Plain View"
Robert Diemer, PE, Founding Partner, In Posse LLC, will talk about lessons learned from designing net zero energy schools and in particular the lesson that the most impactful way to reduce energy use in schools is not by installing new technology but rather, by changing the way people think about energy.

Michael Pavelsky, Director of Sustainability at The Sheward Partnership will speak briefly about other Federal and State level funding opportunities for school energy efficiency projects. He will cover Act 179D of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and Pennsylvania's new funding for the High Performance Buildings and Alternative Clean Energy programs.

Session 2: Using Student Engagement to Energize Resource Conservation Programs

• Energy Conservation, Recycling, Composting and Meadow/Stormwater programs
• Tom Schneider, Manager of Energy and Operational Efficiencies, North Penn School District
• Surprise visit from student representatives

Moderated by: Paul Spiegel, President, Practical Energy Solutions

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