John Boecker and Bill Reed to Present Greenbuild Education Session

7group partner John Boecker and Bill Reed of Integrative Design Collaborative will present the education session Re-Membering: Regenerative Design and the Patterns of Living Systems at this year’s Greenbuild in Toronto, Canada. This session will address the question “What comes next?” by focusing on regenerative design and development.

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Two 7group Projects Achieve LEED Certification

During the second quarter of 2011, the Rainbow Elementary School of the Coatesville Area School District and the King+King Architects Headquarters were awarded LEED certification.

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John Boecker to Guide Second Green Tour of Italy

After the tremendous success of last fall’s Green Tour of Italy, John Boecker of 7group/Umbrella Green Network, Alberto Ballardini of Habitech/GBC Italia, and Lauren Yarmouth of YRG Sustainability will be guiding a second tour this fall. This Sustainability in Ancient and Contemporary Italian Architecture and Culture tour will be sponsored by Habitech and the Umbrella Green Network in collaboration with Viaggi di Architettura, and is designed to provide a current perspective on place, culture, design, food and trends that are the foundations of a sustainable built environment.

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Performance Monitoring Webinar

7group’s Marcus Sheffer will be presenting a USGBC sponsored webinar on “MPR6, Performance Monitoring and BPP”.

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John Boecker to Teach in Yestermorrow’s 2011 Summer Lecture Series

As part of a week-long Regenerative Design course that John Boecker is teaching with Bill Reed and Joel Glanzberg at Yestermorrow (from June 19th through 24th), John will present a free two-hour lecture, Integrative Design: The Key to Cost-Effective Green Building. This lecture will focus on the crucial design shift needed to move from buildings that are simply low impact to designs that are restorative and regenerative.

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