Green Home Retrofit for Energy Performance and Moisture Control
10am - 11:30am, Friday, October 15th, 2010
Grange Audubon Center, 505 W. Whittier St., Columbus, OH 43215
This workshop will inform the attendees on simple interventions that decrease the cost of space conditioning - heating and cooling. Increasing building tightness may reduce indoor air quality and so the presenter will discuss the importance of controlling air flow and assessing moisture conditions when insulating walls, basements and attics.
Presenter: Nathan Yost
Life Cycle Costing for Green Projects
Webinar - register for the event to receive a web link to connect online from anywhere!
11:30am - 1:00pm, Monday, October 25th, 2010
The webinar will walk the attendee through the convention for calculating Life Cycle Costs to evaluate the economic perfrmance of building investments through Present Value, adjusted Internal Rate of Return factors with an example of the LCC costs of competing HVAC systems.
Presenter: Robert Charrette
Daylight Modeling with Daysim
8am - 1pm, Friday, October 29th, 2010
International Room, OSU 4H Center, Building 191
2201 Fred Taylor Dr., Columbus, Ohio
This hands-on workshop requires attendees to bring their own laptop (and surge protector). The presenters will discuss the Daylighting parameters and to apply one of the foremost Daylight Modeling Tool in buildng design.
Presenters: Umesh Atre and Ratnalee Patil, Mike Niklaus & Associates
Integrating Daysim into eQuest
2pm - 4pm, Friday, October 29th, 2010
International Room, OSU 4H Center, Building 191
2201 Fred Taylor Dr., Columbus, Ohio
This hands-on workshop requires attendees to bring their own laptop (and surge protector). It is strongly recommended that attendees attend the morning session on Daysim, daylight modeling class or have prior knowledge of Daysim. eQuest is a foremost energy modeling tool that is used in most high performance green buildings and also LEED certified projects. The workshop will inform the attendee on how to transfer the data from Daysim modeling into eQuest to calculate Daylighting savings in the energy modeling.
Presenters: Umesh Atre and Ratnalee Patil, Mike Niklaus & Associates
GREEN MATERIAL AND PRODUCT SELECTION
On Sept. 28, CGBF was proud to bring
Nationally Renowned Green Expert,
Nadav Malin, to Columbus.
Topics covered:
• Selecting Green Materials and Products for Commercial and Residential Projects;
• The Life Cycle Impact or "Costs" of Building Materials
• Latest Developments in Building Materials and their Pros & Cons
• The Future Trend for Green Materials
About the Speaker
Nadav Malin is the building industry’s acknowledged go-to resource when you need thoughtful perspective on the materials and design solutions that define sustainable building practice.
As president of BuildingGreen, he oversees the company’s industry-leading information and community-building resources, including Environmental Building News, its sister publication GreenSpec, and the project certification help tool LEEDuser. He also lends his technical expertise and vision to McGraw-Hill Construction, serving as executive editor of the award-winning GreenSource magazine.
When the LEED rating system was just starting out, Nadav was tapped to lead its new Materials and Resources Technical Advisory Group, which he chaired throughout LEED’s formative years. A long-serving member of the national LEED Faculty, he is a sought-after speaker for USGBC, AIA, and CSI events, and as a consultant to architecture firms and government agencies alike.
Nadav led the team that created the U.S. Department of Energy’s High Performance Buildings Database, and continues to oversee BuildingGreen’s responsibility for ensuring the quality of case studies and collecting meaningful data on actual building performance.
When he is not facilitating a rich conversation among design professionals, he can often be found chasing a hockey puck or a soccer ball, depending on depending on the season.
8:30 am - 4:30 pm, Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
Nationwide & Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center

view info and presentations from the 2010 Expo

For previous Green Building School classes, see the Green Building School page
Feb. 4, 2010
The Columbus Green Building Forum was
represented on a panel discussion at OSU's Department of Geography
Topic: Columbus Green Scene –
Local Solutions to Global Climate Change
Feb. 4, 2010, 5:00-7:00 P.M. at the Barrister Club.
Questions to be discussed:
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Moisture Management of
Low Energy Houses
(Retrofits & New Builds)
2009 Tour of Lazarus rooftop garden:
The former downtown Lazarus department store has been renovated to Gold LEED standards and is being used as office space for over 2000 workers. One important feature is the rooftop garden and rainwater recycling system.

Intermediate - Advanced eQuest Workshop:
Whole Building Analysis using eQUEST
Instructor: Marlin S. Addison, Principal, M.S. Addison & Associates, Tempe, Arizona, and Clinical Assistant Professor, College of Design, Arizona State University. Mr. Addison is a nationally recognized expert in building energy analysis and eQuest.
Thanks to our sponsors, exhibitors and participants!
2009's Expo was bigger and better than ever!
March 19-20, 2008
Ohio Green Schools Summit
May 16, 2008
Sustainability Now!
A Joint Conference of Simply Living and the Social Responsibility Initiative of the Ohio State University CFAES (College of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Co-hosted by Columbus Green Building Forum.
An action packed conference on living in a more sustainable way and what communities are doing to promote sustainability.
May 16: An Evening with Jim Merkel
May 17: Full Day of Interactive Workshops on Personal and Community Sustainability
For a list of topics and sessions held, click here:
The Central Ohio Youth Summit on the Environment was held concurrently with Sustainability Now! This Summit is for youth interested in the environment and in affecting change in their community.
The LEED-Home project
The LEED-Home project, a design-build partnership between CGBF and a local high school, broke ground in December 2005. The project is currently poised at Gold rating level with a strong potential to be a LEED Platinum! At Platinum it will be only the second home in the country currently at this level.
• Background of project
• Media coverage (past)
• Progress (blog)
• What is LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)?
• LEED initiatives around the country