Greening Existing Buildings with Josh Radoff
This 8 hour workshop focuses on how to approach, implement, and optimize for sustainability into your building's ongoing operations and maintenance practices. Content of the course will include best practices and tips "from the trenches" for optimizing systems, processes, and procurement, changing potentially ineffective procedures, and integrating policies and plans into existing procedures in order to enhance the building environment, cut costs and increase resource efficiency.
The training will provide an overview of LEED® for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance (EB:OM), and will highlight opportunities for energy efficiency, water use reduction, waste management, healthy indoor environments, materials and purchasing, integrated pest management and green cleaning. Additionally, the training will cover various benchmarking, measurement and tracking tools to monitor and compare your building's performance and improvements. The training will also present case studies and includes interactive sessions to allow participants to work through and fully engage in the course material.
About Josh Radoff
Josh is co-founder and Principal of YRG sustainability. He has a background in sustainable energy engineering and works at the intersection of the energy, climate, and green building fields. Josh is a regular speaker on sustainability issues and the LEED® rating systems and has consulted on hundreds of sustainability projects for both public and private sector clients, nationally and internationally.
Josh has led a variety of sustainable development projects, through strategic guidance, charrette facilitation, design assistance, and technical analysis, with projects ranging from schools to office towers, affordable housing to retail, and new cities and mixed use neighborhoods. His projects have utilized and pursued certification across nearly all of the LEED® rating systems.
Josh was one of the founding directors of GreenHomeNYC, a resource and advocacy group for green building in New York City, and is currently a board member of the Colorado Chapter of the USGBC. He holds Masters' degrees in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and Columbia University in New York.
Principal Topics Included in the Course
The principal topics include:
- Best practices / Approach to greening existing buildings
- Energy efficiency and performance
- Water use reduction and performance
- Materials and purchasing
- Waste management
- Cleaning
- Healthy indoor environments
- Measurement / Tracking performance
- LEED® EB:OM
- Case studies and lessons learned