VFA Webinar
Integrating Sustainability into Your Capital Planning Process
Organizations are looking for ways to evaluate the sustainability of their current operations, reduce their environmental impact and promote a healthier built environment.
In this presentation, you’ll learn approaches for evaluating sustainability opportunities in your existing building portfolio. We’ll describe a strategy for prioritizing sustainability improvements in the in the context of overall capital needs, allowing you to focus “green” dollars where they will have the greatest impact. Through case studies, you’ll hear how organizations such as yours are creating more sustainable facilities as part of their ongoing capital planning process.
What You’ll Learn
Proven strategies for:
- Frameworks for evaluating sustainability in existing buildings – LEED, Guiding Principles for High Performance Sustainable Buildings, and beyond
- The basics for establishing resource consumption baselines for improvement
- Approaches to identifying and quantifying potential sustainability improvements
- A method for prioritizing sustainability investments in the context of other capital priorities
Who Should Attend?
- Directors/VPs of: Capital Planning, Capital Budgeting
- Directors/VPs of: Facility Management, Project Management
- Executives responsible for Sustainability/Energy Management
Speakers
Susan Buchanan, Project Director, LEED AP, VFA, Inc.
Susan Buchanan is Project Director at VFA, where she oversees the delivery of Green Building Assessments and other sustainability solutions for clients. She has 30 years of experience in construction and project management, including extensive expertise in alternative construction methods and sustainable systems design. Susan has worked on green projects around the globe, ranging from the renovation of a historic Victorian factory building in London to the development of alternative building materials and methods used in a population resettlement project in West Africa. At VFA, Susan has been instrumental in the development of methodologies for assessing the sustainability of existing buildings. She is a LEED AP and member of the Boston Chapter of the International Facility Management Association.
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