Texas Green Building Summit shows growing public interest

This last Tuesday, I was attending the  Texas Green Building Summit at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown Dallas. Last years’ event was host to about 700 attendees from all over the DFW Metroplex – Architects, Engineers, Building Officials and people otherwise connected to the green building industry. According to officials, this years’ event had over 1,200 people in attendance. An awesome turnout and a great statement for Dallas. The day started out with a great opening session – speakers were Liz Newman, President of the HBA of greater Dallas, Mayor Tom Leppert, Ralph Hawkins with HKS and my favorite speaker of the day, Steve Mouzon. If you haven’t heard of Steve – check out his website at http://www.originalgreen.org – very inspiring! The following keynote presentations were spread out over several conference rooms, I attended “Energy Improvement for Existing Homes”, which was a full house and later on the “Introduction of the Green Built Texas Existing Homes” program.

This is a great development for Texas – builders and remodelers are now able to get their remodeling projects and energy retrofits certified through the Green Built Texas program. Phil Crone, Director of Green Building Programs for the HBA of Dallas was presenting. I will write a more detailed article on the certification at a later date. The day ended with a closing session by Henning Bloech with Green Guard – also a very inspiring speaker. Btw – you can watch videos of the event on the TexasGreenBuilt YouTube channel. For more information see links below.

http://GreenBuiltTexas.com
http://TexasGreenBuilt.com
http://originalgreen.org

Btw – below is my favorite slide of the day….. The turbo-charged hot water heater