GREEN BUILDINGS TASK FORCE MEETING

 

Date:               Monday, January 12, 2004

Time:              8:00am    Registration

8:30am   Welcome

10:00am    Adjourn

Place:              Brian Cave, LLP, Room 30B

Address:         1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York

                        and simultaneously with audio link at:         

Place:              Environmental Business Association of New York State, Inc.

Address:         126 State St., 3rd fl, Albany, NY

 

On-going discussion of GREEN SCHOOLS INITIATIVE:

New York City and New York State

 

The EBA/NYS Green Buildings Task Force (GBTF) High Performance Schools (HPS) Committee has been organized to encourage and advance green schools projects in New York State.

 

The EBA/NYS GBTF HPS Committee is collaborating with the Healthy Schools Network, Inc. on a Healthy High Performance Schools (HHPS) Initiative to encourage and advance Green School Building Standards in New York State through policy implementation.

 

The HPS Committee will work to increase the number of schools projects that are executed in a manner consistent with healthy high performance standards and to promote legislative, regulatory and administrative actions intended to support and help finance such efforts.

 

AGENDA

Cypress Hills Community School In Brooklyn

An existing factory to be converted to a 450 pupil K-8 public school. The client is a non-profit developer who is building the project under a lease agreement with the New York City Department of Education and the School Construction Authority. An underfloor air conditioning and displacement ventilation system and daylighting controls will be employed in all first through eighth grade classrooms in the school.

 

Speakers:

Joan Byron, Architectural Director, and E. Perry Winston, Senior Architect, Pratt Institute Center for Community & Environmental Development (PICCED)

PICCED is a public interest planning and architectural practice affiliated with Pratt Institute whose professional staff works with organizations based in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods in NYC and throughout the metropolitan region.

 

 

RSVP by fax to (518) 432-1383 or email to "info@eba-nys.org" no later than noon January 9, 2004.  If you have questions, please call us at (518) 432-6400 x224.

 

Very truly yours,

 

Ira S. Rubenstein, Executive Director, EBA/NYS

Catherine Shawn, Chair, EBA/NYS Green Buildings Task Force

Robert Licopoli, Coordinator, EBA/NYS Green Buildings Task Force

 

Registration for Green Buildings Task Force Meeting January 12, 2004;

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Bios

Joan Byron oversees PICCED’s technical assistance to community-based organizations, and directs PICCED initiatives addressing issues of social and environmental justice, and sustainable community development. Her current and recent work includes supporting a citywide, community-led effort to construct space for new, small public schools; participating in a statewide coalition which drafted comprehensive Brownfields legislation for New York State, and supporting a consortium of South Bronx-based organizations in planning and implementing a revitalization effort that includes reclaiming the lower Bronx River, and converting a 1.25-mile interstate highway into a waterfront park.

                       

Ms. Byron also manages PICCED’s nonprofit architectural practice, the Pratt Planning and Architectural Collaborative (PPAC). With a full time staff of eight, PPAC serves grassroots organizations developing low-income and special needs housing, schools, day care, health care, and community facilities.  PPAC's annual volume of fee-for-service work has averaged over $700,000 per year since 1989, with a total construction value of over $80 million.  Grants and technical assistance contracts enable PPAC to undertake additional pro-bono and advocacy work for community-based clients, including the development of new physical and programmatic responses to community problems.

 

Ms. Byron first worked at PICCED as an architecture student in the late 1970s. Prior to returning to PICCED in 1989, she worked in private architectural practice, and for the State of New York, where she managed a technical staff for the State’s Homeless Housing Assistance Program. Ms. Byron is a registered architect, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hofstra University. She has taught in Pratt Institute’s undergraduate architecture program, and in its Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment. 

 

Perry Winston has a B.A. from Harvard University (’67) and an M.Arch. from Rice University (’78).  He has been active in architecture since 1978, combining professional design activities with an interest in community development dating from his service with the Peace Corps in Venezuela from 1969-71 and work with a community-run food store in San Francisco in the 70’s.  He worked as staff of the community-based Mission Housing Development Corp. in San Francisco from 1979 to 1986, overseeing the rehabilitation of 48 buildings with 360 units of affordable housing.  After moving to NYC in 1986. he worked for a private architecture firm specializing in low-income housing rehabilitation.  He moved to PICCED in 1990 as Senior Architect, where he has been architect of record for the rehabilitation of 130 residential buildings in NYC and in upstate New York.  In addition, he has worked on school and daycare projects, open space design, and coordinated an interdisciplinary team researching apartment usage for the NYC Housing Authority.  Perry has taught housing design and planning studios at Pratt Institute; international urban design and housing workshops in Germany and Johannesburg, South Africa; and teaches a required course in the M.Arch. program at the Parsons School of Design in Manhattan.  Currently working with neighborhood organizations and community gardeners in East New York, Brooklyn to grow and sell produce at a new Farmers’ Market they created in the neighborhood, just completing its fifth season.  He has co-produced an award-winning documentary film, “Bordersville” about a Houston, TX neighborhood’s efforts to obtain running water, and has published several book reviews in Design Book Review.