VFA Webinar
Sustainability Smarts: Developing Your Green Plan
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 webinar, you’ll learn how other organizations are integrating sustainability objectives into their capital projects and implementing processes to generate capital budgets that incorporate green priorities.
What You’ll Learn
Proven strategies for:
- Ways to evaluate sustainability opportunities in existing buildings
- How to determine a green baseline
- Strategies to prioritize sustainability investments based on costs and estimated operational impact
- Techniques to effectively integrate sustainability programs into the capital planning process
- Strategies to help you focus your organization’s “green” dollars where they will have the greatest impact.
Who Should Attend?
Professionals responsible for:
- Facilities Management/Physical Plant/Engineering
- Capital Planning/Capital Budgeting
- Sustainability/Energy Management/Operations
Speakers
Susan Buchanan, Project Manager, VFA, Inc.
Susan Buchanan has 25 years of experience in construction and project management, including extensive expertise in alternative construction methods and sustainable systems design. She has worked on green projects around the globe, ranging from the renovation of a historic Victorian factory building in London to development of alternative building materials used in a population resettlement project in Africa. Susan currently serves as Project Manager at VFA, Inc., where she has been instrumental in the development of methodologies for assessing the sustainability of existing buildings. She is a member of the Boston Chapter of the International Facility Management Association.
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