South Carolina Chapter, U.S. Green Building Council

LEED® For Historic Structures

Tuesday, May 27, 2008: 8:00am - noon

Charleston Maritime Center, 10 Wharfside Street, Charleston, SC 29401

Charleston, South Carolina, one of America’s most historic cities and home to more than 3000 historic structures will be the site of this half day seminar on how to implement the LEED® High Performance Rating System into Historic preservation, restoration and adaptive re-use projects.

Learning objectives for the seminar will be:

Describe LEED® Certification Standards that may be applied to Historic Structures.
Identify ways to apply green building practices to historic rehabilitation projects within the LEED® framework
Discuss elements of sustainable design in historic preservation that are not identified by LEED® and may not be quantifiable.

Following the morning session, after lunch from 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM, for those interested, a detailed tour of the historic Charleston City Hall which has recently undergone a major restoration and includes many sustainable features such as a new geothermal heat pump HVAC system and use of upgraded fluorescent lighting will be given.

The Sustainability Institute Introduces Green Building Directory

A one of a kind innovation for South Carolina, a new service that illustrates the growing green building industry throughout the state is here. On March 7, the non-profit, North Charleston-based Sustainability Institute began accepting entries for the South Carolina Green Building Directory. This is the first online resource of its type in the state allowing instant access to information on sustainable products and services. The directory will be fully operational in April, and is available free of charge to businesses and non-profit organizations who register with the site.

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Upcoming Events

Kids Day Columbia

May 23 - 24, 2008

Finlay Park, Columbia, SC

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Building Sustainable Communities for the 21st Century

Charleston, South Carolina

August 12-14, 2008

The Southeast Watershed Forum is working with NOAA’s Coastal Services Center, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Gulf of Mexico Program, TVA, and other organizations on plans for the first Regional Quality Growth conference: Building Sustainable Communities for the 21st Century.

The conference will highlight resource protection programs and management strategies to ensure more sustainable communities in a time of unprecedented growth and development pressures, diminished water availability, and threats from climate change. Local case studies and presentations will focus on the following categories: 1) Building Greener Communities, 2) Saving Habitat, Farmland, Green Infrastructure, and Community Character, and 3) Designing Resilient Communities.

The program offers an opportunity to showcase regional leadership on issues that will dramatically affect the viability and natural resource base of southeastern communities. This conference is ideal for developers, land use planners, natural resource managers, elected officials, land trusts, watershed groups, universities, and local, state, and federal agencies to learn about wiser land use and development strategies for the region. For more information, visit http://www.southeastwaterforum.org.