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Shifting Into The Mainstream Summit

The inaugural National Summit will be the largest indoor green building event in Canada and will be zero-waste! This historic event will bring together the entire green building industry, with some 100 delegates, 150 exhibitors, and over 50 speakers from all across Canada. Speakers include Dr. David Suzuki and Premier Campbell.Shifting Into the Mainstream is where building industry decision makers will learn about how LEEDÂ® Canada is evolving from one-time certification to a life-cycle building performance management system for any type of building, new and existing.

LEEDÂ® Canada for Existing Buildings will be launched in 2009 and offer online assessment, action planning and performance verification as well as a certification process that is fast, economical and easy to access. This further development of LEED in Canada will allow for the massive scaling up necessary to meet the CaGBC goal of 100,000 buildings and 1 million homes certified by 2015, with 50% reduction in energy and water use, and 50 Megatonnes of GHG emission reductions.

Delegates will get first-hand reports from the national pilot projects involving K-12 schools, commercial offices and public administration buildings. This is the first round of pilots conducted with industry to test and enhance the new LEED rating system and the distributed delivery model, and will be followed over the next three years by similar projects to address all major building types.

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