ILFI will be attending USGBC’s 2019 Greenbuild International Conference & Expo this November 19-22 in Atlanta, Georgia. Greenbuild’s annual event for green building professionals focuses on finding new solutions to improve resilience, sustainability, and quality of life in buildings, cities, and communities. This year’s event will feature a Wednesday Keynote Address from the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, and celebrate the deliberate voice that women bring to the green building movement at the Women in Green Power Luncheon.

ILFI will host two sessions at the Expo, as well as several additional shoulder events. At the Georgia World Conference Center ILFI will be hosting Changing Hearts and Minds, One Biophilic Project at a Time, a session that illuminates the ability of biophilic design to create environments that elevate the human experience of well-being and connectivity to nature while offering economic and social value. 

ILFI will also host the session, Innovative Campus-Scale Solutions for Watershed Health, focused on responsible water management in campus-scale developments. Sponsored by GAF and moderated by ILFI’s VP of Living Buildings Kathleen Smith, the panel will feature design representatives from Microsoft, Google, and Burwood Brickworks.

In addition to conference events, ILFI will host four exciting shoulder events during the week of Greenbuild. Located at the Interface Headquarters in Atlanta, the Zero Carbon | Building + Materials Summit will take place on Tuesday, November 19 and discuss how decarbonizing efforts in the building industry can be strategically scaled up to reduce and offset operational and embodied carbon. 

Simultaneously, EMERGE Leadership: Growing Sustainability Leaders with a Focus on Equity will take place at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s brand new Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design. EMERGE will introduce sustainability practitioners to frameworks that bring equity into the foundation of their work and will feature the NAACP Environment and Climate Justice Program and Georgia Tech’s Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain.

Later that Tuesday afternoon, join us for the Living Building Challenge 4.0 Workshop to learn about the latest holistic approach to high-performance building that addresses health, community, equity, energy, water, and beyond.

Finally, Wednesday evening (November 20) showcases the third annual Stephen R. Kellert Biophilic Design Award, sponsored by Interface, where attendees will celebrate the premier selection of biophilic design projects from around the world. The award honors the late scholar and Yale University social ecologist Stephen R. Kellert’s legacy in articulating and applying biophilic design principles to the built environment. The selection of projects represents architecture and interiors, as well as community and urban-scale projects. Finalists were selected by a jury of industry experts and the winning projects will be announced at the event. 

Be sure to stop by our booth (#1310) and join us for our shoulder events—you won’t want to miss out! See you in Atlanta!

Image: Friends & Family Event at the Kendeda Building, courtesy of Justin Chan Photography.

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Natalie Quek