ENGAGING WITH OUR INDUSTRY - EDUCATION + TRAINING
RESILIENT DESIGN, SUSTAINABILITY, PRODUCT TRANSPARENCY + CERTIFICATIONS
Valerie Walsh, LEED AP BD+C, O+M, Principal of the Walsh Sustainability Group is a featured speaker at national conferences, educational events, and corporate training sessions delivering high-level presentations to building industry professionals on resilient design, sustainability, and product transparency.
Resilient Design Presentations + Trainings
- Resilient Design Charrette: Applying the LEED Pilot Credits, Greenbuild International Conference
- Climate Resilient Buildings: The Cost of Ignoring the Risks, AIA Collaborative Research Summit
- The Resilience Imperative, Keynote, Rocky Mountain Green Conference and Expo
- Resilient Buildings: Design for Change, GAF Resilient Design Forum Workshop
- Professional Risk and the Business Case for Resilience, AIA Resilience and Adaptation Online Series
- The Resilience-Sustainability Nexus: Complexity and Contradiction, Colorado Green Schools Summit
- Resilient Buildings: Design for Change, Greenbuild International Conference: Expo Educational Lab
- Resiliency -- Planning for a Changing World, ICSC Retail Green Conference and Sustainability Show
Sustainable Building Certifications + Rating Systems
- LEED Retail Pilot: Wild Oats Markets Case Study, Boulder County's Green Building Conference
- Road Map to LEED Certification Toolkit: Project Team Workbooks
- LEED Historic Preservation Case Study Villagra Building, AIA New Mexico State Conference, USGBC Colorado Chapter, USGBC New Mexico Chapter
- LEED v3, USGBC Colorado Chapter
- The New LEED v3: What Changes Bring for Building Professionals and Your LEED Projects, Boulder Green Building Guild
- Materials and Resources Implementation Panelist: Rocky Mountain Green, USGBC Colorado Chapter
Publications, Reports + Articles
- How-To Guild to LEED Certification, Author of first LEED project management book including resource directory and early LEED Case Study; Clean Energy Education Grant Award.
- What Architects Need to Know About Hazard and Climate Risk, AIA National Newsletter
- Top-Ten Tips for First Time LEED Teams
- USGBC Roadmap to Sustainable Government Buildings, Contributor
- LEED and the Architect: How LEED Is Transforming the Marketplace and Their Practice
- LEED and the Architect: LEED 101 and Becoming a LEED AP
- LEED and the Architect: Getting Your Share of the Marketplace
- LEED SPEC-IFIC: Tips for Writing and Implementing LEED Specs, ARCHITECT Magazine
- Writing Solid Specs for LEED Projects, Hanley Wood University/Education@USGBC online course
- The Architects Role on a LEED Project, Hanley Wood University/Education@USGBC online course
- LEED Interpretations and Addenda: How To Navigate and Apply Them, Hanley Wood University/Education@USGBC online course
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