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Username
Blake Jackson
Proposer First Name
Blake
Proposer Email
blake.jackson@stantec.com
Proposer Last Name
Jackson
Proposer Company/Organization
Stantec
Proposer Phone
(706) 280-3957
Boston 2022 Areas of Focus
Proposer Job Title
US Northeast Sustainability Design Leader
Proposer Additional Info
I hold the following credentials: AIA, NCARB, LEED Fellow, WELL Faculty, CPHC, EcoDistricts AP, Fitwel Amb.
Proposed Session Description
Third-party rating systems exist to promote efficiency and evidence-based approaches, and at no time in history has this been more necessary that today. With both a climate crisis unfolding and our civilization bouncing back from a global pandemic, health, safety, and welfare has never been more front and center on the public stage, and the built environment has never been more at a point at which it needed to, and was able to, confront these issues head on. In response to COVID-19, leading organizations like the USGBC, IWBI, and the Center for Active Design, leveraged their program offerings (LEED, WELL, and Fitwel) to promote strategies that building projects/facilities managers could leverage to respond to current and future pandemic crisis. This presentation will look at/compare each of these programs and discuss the implications for the built environment moving into the the future, as we emerge from this crisis and return to cities and civic life.
Diversity and Inclusiveness
not directly, but it's inclusive in the sense that it affects potentially all people which inhabit any areas with the built environment
Learning Objectives
Participants will learn about evidence-based design approaches that support operational responses to COVID-19, and future pandemics, as purported by leading health-focused third-party rating systems (WELL and Fitwel).
Participants will learn how LEED, the world's most widely utilized, holistic 3rd-party rating system for sustainability is leveraging evidence-based design approaches to support sustainability and health outcomes in the built environment.
Participants will explore how leading 3rd-party systems for holistic sustainability and wellbeing (LEED, WELL, and Fitwel) are unique/overlap to promote sustainability and wellbeing as an outcome in response to COVID-19 (and future similar events).
Participants will learn why building operations are crucial in the planning for ongoing health and wellbeing outcomes in buildings/the built environment.
Has this session been presented before?
Yes
When and Where?
ISSA 2021 (Las Vegas), AIA CT 2021 (Uncasville, CT), and Healthy Cities Design International 2021 (London, UK)
Additional Comments
n/a
Session Format
Presentation followed by facilitated discussion or breakout groups
Session Format Details
Structured pauses within a traditional style presentation offer lots of opportunities for participant engagement and dialogue.
Recommended Length
60-minute session
30-minute session
Comments about your speaker roster
n/a
Anything else you'd like to tell us about your session proposal?
n/a
Reviewer 1
Baumann, Lauren
Proposal #
106
Committee Decision
Rejected
Presenters
Full Description
The session is relevant as we attempt to re-enter cities/buildings, specifically how their design, construction and operations regain trust, during and after a pandemic, to re-enter them. It provides guidelines for how new and existing buildings can leverage major 3rd-party rating systems and evidence-based approaches (LEED, WELL, and Fitwel) to achieve measurable/on-going engagement around this important topic to improve indoor air and water quality, user experience, and marketability through interdisciplinary collaboration, measurement and verification, policies, actionable strategies, and occupant engagement.