Circularity in the Built Environment - February 8, 2018

Join us Thursday, February 8, 6:30-8:30pm, at Häfele Showroom in Manhattan for the Circular Economy Network’s (CEN) 2018 kick-off event! We’ll hear from three New York based thought leaders about their work in creating a more circular built environment:

• Catherine Bobenhausen, Certified Industrial Hygienist and Senior Consultant, Colden Corporation. Theme: The Circular Economy and Disclosure – Surprising Lessons from the Field
• Marc Gee, Principal at GLUCK+. Theme: Modular Building and How a Design-Build Approach Enables Innovation in the Built Environment
• Tiffany Broyles Yost, Energy, Sustainability & Building Physics Associate at Arup. Theme: Circularity Lab Partnership with Google

The event is open to all experience levels. The speakers will present their vision of a circular economy and the practical implementation of it, after which participants will build on these perspectives in small break out groups.

The CEN aims to convene a multitude of stakeholders to actively engage in discussing solutions to transition towards a more circular, regenerative world. Follow the CEN on Twitter for the latest on our monthly events.

AGENDA

6.20-6.30 pm — Arrival

6:30-7:20 pm — Speaker presentations

7:20-8 pm — Creative workshop

8-8:30 pm — Report backs and Q&A

SPEAKER BIOS

Catherine Bobenhausen, Certified Industrial Hygienist and Senior Consultant, Colden Corporation

Catherine Bobenhausen, Certified Industrial Hygienist and Senior Consultant with the health, safety and environmental firm of Colden Corporation, has delved deeply into the chemical composition of building products. She conducts air monitoring in manufacturing facilities and offices. Catherine consults with architects, sustainability consultants and manufacturers on sustainable design, including LEED, Living Building Challenge and WELL, integrating chemical restrictions, certifications and test protocols, for informed selection of lower impact building products. Through Clean Production Action, Catherine achieved accreditation as an Authorized GreenScreen PractitionerTM for chemical hazard assessments. She has collaborated with Building Product Ecosystems, and serves on the Technical Committee of the Health Product Declaration Collaborative, committed to continuous improvement through transparency, openness and innovation in the product supply chain.

Marc Gee, Principal at GLUCK+

Marc Gee is a principal at GLUCK+, an architecture, construction and development firm in New York City. The practice is committed to crafting bold and conceptually unique architecture, with most work constructed by the firm’s unique Architect Led Design Build (ALDB) approach. Consistently recognized through national and international design awards and publications, GLUCK+ has been featured in Architectural Record’s “The New Master Builders,” by The Architect’s Newspaper with “Inside Architecture’s One-Stop Shop” and named by Fast Company in 2014 as one of “The World’s Top 10 Innovative Companies in Architecture,” ‘for taking control of the entire building process.’ Mr. Gee has been involved in projects as architect and on-site construction manager including the recent award-winning Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning, a $26 million public/private initiative in Crotona Park, Bronx, which The New York Times architecture critic, Michael Kimmelman hailed in April 2017 as “one of the city’s best new works of public architecture;” The Stack, New York’s first prefabricated steel and concrete modular residential building development, which received a 2015 AIANY/BSA Housing Honor Award; and currently, 150 Rivington, a luxury condominium development in the Lower East Side. He was also on-site construction supervisor for The East Harlem School, which won an AIA Architecture Honor Award in 2010, and received a Citation of Excellence from BusinessWeek/Architectural Record’s ‘Good Design is Good Business’ Award in 2009. Mr. Gee earned his Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Polytechnic University and State University. Website: www.gluckplus.com. Twitter & Instagram: @gluck_plus

Tiffany Broyles Yost, Energy, Sustainability & Building Physics Associate, Arup

Tiffany Broyles Yost is an architect and sustainability specialist with over 15 years of experience working on a diverse range high performance buildings and sustainable master plans. She is an Associate at Arup where she leads sustainable buildings consulting within New York’s Energy and Sustainability group. Her work focuses on sustainable and circular design and looks to create buildings and environments that add to the comfort and wellbeing of their occupants. Tiffany holds a Masters of Architecture in Sustainable Environmental Design from the Architectural Association in London and a Bachelors of Architecture from the University of Kentucky.

VENUE SPONSOR

Häfele America on Social Responsibility: Our stated goal – and an integral part of our philosophy – is to take responsibility, think holistically and act in the best interests of our planet and its inhabitants. On a social level we seek to enhance quality-of-life for our employees, their families and the communities in which they live. Globally, we follow practices that support environmental safety and sustainability. That’s because our responsibility is to future generations as well as the present.