ULI Hawaii Sustainability Initiatives


Sustainable Land Use Committee Meeting Schedule - 2008
Open to ULI members. Contact Hawaii@uli.org for more information

  • Wednesday, March 19, 12:30pm, Brown Bag Lunch at Architects Hawaii. Featuring Senator Russell Kokubun - See notes from the meeting here

  • Wednesday, May 28 , 12:00 noon, Brown Bag Lunch at Architects Hawaii. Members of Castle & Cooke to discuss their sustainable community efforts on Lanai.

  • Wednesday, August 13, 12:00 noon, Brown Bag Lunch at Architects Hawaii. Hawaii Bio Energy LLC to present its plans. (Changed from July 16)

  • Wednesday, September 17, Brown Bag Lunch at Architects Hawaii.
  • Wednesday, November 19, Brown Bag Lunch at Architects Hawaii.

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Costs & Benefits of Sustainable Development Forum, October 3 & 4, 2007

Thank you to our speakers, Dan Winters, Mark Edlen, and Jim Goldman for an excellent forum on October 3 at the Kahili Golf Course on Maui, and October 4th at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu.

Powerpoint presentations from the event:

Dan Winters, Managing Principal, Evolution Parthers. Presentation from Green Development: The Emerging Standard. Financing and Insurance Advantages to green development are becoming mainstream.

Jim Goldman, Project Executive, Turner Construction. Presentation: Case studies in office buildings, educational adn public facilities.

Mark Edlen, Managing Principal, Gerding Edlen Development. Presentation: Case studies in affordable housing, mixed use communities, offices

 


New ULI Book
Developing Sustainable Planned Communities



Publication Date: 2007

Product Description

Demand for green buildings is rapidly growing as companies seek office space that reduces energy costs and increases worker productivity, and consumers seek energy efficient, healthy indoor environments, both at work and at home.

Packed with examples, and lavishly illustrated throughout, this practical guide provides down to earth, reality based insights into designing and developing sustainable planned communities that are environmentally responsible, attractive to the market, and profitable.

Covering green practices in all settings--urban, suburban, and rural, each chapter was written by an industry expert that explains what you need to know to create a sustainable planned community. Topics include systems level solutions, integrated site planning and design, the costs and benefits, green building design, and how to maintain sustainability.

Ten case studies of innovative and successful projects describe how these practices have been put into action with photographs, site plans, the inside story of how the project was developed, the challenges faced and lessons learned, as well as project data on costs and sales.

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Thank you to the speakers at our October 13, 2006 event on
Public Policy & Sustainability!
Agenda
Powerpoints from the event:

Lucia Athens of the City of Seattle (pdf 12.4 MB)
Mary Tucker from the City of San Jose (pdf 5.7 MB)
John Albrecht of the City of Chicago (pdf 36.6 MB)
John Osdoba of the City of Vancouver, BC (pdf 51 MB)

Top Tips from the event:

  1. The city and/or state should pick a project and give it a try. Allow the codes and zoning to be broken if necessary for the project or district. You will never learn what needs to be changed to allow energy and resource efficient development without giving it a try. Trying to change procedures, zoning, codes, etc. beforehand will be too large a task resulting in no efficient buildings.

  2. Have dedicated staff for green buildings. Trying to have existing staff make progress in green buildings while doing what they are already doing will not work.

  3. Get designers involved in the project from the very beginning. Buildings whose design accommodates sustainable features from the beginning tend to not be more expensive. Buildings that are designed first and then fit with sustainable features are always more expensive - typically significantly so.
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    ULI Hawaii formed a Sustainability Committee in 2005 to deal with overcoming the barriers to sustainable development in Hawaii.

    The Sustainability Committee will also be working with other organizations interested in sustainable land use in order to join forces in reducing harm to Hawaii's extraordinary beauty and resources.

    The committee meets bimonthly. If you are interested in participating, please contact David Bylund or Tyler Nguyen, Sustainability Committee Co-Chairs, or Katie Anderson, ULI Hawaii District Council Coordinator    .

    June 20, 2006 - Planning Meeting Minutes