Stanford’s Center for Sustainable Development & Global Competitiveness invites you to a special forum:

Providing Environmental Services in China

Wednesday July 14, 2010; 6 to 8:00PM
James H. Clark Center Auditorium, James H. Clark Center
Campus Drive West, Stanford University

Speakers:
* Margaret Wong, President and CEO, McWong Environmental and Energy Group. Environmental & Energy Project Opportunities in China.
* Bry Sarte, Principal/Founder Sherwood Design Engineers. Regenerative Urbanism: City-Scale Sustainable Water and Energy Strategies in China.
* Peter Haase, Principal Engineer, Fall Creek Engineering. Rural Wastewater Management in China: Program Development and Sustainability Strategies.

As China rapidly develops the country is devoting increasing resources and efforts to mitigating and preventing environmental damages, and improving environmental quality. Our speakers will discuss their China experiences, and the opportunities and challenges in bringing and adapting Western technology and expertise to China. There will be a brief reception after the forum.

Directions/maps
Questions?—contact Duc Wong, 650-725-2390

Sherwood has been asked to present two panels at the ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO in Washington, D.C., September 10–13. More than 6,000 landscape architecture professionals from across the U.S. and around the world will be gathered together to earn up to 21 professional development hours, enjoy the fellowship of our profession, and reconnect with the fundamental elements of design.

For the panel “Global Exchange: The Best Sustainable Codes, Standards and Policies” Bry Sarte will present alongside Jim Heid of Urban Green, Mary Muzynski of the Trust for Public Land, and Mark Spalding from The Ocean Foundation. For the presentation “Redefining Water Management: Landscapes and Buildings Under Water” John Leys will be joining Joan Krevlin from BKSK, Judith Hientz of WRT and dlandstudio’s Susannah Drake.

Sherwood’s John Leys spoke on Monday June 21 at the 2010 California Higher Education Sustainability Conference in Los Angeles. The conference is an annual event where UC staff, faculty, students, and a handful of professionals are invited to work through and set the future agenda for a variety of important issues in the UC system. John presented on both building-scale and campus-scale greenbuilding and green infrastructure systems as part of the Green Industry track.

The panel covered a range of issues as related to water and energy management in the UC system. John covered Sherwood’s experience with water management on building scale projects using UC Berkeley’s Boalt School of Law as a case study; on a building-complex scale, illustrated by our experience within the Barns complex at UC Riverside (which is composed of four buildings); and finally on the campus scale, using our experience planning green infrastructure systems within the Fort Scott district of the San Francisco Presidio.

An interesting item that John noted during the event is that UC Riverside didn’t have anyone in a “director of Greenbuilding” type role, whereas the other UCs have several people on staff with “sustainability” related titles. Not having the expertise on staff, UC Riverside had decided to hire an experienced group (including Fernau & Hartman, Timmons Design Engineers, and Sherwood) to advise them regarding sustainable building practices, energy systems, and water systems; an interesting approach to help them develop their plan for this unique and very visible project.