Green construction has been a historically fast-growing trend in construction. A moderated panel of executives from leading established and entrepreneurial firms representing all facets of construction, from design to ownership, will explore the drivers behind this trend.  Topics for discussion will include:

• What are the underlying drivers from building owners & tenants that lead them to demand – and potentially pay more to occupy – Green     buildings today?
• How has the downturn affected green construction? 
• What's the economic opportunity for each constituent of the construction value chain (owner, developer, contractor, subcontractor, products manufacturer), and how are their businesses adapting to accommodate? 
  
• How are decisions being made about expenditures to achieve energy savings, environmental quality, and sustainable materials?  What do owners view as acceptable cost premiums and payback periods on upfront capital investments?

Panelists Include:
Ron Bowman, Jr., Executive Vice President, Tishman Technologies
Micheal Deane, Chief Sustainability Officer, Turner Construction
Aaron Ayer, Vice President of Marketing & Business Development, Hycrete
Cliff Schorer, Founder, Greenwich Energy Solutions
Pierre Desautels, Head of Buildings Design, Halcrow

Moderator:

Nadine M. Post, Editor-at-Large, Engineering News-Record

Event Details:
February 18th, 6pm – 8pm 
Boston Consulting Group
430 Park Ave, 18th floor
Please RSVP to hbsgbaa@gmail.com

Ronald H. Bowman, Jr., Executive Vice President, Tishman Technologies
Mr. Bowman heads up Tishman Technologies Corporation and is a veteran data center, energy consulting, and construction professional with more than 25 years of experience, both nationally and internationally.  Prior to joining Tishman, Mr. Bowman founded and was chairman of the Unique Infrastructure Group, LLC, which provided specialty brokerage and real estate advisory services for multi-market, uptime critical data, energy, and telecom facilities. Mr. Bowman held the position of broker, consultant, energy solutions provider, and construction manager to major companies such as Citigroup, Sprint, AOL, Global Crossing, Time Warner, Yahoo, Cantor Fitzgerald, and Road Runner. Mr. Bowman consulted on or built trading floors, energy facilities, and data centers in London, Frankfurt, Milan, Luxembourg, Tokyo, Paris, China (Shanghai Exchange), South America (23 cities), and Johannesburg, South Africa.
 
Mr. Bowman is a recognized industry leader, a member of the Mayor’s Energy Summit, and has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Crain’s New York Business, Real Estate Weekly, Real Estate Journal, Tri-State Real Estate Journal, Engineering Today, Office and Industrial Properties, The Star-Ledger, The New York Post, and The New York Daily News.
 
For energy solutions, he has been involved or quoted in North America Clean Energy, Today’s Energy Solution, Energy Industry, comfuel.com, Alternative Energy Newswire, Highbeam Real Estate, Data Center Dynamics, Enterpreneur.com, E-week, ECOfriends.com, Data Nation, Data Center Journal, Greenday.com, Disasterrecovery.com, Energymarket.com, and many other magazines. Regarding intelligent buildings, Mr. Bowman has been interviewed on The Today Show, Live at Five New Jersey Network, News 4 New York, and CNBC.
 
Michael Deane, Chief Sustainability Officer, Turner Construction Company
Michael Deane is Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer at Turner Construction Company and a LEED Accredited Professional. His responsibilities at Turner include developing and implementing sustainable policy and training, green project setup, operational oversight and sales.
 
Michael has an MS in Historic Preservation from Columbia University and over 20 years of construction management experience including K-12 schools, libraries, cultural institutions and hospitality.  He is a founding board member and past chair of the US Green Building Council New York Chapter. He served on the USGBC National Board of Directors from 2005 through 2008.  He continues to serve as an advisor to the New York Chapter.  Michael writes and speaks frequently about sustainability and in particular the builder’s role in delivering green buildings.  He recently taught a graduate level course on Sustainability and LEED at Columbia University.
 
Turner Construction Company is the largest general builder in the US and has been named the #1 Green Contractor by Engineering News Record in 2007 and 2008.  Turner has over 280 LEED certified or registered projects completed or under way valued at over $13 billion.
 
Aaron Ayer, PE, LEED AP, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Hycrete
Aaron is Vice President of Marketing & Business Development with Hycrete, responsible for driving market acceptance of Hycrete’s innovations. 
 
Aaron has close to 20 years of managerial experience, with a focus on small high-growth and technology firms; Hycrete is his fourth entrepreneurial venture. Prior to Hycrete, Aaron worked with StrionAir, a Carlyle Group funded firm recently purchased by Carrier Corporation, focused on developing air purification and energy savings solutions for green building applications. Before that, he was an owner of Schaefer Interstate, a small company manufacturing decorative aluminum products for the construction industry. Aaron began his career as a US Naval officer aboard the nuclear powered submarines USS Gurnard and Woodrow Wilson.  Aaron holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla, a professional engineering license, and is a LEED Accredited Professional.

Hycrete is a leading innovator in green building materials.  The company’s initial focus is on solutions for concrete, the world’s most widely used building material – and a source of an estimated 8% of carbon emissions.  Hycrete’s high profile in the CleanTech community has included recent recognition in TIME Magazine and inclusion in a 2009 White House round table on clean technologies, led by President Obama.  Hycrete is backed by the CleanTech venture capital stalwarts Rockport Capital, Mohr-Davidow, and NGEN, among others

Pierre Desautels, PEng, Principal, North American Structural Design Director, Halcrow
Since 2004, Pierre has been the Principal responsible for the Property Business Group in New York City, the headquarters location for Halcrow’s North American operations. Pierre has specific project experience in fast-track casino construction, award-winning international embassies, seismic design and design/build projects. This unique experience has led to a highly demanded expertise in areas such as high loading requirements, security issues, complex negotiations, and international projects. In recent years he has worked on projects in North America, China, Korea, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Morocco, Egypt, Kuwait, Dubai and the West Indies.
 
Pierrehas overseen projects in a variety of building sectors including hospitality, commercial, institutional, health care and parking garages.  In this role, he oversees and maintains responsibility for the schematic design, the design development and the production of contract documents.  He remains actively involved in projects though the various construction stages.
 
Halcrow is an independent, global consulting firm specializing in planning, design and management services for infrastructure development worldwide. Sustainable development is core to Halcrow’s business spirit. Halcrow’s stated purpose – sustaining and improving the quality of people’s lives – is represented everyday as they work to deliver the best possible projects in the most sustainable way.
 
Halcrow offers expertise in virtually all areas related to the built environment, including, transportation, water, buildings, power, environment and maritime. Halcrow is building the future and is proud of their legacy and how it has been achieved. Sustainable business is good business and Halcrow has crafted a 10-year strategy in the USA around a corporate commitment to a sustainable planet.
 
 
Cliff Schorer, Founder, Greenwich Energy Solutions (GES):
A co-founder of GES, Cliff is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Columbia Business School. He specializes in early stage ventures and applying technical innovation to new business models. He is the founder and CEO of several ventures, including GeoVideo Networks (a Lucent Technologies Venture) and Express Office Products. Cliff serves as a consultant to numerous global companies, including Novartis, AT&T, Lucent, Sony, and Telefonica. He also serves as a director on a number of boards, including RecycleBank, OUT 2 Play, and Landauer Metropolitan. Cliff is an active public speaker who provides inspirational keynote addresses throughout the world.
 
Greenwich Energy Solutions (GES) delivers energy efficiency services for commercial and multifamily buildings anywhere in the United States. Our mission is to provide comprehensive energy and green solutions over the life of a building through integrated design and advanced technology. GES covers the entire process of making commercial buildings more efficient from audit and assessment to LEED certification to state-of-the-art tracking and monitoring services, ensuring that building upgrades will continue to perform at maximum efficiency. GES services also include comprehensive financial analysis, including tax implications, available government and utility incentives, and financing options, that often shows a project is cash flow positive from the beginning. Through our strategic alliance with global construction management firm Bovis Lend Lease, GES is able to provide exceptional value to clients by integrating energy and financial analysis, design, and implementation resulting in recommendations that are financially sound investments with rapid and quantifiable paybacks.

Nadine M. Post, Editor-at-Large, Engineering News-Record                                                                                                     

Nadine is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years of experience writing about development, design, engineering and construction<-and the people who make construction projects happen. In addition to covering trends and issues affecting buildings, Post has written about challenging, innovative and high-profile projects as diverse as the Statue of Liberty restoration and the world's tallest building. She has also covered the impact on the built environment of earthquakes, wind, storms, fire and terrorist attacks, including the 1993 bombing and 2001 destruction of the World Trade Center.  Post has written about urban planning, landscape architecture, structural and mechanical engineering, seismic and wind design, codes and standards, green building, construction materials and methods, project delivery systems, contracts, and computers in design and construction. In 1985, she wrote McGraw-Hill's book Restoring the Statue of Liberty (1986) for the restoration¹s architects, Richard S. Hayden and Thierry W. Despont. For ENR¹s coverage of Sept. 11, 2001 and its aftermath, led by Post, she (and ENR) won several awards, including the prestigious Jesse H. Neal Award -- the business-to-business press equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize.

Boston Consulting Group

BCG is investing in new approaches to sustainability, considering threats and opportunities as they impact enterprise strategy and value. The BCG Strategy Institute recently launched the "Sustainability Initiative" in collaboration with MIT and the Sloan Management Review, to promote the development and interchange of new thinking on sustainability and business. The firm's comprehensive models help clients develop strategies and best practices to create competitive advantage and make business sense of sustainability.
 
The Harvard Business School Green Business Alumni Association
The HBS Green Business Alumni Association seeks to explore, promote, and help Harvard Business School Alumni understand the opportunities at the intersection of the environment and business by stimulating discussion on the current and evolving interaction between business and the environment; promoting business/social relationships among alumni interested in, or working in, this field; and recognizing outstanding entrepreneurial and managerial achievement by area business executives.

The Harvard Business School Green Business Alumni Association will host a year-long series of talks in NYC on 'green' topics beginning June 2009. The series will feature speakers on various critical topics including supply chain, design, water, consumer products, clean energy, carbon markets, energy efficiency and more. Increased interest among our alumni and an increased focus by companies on areas of sustainability, renewable energy,and green products and services make these topics particularly relevant in a time of rapid change, uncertainty, and opportunity.

HBS Community Partners Environmental Interest Group
HBS Community Partners Environmental Interest Group (EIG) is part of HBS Community Partners organization. 

EIG serves non profits that are focused on environmental protection and sustainable stewardship of natural resources. EIG alumni work with pre-screened organizations that are looking for strategic help on board level issues, such as setting strategic directions, organizational structure, value proposition, etc.  In turn, our client nonprofit organizations offer HBS alumni volunteers opportunities to have an impact on their community in which they live or work in a truly meaningful way.