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Transportation Seminar Series
"LEED"ing the Way for Sustainable and Energy Efficient NeighborhoodsMar 23, 2007 (2:30 p.m., IACC 422) The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™ is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction, and operation of high performance green buildings. Recently the U.S. Green Building Council, the Congress for the New Urbanism, and the Natural Resources Defense Council—three organizations which represent the nation's leaders among progressive design professionals, builders, planners, developers, and the environmental community—have come together to develop LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND). This rating system will integrate the principles of smart growth, urbanism, and green building into the first national standard for neighborhood design. Guided by the Smart Growth Network's ten principles of smart growth and the Charter for New Urbanism it will include compact design, proximity to transit, mixed use, mixed housing type, and pedestrian- and bicycle- friendly design. This seminar will review the new standards and give examples of LEED-ND neighborhoods and communities. Cindy Urness, North Dakota State University Cindy Urness joined the faculty of the Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at NDSU as an Assistant Professor in 2003. Prior to that she practiced architecture in Dallas, TX, New York, NY, and Fargo. Ms. Urness has served as an affiliated faculty member with the Small Urban & Rural Transit Center, and during the summer of 2005 led the architectural team which worked on a prototypical, modular design for a bus stop which could be constructed easily in small urban locations in northern climates. Ms. Urness is the coordinator for the collaborative 4th year urban/community design studio in the Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Ms. Urness earned her Bachelors of Architecture degree from North Dakota State University in 1980 and her Masters of Architecture degree from Pratt Institute, New York, NY in 1988. |
