2005
- Organization founded as the Lehigh Valley Green Builders Forum
(LVGBF) by Bruce Wilson (President) and Annie Prince.
2006
- April 21, 2006 - LVGBF holds its first public
event with a green building tour of PPL Plaza, attended by over
50 people, followed by a reception at the Clarion Hotel, Allentown,
PA.
- August 25, 2006 - Tour of The Eastonian, a
green adaptive reuse of a former hotel into luxury condominiums
in downtown Easton.
- September 22-23, 2006 - Staffed our own booth
and produced two days of presentations in our own Green Building
Tent at the PA Renewable Energy and Sustainable Living Festival
in Kempton, PA, co-sponsored by the Delaware Valley Green Building
Council and the Green Building Association of Central PA. The
event was attended by over 6,000 people.
- October 25, 2006 - Hosted a LEED® NC Training
session at the Southside Comfort Suites, Bethlehem, PA. Partnering
with the DVGBC.
- December 6, 2006 - Incorporated with the State
of Pennsylvania as a Non-Profit Corporation.
2007
- January, 2007 - An article was published in
Lehigh Valley Living Magazine about Green Building and the LVGBF,
featuring our co-founders, Bruce Wilson and Annie Prince, and
one of the LVGBF’s Founding Members, studio26 homes.
- February 1, 2007 – Hosted “How to build a
Net-Zero Energy Home” by Jackie O'Neil, at the Lehigh Cement Office.
Fogelsville, PA.
- February 5, 2007 – Hosted “Integrated Design
and Value Engineering in Green Building” by Bruce Wilson, speaking
about the benefits of green building and how to use integrated
design to build a high-performance green building. Rauch Business
Center, Lehigh University.
- March 16, 2007 – Participated in a Green Building
Tour of the Muhlenberg College New Science Building, Location,
Muhlenberg College, 2400 Chew Street, Allentown, PA.
- Earth Day, 2007 – Hosted a successful month
of Earth Day presentations around the Lehigh Valley with the educational
theme, "Green Solutions to Storm Water Management" featuring
displays on Pervious Concrete and Green Roofs, including a new
display on "How to determine your Carbon Footprint".
- April 14, 2007 – Participated in the Step
It Up Festival for Action on Climate Change on the Southside of
Bethlehem, organized by Clothesline Organics and Home & Planet
retail shops.
- April 17-20, 2007 – Participated in the City
of Bethlehem Earth Day Education Week, where 1700 students from
the Bethlehem Area School District visited our booth for a presentation
on how Green Building helps Planet Earth.
- April 18, 2007 – Co-sponsored "Beyond
Climate Change", a presentation by Dr. Thomas Pritchett at
the UU Church in Bethlehem.
- April 25, 2007 - Co-sponsored a presentation
by Lance Simmens, Asst. to the Governor of PA, with a slide show
on "An Inconvenient Truth" hosted by the Mayor of Bethlehem,
John Callahan, at Foy Concert Hall, Moravian College.
- May 6, 2007 – Participated in the EnviroVillage
at the RiverFusion festival at Illicks Mill in Bethlehem (www.illicksmill.org/riverfusion.html)
where visitors learned about the availability and application
of green building materials, such as green roofs, durable roofing
shingles made from recycled rubber, pervious concrete, and recycled
glass countertop surfaces.
- May 15, 2007 - Co-sponsored the presentation,
‘Signs of Hope, What We Are Doing About Climate Change’ at the
Unitarian Universalist Church.
- May 18, 2007 - Presented and demonstrated
innovative storm water management to the PIX network (lvpix.org)
of Lehigh Valley municipalities, businesses, regulators and environmental
organizations at the PIX Storm Water Management Symposium at Bethlehem
City Hall.
- September 21, 2007 - Participated in Education
Day at the PA Renewable Energy and Sustainable Living Festival
in Kempton, PA.
- September 22-23, 2007 - Presented two days
of programs at the Green Building Tent at the PA Renewable Energy
and Sustainable Living Festival, Kempton, PA. Cosponsored by the
GBACPA and the DVGBC.
- September 27-28, 2007 – LVGBF President, Bruce
Wilson attended the Pennsylvania Green Growth Partnership First
Annual Forum at the Hershey Lodge representing the Lehigh Valley
Green Builders Forum.
- October 1, 2007 – Presented to members at
a monthly meeting of the Lehigh Valley Builders Association about
the future of Green Home Building sighting performance data from
the ongoing study of Buffalo Homes.
- October 6, 2007 – We were proud to help organize
three houses on the National Solar in conjunction with the Northeast
Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) www.nesea.org
and the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) www.ases.org:
- studio26 homes – PA’s first LEED-Silver Certified Home www.studio26homes.com.
- Joris Rosse – Converted barn, which houses his residence and
the Morning Star Center.
- Walter Udell – 5000 SF Buffalo Home with extremely low energy
bills for both heat and hot water amounting to about 900 gallons
of heating oil a year.
- October 17, 2007 – Hosted the LVGBF’s Annual
Members Dinner, Comfort Suites, South Bethlehem.
- October 31-November 1, 2007 – Participated
in a workshop, “Balancing Energy and the Environment, an Exploration
of Future Research Needs”, at Lehigh University speaking on Energy
Use in Buildings.
- November 16, 2007 – Four member firms of the
LVGBF participated in a design charette for the E House project
of the Alliance for Sustainable Communities.
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