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Thursday, May 14
Fundamentals of Eco-Industrial (Green) Park Development
1 p.m. (EST) noon (CST) 10 a.m. (PST)
90-minute Web session
Eco-Industrial Parks are emerging as a leading development strategy. For developers, they present an opportunity to capitalize on growing market demand for green product and to find alternative solutions for challenging sites. For business operations, eco-industrial parks decrease costs and environmental impacts while increasing productivity and employee satisfaction. This informative session will provide an overview of eco-industrial park concepts and present several eco-industrial park case studies to illustrate how these developments achieve triple bottom line benefits.

Thursday, June 18
After the Flattening: Transforming America for Sustainable Growth
1 p.m. (EST) noon (CST) 10 a.m. (PST)
90-minute Web session
In this Webinar, David Snyder will update his 2007 NAIOP Report, Commercial Real Estate in a Flat World, including the latest BLS forecasts of the services and industries with the biggest projected employment gains and losses between now and 2016. The core of the presentation will describe how expensive credit, rising consumer prices and slow wage growth will lead increasing numbers of Americans to embrace energy-efficient, environmentally friendly and urbanized habitats in order to sustain the affordability of middle-class living. In response to these new marketplace realities, the nation's property owners and developers are already beginning to change the face of urban America.

Thursday, August 13
Going Green: Tips, Tools and Examples from the Field
1 p.m. (EST) noon (CST) 10 a.m. (PST)
90-minute Web session
In contrast to large corporate end-users, publicly held companies and government agencies, the private investor has been reticent to buy or build green buildings, in part due to the incongruence of financial and LEED criteria. How can this important investor group find a place in the rapidly expanding green building movement? One solution is to adopt financially feasible green building practices which produce a more sustainable building while meeting yield and cash flow requirements of the private sector. Abby Johnson will discuss this approach, its opportunities and drawbacks, as well as the financial impact of implementing specific green practices in a hypothetical building.

Thursday, October 29
Building Green with Metal
1 p.m. (EST) noon (CST) 10 a.m. (PST)
90-minute Web session
This leading-edge Webinar will examine energy usage in the U.S. and demonstrates how the use of metal roofs and walls can help greatly reduce energy consumption in buildings. The session begins with an explanation of the concept of "cool metal roofing" and how it can help lower air conditioning loads. We'll also address compliance with new energy codes and the findings of independent research studies and reinforce these findings with a comparative case study. The presentation continues with a look at the role of "cool metal walls" and insulated metal panels in reducing energy consumption and concludes with a discussion of the environmental benefits of metal roofs and walls, including their contribution to LEED points.