SYMPOSIUM: RESTORATION & RENEWAL-RESHAPING SUSTAINABILITY - October 17th & 18th

Schedule: Day 1-8:30-4:30 pm, Thursday, October 16 Day 2-8:30-3:30 pm, Friday, October 17.

Registration Fee: $450 Location: Montréal Science Center.

Keynote Speakers: Storm Cunningham Founder, Revitalization Institute CEO, Resolution Fund, LLC Author, The Restoration Economy and ReWealthRebecca L. Flora, AICP, LEED AP Executive Director, Green Building Alliance Chair, Board of Directors, USGBC. 

You are invited to actively contribute your professional insights and experiences for the advancement of sustainable heritage conservation (historic preservation) during the most engaging colloquy of 2008: Restoration & Renewal-Reshaping Sustainability.  The symposium will address topics from the philosophical to the technical and will view sustainable preservation from the scale of individual buildings to truly global issues. Most importantly, the Montréal Symposium will attract a critical mass of key leaders in the sustainable preservation field from around the United States, Canada, and beyond. The Montréal Symposium will not be comprised of the conventional sequence of presentations. Rather, it will draw on the expertise of all participants to advance sustainable preservation on both the building and community scale. It will prepare attendees to become more effectively engaged in their own communities and professional endeavors. As a participant, you will join a group of the field's deepest thinkers and most knowledgeable practitioners to sharpen the vision, clarify the mission, and advance the techniques of sustainable heritage conservation.

Objectives: To provide an up-to-date overview of the evolving collaboration between the sustainability and heritage conservation (historic preservation) fields;  To synthesize preservation with sustainability metrics and climate change initiatives; To proliferate advanced sustainable preservation techniques; To engage symposium participants for the advancement of sustainable preservation in both the sustainability and preservation communitiesj.

Format: Roundtable sessions will engage attendees in facilitated discussions on the most compelling sustainable preservation topics. Material for roundtable sessions will draw from TCSP case studies and assessments, targeted presentations by a spectrum of sustainable preservation stakeholders, and information gathered from attendees prior to the symposium.

Day 1 Current Practices / Future Trends: Sustainable Preservation Roundtable; Lunch & Keynote Address by Rebecca L. Flora; Rating Systems Roundtable.

Day 2 Thinking Globally / Acting Locally: Climate Change Roundtable; Lunch & Keynote Address by Storm Cunningham;* Action Agenda Roundtable

Details about the Symposium can be found on APT's website at www.apti.org/conferences/2008/ Annual Conference Workshop/Sympoisum.