AIArchitect, February 16, 2004 - InformeDesign’s First Webcast Highlights Sustainability and LEED Design

02/2004

InformeDesign’s First Webcast Highlights Sustainability and LEED™ Design
HGA’s Kevin Flynn, AIA, will lead the February 25 program

InformeDesignSM will host its first live Webcast, “Making It Easy, Making It Hard: Sustainably Designed Projects With and Without LEED,” February 25 at
1 p.m. EST. Kevin Flynn, AIA, associate vice president and director of sustainable design, Hammel, Green and Abrahamson (HGA), Minneapolis, will lead the Webcast. Flynn is the first architect in Minnesota to become LEED accredited.

HGA’s Associate Vice President and Director of Sustainable Design Kevin Flynn, AIA, will lead the February 25 Webcast. Photo courtesy of ASID. The Webcast will present projects designed prior to and after the adoption of LEED as a design tool and requirement. It will illustrate both the benefits and challenges of working with LEED and other design guides, considering both environmental and economic factors.

The Webcast, to be provided at no cost to visitors, will be transmitted using Macromedia Breeze. A link to the Webcast and simple instructions for using Macromedia Breeze will appear on the InformeDesign Web site. The entire 90-minute Webcast also will be available for download from InformeDesign’s Webcast archives in March. Participants are eligible for 0.1 CEU credit from the American Society of Interior Designers.

InformeDesign, supported by the American Society of Interior Designers and the University of Minnesota, is the first centralized clearinghouse of design and human behavior research on the Web. The site currently offers more than 560 “practitioner-friendly” research summaries of findings from research literature taken from more than 160 scholarly journals related to design and human behavior. The site also features online discussion forums, a monthly newsletter, listings of collaborative research opportunities, and a glossary of terms.