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Materials '08: Definitions, Design, and Delivery

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GENERAL SESSION

(POWERPOINT NOT AVAILABLE) Keynote Address: Measurement and Leadership: LCA and LEED
Scot Horst, Chair, LEED Steering Committee, U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC),Washington, DC
Value-Added Local Forests and Forest Products: Linking Processing, Harvesting, and Marketing Certified Building Products in Southwest Virginia
A.L. (Tom) Hammett, Professor, Forest Products Marketing, and Richard Bonsi, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Wood Science & Forest Products, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA; Harry Groot, CEO, Blue Ridge Forest Cooperative, Hiwassee, VA; David Robertson, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Forestry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA; Proctor Harvey, President, Harvey Design Land Architects, HDLA, Inc., Lynchburg, VA; John Meggs, President, Nature Neutral, LLC., Home Center & Building Supply, Charlottesville, VA
Wood Waste Characterization and Potential Recycling of Wood Materials from a Green Home Construction Development
Philip A. Araman, Research Team Leader and Scientist, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Blacksburg, VA, and Adjunct Professor and Senior Scientist, Department of Wood Science & Forest Products, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA; Daniel P. Hindman, Assistant Professor, Department of Wood Science & Forest Products, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
FSC-Certified Fire-Retardant-Treated Wood and Its Use
David G. Bueche, Marketing Representative, Hoover Treated Wood Products, Inc., Lakewood, CO
Environmental Impact of Manufacturing Softwood Lumber in the Northeast Determined by Life-Cycle Inventory
Richard D. Bergman, Research Chemical Engineer, Forest Products Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, Madison,WI; Scott A. Bowe, Associate Professor and Wood Products Specialist, Department of Forest Ecology & Management, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
What is a Green 2x4?
Lloyd C. Irland, Lecturer and Senior Research Scientist, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and President, The Irland Group, New Haven, CT
Green Building Education Efforts at Virginia Tech
Daniel P. Hindman, Assistant Professor, Department of Wood Science & Forest Products, and A.L. (Tom) Hammett, Professor, Forest Products Marketing, Department of Wood Science & Forest Products, and Sean McGinnis, Senior Research Scientist, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Teaching Green Building: Filling the Needs of Practitioners
David T. Damery (Conference Chair), Associate Professor and Director, Building Materials & Wood Technology Program, and Peggi Clouston, Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Resources Conservation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Green Building Materials in the Residential and Light Commercial Markets: A Distributors Perspective
Michael J. Pepin, Technical Sales, Structural Systems, Inc., Thurmont, MD
Chain-of-Custody Certification Issues: The Retail Lumber Perspective
Frank W. Sanford, Vice President, Sanford & Hawley, Inc., Unionville, CT
(POWERPOINT NOT AVAILABLE) GreenMobileŽ: Systemic Ecological Strategies for Affordable Pre-Fabricated Housing
Michael A. Berk, F.L. Crane Endowed Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS

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