26/09/2011

Such Was World Green Building Week in Prague

World Green Building Week was held in Prague from 19th to 23rd September 2011. The event was declared by the World Green Building Council to draw attention to potential of green building.

A similar project was organized in 2009 for the first time. Local Green Building Councils all over the world are involved in the project. Last year 25 countries took part, this year it was over 50 countries involved.

The program in Prague was following:

19. Sept	09:00 - 18:00	Open Day of the Czech Green Building Council, HUB Praha, Drtinova 10, Praha 5
	09:30 - 10:30	Business model of green buildings Jaroslav Pašmik, Director for communication and project development, CZGBC
	11:00 - 12:00	How to use the potential of energy savings in buildings? Radim Stoklasa, Energy Efficiency Ambassador, Schneider Electric
	19:00 - 21:00	Opening party - World Green Building Week, HUB Praha, Drtinova 10, Praha 5

20. Sept	09:30 - 10:30 10:30 - 11:30	Urban development of Prague, the most important milestones and ideas for future Ing. arch. Jan Sedlák, city planner, Head of atelier FA ČVUT, member of the Institute of urbanism FA ČVUT The potential of automatically controlled shading in residential buildings and the concept of active house Tomáš Habel, Velux
	11:30 - 12:30	History and future of glass in construction and it´s application in green building Martin Najman, AGC Glass Europe
	15:00 - 16:30	Guided tour to City Green Court - pre-certification LEED Platinum

21. Sept	13:00 - 14:00	New trends in brickmaking Pavel Heinrich, HELUZ
	14:00 - 15:00	Building Information Modeling - current architectural practice Ing. arch., ČKA. Boris Vološin, Cígler Marani Architects (finally the representant of SKANSKA)
	15:00 - 16:00	Carpet trends Lukáš Novotný, InterfaceFLOR
	17:00 - 18:00	Cocktail in the National Theatre

22. Sept	09:00 - 18:00	Open Day of the Czech Green Building Council, HUB Praha, Drtinova 10, Praha 5

23. Sept	09:30 - 11:00	Energy Efficiency in Buildings - Requirements after 2013 concerning EPBD II in Visegrad countries
	11:00 - 12:30	Energy Efficiency in Buildings - Requirements after 2013 concerning EPBD II in Visegrad countries