Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope® Partners with Columbia University to Present "The Future of Energy"

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 30, 2013

"The Future of Energy" is an interdisciplinary research program devoted to exploring key questions facing designers, developers and other professionals who are concerned with energy, efficiency and sustainability in the building industry. This collaborative effort between Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope® and GSAPP resists focusing on specific technologies or prospective energy sources. Instead, it examines energy both discursively and thematically, addressing such issues as how problems of the future of energy are framed and how these problems are conceived and discussed.

Along with a distinguished panel of leaders in the fields of architecture, engineering and construction, keynote speakers include two of the preeminent minds in energy today.  Matthias Schuler is an engineer, an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Technology at Harvard GSD and the founder of Stuttgart, Germany-based Transsolar. Schuler works with well-known architects in high-profile projects to develop sustainable design strategies for buildings.  Economist Jeffrey Sachs is the director of The Earth Institute, a professor at Columbia University, Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and author of several books including The Price of Civilization.

To learn more about "The Future of Energy," go to http://events.gsapp.org/event/auditor-the-future-of-energy. More information about GSAPP can be found at www.arch.columbia.edu/ or by contacting:
Gavin Browning, Director of Events and Public Programs
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Columbia University, New York, USA
T: 212-854-9248
Gdb2106@columbia.edu

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Susan Trimble: Vice President, Marketing & Communications
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