On March 21st, 2019, AIASF will be hosting the 16th annual Water Conservation Showcase. The attendance typically range between 600 to 700 people, representing a wide range of stakeholders including water utility employees, civil engineers, architects, landscape architects, facility managers, building operators, sustainability advocates and homeowners. Featuring 12 presentations with three simultaneous sessions occurring at 10:00 am, 12:00 noon, 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm. Most sessions include multiple speakers focused on a common topic. The showcase will also include an exhibit area where representatives from companies and organizations that provide products and services related to water conservation can meet with the event attendees.
This free event is organized through the efforts of the Northern California Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council (www.usgbc-ncc.org), East Bay Municipal Utility District (www.ebmud.com), the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (www.sfwater.org), the Committee on the Environment from the local American Institute of Architects chapter (http://aiasf.site-ym.com/group/COTE), the City of San Jose’s Water Resources Division (www.sanjoseca.gov/waterefficiency) and the PG&E Pacific Energy Center (www.pge.com/pec).
Event Webpage: https://www.waterconservationshowcase.com/
Presentation sessions:
- Topic: Bay Area Water Conservation Awards ceremony
Description: The Silicon Valley Water Conservation Awards that have been selected annually since 2009 have been expanded this year to include the entire Bay Area, and the awards ceremony will be included as part of this year’s Water Conservation Showcase. More information about these awards including information on the award categories, how to nominate award candidates, and past award recipients can be found here: https://bawcra.org/ - Topic: Project work from Water Champions
Description: One of the Bay Area Water Conservation Award categories is “Water Champion”. This award is given to individuals in the private or public sector whose conservation efforts inspire everyone to use water more wisely. This presentation will feature the work of this year’s water champion nominees or past recipients of this award. - Water efficient home of the future
Description: How low can we go? This presentation will explore remaining opportunities for indoor residential water use savings. While plumbing code changes have significantly reduced residential consumption over the past decades, studies and industry and utility conservation programs show water efficiency opportunities remain. Panelists will discuss trends in indoor use and home appliances and fixtures, and how to put technology to use in reducing water waste from plumbing leaks. - Topic: Water metering
Description: As the implementation of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) increases across water utility service territories, more and more stakeholders are recognizing the benefits of interval-level water meters . Some are even integrating additional submeters to track the water use of specific processes or tenants. This session will look at the many benefits of metering water use at a variety of scales. Advanced data analytics, baselining water use, implementation best practices, leak detection, and the measurement of water savings will be discussed. - Topic: Firescaping
Description: Join Douglas Kent, author of Firescaping, as he highlights the essential qualities of a protected property and community. Doug will be focusing on roads, structures, defensible space, outlying areas and community obligations. Doug Kent is an instructor at Cal-Poly-Pomona and has been working to create fire safe properties and communities since 1993. - Topic: Panel on residential landscape programs
Description: Attend this session to learn about residential landscape programs offered by three water utilities: Contra Costa, Sonoma County Water Agency and the City of Sacramento Department of Utilities. Programs include landscape design assistance, design templates and lawn to garden rebates. Session will highlight water savings and other benefits of these programs. - Topic: Panel on Water/Energy nexus
Description: Session will explore large proposed projects in southern California that will save energy and water and limit the transport of water across our state. - Topic: Panel on water re-use
Description: This panel presentation will explore national trends, new water re-use standards, system design details, water treatment concerns, other best practices and lessons learned from past project work. Panel will feature insights from three engineers that design these systems and two water utility representatives that have developed standards and worked on water re-use projects.
Workshop sessions:
- Topic: LEED Water Credits
Description: Workshop session will explore the revised water credits in the newest version of the LEED green building rating system (LEED 4.1) and outline specific strategies that can be deployed to secures these LEED credits. - Topic: Soil health
Description: Workshop session will look at many soil concerns including specific strategies one can deploy to improve the quality of poor soil conditions, soil testing, sloped sites, and carbon sequestration. - Topic: Rainwater Harvesting
Description: Led by two rainwater experts, this workshop will identify best practices and lessons learned from the implementation of rainwater collection systems across a range of projects scales and in a variety of climates. - Topic: Design charrette on residential landscapes
Description: Workshop session will highlight a number of landscape and plant challenges and then ask the training participants to address these challenges in a mini-design charrette.
Please reach out to Ryan if you have any questions.
Ryan Stroupe
Building Performance Program Coordinator
PG&E Pacific Energy Center
851 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
P: 415.973.7257
E: [email protected]
www.pge.com/pec