Events Calendar

USGBC members and the public can search for USGBC and green building industry events. If you have a conference or tradeshow, you may request to include it by sending a bulleted description to events@usgbc.org. Please include the event name, location, dates, and contact information.

If you need a speaker for your event, please visit our Speakers' Bureau page.

DateLocationConference Name
2/21/2010-2/24/2010 Melbourne, Australia, Green Cities 2010

Green Cities is the largest and most influential green building conference in the Asia Pacific region. Join us in Melbourne from 21 - 24 February as we explore new ideas in sustainable building, forge connections and launch new products and technologies.

3/3/2010-3/5/2010 Wisconsin Dells, WI Better Buildings: Better Business

Find out why 900 home building professionals from 22 states and provinces attended last year's record setting conference! Keynote: Steve Thomas. Learn more »

3/20/2010-3/21/2010 Bethlehem, PA 2010 Lehigh Valley Green Building Expo

The Expo offers an invigorating opportunity to educate, inform, and inspire homeowners and professionals about effective ways to enrich not only the environment, but also their homes and lives. A primary focus will be how to save money by reducing energy and water consumption and how to make smarter, greener and healthier home design and lifestyle choices. Attendees will have the opportunity to speak with local green building and energy efficiency experts as well as enjoy informative talks and workshops on a wide array of green topics. Learn more »

3/24/2010-3/26/2010 Vancouver, BC GLOBE 2010

www.globe2010.com

This series of events is dedicated to bringing together professionals from the environment sector. Every two years, corporate executives, government representatives, environmental senior managers, urban planners and financial executives meet to discuss emerging priorities and opportunities in the business of the environment. GLOBE 2010 will host 12,000 participants, 2,200 conference delegates, 500 exhibitors, 200 speakers and dozens of international delegations from over 70 countries. The Conference will focus on major themes such as Corporate Sustainability, Climate Change and Energy, Finance and Sustainability, Building Better Cities, and the Future of the Automotive Industry.

4/15/2010-4/16/2010 Budapest, Hungary, Build Green - Central Eastern Europe

Home to 150 million people, the Central Eastern Europe region will account for the majority of new construction in Europe and will require extensive energy-efficient retrofits of its existing built environment. Build Green CEE is a low-cost event organized by Green Building Councils in the region and supported by the World Green Building Council. This event will efficiently provide information on the multiple sustainable construction marketplaces for the countries of the CEE region. Members of USGBC and GBCs accredited by the World Green Building Council receive a significant discount on the registration fee and sponsorship opportunities for this event. Learn more »

4/25/2010 Richmond, VA Get Green Expo

www.getgreenexpo.org

  • Produced by professionals with 30+ years’ experience
  • 100,000+ square feet of exhibits, seminars
  • Benefits the Get Green Foundation

5/10/2010-5/12/2010 New York City, NY The Sustainable Building Series: Green Retrofits

Name: The Sustainable Building Series: Green Retrofits Location: New York City Dates: May 10-12 Costs: $785-1695 Contact Information: GSMI, 888.409.4418 ext. 1 Website: www.sustainablebuildingsseries.com

(USBGC Sponsored Event)

5/17/2010-5/19/2010 Hilton New York, NY Uptime Institute Symposium 2010: Data Center Efficiency & Green Enterprise IT

In 2010, the Symposium will focus on three main themes: Available IT (how to ensure that initiatives to improve energy efficiency do not compromise business objectives and uptime); Scalable IT (how to reconcile growing and often volatile demand for IT with the need to optimize resource use); and Sustainable IT (how to use IT and best practices to reduce waste of energy, water, and other resources, and hold down carbon emissions). Learn more »

5/19/2010-5/21/2010 Minneapolis, MN Greening the Heartland

The Minnesota Chapter of USGBC and Minnesota Green Communities are joining forces in 2010 to present the 7th annual Greening the Heartland Conference. This year’s theme, BRIDGING, seeks to draw valuable connections between people, places, and ideas to help create a sustain¬able heartland region and beyond. Continuing education credits will be provided for various specialties.

6/18/2010-6/20/2010 Medford, OR The Oregon Green Expo

More information at www.TheOregonGreenExpo.com »

6/20/2010-6/23/2010 Boston, MA Urban Environmental Pollution 2010 - Overcoming Obstacles to Sustainability and Quality of Life

This international conference aims to bring together 400 leading experts to exchange knowledge on environmental innovation to create sustainable urban areas. A selection of the best papers of the conference will be published in Environmental Pollution (ISI Impact Factor 3.135). The Proceedings will be made available open access on ScienceDirect. Invited speakers include Dr. Yong-Yuan Zhu of the National Urban Environmental Institute, Xiamen, China and Dr. Christopher Kennedy of the University of Toronto, Canada. Learn more »

7/12/2010-7/15/2010 West Lafayette, IN 1st International High Performance Buildings Research Conference at Purdue

USGBC’s Research Program is pleased to co-sponsor this technical conference hosted by Purdue University’s School of Mechanical Engineering. The conference will present research in many areas of building design, operation and performance, including (but not limited to): building envelope systems, indoor environment and comfort, building modeling and simulation, lighting and day-lighting, building performance monitoring and diagnostics, thermal systems and controls, net-zero building design, sustainable and green building technologies, and related case studies on high performance buildings. The deadline for submitting research paper abstracts is Dec. 17. For more information visit http://www.engineering.purdue.edu/Herrick/Events.

9/28/2010-9/30/2010 Albuquerque, NM Laboratories for the 21st Century (Labs21®) 2010 Annual Conference

The Laboratories for the 21st Century (Labs21®) Annual Conference is sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories. This event is the largest gathering of sustainable laboratory professionals in the nation. Learn more »

9/29/2010-10/1/2010 San Francisco, CA West Coast Green

Announcing West Coast Green 2010! Sept. 29-Oct. 1st, 2010, at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center. Join us to be part of this launch pad for new ventures, products and social innovations in green. Learn more »

12/15/2010-12/17/2010 Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, First International Conference on Sustainable Urbanization

The Faculty of Construction and Land Use (FCLU) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) will hold the First International Conference on Sustainable Urbanization (ICSU) on 15-17 December 2010 in Hong Kong. This scientific conference series is launched to provide an international forum for the international scientific/engineering community to examine these challenges and to find effective solutions to ensure a sustainable process of urbanization and sustainable operation and management of urbanized areas. Technical paper abstracts are due March 1, 2010. Learn more »