New Mexico Conference Highlights – October 13-14, 2011 Our New Mexico conference in October was an overwhelming success. Thank you to our wonderful sponsors and exhibitors! Conference brought to you by CEFPI New Mexico and NCLE Media Sponsor: School Planning And Management Magazine DAY ONE – October 13, 2011 Opening Welcome – Erik Swensen, NCLE Ex Director; Joe Muhlberger, CEFPI President PNM Financial Support Programs for Energy Savings – Melissa Leymon, Senior Program Developer "State of the State" – Bob Gorrell, PSFA Overview of NM State Practices, Goals, and Funding for "Green" building solutions. Speakers will review Education Facility Standards, Legislation, and Financing in context of sustainability and "green" codes. Financing Options for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy – Susie Marbury, Department of Energy & Minerals, NM This presentation will explain ways that school districts can fund energy-related projects that include Performance Contracting and the Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Bonding Act (EEREBA). We will discuss the pros and cons of these financing methods, the application process, possible funding assistance for energy audits, and expected outcomes. Trade Show Luncheon – Buffet Lunch; Focused Time with Solution Experts How is Geo Thermal Working For You? – Panel of 4 NM Districts and the Community College of NM will share their experiences with geothermal heating and cooling systems, all of which have received systems within the last 6 years. This open discussion format will allow the District Reps and audience members to share experiences and to get and give advice on improving the process or potentially returning to a traditional HVAC system. Don Penn from IEG Texas and Joe Muhlberger, NM architect, as experts in geothermal systems will be available to lead the discussion and provide input as needed. George Peru, Cobre SD; Brian Dunnahoo, Deming SD; Al Sena, Rio Rancho SD; Johnty Cresto, Gallup SD; Lou Castillo, CNM. School Cents...The Energy Behavior Management Guide by Sue Pierce Energy Behavior Management – It Makes Cents – Sue Pierce, Pierce Energy Planning As a school official, you probably know that the annual energy bill to run America's primary and secondary schools is a staggering $6 billion – more than is spent on textbooks and computers combined. What you may not know is that the least efficient schools use three times more energy than the best energy performers and that the top energy performing schools cost $.40 per square foot less to operate than the average performers. These statistics are from Energy Star, a program of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Schools can play a valuable role in teaching students about becoming energy efficient and in leading their communities to become more efficient, too. National Voice, Local Choice: Intro to CHPS Rating System – William Orr, Ex Director, CHPS Sponsored by Trane This may be the worst time for our schools since many of them were built. Budgets are being axed. Teachers laid off. Facility staffs all but eliminated. Demands on our facilities are escalating. School libraries and even entire schools are being considered for closure. New school construction has all but stopped in most areas of the country. Even with all of these challenges, there are many opportunities to improve the condition of our existing schools. Hear about how the CHPS Operations Report Card can help schools benchmark their current performance and identify opportunities to save money and improve the learning environment. See how investing in integrated design and high performance building systems through the capital budget can save the general fund now and for the life of the school. Discover how the CHPS Core Criteria may be a regional solution for schools in the Southwest to achieve the best high performance learning environments possible and how you can get involved. CHPS NM Committee Interest Meeting Refreshments will be served. DAY TWO – October 14, 2011 Registration Open Linking Architecture and Education: Sustainable Design of Learning Environments by Anne Taylor, Ph.D. Hon. AIA Linking Architecture and Education: Translating Developmental Rights and Curriculum into Sustainable School Facility Design – Anne Taylor, Professor Emeritus, UNM Keynote Presentation This presentation will demonstrate a way that we can translate academic needs into habitability levels for sound design in three categories: Health and Safety, Functionality and Psychological Comfort and Aesthetic Satisfaction. The results of such improved design thinking How it helps educators to use the built, natural and cultural environment as a teaching-learning tool. Shifting Focus from the Teacher to the Learner: Implications for Learning Environments in Higher Education – Gary Smith, Special Assist. to the Provost, Office of Support for Effective Teaching, UNM Why has higher education teaching and learning increasingly focused on "learner-centered" course design and pedagogy over the last 20 years? What does the shift toward learner-centered education imply for virtual and particularly physical learning environments? What different types of physical learning spaces are emerging? How does an institution move its faculty, facility planners, classroom managers, IT professionals, etc., toward a common vision of these new learning spaces Break in Tradeshow Area VALUE in Maintenance Planning – Les Martinez, PSFA and an urban and rural district representative to discuss systems for keeping facilities maintained while unilaterally saving resources – time and money. Steelcase LearnLab™ Environments – Jami Moyer, Steelcase Education Solutions Sponsored by Steelcase Furniture Imagine a classroom that improves the transfer of knowledge, dramatically enhances collaboration and engages multiple learning styles. Steelcase has studied colleges and universities extensively for many years. Based on this research, we developed a number of hypotheses about what a high performance classroom should be, and built a prototype classroom to test our hypotheses. The new LearnLab Environments research moves the classroom into the 21st century. It helps colleges offer a more powerful learning experience, and supports the multiple ways instructors teach and students learn today. It introduces design innovations that can be applied to practically any classroom, new construction or renovation. Learning objectives: Understand the change drivers that are impacting classroom design; Understand the shift from being instructor centered to learning centered; Understand the insights that were observed primary research at alpha and beta sites; Using design principles to develop solutions for a Steelcase LearnLab™ Centennial – Energy Audits Abstract and presenters coming soon.