Better, Safer Buildings

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October 13, 2016, 5:30 - 8:30 pm, Presentation at GSVlabs

Event Location:
GSVlabs
425 Broadway
Redwood City, CA 94063 (Map)

Event Contact:
Marianna Grossman, Minerva Ventures, mgrossman@minervaventures.com, 650-520-7003

Summary:
Find out how to improve your ROI while making your buildings safer and greener. Tackle seismic safety, risk management, employee health, resource efficiency and renewable energy in one upgrade and financing process. Join us for a dynamic evening of information, networking and refreshments at GSVlabs in Redwood City. Thursday 10/13/16 from 5:30 to 8:30 pm. http://tinyurl.com/z67jmle


Full Description:
Make your properties more attractive and competitive
Better, Safer Buildings
Multi-Benefit Building Upgrades for
Seismic Safety, Resource Efficiency and Resilience
Would you like the buildings you own, manage and work in to:
• be safe, healthy, efficient and up to date?
• attract and retain top quality tenants in a competitive market?
• protect your assets and reduce operating expenses?
Why not address multiple goals with one upgrade process?
WHEN: Thursday, October 13, 2016 from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM (PDT)
WHERE: GSV Labs Redwood City REGISTER: at Eventbrite Refreshments Served
• Seismic: are you prepared for the next major quake?
• Health: how can a building improve employee performance, health and happiness?
• Efficiency: save energy and water; capture and reuse storm and waste water
• Renewable Energy: produce and store clean power and charge electric vehicles
• How can I pay for this? – learn about financing options, including commercial PACE and green loans. Projects may have net neutral or even net positive cash flow.
• Resilient Properties: how can all these factors work together to increase your ROI?

Agenda:
5:30 - 6:00 registration, networking, appetizers
6:00 - 7:45 Program
7:45 - 8:30 Networking and refreshments

Speakers:

Lauryn Agnew, Seal Cove Financial and Bay Area Impact Investing Initiative
Lauryn Agnew serves as a resource to non-profit organizations for investment consulting services and provides fiduciary education and trustee training for public fund and non-profit board and committee members. For over 15 years Lauryn served as a trustee for the San Mateo County Employees’ Retirement Association (www.SamCERA.org), and continues to serve the Girl Scouts of Northern California and the United Way of the Bay Area on their investment committees. Lauryn leads the Bay Area Impact Investing Initiative (www.baiii.org) in developing customized model portfolios across all asset classes for mission alignment under fiduciary standards of due diligence and performance expectations. Her research about impact investing has been published on place-based endowments, urban regions, and sustainable cities. www.sealcovefinancial.com

Joe Euphrat, Managing Director, CleanFund Commercial PACE Capital
Joe Euphrat has been in the investment banking and real estate business for over 20 years. While at E.F. Hutton and Lehman Brothers, he structured over $8 billion in financings for healthcare clients in the US. Most recently, Joe was Managing Director of Capital Markets for Jones Lang LaSalle and founder of Duke Healthcare Capital. He has advised on the structuring and sale of bonds, capital strategy and on overall real estate strategy for clients. Joe has been a guest lecturer at Stanford Business School and the USC School of Public & Health Policy and is an Honors Graduate of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

David Kaneda, Integral Group - Net positive buildings with higher ROI
David Kaneda has over 20 years of extensive experience in the building services industry in North America and Europe. As a Managing Principal, his responsibilities include strategic planning, sustainability research, peer review, conceptual design, and interdisciplinary coordination. David shares his in-depth knowledge with various advisory boards, and has contributed to programs for the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the CEC’s Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program. He has played a vital role in several award-winning lighting design projects and has been recognized by the National Register of Peer Professionals. David is sought after as a presenter and has delivered presentations on sustainable electrical design at conferences and universities throughout North America.

Jason Krolicki, ARUP - Design and upgrades to mitigate seismic risk
Jason Krolicki is Associate Principal | Structural Group Leader at Arup - San Francisco. He is a structural engineer with 18 years of experience. His portfolio spans a wide range of projects, from giant observation wheels, to mixed-use high-rise structures, university buildings, hospitals, and office buildings. Jason is focused on the development and application of new Performance Based Design standards and research for the design of tall structures. His projects include 181 Fremont Tower, located in San Francisco adjacent to the new Transbay Transit Center. It will be one of the most resilient tall buildings on the West Coast of the United States and the second tallest building in San Francisco (802 feet), when completed in 2017. The tower was designed to exceed CBC-mandated (California Building Code) earthquake performance objectives for new tall buildings by following a “resilience-based-design” approach.

Phu Nguyen, Partner, Minerva Silicon Valley’s Turnkey Upgrade Program
Phu Nguyen leads Minerva’s Turnkey program. Previously, he co-founded Energywise Works, a design-build and integrator of mechanical and electrical systems. He was global market manager for Dow Corning and Tyco Electronics and engineering manager at Pinnacle Research Institute, where he led the development of renewable energy sources and storage for clean transport. Phu holds 6 patents and an MBA from Santa Clara University, an MS in Engineering from UCLA and CA Contractors Licenses in Mechanical and Electrical

John Vipiana, Senior Vice President, Heffernan Insurance Brokers
John Vipiana is the Real Estate Practice Leader for Heffernan, one of the largest insurance agencies in the United States. They provide comprehensive insurance solutions and financial services to businesses and individuals across the country. John has 20 years of experience meeting the risk management and insurance needs for Real Estate Professionals, including owners, managers and developers on a nationwide basis. He owned and operated his own retail insurance brokerage for five years before coming to Heffernan. John is also a category one cyclist.