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Luciano Piccioni,
President,
RCI Consulting |
Angus Ross,
CBN Executive,
CBN National Spokesperson |
Fred Serrafero,
Vice President, Development and Construction ,
Fram Building
Group |
Andrew Himmel,
Managing Partner,
Kilmer Brownfield Management
Limited |
Gary Rawings,
City Manager,
Charles Town, WV |
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Detailed
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DAY ONE:
Wedesday April 1st, 2009 |
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| 7:30 AM Registration Opens |
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| 8:15 AM Opening Remarks From The Chair |
Tammy Lomas Jylha, Vice President of Remediation and Brownfield Services, OCETA |
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| 8:30 AM Design Case Study: Liverpool’s Campbell Square Development |
Incorporating existing buildings into redevelopment to maintain heritage buildings
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John Stonard, CABE Programme Manager, Design Liverpool, UK |
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| 9:15 AM |
Financing challenges and opportunities in uncertain economic times: maintaining momentum in brownfield development
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Angus Ross, CBN Executive, CBN National Spokesman
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Lubka Voucheva, Senior Credit Risk Manager, Federation of Canadian Municipalities, Green Municipal Fund |
Andrew Himmel, Managing Partner, Kilmer Brownfield Management Limited |
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| 10:00 AM Networking Break |
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| 10:30 AM Case Study: Faubourg Boisbriand, QC |
Innovative strategies for redeveloping large industrial sites into new mixed-use communities |
Robert Willes, Vice President, Environment, Faubourg Boisbriand |
John Davies, CEO, Faubourg Boisbriand |
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| 11:15 AM Small Town Case Study: Charles Town and Ranson, West Virginia |
Public-private partnerships for opening up “mom and pop” brownfields for redevelopment
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Gary Rawings, City Manager, Charles Town, WV |
Paul (Dave) Mills, City Manager, City of Ranson |
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| 12:00 PM Networking Luncheon |
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| 1:30 PM |
Key strategies for building more effective Community Improvement Plans |
Luciano Piccioni, President, RCI Consulting
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| 2:15 PM Case study: Kingston, Ontario |
Financial feasibility models that work for small to mid-sized towns and/or plots |
Kevin Shipley, Partner, Kingston Office Manager, XCG Consultants |
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| 3:00 PM Networking Break |
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| 3:15 PM Regulatory Update: |
Hear the latest updates from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment’s proposed brownfield reform guidelines |
Terri Bulman, Manager, Standards, Ministry of the Environment (to be confirmed) |
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| 4:15 PM Technology Innovations: |
Innovative and sustainable alternatives to “dig and dump” remediation |
Michel Beaulieu, Expert Scientific Advisor, Environmental Terrestrial Policies Branch, Contaminated Sites Department, Ministry of Sustainable Development, Environment, and Parks, Government of Quebec |
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| 5:00 PM Conference Adjourns To Day Two |
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Day Two:
Thursday April 2nd, 2009 |
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| 7:30 AM Registration Opens |
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| 8:15 AM Opening Comments from the Chair |
Marguerite Ceschi-Smith, MSc. Brantford City Councillor |
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| 8:30 AM Case Study: Old Town, Maine |
| Leveraging community support to turn a mothballed factory into a public park to improve a small town’s waterfront |
Replicate Old Town’s success in your community. |
Ron Singel, City Manager, Old Town, ME |
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| 9:15 AM Small Town Case Study: The Collingwood Shipyards, Ontario |
Attracting large mixed-use developments to smaller communities to ensure long-term sustainability |
Fred Serrafero, Vice President, Development and Construction, Fram Building Group |
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| 10:00 AM Networking Break |
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10:30 AM Commercial/Mixed-Use Case Study: TEDCO’s Corus
Entertainment Building |
Changing from legacy industrial uses to clean green employment on Toronto’s Waterfront |
Jeffery Steiner, Past President and CEO, Toronto Economic Development Corporation |
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| 11:15 AM |
Legal Update: 2009 regulations mean more complicated clean-up and off-site liability rules: Find out the legal impacts on today’s projects |
John R. Willms, Partner, Certified Environmental Law Specialist, Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers, LLP |
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| 12:00 PM |
| Networking Luncheon |
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| 1:30 PM Case Study: Calgary, AB |
Implementing co-managed site contracts with brownfield owners to facilitate site development |
Scott Eagleson, Environmental Specialist, Environmental & Safety Management, City of Calgary |
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2:15 PM Brownfield developer and owners feedback panel on the
future of brownfields: |
Giving developers and owners the tools they need to facilitate brownfield development |
Tom Smith, VP Development, SmartCentres |
Pierre-André Gignac, ing. MGP Director, Health, Safety, Environment, Uniboard Canada Inc ( a Pfleiderer company), Pergo, Inc. ( a Pfleiderer company)
More to come… |
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| 3:00 PM Networking Break |
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Interact with conference speakers and fellow attendees. |
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| 3:30 PM Commercial Case Study: Anderson, Indiana |
Collaborating with brownfield owners and developers to build employment opportunities |
Gary Silversmith, President, P and L Investments |
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4:15 PM Institutional Case Study: Brownie Award Winner: Pavillons
Lassonde, QC |
Turning a brownfield into a LEED certified building |
Louise Millette, Director, Department of Civil, Geological, and Mining Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique |
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| 5:00 PM Conference Adjourns |
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