EDUCATIONAL SEMINARS AT NEOCON® EAST 2005 IN BALTIMORE
BALTIMORE (July 11, 2005) – Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc. (MMPI) recently announced its lineup of educational programs taking place at NeoCon® East 2005, which will be held Sept.
14-15 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Md. New in 2005, NeoCon East will host three exceptional keynote speakers that represent the industry’s finest.
With more than 40 seminars and association forums, this year’s show offers more educational opportunities than ever before. Providing unique industry perspectives, experts will delve into topics ranging from new ways to market design-related services to the government, to preparing a site emergency plan for the office. All educational seminars are one hour, rated by three skill levels and accredited for 0.1 CEU, 1LU or CMU.
Following is a current list of speakers, topics and times for the lineup of educational seminars:
KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
Edward Feiner, director of office operations, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
“Excellence by Design”
Wednesday, Sept. 14
Noon – Theater, Show Floor
Sponsored by: International Interior Design Association (IIDA)
Media Sponsor: Interior Design magazine
Thomas Mayne, founder/principal, Morphosis Architects
Thursday, Sept. 15
3 p.m. – Theater, Show Floor
Sponsored by: Allsteel
Kendall P. Wilson, AIA, IIDA, LEED™ AP, principal, Envision Design, Washington, D.C.
“Green Design: The Intelligent Approach to Interiors”
Thursday, Sept. 15
Noon – Theater, Show Floor
Sponsored by: METROPOLIS magazine
SEMINARS
Wednesday, Sept. 14
Color and Light Integration
This presentation, geared toward interior designers and architects, will illustrate ways to anticipate color in items of lighting and surface design.
9-10 a.m.
Speaker: Jeanne Kopacz, IIDA, IFMA, Bryer Architects, LLP
How Does Your Project Become a Material Reality?
Through case studies and project examples, attendees will gather a firm understanding of material sourcing, timing and costs.
9-10 a.m.
Speakers: Nancy Jackson, IIDA, CSI, NADI, ISP, NEWH and Ron Jackson, IIDA, SCI, NADI, ISP, Architectural Systems, Inc.
Complete Contracts Ensure Profitable Projects
This informative presentation teaches the basics of contract development, from simple letters of agreement to fully executed documents and a discussion of current legal issues.
9-10 a.m.
Speaker: Debra Browne, ASID, Harrison Browne, Ltd. Interior Design
Recognizing Physical Relocation as an Opportunity
Designers can glean ideas for enhancing a company’s infrastructure and workplace performance in the midst of change.
9-10 a.m.
Speakers: Susan Gilley, AIA, John Sun, and Kathryn Davis, Booz Allen Hamilton
Intelligent Environments: The Impact of Interior Technologies on Workplace Performance
This session focuses on the need for “IT” to be re-envisioned as a cluster of well-chosen “Interior Technologies,” capable of delivering a host of workplace performance improvements.
9-10 a.m.
Speakers: David M. Sykes, Ph.D., IAPP, HFES, The Remington Group, LP, and Roger Leib, AIA, ACHA
Effecting Change in the Interior Design Marketplace
This seminar is an interactive presentation on residential CSI specifications, methods for project teamwork, techniques for best installation methods, managing site recyclables and addressing non-toxic maintenance programs.
9-10 a.m.
Speakers: Kari Foster, USGBC, SMPS, AIA COTE, Annette Stelmack, ASID, and Debbie Hindman, SMPS, AIA COTE, USGBC, Associates Ill
GSA’s New-and-Improved Project Planning Process
Designers will learn how to win work with the General Service Administration (GSA) and gain insight into increasing the participation of quality bidders.
9-10 a.m.
Speakers: Diane Stolz, GSA Portfolio Management Division and John Lowe, AIA, WDG Architecture, PLLC
A Smarter Approach to Workplace Design
Attendees will learn about design strategies that not only improve physical space, but also positively affect the bottom line.
10:30-11:30 a.m.
Speakers: Karen Odlum, Aetna Inc. and Carolyn Rickard-Brideau, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, Little Diversified Architectural Consulting
Finding the Way: Designing Wayfinding Friendly Architecture & Signs
This session offers insight into signage design principles and wayfinding.
10:30-11:30 a.m.
Speaker: Scott Saunders, SEGD, Architectural Sign Associates
Designing with Light
Attendees can explore the art and drama of low-voltage lighting, as well as the use, implementation and design options offered by low-voltage lighting systems.
10:30-11:30 a.m.
Speaker: Eric S. Borden, ALA, Ambiance® Lighting Systems at Sea Gull Lighting Products, Inc.
Can People Work in the Space You Designed?
An overview for planning and developing programs that provide solutions for working and impacting productivity.
10:30-11:30 a.m.
Speaker: Melodee Wagen, IFMA, Melodee Wagen Consulting, Inc.
Sustainability: Our Biggest Challenge of the New Millennium
This session offers an overview of a decade of sustainability leadership from the carpet industry.
10:30-11:30 a.m.
Speaker: Robert Peoples, Ph.D., Carpet and Rug Institute (CRI)
Exploration and Application of Workplace Research
This presentation demonstrates the value of evidence-based design research that positively affects people’s health, safety and welfare.
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Speaker: Emily Utoft Durand, ASID, InformeDesign®
Art and Architecture
This presentation uses a pediatric cancer center as a case study of art as architecture.
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Speakers: Jennifer Kenson, NCIDQ, Granary Associates, and Maxine Krinsky, IFMA
Living Well – Positioning to the Luxury Level Market
Attendees will learn how to brand to the luxury residential market, track how the market is evolving and where it’s headed in terms of trends and styles.
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Speaker: Mick de Giulio, CKD, de Giulio Kitchen Design
Preparing for Workplace Emergencies
This session is a how-to presentation on developing workplace emergency procedures.
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Speaker: Daniel Della-Giustina, Ph.D., West Virginia University in the Department of Industrial Engineering
Daylighting in Row Housing
Attendees will get ideas for accessing natural light through innovative building forms and cutting-edge technologies when building row houses.
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Speaker: Susan Steindler, AIA, Inside & Out Architectural Design
Greener Office Space Does Make a Difference – How You Can Build and Manage Green
This workshop offers ideas for greener office space and best practices for building greener buildings and using environmental products.
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Speaker: Sandy Jones, GSA Public Buildings Service
Research Methods and Processes: How to Incorporate Evidence-Based Design in Your Projects
Attendees will learn what makes a study valid, how to write survey questions and improve response rates.
3-4 p.m.
Speaker: Linda Porter Bishop, ASID, IIDA, FKP Architects, Inc.
Allusions of Grandeur – Achieving AAA Ratings in Hospitality
Attendees will learn about the AAA Five Diamond and Mobil Five Star Ratings, and how to use property as a means to produce a state-of-the-art design solution.
3-4 pm.
Speaker: Deborah Lloyd Forrest, FASID, ForrestPerkins LLC,
Lost in Translation
Attendees will learn and build an awareness of the drawing and architectural documentation process in building design.
3-4 p.m.
Speaker: Harry Mark, AIA, Redmond Schwartz Mark Design
The Art of Plastics in Architecture and Design
This seminar explores the structural and design aspects of plastics as “green” projects.
3-4 p.m.
Speaker: Mary Boone Wellington M.B. Wellington Studio, Inc.,
Thursday, Sept. 15
Color in Health Care Environments: A Critical Review of the Research Literature
This session highlights results from a study on the application of color in health care design.
9-10 a.m.
Speakers: Jane Rohde, AIA, FIIDA, ACHA, NCARB, JSR Associates, Inc. and Roger Call, AIA, ACHA, LEED, Herman Miller for Health Care
How to Prepare a Quality Office Furniture Contract
Attendees will learn how to get a GSA contract through topics such as filling in required information in solicitations, price proposals, technical proposals and other proposal requirements.
9-10 a.m.
Speakers: Jennifer Marzouk
Going National: Planning and Implementation of Company-wide Workplace Standards
Attendees will learn how to develop national workplace standards that demonstrate measurable results and manage end-user expectations.
9-10 a.m.
Speakers: Enza Parrella, CREW, CoreNet and Dominic Ruggerio, CFM, NovaStar Financial
How to Ask the Right Questions to Determine “Green” Products
This session teaches attendees about third-party certification programs and how to know the right questions to ask manufacturers about their products and LEED credits.
9-10 a.m.
Speaker: Kathleen Keller, Dodge Regupol Inc.
The GSA Pricing Guideline – Made Simple
Attendees will learn how to develop effective budgets, detailed project planning, design and implementation.
9-10 a.m.
Speakers: Lois Bennett, IIDA, NCIDQ, GSA, and John Lowe, AIA, WDG Architecture, PLLC
The Lighting Design Process
Attendees will gain valuable information about the process of designing architectural lighting to highlight architecture and enhance environments.
10:30-11:30 a.m.
Speakers: Shawn Good, PE, LC, LEED, Brinjac Engineering
and Benjamin Basom, EIT, LC, Brinjac Engineering
Is It We or Me?
Attendees will learn implications and possible approaches to questions to set their business up for future success.
10:30-11:30 a.m.
Speaker: Martha Garriott Rayle, FASID, IIDA, Rayle Associates
Interior Materials: Facts or Fiction?
This presentation presents an overview of the vast offerings of interior materials and how to choose materials with confidence.
10:30-11:30 a.m.
Speakers: Sylvia Kowalk and Heidi Pfannes, IIDA, Kingscott Associate
Digital Printing & Decorative Printing Applications
Attendees will gain insight into how digital imaging is changing products from wall coverings and curtains to floor coverings and ceramic tiles.
10:30-11:30 a.m.
Speaker: Patti Williams IT Strategies
Greening Architecture
This session will be a discussion on the impact of green design and incorporating it into good design.
10:30-11:30 a.m.
Speaker: Larry Scarpa, Pugh + Scarpa
The Impact of Design on Workplace Wellness
This presentation is an introduction to the relationship between the design of the workplace environment and wellness.
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Speaker: Kathy Montgomery, FASID, Designing For Wellness
Living Spaces for Entertaining, Relaxing and Well-Being
This seminar addresses the planning of outdoor environments to create functional, and beautiful spaces.
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Speaker: Drue Lawlor, FASID, Education-Works, Inc.
When Industrial and Contract Design Intersect:
What Each Discipline can Learn from the Other
This session suggests five important things contract designers can learn from their industrial design colleagues.
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Speaker: Adam Simha, MKS Design
The Challenge or Contribution of Interior Design to Today’s World
This presentation explores the importance of interior design for private business, social and public spaces, from not only a safety and convenience standpoint, but also an aesthetic one.
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Speaker: Mary Knackstedt, FASID, FIIDA, IFDA, IDS, Knackstedt, Inc.,
Succession Planning in the Facility Management
This presentation on Interpersonal Dynamics (ID) explores the importance of improving one’s professional performance.
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Speaker: Thomas Hand, CFM, CFMJ, T.J. Hand Facility Management Solutions
E-Buy Training for Government Customers
This session provides an overview of an online acquisition tool that gives access to hundreds of government contractors.
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Speakers: Tonya Butler or Doris Marsh
For more information about NeoCon East seminars and association forums, visit www.merchandisemart.com and click on NeoCon East, or call 800-677-6278 (MART).
Merchandise Mart Properties Inc. (MMPI) is a trade show, leasing and property management firm, specializing in managing buildings devoted to wholesale showrooms and commercial office space. MMPI produces more than 300 trade shows, market events and conferences each year.
MMPI manages The Merchandise Mart, 350 W. Mart Center and 33 North Dearborn in Chicago; Market Square, the Suites at Market Square, Hamilton Market, Plaza Suites, Furniture Plaza and the National Furniture Mart in High Point, N.C.; the Architects & Designers Building and 7 W New York in New York; the L.A. Mart in Los Angeles; and the Washington Design Center and Washington Office Center in Washington D.C.
Vornado Realty Trust, owner of MMPI, based in New York City, is a fully integrated equity real estate investment trust. Vornado’s common shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange and are traded under the symbol VNO.
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