The Austin-based lifestyle and culture magazine, Tribeza, features CMPBS as part of their first-ever Green Issue, realeased July 2010. The article includes information about CMPBS’s current projects including single family housing for hurricane prone regions of the Gulf Coast and disaster relief housing for small island nations. CMPBS is featured alongside other Austinites working toward a more sustainable future.

The July issue of Tribeza is available at retail locations around Austin and online.

CMPBS co-director Gail Vittori was quoted in July’s issue of Health Facilities Management. She contributed commentary about sustainable hospital operations to the article “Green + Greener” written by Dave Carpenter. The July issue of Health Facilities Management is available on newsstands now. The article is also available electronically on the Health Facilities Management website.

CMPBS co-director Piny Fisk was awarded the 2010 Communication Achievement Award from the Austin Toastmasters. The award recognized Pliny’s “Outstanding Contributions to Exceptional Communication.” The Austin Toastmasters is the local branch of Toastmasters International, a non-profit organization committed to “helping people become more competent and comfortable in front of an audience.” As part of this mission, The Austin Toastmasters honors members of the Austin community who have made significant contributions to effective communication at their Annual Banquet. Pliny joins the ranks of previous Communication Achievement Award honorees including Kinky Friedman, former Austin Mayor Kirk Watson, former Texas Governor Ann Richards, and US Representative Lloyd Doggett.

CMPBS co-director Gail Vittori served as 2009 chair of the US Green Building Council’s Board of Directors. She introduces her fellow board members and USGBC staff and discusses her experience as chair of the board.

CMPBS co-director presented at the 2008 Healthcare Design Conference in November 2008. Gail discussed Updates to LEED for Healthcare.

CMPBS Co-Director will participate in a panel discussion about Green Healthcare at the chapter meeting of the USGBC Middle Tennessee Chapter. Other panelists include Kim Shinn of TLC Engineering for Architecture, James Moler of Turner Construction, and Brian Weldy, of Hospital Corporation of America.

The panel discussion will take place on Friday, June 25, 2010 from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM at the Adventure Science Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Tickets are $20 for USGBC members and $30 for non-members. Please visit the USGBC Middle Tennessee Chapter website for more information about registration.

CMPBS co-director Pliny Fisk will present a one day lecture/workshop to students at the Ecosa Institute in Prescott, Arizona. The Ecosa Institute’s mission is “to restore health to the natural environment, and thus the human environment, through education in design.” Pliny has presented lectures to Ecosa for over five years.

The lecture will take place on Friday July 16, 2010. Please contact the Ecosa Institute for more information about this and other lectures.

The Austin Green Roof Advisory Group was convened by City Council to explore credits and incentives for green roofs in Austin. CMPBS is represented on the Advisory Group by associate principal Dylan Siegler. The group’s work to date–including background information on expected green roof impacts in our region, the progress of the advisory group, and a summary of the interim report–will be presented to the community on June 3.

Interim Report Presentation

Thursday June 3, 2010

5:30 to 7:30 (the presentation will start promptly at 6:00 pm)
Carver Library, 1161 Angelina St., Rooms 2 & 3
Download a flyer here for additional information and to RSVP.

In addition, the council will present the rainfall simulator and greenroof test plots being used to measure stormwater runoff at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center on July 8th at 10:00 a.m.

**Update** Due to overwhelming response, the RSVP list for this event is now closed

Join us for the next installment of CMPBS’s 10 in 10 Series for a screening of the film:Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio with filmmaker Samuel Wainwright Douglas and producer Jack Sanders.

In 1993, the architect and MacArthur Genius Samuel Mockbee started the Rural Studio, a design/build education program, in which students create striking architecture for impoverished communities in rural Alabama. Guided by frank, passionate interviews with Mockbee, Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio shows how a group of students use their creativity, ingenuity and compassion to craft a home for their charismatic, destitute client, Jimmie Lee Matthews, known to locals as Music Man because of his zeal for R&B and Soul records. The film reveals that even beyond Mockbee’s death in 2001 the Rural Studio continues to be about more than architecture and building.

Mockbee’s program provides students with an experience that forever inspires them to consider how they can use their skills to better their communities. Interviews with Mockbee’s peers and scenes with those he’s influenced infuse the film with a larger discussion of architecture’s role in issues of poverty, class, race, education, social change and citizenship.

Saturday, May 22, 2010
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM - Film Screening: 8:30 - 9:30 PM
Q&A with filmmaker and producer following film.

This is an outdoor event.

CMPBS
8604 FM 969
Austin

For more info:512.928.4786
center@cmpbs.org
RSVP list closed

$15 suggested donation

CMPBS Co-Director Gail Vittori will participate in the 2010 National Women’s Leadership Summit in Anchorage, Alaska. U.S Senator Lisa Murkowski will be co-chairing the Alaska summit from June 3 - 5. The Anchorage Summit and its sister conference in Little Rock, Arkansas will focus on energy and environment.

Gail will join other women experts in energy and the environmental policy to lead panel discussions for the 3-day conference while articulating the best practices to employ at home.

Details about the summit and registration information are available on the NWLS website.