BABSC and AIASVC COTE: Indoor Air Quality, Air Filtration, and Material Toxicity Workshop

Bay Area Building Science Collaborative (BABSC) & AIA Silicon Valley COTE Committee

October Workshop: Indoor Air Quality, Air Filtration, and Material Toxicity

Thursday, October 24th | 5:30PM – 8:00 PM at the Garden House | 400 University Ave, Los Altos (Located in Shoup Park)

THIS MONTH’S TOPIC?

Indoor Air Quality, Air Filtration And Materials Toxicity:

How To Transform Your Home And Your Projects To Safe, Clean, Non-Toxic Spaces For People And The Planet.

The focus will be why indoor air quality matters and how to improve it by:

• Understanding the sources of bad indoor air
• Learn about everyday materials you thought were safe but are filled with
• How to avoid these materials and products and source healthy alternatives
• Exterior envelope tips to avoid infiltration of outdoor pollutants
• How to use ventilation and filtration to improve indoor air quality
• Learn about online resources that you can use to find healthy materials alternatives that you clients will love

2 LU/HSW (pending approval)

 

Panel:

Moderator – Alexandria Evans, AIA

Job Captain & Project Architect | CAW Architects, Inc.

Alexandria Evans, temped for a social media company, while looking for her first designer position upon moving to California from Iowa. Her struggle finding her first job sparked her first involvement with the AIA starting with the AIASF mentorship committee. This helped her find a position with Howard Backen’s office in Sausalito. In 2018 she joined CAW Architects, Inc. and transitioned to the AIA Silicon Valley chapter and where she currently sits on COTE and chairs the Communications committee.

Alexandria, as a child of 2 public school educators, especially loves her work in education and strives to help create positive environments for the community. She strongly believes that architects have a responsibility towards the environment and works towards decreasing the built environments contribution to the climate crisis. This belief was fostered during her B.S. in Architecture at Georgia Tech and her M.Arch at Iowa State. Other interests include adaptive re-use and historic preservation, traveling, volunteering, and making jewelry.

 

Alexis Karolides, AIA, CPHC, LEED AP

Principal Architect | Point Energy Innovations

Alexis Karolides’s career focus has been on promoting, and leading teams to develop, super-efficient buildings, both during her 15-year tenure as Principal and Green Development Team Leader at Rocky Mountain Institute, and currently as Principal and Sustainability Practice Leader at Point Energy Innovations. Alexis has led four Zero Net Energy school projects at Point Energy as well as ZNE office and housing projects. She helps clients and design teams realize the synergistic goals of healthy, high-performance learning/working spaces and ultra-low energy consumption. Throughout her career, she has focused on greening educational, business, residential and both heavy- and high-tech industrial sectors. She worked with the Biomimicry Guild to prototype a portal that links human design challenges to solutions found in nature, now found at AskNature.org. Alexis has spoken around the world about the human and economic benefits of a superefficient and environmentally restorative building paradigm. She’s a registered architect and past-chair of the AIA Committee on the Environment, a certified Passive House Consultant, and a New Buildings Institute Fellow and a LEED Accredited Professional. She’s previously served as a board member of the Passive House Alliance U.S. and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Roundtable on Environmental Health. In 2017, she won the ZNE Leadership Award for Green California Schools and Community Colleges.

 

Madhubala Ayyamperumal, ASSOC. AIA, WELL AP, LEED AP, FITWEL AMBASSADOR

Lead Project Designer | Five Design Architecture and Interiors

Madhubala Ayyamperumal is a Design Professional, mentor and sustainable design advocate, who believes in improving the lives of people through socially and environmentally responsible design. Having worked in Asia, Middle East & United States, her professional experiences include Healthcare, Life Science, Tenant Improvement, Hospitality, Mixed use, Residential and Workplace Design Projects. She currently works as a Project Designer at Five Design Architecture & Interiors. Madhu brings the fluency of sustainability and wellness centric design and believes in promoting these attributes as the basis of her design concepts. Graduating with a Master of Architecture and Master of Engineering degree from Pennsylvania State, she was awarded the Henry Adams Medal and Certificate of Merit from the American Institute of Architects during her graduation. She is involved with ACE Mentorship and SFNOMA leading mentorship programs in shaping the future generation of the profession and advocating for diversity & inclusion. She is also a recipient of the prestigious Architecture Master Prize (Honorable Mention). Her involvement with American Institute of Architects Silicon Valley Chapter’s Emerging professionals committee and the committee on the environment has been instrumental. Her recent conversations with the professionals in the industry through spotlight interviews is significant in bringing in diverse perspectives within the profession. As a founding chair of AIASV’s Christopher Kelley Leadership Development Program, first of its kind in the west coast, she has been successfully running the pilot cohort of the program this year. She was recently named as one of 100 “Women of Influence” by Silicon Valley Business Journal. When she is not busy with work, she is involved in volunteering for the causes that she cares about, typography/sketching and hiking.

 

David Edwards, PhD, LEED AP, CGBP, GPR, HERS, CPHT, LF

David Edwards, PhD is the founder and CEO of Earth Bound Homes, a Certified B Corp company and founder of the building science educational not-for-profit; Bay Area Building Science Collaborative; www.babsc.org.

In addition to holding a Masters and a PhD in biochemistry from UCSD, David is a Certified Green Building Professional(CGBP), a member of the US Green Building Council and a Green Point Rater (GPR), a LEED-AP (Leadership in Energy Efficiency Design Accredited Professional), a HERS rater (Home Energy Rating Services), a Certified Passive House Tradesperson (CPHT) and a Living Future Institute Consultant (LFIC). He serves on the board of the Silicon Valley Chapter of the American Institutes of Architects and Chairs the Home Tours Committee and previously Chaired the COTE Committee (Committee on the Environment).

By creating a company that uses science, innovation and collaboration to bring out the best of the architectural design, while creating homes that are incredibly quiet, comfortable, efficient, durable, low maintenance and Zero Energy, Zero Operational Carbon and Zero Embodied Carbon, David has successfully combined the critical thinking inherent to science with his own passion for wanting to do work that creates a lasting, positive impact on people and the planet.