Arlington Heights, IL (July 2, 2013) — The BUILDINGChicago/Greening the Heartland Conference program offers more than 65 AIA CES and GBCI accredited sessions on sustainable design, building information modeling (BIM), hospital and education-sector construction projects, and more.
Architects, specifiers, contractors and designers from the 12-state region of the Midwest will be networking with 100+ conference participants that include: Harley Ellis Devereaux; HDR Inc.; Heapy Engineering; HGA Architects and Engineers; HOK; IFF; Iowa Department of Corrections; Jones Lang LaSalle; KJWW Engineering Consultants; Lawrence Technological University; Loyola University Chicago; Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago; Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance; Ministry Health Care; Mortenson Construction; Passive House Alliance United States; Preservation Green Lab; Public Building Commission of Chicago; Siemens Building Technologies; SmithGroupJJR; St. Anthony Hospital & Chicago Southwest Development Corp.; St. Vincent Fishers (IN) Medical Center; State of Illinois Capital Development Board; Transwestern; Turner Construction Co.; U.S. General Services Administration (GSA); University of Chicago & University of Chicago Lab Schools; University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC); Urban Land Interests, and VOA Associates.
The three-day program will be held at the Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza, North America’s largest LEED Gold Certified hotel. The 10th Annual Midwest Greening the Heartland expo and conference, sponsored by the U.S. Green Building Council chapters from the 12 Midwest states, runs September 9-10. The inaugural BUILDINGChicago expo and conference takes place September 10-11. Scranton Gillette Communications and SGC Horizon, publishers of Building Design+Construction, own BUILDINGChicago.
For more information on conference seminars, attendee and exhibitor registration, visit www.buildingchicagoexpo.com; or contact Harry Urban at hurban@sgcmail.com; 847.954.7928.