Arlington Heights, IL (June 26, 2013) — A Who’s Who list of participants in the BUILDINGChicago/Greening the Heartland Expo and Conference includes planners, designers, approvers and builders from the 12-state region of the Midwest.

The conference program offers more than 65 accredited sessions, with a concentration on sustainable design, building information modeling (BIM), hospital and education-sector construction projects, and more. Session attendees can earn AIA CES and GBCI credits.

Among the 110+ conference participants are: Advocate Health Care, American Iron and Steel Institute, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory (USDOE), Ascension Health, Big-D, BioCities, BNIM Architects; Cannon Design; Carnegie Mellon University; Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters; Chicago Southwest Development Corp.; City of Blue Island, Ill.; City of Cincinnati; City of Southfield, Mich.; College of Lake County, Ill.; Crate & Barrel; dbHMS; DLA Architects Ltd.; Energy Center of Wisconsin; Environmental Systems Design; Euclid Ave. United Methodist Church; Goettsch Partners; Grand Valley (Mich.) State University, and Green Cincinnati Education Advocacy.

The 10th Annual Midwest Greening the Heartland expo and conference, presented by the U.S. Green Building Council – Illinois Chapter, takes place September 9-10 at the Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza, North America’s largest LEED Gold Certified hotel. The inaugural BUILDINGChicago expo and conference is at the same location on September 10-11. BUILDINGChicago is owned by Scranton Gillette Communications and SGC Horizon, publishers of Building Design+Construction.

For more information on seminars, attendee and exhibitor registration, visit www.buildingchicagoexpo.com; or contact Harry Urban at hurban@sgcmail.com; 847.954.7928.