Sustainable Stewardship: Greening Historic Buildings

Barbara A. Campagna, FAIA, LEED AP

Graham Gund Architect of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
Larkin at Exchange Building, 6th Floor, Barton Room
726 Exchange Street, Buffalo NY 14210

Tuesday, April 13
2 – 4 PM

Preservation Buffalo Niagara (PBN) is hosting a free lecture on making historic buildings – and all older building – more energy efficient. As the construction and operation of buildings accounts for more than 40% of the United State’s carbon dioxide emissions, reusing and retrofitting our existing buildings can reduce emissions dramatically.

Barbara Campagna, a Buffalo native, is the chief architect for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She will discuss the National Trust’s Sustainability Program and how the 29 historic sites of the National Trust are integrating historic preservation values with green building practices – from green housekeeping techniques to sustainability master plans to LEED certification for historic rehabilitations. The National Trust’s efforts are demonstrating that conservation and improvement of our existing built resources, including re-use of historic and older buildings, greening the existing building stock, and reinvestment in older and historic communities, is crucial to combating climate change.
According to Barbara, “Older buildings are one of our greatest renewal resources and everyone concerned with the environment should also recognize the value of keeping older buildings energy efficient and viable.”

Henry McCartney, PBNs executive director, stated “It will be great having Barbara here. Preservationists like Barbara know older buildings and how to care for them. But one difficulty we have is we are not selling anything and thus we don’t have advertising money to get our message out. We’re hoping this lecture will give design professionals, planners, contractors, public officials, environmentalist and others the information they need to inform the public about appropriate, often low cost ways to obtain greater energy efficiency in older buildings.
This lecture is part of a series organized by PBN with the support of the New York State Council of the Arts and PBNs Partners in the Field program funded by the National Trust, the Community Foundation of Greater Buffalo and the Western New York Foundation. The series’ corporate sponsor is Canon, Heyman and Weiss.

The workshop is free but pre-registration is required. To register, email info {at} p-b-n(.)org with your full name, affiliation, address and contact phone number or call (716) 852-3300. The workshop will be held in the Barton Room on the 6th floor. Click here for parking details and map.
Preservation Buffalo Niagara, 617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203

Phone (716) 852-3300 Fax (716) 852-5340
Email: info {at} p-b-n(.)org
Website: www.PreservationBuffaloNiagara.org