Design & Build For Health & Wellness30TH ANNIVERSARY —HONORING OUR VISIONARY FOUNDER HELMUT ZIEHE

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BUILDING BIOLOGY®

& ECOLOGY

BUILDING BIOLOGY CONFERENCE 2017

ELKHART LAKE, WISCONSIN | OCTOBER 6, 7, 8

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Contents

Schedule Of Events 03

Arriving At Our Conference Venue 04

Attending Our Conference 05

Host: Stephen Collette 06

Keynote Speaker: George Paul Swanson 07

Keynote Speaker: Andrew Pace 08

Featured Presenters 09

Osthoff Resort & Your Health 10

Resort Map 11

Our Founder: Helmut Ziehe 12

Schedule Of Events

Friday

5:00–7:00 PM Reception and network with Building Biologists from (Yes!) around the world in The Osthoff’s fabulous Elk Room. A full cash bar with resident mixologist will be on-site, serving soft-drinks, wine, beer and cocktails.

Saturday

8:30–9:00 AM Welcoming Address: Larry Gust, Jeanne McLaughlin

9:00–10:30 AM Keynote: Building Envelope: George Swanson

10:30–11:00 AM Networking Break

11:00–12:30 PM Healthy Building Case Study: Alex Stadtner

12:00–1:30 PM Lunch

1:30–2:00 PM Networking Gather & Chat

2:00–3:30 PM Solar: Neil Matthes

3:30–4:00 PM Networking Break

4:00–5:30 PM Universal Design: Susan Duncan

5:30–6:30 PM Networking Break

6:30–9:00 PM Wine, beer, cocktails (cash bar) and soft drinks, 6:30 to 9:30, with live, non-amplified music (6:30 to 7:30). Celebration dinner will be served at table (7:00), followed by a presentation by Susannah Ziehe.

Sunday

8:30–10:00 AM Keynote Address: Healthy Building Materials: Andrew Pace

10:00–10:15 AM Networking Break

10:15–11:45 AM Healthy Wiring Practices: William Holland & Oram Miller

11:45–12:45 PM Lunch

12:45–1:45 PM New Construction & Building Biology: Paula Baker-Laporte

1:45–2:00 PM Networking Break

2:00–3:30 PM Biogeometry: Doreya Karim

Your $585 Registration Fee Includes:

Friday Evening: Networking Meet & Greet (Elk Room, 5:00–7:00 PM)

Network with Building Biologists from (Yes!) around the world in The Osthoff’s fabulous Elk Room.

Cash bar with resident mixologist.

Saturday: All Events (8:30 AM–5:30 PM)

Organic lunch with vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options. Free coffee, tea, and water service all day.

Saturday Evening: 30th Anniversary Celebration Dinner

Three course meal and soft drinks included with vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options.

Cash bar available.

Sunday: All Events (8:30 AM–3:00 PM)

Free coffee, tea, and water service all morning.

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Getting Here

The Osthoff Resort, the venue for our 2017 Conference, is located 60 miles north of Milwaukee,

Wisconsin; 103 miles east of Madison, Wisconsin; and 150 miles north of Chicago O’Hare Airport.

It is situated on beautiful Elkhart Lake, in a small town of the same name. The photos on our

website are typical of the entire property. If your health is susceptible to allergens, insect bites,

the proximity of forest creatures, foliage-based irritants, etc., please proceed with your own best

caution toward deciding whether to register for our conference.

The Osthoff Resort is just 64 miles from Milwaukee’s General Mitchell Airport and 140 miles from

Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. Milwaukee is the more convenient point of arrival. It can be reach by

plane (all major carriers), train (Amtrak), or bus (Greyhound).

Shuttle services are available to The Osthoff Resort from both O’Hare and General Mitchell

airports. IBE discount rates are available via The IBE Conference Airport Transportation Portal

through Go Riteway Transportation Group.

Please note that our conference will end early on Sunday, at 3:30 PM, enabling those who wish

to catch a flight, train, or bus home Sunday evening to do so. However, the resort welcomes

those who wish to depart Monday, or otherwise extend their stay.

Upon ArrivalIf you will be lodging on-site, check into your room as you would at any fine hotel. You will be

asked to pay for your room in full upon arrival, plus your card number (or cash deposit) held to

cover any incidental costs, such as rental films, mini-bar, etc. On a small table adjacent to The

Osthoff’s reception desk you will see a display where you can collect your hard copy of this

Conference Arrival Guide.

If you will be lodging off-site, we trust you know how to proceed on arrival. Your Conference

Arrival Guide will be waiting for you at the IBE reception desk, which will be located just inside

the door of our main event room (Crystal Lake Ballroom) on “morning 1” of our presentations.

Friday Evening: Network with Building Biologists from (Yes!) around the world in The Osthoff’’s

fabulous Elk Room. A full cash bar with resident mixologist will be on-site, serving soft-drinks

and pretty much whatever else you might care to imbibe.

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Attending Our ConferenceWe ask that all attendees please check in and say Hello at IBE’s reception desk on Saturday

morning by 8:30 AM. Our reception desk will be located just inside the door of the Crystal Lake

Ballroom.

Saturday and Sunday presentations begin promptly at 8:30 AM. In order to ensure the maximum

time for networking opportunities and fulfillment, we will not be waiting for the event room to fill

before getting underway each morning.

Saturday and Sunday lunch is included in the registration fee, and will be served buffet-style in an

adjacent room. This room will not provide the low-EMR readings as our event room, so you are

asked to bring lunches into the event room to enjoy them in the lower-EMR environment.

We ask that you respect the health of our chemically sensitive attendees by abstaining from

wearing scented products, and/or clothing laundered in scented products. We require that you

respect the health of our EMR-sensitive attendees by ensuring that your mobile phone is turned

off while you are present in our event room, our IBE-dedicated meals areas, and in hallways

adjoining those areas. Airplane mode is not acceptable. If you bring a laptop and/or a notepad

device into the event for the purpose of taking notes, fully disable the WiFi and Bluetooth

capabilities before entering the room.

Thank you for taking these extra precautions!

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Your Host

Stephen Collette, BBEC, BBNC, LEED AP, CAHP, BSSO

is a Certified Building Biology Environmental Consultant,

and principal of Your Healthy House, based out of

Lakefield, Ontario, Canada. Stephen is a retired straw

bale builder, having worked on two dozen straw bale

structures across Ontario and Quebec, from small cottages

to 13,000 sq. ft structures and everything in between.

Stephen has an engineering background and became

passionate about healthy housing when his family became

ill due to exposure to mold. Stephen conducts indoor

environmental inspections on houses and other buildings

to determine health impactors based on building science

and environmental health concerns.

Stephen is a LEED AP (Leadership in Energy and

Environmental Design Accredited Professional) with the

Canada Green Building Council. He holds a Building

Science Certificate from the University of Toronto and

is a certified Building Science Specialist of Ontario. As a

consultant Stephen helps people make healthier, more

environmentally friendly building choices. A published

author, he writes and lectures across North America on

healthy, natural and green buildings. Please visit his website

at www.yourhealthyhouse.ca.

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Breathing Walls: Doing More With Less

George Paul Swanson received a Bachelor of Science in

Industrial Technology from Western Washington University in

1975. Since that time he has worked throughout the Pacific

Northwest, the Great Plains, and Southeastern United States,

designing, building, and managing construction of homes and

commercial buildings. In 1981 he published the bestselling

Dome Scrapbook culminating his experience of designing

and participating in building more than 300 geodesic dome

structures in the Pacific Northwest between 1974 and 1981.

Over the years Swanson Associates have completed over eighty low-toxic, and fully non-toxic

“Breathing” natural building projects in eleven states and several foreign countries.

A few of the building systems used were traditional, StrawClay, Rammed Earth, “Faswall,” clay-

treated woodchip block, “Hebel” aerated concrete block wall systems and most recently MgO

natural ceramic cement based building systems . Several of these projects have included: single

family wetland septic systems, rooftop water collection systems, pervious concrete landscape

features and solar voltaic energy systems.

George is a registered graduate of the IBE International Bau-Biology & Ecology program as a

Building Biologist as of 1992 and is listed in “Who’s Who” in America in 1996 for his contributions

to Sustainable Technology. Currently he offers natural home and commercial building

consulting, designing and construction oversight services throughout the states and abroad.

In recent years Swanson Associates have been the lead design/build consultants for numerous

commercial projects including several churches, a monastery and a twenty-one building

natural medicine complex in Austin Texas. Ongoing long-term international projects include: a

waterfront Eco-resort in Kauai, restoration of an ancient hacienda in Mexico, and an Eco-Village

complex in Trinidad. Recently he has returned from his 9th trip to China where he is conducting

ongoing product development for Magnesium Oxide Ceramic Fiber-Cement products, including

all natural fiber/MgO cement-based wall, roof and floor prefabricated structural insulative panels

(SIP’s).

Since 1975 he has conducted hundreds of seminars across the country and abroad on the

benefits of natural building design.

Saturday Keynote

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Sunday Keynote

My Green-Built Home Is Killing Me

Andrew Pace is the founder and owner of the Green

Design Center® in Waukesha, WI. He launched

the company in 1992 as Safe Building Solutions®,

a division of Mitchell Pace & Associates, a family

owned business that serves the commercial and

industrial building market. Green Design Center® is

now the premiere retailer of green and healthy home

building and improvement products and consulting in

Wisconsin, and a major national distributor of green

home improvement products. Green Design Center®

currently operates six retail locations and has several

additional locations throughout the United States

planned for opening in the next few years.

Pace has been a materials consultant for numerous LEED®, NAHB®, Healthy Child Healthy

World® and Green Built Homes® projects throughout his career. Pace has become a nationally

recognized expert on green and healthy building products. Along with being profiled in

numerous publications, Pace has authored several articles about the construction of healthy

homes, which have been published in regional and national magazines, such as Environmental

Design & Construction, Ecological Home Ideas, and Paint Dealer magazines. Pace is a

columnist and serves as an editorial advisor for Green Building Product Dealer magazine. In

2008, Pace launched a new green building product rating system called Degree of Green®,

which has already been featured in numerous national publications. Degree of Green® is being

used by retailers and manufacturers alike to educate consumers and eliminate confusion within

the green building realm.

Currently, Pace is developing the protocols for the FRAT (formaldehyde release attenuation

test) method, which will allow IAQ professionals to pinpoint the exact surfaces in a home that

are releasing dangerous levels of formaldehyde. This simple test will reduce the expense of

trying to eliminate formaldehyde through the traditional process of elimination.

Pace is a past board member of the USGBC-WI Affiliate and is a two-time president of the

Construction Specifications Institute-Milwaukee Chapter. In 2003, he received the Citation for

Distinguished Service from the American Institute of Architects.

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Susan M. Duncan, RN

Weaving Universal Design & Building Biology Together

Doreya Karim, BBEC, EMRS

Biogeometry

Neil Matthes, PE, MSEE

Solar

Alex Stadtner, BBEC

Healthy Building Case Study

Paula Baker-Laporte, FAIA, BBEC, BBNC

Building Biology In The Age Of Green Construction

William Holland & Oram Miller, BBEC, EMRS

Healthy Wiring Practices: The Building Biology Method

Feature Presenters

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IBE has made every reasonable effort to ensure that the classroom, dining room, commons areas, and overnight guest rooms at this venue meet or approach Building Biology Standards for a health-supporting environment. If anything you read below leads you to feel concerned for your health and wellness, we encourage you to consider not attending and we will understand and support your decision.

WiFi service to a portion of a selected wing of the resort, as well as to our meeting room, will be turned off for the duration of our event. While our venue’s location is remote, it is nonetheless “on the grid.” There are cell towers nearby, and the venue has presented sporadically-situated magnetic fields of varying but not of severe strengths. You will be sharing the property with non-IBE guests who may use their mobile phones and other wireless devices freely.

There will be two laptop computers and an iPad in use by IBE staff in the event rooms. These devices will neither be WiFi nor Bluetooth enabled, but their monitors will nonetheless be emitting industry-standard levels of magnetic and electric fields, emanations that typically dissipate one to six feet from the monitor. Attendees who opt to bring a laptop or tablet into our events will be required to disable WiFi and Bluetooth, and cluster themselves in a single area.

Hallways and common areas that immediately serve IBE-dedicated rooms will likely be cleaned with chemical products. The resort is in a wooded area on the shore of a lake. Expect random indoor crevices that harbor mold. If you are mold or chemically-sensitive, especially if you suffer from MCS, we urge you to use caution in deciding to attend. This resort should in no way be considered an IBE-sanctioned safe harbor from all potentially wellness-threatening environmental agents.

We ask that all guests abstain from using scented hygiene and beauty products, and abstain from wearing clothing laundered in scented cleaning products, throughout the duration of their stay.

Ostoff Resort & Your Health

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Osthoff Resort Map

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Our Founder: Helmut Ziehe

Helmut Ziehe’s Building Biology calling began with an “ah-ha” experience in North Africa in 1980 that changed the course of his life and career. As resident engineer for a city of 90,000 inhabitants, he noted that a majority of people had abandoned their government-provided homes in favor of living in tents. Their government homes were constructed of concrete, a poor material health-wise, that heated the interior rooms to an extent that air-conditioning could not bring adequate relief. A seasoned architect with a Dipl.Ing. degree from the Technical University of Berlin, and a Master’s in Tropical Studies from the London School of Architecture, Helmut unearthed the solution by examining historical local homes, some of which dated back 4,000 years, and found they used clay as their basic building material and utilized covered walkways for shading and ventilation.

This eye-opening experience led Helmut beyond his career as a modernist architect to embrace the precepts of Bau-biologie. Once his engineering assignment in North Africa was completed, he began his studies under Dr. Anton Schneider at the Institut für Baubiologie + Oekologei (IBN), and never thereafter returned to his “conventional” architecture practice. In 1985 he moved to the United Kingdom, where he established the English Institute of Bau-biologie, personally translating from German into English the twenty-three IBN course packs that became the IBE Correspondence Course for training new Building Biologists. He then relocated to the United States in 1987, founding the International Institute for Bau-Biologie & Ecology, in Clearwater, Florida, which serves to this day all of North America, as well as other English speaking and Latin American countries.

In 1989, when a reporter asked Helmut, ”How many students does the Institute have?”, Helmut answered: “Only eight.” To which the reporter replied: “Everyone has to start small.” Since that day, the institute Helmut founded has enrolled almost 2,000 students.

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