October 28 – 30, 2024
Resorts World Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES
October 28 – 30, 2024
Resorts World Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES
Rives Taylor FAIA LEED Felow has more than 35 years’ experience in institutional and commercial architecture with 30 years spent focusing on strategic planning, programming, and sustainable design, scaled from facility operations to campus and city planning. A Texas-practicing architect/educator, Rives has lead Gensler’s Firmwide Design Resilience Task Force and now leads the Gensler Research Institute Resilience Center. He casts a wide net in elevating both the why and how of sustainable design, including students, faculty, professionals, public officials, and the general public. He is on the Board of the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute He is part of the editorial team that produces the annual “Climate Action Through Design” (https://www.gensler.com/sustainability/climate-action-through-design-2021) In 2015 Rives led Gensler’s delegation to the Paris Climate Conference/Agreement and led the editorial team for the “Impact by Design” ( https://www.gensler.com/research-insight/sustainability ) publications annually (recent publication: https://www.gensler.com/research-insight/sustainability/2018 ). He is also part of the leadership team rolling out the Gensler Cities Climate Challenge (GC3)
Rives has been a general member and occasional board member of the ULI Sustainable Development product council for over 8 years. Locally he has been the inaugural director of the Houston ULI Chapter Building Healthy Places Council. He has engaged in two Professional Advisory Panels for Broward County [ https://seflorida.uli.org/uli-resources/bbt-center-broward-county-florida-advisory-services-panel-report/ ] and for the Duwamish River (Seattle) resilience focus [ https://americas.uli.org/advisory-service-panels/advisory-services-panel-seattle-washington/ ]
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Los Angeles Convention Center - West Hall, 515B
With over $4.4 trillion in loss of assets, infrastructure, business operations, community vitality, and life, persistent disasters across the United States have prompted a pivot in how real estate development and investment align with future proofing residential, commercial, industrial, and public-sector facilities. The launch of community disaster resilience zones by a bipartisan Congress and led […]
Thursday, November 2, 2023
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Los Angeles Convention Center - West Hall, 515B
One of the greatest challenges of our time: every new building emits greenhouse gases, and the city of Toronto needs to build housing for 3 million new residents by the same year it becomes net zero. Worldwide, the only solution to building more and polluting less is through the adoption of a circular economy and culture of material reuse, and developers have an unrivaled power to implement this necessary paradigm shift at an urban scale. Using our own salvaging pilot project at The Yards in Toronto as a backdrop, we propose a multidisciplinary panel discussion on the opportunities, challenges, and […]