Toronto - Downtown
Wednesday - September 30, 2009
The Faculty Club, University of Toronto, 41 Willcocks Street
Toronto, ON M5S 1C7
see direction
Registration - Networking - Meeting & Dinner with one Glass of wine:
Cash Bar Only available in the PUB downstairs.
New Time: 6:30pm to 9:30pm. R.S.V.P: (Please type the topic or date of the meeting on subject line) by email at: meetings@www.winwithresults.ca or 416-226-3288
Navigating Government Grants; Green Your Home with Government Gr$$n
Guest Speaker: Mark Salerno
Mark is a recognized expert in sustainable housing and community design and is CMHC's media spokesperson on a broad range of housing issues.
Mark is one of 250 Canadians personally trained by U.S. Vice President Al Gore to present the live version of 'An Inconvenient Truth' as part of the Climate Project Canada Initiative.
Through CMHC, he works to foster public, private partnerships and coalitions in support of the creation of sustainable housing and communities. In this regard, he has spearheaded many successful sustainable and universal housing demonstration initiatives such as Home 2000, The Sustainable Condo, and most recently the canühome. Collectively, they have been visited by over 400,000 people and have garnered significant media coverage including CTV's Live Earth telecast, Canada AM, and countless TV/Radio news spots, newspaper/magazine articles.
Recently, Mark took on the role of managing a National Sales Team within CMHC to promote the $2 Billion Municipal Infrastructure Lending Program - a key offering of CMHC under Canada's Economic Action Plan.
Through his former CMHC position ('98-'02), Senior Research Consultant, BC/Yukon, he was instrumental in leading a multi-party consortium of housing stakeholders focused on resolving the highly contentious "Leaky Condo" issue. This also included the management of over $2 million in research projects intended to enhance the energy efficiency and moisture management of building envelope assemblies.
Prior to joining CMHC he was a building science professor at Toronto's Seneca College as well as a designer, consultant and project manager on sustainable building design projects.
Mark has a Master of Architecture Degree and a Bachelor of Technology Degree and is a Member of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. He also participates in numerous committees and boards as follows:
- Member - CMHC Ontario Management Team & CMHC National Management Team
- Member - Royal Architectural Institute in Canada
- Executive Board Member & Treasurer, Canada Green Building Council Greater Toronto Chapter
- Executive Board Member, EcoSmart Foundation
- Board Member, Green Light on a Better Environment (GLOBE)
- Member, Toronto Real Estate Board's Green Task Force
- Member, Ryerson University's Sustainability Certificate Program Advisory Council
- Member, Centennial College's Architectural Technology Program Advisory Committee
- Advisor, George Brown College's Institute Without Boundaries
- Member, George Brown College Architectural Technology Program Advisory Committee
- Member, Humber College Sustainable Energy and Building Technology Program
- Member, Seneca College's Civil Engineering Technology Program Advisory Committee
- Member, Education Alliance for a Sustainable Ontario Steering Committee
- Member, Social Housing Asset Management Centre Steering Committee
- Member, City of Toronto Green Development Standard Cost-Benefit Study Committee
- Member, Towerwise Energy Efficiency Education Action Committee (TEEEAC)
- Member, The Home Depot (THD) Eco Options Product Verification Advisory Committee
- Member, Procter & Gamble (P&G) Expert Advisory Panel
- Member, EnerQuality Corporation Partner Advisory Committee
- Member, CitiesAlive! World Green Roof Infrastructure Congress Senior Advisory Committee
- Member, Green Collar Coop Advisory Committee
Mark A. Salerno, MRAIC
Member, National Management Team
National Sales Team Leader, Municipal Infrastructure Lending Program
Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Suite 300, 100 Sheppard Ave. E., Toronto, Ontario, M2N 6Z1
Phone: 416-250-3219 Fax: 416-218-3310,
msalerno@cmhc.ca,
www.cmhc.ca
