Attendance at the recent Building Green Conference and Trade Show held on the NSCC Waterfront campus was more than 50% greater than organizers had anticipated. “We’re just thrilled with the way things turned out,” says conference co-chair Jennifer MacNeil.
Co-hosted by the Atlantic Chapter of the Canada Green Building Council and the NSCC, organizers plan to make this an annual event.
And, if this is any indication of things to come, organizers should be planning for a much larger event next year. “When the US green building council got started with their first green conference they had a couple hundred people – and last year in Chicago they had 26 thousand,” points out CaGBC Atlantic Co Chair John Crace. “So that gives you an idea of how fast things can grow.”

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