Kris Callori, architect and LEED® accredited professional with Environmental Dynamics Inc, has received the designation of USGBC LEED® Faculty.  LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental) is an internationally recognized green building certification system developed by the USGBC (United States Green Building Council) to promote strategies aimed at improving building performance.  USGBC Faculty are expert practitioners in the green building industry who are selected, trained and licensed to teach USGBC education programs.

USGBC LEED® Core Curriculum Workshops are available in 100, 200, and 300 level courses and range from introductory level to intensive review of the LEED® Rating Systems. Coursework includes Green Building Basics & LEED®, Strategies for Success in LEED®, and Understanding the Building Design + Construction Rating Systems.  For a full list of course offerings, see www.usgbc.org.

Callori has been an active LEED® AP since 2000.  She has facilitated several key certifications across the nation, including the first LEED® certified project for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the first commercial LEED® platinum building in New Mexico, the first LEED® certified school in Arizona, and the first LEED® silver hospital in Oklahoma.

Since 2000, she has worked on over 100 projects applying for various levels of LEED® certification under several commercial rating system types.  She currently works in a LEED® NC Gold rated office building in Albuquerque.

If you’ve ever been in our park service building–and I know a lot of you
certainly have–you know what a wonderful place it is. The attached draft bill has been submitted by retired regional director and Keeper of the National Register, Jerry Rogers, and Kathy Flynn, founder and long-time executive director of the National New Deal Preservation Association.

Purpose

The purpose of the bill is to get the NPS Old Santa Fe Trail Building designated as a national historic site, thereby making it a unit of the National Park Service system and allowing it to be more available to the public and better compete for funding through our project funding system.

Support

If you support this designation, please write to your national congressman
Ben Ray Lujan or senators Bingaman and Udall, to express your support–and feel free to pass the draft and suggestion to write to your congressmen along to others of like mind. The city has passed a resolution in support of this designation,
as well as the New Mexico Heritage Preservation Alliance board of directors
and the National New Deal board of directors.

It is my personal goal to see this designation in place in time for the building’s 75th Anniversary, but wouldn’t it be wonderful if it were sodesignated in 2010 or even 2011! Why wait until 2014?

Victoria T. Jacobson, AIA, LEED GA
Historical Architect
National Park Service

Starting in 2012, the IRS will require businesses to report a wider range of payments to contractors, vendors and others, usually on Form 1099.

The change expanded existing reporting requirements to include a business’s payments related to goods and other property, and payments to most corporations. With some exceptions, payments to corporations are currently exempt from this requirement.

Further details are in Notice 2010-51

Attached is a press release on New Mexico’s first LEED Platinum Building, the Cognitive Behavioral Institute of Albuquerque.