Clean Air Through Energy Efficiency Conference

Thanks to all the workshop and conference attendees, speakers and sponsors for having created a successful CATEE 2011 Conference!

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The Clean Air Through Energy Efficiency (CATEE) Conference is a premiere educational conference and business expo serving public and private decision-makers and thought leaders for policy and investments that determine the energy and water intensity of the built environment.

CATEE 2011 will be held November 7-9, 2011 in Dallas, Texas at the Sheraton Dallas North Hotel. This year will mark the 10th anniversary of groundbreaking Texas air quality legislation passed in 2001, SB 5, 77th Texas Legislature. Texas was the first state to introduce building sector energy efficiency initiatives to reduce emissions which included adopting energy codes, encouraging above code building performance, and requiring state agencies and political subdivisions to set cost-effective examples by reducing consumption each year.

The Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Texas A&M is assigned to provide technical support for several of these initiatives and calculate emissions benefits. ESL hosts this annual conference to share information on how to implement these and related policies, raise awareness of their impacts, develop and move toward new policy goals, highlight and celebrate the range of successful local policies and practices being implemented to achieve emissions reductions through energy efficiency in the built environment. ESL will host the 2011conference in cooperation with the EPA/DOT/HUD Partnership for Sustainable Communities.

The CATEE Conference attracts an eclectic group of local and state leaders, government officials and staff, business owners, development professionals, facility managers, industry experts, researchers, policy makers, and energy and air quality advocates. This is the most vibrant conversation available on pathways to a sustainable future for our cities and the tools for transformation. Please join us.

The Energy Systems Lab would also like to say a special THANK YOU for the hard work and thoughtful guidance of the 2011 CATEE Steering Committee:

Zaida Basora, AIA, LEED AP, City of Dallas
Stefani Case, Texas New Mexico Power (EUMMOT)
Mike Eastland, North Central Texas Council of Governments
Tom Fitzpatrick, CATEE, Energy Systems Laboratory
Theresa Gross, Public Utility Commission of Texas (ex)
Rusty Hodapp, P.E., CEM, CEP, CRM, LEED AP, DFW International Airport
Catherine Horsey, LEED AP, La Reunion
Donald Koski, AICP, US Department of Transportation-Federal Transit Administration Region VI
Nelson Nease, Brickfield Burchette Ritts & Stone, PC
Nicolas Ramon, US Department of Housing & Urban Development
Patrice “Pete” Parsons, ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability
Rose Sauser, Energy Systems Laboratory
Julie Smith, City of McKinney
Kirk Teske, AIA, HKS, Inc.
Tod Wickersham, Beneficial Results, LLC
Dennis Wilson, FAICP, MRAIC, Townscape
James Yarbrough, US Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6
Bahman Yazdani, PE, Energy Systems Laboratory
Kate Robertson Zerrenner, Environmental Defense Fund