Annual Meeting

Annual Meeting - 2009

Announcing

The 2009 Annual Meeting of the Rappahannock-Rapidan Regional Commission will be held on October 7, 2009 at Sweely Estate Winery in Madison, Virginia. The event will feature an informative speaker program, presentation of the 2009 Regional Distinguished Leadership- Citizen and Government Awards, and ever-popular PD9 Regional Raffle and promises to be yet another enjoyable and standing room-only event.

5:30 p.m. Registration and Cash Bar | 6:15 p.m. Dinner
To register, please call (540) 829-7450 or
email: shromyak@rrregion.org by September 28, 2009
$35.00 per person if registered by September 28 - $45.00 thereafter

Directions to Sweely Estate Winery:
6108 Wolftown-Hood Road, Madison, VA 22727

From the North: Take Route 66 West to Route 29 South. Turn right at Route 230/Wolftown-Hood Road and continue for 1.5 miles. The Winery is on the right.

From the South: Take Route 29 North. Turn left at Route 230/Wolftown-Hood Road and continue for 1.5 miles. The Winery is on the right.

1.0 APA/AICP CM Credits Approved

Keynote speaker John Quale, LEED-AP, initiated and serves as Project Director for the University of Virginia ecoMOD project. The ecoMOD Project+ is focused on creating highly energy-efficient and prefabricated homes for affordable housing organizations such as Habitat for Humanity. The project has successfully created five occupied affordable housing units on three sites in Charlottesville, VA and Gautier, MS. The project is a finalist in the 2009 World Habitat Award, and the recipient of the U.S. Green Building Council’s 2008 Excellence in Green Building Curriculum Award. It has also been recognized by the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (AIA COTE) as one of a few exemplary sustainable design curriculum initiatives in the country. John is a LEED Accredited Professional of the U.S. Green Building Council, and his research interests include ecological and climate responsive design and environmental criteria.

He has spoken nationally and internationally at various venues, including the National Building Museum, the U.S. Green Building Council’s GreenBuild conference, Princeton, Cornell, the Architectural Association (U.K.), Oxford University, University of Michigan and many other universities and conferences.

John is the author of the forthcoming book "Sustainable, Affordable, Prefab: the ecoMOD Project" to be published by UVA Press in 2010. He also authored "Trojan Goat: A Self Sufficient House," distributed by UVA Press, about his experience as the architecture advisor / coordinator for the 2002 UVA Solar Decathlon Team+, a national design/build house competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy in which the UVA team won 2nd Place overall. He has worked for several architecture firms in New York City, and among other high profile projects, worked on the J. Paul Getty Center in Los Angeles. John and his wife Sara Osborne, a landscape architect, established Q&O Design in 2001.

Rappahannock-Rapidan Regional Commission
420 Southridge Parkway • Suite 106 • Culpeper, VA 22701 • Tel: (540) 829-7450 • Fax: (540) 829-7452

E-mail: planinfo@rrregion.org