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8:34	Good morning.

8:34	Sorry for the delay -- we're just getting under way.

8:35	The room filled a bit slowly given the fact that it's the morning after the conference's big Friday Night Fling.

8:35

Here's the session info for today:

Barbara Campagna
Graham Gund Architect, National Trust for Historic Preservation
Anne Weber
Senior Associate, Ford Farewell Mills & Gatsch Architects
Wendy Jessup
Principal, Wendy Jessup & Associates, Inc.

Recent environmental management projects in National Trust Historic Sites have demonstrated the conflicts of installing HVAC systems in precious buildings not built to function as museums. Rather than ask what kind of system we want, we should be asking what kind of uses our buildings can support. This session will review the issues and make innovative suggestions for rethinking our approach on climate management systems.

8:36	Barbara Campagna has just given the introductions of the panelists and is now talking about why the National Trust is interested in this topic.

8:37	For us, it's the convergence of two programs: the sustainability initiative and the historic sites initiative.

8:38	http://www.preservationnation.org/issues/sustainability/ http://www.preservationnation.org/travel-and-sites/sites/index.html

8:40	On the sites front, as we've looked at how we're managing our sites, we've realized that in many cases, we aren't as good of stewards as we were striving to be -- largely because we installed systems that were too large.

8:41	This really came into focus in doing the LEED-gold certified restoration of the visitors' center at President Lincoln's Cottage.

8:42	As this was happening, the systems at several other sites -- different types, installed by different people -- were failing.

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