February 11, 2009
Times staff report
COLLEGEVILLE — A professor and author from the University of Oslo in Norway will be visiting St. John's University on Feb. 18 to speak about green building.
Chris Butters will give a lecture at 7 p.m. in Room 264 of the Quadrangle Building.
Butters will speak on "Green Design in the 21st Century: Lessons from the World."
He will show examples of state-of-the art buildings and urban development in Europe that have high social qualities and almost zero energy use or climate emissions and discuss issues related to creating a sustainable world.
A consultant and designer of sustainable communities and buildings in Europe, Scandinavia and Asia, Butters spent a decade in Bhutan as a consultant architect for schools and hospitals.
Butters' speech is free and open to the public.
