Green Peak peaks at Huntington Chamber symposium

There was some serious greening going on Sept. 23, when builders, plumbers, electricians, architects and the cream of Long Island’s business crop united for the Huntington Township Chamber of Commerce’s Going Green Business Symposium & Expo.

The third-annual event – a smorgasbord of construction-related discussions and networking with an environmental edge – was split into successive sessions at Huntington’s Long Island Hilton and Melville’s Leviton Manufacturing Company. And it was bigger and better than its predecessors, according to Ronald DiGiacomo of the Huntington Chamber’s Board of Directors.

Mr. DiGiacomo, who chairs the Chamber’s Environmental Committee, played an active role in organizing the symposium, which attracted “greater participation and more sponsors this year.” Among the luminaries in attendance was former National Grid CEO Bob Catell, chairman of Stony Brook University’s Advanced Energy Research & Technology Center, who delivered the keynote address.

Big-name sponsors included LIPA, National Grid, Verizon, The Home Depot, Newsday and Long Island Business News, along with many influential Island-based construction and financial institutions. Also cracking the sponsor list was Green Peak Group, a Hauppauge-based enterprise that “integrates all facets of green construction and renovation, from conception to completion,” according to Mr. DiGiacomo, who’s also Green Peak’s chief operating officer.

Charlie Hall, who manages Green Peak’s energy services, was part of the expo’s “Finding the Green to Go Green” panel discussion. Joining Mr. Hall was Jacob Goldman, a tax consultant with Energy Tax Savers and a professional group member of Green Peak Group, an amalgam of CPAs, engineers and legal eagles consulting clients on federal greening incentives.

Dr. Ron Vitori, another professional Green Peak member and vice president of the construction-management firm Axis Group, moderated the “Training the Trades” discussion during the symposium’s afternoon session at Leviton.

Carrying a heavy load at the Chamber of Commerce event was ideal for Green Peak, and not only because its COO helped organize it. “As a consultant, a big part of what we do is finding the green to go green,” Mr. DiGiacomo said. “And since we’re into construction also, we’re very interested in seeing the trades stay up-to-date on green building techniques.

“It’s all about making these buildings efficient and more sustainable,” he added. “Making them better places to live and work.”

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