Join to hear an update on Alaska’s first C-PACE program

Anchorage is the first municipality in Alaska to set up a Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) program, and the first project under this program is in progress. Join us to hear from Melanie Lucas-Conwell, the new manager of Anchorage’s C-PACE program on the current state of the program, what else is going on around the state, and what we have to look forward to. We will also hear from James Dougherty of RIM Architects, whose building is the first C-PACE project in Anchorage.

• When: Wednesday, October 19 @ 12:00PM
• What: Free webinar style event to discuss C-PACE programs in Alaska
• Where: Zoom – Access the recording by clicking HERE
• Who: Melanie Lucas-Conwell, Municipality of Anchorage CPACE Manager and James Dougherty, RIM Architects

Melanie Lucas-Conwell manages the Anchorage C-PACE and the 49th State Angel Fund programs for the Municipality of Anchorage. Both programs use innovative financial tools to build public private partnerships and spur economic development across Alaska. Having worked in private, public and nonprofit sectors, her background spans investment and business strategy, commercialization, execution, and stakeholder management. Melanie’s a Board Member for Health TIE, sits on the Mayor’s Anchorage Economic Revitalization and Diversification Advisory Committee, and holds an MBA in Sustainable Finance from Presidio Graduate School. 

James Dougherty has been a practicing architect since 1984; and is now the Managing Principal of the Alaska RIM Architects office. James has 38 years of experience designing well planned, cost effective facilities.  His project responsibilities have involved visioning, master planning, programming, design, drafting, specification writing, LEED consulting, condition surveys, art integration and project management. James was the principal force guiding Alaska’s first LEED Silver project and followed with Alaska’s first LEED Platinum project. RIM is now viewed in a leadership role providing sustainable and resilient facilities to both the public and private sector, and James was instrumental in adopting a formal sustainability “ethos” within the company. He served six years as an adjunct UAA professor of construction management and architectural building technology.