Rick Fedrizzi, president and chief executive officer of the U.S. Green Building Council, recently was named a keynote speaker for the 2012 Carrier Global Engineering Conference, to be held March 18-20 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Fedrizzi's address will focus on sustainability and the essential role people play in implementing sustainable building design using advanced technologies. Fedrizzi will emphasize how that role affects the way we build and train for the future.