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T.R. is a seasoned leader in the clean energy sector, bringing more than a decade of expertise in management and executive roles within the solar industry. He has guided both large and small solar companies, with a strong emphasis on sales, marketing, and finance, and played a key role in advancing solar lending in the Northeast. T.R. earned his MBA from the Maastricht School of Management in the Netherlands and was one of the first in the U.S. to achieve NABCEP Technical Sales certification, solidifying his standing as a pioneer in the solar industry. ABCEP PV Technical Sales, Solar Power Financing, Solar Leasing, Residential Marketing and Sales, Database Marketing, Business Development. Major Account Relationship Management, selling IT Strategy and Management services, IT Consulting Sales Specialties: Vendor selection, negotiation, benchmarking, industry analysis, opportunity planning, go-to-market strategy, and channel strategy Show Highlights The future of solar and storage, highlighting the concept of virtual power plants and the hurdles of battery deployment. The founding of Brooklyn Solarworks and the innovative solar canopy product for flat roofs in NYC. Solar and storage systems and exploring the Amicus Solar Cooperative for mission-driven initiatives. New York City solar incentives: Federal, state, and unique local incentives available. The need for innovative solutions, such as solar canopies, to address challenges with solar installations to comply with fire department regulations. The integration of solar and storage systems is expected to enhance energy resilience and reliability for homeowners and businesses. Virtual power plant concept for distributed energy resources. Challenges with battery deployments in NYC due to fire department restrictions. “It’s never too late! If you've got special skills and you can bring something to the table, there's definitely a place in solar renewables for you. Because this industry and this sort of general set of technologies is going to grow so fast in the next ten years because of things like the Inflation Reduction Act, climate change, energy prices, etc. There's going to be so much opportunity…so go for it, get your foot in the door, do whatever you have to do to just get some experience.” Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Leading two groundbreaking ventures, Wild Orchard and RePure, my journey in the wellness industry is marked by innovation and a commitment to health and regeneration which goes beyond sustainability. At Wild Orchard, we've successfully introduced the world's first Regenerative Organic Certified teas, a testament to our dedication to exceptional quality, beyond sustainable farming practices, and farmworker fairness. Wild Orchard teas have earned 24 medals at the most prestigious global tea competitions, and can be found in top organic retailers like Whole Foods, Wegmans, and many others. Our award-winning teas are also featured in Michelin-rated restaurants, where they are celebrated for their purity and exceptional quality. With RePure, we've turned our focus to the home environment, providing families with top-tier wellness technology that prioritizes indoor air and water quality. Our healthy home operating system has earned accolades such as the 2023 CTA Wellness Product of the Year, and Health & Wellness Project of the Year at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, reflecting our impact on creating smarter, healthier living spaces. By merging my expertise in regenerative organic products and wellness technology, I'm steering both companies toward a future where we regenerate our soil, bring more nature into our lives and use a bit of technology to fill in the gaps for a longer healthspan for all. Show Highlights Michael's Dual Roles: Michael shares insights from his work optimizing indoor environments through his company, RePure, and his regenerative organic tea brand. Cross-Industry Innovation: Both businesses are interconnected, allowing for the innovative application of health and wellness principles across different industries. Healthier Living Spaces: Focus on optimizing indoor air and water quality for improved health in residential and commercial environments. Regenerative Organic Tea: The tea company emphasizes regenerative practices, is regenerative organic certified, and promotes health benefits while supporting environmental sustainability. Career Advice: Michael reflects on overcoming growing up as an introvert and how traveling when young broadens perspectives and fosters personal growth. Consumer Demand: Growing interest in healthier living spaces is driving innovation and investment in wellness real estate. Wellness Real Estate Growth: As the fastest-growing sector in the wellness industry, it presents lucrative opportunities for architects, builders, designers, and developers. Design Impact on Health: Michael highlights that architecture and design are never neutral—they either contribute to or degrade health. Community Engagement: Emphasizing the importance of volunteering and mentoring, Michael discusses the value of engaging with communities and supporting emerging entrepreneurs. "The demand for wellness solutions in real estate is rapidly growing. Whether you are a builder, architect, designer, integrator or developer, I encourage you to explore offering wellness-focused products and services. Doing so will not only elevate your business but also bring significant value to the clients you serve." —Michael Don Ham Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Levar Jackson, CEO of Yogh Group | Sustainable Technology and Hospitality Visionary Levar Jackson is the Founder and CEO of Yogh Group, a sustainable and impactful hotel development and management company. Yogh Group is making significant strides to be at the forefront of hospitality and sustainability as society transitions to an interconnected, intelligent, low-carbon world. The company integrates hospitality, art, agriculture, and cuisine into its operations to help lead the way into this new era. Prior to founding Yogh Group, Levar was the Founder and CEO of Visual Renaissance, a full-service art strategy firm that operated from 2009 to 2022 with notable success. Visual Renaissance specialized in sourcing and curating unique wall art, paintings, sculptures, and installations for high-end hospitality, residential, and commercial properties. Now part of Yogh Group, Visual Renaissance manages the company’s art museums. Show Highlights Sustainability focus: developed infinitely reusable canvas for hotel art. Realized importance of attaching ROI to sustainability efforts. Shifted focus during COVID pandemic to effective sustainability in hospitality. Yogh Group aims to make sustainability more profitable than non-sustainability. Algo Helix system: algae growth for textiles, food, and more. Key Energy system: modular energy generation for properties and beyond. Need for intelligent design incorporating global architectural wisdom. Passive home design is becoming more common, but challenges remain. Heat pump limitations in large cities due to heat island effects. “We're very much about sustainability and impact. You have to be sustainable for the planet and for the people. If you're doing something that's hurting people, they won't do it, even if it saves the planet. And when you do something that's saving the planet, you're saving the people. Climate change is real, and it's fairly deadly when you get caught in heavy storms or floods. And heat is actually a killer. A lot of people die from heat related deaths per year, and it's getting worse.” x Show Resources and Information LinkedIn Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Rebecca Riss is originally from White Plains, New York. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Physics and Studio Art from Carleton College in Minnesota and Master of Architecture from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Her passion for sustainability has led her to be active in AIA New York COTE, a steering committee member for the Carbon Leadership Forum New York Chapter, and the Carbon Leadership Hub Policy Lead, just to name a few. A true environmentalist, Rebecca is excited by the change in architecture, as the approach to sustainability continues to respond to new research, technology, and priorities. Her involvement and initiative have helped develop and implement updated standards, advocate for meaningful policy changes, and explore more holistic methods for evaluating a project’s health and environmental impacts across the industry. Rebecca’s motivation comes from the colleagues and the communities she serves. She states, “It is inspiring to work with smart, caring, and inquisitive people to positively impact our neighbors and our future generations.” AIA Framework for Design Excellence design principles that integrate sustainability into all aspects of architecture. Exploring tools for embodied carbon analysis and outreach to suppliers for detailed reporting. Excited about AIA Materials Pledge and increased manufacturer disclosure. Material vetting strategies for lower embodied carbon products ensuring products with lower environmental impact are prioritized. Implementing life cycle assessments (LCAs) to evaluate the overall sustainability of materials throughout their entire lifecycle. Integrating both operational and embodied carbon strategies to minimize overall carbon footprint in building design. Encouraging client education and advocacy for sustainable practices. Sustainable design practices tailored to meet the unique needs of educational, public facilities, and municipalities to enhance community infrastructure. “...If you're getting into this green building movement now - just be proactive about going outside of your comfort zone. Take initiative to do what interests you and explore the questions that you're invested in. And you don't need to ask permission of people to take those next steps and dive into the sustainability issues that you're particularly interested in exploring.” -Rebecca Riss Show Resource and Information LinkedIn Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Andrew Pace, Healthy Building Expert, Creator of the Non Toxic Environments podcast. Andrew Pace is a Healthy Home Concierge and Founder of The Green Design Center, a leading resource for homeowners and contractors looking to source products that are healthy and green and receive expert consulting advice on designing and building healthy green homes. Andrew is the host of the Non Toxic Environments Podcast. He is a worldwide expert on green and healthy building products and services customers and contractors from around the globe. As founder of the oldest healthy building supply company in the United States, Andrew has become one of the single most helpful and educational experts dealing with the day-to-day concerns of those individuals who suffer from allergies, asthma and chemical sensitivities. Andrew serves as a board member of the Change the Air Foundation and has been featured in numerous national media outlets. Please follow along at @nontoxicenviornments and https://www.thegreendesigncenter.com. His projects and expertise have been featured in numerous media outlets and industry podcasts including Real Simple, Men's Health , Architectural Digest and Wellnessmama just to name a few. He has recently presented alongside Gwyneth Paltrow and Deepak Chopra as part of the 2023 Change The Air Summit with host Michael Rubino and discussed The Science of Healthy Buildings at the Healthier Tech Summit. Andrew serves as a board member of the Change the Air Foundation. Eye opening health risks associated with traditional construction methods. Growing concern over mold due to energy-efficient building practices. Focuses on human health concerns in construction to reduce exposure to harmful chemicals and pollutants in indoor building design. Industry trends and a renewed excitement in healthy building post-pandemic. Wisconsin climate challenges create challenges for building design and materials. Whole-home projects to create healthier living environments. A proactive approach to adapting to industry changes in the rapidly evolving green building industry. Engaging with clients and peers provides valuable insights that contribute to personal and professional growth. Traveling to learn about sustainable practices in different cultures can provide unique insights into local environmental stewardship. Diverse approaches to sustainability can inspire innovative solutions for modern challenges. “A lot of the problems that people are going through health-wise can be attributed to how we live in our built environment. Understanding what's happening from a health standpoint really helps me decide on how we're going to approach our new podcast season, who we're going to talk to, maybe the things that we need to look for.” -Andrew Pace Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Jennifer Taranto brings more than 20 years of experience in the commercial real estate and construction industry. She joined Structure Tone in 2001, where she served as a superintendent and project manager before becoming STO Building Group’s Vice President of Sustainability. She ensures that environmental, social and governance (ESG) principals are incorporated into client projects and STOBG organizational strategy. As a passionate advocate for reducing the environmental impact of the built environment, Jennifer gets involved in the early stages of design and construction to define the client’s ESG goals and help the project team create an internal roadmap to achieve them. With her guidance and expertise, organizations around the world have been able to improve people’s health and wellbeing while reducing the construction and operating impacts of facilities. As a founder of the non-profit, Built Environment Plus, and the current Chair of the organization’s Board of Directors, Jennifer is a recognized sustainable construction leader and frequent speaker. She has been recognized by the International WELL Building Institute with their WELL AP award in 2018 and the WELL Faculty award in 2019, 2020 and 2021. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Construction Engineering from North Carolina State University. Show Highlights Overview of the integration of green building programs such as LEED, WELL, Fitwel, and BREEAM into construction practices. Key strategies of the benefits of forming a green team, promoting ride-sharing, enforcing no-idling policies, and using electric vehicles on construction sites. The importance of green materials, prefabrication, temporary systems like LED lighting and solar power, and technologies such as drones Attention was given to reducing embodied carbon and future green construction trends, followed by a Q&A session. Discussion on the importance of LEED credentials and the growth of the green building movement. Discussion on the importance of certifications for corporate sustainability and green financing. Introduction to the top ten ways to green a construction site. The role of technology in construction, including drones and virtual meetings. the evolution of green materials and the importance of EPDs and HPDs Examples of innovative materials and construction methods being used in the industry to reduce waste. “You're going to start to see a lot of designs that are going to shift toward lower embodied carbon materials. A lot of our clients are getting savvier and asking those questions. I think the other, the pie chart that maybe you don't have, Charlie, in the deck is the fact that 49% of the embodied carbon is in the building the day that the contractor hands over the keys to the client. So half of the lifetime amount of carbon is in the building before anybody even occupies it. There's a big opportunity there in order to really ratchet those numbers.” -J Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Olga Itsiou, Chief Operating Officer at DIMAND S.A. | Architect | RIBA Joined DIMAND in 2005 as Technical Director and currently holds the position of Chief Operating Officer, distinguished for adeptness in finding solutions in challenging scenarios, orchestrating efficient team dynamics, and pioneering the implementation of new, innovative, and sustainable policies and technologies into the operations of DIMAND. Prior professional roles include positions at HOK International Ltd in London as a Project Architect, REDS S.A. of the ELLAKTOR Group as a Consultant and Design Manager, and INTRA DEVELOPMENT S.A. as a Design Manager. Graduated as an Architect Engineer from the University of Greenwich with a BA (Hons) in Architecture. Completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Architecture at Kingston University and obtained a Post-experience Certificate in the Professional Practice of Architecture (RIBA Part 3) from the same institution. Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in the United Kingdom. Show Highlights The role of transportation in addressing indirect emissions. The value of travel for broadening perspectives in green building. DIMAND focuses on large redevelopments and major renovations revitalizing underutilized urban areas. Responsible for 45% of LEED certified projects in Greece Piraeus Tower Project: a landmark development and a key part of Greece's transition into a new era of urban renewal. Aim to repurpose existing structures, reducing the environmental impact associated with new construction. Community engagement is a key focus to meet local needs and enhance neighborhood vitality. Involve facility management from pre-design phase for optimal operation. Comprehensive carbon footprint assessments allow for the identification of both direct and indirect emissions, enabling targeted strategies to reduce overall environmental impact. Incorporating facility management expertise early in the design phase can optimize building performance and ensure that sustainability features are effectively utilized throughout the building's lifecycle. Emphasizing a lifecycle approach helps in understanding the environmental impact of a building from design through demolition, ensuring sustainable practices are integrated at every stage. Involve facility management from pre-design phase for optimal operation. “It's better to regret something you have done than something you haven't done. The planet is suffering. We seriously need to do something about it. So all of you that are jumping in the green building movement just keep focused, try your best to reverse the harm that has been done over the past years, and always be positive. Also, travel. I think by traveling, you get so many ideas and you get to see what other countries are doing. And it helps a lot in focusing and seeing things from a different perspective.” -Olga Itsiou Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Enzo Tessitore, Licensed Architect & Urban Planner, LEED Fellow, sustainability advocate, local community supporter, amateur baker and classic car lover is a sustainability-driven executive with international experience in bringing people, organizations, and money together to help drive the global property industry toward green practices. In 2023, in recognition of his extraordinary contribution to the global green building movement and LEED, the USGBC recognized him as the youngest LEED Fellow in the world. As an Architect and Urban planner, Enzo is responsible for the Green Building Council Brazil operations, where he has worked for over seven years. He also served on the global business development team for Latin America at the US Green Building Council, focusing on developing the Brazilian market for Arc buildings’ operational performance benchmark platform. He participates on several steering and technical committees, such as in the Ministry of Mines and Energy, ABNT (Brazilian Association of Technical Standards), in the global project Better Places for People, of the World Green Building Council, where strategies are discussed to increase the demand and the adoption of sustainable buildings that support the health, well-being, and productivity of the people within them, as well as in the Advancing Net Zero, also from the WorldGBC, which aims to increase adoption of Net Zero buildings throughout the world. For the past five years, he has maintained his professional practice in architecture and urban planning, working with projects focused on sustainability at different scales. Born in Brazil and educated in California and Sao Paulo, Enzo holds a double major in Architecture and Urban Planning from Escola da Cidade in Sao Paulo. Show Highlights Enzo became the youngest LEED Fellow at age 30. Brazil's status as the fifth-largest market for LEED certifications. Explains structure of World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) and local chapters. Focus on decarbonization strategies and biodiversity. The absence of supportive legislation contributes to green buildings remaining a niche market despite a growing interest. The push for new construction and existing building retrofits is essential for achieving sustainability goals. AI's potential impact on green building design leading to more sustainable choices. Clear communication fosters understanding and alignment among diverse stakeholders in green building projects. “Green buildings are not going away… Green buildings are an umbrella. There's a whole bunch of things underneath it, whether you're an energy efficiency geek or you really love to study how the built environment affects our forests or maybe you're really into passive design. There's a whole bunch of things that are underneath that sort of green building umbrella. There's going to be more and more legislation that requires your building to be efficient. There's going to be more and more incentives for your building to be efficient. I hope at some point we're not allowed to build inefficient buildings...” -Enzo Tessitore Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
[smart_track_player url="https://traffic.libsyn.com/gbespodcast/GBES_With_Lee_Newton_1.mp3" ] is an entrepreneur who works tirelessly to educate the industry on more sustainable practices, from sourcing to implementation. After facing frustration with sustainable sourcing she began a project that allows designers to easily find vendors that meet rigorous sustainability criteria. Through the process of building the greenList platform. She was surprised to learn that over 80% of the residential designers do not have a formal education. And even those that do did not have sustainability as part of their curriculum. By creating a new platform that’s accessible to residential designers closes a longstanding educational gap and creates new stands in conscious design. Drawing inspiration from unfamiliar spaces and traditional, time-honored elements, Megan lives not just for design, but for design that helps others love what they do, where they live, and how they feel when they step into a space that feels like them. For Megan, no two days are the same and this unparalleled edge that every day and every project brings just ensures an unmatched, custom design for all clients. You’ll notice Megan’s relaxed personality and tasteful wit as she collaborates on projects with you, the vendors, contractors, and installers. Show Highlight Her Projects include both residential and commercial renovations. Targeted messaging to attract sustainability-focused clients. Interior Design Greenlist is a platform for designers that aims to simplify the sourcing process by pre-vetting companies based on sustainability criteria. Sustainability is becoming more prominent in the interior design community. The rise of eco-friendly materials and practices has led to demand for sustainable design solutions among homeowners and commercial clients. Understanding product lifecycles and identifying genuine sustainable practice. Regulatory pressures and market trends are driving innovation in sustainable materials and manufacturing processes. Challenges in identifying greenwashing. Focus on net-zero construction and enhancing indoor air quality. Show Resource and Information Don’t forget to catch more episodes and resources for all of your green building news at the website. Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES: GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more insurances that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Dr. Lee Newton is an optometrist who has learned to build, develop, and invest in real estate profitably. He loves to help others learn to do the same. Beginning his health care career as his own tenant and landlord, he quickly learned the benefits of real estate as a preferred asset class and began investing in both residential and commercial properties. Having been able to assist many medical clients with design/build projects, Dr. Lee’s primary area of interest is new construction. He is particularly adept in the area of value engineering, the art of shaping the cost of the project to meet both functional and budgetary needs without sacrificing quality. His assistance is frequently sought in this realm. Other areas of expertise include building science, thermal design, and building performance. With a proven track record of quality and transparency in both cost and timeline, Dr. Lee has been known to save clients as much as $1M on a single build. Given the effects of inflation in the post-pandemic era, his current area of passion is the design and construction of affordable residential housing. Show Highlights Focus on net-zero construction and enhancing indoor air quality. Promoting all-electric designs and the use of advanced air purification systems. Value-engineered home designs focus on optimizing cost while maintaining quality and functionality. All construction activities have some negative impact on the environment, emphasizing that there is no absolute green building. Adaptation of sustainable practices to improve building performance and reduce harm to the planet. Integrating heat pump technology and solar readiness in building designs supports sustainability goals and reduces reliance on fossil fuels, contributing to lower carbon emissions. Recommends investing in well-positioned raw land for future development. Increasing MERV ratings on furnace filters and adding individual room air purifiers significantly enhance air cleanliness. “I've come to the conclusion that there is no green building that occurs at an absolute level. Everything we do to the earth results in the earth being less green than when we started. There's only green buildings in a relative sense. And it just makes the most sense to try to leave the least impact on earth as we go about constructing and rehabbing.” Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Jane Frederick, FAIA. LEED AP, Architect, Author, AGLN Fellow & 96th President of the American Institute of Architects. Designing sustainable houses that connect clients to the place they call home never gets old for Jane Frederick. She loves working with people who are ready to create the house of their dreams and enjoys thinking through everything, from the ideal room that captures the views to finding the perfect tile for the bathroom. For over 35 years, Jane has been working alongside her husband, Michael Frederick, creating award-winning houses in the hot, humid Lowcountry of South Carolina. They are both passionate about sustainability and reducing the environmental impact of their houses. As participants in the AIA’s 2030 Commitment, they meet the goal most years. In 2023, Jane Frederick, was awarded the AIA South Carolina Medal of Distinction, the highest honor given by the chapter, and was the first woman to receive this prestigious award. Jane Frederick, also believes in giving back, and everyone on her team actively supports a variety of organizations, both personal and professional. Locally, they support the Open Land Trust, Coastal Conservation League, The Spanish Moss Trail, and the Historic Beaufort Foundation. This commitment to service also inspired Jane to become the 2020 President of the American Institute of Architects. Show Highlights The importance of sustainable practices in the evolving landscape of architecture. In-house HVAC design allows for tailored solutions that enhance system efficiency, better indoor air quality, and comfort. Promoting solar panels and backup batteries over generators ensures energy availability. Raising houses out of floodplains for sustainability enhances the resilience of homes against climate change impacts. Hoping for net-zero code to pass for broader sustainability goals in the built environment. Focus on custom residential design within a 200-mile radius. Sustainable materials and construction practices that enhance durability and reduce environmental impact. Effective communication of the benefits of sustainability can lead to better decision-making and increased client satisfaction.selling sustainable solutions to clients Right-sized HVAC systems are crucial for maintaining energy efficiency and indoor air quality in modern homes. “What's changing a lot about residential design is that the sophistication of the building systems is just growing exponentially, and that you really have to stay on top of that. Quite often, you might work with a contractor that might say, ‘We've done it this way for 40 years, and it's worked fine’, and it's like, ‘Well, no, we are building super tight houses now, and we have to bring in fresh air, and you have to make sure that everything is working, because it's not just how we've always done it.’” -Jane Frederick Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
John Mlade, Sustainable and Healthy Environments, LFA, WELL Faculty, LEED Fellow Sustainability is more than a job; it is a way of thinking. Having practiced in a dedicated sustainability role within design, engineering, consulting, and construction firms for the better part of two decades, this individual has developed a command of both the science and art of sustainable design and construction. Inspired most by the opportunities that emerge when addressing challenges through a lens of sustainability, they promote positive change in their work through the engagement of people using tools for systems thinking, reflective conversation, and visioning. They are a process champion with the ability to bring together disparate stakeholders around a common vision, goals, and strategies without compromising technical rigor. This individual is looking forward to being the incoming 2023 Chair of the Board of Directors for the Illinois Green Alliance, as the organization makes great strides to decarbonize Chicago and the State of Illinois. With the 2020 strategic plan, Illinois Green has a robust strategy in place to accelerate and solidify its place in the market, leading lasting change in new ways and creating the positive impact that the world needs. Illinois Green has long been the local organization most aligned with this individual's professional career, and they would like to give back in the most meaningful way possible by guiding its future growth and strategic direction. They believe we are at a critical moment for sustainability. With efforts around carbon drawdown, green infrastructure, EDI, resilience, and health and wellness continuing to mature across the industry, unprecedented obstacles persist, and the urgency is greater than ever before. It is time to double down efforts to ensure continued reach to new audiences, growth in the depth of expertise among practitioners, influence on policymakers and other key influencers, and rapid movement beyond the “sustainability status quo.” Show Highlights Aspiring green professionals to adopt a sustainability lens in their careers. Importance of LEED Fellow credential and reviewing applications. White and Company: Focus on integrative design and sustainability Internal sustainability standard applied to all projects Additional value on the client's behalf more integrated way for frameworks, kind of like rating system agnostic. Emphasis on embodied carbon and materials reuse in current projects. John discusses a crucial focus for the industry. Materials assessment before demolition for reuse and recycling. Apply sustainability lens to any field, pursue 'up all night curiosity.' Accountability frameworks to help assure all the stakeholders. “ I think LEED still has a lot of value. I'm really excited for LEED v5. It's going to be extraordinarily difficult for some teams and the industry is going to have a little surprise coming [like when LEED v3 came out]. But I think it's worth it. It's a challenge that we all need to accept and that we all need to excel at.” -John Mlade Show Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
James Inedu George, One of the most eminent and influential West African architects and designers of recent decades recognized for his innovative approach to solving complex urban challenges, and most famously his brilliance with space and design. He is the founding partner and Design Lead at HTL Africa Ltd, Tao South Africa, and HTL Asia Plus, which works on projects around the world and is widely considered “among the most significant in contemporary architecture.” Born and raised in Zaria, Nigeria, Jame’s passion for architecture blossomed under the influence of his vibrant hometown, known for its historical significance. His early career accolades include winning the Sahara Energy young architect student competition, setting the stage for a career characterized by keen attention to social issues in architecture, housing deficits, and economic disparities. James is recognized for his innovative approach to solving complex urban challenges, and most famously his brilliance with space and design. James’s professional journey is distinguished by his unique ability to address complex urban issues through inventive architectural solutions. His career milestones include designing key pieces for the 2003 Nigerian presidential inauguration and developing a replicable $10,000 sustainable house in Lagos, which demonstrated the feasibility of affordable housing intertwined with economic opportunities for its residents. In 2008, James founded HTL Africa, a research-driven architectural firm dedicated to addressing the specific challenges of West African environments. HTL Africa is today one of the most prolific architectural practices from the continent, with a varied body of work and a myriad of impressive ongoing projects beyond Africa. The practice’s work ranges from master plans to the restoration of historic buildings, urban planning and all aspects of design. Honored internationally, including a nomination for the prestigious Rolex Mentor, Protegé Art Initiative A fervent advocate for adaptive reuse, James has been instrumental in revitalizing structures and infusing them with new purposes, long before it became a mainstream architectural trend. In Ghana for example, it restored an already defunct 200-year-old Presbyterian church into more than just a spiritual centre but a major tourist hub to last for centuries more. Currently underway is the first of its kind Transcorp Hilton Event Factory, a disused valley warehouse transformed into a 5,000 seater state-of-the-art venue, amongst many others. James's contributions have been honored internationally, including a nomination for the prestigious Rolex Mentor, Protegé Art Initiative, a gold mention for the Home Africa Crisis organized by the UN. He actively participates in exhibitions like the Biennale d'architecture d'Orleans in France, Venice Biennale, showcasing his "Miracle Room" installation in 2019. His TEDX talk, "Invention of isi ewu," delves into his studio's work and the concept of Affordacity (affordable city). Show Highlights Integrating traditional African designs with sustainable practices. James' firm work on residential, commercial, and performance buildings. Challenges of recycling materials in Nigeria. Focuses on ‘local sustainability’ - combining contemporary design with traditional practices Exploring building permeability and energy efficiency. Developing an 'energy bill' concept for cities. Tying contemporary high end design with traditional practices. Holistic use of different materials to support sustainable processes, availability, and finance in the region. Energy balance needs to exist from the onset for the architecture to work. “What we've been learning is that sustainability has to be ingrained in it. In that sense, a building must be responsible first and foremost. When I say responsible, like how you and I are responsible, it must act as a citizen, so it must pay tax. So if you look at it from that perspective, our buildings are paying tax because they outlive us. So if they pay tax and they are responsible citizens to the environment, sustainability starts to rewrite itself and develop differently. So that's the trajectory that we've gone.” -James Inedu George Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Richard Harpham has more than 20 years of experience launching products into international markets for both start-up ventures and enterprise organizations. Currently he is a co-founder of Skema, Inc. Richard has experienced most of the highs and lows of bringing disruptive technology to developers, designers and contractors. He was an early hire at the start-up, Revit Technology Corp, and then after Revit was acquired by Autodesk, spent nine years helping to bring it and a ‘new’ concept of BIM to the U.S. market. At the same time, he also led global marketing for AutoCAD and all Autodesk AEC products. More recently, at Katerra, he led software strategy to support transformational changes in how buildings are designed, engineered, and delivered. Show Highlights Skema founded to address challenges in design for constructability. Focus on modular, repeatable elements in building design. Tips to design with constructability in mind early in the process. Emphasis customer implementation and value experience over sales and marketing AI in Architecture and Construction applications are mostly narrow and specific. Skema uses machine learning and AI for design assistance and understanding visual aspects of previous designs. AI needed as a design assistant, not a replacement for human architects. Importance of asking the right questions about AI technology. “Let's have the machine look after the things that aren't the inspirational and differentiated part of design, so that you can put more time into thinking about the quality and things that you bring as a designer that truly make the difference to the owner, the client, the occupier, and probably help you win more work and make more money in the process when you deliver the designs.” -Richard Harpham Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Marco Valerio Ceccotti, Italian sustainability consultant and LEED AP. His background includes many of the first LEED v2.2 and v2009 certified projects in Italy, collaborating with design and construction companies. Graduated in Economics and specialized in Environmental Management, I’m fully involved in the Italian Green Building Movement since 2015, using USGBC rating systems to inform and improve decision making in the construction industry. Using such tools in this field as well as other business industries is a key factor to balance negative impacts created by environmental and social “externalities”, and to foster innovation, resilience and equity on each investment or initiative. I was also recently involved in piloting the latest version of LEED v5 for European projects. We need to find a “purpose” in business to ensure each company is not only devoted to financial stability, which is necessary, but also to provide products or services with a positive impact on our society. We need to create a stakeholder economy capable of redistributing value to people, of creating benefits for the whole community. This is why I’m also proud to work, day by day, with private companies aligned to these concepts’ ad giving me the possibility to focus on what really matters, yes, as Green Building Show Highlights Highlights of work to achieve harmonized sustainability standards across 30 countries and one of the first LEED v5 projects. NATIVA's mission to accelerate the transition to sustainable business practices. Emphasis on double purpose companies that pursue profit and positive impact on people and planet with the same force. Additional Certification Programs and GBCI programs like True Zero Waste and Parksmart. True Zero Waste as a standard for multinational companies. Marco predicts a strong future for portfolio approaches and green finance. Emphasis on the importance of sustainability in long-term investments. European regulations like CSRD are driving transparency in sustainability efforts. “I think that everyone jumping into the green building movement should be excited because this is our moment. This is the moment when sustainability professionals become too important for projects, especially when the investment is a long term investment. Things must be studied with sustainability in mind, because otherwise, we will have in the future something that we regret. We have the chance now to do our job and help our society at the same time, we can be purpose driven professionals. ” -Marco Valerio Ceccotti Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Jeffrey Johnson, PhD, PE operates at the intersection of expertise, innovation and technology to advance sustainability efforts that will revolutionize the water industry while protecting the future of generations to come. Tapping in-depth knowledge of domestic and global water issues honed through business and academic experience, Jeffrey leads groundbreaking work related to stormwater, wastewater, potable water, agricultural water, and coastal environments. His work harnesses artificial intelligence to provide data and practical insights to a world watching its most precious resource — water — slip through the cracks. With two trillion gallons of drinking water lost in the U.S. annually — leading to a $7.5 billion revenue loss — Jeffrey is committed to transformative change to create a future where water resources are managed with the utmost efficiency and sustainability. Articles by Jeffrey Johnson Show Highlights Oldcastle Infrastructure’s focus on water and sustainability Role in water management and sustainability. Work in stormwater management and green infrastructure. Addressing water scarcity. Innovative solutions they are developing. Alarming statistics about water loss in the U.S., including 2 trillion gallons lost annually due to leaks. The challenges of aging water infrastructure and the need for innovative solutions. Jeffrey highlights the use of AI and real-time sensing to improve water management. The importance of listening and public service learned from his mentors and other avenues in the industry. Goals to improving water infrastructure report cards Tips for the future of sustainability and the green building movement. “Here's what I'm most excited about these days. It's our work around aging infrastructure and this crossroads that we found ourselves at in the United States with our water infrastructure. And you look at the American Society of Civil Engineers, as a proud member there, and they put out an infrastructure report card every so often where they look at bridges, roads, communications, water, and they give it a grade for the country. And you look at water across the spectrum of drinking water, wastewater, stormwater report cards, not good.” -Jeffrey Johnson Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
TITLE: Green Building and Sustainability Leader John Harrison (Returning Guest) John Harrison, FAIA, RDI, LEED Fellow. John is a sustainability innovator and licensed architect with extensive and diverse experience in both project and enterprise level certifications and design standards. He is one of the world’s foremost experts on the global application of sustainable strategies at scale and utilizes his expertise in sustainable architecture, engineering and construction to enable organizations to reach unprecedented goals. John is a pioneer in the evolution and implementation of multiple LEED rating systems; as an early adopter for the original 1998 LEED pilot, the first commercial interiors rating system, and the LEED retail and volume build pilots. While at Starbucks, he co-authored the company’s LEED for Retail Volume Build Program and led the execution team responsible for sustainable strategies and LEED certifications. With over 1,600 certified stores in 22 different countries/territories and all 50 US states, the program is recognized as the most successful green building program of its kind in the world. In private architectural practice, John spent 13 years at Mithun in Seattle working with a variety of sustainably driven retail, commercial and institutional clients including: Recreational Equipment Incorporated (REI), Precor, Miraval Resort and Spa and the IslandWood Environmental Learning Center. IslandWood was one of the first five LEED Gold certifications in the world and an American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten Award winner. For the outdoor retailer REI, John executed more than five dozen sustainable core stores, in addition to flagship projects in Bloomington, MN and Tokyo, Japan. With John’s leadership, the REI building portfolio was elevated with scalable core standards based on sustainable strategies explored in flagship projects resulting in some of the first LEED ID+C Retail Projects ever certified. John is a dedicated environmental advocate who has donated thousands of hours, through multiple channels at local, regional, national and international levels. Through outreach, service and education, he has elevated the sustainability knowledge of building industry professionals, provided board leadership for ecologically focused nonprofits and helped develop environmental education for the next generation of leaders. He currently serves on the AIA COTE Advocacy Task Force, the Greenbuild Advisory Board and is board vice president for Northwest Natural Resource Group (NNRG), which is a regional non-profit focused on responsible forest practices and FSC certifications. Prior to his service with NNRG, John was board president for the environmental restoration and youth leadership development organization EarthCorps. John is a nationally and internationally recognized speaker on sustainability at scale and has led presentations to building professionals on subjects related to LEED volume certification and sustainability at the national AIA convention, multiple Greenbuild conferences and a variety of other industry events. Show Highlights Navigating global sustainability standards and challenges of working with different sustainability standards across countries. Importance of adapting to local codes and practices while maintaining global sustainability goals. Examples of projects in various countries, luxury retailers, and their unique challenges. The future of green building with a focus on carbon reduction and human health in building design. The need for generative design and inclusive leadership in the green building movement. Importance of addressing existing building stock and portfolio-driven solutions. John's collaborative and multidisciplinary approach to projects in his career. Exposure to sustainable materials and practices Early adoption of sustainable practices and materials. REI flagship store in Seattle. Challenges and successes in certifying over 1600 Starbucks stores globally. Collaboration with USGBC and GBCI to develop and refine the LEED volume program. Impact of his work on colleagues and the broader green building community “The other thing I think is thematic and necessary is that we can build a lot of really cool, perfect buildings and it takes a lot of effort and maybe they use very little water and no energy off the grid, but it doesn't account for the vast majority of the housing stock and the business stock and the office stock and the retail stock. The portfolio driven solutions are going to be another thing that is going to continue to drive the industry. It's like how do I take a massive machine and make it 20% better, because that 20% represents a whole heck of a lot of carbon and other negative impacts.” -John Harrison “I think it's more about the ripple effect. The ripple effect of green building projects is pretty cool, and totally quantifiable. It's like basic math and something people understand, the ripple effect with people that you either influenced or helped along the way or they helped you along the way and what they've become and where they've gone.” -John Harrison Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Andrea Valentini, Architect, LEED AP BD+C,ID+C, WELL AP, ENV SP,Fitwel Amb.,USGBC Pro. Architectural Firm with broad experience gained in green building design,construction management and real estate development of high- end residential buildings He graduated from the Venice Architecture Institute in March 1986 with a score of 110/110 with a degree on the work of Luigi Moretti architect. He started to practice the profession of architect also continuing the family business in real estate. He focused its experience in the residential sector in both new construction and renovation projects combining all the phases from to preliminary design to the construction following all the whole project management. He gained extensive experience and nearly three decades of professional activity with special attention to all the issues of building sustainability. In 1998 he took a specialty Enea course on energy savings while in 2009 he got Casaclima Junior Expert Diploma; in 2013 he got the professional accreditation from the Green Building Certification Institute, USA, as LEED ® Green Associate and in Spril 2014 he got, from GBCI, the accreditation as LEED® AP (Accredited Professional) BD + C (Building Design + Construction). He pursues actively many activities as a member of the Italy Green Building Council following both courses of education that events, actively involved in the foundation of the Chapter Marche of Italy GBC. Since January 2018 is secretary of the Chapter Marche of Italy GBC. - LEED,WELL,FITWEL project management and certification project administration - LEED design charrette and integrative design process - Training for environmental sustainable design - Development design ideas and presentations for new buildings or historic buildings - Preparation of architectural designs, presentation drawings, technical specifications - Estimate costs and schedules and other elements associated with construction projects. - Management of all facets of project management (budget, schedule, procurement, quality, risk) - Project costs management through the ongoing valuation of labor,material and equipment. - Coordinating,advising and directing project leaders,contractors, and construction workers. A senior Italian architect with broad experience gained in green building design,construction management and real estate development over a 35+years career. Results oriented and skilled professional with an extensive record of consistently exceeding project goals, specialized in building design of high-end residential projects.Ability to manage,coach,and build cohesive teams and surpassing business objectives. Show Highlights Transition to green building with the support of the Green Building Council of Italy (GBC Italia). Historical knowledge in sustainable practices and the need for resilient buildings. GBC supported building rating system for ancient and historic buildings. The challenges of finding new team members and the importance of education. Ancient building verification and sustainable building practices. Emphases for resilience in buildings due to changing weather patterns. The future of the green building and the importance of passion in the field. To experience sustainability you need to study the story and architecture of ancient buildings. “Be humble and to be available to listen, to learn in every stage of life. The key word to approach the green building movement, is foundations, not only in the way of thinking, a way of doing, but to go to foundation. You have to make a habit, to learn and to compare all the phases and to deepen every question, every issue. I prefer to have received my career with this way of thinking, a way of making the disposition to learn from people and from every kind of people, because everyone has something to teach us.” -Andrea Valentini Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Discover the secrets to successful Adaptive Reuse in Urban Development in this enlightening webinar. Experts will guide you through the essential aspects of this innovative approach, highlighting embodied carbon, financial strategies, community enhancement, strategic planning, and navigating project limitations. Dive into the world of adaptive reuse, where we balance heritage preservation with modern urban needs. What You Will Learn: Learn about reducing environmental footprints and enhancing sustainability through adaptive reuse of existing structures. Explore the strategic planning and flexibility of adaptive reuse for sustainable urban development. Discover the financial and community revitalization benefits of adaptive reuse in urban areas. Understand the challenges and limitations in adaptive reuse, including legal, structural, and financial factors. Bryce Gerritsen is a member of the Sustainability Consulting Team at Sustainable Investment Group (SIG) as a full-time Sustainability Consultant. In this role, Bryce oversees and manages multiple projects related to sustainable and healthy buildings for commercial real estate clients. Education Bryce holds a MS in Agricultural and Resource Economics from University of California – Davis and a BS in Environmental Economics and Policy from Oregon State University. His academic studies focused on measuring resource and environmental impact, economic analysis of resource and environmental policies, and ecosystem services valuation. While at OSU, Bryce worked with a multidisciplinary team as part of the EPA’s P3 Sustainability Grant Competition to develop a web application for enhancing residential green infrastructure and community-based environmental management. Experience Bryce has worked with more than 50 organizations from a wide range of industries, both private and civil, to integrate sustainability into their processes and develop 5-year sustainability action plans. These plans have saved the organizations more than 56M kWh and $7.8M annually. Interests Bryce is most at home in the outdoors where he loves to spend time with the family hiking, camping, and spotting wildlife. When not in the mountains you will usually find him wrenching on a car. Monte Hilleman, comes to us as an expert in the green building industry with over 25 years of experience and a strong reputation for credible and authentic urban development that maintains the vitality and sustainability of urban spaces. Monte has built his legacy at the forefront of developing and advancing ESG goals to create social, ecological and economic transformation. Monte's leadership and experience in equitable economic and community development, including real estate transactions and finance, renewable energy infrastructure, workforce development, and sustainable urban design and development, is leading the industry towards a regenerative and equitable future. Trish Matthews, Principal at Matthews Design Group: MBA-HR LEED/ WELL AP/ FitWel/ RESET. Matthews Design Group Inc. is a niche firm focused on Human-Centered Sustainable Design. MDG advises developers/ building projects on healthy building certifications and rating systems, sourcing and securing green initiatives and grants. We believe that buildings are the first line of defense against illness, both mental and physical. Our approach is focused exclusively on the ways that buildings, and everything in them, can improve our comfort, drive better choices, and enhance, rather than compromise, occupant health, and wellness. We support our clients by implementing standards or certifications that put health first in the built environment. MDG is proud to be part of the global movement to transform our buildings and communities in ways that help people thrive. We believe in People above all. Show Highlights Green financing tools to promote sustainable practices and funding opportunities in the industry. Community impact and wellness, promoting concepts for occupants' health in repurposed spaces. Trends in regulatory frameworks, highlighting the need for stakeholder collaboration for successful implementation of sustainable strategies in adaptive reuse initiatives. Discussion on unlocking the potential of adaptive reuse and urban development with a focus on sustainability. Challenges in urban development and the importance of sustainable growth and cultural heritage preservation. Importance of prioritizing energy, transport, materials, and engaging the design team early in adaptive reuse projects. Overview of the green financing feasibility snapshot and its impact on project valuation. Community resilience and revitalizing communities through green building concepts. Case studies and their impact on community well-being. “Adaptive reuse helps with the BD+C credit site development through protection of existing vegetated areas and habitats. It helps us meet the fundamental commissioning and verification prerequisite by optimizing existing systems for efficient performance. Adaptive reuse can earn us LEED points through the following materials and resource credits: building life cycle impact reduction sourcing of raw materials and construction and demolition waste management LEED recognizes the creativity and forward thinking approach required for adaptive reuse projects. We can earn innovation points for energy efficiency, materials reuse, historic preservation, community impact, flexibility and adaptability, and collaboration.” -Bryce Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Simon Buckmasteris the Technical & Sales Services Manager for James Hardie UK, the world leader in the manufacture of high-performance fibre cement and fibregypsum building solutions. Simon has worked for James Hardie for over 10 years in a number of technical and operational roles, and is currently responsible for the UK Technical, Customer Support and office team. He’s looking forward to being part of the Hardie® Plank Challenge to raise awareness around the Hardie® VL Plank range, in collaboration with a number of builders’ merchants across the UK. The challenge runs until November this year when the ‘fastest fixer’ will be announced. In his spare time Simon is a Governor for St Bernadette’s Catholic Primary School and enjoys taking part in triathlons across the country. Show Highlights Focus on reducing waste and improving efficiency in construction processes. Reducing waste in production and installation processes. Discussion on the impact of programs like LEED and BREEAM on the materials industry. Shift from cost-focused to sustainability-focused construction practices. Reach of James Hardie in Europe, covering multiple countries. Development of sustainable and long-lasting products Focusing on fiber gypsum Fiber cement cladding products. Development of new products and ensuring they meet regulations. Embrace new technologies and be bold and progressive. Importance of mentorship and continuous learning within the industry. Innovations in sustainable products “The main thing is just to embrace anything new. Don't get too wrapped up in the traditional side of it. We're really big in developing, redesigning and pushing the boundaries. We have a saying here which is to be bold and progressive. And I think that fits really well into the construction industry. The only way for somebody that's new in the industry to develop and grow would be to embrace the new things coming through the systems or new developments within the construction industry.” -Simon Buckmaster Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Allison Hudock has over 23 years of professional experience while working for 3 highly respected, fast-paced, environmental consulting firms. Allison holds a B.S. in Environmental Policy, Institutions and Behavior from Rutgers University, in addition to her LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP, Living Future Accreditation, Fitwel Ambassador credentials. Allison has been a freelance contributor for GBES for several years, and puts her passion for sustainability and wellness to use in creating best-in-class continuing education content for GBES customers holding LEED, WELL and SITES credentials. Allison entered the sustainability space as a mid-career pivot. Her experience includes reviewing project documents and drawings, updating LEED and WELL project scorecards and credit trackers, attending internal and external meetings and project charrettes, and preparing project exhibits. She enjoys providing support on LEED and WELL projects that encourage healthy behavior and include healthy and/or lower carbon materials. Allison aspires to provide project support on projects that support communities and Living Building Challenge projects. Allison is a member of Mindful Materials and the International Living Future Institute. Show Highlights The challenges of finding mentors in sustainability and tips on how to find your own path. Trends for LEED v.5 and its new focus on recognizing resilience (resilience is not the same as sustainability) and equity. WELL projects and the importance of biophilic design and adaptive reuse. Mentions the influence of the TV show 'Greensburg' and Leonardo DiCaprio on her career path. Discusses the importance of continuous learning, webinars and online courses to prepare for the WELL AP and LEED exams. Allison’s passion for pets and the wellness movement. Why stack credentials such as LEED AP, Fitwel Ambassador, and WELL AP. GBES on continuing education content and her involvement with Mindful Materials. “LEED v5: I'm super excited about it. I am so happy they've incorporated resilience. It is not the same as sustainability, and very important, also the equity, inclusion, and also, for someone like me, who's very heavily interested in materials, the fact that they have reorganized the materials category on the scorecard. I think is going to be very helpful going forward.” -Allison Hudock Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Joe MacDonald, Principal, Chief Energy & Sustainability Officer | Net Zero Carbon Strategist | Innovator | Data Driven | Climate Risks & Opportunities. Joe MacDonald is an internationally recognized executive and visionary architect, researcher, policy specialist, and climate subject matter expert advocate. Joe founded Urban A&O in New York while serving as an Associate Professor at Harvard University, his alma mater, and now serves as one of its principals. His mission is to revolutionize global project development, management, and delivery by harnessing the power of decarbonization, digitization, and enhanced data collection, delivering buildings of the future powered by renewable energy & automation. Joe is UA&O’s Project Architect, and his current focus is on revolutionizing the data center industry by incorporating emerging clean tech solutions including SMRs, Pumped Storage Hydropower, Geothermal, and green hydrogen for maximum sustainability, blue hydrogen as a practical compromise, and natural gas for immediate deployment benefits. MacDonald designed Project Energos, a 150MW Data Center achieving carbon neutrality by combining a solar array of 100MW and a geothermal plant. Project Energos is the largest green development in the USA powered by hybrid energy. Joe has been a thought leader in the net zero space for over a decade.He played a pioneering role in advancing smart city principles and data center innovations across Scandinavia, the Americas, and the EU. Joe was an early adopter on the net-zero development space across America, EU, and MENA regions.He secured and delivered a phased 2,000 multi-family home zero emissions development in the Hudson Valley, a $245M suburb development in San Francisco focused on circularity principles, and has worked with various asset management firms taking advantage of the IRA to provide net-zero middle to low income housing in the Texas Triangle. He lectures worldwide on impact investing, climate change, the UN's 17 SDGs, circular economies and the drive to net zero strategies.Joe serves as an ambassador within the international sustainability and UNFCCC climate action spheres, delivering keynote addresses in Bangkok, Dubai, London, and Copenhagen. He leverages his influential platform to forge profound connections with industry leaders. Show Highlights Joe outlines his firm's core competencies: carbon neutral data centers, eco resorts, smart cities, green roofs, and plant walls. Pro tips on how to transition from a local office to a global workforce. Remote work with regular Zoom meetings and use of WhatsApp for efficient communication. Discussion on the significance of policy in driving sustainability. Comparison of US and EU policies, and the role of corporate mandates. Emphasizes the importance of patience, creativity, and grit. Focus on carbon neutrality and net zero projects, Passive House in Texas and Smart City in Colombia Be progressive and stay on the cutting edge of new technologies with federal funding. “I've seen many colleagues, both young people and also mid-career people, make this switch [into Green Buildings], and they're so thrilled that they did because the net of making that switch is that you do end up making a real impact in this space. So I encourage everybody who's interested to really take a crack at it.” -Joe MacDonald Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Sanitary and Environmental Engineer from the Universidad Pontificia de Bucaramanga, Colombia, with a Master Degree in Civil Engineer Consulting from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. LEED AP BD+C since July 2012 and LEED AP ND since May 2014. With 15 years of experience in environmental consulting, working in Spain on issues related to urban and industrial wastewater treatment plants, environmental planning, water management and water resources. From July 2011 to September 2018 as Lead Project Engineer specialized in plumbing, architectural, landscaping and construction systems in Commissioning, LEED Consulting and Sustainability processes. Instructor in corporate courses, non-formal education and invited to teach master's degree modules at the Universidad de Los Andes - Colombia. Currently as Senior Technical Specialist of the Colombia Green Building Council, leading projects and initiatives related to health and well-being, construction materials, sustainable operation and LEED. Show Highlights Innovation for sustainable construction solutions amid challenges. Green building projects in Colombia, South America and the emphasis on passive design strategies, efficiency, and well-being. Current projects and training at CCCS and the Colombia Green Building Council, including LEED workshops and sustainability-related topics. Tatiana's work at CCCS, involvement in various sustainability projects, and training workshops on LEED and sustainability. Anticipated market trends with LEED O+M and LEED v5. Emphasis on sustainability integration in academic curricula. Focus on resiliency and the importance of existing building sustainability. Advice on thinking outside the box and embracing sustainable practices. “Denzel Washington said, don't confuse movement with progress. I think that's really amazing because in the times we're living right now, we are really busy. We're doing a lot of stuff. But he said, being busy or being active doesn't necessarily mean that meaningful progress is being made. So that made me think a lot about all the things I'm doing. What is really doing something or accomplishing something, not just doing stuff like moving around. Also, moving around makes you tired but gets you nowhere.” -Tatiana Carreño Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Simran Safer, WELL AP, LEED Green Associate | Wellness Real Estate Specialist at Solo Real Estate | Sustainable Designer, Social Impact, Health & Wellness, Energy Efficiency, Stakeholder Collaboration & Engagement. In a world striving for sustainability, breaking down silos is crucial. Interoperability holds the key, enabling collaboration and integration. Each day Simran’s passions continue to guide her towards a clear set of goals that enhance my abilities through: Broadening Perspectives: She exposes herself to diverse experiences, knowledge, and viewpoints. This broadens her perspective to approach challenges with a more comprehensive understanding and find innovative solutions. Increasing Breadth: She explores different areas and acquires a wide range of skills and expertise to tackle interdisciplinary problems and make connections across various fields, amplifying my effectiveness. Amplifying Impact: By aligning her passions with her goals she channels her energy and efforts towards making a meaningful impact to create a ripple effect, multiplying the positive changes she can bring about. Show Highlights The impact of buildings on human well-being. Green building, and programs like LEED on sustainability efforts. Mention of the and its influence on her career path. Simran emphasizes the value of mentors, technical expertise, and seizing opportunities. Study strategies and practice test success tips for WELL AP and LEED GA exams. Focus on a holistic approach to real estate development. Discussion on the evolving narrative in the green building movement and future trends. Notable focus on ecology and wellness in building design. “The beauty of this field is that you can implement it into your own life. You don't have to start your own business, and you don't have to wait for that glittery job you're hoping for. You can start implementing health and wellness, whether it's trees on the streets, whether it's assessing your own indoor air quality, and so much more. You can start to navigate in a way that allows you to start drawing your own little booklet, your little guide, because there's these big developments and then there's a lot of small scale incremental change that needs to happen.” -Simran Safer Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Jonathan Landry is the founder and CEO of ChaAC I+N+C, he leads a team of building performance specialists, ESG consultants, and green building certification consultants who are passionate about improving the urban environment. With over seven years of experience in the green construction industry, he has developed a strong expertise in whole building simulation, advanced HVAC design, optimizing energy efficiency, interior and exterior thermal comfort, and documentation for LEED certification. His mission is to promote the use of modeling from project inception to construction, and to make digital twins the center of an integrative building process. He uses specialized software such as IESVE, SketchUp, One Click LCA, ANSYS, and Pointwise to perform various computational simulations, such as BEM, CFD, LCA, daylighting and glare modeling. He also applied passive methods to achieve net-zero carbon buildings, and CFD modeling of pollutant and smoke dispersion. Show Highlights Energy-saving technologies for buildings. Impact of digital twins for energy efficiency and LEED projects. Application of digital twins in optimizing energy, natural light, and carbon emissions in buildings. Future of Green Building, and Digital Movement, including a shift towards reducing emissions. Importance of early involvement in design to optimize energy efficiency and lifecycle impact Trend towards electrification, reduced carbon emissions in construction and early expert involvement for effective designs. Action steps for a better future through eco-friendly practices in building design and operation. Entrepreneurial Journey in creating ChaAC I+N+C specializing in energy modeling, digital twins, and optimization for buildings. Use of energy models beyond compliance for existing building optimization. “I learned the hard way... and most people don't get it, you cannot do things by yourself. You should learn to delegate, ask for help, support yourself with great people that can help you go to as high as you aim to be, but you cannot do it alone.” -Jonathan Landry Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Today is a special episode - notes from Athens as well as LEED v5 preview. I talk about the amazing conference I recently attended in late April in Athens, Greece. The great folks that run GBCI Europe, Kay and Nicole Killmann and their entire team do such a great job promoting green buildings, especially programs like LEED, all through Europe. And every Spring, they host a LEED community reunion. About 400 attendees that really practice green buildings and especially LEED get together in one amazing city in Europe each Spring. This year was Athens, Greece. I had never been to Athens. It was an amazing trip! Last year was Barcelona, Spain. Two years ago I was in Munich, Germany. I want to tell you a little bit about what I saw, what I heard coming out of this amazing conference. And then one of the big topics of course, was LEED v5. We wanted to do this special episode and put some links to the latest information on LEED v5 for all of you to make sure you're reading up on it right now. There was an additional focus on healthy buildings and healthy communities and then really technical sessions on LEED v5. We were fortunate to hear from both Peter Templeton and Melissa Baker that came over from the U.S. Green Building Council to give us the latest information. It was great to see so many friends that practice LEED throughout Europe all in one place. ______________________________________________________ GBCI Europe Circle event is an annual community reunion which combines the best qualities of a retreat and a conference. It is an energetic space to connect, learn and discover – a blend of familiar faces and important ideas. LEED unites many who attend – property owners, investors, architects, entrepreneurs, engineers, consultants and more – but experience with LEED is not required, nor is our content exclusively about LEED. We discuss the topics most important to those building green and healthy in Europe, those transforming our built environment for the next generations. Show Highlights The event celebrated the growth of LEED in Europe, emphasizing sustainability in existing building real estate through benchmarking. European Green Building trends, programs, future Services and community focus and sustainable design. Introduction to a new platinum certification criteria to boost energy efficiency and renewable energy use while improving performance monitoring across the building lifecycle. The shift towards emphasizing actual green building performance over design aspects was recognized as a strategic move. Highlighting the focus on LEED v5 and healthy buildings. Overview of the central areas of impact for LEED v5 - decarbonization, quality of life, ecological conservation. LEED v5 Updates Development Areas: Decarbonization, quality of life, ecological conservation Key Changes: Modified scorecards, point weighting Development Cycle: Five-year cycle, update in 2030 Focus: Continuity across building lifecycle, green building performance Certification: New requirements for platinum certification Explanation of LEED's move to a five-year development cycle and continuity across the building lifecycle. The conference in Athens, Greece was a catalyst for positive change within the green building community, fostering a spirit of innovation and collaboration towards environmental sustainability and green building excellence. Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Jeff Hochberg is credentialed as a WELL AP, LEED GA, ActiveScore AP and Fitwel Ambassador, and has spent over 35 years in the fields of healthy building and wellness and population health management, serving in leadership roles within the corporate, hospital, health plan, public not-for-profit and consulting sectors. Along with Jeff's WELL AP credential, which signifies knowledge in human health and wellness in the built environment and specialization in the WELL Building Standard, Jeff is a member of the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) WELL Faculty. Jeff is a Fellow of the former Association for Worksite Health Promotion (AWHP), is passionate about building healthy, livable, and sustainable communities, and working to integrate total person wellness into the built environment. Show Highlights Sustainable buildings and well-building initiatives, underlining the importance of employee health in corporate environments. Exploring the role of analyzing health trends in organizations. Emphasizing the importance of a value proposition in sustainability for companies and mandates Initiatives with the International Wealth Building Institute focusing on integrating sustainability education in various disciplines. Collaborative program focusing on practical application of wellness concepts. Outlining steps to achieve the healthiest building and various certification credentials. Jeff highlights the need to align with organizational goals for successful implementation, ESG investments, and mental health impacts. Importance of well-building standards and certifications in the industry. Approaches to sitting down with prospective clients aim to alleviate feelings of being overwhelmed while also establishing clear expectations. “My mentors were really great in helping me take that passion, as you described, and say, ‘Okay, but you've got to put good business sense behind it. You have to put a value proposition behind this.’ That's what speaks to companies. Nobody disagrees that Wellness is a good thing, but somebody's got to make a decision to spend some money on it.” -Jeff Hochber Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
is a Regenerative Practitioner. He is a highly communicative, practical, and reliable individual who lives in the world of the five senses. He is curious and needs mental variety in life. He has an analytical and critical side and is an eternal student, enjoying rapport and exchanging ideas with people. He is ambitious, enjoys material comfort and everything sensual and nature-related. When we look at the way we design and build our buildings, the only way forward is by creating good green buildings. Buildings that lead to improved health for homeowners, reduced impact on the environment and profit for the building industry. Emmanuel is a strong believer in a new paradigm for the Real Estate Industry which is based on trust based team formation, early collaboration, built-in sustainability and transformational leadership. Show Highlights Evolving beyond traditional sustainability practices towards regenerative thinking, creating systems for new possibilities. Emmanuel highlights courses emphasizing understanding life and applying it strategically to project development. Regenerative Design's innovative nature as a "thinking technology" transforming construction processes. Upcoming initiatives on integrative processes and facilitation roles to enhance professional capabilities in line with regenerative principles. The shift towards regenerative thinking incorporating principles from living systems science and fostering systemic understanding. Regenerative design presented as a meta technology in policymaking at a European level. Exploration of new roles and opportunities for professionals in evolving sustainable practices. Strategic decision-making and intervention points in regenerative design processes. “Regenerative development design is a thinking technology that has the same power that can really change the way we're going to work. And in that sense, for me, it's a real innovation. Because without regeneration there is no future.” -Emmanuel Pauwels Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Jon Berkoe, PE, named to Builtworld’s Top 50 Tech Adopters in 2021.The current built environment is confronted by unprecedented challenges to planning and delivering projects on time and on budget, which is why his passion is putting technology into practice to lower cost and reduce risk. He’s led digital transformation initiatives at the executive level for one of the world's largest AEC companies (Bechtel), one of the largest builders in the water industry (MWH), and one of the industry's most innovative AEC technology solution providers (Synchro Software - acquired by Bentley Systems). Virtual Design & Construction (VDC) principles, tools, and practices are essential to advancing the productivity and value delivered in the built environment - from design to construction to commissioning to operations. Jon has gained a tremendous amount of insight and practice in navigating the challenges to VDC success with agility and resourcefulness. His strategy has always been based on customer value - outcome driven, team-oriented, and pragmatic approaches that encourage innovation while staying focused on key goals and constraints. But that success has been achieved first and foremost by building and leading diverse high performing teams across a wide range of business environments. Show Highlights Visualizing data results for effective communication Change Management and Best Practices Importance of success broadcasting for encouraging adoption of new practices Excitement about connectivity of outcomes with day-to-day work processes Potential future tools include robots, augmented reality, and virtual reality Understanding the relationship between business and innovation. Impact of small innovations highlighted in the AEC industry. Organizational focus on creating value, efficiency, and sustainability Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Alisha McFetridge, is the co-founder and CEO of Rainstick, a clean technology company committed to cutting residential water usage in half. Rainstick is a high-flow shower system of 3 GPM that saves 80% water and 80% energy through point-of-use recirculation and real-time cleansing. Alisha holds an MSc in Climate Change and Development and a Bachelor in International Business, majoring in Sustainability. In 2020, she came first place in the Communitech's Fierce Founders Competition and is also the recipient of the Caldwell Partner's Future CEO Award, Royals Roads Leadership Award, and the TD Sustainability Award. She has spent time working, studying and living in Kenya, China, The Netherlands, the United States and Canada, where she currently lives today. Show Highlights Combine expertise in energy conservation and water technology to create innovative solutions for residential water and energy consumption. Rainstick's technology saves up to 80% water and energy without the need for complex plumbing systems. Tips to promote cleantech, understanding the market and customers to make sustainability mainstream. Advancements in green tech, including atmospheric water generation, outdoor recycling mechanisms, and integrating water and energy technologies for favorable ROIs and solar panel efficiency. Challenges and interconnectedness of sustainability. Emphasizes the importance of doing more with fewer resources. Brainstorming and identifying opportunities in the residential sector. Encourage individuals to listen to feedback and pivot accordingly. Stay informed through research and podcasts in an evolving field to encourage more contributions. “Listen to the trend. Not every single piece of feedback from everybody. It's particularly important when you're starting a company, you're going to get feedback from everybody you've talked to and it can be a little bit unnerving and you're going to want to listen and then maybe try to pivot. But I would say if ten people have told you the same thing, then you need to change. If you've heard a piece of feedback over here, but then you completely heard the opposite, then trust your gut.” -Alisha McFetridge Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES 0000038B 0000038C 00006698 00006763 000663B6 000663B6 000063AE 000074C6 0004040F 0017036D
Mara Baum, LEED Fellow, is an architect and partner at DIALOG, an international, integrated design collaborative that builds stronger communities and a healthier environment. She is passionate about the intersection of ecological and health issues in buildings and cities. Her design solutions are two pronged: places that create healthier and happier people, and strategies that build or rebuild a healthier environment. 20+ year track record of design, sustainability and health leadership on complex architecture and urban planning projects across North America in a wide range of market sectors. She sits on the WELL Materials Advisory and is the Resilience Co-Chair of the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health Sustainability Committee. Outside of the studio as an online faculty for the Boston Architectural College Sustainable Design Institute, where she teaches "Green Building and Health", and "Sustainable Design of Healthcare Facilities". A licensed architect, FAIA, LEED Fellow, WELL AP, Living Future Accredited, Fitwel Ambassador, WELL Faculty member, who also holds the EDAC (Evidence Based Design Accreditation and Certification) credential. Show Highlights Delve into healthy buildings and healthcare facilities participating in WELL and Fitwel. Mara played a pivotal role in shaping California's new embodied carbon laws that aim to reduce carbon emissions in large projects by 10%. Understanding diverse perspectives and translating technical concepts for different stakeholders. The importance of credentials for building expertise and credibility in the field. Implementing new sustainability thresholds and regulations. Mara leads architecture and urban planning projects in the US for the largest architecture and engineering firm. The importance of implementing thresholds and pushing for maximum savings in sustainable projects. Excitement about upcoming changes that will accelerate the impacts of sustainability efforts. “We're at the beginning of the wave of climate change that is going to be followed by an unknown level of biodiversity impact. We know there's some rough stuff coming. But what I'm really excited about is we are starting to see some real movement on a global scale, regional scale, industry scale… As an architect, I'm used to changing the world one building at a time. But now we're seeing the world change one electrical grid at a time or at that type of scale with major technological shifts that are helping to move us forward.” -Mara Baum Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Lynn N. Simon, FAIA, LEED Fellow, Principal and West Sustainability Services Leader at Arup, is a Global Sustainability & ESG leader, with more than two decades of influencing behaviors, shifting mindsets, and co-creating to reach climate and equity goals across tech, real estate, and AEC sectors. She excels in developing and retaining client relationships, convening stakeholders to Board level, driving cross-functional programs in matrix organizations, and building multi-disciplinary global teams with a focus on carbon, waste, water, ecology, health, and DEI. CAREER HIGHLIGHTS • Led a global, cross-functional team at Google on KPI setting and 1-5 year goals for carbon, water and waste • Positioned Google to meet its 2030 public commitments and Scopes 1, 2, and 3 across the portfolio • Converted underutilized global sustainability team by nurturing relationships and creating new organizational structure • Co-created and facilitated a community of 100 industry leaders, disruptors, and trailblazers at the Regen Lab@Google • Led a team that retained 250+ client relationships across commercial, residential, education, hospitality, civic and culture, government, health and transportation sectors. PRO BONO LEADERSHIP • Trustee on the Board of Directors of the Beverly Willis Architectural Foundation • Member, Sustainability and Climate Committee at Bet Haverim in Davis, CA • Mentor, New Buildings Institute Next Gen Program Show Highlights Lynn emphasizes the importance of diversifying clients and projects in consultancy. Entrepreneurship in this green building movement. Sustainability impact through projects, energy savings and practices. Addressing UN Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) in your work. Discussion on the importance of addressing scope three embodied carbon work on the future of green building. The importance for young professionals to get involved in industry organizations and the significance of knowledge sharing. Challenges faced during the early days of USGBC and the development of the LEED rating system. Implementation of building lifecycle modeling and sustainability best practices Tips on authentic listening and client engagement strategies. Market transformation and policy requirements in sustainability consulting. “‘...My only piece of advice for you is to know when to talk less, know when to put a period on what you're trying to communicate or sell.’ I've taken that advice with me and I don't always listen to it for people who know me, but I found it invaluable that he, one, was willing to take the time to come share his observation, but to also just think about when is it good to just be? That goes to the authentic listening piece; know when to stop presenting, to listen to what is happening in the room.” -Lynn N. Simon Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Today we're going to talk about the LEED professional credential exams. In particular, I'm going to give you some tips on how to pass these 100 question multiple choice exams. Get those letters after your name. Understand what's the latest with this green building movement. Understand how to work on LEED projects of all sorts, whether it's new construction, whether it's interiors, etc.. Maybe you want to green up existing buildings or work on entire neighborhoods. Or maybe you also work on homes and residential. There are LEED professional credentials for each. I've been training professionals on how to pass the LEED exams for a long time, actually 15 years here in the LEED movement. Very proud of that fact. I have passed all of the LEED exams over the years and I'm very fortunate to have been named as a LEED Fellow just three and a half years ago. Today, I'm going to provide tips about the LEED Green Associate (GA) exam because that's where you need to start. So if you're listening to this, share this with colleagues. I'm going to really give you some of the “secret tips” on how to study and pass. What do you really need to know to pass this 100 question multiple-choice exam? I'll talk a little bit about the other LEED exams. Some of you listening may have already passed a LEED exam. Some of you might have passed the test before 2009, before the exams changed. Let's go over a little bit of that history, also. Enjoy! Show Highlights Valuable insights for professionals interested in obtaining LEED credentials, providing tips for preparing and passing the exams on your first try. LEED credentials and how to focus on passing LEED professional credential exams, especially the LEED Green Associate test. Understanding the importance of the LEED scorecards for your studies versus on a real project scenario. Tips for Success, study techniques, study guides, significant changes over time, and practice tests from GBES.com GBES.com's experience, resources, and 95% pass rate. Continuing Education every two years. Global Map of LEED Professionals. Volunteering and involvement in trade organizations are valuable experiences. Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Paul Doherty, IFMA Fellow, DFC Senior Fellow, has been published by Forbes as “Changing the World.” Seen on Bloomberg TV and reported by CNBC as one of America's Business Titans, Paul is a Registered Architect and one of the global Industry's most sought after thought leaders, strategists and integrators of process, technology & business. Paul is the Founder & CEO of The Digit Group, Inc. (TDG), a leading Smart Cities design, build, operate and solutions company, headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. He is an author, educator, analyst and consultant to Fortune 500 organizations, government agencies, prominent institutions and the most prestigious AEC firms in the world. Paul has spent the past 30+ years in the industry after graduating cum laude from the New York Institute of Technology and graduating from the Career Discovery program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. His past successful ventures include Revit (Sold to Autodesk 2002), Buzzsaw (Sold to Autodesk 2001) and TRIRIGA (Sold to IBM 2011). He is a prominent and top rated speaker at industry events each year and has been appointed as a guest lecturer at leading Universities around the world. Paul has been on the Board of Directors/Advisors of numerous organizations, including the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) where he is an IFMA Fellow and he is a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council. Paul holds both European Union and US Citizenship, and is the co-founder of the AEC Hackathon, Widely quoted in the mass media, Paul is also a contributing author to multiple sections of the AIA Handbook of Professional Practice, the Interior Design Handbook of Practice, the McGraw Hill Graphic Standards of Residential Construction, 3 whitepaper contributions to the McGraw-Hill Financial Global Institute and author/co-author of 7 books and over 250 published articles. Show Highlights Transition to a Web-based Organization for better communication and efficiency in your work. The importance of networking and leveraging connections to expand working on an international scale. Transit, buildings, and housing are so irreparably tied together. Create environments that celebrate culture and empower people to take control of their own environment. Blend new ways of working in the built environment industry. The most important factors in the building industry and why we need to attract others. Explore new technologies and the evolution of the web with these three tools. Tips to take a holistic, or a systems approach to projects. Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Mercedes Oviedo has a MSc in Bioclimatic Architecture and Environment fromTechnical University of Madrid School of Architecture, a MSc in Environmental Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid School of Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture. Her sustainability project management experience includes a range of LEED-certified projects and other certifications. She has also been part of the LEED International Roundtable Committee since 2011, where she has contributed to the globalization and regionalization of LEED across Europe. She has also been an educational speaker at Greenbuild Brazil. At e4, inc. Mercedes Oviedo is an Associate and LEED project manager. She has expertise in green building sustainability practices, as well extensive technical knowledge in passive architecture, energy-efficiency and water-efficiency strategies for buildings and their applications in different regions. Her previous professional experience has been in international projects, most of them consisting of large-scale office buildings and mixed-use developments. She has experience in leading multidisciplinary project teams, helping them achieve sustainable goals by applying an integrated approach. Additionally, Ms. Oviedo has been committed to and involved in promoting sustainability education, working for three years with Green Building Council Spain (GBCe) on their LEED educational program. Show Highlights Better understanding the LEED certification system and other certifications like Fitwel and Envision. Mercedes encourages individuals to seize opportunities in an evolving industry with great potential for growth. How LEED has evolved into a global certification system. Examination of international standards and perspectives on LEED certification with the LEED International Roundtable Committee. Integration of LEED certification with other certifications like Fitwel and Envision green infrastructure certification. Importance of credentials in sustainability careers. Mercedes shares the importance of gaining a global perspective on LEED certification. “This new generation has brought [Wellness] to our attention. Emotional stability is very important. We have to pay attention to how everyone's feeling within the work environment. Are we designing these spaces in a way that people are excited to come? Do they feel healthy? They're not only healthy, but they feel healthy.” -Mercedes Oviedo Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Monte Hilleman, comes to us as an expert in the green building industry with over 25 years of experience and a strong reputation for credible and authentic urban development that maintains the vitality and sustainability of urban spaces. Monte has built his legacy at the forefront of developing and advancing ESG goals to create social, ecological and economic transformation. Monte's leadership and experience in equitable economic and community development, including real estate transactions and finance, renewable energy infrastructure, workforce development, and sustainable urban design and development, is leading the industry towards a regenerative and equitable future. Show Highlights The importance of environmental justice, successful redevelopment projects and the development of net zero energy buildings. Monty talks about his role in Climate Investment Solutions and offers advice for those interested in a career in sustainability. The need to understand the broader ecosystem of sustainability encourages individuals to find ways to make a big impact. Both the ease and difficulty of implementing green and sustainable practices in his region and Minnesota’s long track record of being a pioneer in a lot of environmental policy. Understanding the different versions of the LEED program, such as LEED for Neighborhood Development and LEED for Cities and Communities. ‘Green pro formas’ and utilizing tools for reviewing projects and associated incentives. Broad-based exposure and finding the biggest lever to create impact in a mission-driven field. Strategies for achieving sustainability goals within a limited timeframe. “We're at the beginning of ten years of a revolution in how we build and finance buildings in this country. And I don't think most of the market quite understands that there is so much money being infused in such a very particular way, so carefully guided to carbon emissions reductions, energy efficiency, assisting these projects to get financed and get out of the ground, or get retrofitted. It really is going to be a game changer for the foreseeable future.” -Monte Hilleman Show Resource and Information Linkedin Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
TITLE: Construction Tech Enables Sustainability with Jason Perez Jason Perez, is the CEO and co-founder of YARDZ, a construction technology company. Entrepreneur, Advisor, Forever Student and Mentor. Founder of a Construction Technology start-up and ATDC Accelerate company. “I love life, I love business and love solving industry problems through simple business solutions. Most importantly, I am thankful for the personal and professional leaders who have taught me and I am honored by those who allow me to pass that wisdom on.” Show Highlights Healthy innovation, “mixed solutions” and balancing the application of technology in all aspects of the industry. Discuss construction, construction technology, and innovation in the industry. Emphasize the importance of ‘Reducing’ as a key component of sustainability. Talks about entrepreneurship and green building. Importance of continuous learning and personal growth in the industry. Exploring the potential of emerging technologies in construction. Importance of prioritizing efficiency in construction projects. Application of Agile methodologies and iteration in construction. Integration of AI and technology for better construction solutions. Embracing research and finding one's own path in the industry. “We have major issues. We've got to fix efficiency first, because all we're going to do is get battery-driven excavators[,] have them drain a battery and then charge them on electrical grids which could be produced by anything. Could be fossil, could be hydro, could be any number of things. But it all starts with reduce, reduce. And we have got to get better at that. And if you don't have the tools to do it, then you're not going to do it.” -Jason Perez Show Resource and Information on LinkedIn Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Erica Weeks, is a licensed architect who has dedicated her career to sustainability. Erica manages the Sustainability Services Sector at Hastings Architecture, where she works with owners, architects, engineers, and contractors across the country to facilitate sustainability rating systems. Erica has a keen ability to create synergies between disciplines and execute cross discipline calculations. Erica earned her first LEED AP credential in 2006 and has facilitated the sustainability process on over 200 projects, under the array of available rating systems. She frequently presents at local, regional and national conferences for organizations such as the AIA and USGBC (US Green Building Council). She sits on the USGBC’s Water Efficiency Technical Advisory Group (WE TAG), a global cohort of water experts that share knowledge to enhance requirements for water in the future versions of LEED. (2022-2023) Erica is in her second term nationally with the AIA’s Framework for Design Excellence cohort, addressing sustainability for the “every-day” architect in the AIA’s toolkits and has been a Committee on the Environment technical reviewer for the AIA’s annual COTE Top 10 Awards program. (2021-2023). In June 2021, during USGBC Live, Erica was recognized as one of two individual Regional Leaders in the USGBC’s “Big South” (15 states, from Maryland to Texas) for her on-going leadership to create sustainable buildings and communities. In 2017, Erica was named one of Nashville Business Journal’s Women of Influence, in the category of Inspiration/Mentoring, for her on-going support of professional education within Hastings and beyond. Erica provides project-based mentorship to design professionals, with the overall goals of making sustainability inherent to the design/construction process and fostering the education of the next generation of design professionals. In October 2020, Erica was named a “Shero” in Courage by the US Green Building Council, for continuing to challenge the ‘business-as-usual’ thinking of the design and construction industry to make sustainability an embedded priority. Show Highlights Insights on upcoming trends and developments in green building, such as LEED version 5 and the AIA's framework for design excellence. The involvement in various organizations promotes continuous learning and improvement in green building practices. Advice on emphasizing the importance of knowledge and avoiding greenwashing. Tips on pushing the boundaries and raising the bar in sustainability. Erica emphasizes the importance of staying up-to-date with the latest research in the field and making sure you agree with the credit language. Familiarize yourself with AIA”s ten different principles around energy, resources, water, integrated design and discovery. The value of obtaining credentials and expertise in rating systems. Avoid being a “regular engineer” to find what you are meant to do in the built environment. “How do we implement all these other actual design features to make people feel connected with culture, feel connected with ecology? I think that question is increasingly important as we focus on more equitable social responsibility issues.” -Erica Weeks Show Resource and Information In Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
"Unlocking the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) for Real Estate: Boosting Profits & Sustainability" where you will delve into the history and significance of the IRA. Discover how sustainable design principles are deeply embedded in this legislation and supported by guidance from key government agencies, including the IRS, Treasury Department, and Department of Energy. Explore real-world financial modeling examples showcasing the synergy of various IRA tools, Property Assessed Clean Energy Financing, and other incentives, culminating in a 'Net Zero Proforma.' This session will take you beyond the 'what' of the IRA, providing insights into 'how' it can be effectively utilized in conventional commercial real estate financing. What You Will Learn: - Gain a comprehensive understanding of the Inflation Reduction Act's historical background and core elements. - See how sustainable design principles are integrated into the IRA and endorsed by influential government entities. - Witness practical applications through real-world financial modeling examples, demonstrating the stacking, modeling, and monetization of IRA tools and incentives in a 'Net Zero Proforma.' - Acquire the knowledge and strategies needed to leverage the IRA in commercial real estate financing, moving from theory to practical implementation. Monte Hilleman, Vice President of Environmental Compliance and Investment With over 25 years of experience and a strong reputation as a credible and authentic urban development professional who strives to maintain the vitality and sustainability of urban areas, Monte has been at the forefront of developing and advancing ESG goals to create social, ecological and economic transformation. Monte's leadership and experience in equitable economic and community development (including real estate transactions and finance, renewable energy infrastructure, workforce development, and sustainable urban design and development) is guiding the industry towards a more regenerative and equitable future. Show Highlights Understand components of the Inflation Reduction Act and how it can benefit the real estate development industry Introduces the concept of Climate Investment Solutions and the tools developed by Sustainable Investment Group (SIG) to understand and utilize green financing options. Highlight the various programs and tax credits available under the Inflation Reduction Act, such as clean energy loans, federal Department of Energy programs, and tax credits. Explain the benefits of direct pay and transferability of tax credits. Present the Green Financing Applicability Matrix, Feasibility Snapshot, and Net Zero Pro Formas as tools to help appraisers, lenders, and investment committees understand and evaluate the financial impacts of green financing options. Emphasize the importance of engaging experts early in the project development process to maximize the financial benefits of green financing. Address questions related to MACRS (Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System) and the eligibility of projects for specific programs. Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Green Building Strategy and Communications with Brian Bollinger Brian Bollinger, MBA, iate With over 15 years of visionary leadership, Brian Bollinger is an operational executive known for strategic management and fostering innovative partnerships. As the Head of Communications for Green Building Holdings (GBH), Brian serves as the Executive Spokesperson for four GBH business units: Blue Ocean, SIG, GBES, and Aetos. Brian's commitment to advancing GBH's mission aligns with his dedication to creating a healthier and greener world, providing cutting-edge education and tools for success in the building industry. Notably, Brian oversaw staff extensions for Bridge CRE, expanding their Energy, Sustainability, and Engineering services. His leadership played a pivotal role in achieving LEED Gold certification for the Walter E Washington Convention Center, including waste stream consulting. He loves driving customer experience innovation, equity and sustainability projects, as well as communications and strategy improvements. But most of all, bringing wildly creative solutions to solve difficult problems. Brian's multifaceted expertise extends beyond vision to practical implementation, solving complex problems and energizing stakeholders toward shared goals. Show Highlights Brian shares tips on how to communicate sustainability effectively. Brian talks about his work with Sustainable Investment Group, GBES, Aetos Imaging, and Blue Ocean (which has launched Skema.AI). Explore the importance of waste management and recycling in commercial buildings. Exciting industry advancements in generative AI and its potential impact on both design and sustainability. Understanding the importance of resourcefulness and creativity in green building Find unexpected applications for expertise in green buildings and sustainability to drive progress towards a more circular economy. The evolving landscape of green building, influences, and the need to share best practices. The power of gratitude and finding creative ways to thank clients. “I'm really enjoying…seeing a complete Step function changes in [how tech enables]…operating buildings. I always joke that there's not a building engineer or facility operator out there who went into their line of work because they just love spreadsheets. At the end of the day, it's because they love this breathing machine that they get to live inside of and work in.” -Brian Bollinger “One of the biggest plays in the world's sustainability over the next ten years is going to be what happens to waste. We don't get to circularity without solving waste. It's just at the end of the day, as we used to say in community development, ‘God has required and the poor deserve better than amateurs with their hearts in the right place.’ And I think it's the same with waste. The planet we all share deserves better than a complete absence of circularity, when it's completely possible, and it's becoming more possible every day.” -Brian Bollinger “The biggest [recycling] tip I would [give] to commercial buildings in general: really clear signage. At the end of the day, when we find something that's way off [in waste audits], you can usually trace it back to a floor that isn't clearly communicating what belongs where. And how to dispose of it.” -Brian Bollinger “Like with the internet in 1992…[with Artificial Intelligence] the reality is that, when it comes to sustainability…I think every single week we’re discovering a new reality of what it's going to do, what this technological shift is going to enable. What's exciting about it is that we don't even know what we don’t know, and with every passing week some of it's terrifying, yes, but most of it's absolutely electrifying. And just seeing the potential that is going to continue to bring and [telling clients], “Hey, we're going to be here.’ We're going to be digging through what's good, what's bad, and we're going to keep leveraging it to drive forward the success of everybody who we get a chance to serve.” -Brian Bollinger Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
This is a special episode of the Green Building Matters podcast. We started a tradition around the end of January each year, in part because that's my (Charlie’s) birthday, January 27th, it’s a great time to look back and then predict ahead. My team asked me to reflect on 2023 and then to walk through some things that I'm excited about for 2024 in this Green Building Movement. And, in general, share some encouragement with all of you, our loyal listeners. First, thank you for listening to the Green Building Matters podcast. Some of you have been listening for years. It's just amazing! The GBM Podcast has over 300 episodes! I have a fun job, as a green building specialist, a trainer, an educator, a consultant, and as a green building entrepreneur, to set aside a little time each week to interview someone that's really made a difference in this movement. Some guests are early in their career, some are “O.G.” and really helped write the book on LEED. Some have been the first to do green building work in their entire country and I've just made a lot of friends literally all over the world through this podcast. I'm grateful that this podcast continues to have momentum. Thank you to our podcast production team. A special shout out to Carla, Danny, Dragan, and Christina for keeping the Green Building Podcast humming. We're gonna really grow the Green Building Matters brand in 2024 - stay tuned for more content in new formats, as well. Show Highlights Charlie reflects on 2023 Charlie's predictions for 2024 Mandates moving the industry towards net zero energy buildings. Biophilia to circular design is getting a push Smart buildings, IOT and AI Adaptive reuse and conversions Office buildings Repurpose Multifamily conversion the office to life science conversion What to expect from LEED v5 Updates from SIG, Sustainable Investment Group, Green Building Consulting Engineering, Blue Ocean Sustainability, and ESG. AI tools to support your designs (Skema AI tool for architects and developers). Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Hafsa Burt, LEED Fellow, previously worked at Frank Gehry & Associates and SOM before starting hb+a Architects. With an undergraduate, Masters Degree in Architecture & a minor in Electronic Design from SCAD she brings to her work an avant garde streak & a strong commitment to the triple bottom line. An environmentalist, she adopted and actively advocates for the 2030 challenge and is a huge proponent of high performance buildings. Her focus includes “Eliminating Toxins”, with Indoor Air Quality as a specialty. She has actively spoken on the topic of Indoor air quality as it relates to the practice of Architecture since 2009 all over the west coast and is an industry expert on “Healthy Building Practices”. She has served on the Council of Experts at USGBC’s California Chapter on Indoor Air Quality and has served as a liaison for the Green Schools’ Committee for USGBC State, primarily focusing on legislative decisions affecting Environmental Sustainability in the past. At the moment she is involved in Federal Advocacy at USGBC. She is also actively involved with the American Institute of Architects and is a member of the AIA California Climate Action Committee which looks at legislative decisions as they relate to the building environment, and has been involved in advocating for decarbonizing the built environment and is working with a group on policies that address Embodied Carbon and Life Cycle Analysis of projects. In 2019 founded a development arm for the firm called Box Lab which is focused on the development of zero energy/zero carbon buildings. She is involved in all projects, with a commitment to the practice of architecture as a collaborative and innovative enterprise and brings with her years of experience in Commercial, Institutional, Industrial and mixed-use realms in project size ranging from 2000 square feet to over 2 million square feet and project types ranging from tenant improvements to San Francisco airport. She has been awarded the title of ENR’s 20 under 40 construction professionals in California and American Institute of Architects' coveted Young Architects' Honor Award and Fast Company's Innovation in Design for Box Factory. Show Highlights Educating clients on electrification and lifecycle analysis before it becomes a policy decision. Make your projects efficient as possible with minimizing materials and functions. Box Lab develops projects and prototypes with the highest sustainability goals, a minimum footprint and zero energy. What we need to know about the built environment post pandemic for healthy buildings. The new umbrella of ESG for healthy buildings and air quality. Hafsa’s firm creates a universal design from the angle of sustainability and social justice. Early phase lifecycle analysis comparison, cost and what can be done. Trends happening at the policy level decarbonization to reduce operational emissions. California has started a good precedent to codify embodied carbon and help craft policies toward embodied carbon. “Challenge your thinking and also be as purpose-driven and as early as possible. You just cannot live in a vacuum. It's a global community and we have to be aware of what's happening and we need to make sure that every choice that we make, everything that we do is purpose-driven and you have a very strong reason why you're doing anything.” -Hafsa Burt Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Rob Winstead, LEED Fellow, is a nationally-recognized expert in learning space design and sustainability. Rob is an advocate for exceptional learning spaces that blend thoughtful design with high performance goals to deliver added value for clients and users. He is a frequent speaker at regional and national conferences and is the former chair of the Large-Firm Roundtable Sustainability Committee. Rob’s broad portfolio of regional, national, and international work over 25 years of practice supports VMDO’s commitment to serving clients as a regional firm with national expertise. He is well known in the Mid-Atlantic for innovative and award-winning projects and for experience with zero-energy schools. His work has been recognized with numerous awards for planning, design, architecture, urbanism, and sustainability. Show Highlights Architecture is the social infrastructure that supports a dialogue in a community. Three practice areas to focus on when building K 12 buildings. Rob shares how to be an expert at zero energy schools and how to get communities to pursue that. Tried and true off the shelf strategies that demystify and provide a recipe for net zero design. Environmental courses on sustainable design to help atone for the materials, resources and energy. A tremendous opportunity to advance sustainable systems without adding additional cost. Existing buildings need green financing to meet the time and communities we serve. We need to address the ability to adjust existing building stock through high performance renovations to achieve these same goals. “If you see a problem that needs to be solved, proceed and be bold. Don't wait to be asked. Go out and do what needs to be done. Oftentimes, people need to be shown that something is possible before they can commit to it on their own…Share what you learn. The stuff that we do around sustainability is just too important to be held onto as a competitive advantage or intellectual property. The true innovators keep on innovating. And so when you try something and you fail, share…when you try something and you succeed, share. This will raise others up around you.” -Rob Winstead Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Geoffrey Brock, LEED Fellow, Director of Sustainability at IPS, has more than 15 years of experience in the AEC industry with roles in both sustainability and project management. He has supported dozens of LEED and WELL projects in the life sciences, healthcare and other industries. He also oversaw project and portfolio scale collection of energy, water and waste, including research and piloting of various reduction strategies and cost-benefit analysis. To complement his work experience, he received a Master of Science, Environmental Systems Management from the Pratt Institute. As Director of Sustainability, Mr. Brock will support clients’ sustainability initiatives. He focuses on implementing strategies early in design, leveraging site-specific opportunities to incorporate elements that will have the greatest lasting value, not only for the environment but for future occupants and the greater community. Geoffrey’s background in project management, environmental management, and health and wellbeing positions him to maximize opportunities to create high-quality, Sustainable design & construction of resilient, efficient and healthy buildings with strong consideration for social and environmental impacts. Focus on Sustainable Urbanism, promoting Mixed-Use & Transit-Oriented Development, Bicycle and Pedestrian Infrastructure, Reduction of Energy, Water and Waste and Environmental Management. Academic background in Civil Engineering, Architecture, Urban Studies, Environmental Management and Real Estate Development. Show Highlights Project management and scheduling/estimating will create a well-rounded experience when pursuing project manager or superintendent positions in construction, Geoff’s early career. Benchmarking laws and initiatives driving the industry in the Northeast. Technology improvements with one of the most important changes needed in the industry to produce coefficient and performance at lower temperatures. Cutting edge startups that are tackling what we can do with something other than fossil fuels. Challenges companies, especially construction companies are facing to achieve their goal to be net zero or reduction by a certain year. Available technology being readily available will drive the success of green building. Something that we take for granted after being in the industry a while and tips to turn that into a win. Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2024 GBES
Asa Posner, LEED Fellow, is a green building and sustainability consultant in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area currently working as the Vice President of Sales for Sustainable Investment Group (SIG), a full-service sustainability, wellness, and ESG consulting and engineering firm. He has extensive experience in green building design/construction and operations, energy and water conservation, and building occupant comfort. Asa is a LEED Accredited Professional with specialties in BD+C and O+M, a member of the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) Minnesota Chapter, and serves the Market Leadership Advisory Board (MLAB). He has worked as a green building consultant for 15 years and have helped certify over 220 LEED projects, encompassing over 60M sf LEED certified space. He regularly teaches exam prep classes for professionals looking to earn their LEED Green Associate or Accredited Professional with Specialty credentials. Nick Kassanis, LEED Fellow, PE, is the Sustainable Investment Group’s President and oversees daily operations, strategic planning, global growth and the firm's vision. He directs the Climate Investment Solutions, Engineering, ESG and Sustainability consulting departments, offering services such as LEED/WELL/Fitwel consulting, Decarbonization/LCA assessments, Commissioning/RCx, Green Financing, Net Zero Proformas and GRESB/GRI/CDP reporting. As a LEED Fellow, LEED AP BD+C, licensed Professional Engineer and Certified Building Commissioning Professional, Nick has led and overseen over 350 LEED projects and 150 energy studies across 150M+ square feet in multiple industries. Specializing in the integrated design process, decarbonization and deep retro-commissioning investigations, he enhances energy efficiency and staff training across projects and portfolios alike. As a globally recognized public speaker, he's mentored and educated 10,000+ professionals and students. Additionally, as Co-Founder and Advisor at Aetos, he is pioneering cutting edge imaging technology to transform training and building operations in the digital age. Show Highlights Charlie interviews Nick + Asa after their recent LEED Fellow awards. Understanding how design and buildings can affect a natural environment and affect a natural ecosystem. Client engagement and the misconceptions that are still out there when it comes to LEED and a sustainable building. Recognizing your job as sustainability consultants to find the best outcome for clients and projects specific challenges. Asa shares findings from the LEED Advancement Committee on common misconceptions around LEED. Emerging technology and trends that everyone should be applying to their businesses. Current innovations to help you leverage technology to advance the efficiency of how you do things. The evolution of LEED to grow and create a renewed focus on health, wellness, and buildings being designed, built and operated to be better for the environment. The crossover and current pathways to combine environmental performance and human performance. Fundamental values and roles that keep us alive and keep us caring for our families. Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2023 GBES
Amy Pastor, LEED Fellow, PE, CxA, ENV SP is the Vice President of Sustainability at EXP. She leads a nationwide team of commissioning and sustainability professionals who deliver innovative and cost-effective solutions for their clients in various sectors. With over 18 years of experience in the industry, she has a proven track record of managing complex projects, achieving energy savings, and certifying green buildings. Amy takes immense pride in building better, including lasting relationships with clients and quality, sustainable buildings, without surrendering the integrity of the design. She has personally worked on 210 LEED Certified projects. She is based in Sanford, Florida and has her Bachelor and Master Engineering degrees from Penn State University. She holds multiple credentials that demonstrate my expertise and commitment to sustainability, such as Certified Commissioning Authority (CxA), Professional Engineer (PE), and LEED Accredited Professional (LEED AP). She is also passionate about sharing her knowledge and skills with others, through public speaking, educational courses, and community involvement. Her mission is to advance the sustainability agenda and create positive impacts for the environment and society. Show Highlights Amy shares her expertise on PE commissioning Authority, and unique credentials and licenses PE, Professional Engineering License. CXA, Commissioning Authority. EMVSP, sustainable infrastructure credential. Envision Certification is a highly sought after rating system for larger projects and infrastructure system impact. Collegiate programs for an architectural engineering degree focused on the engineering side for building specifically to set you up for career success. The benefits of putting “boots on the ground” to coordinate all the disciplines from the engineering side. Sustainability at EXP’s core mission, vision, and why they will always be a private company. Electrification Education, building and design challenges and how to map out pathways to electrify. The essential conversation you need to have about the grid and efficiency roles. You can't just flip the switch. Determining how each market sector, how each industry is responding to that transition to electrification. Retrofit vs new build requirements. Evaluating utility provider, space, equipment and technology needed. The biggest challenge the industry is facing. Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2023 GBES
Eddy Santosa, is a LEED Fellow and a global leader in the delivery of sustainable building strategies and design, with over 24 years of experience including delivering high-performance sustainable design on over 300 building projects across the U.S. and globally. He has been recognized for his global industry leadership by the USGBC where he has been appointed as a LEED Fellow, the highest level of recognition in the global sustainability sector. Eddy provides technical leadership to a number of nationally and globally significant professional bodies, including as the leader of the AIA National Building Performance Knowledge Community, the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) US as a board director, and a voting member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) SPC 209-2018R committee. He has served on the USGBC Energy & Atmosphere Technical Advisory Group specifically related to guidelines within version 4.1 of the LEED rating system. Eddy has published many articles on the topic of energy performance, building science, and sustainability as well as spoke at many conferences on the same topics. Show Highlights Discussion on climate and nature-based design for LEED. Building science, quantitative measure,s and how you can explain sustainability using a common metric and language. Design each phase effectively early on for a meaningful whole-building design. Tips to stay ahead of the LEED requirements for clients in different cities/regions. The 3 D’s that are the future of a built environment. Using digitalization to assist you to achieve the goal. Trends to help with the critical data needed for projects. “A green building career is like a good rollercoaster - you need to keep flexible, change your strategy, and learn how to strategize your career to get to the end goal. The movement is very quick. Before, a LEED consultant wasn’t as popular. Now it's become overcrowded and you need to strategize how you will be different. Green building is a good career when you enjoy learning many different things.” -Eddy Santosa Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2023 GBES
Amy Upton, LEED Fellow, Experienced Sustainable Design Director, Project Architect, and Project Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the architecture & planning industry. Focus on public architecture and K-12, recreation centers, and libraries. Skilled in BIM, Concept Design through Construction Administration. As a LEED Fellow, she has dedicated her career to designing and delivering green community architecture and highlighting systems, materials, and features that allow the buildings and site to be learning labs. She has experience in Net Zero Energy design and worked on the second and third NZE schools in the state of Maryland. Amy is committed to integrating the environmental literacy curriculum in our K-12 green schools, and keeping connections to work with students and staff on Green Apple Day of Service projects annually. Show Highlights Focusing on public architecture and community-based architecture. Embodied carbon should be embedded into the design process. Highlight standard design and anything related to sustainable design or metrics. Make sense of co-located facilities or multi-agency facilities with competing interests that need to be balanced. A lot of different ways AI is integrated into our daily business and practice. Questions to consider when incorporating and working together to move the needle on sustainability goals. Future buildings and restorative practices need to impact people’s lives holistically. Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2023 GBES
Brittany Storm is a LEED Fellow with LEED AP specialties in BD+C and ID+C. She is also WELL AP, FItwel Ambassador, as well as USGBC and IWBI Faculty She has extensive experience in the sustainable building industry and over 15 years of experience working on projects seeking various green building certifications including LEED, the WELL Building Standard, and the Living Building Challenge. Her professional background allows her to speak to audiences about both big picture and technical aspects of a green building project. Recognized as a thought leader, Brittany has a depth and breadth of technical expertise in the areas of healthy, sustainable construction materials, green building standards and rating systems, and sustainable manufacturing. Brittany has directed numerous projects and managed the development of sustainability guidelines for a wide range of industry associations and green building standards. Brittany has consulted on more than 150 buildings with experience working with many different building types, including office buildings, tenant spaces, hotels, retail, warehouse and distribution centers, multifamily properties and public order and safety buildings. Brittany has also developed 2 LEED volume prototypes and has certified many LEED volume projects, representing over 2 million square feet and counting. In her role as a sustainable building consultant, she advocates for healthy, sustainable building materials and construction practices. As a sustainable consultant to manufacturers, Brittany influences the identification and implementation of sustainable alternatives to manufacturers’ products and processes. She advocates including manufacturers as part of the project team in order to select products that best meet the project’s budget, performance, aesthetic, and sustainability needs. Using her background in construction, Brittany offers a technical approach to problem solving and finding the best product(s) for each project team’s sustainability goals. From advocating for healthy materials to developing critical industry content for healthy materials, she exemplifies leadership in transforming the design and construction industry. She is active on many sustainability committees including LEED’s Materials and Resources (MR) Technical Advisory Group (TAG), mindful MATERIALS, and several industry trade associations. Show Highlights Manufacturer engagement needs to evolve to create a better understanding of what goes into their products, how their products impact human health and the environment. Brittany’s shares how to help develop your career and the many sides of sustainability. Proactive wellness is much more than green cleaning and the air quality. Florida Green Building Coalition certification similar to LEED. A prototype to simplify and streamline the LEED certification process to address the actual volume of projects and client's needs. Shift the demands and responsibility away from architects and contractors to educate clients on decarbonization. Avoid panic mode thinking to achieve LEED certification in the initial planning stages. Design a healthy space by selecting building materials that impact wellbeing, ecosystems, environments that are diverse, equitable, and cohesive. Show Resource and Information L Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2023 GBES
TITLE: Regenerative Business Coach Monique Allen Monique Allen, is CEO and Creative Director of The Garden Continuum, a landscaping design company that brings the principles of regenerative agriculture to ornamental gardening. The central work of The Garden Continuum is to create outdoor living spaces, both public and private, that draw people out into those spaces and begin to build that reconnection with nature. Monique's approach infuses life back into systems and landscapes that have been abused by degenerative practices. Through regenerative gardening, Monique breathes new life into the soil, and through her personalized landscape business coaching she helps clients build a high-integrity business reflecting care for the entire earth community. Check out her book, Stop Landscaping, Start Lifescaping. Show Highlights The garden continuum and understanding regenerative business and the landscape movement. Jumpstart ecosystems and create an energetic loop on projects. Understanding the conundrum of care to create longevity and not just sustainable. Monique shares how to partner with mother nature on projects. Match your work with clients and people who are already invested emotionally, mentally, financially in what you do. The built environment needs to embrace creating “healthy sites” and not just regenerative spaces. Approach landscaping differently with a “codify” tool to help you stop landscaping and start life. Know the difference in a landscape as something pretty to look at, compared with “Life-Scapeing,” a space you interact with nature in. “Have that triple bottom line mindset where it's: planet, people, and profits. One cannot happen without the other. It's not a question of its linearity. You roll these three aims of planet, people, and profits together. You are always looking through that triple lens to say, ‘Is this project creating a betterment or is it at least somewhat neutral,’ but it just can't be degrading or detrimental.” -Monique Allen Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2023 GBES
Michael Beckerman, is a leader in the commercial real estate technology and sustainability sectors. He entered these sectors in 2012 after a 25-year career in commercial real estate media relations, in which he started and built Beckerman Public Relations into one of the largest firms in the country before eventually selling the agency. Michael now serves as CEO of CREtech, the largest conference company devoted to technology and sustainability in the Built World. Michael also hosts the CREtech Climate Cast, a podcast series devoted to educating, inspiring, and leading the built environment to invest and adopt climate technologies and embrace sustainability. Tune in to in-depth conversations with the leading real estate and tech innovators from across the globe. Show Highlights Technology in the built environment that embraces the marketplace of the built environment. The overall umbrella and difference between PropTech vs Climate Tech vs Construction Tech. The industry has to adapt to be a customer-centric hospitality space in office spaces and residential. Fragmentation in the tech sector created gaps in infrastructure for companies. Every building is a snowflake in need of technology tools to decarbonize and create building efficiency. Focus on climate risk mitigation, in the real estate industry, but also for the homeowner/consumer. Do your due diligence on AI. It’s the wild, wild, west. “Our struggles are our greatest teachers. I've learned to embrace the struggle. When I make a mistake, it's like, ‘Okay, why was that given to me? What am I supposed to learn from that experience?’ I think the things I wish I knew when I was younger were more about mindfulness, more about being present and letting go of the stress and the anxiety of like the future, the unknowns.” -Michael Beckerman Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2023 GBES
David Douek, LEED Fellow, is the director of OTEC, since its foundation in 2007. He has dedicated himself to building one of the leading consulting and service providers for the real estate, design, construction, properties management, energy efficiency and sustainability markets. Together with OTEC’s team he has worked with companies such as: Coca Cola, P&G, GE, GM, Siemens, Deloitte, Brookfield, Hines, Cyrela, Prologis, Santander, Bndes, USP, GLP and others of the same importance, always helping them achieve their goals. His academic background is in business, architecture, engineering, real estate, data science and sustainability. In addition to this, he has gained valuable international experience which has helped me develop foreign businesses such as DesignBuilder software in Brazil. Show Highlights The main difference between the American and the Brazilian market in building design and construction procedures. The transformation of WELL and the introduction of a variety of WELL certifications and programs to adopt post pandemic. OTEC consulting firm believes that to improve the quality of the buildings, we have to understand what they represent for the market. David further shares: his company’s achievements and contributions to the green building industry. how to pinpoint what the challenges are. how to help the clients increase their performance towards a concrete and a reasonable goal. why a designer, contractor, a developer, has to incorporate sustainability within the process. how to drive the market towards IGO. Why wellness is important, but should be incorporated in a much larger perspective. The balance is in understanding that technologies and finances have to work together. Tips to help whoever's interested in understanding what their ESG strategy should be regarding their facilities. Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2023 GBES
Charlie Cichetti, CEO, LEED Fellow and WELL AP, is one of the leaders in the green building industry. He’s built a career around green building services/education/and technology, and has co-founded multiple companies that hold sustainability leadership as core values. His career has evolved from a strong construction background, to real estate, to early LEED expertise, to starting his own business, to buying a business, and now to co-founding two technology companies - all in the built environment. ESG | Decarbonization | ClimateTech | EdTech | LEED Charlie is invested in the success of the green building industry. He works with people and buildings around the world to create the highest level of sustainability possible. Show Highlight Current Trends and a glimpse to the future for programs and rating systems around resiliency for the industry. The Past 10 Episodes you should check out * Episode 298: Alvis Yuen, head of ESG Real Estate for Bain Capital. * Episode 297: Silas Mahner with NextWave to help advance the world to a cleaner future. * Episode 296: Keith Fine the Principal at SLAM for an in depth conversation on innovation and AI. * Episode 295: Tucker Perkins with PERC for a conversation on Propane Education and Research Act. * Episode 294: Isela Rosales is the Managing Director, Head of ESG & Sustainability at Bridge Investment Group, a leading $50 billion investment portfolio. Charlie’s Playlist of 8 episodes to check out on GBES Podcast Episode 48: Maria Perez, LEED Fellow at Gensler . Episode 37: Vivian Loftus and the amazing work she's doing at Carnegie Mellon. Episode 57: A Wild Conversation with Jason Twill. Episode 172: Drew Shula, a social entrepreneur focused on building up our green building consulting firms. Episode: Emmanuel Powells, who is a living Future hero. Episode 180: Peter Templeton, the current CEO of the US Green Building Council. Episode 224: A live podcast interview in Munich, Germany last year. Episode 287: The Founding Father of LEED Rob Watson. Inspirational Projects to check out Companies are focused on climate risk and opportunities to support the CDP framework. Show Resource and Information Charlie's Podcast Playlist Inspirational Projects Cal Guerxo Show Notes Don’t forget to catch more episodes and resources for all of your green building news at the website. Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES: GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more insurances that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2023 GBES
Daniel Brown works to promote public health, green spaces, wealth building, and community engagement. He has served on the Cleveland-Cuyahoga Food Policy Coalition, the Cuyahoga County Next Generation Council, and the U.S. Composting Council's steering committee for community composting prior to starting Rust Belt Riders. Mr. Brown is a social entrepreneur and climate fellow. Show Highlights Learn how Rust Belt communities are fighting deindustrialization and the impacts of climate change with economic development, climate resiliency, and the re-imagination of communities. Why does the climate crisis make all other crises that much worse? The biggest leverage and point of leverage that we can have on affecting human driven impacts on the climate. Learn more about the intersecting issues related to our food and agricultural system on both public health, air and water quality. The work Rust Belt Riders is doing work that provides a template for how other cities and communities can affect change at a systems level to truly be the rising tide that lifts all boats. community leaders, businesses and residents a way to reframe their waste stream as a resource stream to avoid the very worst impacts of the climate crisis. Highly dense urban areas need an alternative to landfills because they do not have the infrastructure or capacity to process all of the organic material that they ingest. Food and food systems are the building block for all and any type of circular economy. The top three things we need to balance the push and pull of the environmental economic equation. “It's important to acknowledge that no one does anything on their own. Anything I've ever been able to accomplish has been because of the people whose shoulders I stood on and who were in the trenches with me. I don't think that there's any singular thing that I alone have done. But what I will say is I think that like the building of the organization that I'm here representing, Rust Belt Riders is among the most proud things that I've worked and been part of.” -Daniel Brown Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2023 GBES
Alvis Yuen is an ESG and Sustainability professional with expertise in ESG reporting, building decarbonization, energy systems, sustainability policy, investor relations, strategy, and project management. He has strong analytical and scientific background, recent sustainability portfolio oversight with the largest landlord in NYC, and currently leading Bain Capital’s Real Estate ESG initiatives. Alvis is a graduate of the City College of New York, earning his Master’s degree for Sustainability in the Urban Environment. His interest in the interaction of the environment and business interest began during his undergraduate studies at NYU where Alvis pursued dual majors in biochemistry and economics. This background allows him to understand the more technical aspects of sustainability problems as well as their economic implications. His immersion in diverse academic disciplines enabled Alvis to balance the perspectives of many stakeholders when addressing the issues of sustainability. At the G&A Institute, Alvis analyzed hundreds of corporate sustainability reports for submission into the global GRI database. His work has been incorporated into research on corporate governance and sustainability reporting trends of S&P 500 Index companies. Alvis has also contributed to Wikirate, a global open-source database for corporate sustainability performance. Alvis’ specific interests include: green buildings, renewable energy, transportation, and urban development. In recognition of his accomplishments, Alvis has been awarded the inaugural REBNY Sustainability Fellowship. He is also a LEED Green Associate. Show Highlights Companies are focused on climate risk and opportunities to support the CDP framework. Bain Capital is a large, global, multiple asset investor. A general partner for investing with different funding sources Invested in real estate associated investments Whole Business Unit of Bain Capital Real Estate Pro tips for transparency to ensure you are reporting, collecting, and tailoring accurate data for your portfolios. Deciding what green best practices to use for your projects and not just chasing a certification. Alvis shares some of the more aggressive mandates that may be coming to a city near you. Get your foot in the door with roles that are a little more narrow and specialized in the industry. Charlie and Alvis discuss the trillion dollar question in our industry. Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2023 GBES
Silas Mahner is working for NextWave to help advance the world to a cleaner future. He is passionate about Talent Attraction & Retention as well as Sustainability and the Circular Economy. At NextWave, he is helping shape the future of Talent Attraction & Retention and ESG & Sustainability. Silas is also a podcast host: “Cleantechies.” He has three primary remits: Leading the North American ESG, CleanTech, and Sustainability Recruitment Practice Helping develop and expand our Channel Partnerships Supporting Global Marketing Strategy and Initiatives Show Highlights Career advice to help everyone navigate their green careers Learn the number one asset in business to be a good partner. NextWave recruitment consultancy Climate tech, ESG headhunter and certified B Corp Help companies find particular technical talent. Serve renewables, climate and sustainability around the world. Build entire teams working with funds, and then following the money into their portfolio companies. There’s one principle Silas has to help the green building industry understand about their applicants and specific skill sets. Understanding the segmentation and nuanced specialties inside of companies. Tips to help you shine among other applicants to get an interview. Breaking down the nuances and specialized future of a green building. “If we really care about fixing the climate problem, you need to decarbonize everything, which means you have to reinvent the entire world, and everything has to be re-engineered from the beginning. It's just so exciting. Obviously there's a lot of challenges with climate change, but it's super exciting to be alive right now. So many opportunities to build companies and to just make a really big difference in the world.” -Silas Mahner Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2023 GBES
Keith Fine is a Principal at SLAM and serves as the Management Lead, for the Los Angeles Studio as well as the Director of Innovation for the firm nationally. Keith combines his unique experiences including construction, technical design, leadership passions for both design and innovation from a unique perspective. Keith approaches all challenges with a strong team-building focus that leverages the very best from those around him. Through these networked relationships and exposures, Keith has a unique skill at understanding the interconnected nature of seemingly disparate technologies and cultivating the development of new and innovative solutions. Show Highlights Working with progressive clients concerned about the climate. Let nature inspire and define the character of the project to bring sustainable thinking to do the greater good. SLAM focuses on bringing creativity and design to enrich lives. Innovative projects and tools to keep an eye on in the industry. Understanding how much waste you have when things are kind of brute forced out in the field. Keith shares two big themes for sustainability and the green building movement. There's not enough connected data between firms and tools to start to move it to the next level. UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs-17) Moving towards a marketplace of digital assets with higher performance selection standards moving towards an ecosystem where you get the data upfront. “We're kind of re-imagining how we deliver projects from stem to stern, from concept to delivery, and it's very heavy visualization based. And, it's about real-time problem solving. We've found a way to leverage our assets and build our asset library of just all the different things you'll have in a building. We're focused right now on using this on very technical projects, healthcare/labs/advanced tech…the kind of stuff where you really can virtually put people in spaces and pull up every bit of reference you need and modify it around them in real-time, and then push that straight towards a fabrication pipeline.” -Keith Fine Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2023 GBES
Tucker Perkins is the president and chief executive officer of the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC), an organization authorized by the U.S. Congress with passage of the Propane Education and Research Act (PERA), Public Law 104-284, signed into law on October 11, 1996. Tucker assumed the role of PERC president and CEO when Roy Willis retired July 31, 2017, having previously served as PERC’s chief business development officer since 2012 and then as chief operating officer since December 2016. He has worked in the propane industry for 26 years, having served as the director of business development for Inergy, chief executive officer of Premier Propane, and the chief operating officer of Columbia Propane, a unit of the Columbia Energy Group. Tucker is also the former chairman of a PERC advisory committee on engine fuel matters and is active with the National Propane Gas Association and the Virginia Propane Gas Association. Show Highlights The most important topic in green buildings. Understanding how propane is such a different fuel and can support the demands of the industry as a fuel of the future. PERC in the Propane Education and Research Council and there are three roles they play in the industry. Solutions to address where the power gaps are and how to begin to fill them with a changing and fragile electric grid. Tucker shares innovations that will minimize our environmental footprint. Not all fossil fuels are equal. The high level difference between natural gas and propane and what is the best fuel for the environment, our health, and economy. Addressing the energy needs of a building and how to pivot to provide the best efficiency. Where is propane needed most in infrastructure? “We're really looking for the recipe that is the most efficient initial cost, the most efficient operating cost. But at the end of the day, it's still about minimizing our environmental footprint. It's a responsibility of all energy providers to rethink that equation. We've moved from wood to coal and coal to oil, and I would say oil to natural gas. And we're really moving from natural gas to renewable electricity, particularly in the built environment as fast as we can. And there isn't one solution. There's not one silver bullet. Renewable electricity is not the silver bullet because it'll take 40 years to build it out. And if we're not careful, we won't be able to afford the solutions nor will all the solutions be reliable. So propane [and renewable propane] will be part of the recipe.” -Tucker Perkins “I don't think all fossil fuels are equal. Certainly coal and oil and wood, I'd argue they're all fossil fuels. They're not nearly the same as natural gas and propane. I think those are low carbon fossil fuels and with this great combustion property. I think the last, particularly five years now have been really engaging in this conversation about what are the fuels of the future and what is good for the environment, what's good for our health, and frankly, what can we afford at the same time brings us warmth, hot food, hot showers bringing, bringing that whole conversation together.” -Tucker Perkins Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2023 GBES
Isela Rosales is the Managing Director, Head of ESG & Sustainability at Bridge Investment Group, a leading real estate investment firm. Isela is based in San Francisco, CA. Prior to joining Bridge, Ms. Rosales lived and worked in New York City for nearly a decade in the financial services sector building and managing large institutional client relationships for multiple global asset management firms. She pursued and earned the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation in 2016 and decided to expand her financial services background from the hedge fund industry to include private real estate. She began her career at Cambridge Associates, working in Menlo Park following her graduation from Stanford University before receiving a promotion that would take her to the firm’s Boston headquarters. Ms. Rosales received her dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in International Relations and Spanish from Stanford, graduating with honors distinctions, and achieved top of her class ranking from Elsie Allen High’s first graduating Class of 1997. She is fluent in Spanish and competes in Ironman and marathon competitions in her spare time. Isela was the first alumna to start giving back to Elsie Allen through her Ironman competitions prior to the Foundation being established. She currently serves as a Community Member on the Board. Show Highlights A platform of strategies in renewable energy ventures and in secondaries in the real estate value arena to meet where the market is heading. Where real estate meets technology with the five areas of PropTech and ESG/sustainability is one of those five. Tips to determine what to put effort into, what's important, and selecting frameworks, scoring systems, and which plaques to go after. Unpack the vast menu of building certifications from the smallest to the largest that exist around the world. What you need to know about PRI and PRI Signatory to achieve important milestones. The secret to ESG with some high level tips. What to consider for your organizations employee engagement, developing talent and supportive measures for DEI. Selecting programs that make sense for a given property type. “The S of ESG, does not represent sustainability, it actually represents Social - you can have the most efficient building out there, but you still have to factor in the People side of the equation. I really believe that when the topic of the S comes up, it's important to look at it from two perspectives. One, as the S relates to your company, what is going on for the employees of your company. And then the S is also for your company's investments in society.” -Isela Rosales Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2023 GBES
Robert Fleming is an AIA, LEED AP, NOMA, an award-winning educator, author, keynote speaker, sustainability advocate, and architect. In all his work, Rob strives to: Advocate for social equity in the built environment; Regenerate the natural world, Design beautiful places; and Bring economic viability to sustainability projects. Rob is an educator He is the Director of Online Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design and he Is the Director of the Design Leadership Program. From 1996 to 2021, Rob served as the Founding Director and Professor for the Award-winning Master of Science in Sustainable Design Program at Thomas Jefferson University, where he taught hundreds of emerging sustainability professionals who have made important contributions in the world. Rob is an author His 4th book, Sustainable Design for the Built Environment, has become a required textbook for many college courses around the country. In all his books, Rob breaks down complex topics using straightforward language and compelling graphics, leading to a better understanding of how we can address the challenges of the climate emergency. Rob is a speaker He has delivered over 250 public presentations on sustainability where he brings humor, enthusiasm, inspiration and hope for a sustainable future to audiences around the world. Rob is an advocate Rob co-founded the Justice Alliance for Design Education which features an alliance of six universities and six non-profit organizations all working together to transform the principles and practices of design programs across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Starting in 2022, Rob will become the President-Elect of the Philadelphia AIA. Rob is an architect Rob works with clients and design firms around the country to facilitate integrative design charrettes using co-creative, stakeholder driven design processes. In this way, built environment projects reach higher levels of sustainability and the design teams themselves develop stronger bonds through a shared sense of purpose Show Highlights Design education has a long way to go before it begins to transform the curriculum to be authentically sustainable. NOMA, National Organization of Minority Architects is an influential group of young emerging leaders in architecture. Robert shares pet peeves with the building industry and how to fix them. Shifting away from mitigation into resilience to prepare for “survivability.” The debate if Sustainability and resiliency fit under one another or they are separate. One of the greatest challenges that we face with wellness and climate change. AI framework for design excellence and how we need it to get through the challenges that we're facing in the future. Joining organizations is critical and effective to pull out the best in yourself through collaboration. Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2023 GBES
Chris Kaiser is the VP of Business Operations at Sona Energy in Atlanta, GA. He’s been a student of sustainability and uses his position to implement sustainable solutions for the clients he works with. His focus is defining, designing, and delivering clean energy solutions ranging from EV Charging, LED lighting and controls, and Solar PV & Microgrid. Most companies today talk about the importance of sustainability, but Chris focuses on how do they actually make it happen? As a people-facing engineer, he uses his passion for minimizing waste and maximizing efficiency to help clients define and execute their sustainability goals. Creating change at an industrial level has broad, positive impacts that help him create a better Earth for his children. Show Highlights Chris shares all things energy, decarbonization, and EV charging. The three pillars of clean energy. Legislation and incentives to fund the technology and address mandates. The breakdown and pro tips on EVcharging, the different levels and recommendations for businesses. Understand the technical realities, grid stability and what it's gonna take to balance electricity. What is needed to move the needle in the industry to avoid greenwashing and create a more sustainable future with clean energy infrastructure. Clean energy boards and continuing to drive the clean energy space forward. Understanding how to convince decision makers to find and address pain points. “I hear, or I see, or I read these articles with people saying, ‘Oh, until I can charge my EV at the same amount of time it takes to fill up my gas car, I'm not gonna get an EV.’ And I'm like, ‘Well that's not really a fair analysis because if you live in a single family home, you can fuel up 90% of the time you're fueling up while you're sleeping and you can't do that with your gas car.’” -Chris Kaiser Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2023 GBES
Andres Prera is a LEED Fellow. He has worked in a sustainable architecture firm in St Louis, Missouri. In 2003, he became one of the first in Latin America to gain LEED AP credentials. Upon his return to Guatemala, Andres co-founded ENVIRO. The firm specializes in green design, project management and sustainability consulting. Since 2004, Andres has worked to promote and provoke change in the building industry towards a sustainable future for the country and the region, now working in several countries. In 2006, Andres earned his Masters of Urban Management degree from the Technical University in Berlin. In 2010, a small group of professionals from different sectors in the industry got together and founded the Guatemala Green Building Council, and AndrÃes became the first president of the Guatemala GBC. Show Highlights Green design mixing biology, nature, and architecture. Tips to show the industry it doesn’t have to be more expensive but make more sense when building in different regions. Understanding what goes into LEED and LEED Ebom projects in the Guatemala region. Push towards regenerative buildings, bio chromatic design and Bioclimatic architecture. Create great performance and sustainable buildings while being climate responsive. The logic in having Biophilic design in every build and design. Create value in the business and services you promote to select products that fully support a healthy living. “The green building movement is still ongoing, it's still innovative, and it's still a great community, so it's always welcoming new people and professionals…I encourage everyone to think about climate and people. I think those two things are always there. If you're thinking about architecture and construction/development, it has to be human-centered.” -Andres Prera Show Resource and Information Linkedin Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2023 GBES
Norbert Szircsak is Head of ESG Strategic Advisory Services for Colliers International based in Budapest, Hungary. Norbert started his career with Colliers International - Hungary in August 2007, joining the Valuation and Advisory services team. Norbert has over 15 years’ experience in the real estate and green building industry. He has been directly involved in more than 30 LEED certification projects, including Commercial Interiors, Existing Buildings and New Construction projects. In the majority of these projects, he has been the overall project manager. Hungary's first certification in LEED version 4, which is also the first certified office building in the countryside, and the first LEED Platinum certification are on his & his team’s list of accomplishments. Norbert has also contributed to more than 10 BREEAM In-Use certifications, similarly in project manager roles. Norbert graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Gábor Dénes College in 2009. He obtained his local appraiser qualification in 2009 and is also a member of the Hungarian Real Estate Association. Furthermore, in 2009, he obtained the LEED Green Associate and in 2013 the LEED Accredited Professional with specialty qualification from the U.S. Green Building Council. In 2019, he became a WELL Accredited Professional. Show Highlights Get a better understanding of Hungary and the European regions. Usage of renewables A peak into what rating systems are easier and harder to apply Taxonomy European Green Deal Connecting engineering and technical backgrounds into a green building career. Challenges building within an advanced green building environment. 90% of Collier’s work is green building certified with green building advisory for various types of buildings. Learn where green building is expandings in competitive markets. A total carbon plan to reduce your carbon footage with electrification and the renewable energy production on site. The grid infrastructure development needs. Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2023 GBES
Angelica M. Ospina Alvarado is a LEED Fellow with over 15 years of experience and deeply passionate about contributing to our planet. Angelica has been a forefront leader of the adoption of green building, and integrative design practices in Colombia. Her strategic thinking, technical rigor and integrative approach has brought together the work of government, academia, industry and professional associations to advance the field. She is one of the founding members of the Colombia Green Building Council where she has volunteered her knowledge and experience since its foundation, currently, she is the Technical Director of the Council. Angelica is part time professor at the civil engineering master’s program at Universidad de los Andes, in the field of construction engineering and management. Show Highlights Understand how to include natural ventilation and different simulations to support the needs of the region. Moving topics that have a huge impact in public policy. Comparing LEED to the various rating systems used in the region. EDGE’s great impact in the social and in housing sector. CASA Colombia supports the residential sector ARC influence on reporting energy consumption The difficulties of building for a climate lower energy consumption . A roadmap for Columbia’s goals to meet the demands of new buildings and existing buildings as the country develops. Sustainable construction is growing faster in the region with incentives and the influence from the economic perspective . Decarbonization hurdles Columbia faces. The broader scope of urban development to focus on building green communities. “Urban development has a broader scope to not only focus on green buildings, but entire green communities. This is important. Decarbonization is a must now and moving to that for us is very, very important for resilience. Our countries really have a huge problem related to climate change. We need to move to that faster because we have not mapped those effects of climate change in each country. I see that we're moving in that direction.” -Angelica M. Ospina Alvarado Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2023 GBES
TITLE: From Romania to Spain With Green Building Expert Patricia Abrudan Patricia Abrudan is an architect certified as a Sustainability Consultant with post graduate training in Project Management and Facility Management and her work has mainly been oriented towards sustainable development projects. She has been focused on green building, life cycle assessment and sustainability consulting and certifications and is currently leading the ESG and Decarbonization Consulting team at JG Ingenieros in Barcelona, while continuing my work as a LEED Project Manager for several projects in the EMEA region. Additional Work and Education: - Sustainability and Energy Efficiency Consulting - Carbon Footprint consulting for real estate assets - Life Cycle Assessment and Costing - LEED ZERO and Net Zero Carbon Services - Circular design development - Space planning and workplace consulting - Architecture planning, measurements and compliance Show Highlights Reimagining “matchbox” neighborhoods to make a difference in urbanism projects. Improve the deliverability sustainable projects in our cities to make better spaces by embracing the various challenges from public vs private enterprise. Transform projects into reality and impact people’s lives with so little. Work with different types of clients to achieve their goals and make the environment better, with contradictory objectives. Walk the path of sustainability and embed sustainability in your business model, construction projects and real estate. Patricia shares a unique opportunity to use our engineering infrastructure. Expertise in engineering to assist clients in implementing global strategies into practice from the building level, portfolio level and wellness level.. Fascinating college classes and questions for the industry to consider and be an eco-engineer. Switch the paradigm from a linear economy to a circular economy in order to achieve decarbonization. “The first requirement for you to start a green building career is to believe in the movement. And not to just sign up because it's fashionable. Investigate a little bit what's behind this movement, and if you actually are in sync. And then, try to formalize your learning/education path, because it helps you discover where you can contribute.” -Patricia Abrudan Show Resource and Information Linkedin Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2023 GBES
Andrea Costa is a qualified chartered engineer and building energy rating (BER) assessor in Italy and a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) affiliated to the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE). He is expert in building simulation with experience on an array of building energy simulation software and ISO 50001 certification tools. Andrea is originally a graduate from the Politecnico di Milano where he obtained a BSc(Eng) in Building Engineering in 2005. In 2007 he was also awarded a summa cum laude Masters of Science degree in Building Engineering. During the master degree programme, he was awarded an Erasmus Scholarship and studied at University College Cork in the academic year 2005/2006. He pursued and was awarded a PhD in Civil Engineering from the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) with a PhD topic of providing support to the energy manager in improving the building operation strategy with considerations on building energy use and occupant comfort throughout the building lifecycle. After his PhD, Andrea was awarded an industrially supported Postdoctoral Fellow co-funded by IRCSET (Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology) as part of the Enterprise Ireland Partnership Scheme and D’Appolonia Spa in Italy. Andrea brings with him a balance of field and research experience including FP7 projects for energy efficiency with targeted focus for office buildings, airports, sport facilities, and schools. Show Highlights Play sustainability Legos to inspire your direction. Aims and innovative solutions and technologies to speed up change to the construction industry and the real estate industry. Research funded projects to support green building consulting and projects. R2M focus and industry impact Making buildings more digitally sustainable and eco digital. Understanding new European directive for building energy efficiency Educating stakeholders to manage their own assets. A framework for digital initial log books directly working with requirements and guidelines for green building. Unique approach to digitizing and keeping digital data available for buildings during daylight time. Providing internal occupants with the digital solutions that maintain better conditions. Understanding the difference between the European Green Deal and EU taxonomy mandates and priorities. The secret to growing a sizable business for budding entrepreneurs. Transform buildings into digital assets. “Find the right balance or the mood of the dial. When you are very excited, it's easy. Longer when you are very frustrated, it's easier to reduce. The challenge is when you're frustrated, you should try to keep pushing a bit more than when you would like to stop. And when you are super excited, you should try not to overwork too much because otherwise another dry spell of being not so excited will come. It's a hard balance to keep.” -Andrea Costa Show Resource and Information Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2023 GBES
Rob Watson is an international leader in market transformation, circular economy, sustainable materials management, and green buildings. Watson is known as the “Founding Father of LEED.” Under Rob’s direction, LEED became the largest and fastest-growing international green building standard. Author Thomas Friedman called Rob "one of the best environmental minds in America." In 2019, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine recognized Mr. Watson as one of the "25 Most Influential Alumni" in the College's 250 year history. Watson is a Principal with Upland Road, LLC, which develops eco-industrial campuses around a disruptive technology and business model that will revolutionize the global materials management industry by separating, diverting, and recycling up to 95% of municipal mixed waste that is collected in one bin. Rob is also the Founder and Co-Chair of the SWEEP (Solid Waste Environmental Excellence Performance) Standard, a system of market transformation standards geared to move the waste industry toward sustainability. Previously, Watson launched ECON Group and EcoTech International to implement cutting edge lifecycle optimized LEED projects in the US and China. Watson was a Senior Scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) for 21 years and received the 2013 International Conservation Award from the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. In 2011, he was an international Zayed Energy Future Award semi-finalist & was profiled on CNN International. Watson was the first foreigner honored for Green Building Innovation by the Chinese Ministry of Construction in 2005 and received the first lifetime achievement award from the U.S. Green Building Council in 2002. Mr. Watson is an Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and has an MBA from Columbia University and a MS from UC Berkeley. He is married to Green Schools Alliance Founder Margaret Howard Watson and has a 23-year-old son, Max. Show Highlights Rob Watson, the Founding Father of LEED shares his stories and expertise on making a difference in the industry. The ability to grasp complex systems, understand how they're put together and how to change them. The curve balls thrown from the industry and how to adjust your swing to support and create systems that work. Rob breaks down the SWEEP standard as “LEED for solid waste.” Creating a structure where value is captured by providing: buildings as a service. The problem of the industry that the USGBC needs to be focusing on to transform and deliver sustainability that has true value. The development of eco-industrial campuses that recycle 90-95% of everything. Smart centers sustainable materials and advanced recovery technology. Be part of “Humanity Inc. and a subsidiary of Planet Co.” by being systems thinking, but with a futurist mindset. AI could possibly be the seed of our salvation. Beyond tweaking LEED. We need to figure out how to deliver the Living Building Challenge and LEED Zero in a cost effective way. The need for radical confidence and a Star Trek moment before 2200. "Radical confidence. The Dalai Lama was asked by a colleague of mine, what's it going take to solve our environmental crisis? And he said, ‘Radical confidence.’ And that's basically, the old person who plants a tree. It's just doing something that you're never going to receive the benefit of because you have a positive vision of the future. I'm going to do it because it's the right thing to do and whether I benefit from it or not is not super relevant. Obviously, you’ve got to keep the roof over your head and food on the table. But at the end of the day, you have to have a life that's worth living. And that means, doing things outside of yourself to make it, you just make the world a better place." -Rob Watson Show Resource and Information Linkedin Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2023 GBES
Tom Liebel is a FAIA, LEED Fellow is a candidate for the 2023-2024 AIA Secretary and a Vice President with Moseley Architects, where Tom has been involved in integrating sustainable design principles into a variety of ground-breaking adaptive use and historic preservation projects over the past twenty years, with these projects recognized with multiple awards for design, smart growth, sustainable design and historic preservation. Tom is involved in ongoing research exploring the relationship between sustainability, preservation and urban design, with a particular emphasis in the use of urban adaptive use projects to promote neighborhood revitalization and civic engagement. Tom served two terms as Chair of the Maryland Green Building Council, served on the Maryland Advisory Council for Historic Preservation, Chairs Baltimore City’s Commission on Historical and Architectural Preservation, and served as a Mid-Atlantic Regional Representative on the American Institute of Architect’s Strategic Council, serving as the 2020 Moderator. Specialties: Historic Preservation/Adaptive Use Sustainable and Resilient Design Affordable Housing Innovation/Visioning/Implementation Strategies Show Highlights The technical rigor of the sciences and blending of creativity in the industry. Green architecture particularly focuses on sustainable preservation, affordable housing, and how to build sustainable communities. Blending adaptive reuse with historic typology to drive sustainable building. Moseley Architects ability to understand the unique challenges that sustainable building presents and ways to innovate. Rediscover low energy approaches towards design by tapping into the past. Tom breaks down understanding resilience into three buckets, natural, technical, and social. Interact with the best and brightest in the profession by involvement with trade organizations like AIA. The first approach is thoughtful designing down to the minimum load using basic principles orientation, lighting, natural ventilation, and bolting on modest technology to solve a modest energy demand. “The idea of resilience and expanding sustainable design principles from dedicated green projects to every project. It's just kind of what we do. What is interesting is, when I'm teaching classes on sustainability…the concepts are so basic that my shorthand is: don't build stupid. And literally that's all you're doing once you know the principles, once you know the basic building physics, …you just kind of dance with the building.” -Tom Liebel Show Resource and Information Linkedin Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2023 GBES
Adam Stark is the Co-Founder | Wellness Author | Special Forces Veteran | NYU MBA | Endurance Athlete | Photographer & Artist | 500HR Yoga Trainer | Meditation & Mindfulness Coach | Conscious Leader Coming from the RE development industry, he and his Co-Founder initially built Jet for themselves- to manage the portfolio of projects and assets at the companies they worked for. As they evolved the Jet.Build product, they began sharing the Jet solution with our network of builders. Long story short, today, Jet.Build is a Real Estate Developers, General Contractors, and Operators cloud-based Command Center. Jet is servicing a clientele of national builders: from pre-con to project closeout, and through real estate management. Adam is a Business Operations leader with 12+ years of experience leading and executing strategic planning for high-complexity projects and organizations. Collaborative team leader and experienced negotiator capable of stewarding both growth- and efficiency-focused change management initiatives across various business functions. Special Forces veteran who excels at navigating crises calmly whilst building partnerships and consensus among internal, external, and C-Suite stakeholders. Show Highlights The school of hard knocks is a great way to learn the necessities of the industry. Tips to collaborate and communicate with a lot of different people, with a lot of different companies. Understanding the collaborative nature of building a project, the design element, and then having that literal tangible outcome. Translatable skills from the military to construction sites. Jet Build’s Command Center management tool for efficiency and simplicity in 3 clicks reduce the amount of administrative tasks with a central hub. support roles of multi-company stakeholders on the real estate and construction side. essential tech stack for companies. assist in creating an ecosystem. reduce waste for a lifecycle of an asset Tech enabled teams to move past the “friction point.” Utilizing software can really help every green building project. “Technology is pushing more and more into our space and real estate as a whole. Eventually it will get there, it’s just a matter of continuing to push adoption in our industry to support everyone really, the entire ecosystem.” -Adam Stark Show Resource and Information SHALOSH-Adam-Stark Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community! If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on . We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the ! Copyright © 2023 GBES
Sengavi Thirupathy is the Senior Decarbonization Analyst responsible for managing project progress and deadlines, facilitating team meetings, and assisting the Associate Director of the Decarbonization team. Additionally, she serves as the QA QC lead for Energy Modeling scopes, the energy modeling training lead for the Decarbonization department, and Decarbonization lead participating in the VIM initiative.
Sengavi graduated from Anna University, Chennai, India in May 2016 with a Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering and completed her Master’s in engineering in Energy Systems from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Previously, Sengavi has worked on over 10 Net zero energy building design and modeling and 3 Net zero carbon projects. Sengavi has worked on various sectors such as medical office buildings, schools, and animal houses, semiconductor manufacturing units, multifamily residential buildings, automobile manufacturing buildings, data centers and office buildings. Sengavi has worked on Energy Audits, Utility incentive program management and grid carbon assessments as well.
Show Highlights
- A senior decarbonization analyst shares everything you need to know about decarbonization energy modeling, high performance buildings, and so much more.
- Working with the mandates surrounding energy efficiency and energy modeling for green building.
- How to successfully shift your majors to work with your passion. Sengavi shares her successful shift from chemical engineering into complete energy systems in the civil and architecture test side.
- High level tips on what really affects an energy model.
- Useful tools like IES, Energy Plus, Energy Pro and eQuest to learn the ecosystem is an open source to use for energy modeling.
- Include passive strategies in your design, construction or existing buildings to reduce the need to bring in energy.
- Adaptability and grid harmonization will drive all of the design in the future.
- Understanding the challenges with existing buildings vs new construction in energy modeling.
“I feel like buildings need to adapt to all of the things that nature is throwing at us right now. Adaptability and grid harmonization is what is going to drive all of the design in the future. The grid is becoming cleaner, and so how is your building going to adapt to it?”
-Sengavi Thirupathy
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Show Resource and Information
- The Book Thief
- How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
- Sustainable Investment Group (SIG)
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GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community!
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For today’s GBM Podcast, we want to talk about conferences. Let’s talk about, in particular, two AEC conferences, our host, Charlie Cichetti, attended in June 2023. We’ll also share some networking best practices while you're at your own conferences.
One of the first conferences our team attended to was at the very beginning of June, and the AIA Conference this year was in San Francisco. There were about 15,000 attendees!
Another conference our technology team attended was NXT BLD / NXT DEV in London June 20th & 21st, hosted by AEC Magazine, with about 500 attendees. It was really unique to be in one room where you had architects, tech startups, journalists, and investors - all collaborating and talking about the future of design & construction including AI & Data.
Show Highlights
- Top 5 Tips on how to get the most out of networking at a conference.
- AIA Conference: San Francisco
- Preparation for architects coming to this conference
- Explore technology, materials, and service providers that support the industry
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Top 10 greenest projects from 2023’s AIA COTE awards
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NXT BLD + DEV in London
- Sessions on the future of design and architecture.
- AI, data sharing are accelerating our industry.
“Conferences are a fantastic place to get encouragement, some continued education, see what’s trending, and also just meet people that you never know how your paths may cross again in the future. Maybe someone that becomes a friend. Could be a future business partner, could be someone that becomes a colleague or maybe they have an opportunity for you that's really exciting. Conferences are back and full - get out there!”
-Charlie Cichetti
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Show Resource and Information
- 2023 COTE® Top Ten Awards - AIA
- GREENBUILD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE & EXPO 2023
- AIA Previews 2023 Conference on Architecture: Defining the Future of AEC Industry
- NXT BLD 2023
- NXT BLD Speakers 2023
- NXT DEV 2023
- NXT DEV 2023 Speakers - NXT DEV
Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES Charlie on LinkedIn
Green Building Educational Services
GBES on Twitter
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GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community!
If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on iTunes. We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the Green Building Matters Podcast!
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Charles Anderson is a landscape architect and fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, He is a Principal of the Phoenix-based landscape architecture firm, Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture, which is the continuation of his practice of the Seattle-based firm Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture. Anderson is recognized by the American Society of Landscape Architects for combining nature, community needs, and art into his designs, emphasizing sustainability, indigenous plants and urban ecology.
His firm has an extensive record of award-winning multi-disciplinary park projects including over 25 community-based projects within the Seattle metropolitan area. Many of CALA's projects involve extensive public participation, including collaborations with community and neighborhood groups and public presentations. Recent neighborhood park projects include Roxhill Wetland and Bog Park in West Seattle and, the restoration of the 500 Area of Discovery Park, both of which received Merit Awards from the Washington Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and improvements to Mineral Springs Park to enhance public access and use including a new art walk and gathering spaces.
Show Highlights
- Charles shares tips for creating landscapes all around the world.
- The importance of ASLA, American Society of Landscape Architects and other trade organizations to propel your career.
- Everything you need to know about selecting native and adaptive plants.
- The dangers to the industry and environment if you ignore the native plants for something that grows quicker.
- Resource suggestions to figure out what is native in different regions to optimize the landscape.
- Why we need to love weeds more.
- Environmental landscape is an essential card in your lens.
- Seeing buildings like mountains will help shape your design and create a natural system that benefits the earth.
“Mentors, I think, are the most critical part of the practice if you really want to aspire and get the opportunities of the greatest projects to work on. You observe how they behave, you observe how they create opportunities. And with each one of 'em [mentors], I captured something from them that became part of who I am. You can't always pinball, can't just read about it, you have to actually witness it. Some of us learned by rhythm, some of us had to see or hear.”
-Charles Anderson
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Show Resource and Information
- Charles Anderson Landscape Architecture
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Green Building Educational Services
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GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community!
If you truly enjoyed the show, don't forget to leave a positive rating and review on iTunes. We have prepared more episodes for the upcoming weeks, so come by again next week! Thank you for tuning in to the Green Building Matters Podcast!
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Cynthia Adams is the founder of nonprofit and for profit businesses, her focus has consistently been on growing the cleantech industry. She raised grant and investor funding, developed products from the first discovery interview to sale, hired great teams to execute on the vision, and won a leadership award at a national conference.
Her current company, Pearl Certification, is transforming the US housing market by changing the way we build, improve, and sell homes. Pearl drives demand for energy efficient and renewable energy technologies by helping homeowners recoup the value of these investments at resale. Pearl sits at the intersection of new build, home improvement, real estate, utility, and home insurance markets. Our certification system and software platform enables an ecosystem of quality professionals to differentiate by making the value of their work visible.
Show Highlights
- Pearl Certification features to benefit sustainability
- Real estate agent division that is transforming the US housing market.
- Contractors and new construction division focusing on industry partnerships and business development.
- Public-private relationships division to create programs, utilities for states and localities to meet their carbon emissions goals.
- Certification, appraisal addendum, and the other documentation to help different stakeholders improve investments.
- Software to promote technology solutions for data discrepancy.
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The Green Doors App to engage and create a customized investment plan.
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Tips on how to account for the community when implementing your projects to ensure they contribute to the community and not harm.
- It is vital to educate homeowners on electrification to impact decarbonization.
- Construction practices and startups suggest you need to consider.
- Tips for entrepreneurs to take risks that will impact the movement.
- Understanding the connection to the ecosystem from new construction, public entity, utility, contractor, and the homeowner.
“Being involved in sustainability and the built environment can apply itself in a lot of different ways…follow, develop something that you're really good at, whatever that love is. If you care about the green movement and you care about sustainability, you can take those skillsets and find a way to apply them to a company that's doing work in this space…”
-Cynthia Adams
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- Green Door - Pearl Certification
- Pearl Certification
- The Nature Of Nature
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Paige Tisdale is currently the vice president for the IFMA, Portland Oregon and Southwest Washington chapter. Paige also is in a Business Development role for Dennis’ 7 Dees Landscaping. She has a greater affinity for plants than those around her. She learned (and now teaches) the benefits that plants give to us Mentally, Emotionally, Physically, and Subconsciously. These multiple angles have grown her passion for enhancing our environments indoors and out through moss art, living walls, green roofs, and more.
Office spaces need to attract and retain top talent, help mental health issues, and make people feel awesome. She works with designers, architects, and facilities teams to help bring nature into the office.
She is an Ambassador for plants everywhere, and will continue to share in whatever way people will listen.
Paige loves interacting with and helping others. She loves building long lasting and meaningful relationships, and has proved that honesty and transparency go a long way in forging these connections.
Getting to share her passion and see other people enjoy the end results of her work, grow relationships, and become a trusted partner, rather than ‘just another supplier’ is very important to her.
Show Highlights
- Tips encouraging sustainability by incorporating greenery in design for all commercial services with varying environments.
- Paige’s company can help develop and design for all commercial services and multi-tenant buildings to increase aesthetic and knowledge.
- The Oregon State Treasury Building is one of the first buildings of its kind in the nation as a resiliency building that will withstand any disaster.
- Understanding the benefits and difference in designing with moss art walls vs Living Wall in Biophilic design.
- Benefits of IFMA, the facility manager's trade organization.
- Green Plants For Green Buildings is a national organization trying to bridge the gap between architects, designers and interior landscapers.
- Research and education on why greenery is important for our wellness in our built environment.
- CEU courses to support your credentials.
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Connection to Bioflu design, Fitwell, the Well Building Standard and the Living Building Challenge.
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Tips for how architects can coordinate and collaborate with interior landscapers to select products and materials that support the foundation and design of buildings.
- Help companies with their brand image by creating better wellness rooms or lounge spaces to increase productivity.
“We saw a huge influx of people wanting to redecorate office spaces. A lot of companies want to adjust their offices to draw more employees back. You want that extra reason to go to work instead of staying at home where you're comfy and you can walk your dog at lunchtime and do whatever you want. Bringing people back to offices means you have to create a cooler workspace.”
-Paige Tisdale
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- NY Times article: A Super Building for Fragile Times
- Sarah J Maas: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series |
- Green Plants for Green Buildings
- CEU Courses: Book a CEU Presentation |
- Dennis' 7 Dees
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Shai Shaul is the Director of Commissioning services at SIG. Shai has over 17 years of experience in building commissioning, designing HVAC mechanical systems, ASHRAE energy audits, and energy modeling. His portfolio includes office buildings, laboratories, residential high-rise, hotels, retail, restaurants, and net-zero energy projects. Shai specializes in commissioning complex MEP systems for LEED and CA T24 compliance and performing engineering calculations for various energy efficiency measures. He also has experience in reviewing equipment sizing, equipment selections calculations, cost estimates, value engineering, mechanical systems, due-diligence reports and energy analysis.
Education
Shai has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Degree from San Francisco State University and has the following licenses and certifications:
- Professional Engineer (PE) – California
- Certified Building Commissioning Professional (CBCP)
- Certified Energy Manager (CEM)
- LEED AP Building Design & Construction (BD+C)
Experience
Shai has extensive experience managing new construction commissioning and retro-commissioning projects. Shai worked on many building types including office, mixed-use, schools, universities, laboratories, hospitals, warehouses, manufacturing facilities and cogeneration plants.
Interests
Due to his personal path in the engineering world, Shai is a great believer in sharing and acquiring knowledge. One of Shai’s passions is teaching and making sure that the next generation of engineers is well versed and has a solid foundation of knowledge to build upon. This passion does not stem from personal recognition and appreciation, but instead, it is driven to create the next generation of mentors and future industry subject matter experts.
Personal interests include soccer, tennis, and ping pong.
Show Highlights
- Energy modeling and design can coexist in their interactions.
- Demystify the different components and types of commissioning in the marketplace.
- Tips to excel in both fundamental commissioning and retro commissioning to optimize those systems.
- The critical role mentorships play in shaping the knowledge and to the next generation in the industry.
- An inside look at what a director of commissioning auditor looks for in projects.
- Recommendations for unfamiliar systems and credentials not usually achieved to understand opportunities to save energy, how energy is being spent, drawn from the grid, and what calculations come with it.
- Learn what is going to push companies and cities to the next level in efficiency.
“Another great mentor took me under his wing for about two years and showed me how to design mechanical systems and much more throughout the day. It showed me what it is to be a mentor. But all they (mentors) have done for me was not for their gain, it's for my gain. It's put in me the fact that I need to support the next generation of young engineers. It's not for my success, it's for their success. So they can become great mentors for the ones after.”
-Shai Saul
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- Why Work Sucks
- Sustainable Investment Group (SIG)
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Petinelli coordinates and manages all aspects of the green building process, supporting developers, project teams, builders and owners to identify their objectives, ensuring that the intentions and sustainability parameters are properly executed and that the benefits of sustainable construction are deployed and clearly perceived.
Guido received his LEED Fellow designation in 2018.
Show Highlights
- The World Green Building Council and how to accelerate the transformation of the construction industry towards green practices.
- Increase building performance by tunneling through the cost barrier to increase productivity and output for every unit of input.
- Innovation is how we reach higher levels of performance through ample spectrum, efficiency, comfort, wellbeing and environmental impact.
- Understanding the “Goldilocks situation” when building in the vast climates in Brazil.
- Guido shares his expertise with building in environmental conditions perfect for exploring and experimenting projects.
- Help your clients with large portfolios, retail portfolios, the schools, financial institutions scale up and reach their goals much sooner than 2030.
- Understanding the differences in green building expectations, innovations, architects, engineers and consulting work in Latin America vs the US to drive the sustainability conversation. I
- One of the hard to reach sectors for net zero or net positive for regenerative is the real estate market.
- And now we're seeing discussions around it and the idea of developing both the technical solutions, but also the business models around it.
- The advancement of energy efficiency, water, health, wellbeing and waste depends on the data.
"LEED is most effective when it is aspirational," says Petinelli. "It is human nature to want to do better, and recognition is a powerful motivator. I find it easier to convince clients to go for Platinum, and now LEED Zero, than just to certify."
-Guido Petinelli
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- Petinelli
- Churchill Roy Jenkins
- The Good To Great
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James Nash has founded 3 companies. The first was Bike Dock Solutions in 2008 which started life as a university project.
Much of his focus currently is on ActiveScore which helps building owners and developers improve their cycling and active travel facilities. They have helped design and certify 350+ developments in Europe, US, Asia, Middle East and Australia-including 22 Bishopsgate in London, which is the largest office building in Europe. Clients include Blackstone, Brookfield, Lendlease, Invesco, Vornado Realty Trust, BentallGreenOak, GID, JLL, CBRE, Savills, Knight Frank, Colliers, Perial, AXA IM, PATRIZIA, Bruntwood, and EcoWorld. ActiveScore is recognized by GRESB as a design and/or construction green building certification scheme. He has also been an advisor to WELL Certification on all things Cycling and active travel related. For real estate sustainability/mobility consultants and architects they have an extremely popular free AP Programme with over 500 AP’s from over 40 countries. Show Highlights
- The proactive part of wellness in and around buildings and communities you need to consider for healthier buildings.
- The movement towards bike connective travel and bike share systems.
- James shares his entrepreneurial journey and start-up tips that transformed his business.
- The evolution of bike storage on ESG, various rating systems, tools and services provided for people who are occupants of a building.
- Active Score tools, advisory rolls and educational supports
- AP program that brings these best practices forward.
- Global expansion and global standard within buildings
- An emissions calculator that also includes scope free emissions
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The electrification of bikes and all things on wheels.
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An incredible opportunity and an area that currently isn't really getting much attention.
“The main driver for this is the mindset change. I think building owners have realized the importance of these services from a sustainability point of view, but now also from a business case point of view. I think they realize that their tenants actually want much better cycle facilities or active travel facilities. It can actually help them attract tenants, whether it's a commercial office or whether it's a residential building.”
-James Nash
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- James Nash on LinkedIn
- ActiveScore Certification
- The Chimp Paradox
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Nikola Kravik is a member of the Sales and Business Development Team at Sustainable Investment Group (SIG) as a full-time Director of Business Development – West Coast. His main responsibilities focus on client relationships, partnerships, management, strategy, project delivery and leadership, while providing business support for our other modules of Green Building Holdings (GBH): GBES, Blue Ocean Sustainability and Aetos Imaging special projects. As our presence on the West Coast increases, and sustainability demand rises pushed by decarbonization and carbon focus, he hopes to strengthen existing AEC+RE relationships and open new avenues for collaboration.
Education
Nikola studied at the Mechanical University in Skopje, Republic of Northern Macedonia and got his AA in Motor Vehicle Design in 1998 and graduated from the San Francisco State University School of Mechanical Engineering with BS, major in Thermo & Fluids, 2007. His is a LEED AP and has a BEMP certificate provided by ASHRAE. He is past President of the ASHRAE Golden Gate Chapter and AIA Board of Directors in San Francisco.
Experience
Nikola started as a Mechanical Designer after college using software modeling tools to predict energy use in the high rise residential and commercial market in San Francisco and worked for several Bay Area/US based renowned MEP companies. His roles included building and leading energy modeling teams, working with architects, contractors, and owners by designing ZNE pioneer buildings and managing large scale projects involving multidisciplinary consultants for a variety of industries and delivery methods. The projects range from small 10k Softball stadium at CAL Berkeley to 11M sf Vallco Town Center project in Cupertino-that had highest Sustainability and Low-Energy targets. He is an expert in codes and standards and has worked on the design of over 25 ZNE Buildings. Nikola’s focus the past several years have been team building, client management, engineering excellence and sustainable business operations.
Interests
Nikola enjoys spending free time mostly with his wife Tiffany and 3 children Alexandra, Kian, and Kyle-taking them outdoors (when there are no fires around sunny California or crossing state lines), swimming up in the Russian River, kayaking and skiing in Lake Tahoe, camping in Big Sur or going down to Muir Beach near our house to read a book. He is a proud 5th/7th grade basketball coach now for Alexandra and Kyle. Nikola loves languages and meeting new people, and cultures on different continents!
Fun Fact
Nikola was a professional basketball player and played for the Northern Macedonian National Junior basketball team in the mid ’90s.
Show Highlights
- Tune in to the changes happening around the world in terms of crisis and policies because it will directly impact your projects.
- Client service roles to bridge sales, business development and marketing to ensure clients get services in a timely manner and exactly the thing you promised.
- Understanding decarbonization and LEED won’t be enough if you don’t build relationships to connect those programs.
- It’s imperative to get closer to the communities you are building for when trying to revitalize their town.
- Accelerate public and private partnerships by investing your time in key areas.
- Nikola shares why California is a leader when embracing new eco technology in buildings.
- Bridge in the gap of knowledge by using AI tools to help progress faster and innovate better.
“People can talk about what it’s going to look like in 2050. But if we don't take care of some of the emergencies, visible things that are happening with climate change and some of the initiatives from the government or the local governments, then we're gonna be behind. I encourage everybody to be alert and be aware of what's going on around the world.”
-Nikola Kravik
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- Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins
- Traction by Gino Wickman
- A rich dad poor dad by Robert Kiyosaki
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Grace Kwok has over 23 years’ experiences in sustainable design and green building projects in Hong Kong, China and across Asia-Pacific, she has led the AEC group to set up a robust sustainability governance structure and is committed to promoting sustainability from the inside out. The Group committed to ambitious sustainability commitments, including Science-Based Target and Net Zero Carbon Operation by 2030, and is a Signatory for the Business for Ambition for 1.5°C campaign organized by SBTi and UNGC.
Also, took the lead to uphold sustainability standards by conducting climate risk assessments using TCFD framework and adopting GRI Standards in its annual ESG reports. AEC Group has obtained many awards for its sustainability governance and ESG initiatives, including Honorable Mention Award in the Hong Kong Corporate Governance Excellence Awards 2020 and Grand Award in the Hong Kong Sustainability Award 2020/21. In support of World GBC’s net-zero built environment agenda, AEC Group has joined the ranks of WorldGBC Asia Pacific Net Zero Collaborators in 2021.
Driven by a vision to shape a sustainable future, Grace is dedicated to work with the building and construction sector to build climate resilience and accelerate net-zero transition. She had played a key role in encouraging the early adoption of green building rating systems and worked on the earliest
batch of HK-BEAM and LEED projects in Hong Kong. Grace had also been facilitating the localization of international green building and sustainable infrastructure rating tools, including BREEAM and CEEQUAL. In recent years, she created a stronger momentum for the green building movement with ESG and green finance as drivers and leveraged her expertise in corporate sustainability to promote sustainable real estate from fund and developers’ group to project levels.
With an environmental engineering background, Grace is a keen advocate of regenerative sustainability for the built environment. She is often invited to share her insights at local, regional and global conferences, including Internoise 2017, USGBC Greenbuild China 2019, International Symposium on Regional Air Quality Management in Rapidly Development Economic Regions 2020, APEC Workshop Training on Retro-commissioning 2021 and BREEAM Summit 2022, etc. She was recently selected to join GRESB Real Estate Standard Committee to develop ESG standard for sustainable real estate and has been appointed to join major government committees to advise on matters related to sustainable development, environmental conservation as well as innovation and technology.
Show Highlights
- Raising the bar to manage stringent building and energy codes in the Hong Kong region.
- Driving new industry standards and creating alternative solutions to the problems the industry is facing.
- Understanding the local and international standards in the finance sector to achieve a green classification.
- Driving green capital in the real estate sector by finding common language.
- Speeding up different initiatives like the quality of life category in how you present them to a client.
- Solving challenging problems for clients with alternative solutions shape industry standards.
- Working more on sustainable infrastructure to go beyond building.
- The city’s programs need to align with the sustainable development goals.
- Carbon management and climate resilience tips.
“Green building is very dynamic and it's got a changing landscape. Explore more about all the areas related to the green building movement. It's not only about buildings, it's about the people in the built environment as well. When we are working on a project we always remind ourselves so that we won't lose the focus, not just in the number or the modeling. Lastly, encouragement. When we're working on a green building project, you can expect it (the building) will stay there for a long time. You need to consider the whole life cycle of the building. It could become a legacy because it is going to be standing there for 50, 60 years.”
-Grace Kwok
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- Company Profile – AEC
- Nature, Space, Science & More | BBC Earth
- Blue-planet
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Jacob Lehrer is currently an Architecture Student at Wentworth Institute of Technology. He has been fascinated by engineering and design his entire life and has put a focus on sustainability throughout. His first job in college was in a sustainability consultant role.
He passed the LEED Green Associate exam in June 2019 at 17, the LEED AP BD+C in June 2021 at 19, the LEED AP O+M in July 2022 at 20, and the LEED AP ND in April 2023 at 21. These credentials and experiences help inform his designs and thoughts about how buildings should be constructed.
His hope is that we, as a species, can move forward in a more positive and sustainable direction. He is excited to help realize that vision by seeking how technological innovations and forward-thinking can push architecture and sustainability into the future.
Show Highlights
- Great tips from a rising star in the industry on trends and how to navigate and personalize your career.
- Successful strategies for the test taking process for LEED and other systems exams.
- Benefits of Wentworth Institute of Technology
- Master emerging technologies
- Internship and co-op programs
- Invaluable industry experience embedded in the curriculum
- Wentworth Sustainability Society
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LEED green associate prep course
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Looking at the sustainability tools from every angle to build something new.
- Main gripe with many of the rating systems and how to synergize categories or credits.
- Get a lens into how to design for different types of inhabitants and different types of loads.
- Exploring some of the techniques, architecture, and how to design your buildings for passive systems around the world.
- Using software and tools as an extension of your own arm to express your ideas more succinctly and with your own designs.
“The main goal for me in the future of my career is I want to use these sustainable technologies and stable rating systems in parallel with things like computation and research. These innovative technologies do exist but haven't really been involved in architecture that long. Finding out ways to kind of combine those two worlds in a way that makes buildings more economical, more viable, more useful for people who use them because the way we use our buildings has changed a lot with the pandemic too.”
-Jacob Lehrer
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- Wentworth Institute of Technology
- Ground News
- Built
- Rum Punch
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Jeff Stewart is a Senior Energy Manager – Existing Buildings and is responsible for energy audits, LEED O+M engineering, ENERGY STAR benchmarking and certification, and city/state benchmarking ordinances. He has extensive experience in the commercial HVAC industry and ten (10) years of experience working on projects seeking LEED certification.
Prior to working for SIG, Jeff worked for an Atlanta-based HVAC design engineering firm using AutoCAD to design and model commercial HVAC systems for single office and high-rise office buildings, including the Delta Dental building and First Data Center in Atlanta, GA.
Jeff has experience working with many different building types, including office buildings, tenant spaces, data centers, multifamily properties, convention centers, and sports stadiums. In 2021, Jeff and the SIG ENERGY STAR team completed 510 ENERGY STAR labels consisting of over 148M GSF. He has been instrumental in SIG being awarded the EPA’s ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence award every year since 2016.
Show Highlights
- Applying a holistic approach to the green building movement by focusing on both design and impact.
- The Green Sports Alliance connects great sustainable standards.
- Hear tips about that and Geocaching.
- Tips for someone trying to apply LEED for existing buildings to something besides an office building from an energy store portfolio manager expert.
- LEED is a platform for benchmarking how you're building, how your structure operates, and impacts the world around it regardless of what the building is being used for.
- Benchmark your energy and water data to make improvements from that to achieve your desired certification.
- Mix and match credits to ensure you are operating at peak efficiency to get LEED certification for your project.
- Understanding the big push for mixed use developments for your clients.
“I would say it's considered a long game [your green building career]. If you're about to make a decision or buy something or move somewhere, consider a few things that would happen in the long term. If you move to Atlanta, do you plan to stay in Atlanta for five years or is this a temporary approach? Think about two or three things that could impact in the long term and that can help you make a better decision in the short term.”
-Jeffrey Stewart
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- Geocaching
- On the Market Podcast
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Joyce Lee, FAIA, LEED Fellow, is President of IndigoJLD providing green health, design, benchmarking and ESG planning services for exemplary projects and communities. She became one of 300 LEED Fellows worldwide while being on the board of trustees of the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the first LEED NC certified museum in the world. Joyce has also been on adjunct faculty at the University of Pennsylvania focusing on building healthy places and was board director of the French American Chamber of Commerce PHL. Since 2021, she has chaired the American Alliance of Museums Environment and Climate Network and serves as a Senior Advisor to Econsult Solutions. In 2022, she was appointed by Mayor Kenney in Philadelphia to serve as an inaugural commissioner for environmental justice.
She has been a Fellow at the National Leadership Academy for Public Health and one of the first LEED accredited professionals in New York City. She was the Chief Architect at the New York City OMB under Mayor Bloomberg overseeing the survey of major city-owned buildings (over 200 million sq ft) and waterfronts with the goals of enhancing long-term planning and identifying green design and development opportunities. During her tenure, the program grew over 25%. She was then the first Active Design Director, with a focus on design excellence and human health, in New York City. The Active Design Guidelines, a publication she co-authored, had won recognition from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as well as the Sustainable Building Industry Council.
Joyce is the recipient of numerous awards including the Health and Human Services Good Neighbor Award, Platinum Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies, the President's Award from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) New York State, and the Aga Khan Award from Harvard/MIT. Recognizing her career achievement, the AIA New York honored Joyce with the Public Architect Award for "her indomitable spirit, committed environmental consciousness, and extraordinary ability to bring sustainability theory and practices to the public realm."
Show Highlights
- Joyce shares her vast expertise with benchmarking, NetZero, and LEED for museums.
- Hear from the National Green Building Advisor on new projects and policies coming down through the federal government.
- Understanding the similarities between cultural institutions around the country.
- Apply best practices with educational sessions on the green accomplishments of the Smithsonian and the Guggenheim Museum.
- Review resources on green practices from energy to water to waste, new transportation, cultural programming, dining and retail facilities, and how the supply chain partners can bring all of those together.
- IndigoJLD manages public and private sustainability projects.
- Best practices that work for museums versus other buildings.
- Questions to consider to start building partnerships and connecting with firms that specialize in sustainability.
“We both agree that we learn more from our mistakes and than our successes. Absolutely be open-minded. I wish I knew back then this field was going to evolve so fast. The climate is something that is here today and is not for tomorrow. For those who are entering the field, another piece of advice with green buildings, I would say think globally and act locally.”
-Joyce Lee
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Museum Magazine / July−August 2022 (PDF)
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- Applying LEED to museum projects
- The Well-Tempered City
- J. S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier
- ENERGY STAR Score for Museums
- Cultural Heritage and Museums – Mind the Gap
- Applying LEED to museum projects
- Museums preserve history and culture
- American Alliance of Museums
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Patrick Chopson, is the co-founder od the carbon-focused Atlanta-based startup, cove.tool. As the Chief Product Officer, he leads product development for cove.tool, a web-based software for analyzing, drawing, engineering, and connecting data for building design and construction.
A graduate of Georgia Tech with a Masters in High Performance Buildings, he is also a licensed architect with over 18 years of experience. Prior to cove.tool, he ran Pattern r+d, a successful building performance consulting and architecture firm. Multiple publications include Architect Magazine, TechCrunch, Site Selection, ArchDaily, and more.
Show Highlights
- Understand the value of data-driven design.
- Cove.Tool
- Real-time understanding using BIN, Building Information Network.
- Connecting technology and the human experience.
- Trusted tools and simulations to optimize performance, product selection, design and more.
- Consolidate different problems of data translation losses to promote timely decision making without issues.
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Databases that link everyone involved on a project to build common understanding and immediate updates.
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Why the carbon problem is a data problem.
- Factors that create uncertainty to drive cost increases.
- Why you need to follow the industries #hashtags.
- Tips for entrepreneurs and companies to create a detailed career path that champions the work and skills of their employees.
- 2 things that are going to transform how architects, engineers, contractors, and anybody involved in sustainability find information to make effective choices.
- AI is going to unlock and transform the industry beyond focusing operational carbon vs embodied.
- How to leverage new technology to provide a higher level of service.
“Meet a lot of different teams, meet a lot of really interesting people. That started to shape my understanding of this problem isn't just like we need one or two people that know simulation. We need to change how everyone designs. How everyone thinks about the problem. Realizing that it was gonna take more data analytics and probably software to be able to pull that off.”
-Patrick Chopson
“We want to link everyone together, everyone have a common understanding of a project and then be able to see when one person makes a decision, that immediately updates using APIs or some type of connection across the internet to make sure that everyone's on the same page…And that's what will allow for low cost but high performance, low carbon buildings.”
-Patrick Chopson
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- Superusers
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Libby Dunne is a member of SIG’s Sustainability Team and is based in San Francisco, CA. Her primary focus is within the health and wellness space, as she is primarily responsible for managing WELL and Fitwel projects, in addition to managing portfolios pursuing the WELL Health Safety Rating. She also helps to manage a variety of LEED projects, with a focus on BD+C and ID+C. Within each project she ensures that necessary information is obtained and verifies compliance through documenting and evaluating key data. Libby also teaches LEED Green Associate exam prep live courses with GBES.
Originally from San Francisco, Libby graduated from Emory University with a B.S. in Biology and a minor in Environmental Science. Throughout college, Libby has worked on various research projects. Most notably, she worked on published work regarding the effects of antibiotics on bumblebee cognitive functioning. Additionally, Libby maintains a variety of credentials, including WELL AP, LEED AP BD+C, Fitwel Ambassador, and ActiveScore AP.
Libby likes to spend her free time hiking, swimming, and being with family and friends. As a certified scuba diver, Libby also has a passion for marine biology and for preserving our natural environment for generations to come.
Show Highlights
- A combination of degrees in different fields compliment each other perfectly in green building work.
- Interning is key to expanding your knowledge and for earning credentials that inspire your work.
- Meld the client communication side with the documentation side of projects to support your clients achieving their goals.
- ActiveScore AP Credential is a new and interesting credential program for the US.
- Make positive wellness impacts at the corporate level by reviewing the mind and community sections on a WELL Scorecard with HR teams.
- Eevie is an app that gives your team a tangible way to support individual sustainability.
- WELL provides a roadmap of new programs, each with a different focus, that are all focused on health and wellbeing in the built environment.
- Help your clients get their feet wet in wellness by recommending one of the three WELL ratings as a first step towards pursuing a full WELL Certification.
- The flexibility of a Fitwel certification meets people where their understanding is as a manageable option for existing buildings.
“In this industry, something that's really important is just to listen, learn and absorb as much as you can. It's ever changing, there's new regulations that are coming out, so there's a lot of moving parts. Be open and willing to learn as you go throughout your career. But for someone that's kind of starting new to the industry, I think it's important to recognize that you bring a fresh perspective and a way of doing things to the table. You don't have to conform to the typical way of doing things as they've always been done. I feel like sometimes it really takes someone with that fresh perspective to kind of come in and rock the boat in a good way to make positive change.”
-Libby Dunne
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- eevie: Employee Climate Engagement platform
- The Defining Decade
- Articles Written by Libby:
- The Release of WELL v2
- Top 12 Green Building Rating Systems
- COVID-19 and Buildings: How Building Certifications can Help Prevent Disease Spread in the Future
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As Atelier Ten’s planning practice leader, Ben has extensive experience with urban ecology, renewable energy systems and green development assessments. He has directed numerous projects and managed the development of sustainability guidelines for a wide range of master plans on a multitude of sectors including commercial, university, government, and transportation. He has consulted on more than 100 high-performance building and planning projects including one of the first outpatient facilities to achieve LEED for Healthcare certification in New York City and a comprehensive environmental framework for Harvard Business School.
Ben is a proud recipient of the ENR New York’s Top 20 Under 40 Award, which celebrates the excellence of young professionals who represent the “Best-of-the-Best” in the construction and design field. He is a member of the University Development and Innovation Council at Urban Land Institute (ULI) and serves as Co-Chair of the ULI New York Infrastructure Council. His dedication and enthusiasm to sustainable master planning and buildings and his attention to the wellness of people and the built environment have provided a unique, cutting edge perspective to all projects throughout his career.
Ben also teaches core courses on environmental design and building services at Yale School of Architecture. He holds an MA in Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and a BA in Environmental Science from Northland College. Ben has also earned the rare LEED Fellow designation.
Show Highlights
- Be proactive in creating a healthy building center that is flexible with metering and monitoring of these spaces too.
- Atelier Ten strives to achieve higher levels of sustainability and connections.
- Leverage your involvement where you can make the most impact in the climate crisis, personally and professionally.
- Connecting the dots between all the different disciplines.
- Hit your client goals and get as much green into the projects by motivating your design teams to find connections between their specialities.
- Further and maybe even less than some of those travel carbon emissions. We still have to do that to a certain extent, but can really optimize that more than we did in the past.
- Optimize what tools to use that benefit operational emissions from energy and everything from passive techniques in the facade surrounding accounting for embodied carbon.
- Build resiliency in your projects to tackle climate change and “global weirding of climate trends,”for immediate and long term impact.
- Tips to gain experience and fail along the way to carve out your path.
“To all of the people still getting involved in this [green building] movement and industry, it's really important because your project might inspire others - that continues it going along and we can always design things better. I think that's the kind of hope and optimism we all bring to the foray. So keep, keep going. It takes us all and there's plenty more work to be done.
-Benjamin Shepherd
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- Atelier Ten
- Surrender
- Born to Run: Bruce Springsteen
- Inventor of the Future
- The Practice of Groundedness
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GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community!
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Gregory Patton is a member of the Sustainability Consulting Team at Sustainable Investment Group (SIG) as a Senior Sustainability & Energy Consultant. In this role, he oversees multiple projects related to Sustainable and Healthy Buildings. In addition to managing LEED, WELL, and Fitwel projects for clients, he also provides support to SIG’s Engineering Team for ENERGY STAR, Commissioning, and technical expertise centered around existing buildings.
Gregory joined SIG in January of 2022 and brings two decades of operational experience to the team. Throughout his career he has successfully operated and managed numerous large commercial buildings as well as sustainability programs for clients. Gregory’s deep understanding of building systems and his passion to create a Sustainable and Healthy Future has enabled him to excel in the sustainability space. Gregory holds professional accreditations for LEED O+M, LEED BD+C, LEED ID+C, LEED ND, LEED HOMES, LEED Green Rater, WELL, Fitwel Ambassador, BREEAM In-Use Assessor, and ActiveScore AP.
Originally from Florida (GO GATORS), Gregory has adapted to Colorado life and can be found outside enjoying the 300+ days of sunshine and blue skies that Colorado has to offer. He enjoys hiking, kayaking, live sporting events, and traveling with his wife and son.
Show Highlights
- Greg’s entrepreneurship journey to build a top sustainability team.
- See the value of LEED and everything it touches beyond design and construction.
- Manage a smooth transition from residential to commercial builds.
- Tips for recommending tools and systems that provide a good maintenance model for clients to hit their performance goals.
- Why BREEAM is a great certification system to use and recommend.
- Achieve decarbonization goals in the environmental space for your clients.
- Follow your curiosity and prioritization credentials dedicated to meeting your goals.
- How to build longevity and contribute to the success of the green building movement.
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- Principles of Winning
- Gregory Patton
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Ramana Koti, LEED Fellow, is the Sustainable Design Leader at HKS Architects responsible for sustainable design facilitation and building performance analysis. His focus is on getting projects off to the right start with an inclusive and integrative effort, measuring progress against goals, and delivering a quantified outcome.
Ramana has published several technical papers on daylighting and energy performance in buildings and regularly blogs on green building related topics. He volunteers with the AIA 2030 Working Group and the USGBC at the local and national levels.
Ramana has been a certified ASHRAE Building Energy Modeling Professional (BEMP) since 2015 and was designated a LEED Fellow in 2019.
Show Highlights
- Tools that help push the industry with daylight analysis and energy modeling.
- Ramana shares his experience with managing commercial mixed use practice all wrapped in one project.
- Start the projects off on a right footing to make sure the initial goals and strategies are being implemented.
- Packaging certification efforts at the end to achieve the targeted certification levels.
- How do you share LEED best practices amongst a large team?
- Incentives from the inflation reduction Act put the industry on a broader path to decarbonization and making buildings much more greener than they are.
- Tips on coaching your team on embodied carbon.
“I wish somebody had told me change happens, but it happens more slowly; because when you're young, energetic, & hungry to affect change, you become anxious when results don't happen within the expected timeframe. But once you spend 10, 15 years in a field…things have a way of compounding and happening. And to quote Lao Tzu, "Do your work and then step back.'"
-Ramana Koti
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- Think Again (book)
- Living Building Challenge
- International Living Future Institute: Home
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As commuting trends evolve, influenced by global events and the rising cost of fuel, the built environment needs to reflect and support these changes. Updates to planning policies and urban design can take years, resulting in old solutions for new problems. Green certifications like ActiveScore allow new standards to be implemented quickly and in sync with industry trends.
What You Will Learn:
- You will understand what Active Travel is.
- You will understand what ActiveScore does.
- You will learn about the relationship between Active Travel and ESG.
- Learn how well-designed Active Travel facilities in buildings can positively impact tenant experience.
- You will learn about ActiveScore’s free AP Program.
This webinar can be self-reported for one half-hour of LEED or WELL continuing education.
James Nash has founded 3 companies. The first was Bike Dock Solutions in 2008 which started life as a university project.
Much of his focus currently is on ActiveScore which helps building owners and developers improve their cycling and active travel facilities. They have helped design and certify 350+ developments in Europe, US, Asia, Middle East and Australia-including 22 Bishopsgate in London, which is the largest office building in Europe. Clients include Blackstone, Brookfield, Lendlease, Invesco, Vornado Realty Trust, BentallGreenOak, GID, JLL, CBRE, Savills, Knight Frank, Colliers, Perial, AXA IM, PATRIZIA, Bruntwood, and EcoWorld. ActiveScore is recognised by GRESB as a design and/or construction green building certification scheme. He has also been an advisor to WELL Certification on all things Cycling and active travel related. For real estate sustainability/mobility consultants and architects they have an extremely popular free AP Programme with over 500 AP's from over 40 countries.
Alex Georgiadis is the Head of Consultancy at ActiveScore. He oversees all of the certification and design projects ActiveScore works on. Alex has a design background and his passion is cycling. So much so, he spent some time working as a mobile bike mechanic, servicing commercial office buildings around London. This gave him great insight into the issues cyclists regularly face when commuting. He now regularly uses this knowledge to educate building owners and improve the active travel facilities within buildings across the world.
David Reed is an entrepreneur who is passionate about solving problems with sustainable solutions. A leader in sustainable mobility, he has 13+ years of experience generating new revenue and building partnerships with and for municipalities, universities, startups, corporations, and real estate companies. He is a coalition builder and problem solver, deeply invested in colleague and client shared success. David's clients and partners have included the public, private, and non-profit sectors.
Show Highlights
- Active Score is this intersection of transportation, sustainability and the built environment.
- Components and benefits of Active Travel
- Assess and certify buildings being active travel friendly.
- Help organizations and developments become future-proof by creating sustainable infrastructures and services.
- Only globally recognized accreditation for active travel amenities in real estate.
- Provide engagement services that set up active travel user groups within buildings.
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Employer retention
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Active Score can help identify commuting trends within a region or group, connect with rating systems and ESG with their clean air calculator.
- LEED benchmarks and credits Active Score blends with to determine which is the best standard and certification to align.
- Active Score design benefits
- Creating a more efficient and streamlined design process for both the client and the design team.
- Build understanding of what makes a good active travel facility.
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Design consultation and the design lab services.
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Active Score certification can be applied to both existing and new developments.
“In terms of other benefits of Active Travel, health and wellbeing. I'm sure you are all familiar with how Active Travel can help an individual's health and wellbeing. The stat from this report that is very interesting is how 82% of people that were surveyed said they felt less stressed when they arrived in the office after cycling to work. So health and wellbeing. Active travel can have a huge impact on health and wellbeing”
-James Nash
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- ActiveScore
- James Nash-Linkedin
- David Reed-Linkedin
- Alex Georgiadis- Linkedin
- All About ActiveScore on Vimeo
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Amy D’Angelo is a wellness real estate professional with over 20 years of experience. Her wide range of interests over the years have included launching a healthy food business to managing facilities for an international non-profit. Her current passion is focusing on helping busy professionals and families achieve wellness at home by creating simple and affordable strategies that are based on the best practices of the wellness real estate movement. Amy believes that by making small and positive changes, in our homes, in the food we eat or the ways that we handle stress, we can inspire those around us to live a healthier, more fulfilled life. Responsibilities
Amy D’Angelo is the Director of ESG for Sustainable Investment Group. In this role, Amy provides leadership to the ESG department and works with some of the country’s largest REITs to identify and manage risks that pertain to environmental, social and governance issues. She also is leading our Corporate Sustainability Program with a particular focus on the “S” – empowering women within our organization and ensuring that we can have the greatest impact in the communities where we live. Additionally, Amy provides wellness content and webinars to SIG’s education partner Green Building Education Services (GBES).
Education
Amy graduated from the University of Florida with a B.A.in English and a minor in Political Science. She is also a WELL AP and a Fitwel Ambassador.
Experience
Amy brings 20+ years of business, leadership and entrepreneurial experience to this position. Her experience in building programs and leading teams in executive management positions for both nonprofit and for profit organizations gives her a unique perspective into ESG. Amy’s passion for innovation in ESG, especially the “S” social aspect is founded in her core value to “effect change that positively impacts the people in all organizations”, in addition to helping her clients positively impact the communities where they live and work.
Interests
Amy spends her free time outside and enjoying the natural resources in the community where she lives, kayaking, biking or just walking on the beach. When she isn’t outside, you can find her cooking for her family, playing with her dogs or tending to her vast collection of indoor plants.
Show Highlights
- The biggest evolution with green washing and transparency in the industry.
- Being able to pivot to embrace ESG data and reporting.
- Essential questions to consider to shift from corporate sustainability to ESG wellness for employees and occupants of our buildings.
- The secrets to the ESG umbrella and where companies should focus first.
- The ESG team at SIG provides opportunities to use all of the big reporting functions and frameworks correctly.
- The Energy Star program supports data you can trust and verify.
- Preparation for climate related risk ties directly into resiliency.
“We're seeing the shift to ESG. Prior to the pandemic, we weren't talking about ESG, we were still talking about corporate sustainability. The pandemic really highlighted wellness in a way that we hadn't seen before. The green building industry really moved the focus into the health and wellbeing of people. That really shifted the conversation from ‘we have to just build green.’ No, it's not just about building green, it's also about making sure that our facilities are green on the inside for our people.’”
-Amy D'Angelo
Show Resource and Information
- Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work | TED Talk
- Brené Brown: books
- Simon Sinek: Books
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Devon Bertram is the VP of Sustainability Consulting at Stok, focused on impact at scale, advising clients on how to define, implement, and manage customized sustainability programs and standards for their building portfolios that authentically align with their brand, values, and purpose. Her work aims to reinforce broader strategic goals to enhance ESG initiatives, develop corporate carbon strategies, and improve overall sustainability impact. Former and current clients and partners include SFPUC, Sitecore, Delta Dental, Twitter, Starbucks, Citibank, Subaru, and Sephora.
Show Highlights
- Mapping Stok’s direction and impact.
- Role focuses internally and externally helping align culture to stay true while also helping clients tackle challenging climate issues.
- Link: The Sustainable Real Estate Program Handbook.
- Provide integrated solutions for our clients with a sustainability consulting team, workplace solutions team, engineering team and a commissioning team.
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Latest Stok publication “High-Performance Buildings and the Evolution of the Workplace: Insights for a People-First Approach” comprises survey responses that offer clarity about decisions and changes to the workplace experience that will positively impact employee productivity, retention and wellbeing.
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Integrating corporate initiatives, not just in building design but how a company works.
- Working with clients and partners to identify what challenges they're trying to resolve or solve and how to prioritize and identify the right SMEs to help push those solutions.
- Navigating decarbonization and ESG with clients to set operational goals to shift from hopeful to action.
- A new goal to “walk and talk” with clients and partners, and move this practice beyond internal team members
- Understanding there's no bad or wrong questions will drive the green building movement forward.
“LEED volume and portfolio-wide sustainability programs help to identify a standard process of education and quality control, and a standard for how you roll that out across a portfolio rather than just on a single building.”
-Devon Bertram
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- Stok
- The Sustainable Real Estate Program Handbook
- High-Performance Buildings and the Evolution of the Workplace: Insights for a People-First Approach
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charles Mackesy
- Brave New Work by Aaron DIgnan
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Alvin Tejada is a LEED Fellow, an Architect, Project Management Professional (PMP), a pioneering LEED & WELL Accredited Professional, and TRUE Advisor in SE Asia; He is also USGBC and IWBI Faculty. Alvin has acquired more than 25 years of experience in architectural and interior design, corporate real estate, construction, property and facilities management. He has advanced his career as an independent practitioner and a team player in multinational companies.
Specialties: Construction and Project Management, Sustainability/ LEED, WELL, TRUE, EDGE Consulting, Property and Facilities Management, Architectural Design and Space Planning
Show Highlights
- Challenges with LEED and green building in the Southeast Asia region.
- Partnership with USGBC & higher education to develop a center for sustainability learning in the Philippines.
- Grooming future architects on key sustainability practices as part of their design process.
- Heightened alertness and awareness of carbon footprints has pushed the standards for practice and reporting to become a normal requirement for the built environment.
- How the market has been transformed to adopt green building practices.
- Academia has to catch up to train students in taking the correct mindset and practices to drive the change needed for the world.
“There's really an interest [in green buildings] coming from students, especially hearing me share actual experiences and the developments that are going on. I've seen how they've been performing with the exercises that I've been giving and it looks like they're up to the challenge of taking on extra credentials. I've also been encouraging them that this would really support them as they build their career early in life.”
-Alvin Tejada
“While we're living in a challenging time, this is also an exciting time. The speed of technological development may be dizzying. We know that humankind continues to evolve with rapid changes. Just keep reading, keep learning, keep sharing, and eventually you get into the habit of this green building movement.”
-Alvin Tejada
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LinkedIn
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster:
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Walt Kanzler is a recognized leader in the green building industry, currently holding the position of Senior Director of Design at UCSD. Walt has over 20 years of experience as a licensed architect with a focus throughout his career on Sustainability.
Working for several large public and private organizations Walt has delivered over $2 Billion in capital projects and currently is managing a capital program that exceeds that more than doubling his experience in diverse project types. Walt has served in a leadership role on several boards and committees that promote Sustainable Design and has been a proponent of LEED since gaining his LEED AP in 2001. Walt was awarded the high honor of LEED Fellow in 2022.
Currently an active change agent at UCSD Walt is directly involved in Sustainability initiatives on campus and supports cross campus coordination in the UC system along with his colleagues at nine other campuses. One of his passions is sharing Green Building concepts with students and finding ways to integrate Sustainability into Higher Education.
Show Highlights
- The intersection between the capital projects and facilities management.
- University of California’s (UCSD) direct path to making holitics improvements to best practices that break down barriers facing the green building movement.
- Structural Design Programs
- Campus Decarbonization
- Climate Action Plans
- Minimum Certification Targets
- Sustainable Practices Policy
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Green Building Working Groups
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The evolution ESG needs to make for system integrity of the data.
- Building controls to newer buildings that allow occupants to really appreciate their space.
- Process improvements to streamline work challenging the status quo to make projects more efficient.
- Practices and opportunities to reduce our impact on the environment.
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“When LEED first came around, it gave me a kind of framework to really understand all the different aspects of sustainability. And I think that's been one of the great advantages of LEED over the years - it created some structure for everybody to understand and then to move above and beyond those baselines.”
- Walt Kanzler
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Charlie Cichetti, LEED Fellow + WELL AP
Entrepreneur | Leader | Husband | Father
To our legacy and new listeners:
Over the last five years, we've produced over 250 Green Building Matters (GBM) Podcast Episodes! Amazing guests from all over the world. I still get lots of positive feedback all the time. Someone on LinkedIn will ping me and say “that was an amazing interview.” Sometimes it is someone that's been in this industry a long time and they need that new spark. “Oh, man, I'm so glad I heard that from so and so.” Or maybe it is a new to this industry, young professional or just someone that's making a career change. So it's still very encouraging. I think we timed this special episode because I'm doing a little reflecting myself as I'm going to be turning 40 this week. I am so grateful to all of you listening to our podcast, getting encouraged, and taking action. Keep up the great work!
About Charlie:
Upon graduating from Georgia Tech, Charlie went to work in Construction and later Real Estate Development. This path ultimately led him over to Green Buildings. Over the course of his career Charlie has personally taught and trained over 10,000+ professionals in-person about LEED, the green building movement, and how to pass LEED exams. His green building education company GBES.com has over 150,000+ professionals around the world who use their study tools and CE materials to help maintain their credentials after Charlie and his team helped them pass their exams. Charlie also advocates for LEED and the green building movement to thousands of people monthly as they tune in to listen to his weekly podcast, Green Building Matters. Charlie is an expert in all of the phases (design/construct/operate) of green buildings. Charlie and his umbrella of companies are all about the Green Building Movement. His online education company (GBES) trains and equips green building professionals, his green building consulting & engineering firm (SIG) helps to “plant trees” in cities all across the globe as they help building owners and property management teams achieve the highest level of certification for green and healthy buildings, his software company (Blue Ocean Sustainability) is developing the tools that will reshape the industry and advance the green building movement forward by leaps and bounds, and he has also invested in a 3D scanning company (Aetos Imaging) that is helping to create digital twins of real buildings and innovating new ways of training building operators. Charlie Cichetti is truly a sustainability-focused social entrepreneur who is motivated by elevating people and the industry to be the best they can be!
Show Highlights
- Green Building Holdings’ (GBH) Brands:
- SIG
- Aetos
- Blue Ocean
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GBES.com
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Announcements of new technology on how to change the way buildings will be designed and built in the future.
- Charlie’s entrepreneurial journey - pro tips on how to inspire and develop teams.
- Navigate the new (green building) trends in 2023.
- Get your team ready for collecting accurate data to create a total carbon plan.
- Closing the gap between the LEED exam and LEED project experience for professionals.
- What you need to know for mandates and how to get ready for a framework shift in the industry.
“We've got some amazing storytellers here…in the green building movement. Honestly, that's one of the secrets to success. We have to be able to make sure the work we do in green buildings is relatable to those that haven't done it yet.”
-Charlie Cichetti
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- Aetos Imaging
- Sustainable Investment Group
- GBES
- Apply to be a LEED Fellow in 2023 - USGBC
- Unreasonable Hospitality
- Mastermind: Unlocking Talent Within Every School Leader
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GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community!
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Pia Ohrling is an experienced sustainability Consultant. She has worked in the building and property industry for more than 30 years and with Sustainability for 20 years.
Pia is one of Sweden's leading environmental and expert consultants with more than twenty years of experience in environmental certification and sustainable buildings. She is a trained structural engineer at KTH, Stockholm and has worked for the major environmental consulting companies in Sweden. In 2010, she started Piacon to be able to influence the construction and real estate industry to a greater extent based on her genuine environmental commitment.
Pia has completed a number of successful environmental certifications, e.g. the world's first certified building according to BREEAM In Use International and Sweden's first pre-certified LEED building. She is a popular lecturer and holds courses in LEED, BREEAM, Environmental Construction and Work Environment and leads training courses at the Sweden Green Building Council (LEED and BREEAM).
Pia is a member of the Sweden Green Building Council (SGBC) and is part of the LEED committee. Between the years 2014-2021, she was active in the Technical Council for BREEAM SE. In the autumn of 2022, Pia was appointed a LEED Fellow – a prestigious title which means that you represent the top tier in the design, technology and development of green buildings. She is currently the only representative of LEED Fellow in the Nordics.
Pia is a committed and competent manager who is passionate about sustainability issues. She likes to farm, create habitats for bumblebees and wild bees, and cook and renovate things.
Show Highlights
- Pia shares how to navigate all the certifications systems available in Sweden (LEED, BREEAM, Miljöbyggnad, etc…) to each client project.
- The challenges with credits and systems like LEED in different areas and parts of the world to consider.
- Adapting to the taxonomy, the European Green Deal, and the World Green Building Council when creating and managing projects.
- Pia’s shift towards engineering and becoming an environmental engineering specialist and entrepreneur will motivate “who better than you to do it.”
- The evolution ALL certification systems need to raise the bar to look at the bigger picture for sustainability and biodiversity.
- Pia’s company specializes in sustainability and pushes clients towards really wanting to make positive change, not just certify their projects.
- She shares how to say "no" when clients just want to certify on the lowest level.
“Sometimes we think solutions are too easy. We think that 'Oh we can do that. We'll just change to this way.' But sustainability isn't that simple. There are so many things you need to think about, like biodiversity. There’s no quick fix.”
-Pia Ohrling
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Jim Hambright, is a professional registered architect that has worked in more than 30 states and 16 foreign countries over the past 48 years. He has a Masters in Architecture and is a member of the American Institute of Architects and the Royal Institute of British Architects. He is also a member of the US Green Building Council where he is a LEED Accredited Professional. He was recognized and selected as a LEED Fellow as one of twenty professionals globally for this honor in 2022 by the U.S. Green Building Council and Green Business Certification, Inc. Mr. Hambright was recognized as a Fluor Fellow in 2010 in the field of sustainability and has extensive experience and expertise in site master planning, facility planning, programming, project management, production, design and detailing of projects throughout the world.
He has specific experience in the field of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, electronics, specialized industrial facilities, sports facilities, office and retail facilities, food industries, military, power and chemicals facilities, educational facilities, as well as smaller residential and land planning development work. He has also performed work for governmental agencies and provided expertise and consulting for a variety of specialty, security, and confidential projects.
Underlying efforts in all of Mr. Hambrights' projects has been the fundamental incorporation of elements of sustainability, creativity, innovation, functionality, and appropriateness that fit into the community and environment specific to a given project and location. Mr. Hambright strives to make the best use of resources, innovative design, and time constraints and is constantly seeking optimization on each project.
Specialties: Sustainability, Carbon Neutral and NetZero project aspects, large and small-scale masterplanning, programming, international, national, and regional projects, governmental solutions, electronics facilities, industrial, camps and campuses, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, residential developments, single and multi-housing units, community projects. Also specializing is historic renovations and rehabilitation projects, as well and photography, modeling, and Computer Aided Drafting capabilities.
Show Highlights
- Jim shares the myriad of disciplines within the Fluor Corporation.
- The struggles you face when implementing sustainable changes in a very large organization.
- Logistics, labs, and data centers are the growing sectors of the movement.
- How green hydrogen facilities and different gasses can best be produced, stored, and distributed.
- The strategies and laws for the variety and emerging energy sources.
- Manufacturers and producers are getting on board with the science and microbes of how they can get better production, better yield rates and better customer satisfaction.
- The secret and advice for sustainable entrepreneurship.
- The balance in finding the right amount of flexibility within an organization to implement your goals and share your expertise.
“When we're all out in the midst of the battles, if you will, it's hard to even think about recognition or anything else. You're just trying to get the work done, trying to solve the problems when they come, and provide options, opportunities, and research to help the clients to do the best thing they can do. Of course there's always a struggle with scheduling, the budget, supply chain, and a lot of other issues that we have to deal with on a daily basis.”
-Jim Hambright
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GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community!
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Francine Vaz, architect and urban planner, graduated from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, MBA in Sustainable Business Management at Fluminense. She also earned a Master of Science in Architecture, Energy and Sustainability at London Metropolitan University. Francine has worked on more than 80 projects for the construction and operation of sustainable developments, being responsible for coordinating a team of consultants. She holds the LEED AP BD+C and ID+C credentials by the U.S. Green Building Council since 2010. Founder of Seed Solution. MBA professor at AVM Educacional and CEBPJUR. LEED Fellow since 2022.
Show Highlights
- Seed Solution brings a little bit of sustainability to the companies that don't have it yet.
- Brazil's responsible approach to new construction, retrofit, and ESG to support the green building movement.
- A closer look at life cycle analysis and GHG emissions reports that have been neglected.
- Challenging factors of Fitwel and WELL that make it difficult for companies to implement in this region.
- Internal divisions with LEED certification and Brazilian energy efficiency certifications.
- Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the impact on buildings (to change) in Brazil and in the world.
- Balancing the challenges of being an entrepreneur and family.
“I am always very excited about working with sustainability. I bring this energy to the projects I work with and to the design team. I think this is very important, in terms of, when you put your energy in, when people start to feel that you are really passionate about this, it just helps things go smoother.”
-Francine Vaz
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Seed Solution: Home
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Nonviolent Communication
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GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community!
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Dan Matisoff is a senior researcher who studies energy and environmental policy, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability. He has a background in statistical analysis on the adoption and diffusion of energy and environmental policies and technologies. Right now he is working on a project related to the diffusion of eco-labels and advanced technologies in the built environment and how these drive market transformation in the built environment. He is the lead for Working Group 3 for Georgia Drawdown - Built Environment and Materials. He is well versed in statistical methods, quantitative modeling, and other approaches to assessing impacts of energy and environmental technologies.
Show Highlights
- LEED Eco Label’s continuous score with a discontinuous “signal.”
- The impact of the LEED Eco Label on investment in energy and environmental technology.
- Important research to confer economic value to customers and to society.
- Distribution of buildings in LEED to understand how the silver, gold, and platinum tiers caused additionality into a space.
- Dan’s book tells a more dynamic process with the early movers into the LEED Eco Label and the produce positive information spillovers that help change the market.
- Understanding the eco label itself is the certification of these traits and making them easy to observe to individuals.
- The “LEED factor” benefits with pilot projects in geographic locations.
- A sneak peek of some advanced degree programs for the rising demand for sustainability professionals.
“The goal was to take all this research that we had really reduced for economists and for a real academic audience. Then, to translate this into more of a story that somebody in the green building world might appreciate. To translate some of these kind of challenging economic concepts and challenging statistical findings into a more digestible form that will help people in the green building movement understand what it is they're doing, what it is they've accomplished, how the economics of the label works to confer value to customers, to confer value to society.”
-Dan Matisoff
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Ecolabels, Innovation, and Green Market Transformation
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How Solar Energy Became Cheap
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The Kendeda Building - Georgia Tech
- Planet Money - NPR
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Bahruz Mammadov is a serial entrepreneur with a main focus on chemical & material sciences. He has hands-on experience in fundraising, business development, and building teams. As a co-founder at BERKM, he raised over 3.5 million euros of venture capital. He has amassed more than 10 years experience in different branches of the chemical industry, combined with a vast network in the industry. He is passionate about new materials and bringing them to market on a large scale.
Show Highlights
- Bahruz shares products, startup advice, and how chemical engineering is transforming green building.
- Chemistry is a science filled with green building magicians using nanometer technologies to change existing materials.
- The first chain of tasks to do when starting a new project or company.
- Entrepreneur DNA, what inspired Bahruz to launch his own business.
- BERKM technology creates solutions for less plastic, longer product shelf life and supporting recycling.
- Shifts and trends towards clean chemistry with significant impact on sustainability.
“I am really proud about the sustainability impact we are making in our company in terms of reducing plastic pollution. Part of the results we’ve achieved will influence the packaging industry.”
-Bahruz Mammadov
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- BERKM: HOME
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- Decisive
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Dean Stanberry,CFM, LEED AP is 1st Vice-Chair, IFMA Global Board of Directors - A strategic facilities management volunteer leader who delivers forward-thinking solutions resolving operational problems. Dean has more than 20 years of broad-based experience in facility management, real estate portfolio management, process and quality improvement, procurement, workplace services, program and project management, space and occupancy planning, sustainability, information systems implementation, and critical environment operations. Prior to his recent role as Director – FM Services with Abraxas Energy Consulting, Stanberry worked at JLL, first on the Charles Schwab account and later on the Xerox account. Before that he worked at the Trizetto Group.
An accomplished communicator, he has presented at international FM conferences, published articles and is a contributing author of the book “Technology for Facility Managers.” Stanberry is an active industry advocate; serving in several volunteer leadership roles as a member of IFMA, the IFMA Foundation and the U.S. Green Building Council. He has been an active leader in the IFMA Denver Chapter serving as Treasurer, Vice President and President, earning him a Distinguished Member Award (2005) and Outstanding Contribution by a Professional Member (2006). He served on the IFMA Foundation Board of Trustees (2009-2014) and is currently the chair of the Environmental Stewardship, Utilities and Sustainability Community.
Stanberry studied at the University of Washington, U.S. West Advanced Technical Education Program. He earned an Executive Programs Finance Certificate from Kellogg Graduate School at Northwestern University, a Project Management Certificate from Regis University and both a Process Management Certification and Quality Improvement Process Certification from QualTec. He earned his CFM in 2010.
Show Highlights
- Dean shares the core competencies of and clears up the difference between a facility manager, a property manager, and a building engineer on multi-tenant for rent versus an owner-occupied property.
- IFMA’s education, organization, competency-based credentials.
- 5 emerging and interesting sustainability topics IFMA is including.
- Green Building Trends you want to make hands on for your audience.
- Environmental is going to be a big component for facility managers.
- GSA, the General Services Administration is changing the culture of the organization with respect to Carbon.
- Overcoming the uniqueness and components of historic buildings and Federal facilities.
- Sustainability and green buildings are pivoting to a primary objective.
“We're becoming a data driven industry and so we really need to raise the bar for many people in the profession. Doesn't matter which role you have, you need to understand more about sustainability. And that's gonna play heavily into ESG reporting…You need to not just train people on the tool because that's the simple part. You need to train them on why we're doing this. What's the imperative?”
-Dean Stanberry
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- America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It
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Heidi Creighton is Vice President (VP) of Sustainability. In this role, Heidi will lead Skanska USA Commercial Development’s strategic sustainable initiatives across the US portfolio in Los Angeles, CA. Furthering the company’s ESG strategy, she will be responsible for identifying solutions that improve asset performance, energy management, community engagement and user experience to create the most sustainable and impactful projects in each market. Creighton will serve as a key member of the company’s leadership team reporting to Christopher Westley, Senior Vice President (SVP) for Strategic Services to support market leaders and their operational teams while integrating and expanding Skanska’s sustainability offerings with focus on Skanska’s ESG strategy.
“Skanska has a holistic approach to designing and building sustainable places, keeping the project’s full life cycle in mind. It is ingrained in what we do every day and elevated when an expert like Heidi Creighton is brought to the table,” said Robert Ward, President and CEO, Skanska USA Commercial Development. “I have no doubt Heidi will ignite thoughtful conversations through project work and advocacy that will further Skanska and its leadership team’s ambitions to drive the industry forward.
Creighton served as a Principal since 2011. In that role, she led the West Coast consulting group’s focus on sustainability, resiliency, health and wellbeing and social equity strategies in the academic, cultural, commercial, aviation and healthcare sectors. Creighton is also FAIA, a LEED Fellow, Fitwel Ambassador and is a member of the WELL Faculty program.
Show Highlights
- The importance of volunteering to align with your own values, establish a network; it draws you to great people who wanna do impactful work, and discover inspiring projects.
- Skanska’s sustainability umbrella with initiatives and policies to really drive sustainability across their entire portfolio.
- Supplier code of conduct for all contractors and subcontractors.
- How they co-develop, increase transparency, and push the envelope and test innovations.
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EC3 - an embodied carbon construction calculator tool.
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Advantages to connecting the main components to integrate how the developer and the construction team deliver a project.
- Build understanding on climate resiliency and circularity on all green building projects.
- Frame sustainability around what resonates with what customers are trying to accomplish.
- Tips to have collective conversations about data collection and transparency to improve the entire industry.
“Leading with empathy, being a good listener, really trying to connect people together - are critical. In our role as sustainability experts, we are constantly asking people to change. We're constantly pushing the envelope and changing their business as usual. Generally people are averse to change, so you've got to really figure it out for each organization, individual, department, whoever you're working with, and really understand what their priorities and goals are. Then, ask yourself how can I frame sustainability around that and align it with what they're trying to accomplish.”
-Heidi Creighton
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- Bridges to Prosperity
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GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community!
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Sheila M. Sheridan - IFMA Fellow, CFM, LEED AP O+M. Sheila retired from Harvard University where she was Director of Facilities and Services at the Kennedy School of Government. As an International Facility Management Association (IFMA )volunteer member, she has held numerous roles including the Chair.
Currently, she is a USGBC Technical Committee member. Previously she was past vice chair of the LEED Operations and Maintenance Committee. She also participated as faculty for IFMA and USGBC courses. She is a recognized global speaker concerning facilities and sustainability. She has been a visiting lecturer at universities around the world.
Show Highlights
- How volunteer work allows you to test the limits of your abilities and learn what you are really interested in.
- Invite champions, naysayers, and gossipers to your team to match your project to your mission.
- Tips to pave your own way to promote the change you want to see in your profession and an environmental steward.
- Sheila is a “tenacious pioneer” who shares her stories of inspiration and tips to help push sustainability forward and open new doors.
- Sustainability has no borders because the world’s needs are connected for a positive future.
- Emerging trends and looking at how they manage buildings so we don't lose the voice of the people that work and live there.
- Growth in the industry only occurs when you invite people in, share information as an environmental steward.
“It's not the green building movement anymore. It’s, save the planet. Everything you do, both at home, at work and in your profession can make a difference right down to picking up a piece of trash. The green building movement is exciting. It's a vehicle to get you where we need to be and there's opportunities for you to be a specialist.”
-Sheila Sheridan
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Work Better. Save The Planet
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Emilie O'Leary, along with a business partner, launched a mechanical solar business in 2016. They built the business up to be one of the leading commercial installers in the US. They sold the business in 2020 and Emilie stayed on as CEO till January 2022.
There are very few women that do what she does in the solar industry. In February of 2022, she started Green Clean Solar based in Marietta, Georgia. She has a strong passion and expertise in the solar industry focusing on waste management and landfill diversion services while building a diverse workforce. She continues to develop and foster relationships with EPC/Owners and solar manufacturers throughout the United States while making Green Clean Solar a leader in the industry.
Show Highlights
- Creating energy efficiency companies that hit a pain point in our industry.
- A mechanical solar installation company who understands the process of what it takes to build massive projects.
- Green Clean Solar is providing solutions for a huge problem with materials in the industry.
- Be a revolutionary by providing solutions to managing waste on any project by working with local resources centers.
- How to have thoughtful conversations with manufacturers and designers to build awareness in rethinking their packaging material to make needed changes in our industry.
- Innovation is changing the lifecycle of solar panels.
- The trickle effect of green building to revitalize communities.
- Connect with Emilie to learn the trends and what's happening in the solar industry and beyond.
“We were putting everything in the dumpsters and hauling it to the landfill. And it really struck me to say ‘this is counterintuitive.’ We're building these amazing energy efficiency systems, but then we're filling the earth with all this waste. It didn't make any sense because most of this material could be recycled.”
-Emilie O'leary
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The Ride of a Lifetime
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According to the International Energy Agency, the construction industry is responsible for 39% of global energy and process-related emissions and 36% of worldwide energy demand. This sector also accounts for 40% of drinking water consumption and 23% of air pollution. Our industry is also facing environmental issues such as air pollution, water shortages/contamination, and a shrinking supply of fossil fuels.
With each passing year, the construction industry is reimagining the future of the built environment and is steadfast in curbing global carbon emissions. One framework the industry uses to benchmark its performance, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG), include 17 interconnected global goals to promote development that balances social, economic, and environmental sustainability.
This webinar will help you understand the UNSDG, how they relate to green building, and how you can integrate the UNSDG directly into your business processes.
What You Will Learn:
- What are the UNSDGs?
- How do the UNSDGs relate to green buildings?
- How can the UNSDGs integrate into your business processes?
Amritpal Virdee is a member of the ESG Team at Sustainable Investment Group (SIG) as a Senior ESG Consultant. His main responsibilities include identifying ESG material issues and engaging with clients to create compelling ESG Frameworks. Furthermore, he also works with clients to adopt the GRESB, GRI and other ESG initiatives such as the UN SDG Benchmarking.
Amritpal has worked as an Economist in London where he advised clients on the impact of macroeconomic trends on their financial portfolios and educated companies on how to integrate ESG into their corporate decision-making processes.
Additionally, Amritpal has experience working in the United Nations conducting sustainable finance policy research and working with former UN Chief Economist Elliott Harris on how to increase sustainable development funding in the world’s Least Developed Countries.
Amritpal’s favorite hobby is sailing and he regularly spends summer weekends up and down the North East coast.
Amy D’Angelo is the Director of ESG for Sustainable Investment Group. In this role, Amy provides leadership to the ESG and Energy Star departments and works with some of the country’s largest REITs to identify and manage risks that pertain to environmental, social and governance issues.
She also is leading our Corporate Sustainability Program with a particular focus on the “S” – empowering women within our organization and ensuring that we can have the greatest impact in the communities where we live.
Amy spends her free time outside and enjoying the natural resources in the community where she lives, kayaking, biking or just walking on the beach. When she isn’t outside, you can find her cooking for her family, playing with her dogs or tending to her vast collection of indoor plants.
Show Highlight * The SDGs push global policy sustainability goals for cities/countries/companies and more.
* Amrit shares how exactly green buildings relate to certain SDGs.
* Gain awareness on the learning objectives and very diverse and wide range 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) categories.
* What are the UN SDGs?
* How do the UN's SDGs actually relate to green building?
* The direct importance on how the UN SDGs can be integrated into your business processes.
* Economic growth, housing solutions, water safety and lower construction costs
* Why integrate the UN SDGs into your business?
* Learn about a great resource called the C40 Cities Initiative, which highlights how local entities are taking very bold steps for sustainable growth.
* How are SDG goals applicable towards residential and commercial building or is it?
* SDG data partnership and metrics to map out your connection to LEED, WELL and other rating system scores.
* Additional benefits to SDGs
* Subset of social impact bonds called SDG bonds,
* WELL building standard has embraced UN SDGs
Show Resource and Information * Amritpal Virdee on LinkedIn * Amy D'Angelo on LinkedIn * WELL Standard * Sustainable Green Spaces: Home * Solved: How the World's Great Cities Are Fixing
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John Ambert, RA, NCARB, LEED Fellow, GPRO, LFA | Architect & Green Building Specialist.
John Ambert is a licensed architect, LEED Fellow, and sustainability subject matter expert with DPR
Construction. Since 2006, John has worked to integrate sustainability solutions for more than 100 of the highest performance residential, commercial, mixed-use, office, higher education, health care, and corporate projects in the US. With a deep background in high-performance materials, healthy indoor environments, and low carbon design, John works to implement sustainable construction approaches to minimize the environmental impact of the construction process. A graduate of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, John holds a Bachelors of Architect with a focus in Sustainable Environments.
Speaker & Presentation Experience
- 2014: NAVFAC “Wounded Warrior Campus – The first LEED Platinum buildings for the US
- Military”
- 2016: SDGE: High Performance Water Solutions for Buildings in So Cal
- 2017: Designing for High Performance & Zero Energy
- 2019: Net Zero 2019: “Murph Zero”
- 2019: SDGBC Conference: “Murph Zero”
- 2021: SD Living Future Collaborative: Webinar Series – 8 total
- 2022: San Diego Green Building Conference + Expo: DPR + JUST label
Show Highlights
- John shares the evolution of his unique sustainability career and the fellowship that comes with being a LEED Fellow.
- DPR’s influence in quality sustainability to make zero harm to people and the planet.
- Pathways for people to explore natural building materials not typically found to create different building types that minimize harm from the traditional ways of building.
- Tips to overlap green values as a team, as a state, a nation, as a world.
- Flow state at work - explained.
- Avoid getting pigeonholed by a narrow perspective in your education and/or career. Understanding the various routes and opportunities to a prosperous career.
- Policy support of sustainability will be the environmental catalysts for the industry.
- COVID forced health to the forefront of design criteria to rethink how we live and work in buildings.
“I'm personally very excited about this revival around health centered design, this focus on making buildings for people, not just buildings for buildings sake. We've been designing buildings in the same way for too long and we aren't focused on making them spaces for people to connect with the world around them, to be productive, and to be happy.”
-John Ambert
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Clarity & Connection
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Fulya Kocak Gin is Senior Vice President of ESG issues for Nareit, which is a national association representing real estate investment trusts and publicly traded real estate companies. As an award-winning sustainability thought leader, instructor, and author, Fulya provides guidance, oversight, and innovation for Nareit’s sustainability initiatives, publications, and programming within the REIT industry, which is one of the 11 GIC sectors.
In her previous role with Clark Construction, Fulya developed the company’s corporate sustainability strategy, coordinated environmental responsibility efforts, and assisted building owners and developers meet their sustainability goals cost effectively.
Her specialties include: ESG Issues, Sustainable Investments, Corporate Social Responsibility, ESG Reporting, Sustainable Construction, Sustainability Strategy, Green Building Certifications, Project Management, Life Cycle, Community Outreach, Sustainability/LEED Education, Subcontractor and Shareholder Buy-in, Best Practices, Material Sourcing, Business Development. Fulya has authored sustainability books and instructed sustainability and LEED workshops.
Fulya is a regular speaker at multiple conferences, including Greenbuild, REITworld, REITworks, Montgomery County Energy Summit and academic conferences. She also has served on multiple boards, councils and committees, including the District of Columbia’s Green TAG, working on the first DC Green Building Codes, Chairwoman of USGBC National Capital Chapter Board, and Chair of Maryland Governor’s Green Building Council.
Show Highlights
- Pressures facing real estate portfolio, real estate and ESG.
- Understanding the benefits and the differences in getting an Architectural Engineering degree.
- Volunteering is an integrated part of the work you will do in the industry to take your performance and success to the next level.
- Fulya breaks down what ESG means for environmental stewardship, social responsibility and good governance practices.
- Useful ESG Bible for readers with documents and tools on ESG reporting frameworks and top ESG key performance indicators.
- Scope three emissions tips you need to hear to prepare for the future.
- Why specialization is key to standing out among the competition.
“Creativity is huge. I encourage my children to do creative things that will help them in the future. Most people may say, ‘Hey, just work on your academics.’ But I tell my kids,”Create, keep creating. It doesn't matter what it looks like because that's going to help you in the future as a professional or even in life when you're dealing with problems that you solve’.”
-Fulya Kocak Gin
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Linkedin
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The Sustainability Leader in You
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The Best of John C. Maxwell on Attitude
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The Artist's Way:
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On this week's episode of the Green Building Matters podcast, we've actually taken some of our Sustainability Challenge education and pulled out some hot topics.
First, we're going to zoom out and talk about "State of the Sustainability Union" and even some really big mandates from certain countries from all around the world, all the way down to local laws in certain cities. And where we're at with our buildings and their impacts on our overall Greenhouse gas emissions.
Next, we are going to give you some of the latest cliff notes on LEED, WELL, Fitwel, GRESB, and BREEAM updates.
Lastly, we have to continue to revisit the difference between "Operational Carbon vs. Embodied Carbon". We've pulled in a couple of subject matter experts from our team to make sure they can really help clear that up on a high level.
Show Highlights
State of the Sustainability Union
- Greenhouse gas emissions problems and opportunities.
- Energy efficient commercial buildings increase value for developers, tenants and investors more.
- Meet climate standard targets for builders, designers and operators by 2030-2050 timeline.
- Global big picture legislation and mandates.
- “Design Build Sustainability” will help to achieve green building goals.
- Streamlining information and requirements into content that you and/or your firm can prepare for design,construction and operation.
LEED/WELL/Fitwel/GRESB Updates
- LEED for existing buildings can be achieved by two pathways.
- WELLness Real Estate
- Operating and building a healthy space certification testing in the field
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Pandemic Response programs for WELL and LEED for your real estate portfolio
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Attract investors for GRESB with tips to increase your green portfolio.
- How to prepare for the Net Zero Readiness Plan
- BREEM is more than an alternative to LEED. Learn the benefits, resources and popularity of this system
Defining Operational vs Embodied Carbon:
- Talking points for operational and embodied carbon.
- Understand the evolution of the carbon story and the challenge with the linear fashion for buildings.
- Carbonizational strategies and tips to understand buildings are living things.
- Building decarbonizing trends and global government's response to crises.
- Pathway to net zero for building with architectural design, mechanical design, leveraging building envelope and occupancy scheduling.
- Leveraging energy models and best practices using the latest technology.
- Carbon impacts and footprint throughout each phase of the entire building cycle.
Show Resource and Information
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Sustainability Challenge: Fall 2022
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Sustainability Challenge: Day 1
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Sustainability Challenge: Day 2
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GBH Sustainability Challenge 2022 on YouTube
Experts
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Marty Rozmanith on LinkedIn
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Joel Pennington on LinkedIn
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Kristina Bach on LinkedIn
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Nick Kassanis on LinkedIn
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Brian Bollinger on LinkedIn
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Ron Kamen, represents commercial organizations in clean energy projects that reduce energy costs and lower carbon footprints. He started the AWESome EarthKind podcast to generate hope & empower families with the tools to have a positive impact. For 3 decades, he’s worked with large and small businesses, governments & non-profits to identify achievable clean energy goals, create strategies, and deliver next-generation cost-saving climate solutions.
His career began with fixed-income seniors who had to choose to "heat or eat" due to astronomical utility cost increases. He came to realize that energy was also the major source of air, water & land pollution. (In my home state, energy is responsible for ~ 90% of greenhouse gases).
Climate disruption became personal in 1998 when an upstate NY tornado severely damaged his home and his family narrowly avoided catastrophe. Since then, climate-induced weather disasters have become commonplace, with Superstorms, massive flooding, droughts, wildfires, and polar vortices shutting down electric grids and threatening lives (even in "climate-change-denying" southern states),
EarthKind Energy Consulting brings this commitment, experience, and expertise to every project. Our successes include reductions in electricity, heating, & transportation costs; improved carbon footprints; outstanding financial returns; and zero cash down projects that provide immediate and long-term savings. There is nothing better than working with good people and organizations who aim to have a positive environmental impact - and realize that they can save money doing it.
As a public speaker, he also makes public presentations that educate, inspire, and empower both young and old to "Go Clean & Save Green". The AWESome EarthKind podcast promotes that women and mankind - all EarthKind - are Forces of Nature. We are the 5th Element, and we are literally changing the work. We CAN make a real difference (and save ourselves money) when we focus on clean energy for our homes, businesses, communities, and nation.
Show Highlights
- Ron shares his work with clean energy, clean tech, renewables and more in the greater New York area and beyond.
- Energy is the answer to a lot of our economic environmental issues.
- Figuring out how property owners, commercial buildings, nonprofits, government, can make transitions to clean energy to have environmental cost efficient benefits.
- EarthKind is a small boutique consulting company targeting clients who want to tap into the opportunity to save a really dramatic amount of money for the environment.
- Build awareness for geothermal exchange, where it becomes most cost effective, and what’s holding the technology back.
- Grid evolution with distributing storage, being a generation source, electric vehicle supplying battery storage and use as a revenue source.
- The technology that supports environmental policy and pockets to drive economic decisions.
- Benefits of building an infrastructure with renewable vs fossil fuels when promoting new construction.
“The problem with fossil fuels and with things like nuclear is that they're very cost excessive and cost always increases. Whereas when you take a look at renewables, the great thing about renewables is that once you build the infrastructure, all you have to do is maintain it. The water flows, you get free electricity. The wind blows, you get free electricity. The sun shines, you get free electricity.”
-Ron Kamen
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Ron Kamen’s Show Resource and Information
- AWESome EarthKind Energy Podcast
- EarthKind Energy
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Eric Robinson, AIA, LEED AP, began studying design at North Carolina State University’s College of Design in Raleigh, North Carolina where he graduated with a Bachelor degree in Environmental Design in 1994. Eric then participated in a two-year internship with BCW+H Architects in Richmond, VA. Following this internship Eric attended the University of Virginia, successfully finishing his Master of Architecture in 1999.
Upon completion of his Masters, Eric was offered a position at Charles Rose Architects (formerly Thompson and Rose) where he worked as a Senior Designer/Architect for 9 years. His diverse body of work includes projects at the University of South Dakota, the University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth, the Florida Gulf Coast Museum of Art, the Federal Port of Entry in Del Rio, TX, residences on Martha’s Vineyard, and a summer camp in Wyoming. Eric’s projects at Charles Rose Architects have received multiple professional awards.
Eric and Kevin Deabler founded RODE Architects in 2005. Since 2006, Eric also has served as a visiting lecturer at Northeastern University. Eric is a LEED Accredited Professional and brings to the firm an integrated, design-oriented approach to the profession.
Show Highlights
- Eric shares his experience creating a business and selecting the right partner and team.
- Understanding the changes and impact to community building in Boston’s established neighborhoods.
- Highlights of RODE Architects' projects and approaches to keeping sustainability and benefits to the community at the forefront of design.
- Tips to stay up to date and include diverse skill sets on different projects.
- Holistically design projects with different disciplines in mind.
- Pillars to make sustainability more approachable for your firm and the consumer to avoid outsourcing.
- Trends to personalize construction to be more modular and efficient in a controlled environment.
- Understanding your role to create connections with your clients.
“Clients appreciate us for who we are and what we do. We are not a cookie cutter architecture firm. We're a firm that thinks about sustainable design as a sort of transformational tool. We want to do work that is engaging and sort of thoughtful.”
-Eric Robinson
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Eric Robinson’s Show Resource and Information
- Eric@rodearchitects.com
- TED Radio Hour
- The Power Of Spaces TED Radio Hour
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Kjell Anderson, FAIA, LEED Fellow, practices architecture and serves as a Principal and the Director of Sustainable Design at LMN Architects, working with all of LMN’s clients to set and exceed sustainable design goals. He wrote the first architect-centered book on energy modeling, co-authored AIA’s first policy statement on climate change, and has spoken extensively on energy, water, materials, and embodied carbon. He founded the Seattle Hub of the Carbon Leadership Forum and serves on the AIA National Committee on the Environment and the Washington State Building Code Council where he chairs the Energy Code Technical Advisory Group (TAG).
Kjell is a conceptual thinker who understands that details are often the only difference between success and failure. To ensure he continues to understand and apply sustainability at all phases, his time is split between Project Architect and Sustainability roles. A lifelong Washingtonian, he lives in Seattle with his wife and two daughters and enjoys playing music and soccer.
Show Highlights
- Understanding what the scope is for sustainability to achieve certification goals.
- Different programs for retail spaces.
- Why the conversation around electrification is easier to have than solar resources in Washington.
- Kjell shares the path for Zero Carbon, his team is working on.
- University of Washington Founders Hall project analysis on carbon.
- Transitioning from energy use to carbon is not a direct translation and demands a different conversation.
- Sustainable action plans need to be updated for the future to include all the forms of carbon emissions associated with the environment.
- We need great interactivity in our buildings to reduce the cost significantly by having grid friendly buildings.
- The Inflation Reduction Act addresses climate action and climate justice to expand conversation surrounding inclusivity and practices.
“I would say working directly with clients who have expressed interest in sustainability, and all of a sudden they realize they can do it. And then they're like, ‘Of course I want that. I thought it was beyond my reach to get there.’ Getting a client to go from LEED Silver to LEED platinum, that's a big deal…”
-Kjell Anderson
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Kjell Anderson’s Show Resource and Information
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Design Energy Simulation for Architects
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LinkedIn
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Hoffman Construction — Founders Hall
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The Invisible Woman- Audiobook
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Volts | David Roberts | Podcast
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Path to Zero Carbon Series
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An Honest Conversation About Zero Carbon
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University of Washington Founders Hall project
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Wes Sullens, LEED Fellow has direct experience in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. He specializes in green building projects, policy, materials, and codes & standards development.
He’s been a LEED AP since 2002 and has worked directly on over 100 green projects seeking LEED and other environmental labels, including the coordination of the first LEED Version 4 Platinum EB project in the world (StopWaste Headquarters, 2014).
Show Highlights * Wes talks about technical committees, guidelines, and tracking materials. * All things LEED, upcoming version, and the big plans for the future. 1. Criticism about what LEED needs to do in the future. 2. Solid climate focused solution. 3. Committees, volunteering, and technical advisory groups for LEED. 4. Carbon storing materials and the science of how you sequester carbon in products and materials. 5. Requirements about reducing embodied carbon.
- The ripple effect for creating buildings to be part of the solution for better environments and better communities.
- Avoid being blindsided by climate change.
- The importance of circularity and the challenges of executing a circular economy.
- Doubling down all kinds of products with packaging.
- Wes shares what it was like to be at the table early in the movement and how he is continuing to help scale up the green (building) code to make it mandatory in more places.
“Don't worry so much about where you get on this bus on this journey towards sustainability, towards regenerative environmental issues. Just get on. Pick your place, see that you're good at something, and enter.”
-Wes Sullens
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Wes Sullens’ Show Resource and Information
- Romany Marie: The Queen of Greenwich Village
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GBES is excited our membership community is growing. Consider joining our membership community as members are given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions. If you are preparing for an exam, there will be more assurance that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member, and so much more. Go to www.gbes.com/join to learn more about the 4 different levels of access to this one-of-a-kind career-advancing green building community!
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Mohammad H Abbasi has been honing his expertise on health and wellness in the built-ecology environment. His background in architecture, sustainable design, and building sciences makes him an integral member of WSP’s built ecology group for which he specializes in design assistance, LEED and, WELL coordination, energy, daylight modeling, and material consultancy. Mohammad’s goals are to help clients achieve exceptional performance and to drive innovative ways of applying future technologies to enhance outcomes provided from a building’s architectural and engineering systems.
He’s a Building Performance Analyst at WSP, a leading global sustainability and engineering services company with offices worldwide. Mohammad has a Bachelor of Architecture from University of Art, Tehran, and a Masters in Architecture from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. He is skilled in energy modeling software like eQuest and IES as well as enclosure simulation software - WUFI and THERM. In addition to being a RESET AP, Mohammad is also a LEED AP, CPHC and a WELL AP. With knowledge in different aspects of sustainable architecture from healthy materials, air quality to energy analysis, his goal is to help architects establish an integrative design process to achieve their sustainability goals.
Show Highlights * The substance behind acquiring credentials to enhance technical ability, to learn the process, career placement, and client connection. * WSP’s impact as one of the biggest engineering companies in the world. * The value of teaching the services of a healthy building and not just designing a healthy space for occupants. * Understanding the importance of transferring the “how” and the “why” sustainable choices are inclusive for everyone. * Mohammad shares managing multidisciplinary services to show the concept of office and home are changing and related. * Policies, projects and requirements changing the industry in every project getting built. * Managing career advice with your personal goals. * Mohammad shares his expertise of all things healthy building.
“What I like to do the best includes having authentic engagement and communication with my clients and the people I work with. I believe sustainability is day to day problem solving and unique cases. I like to be that person problem solving in an authentic, unique way on a specific case.”
-Mohammad H Abbasi
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Mohammad H Abbasi’s Show Resource and Information
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WSP
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Emotional intelligence
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Healthy Buildings
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Eliot Wall is an entrepreneur at heart. He enjoys creating customer-driven solutions designed for ease of use and measurable benefit. Solving structural and behavioral problems is his passion and work.
Experienced business operator and product leader helping to build and commercialize software, hardware, and process-based solutions. Strong growth orientation with knowledge of strategies and tools required to scale a business.
In this podcast interview, Charlie & Eliot talk about advancements in sustainable pavement, roofing, and other products as well as the idea of “intrapreneurship.”
Outside of work, Eliot loves books (non-fiction or sci-fi), writing fiction, playing squash, skiing, rock climbing, and is an avid baseball fan.
Show Highlights * Looking into city systems influence to design better outcomes for the people living in them. * Pushing creativity to solve problems looking past the status quo. * A tangible, systematic way to make a quality difference in healthy buildings at a larger scale. * Making the connection to value all aspects involving quality health care and urban environments. * Opportunities to make a difference where it matters most with man made structures to protect healthy living. * Entrepreneurship is a wonderful opportunity to live your best life. * Tips to make hardscapes and surfaces eco-friendly. * New innovation and visions to craft a solution to tackle the problems with electric vehicles, pollutants, energy harvesting, etc.
“Find the problem you want to wake up solving every day regardless of what else goes on in your life professionally. Something that when you wake up, as hard as a job can be, as annoying, and as small things might end up being. As long as you love solving that problem, that's your true north.”
-Eliot Wall
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Linkedin
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Speaker for the Dead
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StreetBond
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Jennifer Berthelot-Jelovic is a LEED Fellow with extensive experience with IWBI's WELL Building Standard as one of the first Provisional WELL APs, WELL APs, and WELL Faculty in the world. Jen has worked on various WELL Pilots|Projects in almost every typology. Jen is currently overseeing many firsts in WELL, LEED, Net Zero|Carbon Neutral|Net Positive projects in the country and world. Jen also has extensive experience with USGBC’s various LEED rating systems.
In her previous roles at Shangri-La; Jen was instrumental in securing the world’s 1st LEED Platinum NC certification for an aviation facility, Hangar 25 in Burbank, CA. Hangar 25 was named “Greenest Aviation Facility In the World” and was Net Zero|Net Positive in 2008. Jen also orchestrated the LEED Platinum certification of Citadel Environmental Services under LEED CI. This was the 1st LEED Platinum CI office space in the Tri-City (Glendale/Pasadena/Burbank) area and Net Zero Energy in 2010. One of Jen’s most renowned projects is Step Up On Vine, an adaptive reuse Platinum certified LEED Homes Multi-family, permanent supportive housing project for chronically homeless, mentally ill individuals in Hollywood, CA.
Jen was a Peer Reviewer for WELL v1 thru v2, a member of the IWBI Covid-19 and other Respiratory Infections Task Force, and has the unique experience of being a Consultant to both Delos and IWBI. Jen had worked with WELL in various phases on projects globally. Jen's participation in the WELL Portfolio Pilot Program resulted in co-facilitating IWBI's Portfolio Provider Trainings globally. Jen has also been an active member of at least five WELL Advisories. Jen has been a reviewer for USGBC’s Greenbuild program multiple times, an item|form reviewer for the WELL AP Exam Maintenance, and a Specs Reviewer for the WELL AP v2 Exam.
Jen has provided tours of hundreds of LEED|WELL registered|certified projects nationally for international and domestic Owners, Developers, Design|Build teams, Consultants, Innovators, Fortune 500 Companies, and more. Jennifer has also provided hundreds of Sustainability|Wellness presentations globally for hundreds of organizations. Jen has been interviewed|published in articles and publications over the past 15 years. Jen is also a content contributor, reviewer and on-screen SME for the WELL Learning Library (WLL); a comprehensive solution for WELL v2 education and survey requirements. Jen has been a 1st through final round Greenbuild education program Reviewer multiple times, a Global Health & Wellness Summit Advisory Board Member and LEED Fellow Evaluation Committee member since receiving the designation.
Show Highlights * From movie sets to LEED Fellow, Jen’s story on how to turn your passion into a successful career and business. * The value of credentials to be an asset in your career, shape your commitment and reflect your work. * WELL’s measurable impact on taking care of people in a meaningful way. * A SustainAble Production is the global WELL experts. Their portfolio benchmarking plays to zero and for organizations at scale. * Jen shares partnerships for ESG strategies the market and clients are demanding. * The International Well Building Institute has a WELL equity rating coming out that includes what's important holistically for sustainability. * Ideas for the innovators who want to help people move in healthy ways to drive sustainability forward.
“I travel the world teaching WELL, and we even teach it to a lot of our competitors. Again, our dear friends, we want everyone to succeed. We want the movement to succeed. The more people that get it right, the more healthier people we will have in the world living longer, more vibrant lives.”
-Jennifer Berthelot-Jelovic
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A SustainAble Production
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The Little Prince
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Vaishali Sampat is the Director of Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility for Kilroy Realty. She joined Kilroy Realty in 2013 in property management, where she worked closely with the sustainability team to identify and implement efficiency projects and achieve building certifications for the West LA/Santa Monica portfolio. In 2018, she transitioned to sustainability full time and is now responsible for Investor Disclosures and Reporting, sourcing efficiency projects and programs, and advancing building decarbonization goals. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for USGBC-LA, ULI-LA’s Leadership Council, and Fitwel Leadership Advisory Board. She is a Fitwel Ambassador, LEED AP O+M accredited, and holds a dual degree in Accounting and Finance from Georgia State University.
Show Highlights * Advantages of having a business and financial degree to sell sustainability initiatives. Learn ways to put your unique and varied degrees to good use in green building. * Vaishali shares how to follow your passions to create a rewarding life career. * California’s regional needs for creativity with exterior and interior water usage and building types. * Reducing the negative impacts of the built environment is going to take more than net zero. Why carbon capture technology is the next step. * Designing projects that are inclusive to existing communities with adaptive materials. * Kilroy stays an industry leader and pioneer by expanding programs and making sustainability an investment and responsibility by + retooling, refining programs to get all of the important leadership decision makers in on the conversation. + growing a life science sector. + instituting a really robust data management plan. + establishing science based targets. + designing ways to connect with the existing community.
“It's important to expand our program a little bit more. What I mean by that is sustainability is no longer a nice to have. It's a must have. The SEC's ruling (climate disclosure requirements) is coming...In order to be successful, we have to start bringing in other kinds of internal stakeholders into our strategy.”
-Vaishali Sampat
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Vaishali Sampat’s Show Resource and Information * LinkedIn * Sustainability - Kilroy Realty * Instagram * The Four Agreements
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LEED Fellow and Vice President at WSP USA Keith Amann
Keith Amann is a LEED Fellow and part of WSP's specialty sustainability practice Built Ecology (formerly YR&G), and National Practice Leader for their sustainable strategy & certifications services. Dedicated to the goal of creating more sustainable built environments, their team is driven by a hopeful and holistic definition of sustainability that improves human health and well-being, innovates toward climate positive solutions, and strives to create equitable and resilient communities.
Keith has over 15 years of experience providing technical sustainability expertise and project management on a wide variety of project types both in the US and internationally. Keith currently serves on USGBC's LEED Advisory Committee as Chair, USGBC’s LEED Steering Committee, is a recognized FutureReady™ champion for WSP, and has extensive public speaking experience at conferences, universities and for private clients on a variety of smart, healthy and sustainability-related topics.
Show Highlights * Keith discusses collaborating on projects to expand roles in delivering the nuances in green building goals and incentive programs. * Tackling all the available incentive programs and understanding decarbonization electrification. * Evaluating factors and variables to consider in order to decarbonize efficiently. * The changes clients are making to the industry. * Areas where green building needs to focus its efforts to address sustainability from a holistic perspective. * The influence in volunteering to guide the next iterations of important programs like LEED to “steer the steering committee.” * Interpreting research and analytics to teams and clients so it is clear and engaging to drive necessary outcomes. * Evolution of Keith’s career led him to WSP’s specialty sustainability practice Built Ecology.
“Volunteerism has been some of the most rewarding work in my career. I make the time and I'm fortunate to work at a company that values participation in committees and organizations…You get a lot out of it, and it makes you better at your job by hearing different perspectives from all these other industry stakeholders that are also volunteering.”
-Keith Amann
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Keith Amann’s Show Resource and Information * LinkedIn * LEED Fellow | WSP * Reclaiming Your Community * Cradle to Cradle
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Chris Pyke, Ph.D. is the Senior Vice President for Product for ArcSkoru, Inc. Prior to joining Arc, Dr. Pyke was the Chief Strategy Officer for Aclima, Inc., Chief Operating Officer for GRESB, B.V., Vice President for Research at the US Green Building Council, and a physical scientist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He is a principal investigator for the Green Health Partnership, a long-term research initiative supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Pyke has served in a number of advisory roles, including as a lead author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, chair of the US EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee, and co-chair of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program Interagency Working Group on Human Contributions and Responses to Climate Change. Dr. Pyke is on the faculty of the Urban and Regional Planning Program at Georgetown University. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a B.S. from the College of William and Mary.
Show Highlights * The fundamental intersection between land use, the built environment and natural systems. * Questions to ask to grow buildings and cities in a better way. * How to create a career that provides the privilege of working to pay it forward. * The gateway to information and the research side of the green building community (GBIG, GRESB, Aclima and USGBC) to see the big picture of the movement. * ARC is going to be foundational to what happens next for the Green Building movement. * Chris shares amazing ideas and tools that came from a “blank sheet of paper” to benefit projects and people. * The benefits and impact of GRESB, The global real estate sustainability benchmark, on everything you've had an influence on. * Free resources for consultants to get your building scored with a growing list of building performance standards. * The three most foundational things to read to bring our movement to scale. * Why green building needs more innovation around all things sustainability. * The benefits of understanding and taking the scientific approach.
“One of the reasons I've been successful to the degree that I have at USGBC, is that I came at it as a scientist. I'm trying to ask questions and test them with data. If I had come into USGBC as an architect, as an engineer, as a planner, I would have been locked into a tribe. I think because I wasn't from any of our ‘food groups,’ I didn't have a natural affinity to only one of our tribes.”
-Chris Pyke
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Chris Pyke Show Resource and Information + Linkedin + Twitter + Green Building Information Gateway-GBIG + Malcolm Gladwell | Speaker - TED
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Diffusion of Innovations
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Crossing the Chasm
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The Innovator's Dilemma:
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The Tipping Point
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Net Zero by 2050 - A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector
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Emmanuel Lavoie is the CEO of Jetstream Hospitality Solutions. He’s an Engineer, entrepreneur and investor with 17 years of experience in the management of business and technical projects. As CEO at Jetstream Hospitality Solutions, he focuses on maximizing business growth and driving innovation.
He has formed and subsequently led several ventures in sustainability, building design, and hospitality software and solutions. A skilled generalist with exacting standards, he’s competent in dealing with software teams, marketing, sales and fundraising. I find tremendous fulfillment in building world-class teams to deliver on ambitious projects and goals.
He’s passionate about travel and sustainability. Outside of work he loves sailing, surfing, skiing, paragliding, music and is moderately obsessive about technology.
Show Highlights * The dichotomy between engineering and architecture. * Bridging the gap to blend environmental and social sustainability in co-housing or living communities. * How the green building movement applies sustainability to all industries. * Knowing when to pivot on your path and/or entrepreneurial journey. * Creativity of repurposing assets especially in short term rentals. * The hardest part to learn for aspiring entrepreneurs and the encouragement you need to hear. * Trends happening with short term rentals. * Avoid “greening up” only a certain slice of the built environment.
“It's the grind of the day to day and sometimes you're the windshield and sometimes you're the bug and sometimes you're on top of the world. It's scary to get beaten down. We call it the hustle. One of our core values [in the business] is we hustle. What that means is you just never stop because part of winning is to just not stop and still be there.”
-Emmanuel Lavoie
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Emmanuel Lavoie’s Show Resource and Information * E-myth
- Jetstream Hospitality Solutions
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Jeff Ross-Bain, PE, LEED Fellow, WELL AP, is the President of Ross-Bain Green Building and founded the company in January 2009. Jeff is a registered professional mechanical engineer with 20 years of HVAC design experience.
Since 2001, Jeff has worked exclusively on high-performance green building design, construction and operations. Jeff is a LEED Fellow and holds a Master’s Degree from Georgia Tech. He has been involved on over 70 LEED projects and performs energy modeling, energy assessments, oversees commissioning activities, and provides owners with professional facility management expertise to ensure the sustainable, on-going, performance of buildings. Jeff is very active in his profession and has served on ASHRAE Standards committees, boards and technical committees, and currently sits on the committee for the new ASHRAE Standard 228p (Standard Method for Evaluating Zero Energy Building Performance).
Jeff frequently leads college classes, seminars and workshops on a wide range of topics and, starting in January 2020, will be teaching a Master’s level class at Georgia Tech on Facility Operations and Maintenance.
In 2000, Jeff rode a bicycle across the United States.
Show Highlight
- The key to having a building truly perform as intended.
- The skillset needed to efficiently operate a building in today's world.
- Understanding a big career shift from mechanical design engineer to green building consultant.
- Being dedicated to doing the sustainability part rather than achieving the plaque.
- Graduate courses in facility management to better understand operations, maintenance and performance evaluation checks.
- Tipping points with cycle analysis and how buildings operate.
- The little pieces produce a fantastic building.
- Invest in understanding the “why” behind environmental and sustainability measures to guide your path.
- Tackle the tough questions and take a deeper dive with authority with design and clients.
“If it was up to me, I know it's not realistic, but I would just say we need to just stop using fossil fuel and then just see what happens. The ingenuity of humans is enough to be able to overcome those challenges.”
-Jeff Ross-Bain
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Jeff Ross-Bain’s Show Resource and Information * LinkedIn
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Ross-Bain Green Building
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Battle Cry of Freedom:
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April Ambrose is currently Business Development Manager for Sustainability and Energy at Entegrity, a Sustainable Building Consulting Firm based in Little Rock. As the first employee in 2007, she has been key in the successful growth of Entegrity which has grown from two to 120 employees with offices in Little Rock-AR, Memphis-TN, Fayetteville-AR, Jackson-MS, Kansas City-KS, and Tulsa-OK. Previously she was Director of Operations for Sustainability, opened the Entegrity office in Memphis, and was involved in over 200 sustainable building projects.
Current responsibilities include education and technical expertise for Entegrity’s Sustainability and Energy Divisions. Specific areas of expertise include k-12 and higher education, product/service/curriculum development, design and construction projects, sustainability rating systems, dashboards, marketing/education, and behavioral changes.
April received a BA in a self-designed Environmental Education major, which included an Arkansas high school teaching certificate, from Hendrix College. She is a graduate of the University of Arkansas, Division of Agriculture LeadAR Class 13 and Leadership Greater Little Rock Class XXIX (LGLR).
Awards include the USGBC Southeast Regional Sheroe of the Year, USGBC AR Green Tie for Central Arkansas Member of the year, Arkansas Business 40 Under 40 list, Outstanding Young Alumna by Hendrix College, and a variety of magazine features.
April’s previous expertise included the creation and operation of numerous non-profit organizations dedicated to sustainability education, national climate change policy, municipal sustainability, and the integration of health and the environment. April has provided over 500 presentations on sustainability and energy to various local and national groups including non-profits, trade organizations, governmental entities, k-12 and higher education schools, media outlets, and environmental organizations.
Show Highlight
- Figure out your capacity in order to narrow your focus into green buildings.
- Measure change to see the impact you can make in the lives of people.
- Entegrity adds another seat to the green building table in providing a full service for their clients and the industry.
- Figuring and focusing on what is preventing your clients from choosing the greener path.
- Performance based understanding using tools like ARC help large corporations find their niche to replicate and integrate green strategies.
- Understanding “people impact” is a huge opportunity to make spaces better places for more than the climate.
- The trick to adjusting industry language to show specific value that motivates each client towards trusting sustainability.
- The financial component is going to shift where renewable buildings become income producing assets.
“Coming from my background, it's pure education. I have no desire in selling somebody something they don't need, but I want them to be able to make a conscious decision and to have all the facts to make the decision that they feel meets their values and their needs. I didn't see that as an asset for a long time. I realize now that not only is it an asset, it's an incredibly valuable one where you get trusted in a way that people don't see you as a salesperson. They see you as somebody that's coming in to help them.”
-April Ambrose
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April Ambrose’s Show Resource and Information * LinkedIn
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Entegrity
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april.ambrose@entegritypartners.com
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99% Invisible Roman Mars - Apple Podcasts
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The Woman Code
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Hippies - The New York Times
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My Mommy is a LEED Fellow
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Robyn Dowsey, LEED Fellow is the Eco-Build Strategies’ Founder. Robyn has over a decade of experience in environmental implementation and 18 years of experience in design-build construction. She is well known throughout the State of Florida as a leader in sustainability education, integrated project delivery, low impact building practices, and operational policy development. She is the Chair of the USGBC Regional Council for the State of Florida, a Green Globes Assessor, and an active supporter of the Florida educational community. As a pragmatic problem solver and a highly knowledgeable team member, Robyn has the ability to inspire and empower others to develop and achieve levels beyond their expectations.
Show Highlights
- Being “nature forward” to provide a good learning environment for everyone.
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Robyn shares the “what” and “why” you want to touch everything possible in the sustainability world.
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The rewarding trickle down effect of finding your voice with all the certifications you obtain.
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An approach to working the “bugs” out with diverse clients.
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Suggestions to program out sustainability goals.
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Weave in win-win scenarios with the moving parts and challenges of working with a large company.
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Robyn highlights Eco-Build Strategies and areas lacking in the industry.
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The impact of volunteering in every aspect of sustainability to develop a rounded opinion is important in your career.
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Projects in Central Florida that support the community and set goals with clients looking to align their product line in a fiscally responsible way.
“‘Fix what you can fix. Let go of what you can't and just move on. Be tenacious with what's important to you and don't let yourself sweat the small stuff. It's very cliche, but that really stuck with me for my life. I use that as a backbone to my approach to things so that it helps me keep an open mind when I'm talking to people. I don't really dig down. I really open up and listen as much as I can.” -Robyn Dowsey, LEED Fellow
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Robyn Dowsey’s Show Resource and Information * Linkedin * Eco-Build Strategies | Sustainability Consulting * Good to Great * Green Marketing
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Casey Grey is the founder of the award-winning sustainable building company, The Conscious Builder, and the host of The Conscious Builder Podcast and The Conscious Builder Show on YouTube. He is based in Ottawa, Canada. Casey brings nearly two decades of experience in the construction industry and over a decade of experience founding, running, and growing multiple businesses while staying committed to his wife and son.
Casey and his team are on a mission to help people build homes, businesses and lives in a more conscious, sustainable way. He provides courses and tools here that will help you create a strong and abundant future by developing the skills he’s found most valuable in his construction journey.
Show Highlights
- Red tape and challenges for construction in booming housing regions in Canada.
- Casey shares views on how to get clients to choose maximum green options for projects.
- Facts you need to be aware of when trying to reduce your carbon footprint.
- Increase understanding that the house is a system that works together.
- Gaps and opportunity for trade work.
- If you go to the consciousbuilderacademy.com I do have a
- Conscious Builder for high performance homes and renovations.
- Builder Academy, for smaller contractors to become better at what they do.
- Free course
- Five things to know before starting a business.
“We all learn from each other. I'm not going to pretend to know everything in what I do, because I think there's always more to learn…because there's always new things happening.”
-Casey Grey
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Casey Grey’s Show Resource and Information * LinkedIn * Casey Grey | Award-winning - YouTube * Conscious Builder Academy * The Success Principle * Atomic habits * Ray Dalio's New Book * Principles
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Marty Rozmanith is an entrepreneur and building construction professional with a passion for housing affordability and sustainability topics. Marty is best known for his role leading the product requirements team for the Revit building modeler (acquired by Autodesk Inc). As Director of Product Management for Revit Technology Corp, he was one of the originators of the Revit product in addition to other seminal BIM software, such as AutoCAD Architectural Desktop. He currently serves as Chief Technology Officer for Green Building Holdings LLC in Atlanta.
In his 30+ years of experience, he has held several notable roles. From 2012-2022, Marty was Sales Director and Strategy Director for the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Industry team at Dassault Systemes. Prior to this role, Marty held executive positions at various manufacturing-in-construction startup companies focusing on housing affordability and sustainability. Articles about his work have been published in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes magazine and other professional journals. He has a decade of experience in professional practice of building design and structural engineering. Marty holds a degree in Architectural Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, and a Masters in Business Administration from Boston University.
Show Highlights
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Marty shares his entrepreneurial journey, career lesson and the importance of mentorship.
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A digital instrument service platform for architects and engineers to produce contract deliverables.
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Moving from “engineered order” to a manufacturing approach to cast a wider impact to move the industry.
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Data driven platforms for inputting data to improve the means, methods and delivery of the construction process to make buildings more efficient.
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Understand how manufacturing drives construction efficiency and sustainability.
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Tools and companies connected with lifecycle management, better delivery of construction and operations.
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Marty’s optimism towards sustainability and ability to merge design as an architect show better ways to build.
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Proptech modules that produce a communication vehicle between the owner and the design team to help improve the projects.
“I’m always of the philosophy to try - don't be scared of what the hardest thing is, because that's what you're going to learn the most from.”
- Marty Rozmanith
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Martin Rozmanith’s Show Resource and Information * LinkedIn * Twitter * Facebook * Wheel of Time
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TITLE: GBES - A Look at BREEAM
Breana Wheeler became BRE's Director of Operations in the US in June 2016, launching BREEAM USA in the US market. BREEAM is the world’s first green building rating system and today is the most widely used program worldwide with over 2.2 million registered buildings and over 560,000 certifications. Breana organizes and oversees the daily operations of the business in the United States, including the development and maintenance of the BREEAM USA technical standards. Prior to joining BRE, Breana worked for ten years as an internal advisor on environmental and sustainability risk management for large, multinational corporations and was based in London, England.
Breana is a Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA), a Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) and a LEED® Green Associate. She was a Fellow with the Royal Geographical Society from 2010 to 2014. She has a double BA in Geography and Political Science from San Francisco State University and an MA in Environment, Politics and Globalization from Kings College London.
Expertise: BREEAM, LEED O+M, environmental risk assessment and management, carbon reporting and management, sustainability communications, training, auditing, assessment, sustainable travel planning and strategy, development of sustainability strategies, Environmental Management Systems (14001), sustainable procurement.
Gregory Patton is a member of the Sustainability Consulting Team at Sustainable Investment Group (SIG) as a Senior Sustainability & Energy Consultant. In this role, he oversees multiple projects related to Sustainable and Healthy Buildings. In addition to managing LEED, WELL, and Fitwel projects for clients, he also provides support to SIG’s Engineering Team for ENERGY STAR, Commissioning, and technical expertise centered around existing buildings.
Gregory joined SIG in January of 2022 and brings two decades of operational experience to the team. Throughout his career he has successfully operated and managed numerous large commercial buildings as well as sustainability programs for clients. Gregory’s deep understanding of building systems and his passion to create a Sustainable and Healthy Future has enabled him to excel in the sustainability space. Gregory holds professional accreditations for LEED O+M, LEED BD+C, LEED ID+C, LEED HOMES, LEED Green Rater, WELL, and is a Fitwel Ambassador and BREEAM In-Use Assessor.
Originally from Florida (GO GATORS), Gregory has adapted to Colorado life and can be found outside enjoying the 300+ days of sunshine and blue skies that Colorado has to offer. He enjoys hiking, kayaking, live sporting events, and traveling with his wife and son
Show Highlights
- Learn 3 things sustainability needs to deliver value and go beyond green for better outcomes.
- BREEAM’s science based solutions, certification and footprint.
- Programs for life cycle stages for all types of buildings to make significant improvements and not just gain certifications.
- The 9 categories to BREEAM’s holistic approach to handle the integrity of managing the asset in confirming data.
- Science driven tools and resources to identify gaps and add value to builds
- Understanding the specific BREEAM Professional roles and licenses, educational requirements, and assessment process.
- Unpacking BREEAM
- Cost and price points
- Carbon and energy efficiency vs Energy Star
- Regional components
- Comparisons with LEED, WELL, and Living Building
- Transparency and clients choice
Breeana Wheeler’s Show Resource and Information * Breana Wheeler
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Deborah Gilboa, MD, aka “Dr. G” is a resilience expert who works with families, organizations, and businesses to identify the mindset and strategies to turn stress into an advantage. Renowned for her contagious humor, Dr. G works with groups across multiple generations, to rewire their attitudes and beliefs, and create resilience through personal accountability and a completely different approach to adversity. Author of the new book From Stressed to Resilience, she is a leading media personality seen regularly on TODAY, Good Morning America and The Doctors. Dr. G is board certified attending family physician and is fluent in American Sign Language. She resides in Pittsburgh with her four boys.
Show Highlights
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Redefine your relationship with stress.
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Proactively plan for leveraging stress and change in your personal and professional life.
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Eight scientifically most validated tools to measure growth and resilience.
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Understand the three reflex reactions to change and overcome the most frustrating part for leaders and change makers.
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Ways to empower your teams with more transparency, autonomy and choice.
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Strategies that help grow human resilience and infrastructure resilience.
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Create the ability to build connections, set boundaries and set goals.
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Green building practitioners persevere in the face of adversity all the time. Create a plan to manage discomfort in a safer way.
“Resilience is the ability to navigate change and come through it mission focused. For a person, that means the ability to navigate change and come through it with integrity and purpose aligned to your own purpose for an organization that is the ability to navigate, change and come through it aligned to your mission for a building.”
-Dr G
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Dr G’s Show Resource and Information * Twitter * Facebook * Linkedin * Get Dr. G’s book here! * Get the FREE resilience cycle and video here! * Visit Dr. G’s website here! * You Are What You Click
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Lauren Sparandara has over 15 years of experience as a green building leader where she has been a champion for green building projects in California and across the globe. For the past eight years she has worked for Google’s Real Estate and Workplace Services team where she is currently a Bay Area Sustainability Partner. In her role she advances Google's efforts to optimize our built environments for the health and performance of Googlers and the natural environment. For the six years prior to Google, she was a Senior Green Building Consultant for the DNV GL Group. Mrs. Sparandara obtained her environmental management degree from Yale University and her architecture degree from Washington University in St. Louis. She is a LEED Fellow and Living Future Hero.
She has taught many green building courses and contributed to a variety of green building publications, blogs and podcasts. Over her career, she has volunteered with sustainability rebuilding efforts at Historic Green in New Orleans, was appointed to be part of the City of Mountain View’s Sustainability Task Force, and was a member of the USGBC Materials and Resources Tag.
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A visionary approach to thinking about buildings.
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The challenge and honor of working at a place like Google with regard to green building projects and opportunity.
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Lauren unpacks her role as Bay Area Sustainability Partner within the Real Estate and Workplace Services team at Google to unite workstreams.
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Determine best practices and minimum sustainability building goals on diverse projects.
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Key components to circularity and sustainability.
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The exciting challenge of building and selecting materials to meet California and Google mandates.
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Work towards the interconnected components of the sustainability spectrum.
- Lauren shares a powerful list of women who supported her journey to becoming a LEED Fellow.
“We want to stay focused on this idea of how interconnected everything is. I think sustainability professionals are really smart and experienced at this, but we don't want to lose sight of the other elements like circularity, health, materials, ecology, biodiversity, water. All these different components of sustainability.”
-Lauren Sparandara
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Lauren Sparandara ’s Show Resource and Information * LinkedIn * Bay View and Charleston East - Google Real Estate * Impact Networks: Create Connection * The Ezra Klein Show on Apple Podcasts * NPR Podcasts & Shows * Amory Lovins: Books * William McDonough: Books
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Ralph Bicknese, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, LEED Fellow is a nationally recognized sustainable design leader with over 40 years of experience and is a principal and co-founder of Hellmuth + Bicknese Architects. His expertise has been demonstrated throughout his career starting with sustainable community committee work with the City of Ames, Iowa in 1980 and most recently on several pioneering projects seeking certification to the Living Building Challenge and/or the LEED Green Building Rating System. Mr. Bicknese has significant experience in all phases of the architectural process including as a principal with complete project responsibility. Ralph’s objective is for every act of design and construction to enrich life.
His role as sustainability consultant for The Gateway Arch National Park Arch Visitor Center & Museum is his largest project to date at over $130 million in project cost. It involved a complex international team, and achieved LEED Gold certification in January 2019.
Ralph assisted in the founding of the U.S. Green Building Council - Missouri Gateway Chapter where he served as Chair, Past Chair, Program Chair, Government Advocacy Chair, and as the chapter’s Green School Advocate. He was a juror on the USGBC-Minnesota Chapter’s 2011 Leadership in Sustainability Awards, served on two Greenbuild Session Selection Committees, the Greenbuild 2005 Program Committee, USGBC Advisory Committee on Haiti Recovery, initiated, helped organize and facilitate the Katrina Charrettes at Greenbuild 2005, and was a contributor to The New Orleans Principles. Ralph is a former board member of the Institute for Market Transformation to Sustainability (Washington, DC) and Vice Chairman of the SMART Sustainable Building Product Committee (Washington, DC), served on the Maplewood-Richmond Heights School District Sustainable Futures Committee, serves on the Maplewood, MO Sustainability Commission, is 2019 Co-chair and Chair-elect of the AIA Materials Knowledge Working Group, a member of the AIA Sustainable Leadership Group and is a frequent mentor, juror, panelist and lecturer for architectural and sustainability courses. He served on Missouri Governor Jay Nixon’s Home Building and Residential Energy Efficiency Panel in 2009, served as an Advisor on the State of Missouri MDNR-Department of Energy Missouri Energy Stakeholder Process in 2011, was a peer reviewer for the Public School District’s Adherence to Guidelines For Environmentally Sound Practices in 2010 and the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s Missouri’s Energy Efficiency Potential: Opportunities for Economic Growth and Energy Sustainability in 2011, and worked with State Legislators to establish the Missouri Green Schools Legislative Caucus in 2009.
Ralph is an ardent champion and advocate for transformative green building at local, state and federal levels. He has served and continues to serve on several boards and committees dedicated to widespread sustainability, has participated in several publications and is a frequent mentor, juror and panelist for students at K-12 schools, universities and colleges and frequently lectures on numerous facets of green building.
Show Highlights
- Benefits and support of various trade organizations.
- Volunteering tips to transform sustainability and your career.
- Sneak peek into the AIA and Mindful Materials presentation at the AIA Chicago Conference.
- Ralph reflects on some pioneering projects and tackling earlier energy crises.
- Ames Sustainability action plan is a model for others to follow.
- AIA’s resources and action committee to “Propel the bell” for practitioners to adopt sustainability.
- Materials
- Equity
- Climate action
- Framework for design excellence
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Ten principles
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Choosing less harmful products to protect “fence line” communities and people within buildings.
- Climate Action Equity for a holistic approach and material selection pledge.
- EC3 tool and common materials framework to select carbon content products and lifecycle analysis.
- Ralph's vision of where buildings, regenerative design, and materials will go using nature as a model.
“A huge driving factor is that we really need to be addressing climate action through design. It has to do with operational energy, embodied carbon, and equity. We have to do a better job of making designs more equitable…”
-Ralph Bicknese
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Ralph Bicknese’s Show Resource and Information + Linkedin + Tyson Research Center - Washington University in St. Louis + Climate Action Plan | City of Ames, IA + AIA + National Geographic + Scientific American Magazine + The New Yorker
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Centennial
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Hawaii
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Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands
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Chesapeake
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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Dennis Stinson is the Vice President of Sales for Fujitsu General America, a global manufacturer with distributors in local communities across the United States, Canada and the Caribbean and he brings over 30 years of industry experience.
Dennis leads a team of sales professionals, selling well over $300M of Fujitsu products. At Fujitsu, Dennis has held the responsibilities of Regional Sales Manager in the Mid-Atlantic and The Director of National Accounts. Prior to joining Fujitsu, Dennis spent his career as a Manufacturer’s Representative representing various Manufacturer’s in the HVAC industry throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. Dennis earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Millersville University of Pennsylvania. Show Highlights
- Paybacks that bring emotion and economics into mandates.
- A look back on Dennis’ sales career.
- The growth and momentum in the HVAC market.
- Resources and websites to assist with common sense and compliance.
- Managing changes to efficiency ratings for HVAC equipment in different regions.
- A glance at refrigerants 123, 134 and the impact of the 2015 mandates in equipment for specific industries.
- Challenge between energy efficiency, giving more control to occupants, and more comfort overall.
- Hybrid workspaces
- Balancing Temperature vs Wallet Comfort
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Zoning for Comfort
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The mindset shifts from (normal) sales to consultative sales.
- The three motivators of sustainability.
“When you take a look at a business opportunity or a proposal for a project, you don't have to have the best solution. You're never always going to have the best solution. You have to have a reasonable solution that everybody involved can stick their thumbs up and say, ‘Yeah, that makes sense for me, my company, my people, and my client.’”
-Dennis Stinson
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Dennis Stinson’s Show Resource and Information * LinkedIn * The Ride of a Lifetime: Disney CEO * Outliers * Patrick M. Lencioni * The Ideal Team Player * Death by Meeting * The Blue Ocean Strategy book
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John Powers is an entrepreneur with broad experience leading software and consulting firms, extensive direct experience with startup, growth, financing, and operation of successful companies. He’s a mentor for Bay Area startups in the intelligent energy economy.
An energy expert with three decades experience working with the world's leading utilities, as well as their customers and suppliers - about half that time as a consultant, and half as a software entrepreneur. Unlike most people in electricity markets, he’s comfortable working on both the customer and utility sides of the meter. He led Energy Interactive from founding to funding to exit, and served as Director of Retail Software at ABB. He’s the founder and co-chair of the PLMA Distributed Energy Resource Integration interest group; they organize bi-annual workshops for utilities and industry leaders in this growing field.
He has authored over 100 papers and reports on energy efficiency, demand response, DER integration, resource planning, load forecasting, renewable energy, rate design, transmission markets, dispatch modeling (including economic and carbon-minimizing dispatch), and more. He’s spoken at more than 100 industry events on topics from metering and billing to transmission market manipulation.
Specialties:
CEO with proven leadership, management, analysis, and execution expertise. Deep expertise in energy markets, including energy efficiency, demand response, renewables, rate design, transmission markets, demand-side program design and evaluation, metering and billing. Strong marketing, sales, and business development experience.
Specific skills include:
Team building, company strategy, market strategy and tactics, grid computing, economic and statistical analysis, project management, contract negotiation, expert testimony.
Show Highlights * John uses his expertise in energy and utilities to explain the difference between demand, consumption, KW and kilowatt hours * Extensible Energy’s 4 Cs of Carbon and the importance of how renewables factor with clients. * nto the more purpose driven climate, the and green buildings world * Help sorting the difference between croptec, cleantech, climate tech. * Tips on how to clean up the grid and electrify everything. * Operating steps inside the building to minimize cost and carbon footprint to keep you in control and sustainable. * Why do you have to make the load side of the grid more flexible? * The first priority of utilities for their customers.
“Energy is quite cheap. Reliability is expensive. Reliability requires building a lot of infrastructure, some of it redundant, and has very little to do with the expense of producing the power and every bit to do with the expense of keeping it reliable.”
-John Powers
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John Power’s Show Resource and Information * Amory Lovins - RMI * The Checklist Manifesto * The Right Kind of Crazy * The Energy Gang - Greentech Media * Extensible Energy * LinkedIn
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On May 5th, 2022, I was in Munich, Germany as part of GBCI Europe’s Circle Conference (a LEED reunion). I was fortunate to go LIVE on stage and interview Peter Templeton the President and CEO at U.S. Green Building Council/Green Business Certification Inc (GBCI). Then, we go into a great Q&A with the audience. LINKS * https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-templeton/ * https://www.usgbc.org/ * https://gbci.org/ * https://www.gbci.org/europe
Paola graduated in 2001 in Architecture at the IUAV University of Venice; she’s been a member of the Trento Architects Order with n. 1037 since 2002 and in 2003 she received the qualification of Spanish Architect.
She has been involved in sustainability since 2007 and in 2012 founded Macro Design Studio, of which she’s CEO and Technical Director.
In 2014 she led to certification as LEED AP BD+C the first building in Italy according to the LEED for Retail 2009 Gold level protocol; in 2015 resulted in certification as LEED AP ID+C the first building in Europe according to LEED v4 ID+C for Retail protocol; in 2018 as LEED AP BD+C the first building in Italy according to LEED v4 BD+C protocol: NC Gold level and again in 2020 – as LEED for Homes Green Rater – certifies the first LEED BD+C project: Multifamily Midrise v4 in Europe, Platinum level.
Show Highlights * Paola shares how to determine what green building rating system to use on a project. * Green buildings in Europe and Northern Italy. * The importance of making the regenerative approach and regenerative design more popular. * Macro Design Studio * Promoting women in green building. * Variety of programs and projects * Tips on how to best communicate with clients. * Why networking, collaborating, and education is vital to your career?
“My hope is that this is the moment for Living & Regenerative Buildings, because this is the way we will finally have a building with a positive environmental impact.”
-Paola Moschini
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Paola Moschini’s Show Resource and Information * LinkedIn * Macro Design Studio
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Daniel Overbey, AIA, LEED Fellow, WELL AP, EcoDistricts AP, Fitwel Ambassador, is the Director of Sustainability for Browning Day in Indianapolis and an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Ball State University's R. Wayne Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning. His work focuses on high-performance building design and construction, environmental systems research, LEED and WELL-related services, energy modeling, resilient design, and evidence-based design.
Current Affiliations:
- American Institute of Architects (AIA) – Indiana Chapter
- American Solar Energy Society (ASES)
- International Living Future Institute (ILFI)
- Society of Building Science Educators (SBSE)
- U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) – Indiana Chapter
Show Highlights
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The value of being active in AIA and your local USGBC chapter.
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Effective ways to see change through advocacy and education.
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Solar Decathlon, pedagogical framework fused into an architectural studio.
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Debunking rumors surrounding LEED.
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A peek into Indiana, LEED platinum projects and the challenges in building in a four season region.
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Issues related to renewable energy and the economic payback of that.
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Why we are against the clock on embodied carbon.
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The need to invest in existing building stock and the rate of change.
“If you have an opportunity to try to blaze a new trail and try to do something that no one's done before, you should try to do that. That means something when you can show others what's possible. Show that pathway. Anytime you have an opportunity to try to set a new bar somewhere, go after it and try to do it as best you can.”
-Daniel Overbey
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Daniel Overbey’s Resources & Contact Info: * Healthy Buildings * How Buildings Learn * Cradle to Cradle * The Anthropocene Reviewed * Post Corona * The Shape of Green * Future of the Professions, * LinkedIn * Twitter
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Ray Segars, C.E.M, is passionate about helping businesses become efficient, renewable, resilient and sustainable. He joined the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) staff in April 2021. Ray is responsible for developing strategies, activities, and identifying growth opportunities for AEE throughout the United States with new and existing partners. He has extensive energy efficiency and business development experience in his 30+ year career in the industry. He served as Chapter President for the local AEE Georgia Chapter, AEE Region II Vice President, earned his C.E.M. in 2010, and was designated an AEE Fellow in 2020. Ray has a BS in Industrial Management from GA Tech and a MS in Marketing and MBA both from GA State University.
Show Highlights * Unpack why the power company incentivises you to be more efficient. * Utility power companies are complex. * Create a circular economy to avoid wasting resources. * The importance, opportunities, and benefits of The Association of Energy Engineers (AEE). * Understanding the credentials needed to help buildings save energy: * Transportation energy audit certificate, Certified Energy Manager, (CEM), Certified Energy Auditor (CEA) and Certified Measurement and Verification Professional. * Movement with regulation, laws and assessment reporting using tools to respond to benchmarking requirements. * Careers and opportunity for everyone to get involved in green building and sustainability at any age or education. * Pathways to help audit how to lower carbon, your supply chain, and less omitting vehicles with your projects.
“Identify where you are and when you benchmark, like Drucker said, ‘If I can measure it, I can manage it.’ You can measure your energy consumption, your carbon emissions, you can have a good idea of where your opportunities to reduce and improve operations would be, and that's what our programs teach - How do you identify the opportunities there?”
-Ray Segars
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Ray Segars’s Show Resource and Information * Energy Efficiency & Sustainability Experts | AEE® * This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: * Silent Spring * Power Drive * Drawdown * LinkedIn
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Brian Lomel, Managing Principal - TLC Engineering Solutions Director of the PEAK Institute. Brian and his wife have lived in South Florida for 20+ years, dodging hurricanes, gardening, cooking, running and attending Miami Heat and Dolphin games. He is a fuzzy Bee from Georgia Tech, and is a proud cat-dad.
His background includes Director of TLC’s R&D team, the “PEAK Institute”; Florida PE with a Mechanical Engineering Degree; LEED® and WELL® Accredited Professional; Leadership roles in ASHRAE, USGBC, BOMA, GMBHA, AIA and the Construction Executives Association; A member of ULI’s National Building Healthy Places Forum; Past AIA Miami “Engineer of the Year”.
As a principal at TLC, Brian’s 30+ years of consulting engineering practice have been established in the design of high-performance, sustainable, and health focused MEP systems in all building types. These experiences have made him a valuable team member for cost effective, efficient integrated design solutions.
Show Highlights * The rules are reversed when you're designing in regions with different climates. * Effective energy conservation ideas implemented without technology. * Understanding the multiple ways radiation impacts air distribution when selecting products. * Avoid assumptions for uses with water and other site resources. * Involvement of insurance and reinsurance companies in designing green projects. * The “silent motivator” to maintain existing structures to keep buildings from being obsolete. * Brian’s gift of translating technical language to building owners for effective environment and market changes. * A tip that provides an opportunity to get outside the green building industry to make a greater impact within.
“When LEED first came out, I was like: Wow, this program is actually putting a structure through all the things that I think are good: holistic design, the whole energy efficiency cycle, protecting the health & welfare of the people, and protecting the health & welfare of the planet.”
-Brian Lomel
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Brian Lomel’s Show Resource and Information * Healthy Buildings * Faith: * Blowout * Linkedin
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Nitin Govila, is an engineer, entrepreneur, meditation trainer and the Managing Director of the Asia-Pacific-Serge Ferrari - a leader in the flexible composite material sector. His scope of operations covers: Japan, Korea, China, Hongkong, India, ASEAN, Australia-NZ, Middle-East & Africa business areas of Serge Ferrari. Based in Singapore, he is also a family man and is actively involved in Heartfulness activities in SE Asia. Nitin has been a Heartfulness practitioner for almost 20 years and a certified trainer for 16 years.
Show Highlights * The driving factor behind the success working in different countries and how businesses work within those countries. * Reflecting on the evolution and global impact of sustainability programs, regulations, and materials developed for various regions for maximum impact today. * The importance of meditation to activate your gut and inner voice when making life changing decisions. * Asia Pacific - Serge Ferrari, A transversal company and world leader in composite material.
- Systems, structures, materials, technology and recycling you can attach to any manufacturing entity.
- Pro tips on a new and interesting concept unique to the industry.
- A recommendation to challenge the concepts, organizations, operational strategies and who should and shouldn’t be included.
“You need to be courageous enough to question things, to question the processes you have, because sometimes we are so ingrained, as companies, in our own processes.”
-Nitin Govila
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Nitin Govila’s Show Resource and Information * LinkedIn * Heartfulness Meditation - Positive Thought of the Day * Nitin Govila - Heartfulness Magazine * Be Smarter Than Your Problem * Open Strategy
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Fran Dean-Bishop believes the key to developing and maintaining a great workforce strategy is prioritizing the health and wellbeing of those within your company. She helps high growth organizations create sustainable, healthy workplaces and spaces to foster well being, resilience and increased productivity within their employees.
As an award-winning founder and leader of a health and technology-driven organization, Fran’s goal is to help organizations design and execute strategic-integrated wellbeing programs to create thriving cultures & people.
Her expertise includes:
- Strategic Design|Creation of Work life Health & Corporate Wellness Programs
- Digital Health|Fitness|Wellness Content, Resources & LMS Creation
- Optimization of Employee Engagement
- Updating Legacy Health & Wellness Systems
- Management of Health-Wellness Facilities and Systems
- Occupational Health & Safety Programs
- Fostering Workplace Culture from the perspective of Worklife Balance
- Health Program Expert with a focus on Digital Health
Having gained experience as a building stakeholder, Fran possesses a level of knowledge that allows her to provide valuable insights that will support stakeholder development and capacity building within companies.
Clients are CHOs, CHROS, CWO and Business Leaders that want to create a highly profitable and healthy workplace experience.
Using leading skills and extensive understanding of organizational development, we aim to guide companies through highly effective management consulting, digital wellness systems, technical advisory, health data analytics, workforce development, and LMS training programs.
Show Highlights * Prescribing executive wellness programs and training for corporate America. * The three different frames to Aerobodies. * Fran shares what matters most in entrepreneurship. * What employers are looking for to determine how the green industry moves in a different direction? * Tips on how to find your place in a multi-billion dollar industry. * The footprint to support leaders, companies and organizations create a healthy and safe environment for their workforce. * Innovators who disrupted their industries completely. * Resurgence of a hybrid work environment to maintain a work life balance.
“No matter how well you train your body…no matter what you put in your body…if the environment you're in is not healthy and safe, it's all for not. It's really money down the drain.”
-Fran Dean-Bishop
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Fran Dean-Bishop’s Show Resource and Information * The Go-Giver * LinkedIn * Linkedin-Fran Dean-Bishop * Twitter * Facebook * franbishopaerobodies/connect--collaborate
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Steve Bennett has over 30 years of construction experience, predominantly in leadership positions. He specializes in Construction Management and Consulting services, with a niche in the Healthcare, Education, Banking, and Private Industry fields. Additionally, he is a Professor in the Construction Management department at Johnson County Community College.
Show Highlights * Understanding the difference between a general contractor (GC) and a construction manager (CM). * The challenges and resistance of green building in the middle of the U.S. * A true evolution in the green industry. * The manageable process and benefits for the environment and people’s desire to build green. * Benefits of understanding how green organizations work, what they're promoting about sustainability, lifecycle costs, and how to use it in the field. * A course in practical green building practices. * How the current administration's structure plan is going to energize companies and produce.
I tell young professionals to work hard. Good things will happen, really learn. Realize even though you're doing a job in manual construction work or whatever, you're learning.”
- Steve Bennett
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Steve Bennett’s Show Resource and Information * David Baldacci: Books * Paragon Prairie - Greater Des Moines * LinkedIn * Email
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Martha Norbeck (AIA, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP) is founder and president of C-Wise based in Iowa City, Iowa. She founded C-Wise Design and Consulting Services in 2007. Martha is has served as the LEED consultant on over thirty projects around Iowa, assisting with the incorporation of sustainable principles during design and construction.
Recently certified projects include: Single Speed Brewing in Waterloo and Marston Hall at ISU, both LEED-NC v2009 Gold Certified. She has a broad background including; ecology, women's studies, Fulbright research of Swedish Ecovillages, a Master of Architecture, and LEED consultation services.
She has recently served on the Fairfield City Council, the Fairfield Go Green Commission, the board of the Iowa Chapter of the USGBC, and the Heartland Regional Council of the USGBC. She currently is working with Think Bicycles of Johnson County to promote bicycle culture and infrastructure in Johnson County.
Design work focuses on green residential remodeling, with an emphasis on more efficient use of existing space. Projects include a total rehabilitation of her 450 sf, the 110-year-old home which won a design award in the 2010 YLiving Small Spaces contest.
Show Highlights * The “sweet spot” on how to move towards green energy in Mid-America. * Increase opportunity with ADU, accessory dwelling units, in the current market. * Support and concerns for the architectural community and their ability to respond to this crisis. * Ideas on packaging information to advance conversations persuading people to implement green systems. * USGBC’s LEED Advancement Working Group * Tips to refuse the second offer and push to meet in the middle of your green designs. * Martha shares opportunities and insightful projects she is working on.
“We've got a lot of work to do. Your career, your opportunities are unending because there's so much work to do. We have to have more leaders with courage and you could be that person.”
-Martha Norbeck
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Martha Norbeck’s Show Resource and Information * LinkedIn * ABOUT - cwise.com * Drawdown: * Biomimicry:
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Matt Whitbeck hopes to change the future for the building industry by educating trades people, students, the community and clients on air quality, green tech and sustainable building practices.
Whitbeck Construction, LLC is a custom builder in upstate New York's Saratoga Springs. They have a passion to serve their clients with their experience, professionalism and integrity. Their custom homes are built and remodeled with attention to detail, energy efficiency, sustainability and quality craftsmanship.
Whitbeck Construction is also dedicated to educating our community of tradesmen in building science through lectures, workshops and thorough training.
Show Highlights * The cornerstone of how a carpenter's brain works in reference to efficiency. * Ways to repurpose to build a “no scrap house.” * Thermal dynamics and how embodied energy impacts everything we build. * The math and science applied to building cost. * The different techniques and different styles used when working with the oldest houses in the country. * Consider the maintenance of a building when making an investment. * Snapshot of realistic and extreme priced materials in the market. * Adapting homes and the benefits of smart technology. * Communication disconnects causing poor decision-making and poor quality buildings.
“People don't know what they don't know. We want to break that chain of ignorance for a more informed client, a more informed builder, a more informed architect. When we can connect the dots between those three people and really get them all on the same page, we're going to get better buildings (and homes).”
-Matt Whitbeck
Matt Whitbeck’s Show Resource and Information * Larry Haun: Books
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Grant Morgan is the Co-Founder & CEO of R-Zero, a biosafety tech company delivering a higher standard of human health via safer indoor spaces. The company has grown rapidly, jumping to over 100 employees since being founded in 2020.
R-Zero was founded in the early stages of the pandemic by co-founders Ben Boyer, Grant Morgan and Eli Harris after recognizing a unique opportunity to revolutionize the $20B+ infection prevention industry and help businesses increase employee and customer safety.
Prior to founding R-Zero, Grant was an engineer at Abbott, and a VP of Product & Engineering at iCracked, which was acquired by Allstate in 2019.
Show Highlights * Fundamentally change the way people interact with the world. * Grant shares the “dirty secret” nobody knows about entrepreneurship. * Consequences of making buildings more energy efficient. * The reality and need to disrupt archaic industries people don't think can be disrupted. * The origin story and massive professional achievement of R-Zero. * Powerful advice for your career path, becoming an entrepreneur, and making the planet healthier and safer. * Impacts healthy buildings have on human health and productivity, and the economic and financial aspects; fundamentally changing the way we think about keeping humans safe in indoor environments.
“We have one planet, one habitat and we're doing a very good job at destroying it. We have a limited period of time to reverse what we've done. Thank you for being a part of the movement. In order to enact change and improve culture you have to be bold. You have to do something meaningful and impactful. It's going to be hard so buckle up!”
-Grant Morgan
Grant Morgan Transcript Grant Morgan’s Show Resource and Information * Deep Work: R * High output management * Amp It Up * Sapiens * Featured SxSW Session: Public Health - March 15 * LinkedIn * R-Zero: Home
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Michael Driedger, while standing in a dumpster full of drywall in 1996 (drywall he had installed in 1995), had an epiphany. We couldn't have survived as a species for 60 or so thousand years if we always behaved this way. Using his archeology degree to discover how we used to build and behave, Michael has given his life to the search for ways to bring back ancient construction wisdom while leveraging modern technologies.
Having worked in the construction, design and green building research sectors since 2005, Michael has found many answers to the questions he began asking in 1996. With years of diverse experiences from which to draw, he now works with others to guide their own searches for ways to build better buildings, better businesses, and better lives.
Show Highlights
- Sustainability and energy modeling without bias interference.
- Sustainability's real problems are integration problems.
- Setting back the thermostat in hotels and other buildings snowballs energy savings.
- Why is air infiltration the biggest enemy?
- Simple and sustainable building ideas.
- LEED is environmental accounting, but LEED’s scorecard is heavily weighted.
- Real-time indoor air quality IT devices now allow direct connection to multiple devices in a specific space.
- Benefits of Airsset, to assist with solutions, compliance reports and selecting the best rating systems.
- Build your strategy on specifics, instead of vagueness, when making plans for adequate air quality in buildings.
Key Quote
“The only way you can make positive changes is with lots of different people, with lots of different skill sets.”
-Michael Driedger
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Michael Driedger’s Show Resource and Information
- Airsset: Air Quality Monitoring Systems & Software
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Welcome to the New Year! New you!, Wellness At Home Series, where we focus on well-being here at GBES.
How are you at unplugging from work, making time to think, or sticking to a morning routine? Do you consider yourself an expert, or could you use a brush-up? Join us for our New Year, New You Webinar, and get ready to have a great 2022. This webinar is presented by Green Building Education Services (GBES), the leading provider of online LEED Green Associate, LEED AP, and WELL AP exam preparation solutions and services.
On this webinar, we have Susan Frese - Marketing Director of GBES and Amy D'Angelo, WELL AP - Director of ESG at Sustainable Investment Group (SIG).
What you will take away: * Why is it essential to unplug from work? * How can you make time to think? * How can you make a morning routine sustainable?
Show Highlights * Easy strategies to challenge the way you think about your day.
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Dangers of not unplugging and having inconsistent routines.
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Mental health programs and initiatives.
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WELL and Fitwel, mental health initiatives and standards.
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Design strategies at home to significantly improve wellness, productivity and reduce stress.
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Make time to think in a distracted world.
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Simple habits, “sit in gratitude” for sustainable morning routines.
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Four common concerns shape our behavior and health.
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See your value.
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Mental health cost to our global economy due to lost productivity.
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Wellness At Home webinars connect to the healthy building initiative.
“Unplugging is the emotional reboot that we all need to be more effective and more efficient. Build a habit of unplugging and it becomes much easier to choose to do that.”
-Amy D’Angelo
GBES Special: New Year! New You! Transcript New year! New You! Show Resource and Information * Sustainable Green Spaces: Home * Atomic Habits * LinkedIn * New Year! New You!
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As Principal and Director of Sustainability at Perkins&Will Vancouver, Kathy directs the office’s research and sustainable design advisory team. Kathy joined the firm in 2002 with a strong commitment to sustainable design and construction, and has considerable experience working on LEED and Living Building Challenge projects. On a firm wide level, Kathy helped author, implement and direct Perkins&Will’s Sustainable Design Initiative. She regularly speaks and writes about sustainable design and healthy materials, and has authored several articles on healthy building materials and transparency. Kathy is a past-chair of the Cascadia Green Building Council.
Show Highlights * Degrees that support reducing impact on the built environment
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How do we work with industry to think about different green business practices?
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Market barriers to reusing materials in new construction.
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Unique opportunity to empower a sustainable sustainability corporate strategy to connect essential knowledge with the entire organization.
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Perkins&Will’s Living Design Initiative addresses issues with clients, staff and what the world is facing.
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Perkins&Will will future proof their company by identifying strategic opportunities.
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Elevate up and look at bigger strategy issues affecting our industry and the impact we have on climate climate change.
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Help clients navigate the best tool to select for a project, occupants, and stakeholders to justify third party validation value.
“It pays to persevere and to stick to your values and what you're passionate about. When times are tough, we're in tough times right now during a pandemic, but stick to your values and things will work out”
-Kathy Wardle
Kathy Wardle Transcript Kathy Wardle’s Show Resource and Information * LinkedIn * Atomic Habits * A Gentleman in Moscow * Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen * Perkins&Will
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As Manager of Special Programs for the innovation team at Blue Ocean Sustainability, Danielle performs research and analysis to help develop software and technology to improve sustainability within the built environment. Her focus is on developing new resources for SIG’s [green building consulting sister company] consultant teams as well as cultivating new opportunities to better support green building clients in meeting their sustainability initiatives.
Education Danielle originally planned to pursue a career in Architecture, earning a B.A. in Art and Architectural History from Columbia University in 2008. After a year of working in the field, however, she changed course and went back to school for engineering, earning a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland in 2013. She has been a LEED Green Associate since 2015.
Experience Danielle has a diverse background that blends architecture, education, engineering, and consulting. After spending a year at a New York architecture firm, she taught math and science to middle and high school students while simultaneously earning her engineering degree. She then joined an energy efficiency consulting team where she worked with commercial utilities; state, local, and international governments; private sector clients; and most notably, the federal government. Before joining SIG, Danielle spent most of her time on the U.S. EPA’s ENERGY STAR Commercial Buildings team, helping to develop the 1-100 ENERGY STAR scores for commercial buildings and leading the ENERGY STAR certification review team.
Interests Danielle enjoys traveling as much as she can, especially when her trips can incorporate hiking, food, wine, or scuba diving. When at home, she enjoys cooking, reading, and binging TV shows. She lives in northern Virginia with her husband.
Show Highlights * Balancing ethics and sustainable implications for the industry * Blue Ocean Sustainability’s innovations for green buildings. * Cloud-based software to help with measuring the shift to embodied carbon on construction sites. * 1. Energy Star Portfolio Manager experience that led to scoring in our new tool: True Carbon * Rating Systems and Certifications from various agencies for health and safety efforts. * An inevitable change in intensity for mitigating climate change. * A peek into evaluating companies you want to do business with to be a responsible consumer. * How do buildings really tie into climate change and the responsibility we have to fix this.
“One thing I’m really proud of is making the pivot from my original plan of Architecture into Engineering and then more specifically into Sustainability…in your career you have time to change, you can pivot.”
-Danielle Wilmot
Danielle Wilmot Transcript Danielle Wilmot’s Show Resource and Information * The Feather Thief * Linkedin * Blue Ocean Sustainability * Aetos Imaging * Sustainable Investment Group (SIG)
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Gautami Palanki, currently serves as VP, Sustainability at The Howard Hughes Corporation, where she leads sustainability strategy, advancing their commitment to innovative placemaking, design excellence, and operational high performance. For more than a decade, Gautami worked in both private and non-profit environments, where she led architectural design projects, technology implementation, deploying global sustainability standards and technical programs. Passionate about community-based climate action, Gautami has given keynote talks and led workshops for audiences in more than 20 countries and serves on the boards of mission-driven organizations. Gautami holds a B. Arch from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, and M.S. in Sustainable Design from Carnegie Mellon University. She is a Licensed Architect and LEED Fellow.
Show Highlights * The intersection of science and art in architecture. * Bioclimatic design and vernacular in architecture. * Apply LEED and LEED For Cities in new, advanced and creative ways. * Accelerate the path of architectural design in green building design and certification. * How can architecture ‘look forward’ using data and technology? * Arc platform and why all buildings should use it. * Howard Hughes’ work in creating ecosystems with master-planned communities. * Taking problem/solution driven toolsets and applying them towards ESG principles.
“I'm really proud of the fact that I have a tribe of people like you and everyone who's listening on the call, whom I can rely on and exchange very candid notes and say ‘Hey, challenge here. What did you do in a similar situation?’ For any green building professional having that network, of a very transparent conversation, is key. I'm very glad to have that peer group.”
-Gautami Palanki
Gautami Palanki Transcript Gautami Palanki’s Show Resource and Information * Linkedin * Twitter * Sustainability - Howard Hughes Corporation
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Jason Packer, president of Recollective Consulting has been named a 2021 LEED Fellow by Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI). Jason is among 21 professionals from around the world who represent exceptional practitioners and leaders within the green building community and have demonstrated mastery of the technical application of LEED, the world’s most widely used green building rating system.
Beginning with starting a green renovation business and leading to roles as an educator and consultant, Jason has over twenty years of experience in the building design and construction industry. In addition to Passive House, Living Building Challenge, and Zero Carbon projects, Jason has been responsible for over 35 LEED certifications and participated in over 35 more.
Jason is known for his tireless work with clients, colleagues, and industry members to uphold the highest green building standards. Recollective is proud of all the work that he has done over the years to achieve the prestigious LEED Fellow.
Show Highlights * A program that is planting seeds in the industry. * B Corp recipe for how to do things better and to account for those things. * Recollective’s company culture to divide tasks to increase experience. * Unpacking “sound bite culture” to drive the direction green building must go. * Happy Homes toolkit, allows on site critical connections in concrete fashion. * Join the “revolution” to live in a manner that sustains us without impairing future generations. * Tips on how to look through a lens from 10,000 feet to see what's needed on projects. * Critical relationships and connections you need to make in your career. * 1. Build events | Habitat for Humanity 2. Sustainable Energy Association
“If I asked you, how's your relationship with your romantic partner going? How's your family? and you said ‘Things are sustainable.’ That's hardly a ringing endorsement. It should be far more than sustainable, it should be fun, it should be regenerative, it should be forward thinking and we have a long, long way to go here [within the green building movement].”
-Jason Packer
Jason Packer Transcript Jason Packer’s Show Resource and Information * LinkedIn * Happy Homes: A toolkit * Tom Robbins: Books * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest * A Good War * Recollective Consulting: Home
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Balaji Sreenivasan is the founder, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and board member at Aurigo Software Technologies based in Austin, TX. Balaji has played a critical role in shaping Aurigo over the last 18 years to be a modern enterprise cloud software business that is helping (construction) infrastructure owners plan and build over $300 billion of capital projects more efficiently.
Balaji spends his time on product strategy, customer delight, and enabling the amazing people at Aurigo to be their best. He is an alumnus of the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Trichy, and the University of Florida, Gainesville.
Aurigo has helped plan and deliver over 40,000 projects across North America. Their customers include eight US DOTs, the Ministry of Transportation, Ontario, and several large agencies, including Cities of Seattle, Houston, and Las Vegas, and the Dallas Area Rapid Transit, to name a few.
Aurigo is North America's #1 provider of Enterprise Cloud Software that helps Infrastructure owners plan and build smarter so they can build better.
Their mission is to digitally transform the way capital infrastructure, such as roads, highways, sea ports, airports, water authorities and light rail transits are planned and delivered in North America. They have a leading portfolio of software subscription offerings with over $100M bookings.
Show Highlights * Aurigo, a cloud based enterprise focused on infrastructure and the construction lifecycle from an owner's perspective. * Combination of business opportunity and core skills to benefit infrastructure. * What drove Balaji to fill gaps in this industry? * Entrepreneurship tips on building a network, finding mentors, and later angel investors. * A platform to deliver funded projects across the US. * Infrastructure and resiliency and so much more? * Native mobile apps that harness data across the entire construction lifecycle to make better decisions at every stage. * Project Sentiment Analysis from conceptual design to ribbon cutting.
“Everyone out there, if they're not thinking of sustainability, thinking about how to have an infrastructure asset that can protect the environment and not harm it…they're not thinking of building a better tomorrow. They may not be asking themselves: how do I build a better tomorrow? You build a better tomorrow by planning with confidence; you build with quality and you maintain with efficiency.”
-Balaji Sreenivasan
Balaji Sreenivasan Transcript Balaji Sreenivasan’s Show Resource and Information * LinkedIn * Aurigo Software Technologies * Books | Bill Gates * Klara and the Sun:
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Show Highlights * Reflection questions to create professional and personal goals to direct your year. * Questions to consider and tips for effective communication. * Planning tips to move from ideas to execution. * How to bring Intention to 2022. * Sometimes avoid lagging indicators when setting goals. * Time vs Attention * 1. Episodes 9 or 200 will help establish habits 2. Episode 152 how to build a company tips * Call to Action to help the GBM Podcast * Credentials and Education in 2022 to expand your skillset.
Show Resource and Information * Atomic Habits
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Episode 9: Alyson Laura interviews Charlie Cichetti
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Episode 152 : How I Built This | Charlie Cichetti & Drew Shula Talk Green Building Entrepreneurship
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Sharon Patterson Grant, LEED AP BD+C and Homes, has been providing green building consulting and education since 2006. She has consulted on over 100 LEED homes, neighborhoods and commercial buildings across the Pacific Northwest, and has developed and taught numerous LEED workshops. She has also consulted on dozens of projects to reduce energy use in buildings and green organizations, including the largest commercial property management firms in Idaho.
Recently, Sharon has taken her expertise and gone all in on ESG (and Corporate Sustainability) with RE Tech Advisors. Sharon has specialized in energy codes, primarily through her work with the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, Bonneville Power Administration and Office of Energy Resources to provide education, co-facilitate a statewide collaborative, perform cost analysis and conduct a statewide market assessment. She also worked on a white paper for PNNL on incorporating orientation into codes. The scope of projects expanded to providing strategic energy management for commercial property owners, cities and school districts. Cities have included Boise, Tacoma, Missoula, Eugene, Providence and Grand Rapids.
For the USGBC, Sharon was chair and vice chair of the Idaho Chapter for 4 years,and currently sits on the West Regional Council and is national co-chair for the Build Better Codes campaign. Her other board positions include GreenWorks, Northwest Integrity Housing Company and Idaho Smart Growth. As a Certified Sustainable Building Advisor and a Healthy Homes Specialist, Sharon has taught at BSU and Maui Community College and presented at conferences such as Region 10 EPA, Sun Valley Sustainability and the National Environmental Health Association. As a Provider and Instructor with ID and WY Real Estate Commissions, she has provided green building classes to hundreds of real estate professionals.
Sharon has degrees in Ecological Design and Business. Her work received Idaho Grow Smart Awards in 2008, 2009 and 2011 and a Better Bricks Award in 2010. She is a published author on green building topics and was host of “Building a Greener Idaho,” a weekly radio show on Radio Boise.
Show Highlights * Benefits of a broad theoretical based ecological design degree. * Calculated leaps, travel, and trying different things will shape your career path. * Meaningful impact with affordable housing to educate operational costing and provide training to residents. * Green design provides solutions to the drain on our health care system. * Whole Neighborhood LEED Platinum project that promotes the value for the environment and educates people to support. * Different ways to provide education to trades to encourage respectful relationships that promote the green building process. * Challenges to do renewable energy in a conservative population that doesn’t believe in climate change and has been “blacklisted.” * Sharon shares what she is doing now, which has an impact across the nation. * Practical business approach to climate change.
“It's the most important and critical thing we can do in this day and age. If we don't change the amount of carbon emissions going into our atmosphere we're not going to have a future for our children and my son is eight. I want him to have a future. I want him to experience future generations and I want them to have a prosperous life.”
-Sharon Grant
Sharon Grant Transcript Sharon Grant’s Show Resource and Information * Meadow Ranch LEED ND Homes
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Lisa Tharp, is the founder and principal of Lisa Tharp Design, an international design firm known for its clean-lined artistic blend of the classic with the modern, a hand-crafted custom furniture line, and industry leadership in design practices that support wellness of people and our planet. Lisa Tharp Colors, a curated non-toxic paint collection for ECOS Paints, launched February 2021.
With studio presence in Boston, New York, Montreal and Auckland, Lisa Tharp Design transforms luxury spaces in the city, country and on the water. Beautiful, inventive environments enhance architecture, connect to a sense of place, and reflect and support the personality, lifestyle aspirations and well-being of those who inhabit them.
The firm’s work has been featured by Architectural Digest, ELLE Decor, LUXE, House Beautiful, international publications, books, and by This Old House television productions. Lisa Tharp Design has garnered a number of honors, including successive Bulfinch Awards from the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, EcoHome Award for Tharp’s Concord Green Healthy Home which modeled healthy and sustainable building practices, Luxe Gold List, and Best of Boston by Boston Home magazine. Tharp was inducted into the New England Design Hall of Fame in 2021.
Show Highlights * Know the difference between green design and healthy design.
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Choose healthy products that make sense for both builders and architects.
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Lisa’s partnership with ECOS Paints results in a healthy package of “liquid gold.”
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Offer and educate clients to select choices that are better for their project and cities when they don’t ask.
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Combination of interest in design of old and new methodologies.
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Further expand the green reach with new collaborations focused on passive and self-sustaining small homes.
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How do we rethink cities to make them human friendly, include more public housing, and green space?
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Switch thinking to what is sustainable, what is healthy and what is human centric design.
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Combine the best of historic, traditional building principles with the latest in modern technology.
“Don't just follow a path because it's expected of you or people recommend it to you. You really owe it to yourself to find your jam. If you follow your passion, you will be better aligned with who you are in your work, your mission, and your purpose.”
-Lisa Tharp
Lisa Tharp Transcript Lisa Tharp’s Show Resource and Information * Lisa Tharp Design | LinkedIn * LinkedIn * CONCORD GREEN HEALTHY HOME - Lisa Tharp * Lisa Tharp By ECOS Paints® * Pattern Language
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Brett Little, is the Program Manager at GreenHome Institute (GHI), a nonprofit whose mission is to empower people to make healthier and more sustainable choices in the renovation and construction of the places we live in. At GHI, Brett oversees their education and certification services such as LEED for homes, enterprise green communities, GreenStar Homes Certification, DOE Home Energy Score and Zero Energy Capable Program. He also runs their Weekly Wednesday webinar series, professional education, annual zero energy conference and the Grand Rapids green affordable housing program.
In addition, he helps administer Enterprise Green Communities on Low-income Housing Projects across the midwest region. Brett has his Bachelor's Degree from Aquinas College in the Sustainable Business program and previously served as a USGBC West MI board member (6 years). Brett lives in West Michigan with his wife and two young children - in a home that's seeking zero-energy certification via a renovation in a cost-neutral way to show that anyone can do it.
Show Highlights * How volunteering, the right questions, and Starbuck will open doors and allow you to fail upwards?
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Green Home Institute (GHI) empowers people to make healthier and more sustainable choices.
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Education, training, and awareness on green building practices for new and existing homes.
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Certify homes and multifamily buildings either to LEED standards or Enterprise Green or Southface
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Entice developers build low income housing.
- The Heartland and Middle America is the second hardest place to convince people to support green building.
- Incorporating the five pillars of green energy.
- The bigger conversation about when we're using energy and that it matches when renewables are being produced in our region.
- 24/7 zero carbon for real-time air quality.
- Michigan is the “canary in the coalmine.”
“As we start the transition more to our homes and working from home, this is going to become even more important that we deal with sustainability in our housing.”
- Brett Little
Brett Little Transcript Brett Little’s Show Resource and Information * Dune books series * LinkedIn * Twitter * Greenhomeinstitute.org
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Lois Vitt Sale, a practicing architect for more than 25 years, has a career that goes well beyond the domain of project design. She has been a national leader in the application of green technologies and sustainable planning to the public and private sectors. She is a public policy advisor to elected officials and has participated in the development of policies to lessen the negative impacts of the built environment on the health of people and on our natural resources. Her specialty is found in the intersection between applied technology and the development of policy provisions for City, State, and Federal entities. Internationally, Lois is a Sustainable Designer for Kuwait Gulf Oil Corporation in Kuwait. In addition, Lois applies these technologies and practices to leading edge sustainable designs and consulting to design teams and clients to maximize the environmental potential for projects.
Besides her work as a practicing architect, Lois is an adjunct faculty at Northwestern University where she teaches sustainable construction, LEED Fellow, and LEED Faculty with the U.S. Green Building Council.
Lois’ career has been both driven and distinguished by environmentally sound building practices. Her portfolio consists of more than 70 LEED projects including prominent projects such as the LEED Platinum Hidden Oaks Nature Center and the Bachelor Enlisted Quarters at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center – one of the first LEED certified buildings in the country.
Show Highlights * From Renaissance woman to LEED Fellow, Lois shares key tips and advice for green projects. * Questions to consider to gear up for green building and deliver true sustainable building attributes. * Find “fertile soil” professionally and personally. * The hallmark of Wight & Company, a regional powerhouse. * Positive partnerships between the design team, the construction team, and the real estate team. * Evolution of energy efficiency goals for LEED projects. * Necessary feedback loop to see a building through to occupancy. * Everything the industry needs to do for the next ten years. * The first project in the state of Illinois, that is verified as a net zero building.
“We set practice paradigms. We provide education, always looking at the horizon saying, ‘Is our practice on point? Are we focused in the right direction?’ Every day of my career is a new day. What we do is evolve, learn, and grow. I am proud of the fact that I have a sense of creativity and curiosity that has been able to find "fertile soil" [in green buildings].”
-Lois Vitt Sale
Lois Vitt Sale Transcript Lois Vitt Sale’s Show Resource and Information * Regeneration * Jane Goodall: Books * LinkedIn * Lois Vitt Sale | Wight & Company
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Show Highlights * Our host, Charlie Cichetti, reflects on the GBM Podcast history * Transitions in LEED and WELL from 2018-2021 for Green and healthy buildings. * Green Building Education Services (GBES.com) for career access and improvement. * Existing Buildings and “Is this a green portfolio or not?” * Why are we in a recession resistant industry? * List of career advice and pro tips notes from 4 years of podcasts. * Listener Connection Podcast Challenge, favor request, and appreciation.
“We can all agree that sustainability is here to stay. The green building programs we get to use are tools that help us all have the right conversation. Talk in the same language.”
- Charlie Cichetti
Charlie Cichetti Transcript Charlie Cichetti’s Show Resource and Information * Green Building Matters Podcast * Book Recommendations
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Patty Lloyd is a driven and Goal Oriented person with a strong work ethic. Focused on healthy, high performing projects and pushing the construction industry forward.
Patricia Lloyd is a project coordinator and sustainability advocate with more than 18 years of experience in the construction industry, along with 15+ years of experience coordinating sustainable projects. As a construction professional fluent in sustainability, she provides direction to owners, colleagues, and subcontractors in planning, coordinating, and executing LEED project criteria. She regularly creates LEED scorecards and sustainability plans for Leopardo’s projects seeking LEED certification and excels at exceeding sustainability goals set during the planning phase of a project.
As co-chair of Leopardo’s Total Quality management Sustainability Committee, Patricia works to continually improve sustainability practices and education within the company and on their projects.
She is active in the green building community locally, and nationally. She recently ended a 5 year term on the Board of Directors of Illinois Green Alliance, a U.S. Green Building Council Chapter in which she served as an officer in the following roles: Governance Chair, Secretary, Vice Chair, Board Chair, Ex-Officio Chair.
She currently serves on the steering committee of Building Green's Sustainable Construction Leaders, is on the Illinois Green Alliance Standing Programs Committee, and is the Chicago Ambassador for the International Living Future Institute.
Show Highlights * USGBC Technical Advisory Groups (TAG) are really influential within LEED to guide future iterations and exceptions of LEED. * The trifecta of renewable energies. * ESG is a launch pad and a motivator for firms to engage in meaningful work. * Seeing the positive environmental impacts of green buildings. * Good options on building healthy buildings you should read up on. * Finding the “sustainability sweet spot” for your company. * ESG in AEC is taking the world by storm. * Why do existing buildings have a huge piece to play in the future?
“Don't be afraid to fail. There are so many doors that opened for me because I was willing to throw my hat in the ring, several of which I didn't even think I was remotely qualified for, but clearly at the end of the day, I was. Don't be afraid to fail, throw your hat in the ring, see what's out there.”
-Patty Lloyd
Patty Lloyd Transcript Patty Lloyd’s Show Resource and Information * Linkedin * Leopardo Companies * Tribe of Mentors
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Sarah Gudeman strives to learn and do more, to go above and beyond expectations, develop innovative project-specific solutions, and think outside the box.
Her interest and passion for nature and the environment began in early childhood, providing a logical bridge to the specialties of sustainable design, energy efficiency, health and wellness. She is highly motivated to improve the indoor environments in which we work, learn, play and live - bringing the ideals of the green building movement into close correlation with practical, cost-effective solutions to achieve the highest levels of client, owner, and occupant satisfaction with specific focus on strategies to improve health and wellness for people.
She enjoys engineering at its core: solving problems with creativity, calculations, research and imagination. These opportunities present themselves daily in both new and existing buildings.
These are the same reasons I enjoy the work I do - no two buildings are alike. Each new project provides unique opportunities for all those involved from concept through design, construction and commissioning, indoor environmental performance testing, to ongoing measurement & verification. Each day brings a new challenge.
Show Highlights * Sarah discusses designing for both extremes in a 5a climate zone. * The urgency of designing buildings for scientists in the world. * The push for Passive House projects. * Wellness focused ratings, certifications, and performance programs. * Understand ongoing performance of buildings at different levels of * 1. air quality. 2. lifecycle cost interest. 3. energy and paybacks. * Complication and areas of need with ongoing operations/facilities management. * Future-proofing buildings and spaces beyond the physicality of them. * Climate scenarios and designing requires resiliency.
“Focusing on getting answers to questions or finding the people that have answers that you can learn from and getting those mentors in place is so important. Find opportunities to never stop learning. If there's ever a day that I'm not learning something new, that would be a failure.”
- Sarah Gudeman
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Sarah Gudeman’s Show Resource and Information * Morrissey Engineering * LinkedIn * Twitter * Instagram * The Book with No Pictures * The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building: Redefining the Practice of Sustainability * The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue * You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism * Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values * The Great Alone * Saga, Vol. 1-8
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Jessye Vitier has always been passionate about nature and the environment. Growing up in an urban farm really made her appreciate Earth and what it has to offer.
As a humanitarian, she truly wants to help save the planet that offers us so many things such as the food we eat, the air we breathe, and so much more. Educating people on sustainability, reducing carbon footprint, and conservation are her main interests. While working at Sustainable Investment Group (SIG) as a rising star, she has truly stirred up a passion for making buildings better for not only the environment but for the occupants in it as well.
Show Highlights * Sustainable systems to create a symbiotic relationship with nature. * Fitwel and healthy building projects, operations & maintenance, and amenities around some of Jessye’s projects. * Increasing SITES project opportunities. * Great tips on how to stay motivated in college and as a young professional. * How to connect your passion to resources when getting started in green buildings. * Questions to consider when shaping your career path.
“It's really important to have the foundation of the passion of not giving up and going out and doing the work, finding people that are like-minded and finding internships or volunteering, literally anything you can get your hands on to really see if that is something that you truly desire and want to do.”
-Jessye Vitier
Jessye Vitier Transcript Jessye Vitier’s Show Resource and Information * Sustainable Investment Group * The Alchemist * LinkedIn * Twitter * Instagram
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Tim Montague is a solar PV and battery storage executive, podcast host, speaker, trainer and consultant. Renewable energy and green building leader with a passion for the energy transition. He helps developers and business owners build projects that return a handsome ROI. Rooftop, ground mount, carport, and utility-scale solar is coming to Illinois. Continental Energy Solution is the largest commercial & industrial solar installer & EPC in IL with over 100 projects and 60 MW installed. They are known for quality & innovation on every job since 1912. Portfolio includes: 3.5 MW Magid Glove in Romeoville IL & 2.9 MW IKEA Joliet IL.
-Commercial-industrial and utility scale solar development/construction.
-Energy and incentive modeling for system owners.
-Podcast host: Solar Podcast | Clean Power Hour CESnrg.com/podcast.
-Solar design, engineering, procurement and construction (EPC).
Show Highlights * A massive growth and economic opportunity for solar. * Understanding our very brittle economy and society. * Think in terms of thousands of years. * The built environment’s responsibility and contribution to the natural ecosystem. * The turning point and crossroads to lean into to make the transition to a sustainable future. * The economics behind solar as the fastest growing source of new energy on the grid globally. * The importance of having solar storage and microgrids. * All things solar, benefits, organizations, and programs. * The growing news around green hydrogen.
“We need to make the economy serve humanity as much as humanity serves the economy.”
-Tim Montague
Tim Montague Transcript Tim Montague’s Show Resource and Information * Doral Renewables breaks ground on Mammoth Solar * Clean Power Hour | Podcasts on Audible * Clean Power Hour * Elon Musk will give away $100 million in XPrize * Linkedin * Mastery * Clean Disruption
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Blake Jackson is a licensed architect (RI) with over 18 years of industry experience in various roles, having obtained a B-Arch from Kennesaw State University (2005) and an M-Arch in Sustainable Environmental Design from the AA Graduate School in London (2008).
He is an Associate and the US Northeast Sustainability Design Leader with Stantec, a global built environment practice, working out of Boston, MA. His focus is on the nexus between sustainability, well-being and resiliency, serving as a company-wide resource, particularly with projects seeking third-party certifications.
He’s active within the northeast regional design community, including being a past board member of A Better City, as former co-chair of the BSA COTE, as a former BSA VP of Advocacy, and as an adjunct faculty at both the Boston Architectural College and Mount Ida College (now UMass Dartmouth). In 2015 He was honored as one of BD+C Magazine's "40 Under 40" Class.
Show Highlights * Leapfrog US sustainability academic options and experience. * Unique approach to becoming an architectural entrepreneur. * Stantec - sustainable design leader. * Create “Yes” opportunities to open doors. * Adaptive Reuse Projects break from traditional and typical. * Components every architect student should be exposed to. * Green bonds for LEED certification to push multi-family building. * The trends of operational carbon and embodied carbon and materials. * The challenge for healthy buildings and the rating systems that support them. * Blake’s (suggested) PhD project to close loopholes that threaten green building.
“Saying 'yes' to opportunities opens up doors for things that you couldn't possibly anticipate. I think that habit of saying 'yes' to opportunities, whether I know why they presented themselves or not, has been a bit of a superpower.”
-Blake Jackson
Blake Jackson Transcript Blake Jackson’s Show Resource and Information * Atlas Shrugged * Linkedin
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Aaron Rask Codden is a highly motivated, sustainability-focused architect, interior designer, and associate instructor in Salt Lake City. In addition, he is also an experienced graphic designer and highly skilled in brand development + management and standard templates.
Show Highlights * Be an advocate for the client and a steward for the environment. * New architects will be champions for mental health and WELL. * The 3 category rating systems impacting build in the Utah region. * Educational Tips for Gen Z and Millenials entering and maneuvering green buildings. * Cast a huge net and make informed decisions when searching for a job or making a career change. * Bring different ideas and concepts to certain building types.
“I think we'll see more of a shift towards the WELL AP and maybe even some other movements. Ideas that relate more to impact on mental health and how we can really cater to that new generation and the individuals.”
-Aaron Rask Codden
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Grant Peters certainly fits the bill. The Partner and Manager of Green Building Services at Fluent Group Consulting Engineers has provided valuable technical guidance serving for a decade on the CaGBC Sites and Water Technical Advisory Group (TAG) including a four-year term as Chair of the TAG and representing the TAG on the LEED Canada Steering Committee.
Grant was also among a group of 25 individuals from around the world to be named a LEED Fellow – and the only Canadian on this year’s list. LEED Fellows are nominated by their peers and must have made at least 10 years’ worth of exceptional impact on LEED and hold an active LEED AP with specialty credentials, among other requirements.
Show Highlights * The importance of how to balance 3 different new construction rating systems for the client and project. * Moves Canada made to fit their market, climate and energy needs to create relevant energy standards and construction practices. * Fluent stays at the leading edge of the green building curve. * Canada’s push with energy, carbon performance and healthy building on municipal facilities and other builds to meet the time. * Developing projects with purpose and not just point chasing. * Drive the sustainable needle forward with policies in your local area. * Get involved with your community as a “municipal decision maker” to drive the sustainability world. * Create a mutual respect with design engineers and the architects. * The need to prioritize the envelope.
“Being focused more on the energy side, we're going to have to strike that balance between providing an abundance of fresh air and really heavy filtration that increases fan power and all these things that could have harmed the energy performance in the interest of health. Some of the green building aspects become a bit so conflicting in that way.”
-Grant Peters
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Grant Peters’ Show Resource and Information * The Comfort Crisis * LinkedIn * Twitter
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Stephen Brown is at IWBI and supports the WELL building standard. He has an opportunity to share unique strategies to improve health and wellbeing at scale. WELL helps provide 100% participation in a passive delivery system of preventative health & wellbeing intentions through real estate.
In his free time he enjoys hiking with my family, watching my daughter perform on stage and traveling internationally. He is always seeking ways to incorporate wellness into his daily life while connecting like-minded people and ideas through LinkedIn.
Show Highlights * Why the WELL Portfolio Program is a perfect fit for everything? * Tying what happened in the marketplace with the world of WELL. * ESG requirements that will spread globally. * Resources to convince your clients and stakeholders this is the right path. * Snapshot of the ecosystem of the reporting world. * COVID’s impact to the WELL growth spike and future of green building. * 10 new concepts to prepare for the switch to version 2. * The top two ESG strategies right now. * Complimenting and not competing with other green certifications to minimize workload. * Policies and protocols to use as stepping stones for long, short term or A LA Carte portions of the WELL portfolio. * Understanding how to bridge LEED to WELL.
“In today's world, investing in the health of your people has never been more critical. The pandemic accelerated the world's understanding of what we always knew to be true, that it's not just an imperative for organizations to prioritize health, but it's a risk not to do something.”
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Show Resource and Information * WELL Certified | International WELL Building Institute | IWBI * Linkedin * GBES WELL AP Resources
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Greenbuild International Conference and Expo is the in-person experience for sustainability in the built environment. It’s for professionals in architecture, construction, engineering, planning, and interior design who depend on thoughtful and ethical solutions which promote wellness and resiliency in construction and urban development. By participating with Greenbuild, you can return to the field powered by the latest education and discoveries for the built environment.
Sustainability is the foundation of Greenbuild; it impacts all activities, partners, vendors and participants. And its impact is visible from the sessions we present to the products on the show floor to the way the event is produced.
WHAT IS THE GREEN BUILDING MOVEMENT?
The green building movement embraces all of humanity by making sustainable buildings and environments accessible to everyone, and in doing so, to benefit the natural environment all around us. We are helping people understand their role in protecting and preserving the natural environment and leveraging the built environment to:
- improve human health and wellbeing
- ensure resiliency
- mitigate climate change
- enhance community and social equality
- restore and protect our ecosystems
- enhance building efficiency and performance
- promote sustainable design
The future of the human race is interwoven with the future of the planet, and the sustainable practices we celebrate and advance at Greenbuild remind us that our success as sustainability advocates, practitioners and professionals is more than a movement, it is a responsibility.
Show Highlights * Greenbuild Conference & Expo hot topics curated just for you. * Understanding programs addressing embodied carbon and the shift from operational carbon. * + Defining the difference. + Local mandates in different cities and programs to set up more energy efficient buildings. * Why net zero energy is not enough; we need a plan for regenerative design. * What you need to be reading up on and trending topics. * GBES’ regenerative design course. * Technical updates and changes from USGBC and GBCI for exams and building certifications. * Changes and focus on the “S” in ESG and corporate responsibilities. * A movement we all need to prepare for as buildings move to all electric.
“While not a lot of buildings have been able to achieve Net Zero Energy yet, all of the green building enthusiasts admit that we actually need to think beyond that. Think net positive and really think regenerative design.”
- Charlie Cichetti, LEED Fellow
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Show Resource and Information * bestbees.com
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Luiza Junqueria, Architect and Urban Planner and first university student in Brazil to become LEED Accredited Professional (2008).
Since 2007 acting as sustainability and health consultant for building certifications (LEED, WELL, Fitwel, GBC Casa, among others). Manager of the First WELL Certified building in Latin America (Gold Level) and the First Fitwel Multi Family Residential in Latin.
Manager and team member of many projects seeking LEED certification such as shopping malls, soccer arenas (FIFA 2014 World Cup), industries, among others of the public and private sectors, which stand out the first Brazilian Core & Shell Certified building, the first school in Latin America and the first Brazilian city hall.
Member:
- Materials committees for LEED adaptation in Brazil, Green Schools committee
- Former president of the materials committee for GBC Casa
- Former president of the Mind committee for the Well adaptation in Brazil
- (all of above coordinated by GBC Brasil)
- and member of the materials committee of CBCS
Director of the Sustainability technical group of young entrepreneurs of CJE - FIESP.
LEED Fellow (2020), WELL AP, DGNB (German Sustainable Building Council) and GBC Brasil Casa consultant, and volunteer of the Living Building Challenge Sao Paulo.
Professor at AVM Distance Learning, and invited professor of the Mackenzie Presbiterian University and on the course "How to Become a LEED Green Associate '' by GBC Brazil. Co-creator and coordinator of the course "Comfort, Health and Well-being in Buildings" for GBC Brazil.
Show Highlights * Determining the most suitable certification system for regional projects. * Working with new technology in Brazil. * The importance of specializing in residential and commercial certification projects. * Luiza’s is a pioneer and brings a plethora of firsts to Latin America. * The responsibility of WELL and Fitwell beyond a pandemic. * Adopt a pioneer spirit with LEED for schools, LEED GA vs LEED AP, ESG credentials in projects. * Change society with education and investing in creating a LEED Fellow career. * The benefits of being a “generalist” in consulting.
“We need to make green buildings more inclusive and accessible to all. Climate change is an urgent issue and it affects mainly the most vulnerable people. I truly believe that we have to give access to quality, sustainable buildings for everyone and not only the commercial buildings. We need to make it inclusive without exception to all.”
-Luiza Junqueria
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Luiza Junqueria’s Show Resource and Information * How to Avoid a Climate Disaster * Healthy-Buildings-Indoor-Performance-Productivity * Linkedin
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Hiroki Hiramatsu, after a 20 year job career in investment banking, founded CSR Design and Landscape as a social entrepreneur, which has been cultivating the green building market since the inception in 2006. USGBC Faculty, LEED AP BD+C, CASBEE Property Market Promotion Committee Member, Chair of Sustainable Property Investment WG (Principles for Financial Action for the 21st Century of Ministry of the Environment) Graduated Osaka University of Foreign Studies
- Founding co-chair of Green Building Japan (GBJ: International roundtable member)
- LEED Fellow, USGBC Faculty, LEED AP (BD+C, ND)
- CASBEE Property Market Promotion Committee Member
- Chair of Sustainable Property Investment WG (Principles for Financial
- Action for the 21st Century of Ministry of the Environment Japan)
After a 20 year job career in investment banking, he founded Woonerf Inc. as a social entrepreneur, which has been cultivating the green building market since the inception in 2006.
Show Highlights * Pivot your career path to build a career out of need and fun. * Connecting landscape architecture to the green/healthy building movement. * Japan’s culture shifts to embrace LEED, WELL, and other rating systems to drastically reduce energy usage. * How to decide which programs to use for the client and the project? * Become a social entrepreneur that successfully increases human resources. * The diverse rating systems used throughout Japan to impact large populations (ESG investment). * LEED for Existing Building, certifications and recertifications by using ARC.
“I think LEED gives us the guidance to change our ‘business as usual’ economy side and the building design to a sustainable one. WELL gives us the same kind of guidance to change and transform our old fashion lifestyle.”
- Hiroki Hiramatsu
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Hiroki Hiramatsu’s Show Resource and Information * Woonerf Inc. * A Clearing In The Distance * Linkedin
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Kimberly Hosken works building the P3 business at NORESCO with a highly skilled team of industry leaders in central plant design, construction and operations. Partnering with preferred equity firms to create the best value for owners in the P3 market. Developing best in class SOP's, operational plans and systems to achieve a quality working relationship with customers.
Kimberly joined Johnson Controls, Inc. in February 2008 as a member of the Global Energy and Sustainability team. Prior to joining Johnson Controls. Kim held the position of Director LEED, New Construction for the US GreenBuilding Council in Washington DC. She has been a speaker at multiple conferences where she has presented her work on Return on Investment (ROI)for green strategies and construction.
Kimberly Hosken has rejoined Johnson Controls as part of the US P3 team on the UC MERCED 2020 project. She has been a leader in international
applications of LEED leading design charrettes in China, Egypt, Chile, and Canada while continuing to support the US market. Kim has experience with all of the LEED rating systems and providing large scale benchmarking for portfolios of international companies. Kim participated in the LEED Manufacturing User Group, a dedicated group of industry professionals working to create more opportunities for greener, healthier and more efficient manufacturing facilities. She also participated in the LEED Fellow review process for the class of 2013. Kim became a LEED Fellow in 2012.
As a LEED Fellow she provided training for both internal and external customers. Prior to joining Johnson Controls Kim held the position of Director LEED, New Construction for the US Green Building Council in Washington DC. She has been a speaker at multiple conferences where she has presented her work on Return on Investment (ROI) for green strategies and construction. Kim has developed and delivered multiple LEED and Green Building training programs globally, over 3000 people have attended her workshops.
Kim has a MBA from Webster University, St. Louis and a B.S. in business from Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe.
Show Highlights * One of their first female superintendents in high rise construction in OC, California. * Contagious passion infected Kimberly’s green building career path. * Conversations that formed and shaped LEED mainstreamed. * Green Compass tool to support LEED. * P3 brings the operations into the design. * Mechanical systems upgraded for existing building spaces. * Kimberly’s great advice on how to adapt when change occurs. * Career advice on figuring out your green lens.
“Be able to accept change with grace and do what you need to do to move on in the face of things that may not have been in the plan.” lol
- Kimberly Hosken
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Kimberly Hosken’s Show it and Information * Miller Park * The Checklist Manifestoh Being lol Mortal * The 7 Habits * Linkedin
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Brad Schaap is a licensed professional structural engineer in nine states, including California. He has served in a variety of leadership positions on various national and regional boards, including being elected and serving as the President of the Structural Engineers Association of Nebraska (SEAoN) for a 2-Year Term, currently serving as Treasurer of SEAoN and a Voting Member of NCSEA's SIQA Committee, formerly Chairman of the AIA Large Firm Round Table-Sustainable Design Leaders Group for a two-year term, and as a Regional Leader of the Architecture+Design Sustainable Design Leaders Group for two consecutive years. Mr. Schaap’s structural design and investigation experience includes healthcare, hospitality, laboratory, education, and aviation projects for both the Government and private-sector clients. Mr. Schaap served as Deputy Project Manager on a major international healthcare project, leading the engineering team and directly interacting with the client. Mr. Schaap was the lecturer for the two sections of Engineering Statics at the University of Nebraska, which includes developing the content, homework, and examinations, as well as assigning grades. He also served as SEAON’s representative on the Professional Engineers Coalition (PEC), a coalition of engineering and surveying societies with a paid lobbyist to the state legislature in the mutual interests of its member organizations.
Show Highlights * Brad talks about the love of structural engineering and connection to sustainability. * Learn how much can be done with specification writing of supplementary cementitious materials. * Ways to fight the stigma of using less materials for successful builds. * Shaffer Stevens & Schaap focuses on challenging projects. * + Fallout shelter. + Retrofits from 1920s, 40s, 50s, and 60s. + Serviceability criteria. * Owner resiliency with modern structural engineering and conservatism. * Trade organizations and the benefits to your career. * Ideas on how to reduce initial carbon in the manufacturing process of the first creation for environmental benefits. * Tools that optimize exactly how much material you need at every point in the span.
“The profession. It's bigger than one person, it's bigger than one firm. It's really a movement, and it’s moving in a good direction.”
-Brad Schaap
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Amy D'Angelo is a wellness real estate professional with over 15 years of experience. Her wide range of interests over the years have included launching a healthy food business to managing facilities for an international non-profit. Her current passion is focusing on helping busy professionals and families achieve wellness at home by creating simple and affordable strategies that are based on the best practices of the wellness real estate movement. Amy believes that by making small and positive changes, in our homes, in the food we eat or the ways that we handle stress, we can inspire those around us to live a healthier, more fulfilled life.
Kay Curtis is an educator of 25 years, a young widow and a breast cancer survivor, the subject of health through proper nutrition and a nontoxic environment has become of great interest to her. But how she got to this point in her personal and professional life is a perilous story that brought her very close to knocking on heaven’s door.
She was eating very poorly: fast food, frozen food from Costco, etc. I also smoked. Then her husband died suddenly (he was very unhealthy) and left her a widow at 35. Kay also suffered from life-long blood sugar problems and digestion issues. Even though she always maintained a very thin form, she started to gain lots of weight. Then she got breast cancer. This led her to research chemicals in our environment. She removed all of them from her personal care items and household. She quit smoking because she believed all those things to be the source of her cancer.
But right around the same time, she was tutoring one of the most brilliant children she had ever met in her education career (as an Educational Consultant). He was five years old and could do long division and read at a 3rd grade level. But he was a little strange, so his mother put him on Zoloft. He started losing his memory and abilities. It was a side effect of the drug. It was horrifying to watch. Kay had other students that were prescribed Ritalin and Prozac and saw what these drugs did to these poor children and decided to go back to school and learn Nutrition in order to be able offer an alternative to them and their parents.
Show Highlights * Create the healthiest food plan to provide the energy you need with food choice. * How to find balance and move towards healthy and sustainably produced food. * Potential side effects and dangers of a poor diet. * What core diet, grains, fats and more do in the body. * Substitution ideas for your diet to support vegan and vegetarian options. * Avoid vitamin deficiency from foods and learn how to add and subtract fat with these tips. * Portion and meal prep suggestions to conceptualize what should be on your plate. * Managing time for meals and snacks. * What's better for us to eat and better for the environment? How to select organic and other options at the farmers market.
“We consume more carbohydrates in a week than people consumed in a year, 200 years ago.”
-Kay Curtis
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Amy D’ Angelo and Kay Curtis Show Resource and Information * Sustainable Green Spaces: Home * LinkedIn * customercare@gbs.com * LinkedIn * Kay Curtis Produce Section
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Ibrahim Kronfol is a Project Manager, Senior Mechanical Engineer, and Sustainability & Value Engineering Auditor with over 15 years of experience at Dar Al Handasah, with a successful career record and extensive design and management experience of major projects in the Gulf & Middle East.
With the firm since 2005, working on a wide range of sustainability, Building Services, Infrastructure, Energy, Water and Project Management sectors, Ibrahim has contributed to a range of diverse applications within the construction industry. He has provided sustainable engineering design solutions for the various design aspects of a wide range of projects, encompassing Airports; Hotels; Commercials, Residential, Mixed Use; Medical Centers, Hospitals; Educational Facilities, Presidential Palaces and many others. Ibrahim has developed a comprehensive understanding supported by academic certifications of Project Management Procedures, Value Engineering Practices & Green Buildings Design throughout his career experience.
Ibrahim is the Chair of Education and awareness at Lebanon Green Building Council and the Founder of "Sustainability Movement", with a Mission to work on community transformation towards sustainability. The Movement's major achievements include Green Apple Day of Service campaigns, Innovation Energy Challenges, teachers training programs, Green Champion and others with an impact on over 55,000 Students and 1,200 Teachers since 2012.
In 2020, Ibrahim was distinguished by GBCI as a LEED Fellow and he is currently a member of the LEED Fellow Evaluation committee.
Show Highlights * How does DAR Group support the region with partnerships? * Solutions to implement sustainability targets. * Technical Advisory Groups (TAGS) and these committees’ benefits. * Impact and importance of volunteering. * + The Green Apple Day of Service, a global volunteering event with the USGBC’s Center for Green Schools. * Coordination efforts between the trades and the harder parts of sustainability. * SMART systems are more suitable for sustainability.
“We need everyone to join the green revolution. Professionals, experts, and non-experts. The public needs to get involved. Everyone can make a small contribution by getting involved in the sustainability practices and creating change, especially for the younger generation at the personal level.”
-Ibrahim Kronfol
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Ibrahim Kronfol’s Show Resource and Information * The Prophet * LinkedIn * Dar Al Handasah
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Ben Tacka is a member of the Center for Energy Efficiency & Sustainability (CEES) at Trane Technologies which supports the company’s strategic brands —Trane and Thermo King — and is responsible for forward-looking sustainability initiatives aimed at transitioning to more efficient and climate-friendly solutions, and minimizing resource use within company facilities. Ben serves as a market intelligence provider and trainer in linking internal sustainability initiatives to competitive product and service positioning to support the enhancement of value propositions for sales and marketing teams across all businesses. His efforts led to the release of the company’s first integrated ESG Report in 2018, and played a role in the establishment of Trane Technologies’ 2030 Sustainability Commitments, which include such targets as carbon neutral operations and the single largest industrial commitment to reduce scope 3 (product related) emissions by 1 gigaton. Ben also leads an internal ‘Design for Circularity’ council to determine the company’s role in the coming Circular Economy. Trane Technologies’ received the World Environment Center’s 2019 gold medal award for international sustainable development and is the only industrial company listed to both the World and North America Dow Jones Sustainability Indices for the past 9 years. Ben holds an undergraduate degree in Manufacturing Engineering from Boston University as well as a Sustainable Innovation MBA from the University of Vermont. Prior to working with Trane Technologies, Ben provided sustainable business development consulting support to PepsiCo in Latin America and spent many years as an entrepreneur founding and managing sales and marketing training franchises in the gulf coast region of the southern US.
Show Highlights * A green business owner’s freedom of flexibility in sustainability. * The history of Trane Technologies and their programs to dramatically reduce the carbon footprint and energy consumption. * Being entrepreneurial and finding ways to be intrapreneurial within a team. * Organizations to help strengthen sustainability initiatives. * Tips to stand out in a large company and dive into your network to obtain your dream job. * Ben’s “SWAT team of sustainability” in ESG. * Speak the language of sustainability and climate change with these valuable resources. * Benefits of the Center for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability (CEES).
“I wanted to really be a part of something that would be transformational in terms of how we live our everyday lives and the global underpinnings of the global economy.”
-Ben Tacka
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Ben Tacka’s Show Resource and Information * Project Drawdown * Pathway to critical and formidable goal of net-zero * Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations * Capitalism at the Crossroads * American Nations * Red Dune Adventures Book Series * Instagram * LinkedIn
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Dan Diehl is CEO and President of Aircuity. He is a seasoned executive in the building controls and energy efficiency space, with more than 25 years of industry experience. Dan is passionate about continuous improvement and innovation for the built environment, and under his leadership, Aircuity is leading the way as the trusted air quality platform.
Show Highlights * Aircuity’s devices and software that actually saves energy. * Largely untapped managing and controlling of ventilation in buildings. * Foundational hardware to accurately measure indoor air quality as economically as possible for the lifetime of the building. * Creating a healthy production environment to manage the tough side of the vast constituents. * Timetable to infusing different ways of thinking in a new technology. * Adjusting operation controls in air quality filtration to make sure you are filtering clean air. * Balancing the technical and business side to follow the market and guide the clients. * COVID hangover reactions and sustainable solutions towards active measurement of an integrated control. * ESG, decarbonization, and carbon goals for long term solutions to properly size and save millions of dollars.
“It's been an air quality battle on the east coast as you probably saw reported this last week. The world is changing, adopting, you need to provide good, safe, clean in all the environments. I think they'll be ubiquitous in the built environment.”
-Dan Diehl
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Dan Diehl’s Show Resource and Information * Last Mission to Tokyo
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SHOW HIGHLIGHTS * Accurately preparing for the WELL AP exam updating September 1st, 2021. * Tweaks and tools to familiarize yourself with the new WELL AP exam. * Stipulations and changes to how and where you can take LEED and WELL exams. * How to prepare for the closing gap for WELL AP version 2 in September. * The difference between FitWell and WELL AP exams. * Resources from Gbes.com to prepare you for passing exams with all the new updates. * One thing that’s happened from WELL version one, to WELL, version two is some of our concepts are categories * Focusing on the 11 new concepts and categories on the WELL exams and the three different types of questions.
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PSA: HOW TO NAVIGATE THE UPCOMING WELL AP V2 UPDATES SHOW RESOURCE AND INFORMATION * How To Pass The WELL Exam * Free WELL AP Resources From GBES.com * WELL v2 Overview * Get To Know The New WELL AP Exam * WELL AP Exam Prep – Videos, Flash Cards & Practices Tests Bundle * GBES UNLIMITED – Access Everything
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Joe Lombardi is a registered architect in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Michigan & Florida. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, Pennsylvania Society of Architects and holds certifications from the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) as well as Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design Certification (LEED AP). He graduated Cum Laude with a BArch degree from Temple University in 1987 and received his first state architectural registration in 1989.
At a young age he discovered an interest in the process of conceiving an idea, putting it on paper and implementing the construction of it in both practical form (designing and building speaker cabinets and musical instrument road cases) and artistic expression (wood carving, sketching & jewelry making). While also developing a business sense by selling these items to local musicians and in local shops.
Joe’s architectural career was fueled by a passion for the investigation and development of the use of new and underutilized existing proven products and technologies which increased comfort, while providing energy and construction efficiency in Residential and Commercial design & construction.
Over the past 26 years of architectural practice he has been able to balance the ability to provide services to a homeowner wanting to renovate their home to meet the changing needs of their family as well as a large commercial client that is expanding a several hundred thousand square foot entertainment venue. He attributes this to the sense of teamwork that is promoted between the owner, contractor and architect as well as listening intently to the client’s needs in order to reach the programmatic, aesthetic and budgetary goals for the project.
He has Implemented and managed office CAD systems, created and managed Master Detail Library & Project File database systems and developed and maintained a proprietary specification & contractor database system.
He served as adjunct staff at Philadelphia University from 1997 to 1998 where he taught a 3d CAD visualization course.
He also has studied guitar, recorded and performed original music in and around the Philadelphia area for over 40 years with notable shows at the World Café & Troc Theaters in Philadelphia and The World Café Queen Theater in Delaware.
He is a husband for over 28 years and father of two children.
Brian Falcon has always been passionate about sustainable living and design. He is a registered architect in Pennsylvania, and became a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional (LEED®AP) in 2004, to focus professionally on sustainability and energy efficiency. In 2008, he founded the Berks/Lancaster Green Building Association to help local, like-minded professionals collectively expand their green building skills at the grassroots level. Most recently, Brian has become a Certified Passive House Consultant (CPHC), as certified through the Passive House Institute US (PHIUS). This program incorporates high performance building science principles and passive house techniques to create the best path to Net Zero and Net Positive Energy buildings.
To improve the efficiency of project design and construction processes, Brian is highly experienced with Building Information Modeling (BIM) software. BIM is used to create a digital 3-dimensional representation of a project with multiple layers of intelligent data which may be analyzed at any time during the design, construction or occupancy phase of a building. Building the project virtually ensures accuracy and improves the understanding how building components and assemblies work together, which greatly reduces “unknowns” and other inefficiencies during construction. In addition, BIM provides a highly effective way for those not used to reading conventional construction drawings to feel fully engaged as part of the design team.
Brian is married with four children. He is a nationally licensed soccer coach and has coached all four kids. The family enjoys camping and connecting with nature whenever possible. At home Brian leads the family in exploring the world of permaculture to learn how to live more holistically by designing and building fun and multi-functional projects on their property which provide food, energy, aesthetics and natural habitat for beneficial animals.
Show Highlights * Zero energy readiness. * Alter Eco’s success, selection process, and standard/program choices. * Passive House vs Net Zero Ready Homes for advanced energy modeling. * Best practices, programs(LEED, Passive House, DOE), certification and chapter benefits. * Misconceptions on implementing sustainable programs, how architects can steer the ship, and the concept of trade ops. * Advantages of having architects who can simplify details with sustainability in mind during the building process. * Trends of a 2,500 sq home feeling like a 4,000 sqm. * Electrification and designing all electric buildings and homes. * Selecting prefabbed, cut off site, more modular components or whole systems on projects.
“We kind of proved in our first homes that we built, that we can achieve this level of a home at the same cost as a code-built stick-built home.”
-Joe Lombardi
“If you're excited and passionate about sustainability or preservation, whatever it is wholeheartedly, chase that down with every ounce of energy you have. You might sound goofy sometimes asking questions you think are silly or, or whatever. I would say don't ever fear that. Embrace that. Embrace the beginner's mind, whatever you're doing, because it's only going to help you learn along the way and be more successful.”
-Brian Falcon
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Joe Lombardi & Brian Falcon’s Show Resource and Information * About | Architetra * Joe Lombardi LinkedIn * Brian Falcon LinkedIn * Buddha's Brain * The 5 AM Club * Alter Eco: Home
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Emmanuel Pauwels is a Regenerative Practitioner (a person actively engaged in developing themselves and their practice with the capacity to create entities and processes that are ongoingly regenerative). He is a highly communicative, practical, and reliable individual who lives in the world of the five senses. He is curious and needs mental variety in life. He has an analytical and critical side and is an eternal student, enjoying rapport and exchanging ideas with people.
He is ambitious, enjoys material comfort and everything sensual and nature-related. When we look at the way we design and build our buildings, the only way forward is by creating good green buildings. Buildings that lead to improved health for homeowners, reduced impact on the environment and profit for the building industry. Emmanuel is a strong believer in a new paradigm for the Real Estate Industry which is based on trust based team formation, early collaboration, built-in sustainability and transformational leadership.
Show Highlights * Regenerative Design practical tools and the course work you should explore. * Popular construction materials in the USA, but not in Europe. * Emmanuel talks about his companies: Green Living Projects and Green Living Education. * Regenerative resorts that redefine tourism for systemic change. * Reconnect urban and rural environments to build new meaning and relationships. * Creating a network to build eco villages to enhance any project. * Avoid the temptation of chasing points and certifications to benefit your projects. * Understanding the levels and technology it takes to complete a Living Building Challenge project from a Living Future Hero. * CAL GUERXO is a small house with a big impact you must see. * Conversations with clients are more about what is the value that you are seeking? How can we provide value? Is there certification that can certification add value to your project? That's the important question.
“You can regenerate everything, your relationship, your life, whatever project you're working on in your career. It's more about what happens in the place than the actual built infrastructure. How does it impact humans? What’s the social impact of communities? What new interaction do you develop with nature? You realize that the building is a catalyst for something else to happen.”
-Emmanel Pauwels
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Emmanuel Pauwels’ Show Resource and Information * The Integrative Design Guide * Designing for Hope: * Climate--A New Story: * The Responsible Business * Designing Regenerative Cultures * Linkedin * Green Living Projects - Facebook * Cal Guerxo - Instagram * Cal Guerxo- https://vimeo.com/514324352/8f0415f4dc * LinkedIn-Green Living Projects
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Amy D'Angelo is a wellness real estate professional with over 15 years of experience. Her wide range of interests over the years have included launching a healthy food business to managing facilities for an international non-profit. Her current passion is focusing on helping busy professionals and families achieve wellness at home by creating simple and affordable strategies that are based on the best practices of the wellness real estate movement. Amy believes that by making small and positive changes, in our homes, in the food we eat or the ways that we handle stress, we can inspire those around to live a healthier, more fulfilled life.
Show Highlights * Holistic living and wellness best practices you need to know. * Taking stock of these items will help you live healthier and make your home healthy. * Achieving FitWell Ambasador and WELL AP credentials will set your career on a good course. * The Home Wellness Project, creates wellness in the home with air, water and your circadian rhythm. * Merging tips from Wellness Real Estate Initiatives and expert tips on what works in our homes to connect with nature and naturally reduce stress. * The simple things that now we really want to pay a little closer attention to. * Why the Healthy Building Initiative will bleed more into individual homes. * Simple things that will really positively impact your week.
“There is a passion within me to say, ‘Other people need to do this for themselves at home.’ Wellness shouldn't be contained to buildings where you spend maybe 25% of your time. We really need to see how to share with people what they can do to make their homes safer and healthier for themselves and their loved ones.”
-Amy D’Angelo
Amy D'Angelo Transcript Amy D’Angelo’s Show Resource and Information * Sustainable Green Spaces: Home * Indoor Air Quality Webinar – April 2021 * Atomic Habits * LinkedIn
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Being one of nine principals leading the design firm of Goody Clancy in Boston, MA, Jean is passionate about the opportunities inherent in the stewardship and creative reuse of existing buildings to shape a healthy, resilient world. Goody Clancy is an architecture, planning and preservation firm serving educational, governmental, and private sector clients and communities nationwide. We collaborate with clients to design and plan buildings, campuses and communities that express their aspirations, inspire creativity and collaboration, and build social, economic and environmental value.
My professional focus on existing buildings includes leading a team that helps clients and the public connect historic legacies to current realities and future possibilities. We combine a deep respect for and knowledge of history and building technology with a talent for transforming places-redefining their relevance, utility, and flexibility while sustaining and enhancing essential beauty and value.
Show Highlights * Boston architecture is endlessly interesting with a succession of unique work. * The East is filled with a wonderful repository of existing buildings that are valued for their heritage. * The landmark project that shaped Jean’s career for over 20 years. * + “The building that put American architecture on the map” and launched The Richardson Romanesque Movement. + The first GeoExchange System. * Specializing in preservation is critical to the green building movement. * Essential to focus on both Embodied Energy and Embodied water. * Buildings are the biggest objects that must be reused. * Two year payback that will bring down carbon emissions and meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. * Jean is seeking case studies from listeners who have done embodied carbon calculations against operational carbonet.
“Remember that building reuse is the most powerful climate action that there is. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Let's reuse our largest objects, and those are our buildings! Let's reuse them with grace, talent, and joy.”
-Jean Carroon
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Jean Carroon’s Show Resource and Information * Sustainable Preservation: Greening Existing * Trinity Church Boston * The Good Earth * Barack Obama: Books * LinkedIn
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Dallas Terry is a sustainability professional with a successful track record of driving excellence in projects and programs to achieve ROI and reduce environmental impacts.
His real interest lies in those ideas, projects, and businesses that entail innovative, intelligent and collaborative designs that improve the bottom line and make a meaningful impact on improving the status quo.
Dallas has served as Cushman Wakefield’s Sustainability Manager where he served PG&E’s corporate real estate organization to help create and execute a robust sustainability strategy and drive performance across their portfolio of >250 sites where he worked cross functionally with strategy, projects, facilities and other teams to facilitate “sustainable” decision-making in key aspects of the real estate value chain:
- Advising CRE leadership on industry, state and local trends and guiding program direction
- Leading analysis of GHG emissions reduction scenarios in support of long term goal setting
- Engaging stakeholders in development of sustainability standards and behavior change campaigns
- Oversight of LEED program with >10 new construction and existing building projects including multiple Net Zero Energy projects
- Managing >$5M in energy efficiency projects across multiple sites with >$850k/yr. in estimated savings.
Dallas has also worked with companies to help coach them through a comprehensive curriculum that allows them to embed sustainability into multiple dimensions of their businesses, guiding them to develop Sustainability action plans consisting of cost and resource saving projects.
Specialties: Program Management, Project Management, Strategic Business Planning, Feasibility Studies, Energy Efficiency, Water Conservation, Integrated Waste Management Renewable Energy, Financial Modeling, Business Development, Risk Assessments, LEED Certification, Carbon Reporting, Stakeholder Engagement
Show Highlights * Special training in conducting feasibility studies for renewable energy projects, solar and wind. * A peek at mandates and markets in different cities. * Pro tips on working from home or working remotely. * Hitting the milestones that we need to hit by say 2030 and beyond. * Real estate portfolios strategy to truly build a net zero portfolio. * The parallels between soccer and business to get the right group of people working together to achieve a common goal. * What are the right roadmaps to help orchestrate and plan net zero projects and programs?
“Getting started early, I think is really key. It's what you hear all the time, but it's really true. Like anyone, I would be even further than I am right now if I'd just gotten a little start a little bit earlier, or if I had found some valuable internships earlier. Be willing to say, ‘It's okay to start as an intern’ with low pay. It's going to help put some milestones on your resume and help you to level-up beyond that."
-Dallas Terry
Dallas Terry Transcript Dallas Terry’s Show Resource and Information * The Lean Startup * LinkedIn
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LEED Fellow, experienced Sustainability Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the design industry. Skilled in Sustainability, Sustainable Architecture, Environmental Awareness, Sustainable Design, and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). Strong community and social services professional with a Bachelor’s of Urban Planning focused in the Faculty of Engineering - Ain Shams University. Collège de la Sainte Famille.
Show Highlights * The DAR group’s conglomerate of many companies to promote an international experience. * Being the first, LEED AP in Asia. * Difficulties and techniques to build a green building in Egypt. * The need for various rating systems applied on projects in Egypt (Qatar, QSAS, GSAS and EDGE). * EDGE provides Egypt with something that is easier and simpler to apply to complex builds. * Avoid pricing LEED out of the projects with poor consulting advice * Karim shares difficulties working in a large firm with his unique career experience. * Changing the level of awareness of green and healthy building in Egypt
“If you want to be good at something, really know it! Don't pretend that you know about it, but get to know it so that when you are tested, you can show your methods. Don't pretend, don't move to trends because the trends change. Follow your passion. Really follow your passion and get a lot of knowledge about it - more than anybody else, and become the person to go to. Then you will not be afraid to give your knowledge to other people because you will be moving forward.”
-Karim Farah
Karim Farah Transcript Karim Farah’s Show Resource and Information * Out of the Middle East
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Amy D'Angelo is a wellness real estate professional with over 15 years of experience. Her wide range of interests over the years have included launching a health food business to managing facilities for an international non-profit. Her current passion is focusing on helping busy professionals achieve wellness at home by creating simple strategies that are based on the best practices of the wellness real estate movement. She continually strives to inspire positive change in the people around me.
Show Highlights * Setting up our buildings and homes to be designed, built, and operated green. * The largest contributors to air pollution inside our homes. * Shift towards healthy buildings or “wellness real estate”. * Greenwashing products. * Dangers of synthetic chemical fragrance blends. * One of the most effective ways to improve our indoor air quickly. * Five areas of pollutants you can see an immediate improvement . * Being conscious about the different tweaks we can make in our day to day. * Help reduce air pollutants inside your home. * Ventilation’s big impact on our indoor air quality. * GBS and wellness at home series.
“When we look at our indoor air quality, I think one of the many, many things that COVID-19 has taught us is that the air we breathe matters. Air pollution is the number one environmental cause of premature death and our indoor spaces like our home and our workspaces can be up to five times more polluted than the air outside.”
-Amy D’Angelo
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Amy D’Angelo’s Show Resource and Information * NASA Plant Research * 12 NASA recommended air-purifying Plants * LinkedIn
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Kay Killmann is Managing Director of GBCI Europe, focusing on promoting LEED & Arc and its successful integration into European's real estate industry. He collaborates extensively with other European GBCs, building and strengthening relationships as well as local LEED knowledge.
Having worked for over 15 years as an architect and consultant in the US, UK and Germany, Kay leverages his depth of professional experiences in building certification, construction and design to engage GBCI Europe's diverse stakeholders. His activities in sustainability education range from developing and teaching professional programs at Universities to implementing the Green Apple Day program at Bavarian grammar schools.
Kay is also the co-founder of the German Green Building Association (GGBA), a non-profit established in 2012 and advocating LEED and other GBCI benchmarks in Germany and the DACH region.
Kay earned an engineering degree in architecture from the University of Applied Science at Aachen, Germany. Curiosity, and a bit of wanderlust, led him to California where he gained invaluable architecture experience. In 2006, Kay eagerly embarked on the LEED path, grateful to have found a career match for his sustainability passion.
He grew up in East Germany, a utopia for sustainability where a shortage of basic goods meant 'reuse and recycle' was the everyday way of life. Kay is working hard to bring those principles back to society – without the oppressive political regime. His sustainability efforts extend far beyond the office. He is an avid bike commuter, up-cycler, urban gardener and diligent father constantly reminding his kids to "turn off the lights."
Show Highlights * Becoming a member of the international round table. * How GBCI Europe, grows to support programs, tools and certifications? * Kay advocates for all the great programs and their benefits to specific projects. * GGBA became a strategic green building partner with these tips. * Putting yourself in positions of luck. * Certifications that support Europe’s highly competitive market. * The urban tools for cities and communities. * LEED for cities has a framework and communities scorecard to measure social aspects.
“A single building is one thing, but having an entire framework overlaid across an urban development, be it a new one or an existing one. That’s where we can have much more of an impact. This is really starting to grow and it’s fun!”
- Kay Killmann
Kay Killmann Transcript Kay Killmann’s Show Resource and Information * LinkedIn
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Dr. Marilyn Black is vice president and senior technical advisor for Underwriters Laboratories, leading its research group Chemical Insights. She is the founder and former chairperson for both UL Air Quality Sciences and the GREENGUARD Environmental Institute. She is also the founder of the Khaos Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the health and well-being of children through education and research. Dr. Black is an active participant in national and international scientific organizational initiatives, research projects and community outreach programs, and has presented and published over 200 papers on indoor air quality and environmental exposure.
She received a Ph.D from the Georgia Institute of Technology, M.S. from the University of Florida and B.S from University of Virginia.
Show Highlights * THE pioneer on healthy material, indoor air quality and understanding the impact environmental pollution has on people's health. * Programs and certifications to manage and ensure use of healthy materials for healthy buildings for people. * One of the most toxic chemical agents identified and the dramatic impact on human health. * Emerging technologies to manage unintentional consequences of toxins put into products as a byproduct of the manufacturing. * Active research on emerging topics, developing data, and developing knowledge to help solve pollution, exposure opportunities, and develop approaches for reducing human health risk in current product trends. * GreenGuard Certification Program understanding what was impacting the air quality negatively. * The need to combate tremendous amounts of waste among these materials. * Integrated systems with the ability to monitor aspects of people's responses while they're in buildings for the best outcome. * Improving the product formulations for safer products and replacements for those chemicals and products.
“How you use the information you learn in research and discovery is how to make a change. That’s how to make a difference. Research for the sake of research, does not move the needle. You have to learn; you have to do something with your information to move that needle and to cause change.’”
-Marilyn Black
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Co-Founder of 3 New Material Technology Firms / Advisor to 4 New Material Technology Firms
BLUE Wave advocate - the BLUE Wave is the host of advanced material companies with the breakthrough technology that can help return our planet to BLUE skies and BLUE water
Previously employed as senior executive in soft goods Industries for 15 years - building and sourcing brands on a global basis.
Specialties: Business Development, Sales and Marketing, Commercializing New Material Technologies, Public Speaking on Innovation
Show Highlights * Categorizing material technology. * Understanding the science and advanced material technologies. * 1. Air purification technology. 2. Science of photocatalysis. How surfaces can be self-cleaning, bio protective and air purifying. * PURETi’s breakthrough technologies ready for prime time. * Innovative material technology that will impact architecture. * Leading indicators we need to reverse rapidly. * Toledo Solar’s impact to green building in 2 years. * The 4th R that needs to be added to Redudu, Reuse and Recycle. * The future of how nano-sensors will interact with everything to make life more efficient and enjoyable. * A new circular economy that integrates nature into completing broken cycles and the tremendous impact it will have on design.
“The 20th century was the century of chemistry and the 21st century is going to be the century of biology and biomimetics, and helping nature restore balance.”
-Glen Finkel
Glen Finkel Transcript Glen Finkel’s Show Resource and Information * Meet Wendy * Toledo Solar * Range: * Pureti * Linkedin
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This is a special podcast episode where Charlie & Drew actually interview each other about how they built their green building consulting businesses. It has a style similar to NPR’s How I Built This. Enjoy!
Drew Shula is Founder & Principal at Verdical Group, a leading Los Angeles-based full-service green building consulting firm specializing in certification project management, net zero, commissioning, energy modeling, and program management. Verdical Group is a certified B Corporation and 1% for the Planet member company. In addition to managing some of the highest profile green building projects in California, including LEED Platinum and Living Building Challenge projects (such as the first Energy Petal certified project in California), Verdical Group hosts the world’s largest annual Net Zero Conference. Shula is a Founding Steering Committee member of the Living Building Challenge Los Angeles Collaborative and a frequent speaker on net zero and high performance buildings including at Cornell University, The 2 Degrees Symposium on Climate Change, and the Living Future unConference. Shula has appeared in USA Today, Forbes, USGBC+ Magazine, and the International Living Future Institute’s Trim Tab. He holds a 5-year professional degree in Architecture from the University of Notre Dame.
Charlie Cichetti is the CEO of several small giants in the Green Building industry: Sustainable Investment Group (SIG), Green Building Education Services (GBES), Blue Ocean Sustainability, and Aetos Imaging. Over the course of his career Charlie has personally taught and trained over 10,000+ professionals in-person about LEED, the green building movement, and how to pass LEED exams. His green building education company GBES has over 130,000+ professionals around the world who use their study tools and CE materials to help maintain their credentials after Charlie and his team helped them pass their exams. Charlie also advocates for LEED and the green building movement to thousands of people monthly as they tune in to listen to his weekly podcast, Green Building Matters. Charlie is an expert in both the designing of green buildings and the operations of green buildings. Charlie has led many projects (over 50 Million SF of LEED/Energy Star/Cx-RCx) to LEED Gold, and even a few to the highest mark: Platinum, and is a master trainer on sustainability topics.
Show Highlights * Focused on decarbonizing the built environment. * Verdical Group’s three buckets. * Join the largest net zero building event in the world. * A template for folks just coming up in the industry and thinking about starting their own businesses in the future. * Accomplishing the Triple Bottom Line. * One of the problems with the industry. * Education, innovation and software tools to help with the evolution of the movement to capitalize on the moment to impact the future. * The drive to become social entrepreneurs and how to chase opportunity. * How Charlie and Drew are building companies to make a positive environmental and social impact on the world? * Forecasting the future to be part of building equitable solutions * Success versus luck. * Understanding entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship and knowing when you go through the window.
“I don't know how you do it, Charlie. You are an entrepreneur's entrepreneur with all your startups. It's really incredible. You're like the Elon Musk of the green building world and you drive a Tesla to boot, so kudos to you with all the amazing things you’re working on.”
-Drew Shula
Drew Shula’s Show Resource and Information * Verdical Group * Net Zero Conference * How I Built This with Guy Raz – NPR Podcast * Patagonia Outdoor Clothing & Gear * LinkedIn
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Sustainability - LEED - WELL Consulting services
I facilitate the process of third party certifications by participating in meetings, being the champion for sustainability and managing the LEED or WELL documentation process. I ask questions, verify that drawings and specifications reflect the desired LEED credits or WELL features pursued and provide coaching to the design team and client throughout design and construction phases leading to the submittal for review to GBCI (Green Business Certification Inc) and ending with the LEED or WELL plaque for numerous projects.
Alicia Ravetto Architect’s designs integrate advanced building technologies with clean renewable energy to achieve more comfortable, durable, affordable, healthy, and environmentally sound buildings and communities.
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Alicia’s focus on Passive Solar Design and daylighting.
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Opportunities provided by the research triangle of North Carolina.
- The importance of networking and participating in the US and World GBC to build your community.
- Dig deep into climate responsive design during.
- How has Alicia’s technical background and interests come very handy over the years?
- The balance and blend of being a designer and consultant.
- Major steps towards climate change and the healthy crisis towards a more sustainable future.
- Green building in two different parts of the world.
“ln green buildings, energy is moving towards positive energy buildings and LEED for communities and cities and also healthy buildings. The WELL Health Rating System has become significant in the workplace now for people that are returning to work.”
-Alicia Ravetto
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Alicia Ravetto’s Show Resource and Information * The Passive Solar Energy * The Four Winds * Caste * Becoming * The Soul of a Woman * World Green Building Council * LinkedIn * Alicia Ravetto Architect PA
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Danny Kennedy is the CEO of New Energy Nexus, connecting entrepreneurs everywhere to capital to build an abundant clean energy economy that benefits all. New Energy Nexus is a global platform organization for funds and incubators, with chapters in the USA, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Uganda and India.
He Chairs a joint-venture with RMI, the Third Derivative, which is the world's largest climate tech accelerator and is Managing Director of the California Clean Energy Fund. This includes overseeing the CalSEED.fund of $25m for very early-stage companies driving innovation and building equity in the California economy. He is an adviser to Young Greentech Entrepreneurs in China with the Asia Society.
Kennedy also serves as President of CalCharge, a public-private partnership with DoE National Labs, universities in California, unions and companies, working to advance energy storage. Kennedy co-founded Sungevity in 2007, the company that created remote solar design, and Powerhouse, a smart energy incubator and accelerator in Oakland, CA. He was the first backer of Mosaic in 2011, the $1B solar loan provider, and remains on the Board of Powerhive, a solar mini-utility in Kenya and is an adviser to SolarPhilippines. He is also a Director of the nonprofit organizations Power for All and Confluence Philanthropy.
Prior to being an entrepreneur and investor, he worked at Greenpeace and other NGOs on climate and energy issues for 20+ years.
Show Highlights * New Energy Nexus, an international company that supports diverse entrepreneurs to drive the energy transition and build equity. Here what they are working on now. * Solar is the“winner take all” and “King of Electricity” driving the energy transition * Connecting buildings, green power, and renewables towards equity * Big things we're not paying attention to that is shifting in geopolitics and demographics * Danny shares eye opening, essential knowledge on what’s next in the sustainability world’s crystal ball * Places that are getting sustainability and green building “right” in the world * Opportunities to partner and create more avenues with New Energy Nexus programs for you
“By the end of this century, just 80 years from now, most energy will be generated from photovoltaics. There's just no question that flat plate semiconductors that produce electrons when you shine light on them will become ubiquitous and go to scales that we don't even contemplate today.”
-Danny Kennedy
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Danny Kennedy’s Show Resource and Information * Rooftop Revolution
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- https://www.newenergynexus.com/programs/
- New Energy Nexus Programs
- CalSEED
- The Clean Fight
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Alessandro Bisagni, Founder and President of BEE Incorporations, has been named a 2020 LEED Fellow by Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI). Alessandro’s mission is to leverage business to do good. This includes educating corporations about tangible ways to build, renovate, and operate spaces sustainably while also helping advance sustainability in our urban environment. Over his career, he has managed close to 400 green building projects in more than 30 countries for a combined footprint of over 40 million square feet. Alessandro is the first person to receive all three recognitions of LEED Fellow, Living Future Hero, and IWBI Leadership Award.
Show Highlights * Asia’s impact and philosophy in achieving a sustainable world. * The world's first eco city, Dongtan. * Naked Stables, defines luxury retreats. * “Sell” yourself to create desired opportunities in your career. * BEE, is the world's largest consultancy focusing on luxury retail. * Alessandro started the GBPP to be a consortium for LEED professionals in China and it became a focal point for the green building movement. * Incredible self sustaining eco communities, ground breaking generational projects in both LEED and WELL, and early developer conversations to inspire green building firsts. * Technology and innovations that will drive sustainability in LEED and WELL. * 1. BEE Sense, works in unison for clients and provides real time tracking that reports back to platforms such as World Portfolio and ARC. 2. Studies in ARC to compare different project type technologies and how the score in ARC changes. 3. What you need to know about Reset and measuring air quality.
“Song Saa Reserve, is a small eco community. When I say small, I mean it’s over 600 acres, so let's say a small town located in Cambodia near the Angkor Wat Temple. It's basically a self-sustaining eco community that will be hospitality, residential retail, and art space. It will generate its own energy on site. It will source its own groundwater and it is currently the largest living community challenge vision plan certified projects in the world. We'll go on to be the largest, fully certified Living Community Challenge Project at the end.”
-Alessandro Bisagni
Alessandro Bisagni’s Show Resource and Information * Sapiens * LinkedIn * BEE Incorporations * LEED Consulting | BEE * Song Saa Reserve * Dongtan Eco-City
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Don took some time off from GSA to share his knowledge with the green building community.
We have the benefit of his expertise as a LEED Fellow, FAIA and leader in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of buildings through policy and advocacy within the Federal government. As Deputy Director of GSA’s Office of Federal High-Performance Buildings, Don promotes environmentally responsible decision-making for buildings, and translates green building strategies and ideals into practical solutions to meet federal goals for new construction, repair and alteration, facility management, and leasing.
His professional service includes leadership roles with ANSI/ASHRAE/USGBC/IES Standard 189.1, Standard for the Design of High-Performance Green Buildings, and present or former advisory roles in three of the primary high-performance building certification organizations in the U.S. – the U.S. Green Building Council, the Green Building Initiative, and the International Living Future Institute. His work with USGBC has included being Federal Advisor to the USGBC Board of Directors, and serving on the Government Committee, and the core committees of LEED for Commercial Interiors and LEED for Existing Buildings.
Don co-led the development of the Guiding Principles for Federal High Performance and Sustainable Buildings and continues to ensure their relevance. He developed and managed GSA’s Sustainable Design Program for the Public Buildings Service. He envisioned and led the development of GSA’s Sustainable Facilities Tool and has contributed to numerous publications, including GSA’s Sustainability Matters.
Don has over 29 years of experience with GSA in both sustainability and historic preservation. Before working at GSA, he worked for private sector architecture firms. He holds a Master of Architecture degree from Georgia Tech and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia.
Show Highlights
- Executive orders on “greening the government”.
- GSA helped to develop principles of sustainable design and implementation.
- GSA’s energy performance database targets a broader perspective of sustainability.
- Innovation and guiding principles on how to advance sustainable measuring tools.
- GSA’s mandates for new construction on a federal buildings.
- Don’s favorite projects are exemplary examples of green building at its finest.
- GSA sustainable level of design awareness, programs and expectations.
- The ASHRAE standards and everything you need to know about 189.1.
- Design standards to really advance the green building movement.
- The impact of using LCA to pick better materials for energy modeling.
- The excitement the new executive orders has on changing green buildings.
- Critical categories that need to be included on EPD data.
“Seeking to understand people's basic values, what drives them, and what makes them truly happy, is envisioning sustainability. Sustainability really does involve ethics, values, & aspirations and seeks to bring it all together. When you can integrate that into the work you're doing it is the absolute best anyone could wish for.”
- Don Horn
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Don Horn’s Show Resource and Information * The Passive * LinkedIn * Meadowlark Ridge Bed and Breakfast * Ultimate Guide to Facebook Advertising * A Life on Our Planet | Netflix
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Kristy specializes in energy modeling, energy audits, utility analysis, and sustainability consulting from conceptual design through occupancy. Abnormally excited about energy reduction in existing buildings.
TLC’s Kristy Walson, PE, LEED Fellow, BEMP has been named a 2020 LEED Fellow by Green Business Certification Inc.
Kristy, educated and practicing as a mechanical engineer, focuses on the ongoing energy-efficient operation of facilities, through both initial design and ongoing operation of existing buildings. She leads TLC Orlando’s Energy Services group, providing energy modeling, commissioning, energy audits and sustainability consulting to clients. In addition to her project duties at TLC, she has served in multiple roles over the years at the Central Florida Chapter of the US Green Building Council, sits on various advisory panels for the City of Orlando, and is currently the Chair of the University of Florida’s Green Building Learning Collaborative.
Show Highlights
- Living on a 40 foot sailboat shaped Krisy’s sustainable career.
- TLC’s core values and commission focus and services.
- Involvement in the local sustainability world provides a voice at the table to help move things along on a local municipality scale.
- Educating industry professionals on embodied carbon.
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- How to make big strides.
- Operational carbon applies to what’s needed with embodied carbon.
- Understand the impact.
- How do you reduce our energy use and apply renewable energy when you tackle climate change from an equitable standpoint?
- A quick practical on tools and software applied to Energy Modeling.
- The theory on energy modeling and critical tips to validate the intentions and design.
“We need you! Here's the thing with green buildings - those of us in it for a while get told “no” a whole lot! You have to have the energy to just move past the “no” and accept what actually can be done on those projects. Sometimes, you can do a little extra work and turn that “no” to a “yes!” I find that the folks coming into the industry are coming in with a passion for green building. They have an untouchable energy, and that energy energizes me and the rest of us who have been told “no” for a long time - and we need it! We need you as much as you need us to teach you how to do this.
-Kristy Walson
Kristy Walson’s Show Resource and Information * A Land Remembered * LinkedIn * TLC Engineering Solutions
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Kevin Bright is the Energy and Sustainability Director for the City of Rochester and Destination Medical Center (DMC). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Geology and a Master’s degree in Energy and Environmental Analysis. He is a LEED Accredited Professional for two rating systems – building design and construction (BD+C) and operations and maintenance (O+M). He is also accredited as a Certified Energy Manager by the Association of Energy Engineers. He has worked in sustainability leadership roles at Harvard University, Colby College and now the DMC and City of Rochester for more than 12 years.
Kevin's key duties for the City of Rochester and DMC include:
- Implementing the City's Energy Action Plan;
- Supporting sustainability strategies to reduce resource consumption across the organization; and
- Fostering a culture of sustainability.
Show Highlights * The differences, intersections and importance of energy vs sustainability. * Minnesota’s organization and programs to collaborate on their ambitious goals to advance sustainability, environmental, and equitable outcomes. * 1. Efforts on ways address and promote more of an urbanist feel. 2. Integrating sustainability deeply in the public infrastructure projects associated with economic development to influence private developments. 3. The collaboration and the willingness to collaborate from large companies to create opportunity. * Actions Kevin’s taking to advance more resilient and equitable communities. * Develop understanding, appreciation and education on how people live across the world. * How to give voice to the communities you serve and be a leader, an ally to fight it and be anti-racist? * The municipality work will continue to grow sustainable jobs/ * Destination Medical Projects sustainability motto to create an American city for health. * The importance to be a global citizen. * Kevin stresses the importance of being curious,maximizing the resources, and knowing where the best place to plant a tree is. * Infrastructure strategies that zero in on improving health equity in communities.
“We all lead very different lives, and communities are being disproportionately impacted by the impacts of climate change as we speak. Unless we integrate these voices, this lived experience in our future planning efforts, we're going to miss the boat. We're not going to hit the mark that we're seeking, and we're going to further inequities that exist today.”
-Kevin Bright
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Experienced Co-Founder with a demonstrated history of working in the energy industry. Skilled in Negotiation, Business Planning, Operations Management, Sales, and Management. Strong business development professional with a Master's degree focused in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Louisiana Tech University.
Show Highlights
- How propane fits into green buildings and some trends?
- Why there is an increased interest in using propane to fuel homes?
- Navigating the need of other fuel sources for cost and efficiency.
- The right mix of different fuel types buildings can accept to eliminate waste.
- Realistic approach to blended mixed fuel that sheds high amperage load from renewable resources to make it more powerful.
- Propane Education Research Council (PERC), the difference between pipe natural gas and liquid propane, and when to use it.
- Propane technologies and innovations that impact energy efficiency in homes.
- A few ways the propane industry defines and achieves zero net energy.
- The misconstrued fact that zero net energy means all electric and demystify propane.
- The United States produces about four times the amount of propane we consume in the country.
“One of the things that we work on at PERC from a research standpoint is increasing the availability of renewable propane. Renewable propane is exactly what it says. It's a renewable fuel that is derived from several sources. The primary feedstock right now would be animal fats or used cooking oil. The production of this fuel right now is only primarily consumed in transportation markets, particularly in California and Northwest, there is an incentive for those consumers to use that renewable fuel in the transportation.”
-Bryan Cordill
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Bryan Cordill’s Show Resource and Information * Bryan’s LinkedIn * Building a ZNE home with propane webpage * Propane/ZNE infographic * Renewable propane
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As the director of sustainable services for Miron Construction, Theresa’s role is to inspire sustainability throughout Miron’s culture, integrate “green” into their business practices and construction operations, lead their sustainable education program, and serve as the Project Administrator for projects seeking green building certifications. Theresa has worked on over 80 projects across many market segments seeking LEED certification, which have successfully been awarded LEED Certified, Silver, Gold and Platinum. Many of her projects are highly regarded. Named as ENR magazine's top 20 under 40, and honored as a LEED Fellow in 2012, Theresa is the world’s youngest LEED Fellow. She is credentialed as a LEED AP BD+C, ID+C, WELL AP, Fitwel Ambassador, LEED Faculty, and WELL Faculty. She is an active WELL and USGBC volunteer serving on many national committees and working groups, including currently serving on the LEED Advisory Committee for LEED v4 and v4.1. Identified as a Subject Matter Expert, she continues to serve on several LEED and WELL exam development and review committees including piloting LEED v4 and v4.1, and is one of 12 worldwide participating in the WELL v2 Portfolio Pilot Program.
Show Highlights
- Opportunities for improvement with waste in the construction industry.
- Creating a future where construction could be sustainable.
- Miron’s leadership position in sustainability and practical construction solutions that enhance health and well-being
- Understanding clients sustainable goals to help project teams find incentives to offset the capital costs of the energy efficient equipment and systems that increase health and well-being
- Networking and being in the right place at the right time
- What impacts human health has come front and center to all organizations, especially schools
- People are going to have a better understanding of healthy building materials and how they impact human health from a respiratory standpoint
- The impact from big fortune 500 companies, a federal push, states, and local municipalities' carbon neutral and renewable energy goals
“If there is such a thing as a silver lining in COVID, it is the fact that health and wellness has come front and center to all organizations and it impacts everyone, not just a select few. I think that schools are understanding the importance of proper HVAC systems with a focus on ventilation and filtration systems that can go on and on.”
-Theresa Lehman
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Theresa Lehman’s Show Resource and Information * Becoming * Greenthink * LinkedIn * Twitter
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Matt St. Clair, who has led UC’s system-wide sustainability program for nearly 17 years, was recently named a 2020 LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Fellow. This prestigious distinction awarded by Green Business Certification Inc. — an international green business industry leader — is awarded to just 25 professionals around the world who demonstrate “exceptional work in advancing green building practices” and “10 years’ worth of exceptional impact on LEED.”
“The green building industry plays a critical role as we look toward rebuilding our economy and our communities in the months and years ahead,” said Mahesh Ramanujam, president and CEO of GBCI and U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) in an article published by Green Business Certification, Inc. “Our LEED Fellows are on the frontlines of that work helping to ensure our buildings and spaces are healthy, resilient and sustainable places for us all to enjoy. LEED Fellows have made substantial contributions to the green building community and their commitment to LEED will continue to help us shape a better living standard for all.”
Matt’s work has made an indelible impact upon UC, from growing UC’s green building portfolio from one LEED certification in 2004 to over 350 LEED certifications today, to his partnerships with former UC President Janet Napolitano in forming UC’s Carbon Neutrality Initiative and University Climate Change Coalition.
In addition to his work within UC, Matt was a founding member of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s board of directors. He has also worked to empower students to be current and future climate action leaders through several educational initiatives, including the Bonnie Reiss UC Carbon Neutrality Student Fellowship Program, Environmental and Climate Change Literacy Project, California Student Sustainability Coalition and Climate Corps.
Show Highlights 1. Activism and energy expertise created Matt’s dream job. 2. How UC has expanded green building and clean energy policy into comprehensive sustainable practice policy? 3. UC’s system-wide sustainability program is like turning the Titanic. 4. Questions you need to ask to adapt to the biggest trends in the industry. 5. Climate resilience work centered on diversity equity and inclusion, anti-racism, environmental justice and climate justice. 1. over 350 LEED certifications. 2. requiring all new buildings are all electric. 3. all new buildings are carbon neutral or will be within the next four years. 4. the only university campus in the country or the world where every single building and residence all is LEED certified. 5. their 2025 goal for all of UC Campuses to be carbon neutral and climate section zero waste. How one campus has already achieved that goal? 6. the most renewable energy of any university in the country. 6. UC’s leading the way with...
“It really sort of radicalized me or opened my eyes to the fact that my heroes like Gandhi and MLK were considered radical in their time and over time became mainstreamed. It really empowered me to pursue a career in activism. I've pursued a career that's ended up as an activist on the inside. I became a changemaker within a large public organization.”
-Matt St Clair
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SUMMER MINCHEW, Managing Partner of Ecoimpact Consulting has managed the certification of more than 1.5 million square feet of green building space. Her expertise in sustainable design and construction is backed by 17 years of experience in green building rating systems, design guides, building product standards and certifications.
Summer specializes in green building certification project management demonstrating exceptional technical proficiency in documentation and submission for LEED, Enterprise Green Communities and Green Globes rating systems. Summer is a LEED Fellow who holds professional credentials as a LEED Accredited Professional with ID+C and O+M specialties.
Recognized by the Charlotte Business Journal as a 2020 Women In Business Achievement Award winner and a 2018 40 under Forty award recipient and awarded Most Inspiring Individual at Sustain Charlotte’s 2019 Charlotte Sustainability Awards, her career and civic achievements are numerous. As a leader in the industry, Summer is co-chair for the US Green Building Council Carolinas Community Market Leadership Advisory Board and the Health Product Declaration Collaborative Third-party Verification Technical Subcommittee. Summer’s commitment to the future of green building is also seen in her role as an educator. She is a recognized LEEDuser Expert offering advice to LEED practitioners internationally, and is contributing author of Sustainable Commercial Interiors, Second Edition, published by Wiley & Sons.
Show Highlights * Eco Impact focus and projects on sustainable strategies for business. * A social equity initiative for community based LEED initiatives. * Bread for the City -Michael Marshall Design. * City of Charlotte’s robust sustainability action plan. * + Strategic energy action plan. + LEED certification facilities based on their goals for 2040. * Wide green building adoption with building regulatory frameworks. * Useful tool for market transformation that compares policies and various US jurisdictions. * Volunteering is an extension of green building and essential network. * A program that verifies the accuracy of HPDs to provide additional levels of transparency. * How to push benchmarking forward within the constraints of a city?
“Health and wellness are at the forefront of this discussion as they should be. But let's not forgo sustainability for wellness because there is room for both at the table.”
-Summer Minchew
Summer Minchew’s Show Resource and Information * Born a Crime by Trevor Noah * Born a Crime Audiobook * The Vanishing Half * Holes * LinkedIn * BuildingRating | Sharing Transparency for a More Efficient Future * Ecoimpact Consulting
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Sue Clark is a LEED Fellow, WELL AP and WELL Faculty with Tengbom Architects, where she serves as Project Leader in Sustainability. Sue is also Interim WELL Manager at Sweden Green Building Council and a member of SGBC's LEED Advisory Committee.
Beginning in 2006, Sue worked extensively with the Canada Green Building Council, leading one of CaGBC’s LEED certification assessment teams and serving on multiple volunteer groups including CaGBC’s Technical Advisory Group for Sites and Water. After moving to Sweden in 2011, Sue brought her expertise in LEED to Sweden Green Building Council, where she organized the Council’s LEED Advisory Committee, LEED working groups and multiple task forces to address issues of implementing LEED in Sweden.
As a LEED Consultant, Sue has participated on more than a dozen LEED projects across Canada, and in Sweden she led the LEED consultancy on Mästerhuset, Stockholm's first LEED NC Platinum project. Now working with Tengbom, Sue joins the firm's sustainability group implementing ambitious goals for a better built environment in Sweden and beyond. As the first WELL AP in the Nordics and a WELL Faculty member, Sue works to support and educate on the WELL system with individuals and organisations interested in applying better health and wellbeing practices to the built environment.
Show Highlights * An architecture degree provides a great education for looking at things comprehensively. * A point of comparison on how consultants interface with contractors and different building cultures work with innovation. * The tapestry of complementary environmental certification systems and standards of green building in Sweden * 1. No fossil fuel resources within the national borders. 2. The ladder of certifications-BREEAM, LEED and Miljöbyggnad. * Tengbom is one of the oldest architectural firms in the world focusing every build to be healthier, climate ready, low carbon impact and circular. * Internal competences to address the EU and Sweden’s climate declaration, mandates, and emerging legislative trends. * Buildings are not designed appropriately for the future. * Climate adapted building and the tools that address climate risks for that specific location and design strategies. * How cat food and drywall pushed transparency?
“This industry is just so much about personal relationships that I'd say it's really totally worth doing. The other thing I would recommend is beware the specialization, stay a generalist, as long as you can. I think the people out there that are really great at sustainability are really great generalists, and there will always be this temptation to go down these different rabbit holes of sustainability, like becoming a daylight expert or an LCA expert. It's not that these things aren't fantastic, but the more you specialize, the more you have to sacrifice this comprehensive picture.”
-Sue Clark
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Charalampos Giannikopoulos is the founder of DCarbon, a consultancy firm whose goal is to provide top-quality analysis and strengthen existing values in the real-estate sector through the seamless integration of sustainable development tools, optimum efficiencies, innovation and green advocacy.
Charalampos started his career in the UK as the Sustainability Coordinator of the R&D group at Aedas, a global leading architectural firm, jumping to the business consultancy sector focusing on environmental investments and PPP projects. In 2011, he was involved in the inaugural implementation of LEED in Greece with large scale commercial projects.
With extensive experience in participating in multi-disciplinary teams on major international projects including the “Masdar City” sustainable masterplan and the “Abu Dhabi Investment Council” development in Abu Dhabi, Charalampos has been involved in prominent commercial, industrial and educational projects in the region including management of more than 80% of all completed LEED projects in Greece. Along with dynamic energy modelling projects, creation and implementation of environmental management plans and green advocacy programs.
Charalampos is a LEED Fellow, a USGBC (U.S. Green Building Council) Faculty, a former member of the LEED Technical Advisory Group of the USGBC and USGBC Pro Reviewer, a founding member of the BoD of the SBC Greece, former Vice President of the Hellenic Chapter of ASHRAE, a LEED AP with the “Building Design + Construction”, “Interior Design + Construction”, “Operations + Maintenance” and “Neighborhood Development” specialties, a WELL AP, a BREEAM International New Construction Assessor, a BREEAM In-Use Assessor, an Estidama Pearl Qualified Professional, a DGNB Consultant and an EDGE Expert.
Show Highlights * Greece’s 95% collapse in the real estate sector pushed sustainability to the forefront of projects. * Charalampos’ project management company does sustainability on a greater scale by asking how green is your portfolio. * Looking at sustainability from a different aspect to improve product manufacturer requirements. * Charalampos’ fearlessness has allowed his team to be involved in every single first project in its category. * How the evolution of health issues connects directly with the economics of green building? * The biggest challenges for the future and why LEED has been taken for granted. * Applying LEED and other rating systems in his region. * Keys for successful LEED projects and how to engage teams to maximize resources.
“I'm really proud of our involvement in the first LEED Platinum project in Greece - a kindergarten! To us, it is vitally important that children come into contact with sustainability. We believe that early exposure to sustainability can have a positive impact on the way people see the world, and choose to live and interact with the environment.”
- Charalampos Giannikopoulos
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Charalampos Giannikopoulos’ Show Resource and Information * This Changes Everything * LinkedIn * DCarbon | Sustainability Consulting | LinkedIn * DCARBON
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A nationally recognized expert on sustainable design, Jim serves as Director of Sustainability, leading the effort to incorporate sustainable design strategies and features into LAS design projects Nationally. Nicolow’s extensive knowledge of the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED rating system has made him a sought-after speaker, author, and blogger. He recently earned the distinctions of AIA Fellow and LEED Fellow.
Nicolow joined LAS in 1997 and in 2001 became the first member of the firm-and one of the first in the country-to become a LEED Accredited Professional. He has participated in the successful LEED certification of more than 70 projects. He was instrumental in the firm’s early adoption of The 2030 Challenge, an initiative whose ultimate goal is the design of carbon-neutral buildings and leads the firm’s effort to identify opportunities and strategies for the routine integration of eco-effective design i all LAS projects as well as improving the environmental performance of the firm’s operations and workplaces.
Jim attended the University of Michigan, where he received both his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Architecture, and Wester Michigan University, where he received a Master of Business Administration. He is a National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) certificate holder.
Show Highlights * Merge personal interest in sustainability with a professional career. * What you need to know about Lord Aeck Sargent and Katerra? * 1. a firm interested in ecological design. 2. technology company extensively looking to disrupt the design and construction industry. * Clients that focus on sustainability as a key driver for their built environment projects motivate and move the industry. * Sustainability challenges, materials and projects that incentivized the Hawaiian region to be efficient. * The codes have really caught up to LEED with the ASHRAE 90.1 approach to LEED. * The embodied carbon impact of the building products take on an ever greater importance. * A push for mass timber as part of the future of the building industry. * Jim’s highlight project that was completely focused on sustainability and creating a teaching building to tell the story of sustainability.
“With the Living Building Challenge, as an example, you've got to power the building with the light that falls on the site and provide water with what falls on the site. I would like to see these solutions be solved on the municipal level; that way, the building operator is not also running an energy plant and a water treatment plant. It would be much better if we still had distributed systems, but solve some of these issues on a greater scale. I'm hoping we will start to look more comprehensively at communities rather than building by building.”
Jim Nicolow Transcript Jim Nicolow’s Show Resource and Information * Southface Institute: Home * Homo Deus * LinkedIn * Jim Nicolow | Lord Aeck Sargent
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Director and founder of Revitaliza Consultores in Mexico City, a firm specialized in environmental consulting for green building portfolios, Alicia is responsible for overseeing LEED certification, strategic development, and corporate sustainability initiatives in diverse markets encompassing México, Peru, Colombia and Spain. In 2015, Alicia was recognized by GB&D Magazine as one of the 20 women who are shaping the sustainability landscape of tomorrow.
She has overseen certification projects for several icon buildings: Torre Mayor (a 55-floor multi-tenant corporate building), Antiguo Palacio del Ayuntamiento, (a 500 year old historic building), and CIINOVA (the highest scoring LEED certified building in Latin America).
Alicica was featured in LEED in Motion Mexico, as one of the leaders in LEED consulting in Mexico.
Alicia is a founding member of SUMe Sustentabilidad Para Mexico. She served as its Vice President from 2011-2015. She volunteered on the LEED steering committee with USGBC, and represented Mexico at the LEED international Round Table until 2016.
Alicia also works hard to advance gender equality in the construction industry. Her company culture is designed to keep smart women in their jobs. Her company does this by offering flexible schedules and quality of life so nobody has to choose between career and family!
She is the recipient of the Greenbuild Mexico Leadership Award 2019 a recognition for her trajectory as a change maker.
Her goal is to build a sustainable future where community and business growth are aligned with the vitality of the planet and the quality of human life.
Show Highlights * Seattle’s EcoTopia and Ecopreneurs force you to convert to a super green life. * Raising the standard overcomes gender bias in the industry and in Latin America. * The benefits of LEED evolved to change the markets, increase education, and promote green building in a developing country. * Tips for the role of a green building consultant and how to demonstrate a business case, a health case, a better world case for every building you work in. * Strategizing how to make your whole portfolio better. * Shifts of the investors and the projects, in terms of the climate emergency now that green building is at the forefront. * Education is essential if you want to transform and inspire the market.
“We really want to be the best for the world, not just the best in the world. I want to see the transformation that happens in people when they are moved internally by green buildings and sustainability and see, for perhaps the first time, that there is a better way of living this life. I want people to know we not only have the responsibility - but the power to build a better world for ourselves and for the generations that follow us.”
-Alicia Silva
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Sara Greenwood is a sustainability consultant with over 15 years of experience. Her expertise and insight into emerging green building practices and technologies provide a unique perspective for clients pursuing green building certifications or business initiatives. Her experience in sustainable program development and management helps to guide project teams through the green building planning, documentation, and certification process. Sara consults on a number of projects of various building types such as multi-family residential, commercial offices, retail, healthcare, higher education facilities and government buildings. She has strong experience working with the following rating systems: LEED, WELL, Green Globes, CHPS, and ENERGY STAR.
Greenwood also consults on sustainable business initiatives and climate services to clients in the corporate, higher educational institutions, and municipal sectors. By engaging in a comprehensive greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory of operations a roadmap can be developed to achieve emissions reduction goals. Her experience assisting cities with Climate Action Plans and energy efficiency and conservation strategies has put her at the forefront of implementing federal and California state legislation. She has helped manage several critical research programs under the California Energy Commission to inform future updates and related public interests.
Greenwood has served on the USGBC Central Plains board for three years and has Chaired since January 2016
Specialties: New Construction, Commercial Interiors, Core & Shell, Schools, + Existing Buildings certification nationwide. Project management.
Sustainability Charrettes • LEED Certification • Rating System Analyst •Corporate Sustainability • Carbon Offset Programs • Project Management • Marketing • Green Materials • Construction Support • Contractor Training
Show Highlights * Advocated for sustainable schools to facilitate significant bond measures for districts to formally adopt resolutions to build sustainable schools.
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CHPS Framework is more comprehensive than LEED for Schools.
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Database of environmentally preferable products
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Criteria addressing new buildings, existing buildings, portable classrooms and specific rooms
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Working at CTG provided a broad reaching breadth of experience working that propelled Sara’s career.
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WELL or adapt elements of the WELL rating system is important to all projects because you can still pull from the WELL standard for the change in building markets.
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Explore ARC and other existing building performance metrics.
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Shift towards all electric and much more energy efficient buildings.
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You need to know about Kansas City, Missouri's commitment to have all public buildings be certified and the different building types all across the Kansas City area.
“I'm optimistic that within the building community there will be renewed energy towards the optimization of building performance. All systems. Zero net everything: zero net waste, zero net water, zero net carbon.”
-Sara Greenwood
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Sara Greenwood’s Show Resource and Information * Daring Greatly * Becoming * The Glass Castle * The Greenwood Consulting Group, LLC * CHPS Criteria * LinkedIn * Facebook
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Experienced Chief Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the environmental services industry. Skilled in Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainable Design and Sustainability. Strong business development professional graduated from Universidad de Los Andes.
Show Highlights * Colombia’s use of natural ventilation to fit their mild climate
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Sustainability analysis of LEED versus Edge Certification
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Diego’s project Elemental, was an open letter for sustainability
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Colombia’s push to create over 2 million sustainable social housing
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The push for a good ventilating systems
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The psychology of people and understanding the way to sell them sustainability
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Industry impact in green building now that the world is conscious about the environment
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Green Factory’s entrepreneurial journey to becoming a B-Corp
“Sometimes you need to jump! Jump in and take risks. For me, sometimes I was a bit scared, which blocked me from doing things that I could and even wanted to do! I learned that sometimes you just have to take the leap and learn how to create your wings on the way down.”
-Diego Felipe Prada
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Diego Felipe Prada’s Show Resource and Information * The Upcycle
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Esteban Martinez is an architect and civil engineer from the Universidad de los Andes. He received his Master’s Degree in Sustainable Design from the Boston Architectural College and complementary studies in Sustainable Urbanism from the Rotterdam School of Architecture. Esteban holds the following credentials: LEED AP BD&C, LEED AP O&M, GREEN RATER, and Certified Building Commissioning Professional from the Association of Energy Engineers.
Martinez is Co-Founder and Director of Sustainability at Green Loop, in Bogota, Colombia – South America where he brings his vast array of experience as a sustainability consultant, energy modeler, and commissioning agent. Esteban has worked on over 180 different projects located in Colombia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador and EEUU.
In Colombia there are very few companies that develop sustainable architecture in every sense of the word. Most of them are exclusively limited to bioclimatic development, which represents only a small branch of sustainability in buildings.
At an industrial level, most of the companies that work on ERUs are limited only to the analysis at the energy level, without going into the design and layout of buildings, and therefore the correct use of natural resources. By integrating the energy branch, with the design and rational use of other resources, it is possible to maximize the reduction of operational costs and therefore greater competitiveness of its products both nationally and internationally.
Show Highlights * Building in Latin America and mandates that are pushing efficiency.
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The benefits of a dual degree in engineering and architectural for bigger impact.
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How a “fluke” started the whole green building movement in Colombia?
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Esteban’s entrepreneurial journey to bringing LEED projects to Colombia.
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Energy simulations and bio climatic analysis throughout the world.
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A LEED gold rating system with less than 1% of extra costs.
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Materials that adapt to what the environment is bringing.
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The client looking at money is a good part of the sustainable equation.
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The impact Greenbuild has on your career.
“Remember that sustainability is about people, planet, and profit. If the profit is not there, your client will probably do the project that you're pursuing, but he will never do it again. If it doesn't make economical sense, it's not sustainable.”
-Esteban Martinez
Esteban Martinez Transcript Esteban Martinez’s Show Resource and Information * The Green Studio Handbook
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Nicholas Stolatis leads the asset management and sustainability practice at EPN Real Estate Services, Inc. Nick has extensive experience managing real estate investment assets across all property types and supports clients’ development and implementation of operational best practices. He also advises and represents clients on transactional activities, including leasing, sales, acquisitions and financing.
As Head of Global Real Estate Sustainability & Enterprise Initiatives for TIAA, Nicholas created the award-winning GRE Sustainability Initiative: increasing energy efficiency by 22%, reducing energy costs by $100MM and GHG emissions by almost 500,000 tons. His leadership in ESG integration helped TIAA develop unique programs such as Property Management Governance, Responsible Contractor Policies and Real Estate Brand Management. As a senior executive with the firm, he represented Global Real Estate on many corporate working groups, special teams and program initiatives. He was also responsible for the asset and portfolio management of real estate assets including: sales, dispositions, new development, re-positioning of troubled assets, and rehabilitation of foreclosed properties.
Nicholas is actively involved in industry advocacy and education groups including BOMI, BOMA, IREM, and IPMS. He is Adjunct Professor with Fordham University's Real Estate Institute. He contributed to IREM's Sustainability Program, and BOMI's Asset Management and High Performance Investment courses, and he facilitates IREM's Ethics and Sustainability curricula.
Nicholas is Chairman of the Board for BOMI International and serves on various executive committees, nonprofit advisory boards, investment and technology companies.
He has earned the Certified Property Manager (IREM), Real Property Administrator (BOMI) and LEED-AP BD+C (USGBC) designations.
Show Highlights * The hands-on part of asset management.
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Asset management vs property management. How to understand the needs of your property.
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Energy Star is a perfect tool you need to be using for benchmarking.
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Nick shares the benefits and parameters LEED has on his industry.
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Differentiate between BOMA and BOMI.
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Questions and conversations to balance whole equation and discern what makes most sense for your builds.
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Nick’s exciting multifamily project with the benefits of having an all electric building.
“We can't stop education. We have to be constantly learning, especially in this industry. If you're going to rely on what you knew 10 or even 5 years ago, you're behind the times.”
-Nick Stolatis
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Sara Neff took Kilroy Realty Corporation from having no sustainability program to being named the #1 public real estate company across all asset classes on sustainability in the Americas by GRESB. At Kilroy, she oversees all sustainability initiatives such as the implementation of energy and water efficiency projects, solar and battery installations, green janitor education, all LEED certifications, the deployment of electric vehicle charging stations, and the greening of building and construction standards. Under her leadership they just achieved carbon neutral operations at the end of 2020!
She also serves on The CLEEN Project advisory board, the GBCI Board of Directors, and the GRID Alternatives Board of Directors. Previously, she served on the USGBC Advisory Council and as Chair of the Board of Directors of USGBC Los Angeles, in addition to the Board of Directors of Young Professionals in Energy Los Angeles, Advisory Council of the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, and the BOMA Los Angeles Sustainability Committee.
She is a frequent speaker (20+ events per year) at industry conferences and seminars on energy efficiency, tenant engagement, market transformation, and green leasing. Select speaking engagements include ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year (Keynote), C40, USGBC Greenbuild, VERGE, US Conference of Mayors, BOMA International and ACEEE.
Show Highlights * Kilroy has the right market forces to make sustainability happen.
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The reasons you need to advocate for a standalone sustainability budget.
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Avoid getting trapped in sustainability with these staying power tips for the industry.
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What did Kilroy do to shock the commercial real estate world?
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Their impressive sustainability portfolio.
- Amount of influence over the whole industry, especially in something as important as carbon.
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The America's listed sector leader across all asset classes.
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Getting creative about off-site renewables.
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Sara talks all things GRESB (how green is your portfolio of CRE).
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Green building’s responsibility towards the impact buildings have on human health and productivity.
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Sara’s tips to make sustainability make business sense.
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A great tool that gives insight into the embodied carbon of construction materials and helps manage it.
“Environmental people tend to just only want to talk about sustainability. You have to speak the language of business in our field of real estate, to really be able to be successful [with your sustainability initiatives].”
-Sara Neff
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Sara Neff ’s Show Resource and Information * Kilroy Realty Annual Sustainability (2019) Report * How To Have A Good Day * The Grid * Invisible Women * Twitter * LinkedIn * Facebook
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John Dalzell is a Senior Architect for Sustainable Development at the Boston Redevelopment Authority. Leading the City's E+ Green Building and E+ Green Communities Programs which are joint BRA and Department of Neighborhood Development initiatives. John also has served on: the Board of Directors, US Green Building Council, Chair USGBC Location and Planning Technical Advisory Group, Member of the LEED for Neighborhood Development Core Committee, and is a Founding Board Member of the USGBC Massachusetts Chapter.
In 2013, Dalzell was awarded LEED Fellow by the US Green Building Council.
Show Highlights * Revitalizing Boston’s commercial districts was a fundamental sustainability strategy that created the largest urban main street program in the country.
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LEED For Neighborhood Development, and other fantastic programs and competitions that will inspire.
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Addressing the impacts of sea level rise and climate change to ensure citizens thrive long into the future.
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Conversations on climate risk models and the resiliency models.
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John reinforces why green building and sustainability is really a group effort and journey.
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Pioneer design engineering strategies, products and practices that are achieving net zero carbon in public and private development.
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The importance of being stewards of a community to connect the national movement with a local city.
“Ultimately it comes down to continuing to look at how we function best as a community. In those regards, whether you're volunteering, or serving at the professional level in your town or region, it’s all an expression of caring. A tangible expression of - we do better when we work together. I think that's an important message this time of year, and especially for these last few years.”
-John Dalzell
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John Dalzell ’s Show Resource and Information * The Ecology of Commerce * LinkedIn * Twitter * Facebook
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With more than 14 years of experience, Miranda’s portfolio ranges from research of corporate water footprinting and review of financing options for energy efficient homes to sustainable master plans. She has worked for internationally recognized organizations, such as the US Green Building Council and KfW, and within city governments in Germany and the UAE. In 2020, she was recognized for her ongoing sustainability work with the distinction of LEED Fellow from GBCI/USGBC.
Her passion for the environment drives her to improve sustainability practices through local engagement and on the global scale. While at USGBC, she launched the LEED Pilot Credit Library and was the technical manager for LEED for Retail and LEED for Healthcare. Miranda’s clients have implemented and achieved a variety of green building certifications including BOMA BESt recertifications and Estidama Pearl Ratings.
Additionally, Miranda is a distance running coach and cycling instructor, who believes that caring for oneself resonates in caring for the planet.
Show Highlights * The education traveling has on your career to blend experience that will help you understand different approaches in sustainability tactics * Miranda’s experience in Germany during an immigration crisis and how they maintained their sustainability agenda to integrate people and values into their culture. * How to keep pushing the sustainability line forward when you are being tested. Forming “how” and not “can” questions * LEED Fellowship honors the people who made sure Miranda was moving the buck forward * The diverse portfolio of HKS with firm-wide resources * Working within the confines of federal funding and what that looks like for sustainability elements. * 2020 green building highlights and how to navigate the healthy building movement * There will be a new normal in the industry and it doesn't have to cost us a lot
“Opening up and helping facilitate a lot of the dialogues that we're having right now, in some part, thanks to 2020. The conversations that have to come up, dismantling systemic racism, looking at community engagement, looking at how our building designs are much more holistic than just quote unquote sustainability in the lens of the built environment are so important right now.”
-Miranda Gardniner
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Miranda Gardiner’s Show Resource and Information * Lo―TEK. Design by Radical Indigenism * The River of Doubt * LinkedIn * Twitter * HKS Architects
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Tate Walker is the Director of Sustainability at OPN Architects and leads projects and initiatives across the firm’s four offices. His experience is rooted in the architectural design process but also includes program and project management as well as the development of technical guidelines for high performing buildings. He has served on the AIA’s Committee on the Environment and USGBC’s Energy & Atmosphere Technical Advisory Group. Tate firmly believes that the connection between architecture and energy provides leadership opportunities for architects as creative problem solvers. This is especially true for those willing to stretch their practice beyond its traditional boundaries.
Show Highlights * The blue ocean of green building * The COTE Toolkit operational guide to achieve the COTE top 10 * 1. A framework for design excellence beyond sustainability for the entire Institute. 2. Fundamental measures about design and equitable communities, energy, water, wellbeing * Projects that weave concepts to tailor unique circumstances through a lens of what health hazards people are currently facing * AIA, commitment 2030 challenge and other mechanisms, and tools to achieve green building goals * Tate shares the essential questions he asks when walking a client through options * How to embrace strong divergent thinking to cast a wide net to determine what's out there, how things fit together, and that is what is missing.
“We're tripping over ourselves, no one person can span the breadth of all these subject areas for sustainability. We need to pick a subject and go deep on that. Figure out what you're passionate about. If it's energy, if it's materials, if it's resilience, these are all super important and the crossover is huge. I've been deep into energy for my entire career and we still are not building net zero buildings.”
-Tate Walker
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Tate Walker’s Show Resource and Information * Committee on the Environment - AIA KnowledgeNet * A poet's home in Carmel * Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever * Tools for Grassroots Activists * LinkedIn * Twitter
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Join a lively town hall discussion as two LEED Fellows, and a nationally leading builder discuss the unbelievable year 2020 has been and forecast the year in 2021. The wide-ranging conversation will cover a variety of pressing issues impacting the green building industry, including the US Presidential election, the US leaving the Paris Agreement, COVID building re-entry and the new LEED COVID response credits, diversity and inclusion, B Corporations, the buzzword of the year “carbon,” the climate crisis, California net-zero legislation leading the way for the country, and recaps of the nationally leading green building conferences — the Net Zero Conference and Greenbuild.
Moderator:
Charlie Cichetti, LEED Fellow
CEO & Co-Founder
Sustainable Investment Group
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Panelists:
Drew Shula, LEED Fellow
Founder & CEO
Verdical Group
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Michael Strong
Senior Project Manager
Pankow
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Susan Inglis is the executive director and a founding member of the Sustainable Furnishings Council (SFC), an independent coalition incorporated in March 2007 with the aim of promoting sustainable practices within the industry.
Under her direction, SFC has led the green revolution by working with industry leaders to establish standards and practices to measure furniture sustainability. The SFC 275 members in its short lifetime.
Inglis is also founder and owner of From The Mountain (FTM), a company that develops, sources, and manages the production of casegoods, home accents, and textiles handmade in Bolivia, Columbia, Peru, Serbia, Madagascar, Uganda and other international locales. FTM is known for products which are handmade, unique, storied, connected to the greater world, and affiliated with green industries.
She has earned international recognition for her achievements meeting the specific needs of both for-profit marketers and not-for-profit foundations, often linking indigenous artisan groups to new markets and supporting international microenterprise development organizations. Inglis has served as business development consultant and trainer for publicly-funded development organizations around the world.
As producer and sourcing agent/broker, she has developed or sourced home, gift, fashion, and natural products for some of America’s most innovative companies, including ABC Carpet & Home, Aveda, Egg by Susan Lazar, Grant Dawson Collection, National Geographic Catalog, Red Egg, Sundance Catalog, Tucker Robbins, Vietri, and more.
Inglis holds a degree in anthropology from the UNC at Chapel Hill. Asked what is the most important thing a person can do to encourage a more sustainable approach to business, Inglis gives a short answer: “Buy carefully.”
Specialties: sourcing handmades & sustainable manufacture
Show Highlights * Why the largest furniture market in the world is in North Carolina * Sustainable Furnishings Council (SFC) provides resources, guidance, and education for the industry and conconsumer. Their website is a valuable resource with the finder and scorecard features * WithIt is the best networking organization in the industry * SFC’s data initiative encourages transparency in supply chains and stimulates innovation towards the elimination of harmful chemicals * You can trust certifications and labels. Learn about GOTS, Global Organic Textile Standard and OEKO-TEX certification. * Circularity is gaining in importance because in circularity many sustainability segments intersect to meet sustainability targets * Susan’s insights and contagious enthusiasm for the sustainability industry will inspire you
“It is not uncommon for the material to come from one continent to be processed on another, to be manufactured into something on another for use by consumers on yet another.”
-Susan Inglis
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Susan Inglis’ Show Resource and Information * Lab Girl: * The Story of More: * The Overstory: * Sustainable Furnishings Council * Sustainablefurnishings.org * WithIt * Facebook * Linkedin
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Sustainability Consultant with more than ten years of experience in LEED, green building, and sustainable facility management. Project work has spanned over 500 projects in all of the commercial LEED rating systems for new and existing buildings, as well as sustainable master planning, building operations and maintenance, and sustainability reporting. Familiarity with Energy Star, WELL, CHPS, GRESB, TRUE, EDGE, SITES, Fitwel, Green Classroom, Parksmart and Green Globes programs. International work throughout Europe and Asia. Ability to work in high pressure, fast-paced environments.
Show Highlights
- The benefits of having one of the original sustainability pioneers as a mentor
- A cup of coffee and a well meaning conversation can open up opportunities in your career
- The growing content and writing overhaul of the system being released by Master Spec for specifications writing
- Developing WELL content for Cal Green to make green building more accessible for everyone
- Increasing focus on occupant health to address how much time people spend in buildings
- Camp walks you through how to put design development specifications and requirements needed in one book to ensure everyone on the project is seeing the requirements
- The power of when and how to say “no” to benefit your career
- Focus on more than the direct environmental impact of the building itself
“It was a fantastic experience [as a LEED Reviewer]. It was really cool to go from the consultant side to the reviewer side. It was just amazing to see all the projects that come in and the different types of projects. I reviewed projects from all over the world, Europe, the Middle East, South America, of course all over the US, Canada and Mexico as well. And then just to sort of learn after having done the documentation for so many years, being on the other side and learning kind of specifically what to look for in the documentation, like getting that training of exactly what some of these key things are that they look for right off the bat.”
-Camp Boyd
Camp Boyd Transcript
Camp Boyd’s Show Resource and Information * Linkedin * Twitter * Gail Vittori * Deltek, Inc.
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Angi Rivera has over 15 years of Sustainability Management experience and is the Managing Director + Project Manager at GreenShape, LLC. Formerly Regional Sustainability Practice Leader of one of the world’s largest Architecture and Engineering firms, Angi has managed Sustainable Design and Planning for both government and commercial globally. Angi has worked on a vast array of projects including: new and renovated mixed-use, residential, military, educational, industrial, correctional, and medical program facilities.
Education * MA Environment and Energy 2004 * Architectural Association, London * Bachelor of Architecture 2001 * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * Louisiana State University, 2000
Show Highlights * The positives and negatives of working for a large global company
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Angi shares her experience working in the UK that kick started her career
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Networking and getting involved in USGBC is invaluable
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Learn how GreenShape’s projects were very integral early on in the sustainability movement in DC and what they are working on now.
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The reward of ambitious sustainability goals, impacts of daylight analysis, and all the energy modeling you could possibly do for all the different options on your projects
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How to intentionally communicate with force and respect when dealing with stressors in Green Building. A tip to help you find level understanding.
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Technical design changes that impact energy consumption to quantify how your designs make sense.
“[when planning a new development] We always have community meetings. We have the planning initiatives, but far too often, a large segment of that community does have its voice heard, because they're either not active participants or they have been made to feel that they're not invited or welcomed to participate. Whatever the reason, part of our planning and part of our input process needs to include everyone. We need to also understand how we gentrify areas. We need to be more sympathetic to how our developments impact entire populations of people who have built their lives in a particular neighborhood and go far beyond giving just a small percentage of the neighborhood the ability to remain where they chose to live and make their life. We displace entire groups of people and it really shouldn't happen as it does now.”
-Angi Rivera
Angi Rivera Transcript Angi Rivera’s Show Resource and Information * How Culture Shapes
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The Last Neanderthal
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- Angi | GreenShape LLC
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Today is a special episode with our one and only, Charlie Cichetti, with a special announcement regarding the "2020 LEED FELLOWS and GREENBUILD ANNOUNCEMENT."
Show Highlights
Greenbuild International Conference and Expo 2020
Green Business Certification Inc. Celebrates the 2020 Class of LEED Fellows | U.S. Green Building Council
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Robert Sroufe is a Professor of Sustainability, Operations and Supply Chain Management in the Palumbo-Donahue School of Business at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Professor Sroufe develops and teaches a course on Strategic Sustainability and Models, which covers the forces and models driving current decision making while integrating sustainable business practices into operations. He also develops and teaches a course on Sustainable Tools and Processes which teaches students how to develop sustainability management plans, how to understand energy management systems, and there even is a LEED competition!
Sroufe believes that students thrive when challenged with real-world problems. Thus, he likes to engage students in problem based learning and research. During both the Fall and Spring semesters, Sroufe co-instructs Sustainability Consulting Field Project courses and oversees student teams that are consulting real-world corporate clients!
Sroufe is currently working to develop new opportunities to integrate sustainability courses within the Graduate and Undergraduate programs. Sroufe's course, Sustainability Tools and Processes for New Initiatives was one of just 20 winners selected internationally by the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program (Aspen BSP) for the 2017 Ideas Worth Teaching Award. Sroufe was also an Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer finalist, and has received the University Creative Teaching Award, and the Decision Sciences Institute Instructional Innovation Award for the development and delivery of these courses. As a faculty member within the innovative and #1 ranked U.S. MBA Sustainable Business Practices program, he is also an integral member of the faculty team awarded the Page Prize for Best U.S. Environmental Curriculum.
In his research, Professor Sroufe primarily aims to understand what drives sustainability performance and how firms can develop effective environmental management systems to enable the measurement and management of a triple bottom line. His work has been published in a number of journals, including the Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Society, the European Journal of Operations Research, Journal of Supply Chain Management, International Journal of Production Research, the Production and Inventory Management Journal, Greener Management International, and Business Strategy and the Environment, while also publishing books on Integrated Management: How Sustainability Creates Value for Any Business, Developing Sustainable Supply Chains to Drive Value: Management Issues, Insights, and Tools; and Strategic Corporate Environmental Management Systems. Professor Sroufe consults with a range of corporations, and conducts quantitative and qualitative research with firms including Alcoa, Baxter, Dow, Eco Labs, Ford, Gillette, GSA, Herman Miller, IBM, Intel, Interfaces, Lucent, and Steelcase.
Prior to joining the MBA+Sustainability program, Professor Sroufe was an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at Boston College. He holds a Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Operations and a dual M.B.A. in Materials and Logistics Management, along with Procurement from MSU.
Show Highlights
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The best way to protect the environment is to avoid reactive approaches.
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Investigate the interaction between the environment and the state of the world.
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The top MBA sustainability program in the country puts best practices into action by providing experience and understanding of the importance of buildings in the sustainability movement.
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Robert is actively looking for participants that would want to engage a team of MBAs to figure out how to solve a problem that we don't know the answer to.
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Projects at no cost to clients
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Examine how products interact with space and contribute to indoor air quality issues when designing for human health and productivity.
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Decisions that can turn a return on investment into a return on integration and a feature on net present value turned into an integrated future value.
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Why the phrase “Triple Bottom Line” should be changed to an “Integrated Bottom Line”?
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The highlight reel filled with projects and curriculum that inspires world sustainability every student and young profession needs to hear.
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Tips to understand the overwhelming amount of data when selecting products with less impacts on the environment and society.
“I want to face real problems with student teams and then apply a framework for the solution . The framework is a strategic sustainable development framework looking at understanding systems. Think about what is strategic, how we define success, and what tools can we apply to help solve the problem.”
-Robert Sroufe
Robert Sroufe’s Show Resource and Information * The Power of Existing Buildings * Integrated Management * What Color Is Your Parachute? * Good App Guide * LinkedIn * Twitter * Facebook * Duquesne University * Academia.edu.
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As a Building Scientist, Andrea’s interests are in pushing the performance and minimizing the environmental impact of her projects. She also enjoys building the firm’s knowledge and intuition about sustainability through research endeavors and project explorations.
At Payette, Andrea works across projects to bring rigor to the performance of projects. She integrates performance modeling tools into Payette’s design process at the very beginning to inform and push designs. Additionally, she leads a number of internal research projects, and was the Principal Investigator on the 2012 AIA Upjohn Research Initiative-funded “Thermal Performance of Facades,” a research project focused on thermal bridging. She also leads the firm’s efforts on the AIA 2030 Commitment, tracking and benchmarking the performance of projects across the firm.
Andrea received a Master of Science in Architecture Studies in Building Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was the recipient of the Tucker-Voss Award and focused her thesis on the thermal performance of facades. She is also a Lecturer at MIT in the Department of Architecture’s Building Technology group where she teaches a class on building envelope performance. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the USGBC Massachusetts Chapter, as well as the national USGBC Chapter Steering Committee and Education Steering Committee, and is a member of the COTE Advisory Group to the Board.
EDUCATION
MS, Arch. Studies, Building Technology, 2011, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.Arch., 2002, Carnegie Mellon University
Show Highlights * Payette focuses on the most energy intensive typologies out there on the fusion of design and performance
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Why there is no value in holding research that helps to advance the industry.
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Andrea provides useful online tools to benefit projects with apples to apples comparisons
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Thinking holistically about carbon, climate change and the impact buildings have
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The vast amounts of carbon emissions come from the operational carbon forcing energy modeling and embodied carbon to move to the forefront
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Make sure building science is part of conversation from the onset of design, even in interviews
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Being able to articulate to your firm your interests and your skills will help you and your organization find your sweet spot to make a profound impact in an emerging industry
“According to the ITCC. The report that they put out in 2018, we need to globally cut our carbon emissions in half by 2030, and eliminate them completely by 2050. If we look over that kind of critical time period between now and 2030, the vast majority of the emissions, actually even from energy intensive buildings, is really going to come from the embodied carbon. We can't ignore it and it's something that I think is starting to really grow as a focus for firms and across the industry. I think we'll continue to push to become more mainstream throughout the practice.”
-Andrea Love
Andrea Love’s Show Resource and Information * Fusion: The Performance of Architecture
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Clap When You Land
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The Vanishing Half
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Invisible Women
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- Payette
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Jeff focuses on public interest architecture and planning. He is the former Executive Director of First Community Housing, a Non-Profit Affordable Housing Developer in San Jose, CA. As Executive Director of FCH, Jeff built the firm into a nationally recognized pioneer [and early adopter] in the development of sustainable, affordable housing. FCH's impressive record of architecturally significant, sustainable affordable housing in the Silicon Valley has been recognized through multiple local, state and national awards, including an AIA/COTE 2009 Top Green Projects Award, an AIA National Housing Award, an AIA California Chapter "Community Housing Honor Assistance Award", Boston Society of Architects John M. Clancy Award for Socially Responsible Housing, a USGBC "Super Heroes" Award and the State of California GEELA Award for Sustainability. As ED at FCH Jeff developed the first "set-aside" in California for Developmentally Disabled tenants--which is now a core value in all FCH developments.
Under Jeff's leadership, FCH pioneered the integration of "Green"/Vegetative roofs in Affordable Housing Developments.
Jeff has served as a juror on the national AIA/HUD Housing Awards and on the Cradle to Cradle International Ideas Competition and is a frequent speaker at national conferences on Housing, Sustainability and integrating special needs populations. Jeff is a member of the SPUR San Jose Policy Board and Housing Advisory Committee and served on the USGBC 2015 LEED Fellows Selection Committee. He is an expert Integrated Design Team Leader.
Jeff is a member of the AIA California Council Housing Congress exploring the Architects' role in providing solutions to our current housing affordability crisis.
Consultation in: Multifamily Affordable Housing, Incorporating Special Needs Tenants in Multifamily Housing, Urban Design and Design Review, and Social Equity in Design.
Show Highlights * How the shootings at Kent State inspired how Jeff looked at the community and how people participate in the environment?
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Everything you need to know about First Community Housing, why they are hyper aware of toxins, green roofs, and how they became the model beyond affordable housing in their designs.
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Integrating green products into your designs so they can’t be value engineered out.
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A perfect formula that pulls the community together to design exciting architecture for people with developmental disabilities.
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Partnering with organizations like Enterprise Community Foundations and the Living Building can help meet some challenges with budget.
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It’s essential to improve air circulation systems and not let net zero carbon and electricity overshadow using natural and nontoxic materials.
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Stop thinking about sustainability and start thinking about carbon reduction, zero electric and regenerative planning.
“I left First Community Housing five years ago, all our buildings were LEED Platinum and we're starting to investigate getting a Living Building Future. That is even further than LEED. Now I realize that's passe right now, because we really need to be looking at all electric buildings, zero electric, new materials, maybe photo glass that are going to change things. Just being sustainable is not enough anymore.”
- Jeff Oberdorfer
Jeff Oberdorfer Transcript Jeff Oberdorfer’s Show Resource and Information * The New Carbon Architecture by Bruce King * LinkedIn * Facebook * Jeff | University of San Francisco * Jeff Oberdorfer FAIA
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Have you ever wondered why some teams rise to excellence or some organizations excel at innovation? Understanding what drives organizational learning and innovation, and the foundations of highly successful teams has been a personal pursuit for Joanne Perdue for almost three decades. Joanne considers this knowledge essential to accelerating the sustainability transformation.
As CSO for UCalgary she is responsible for leadership and organizational strategy to enable the university to reach its goal of being a leader in sustainability. This work takes her deep into the disciplines of organizational learning, leadership and change management – alongside both the diverse technical skills and business operations knowledge required of sustainability professionals.
Joanne believes there is no more important work. The higher education sector has the greatest reach in preparing future leaders, undertakes critical interdisciplinary research to enable the transition to a sustainable future, and has unique opportunities to model the way forward.
Prior to joining UCalgary, as a practicing architect she combined her aptitude for design thinking, her reverence for the natural environment, and her desire to create remarkable places. This triad shaped a twenty-year career specializing in healthy, high performance green buildings.
She is a LEED Fellow but her work in this area began long before LEED. The C.K. Choi Building at the University of British Columbia, completed in the mid 90’s, was perhaps her most seminal project. It set an exceptional North American precedent for sustainable design, and it demonstrated the power of the integrative design process (then an undefined concept) in enabling interdisciplinary teams to innovate and achieve collective excellence.
Joanne is a life-long learner and is interested in connecting with senior sustainability professionals and academics on: organizational learning for sustainability, particularly those leading change in large complex organizations; and sustainability integration in higher education.
Show Highlights * Connect design with ethics of care to broaden thinking about the environment we depend on when building on the land
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C.K. Choi Building, a progressive project that broke ground and barriers in Green Building
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STARS rating system, collaboration and partnerships that are occurring both on campuses and with community
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Joanne’s company’s climate action plan to become a carbon neutral campus.
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Why it is vital to get the operations team involved early on net zero builds
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Understanding of ourselves as a part of nature with regenerative design ecosystem, health, and resiliency for high performance buildings
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The 17SDGs can provide a global connection to LEED standards
“So I fell in love with the vast beauty of nature, and this instilled in me, a really strong ethic of care and connection to the land, as we would call it, to nature.”
- Joanne Perdue
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Joanne Perdue’s Show Resource and Information * SITRA – 1.5D Lifestyles
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Donut Economics
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Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown
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White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
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Grit by Angela Duckworth
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UCalgary MacKimmie before-after.docx
- Finland App Shopping's True Carbon Footprint
- University of Calgary
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Helen has worked on over 80 LEED projects in various roles leading the design and construction team to develop more sustainable projects. On most projects, she is the primary LEED consultant and Project Team Administrator. In addition to leading the LEED process, we provide energy efficiency/energy modeling and commissioning consulting. In recognition of our technical abilities, HJKessler Associates has been recognized as a LEED® Proven Provider™ for the Building Design and Construction rating system family by the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI).
LEED Platinum projects have included Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and Kresge Centennial Hall, Legacy Charter School in the North Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago (K-8), Exelon's Headquarters Project, which, at the time it was certified, was by far the largest LEED Commercial Interiors project to achieve Platinum; the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation of Evanston, the first house of worship to achieve LEED Platinum; the Chicago Center for Green Technology, the first LEED Platinum municipal building; Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy, a Chicago public high school; Bousfield Hall, a residence hall at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign; and some Interpretive Centers. LEED Gold projects have included projects at Northwestern University, many schools and libraries for the Chicago Public Building Commission, municipal facilities such as police and fire stations, office buildings, and many others. Current projects include schools, university facilities, hotels, office buildings, and other project types.
Her goal is always to encourage and facilitate an integrative approach to design and to encourage teams to go as far beyond the LEED requirements as possible.
Specialties: Sustainable design, LEED and energy efficiency consulting
Commissioning process management Facilitation Regenerative Development.
Show Highlights * How to turn Silver into LEED Platinum at relatively little or no extra costs?
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Helen’s career is made up of “disparate parts” that have made a tremendous impact on energy efficiency and sustainability in our world. Hear her tips on what to study for an impactful career.
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Using energy models as a design tool will make a valuable resource and significant difference.
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Embodied Carbon is making a come back into conversations.
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Helen explains why you can’t have a regenerative design or buildings without considering these essential factors.
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How LEED became a very important tool in transforming the market?
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To solve issues on climate change society needs to become more creative and develop technologies related to human and social development.
“I've also been educating myself about racism and especially that history of our country. I am more convinced than ever that we won't create a sustainable world until we create a sustainable society that gives everyone an equal opportunity.”
-Helen Kessler
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Helen Kessler’s Show Resource and Information * Drawdown by Paul Hawken
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The Regenerative Life by Carol Sanford
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The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
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A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
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About Ta-Nehisi Coatess
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Toni Morrison: Books
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Regenesis Group
- Carol Sanford Institute
- CREW Chicago - Home
- Chicago Build Expo
- HJKessler Associates
- hjkessler@hjkesslerassociates.com
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Marija has graduated in Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Genoa, Italy, and at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. With more than 19-years world wide experience in MEP design for commercial buildings, hospitals, cruise ships and military vessels, she became first female in the Europe Commissioning Authority certified by AABCcg Associated Air Balancing Council Commissioning Group, the official test engineer for the region of Lombardy, and also the expert witness at the Court of Milan.
She is a LEED AP since 2008 and USGBC Faculty™ Faculty since 2011 as well as an accredited DGNB International Auditor.
She has contributed to numerous international LEED projects ( over 300.000 certified sqm) as designer, LEED consultant, LEED process administrator and Commissioning Authority.
Marija administrated and designed the mechanical and electrical systems for the first LEED Core and Shell certified project in Italy (Gold Level) and administered the LEED certification process of the Vodafone Village.
She also introduced the first LEED for Homes pilot projects in Europe.
Starting from 2014, she was the first LEED for Homes Green Rater in Energo.
Marija also develops and teaches courses in the role of USGBC faculty and education partner, having trained over 500 LEED professionals.
Marija Golubovic is founding chairman of SerbiaGBC (2010-2013).
Show Highlights * Construction is lacking in ethics
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The hypocrisy of building the best buildings on a budget
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The difference and hurdles of building in Italy and Serbia
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Why Marija recommends everyone start a small company
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Hear about Park Smart, technical rigor and all the pioneering projects and commissions Marija and her team are a part of
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How WELL Health and Safety Rating is complementary to LEED
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Social transparency should rate at a higher level in sustainability
“We need to come back to some good social politics strictly related with buildings because buildings are our environment and it cannot be separated or detached.”
-Marija Golubovic
Marija Golubovic Transcript Marija Golubovic’s Show Resource and Information * About Arundhati Roy - Amazon. * The Eight Mountains: * LinkedIn * Twitter * Eenergo
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Michael is responsible for the development of new markets and services and to provide corporate leadership for HEAPY (the wholly owned subsidiary the Design/Build construction services company HEAPY.). In this role, his team develops the “what’s next” to enhance client service experience and produce colleague advancement opportunities. To emphasize a keen focus on the HEAPY Vision of “Building a more Resilient and Sustainable Society”, new markets and services are centered on Smart Technologies Integration, Distributed Energy Resources, Resiliency Planning, Energy as a Service (EaaS), etc.
Michael has presented at several National and Regional Conferences including: Greenbuild, AIA National Convention, International Living Futures UnConference, National Conference on Building Commissioning, the World Energy Engineering Conference, Greening the Heartland and the US Institute for Theater Technology Conference.
He is on the Industrial Advisory Committee for the University of Dayton Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and served as a Fellow for the Hobart Center for Food Service Sustainability. He was a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the former EDC Magazine, writing a column focused on Sustainability. He leads sustainability on the local level as Co-Chair of the Dayton (Ohio) Regional Green Initiative (DRG3.org) and is a past Regional Chair for the U.S Green Building Council’s College and University based USGBC Students Program. He recently served as Chair of USGBC Ohio.
HEAPY is a nationally recognized MEP&T Systems Design, Sustainability, and Planning & Commissioning Services firm. Heapy has an outstanding record of providing practical sustainable-based smart solutions for today’s high performance buildings. The HEAPY HQ achieved LEED PLATINUM.
Michael’s experience with projects in both the public and private sectors shows, when properly planned and executed throughout the entire design and construction process, every project can be Resilient, Environmentally Responsible, Energy Efficient AND Cost Effective.
Show Highlights * Building holistically by looking at the entire client's portfolio to create a plan that blends standards
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Position your green building projects and jobs to be recession proof
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Michael’s unique building systems as an innovation officer on solar and smart grids
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Concepts that look at how you make the best use of renewables and what's next in buildings
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Stick to your convictions when determining the path for your career
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Outside of the box thinking that impacts long term needs and deferred maintenance for green building
“This market is still ginormous. This is the opportunity to help move the world, your community, and your family forward by being green and by living green. Helping others to do that too will give you a rewarding and impactful life. That's what we're all looking for. How can I be of impact? Being in the sustainability movement certainly is. It is questions answered.”
-Michael Berning
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Michael Berning’s Show Resource and Information * Be Fearless by Jean Case * 4 Disciplines of Execution by Jim Huling Chris McChesney, Sean Covey * Jerry Yudelson * Twitter * LinkedIn * HEAPY * “The Godfather of Green” – Jerry Yudelson podcast episode
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Gail Vittori is Co-Director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, a non-profit design firm established in 1975 dedicated to sustainable planning, design, and demonstration.
Since 1993, Vittori has coordinated the Center's Sustainable Design in Public Buildings Program, including serving as a sustainable design consultant for the Pentagon Renovation Program’s Commissioning Team from 1999 to 2006, numerous City of Austin design projects.
Beginning in 2000, Vittori led several national initiatives focused on greening the health care sector and advancing environmental health considerations in green building. Examples include collaborating on the development of the American Society of Healthcare Engineering’s (ASHE) Green Healthcare Construction Guidance Statement, and the Green Guide for Health Care, convened by the Center in 2002, a project of CMPBS and Health Care Without Harm. She currently serves as a Co-Coordinator of the Green Guide for Health Care and is Founding Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED for Healthcare core committee (2004–2008).
Vittori has spearheaded emerging green and affordable housing initiatives, tools and resources, including directing a Hands Across America program in 1989 that created a building materials exchange and cooperative homebuilding training program for colonias residents along the Texas Rio Grande Valley; consulting to the DC Housing Authority to establish a green materials library and assessment process; being invited to participate on the 5-person core development team of Enterprise Community Foundation’s Green Communities Initiative in 2004; and, in 2008, spearheading a successful initiative to develop green building criteria for the Texas-based Meadows Foundation capital grant funding.
In 1989, Vittori proposed a conceptual framework for what evolved as the City of Austin’s Green Building Program, the only U.S. program recognized at the 1992 U.N. Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and the first green building program in the world. Along with Pliny Fisk, she oversaw the program’s early stage development through 1992. Austin’s Green Builder Program influenced the formation of the U.S. Green Building Council and LEED, in addition to scores of policies throughout the U.S. and abroad. Additionally, from 1988 to 1998, she served on the City’s Solid Waste Advisory Commission, six of those years as founding chair, a committee formed in response to a successful initiative co-coordinated by Vittori to cancel a proposed waste-to-energy municipal solid waste incinerator. Her work on establishing pay as you throw recycling residential programs, in addition to recycling programs for the City’s commercial and multi-family sectors, has led Austin to having one of the nation’s most successful recycling programs. Her work in this area continues with promoting zero waste by 2040, adopted by the Austin City Council in January 2009.
Show Highlights * Gail shares what you need to know as a green guide for healthcare aligned with a green building rating system.
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A comprehensive look at process water and LEED prerequisites.
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How do we avoid using unhealthy materials in buildings in order to promote health?
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The evolution of LEED and how it raises the bar while not eliminating an entry point.
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Utilizing rainwater and stormwater as valuable resources.
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Gail shares how Austin holds on to the environmental values in all of its new developments.
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One of the important distinctions is that the HPD is a standard. It's not a certification.
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Every action we take needs a health lens and let’s ask these two essential questions.
“2020. It's the year of letting us see where the cracks are and what we need to focus on. I'm really sort of taking this time as a wake up call to pay attention to those cracks and to do what we can in our small way to address them in terms of the way we approach our work, our relationships with other organizations and to hopefully come out of this with some clarity in terms of what is the new pattern language going forward.”
- Gail Vittori
Gail Vittori Transcript Gail Vittori’s Show Resource and Information * Climatic Design: Energy-Efficient Building by Donald Watson * Gail Vittori | Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems * LinkedIn * Twitter
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Rebecca Dunn Bryant, AIA co-founded W A T E R S H E D in 2008 in order to build expertise around affordable, sustainable building solutions for a hot humid climate, create built environments that inspire a greater connection with the natural world, and to perform work in the spirit of collaboration, sharing information with her clients and community. Originally from Alabama, Rebecca moved to Colorado to study sustainable design and social ecology in 1990 and worked in San Francisco and Houston before returning home to get red dirt back under her feet.
Rebecca has received a Synergy Award from the Citizen’s Environmental Coalition, been recognized as one of 9 “Green Leaders in Red States” by Fortune Magazine and recently voted one of her region’s “Top 40 under 40.” She is the first LEED Faculty member in the state of Alabama, and since 2008, she has provided green building training to over 2,000 professionals and over 200 school children.
Rebecca’s passion for sustainable development is focused on sustainable design, construction, and operational strategies for the hot humid south. While the growing green building movement is international, her approach is decidedly local.
- Registered Architect in Alabama and Florida
- LEED Fellow
- LEED Accredited Professional, BD+C
- Living Building Ambassador
- Passive House Consultant
- Permaculture Designer
Show Highlights * Why was the recession a Watershed moment?
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The key to transform the market is to raise the level of practice for firms.
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Economic, environmental, and sustainability restoration projects that create great experiences in nature.
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Learn the benefits of being a permaculture designer and who should pursue the credentials.
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A deeper look at integration with SITES and low impact development + human health.
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Elevate your standard of practice and raise awareness on best practices in LEED, SITES, WELL, Wildlife Habitats, and other certifications with Rebecca’s valuable resources.
“We need you. The need for people to transform the way we build is more and more urgent so don't lose heart and please stick to your guns and follow this path. The other thing I would say, based on my experience is we need to spread out. We don't need all of our sustainable design experts to live in places where everyone in that town agrees with and has already drank the Kool Aid. We need them to spread out, dispersing this movement into more communities and making connections with other movements.”
- Rebecca Dunn Bryant
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Rebecca Dunn Bryant’s Show Resource and Information * WATERSHED Sustainable Design and Consulting * Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change by Pema Chodron * Insight Timer * Books By Edward O. Wilson * Julia Watson. Lo―TEK. Design by Radical Indigenism * Design for Biodiversity by Kelly Gunnell * The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth by Christopher Alexander * Zero Energy Ready Homes * Create * FORTIFIED – FORTIFIED Construction * LinkedIn * Twitter
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The first woman in the construction industry from the Province of Quebec to become LEED Fellow and part of the professional green building industry for over 12 years, Josée’s journey has been an exceptional one. Among her qualities that stand out, this honour recognizes her technical proficiency, leadership, commitment and dedication to the advancement of the sustainable construction industry in Quebec as well as abroad. A founding member of the Quebec chapter of the Canadian Green Building Council, her leadership has been recognized on more than one occasion.
Recognized for cutting-edge expertise in sustainable building and LEED® certification, Josée Lupien, LEED Fellow, BD + C & ID + C, president,brings together a team of experts with incomparable know-how in environmental analysis of construction materials and in the implementation of sustainable buildings. After more than 30 years in the manufacturing industry and numerous collaborations with architects, engineers and construction contractors, in 2008, Ms. Lupien decided to invest in the green building sector by setting up the company. Vertima. Today, thanks to its experienced and specialized team, Vertima actively supports manufacturers as well as all stakeholders involved in an ecological and sustainable construction project, and particularly with regard to LEED® certification. Our greatest strength remains the quality of our services, the integrity, transparency and professionalism of our team as well as our network of loyal and trusted partners and collaborators. Our influence is achieved through our involvement and our contribution in the evolution of sustainable building for 12 years.
Show Highlights * How Canada's LEED challenges, spec requirements, rating systems and adaptations differ from the U.S.? * Vertima, the only Canadian company that is approved as a preparer and verifier from HPD collaborative. * Tips on reinventing how to work efficiently and effective in virtual meetings with these steps. * Josee shares why there is a need for more qualified people in the carbon and overall wellness movements. * Ways to push reducing the carbon footprint in buildings and the C40 challenge. * Productivity tips, why continuing education and certifications matter and how the resources from the GBES.com helped Josee pass her WELL exam. * WELL Health and Safety is becoming popular but it's not just in the certifications, but the verification.
“If you believe in what you're doing and how you can change the world, go for it. I encourage you to jump in the green building movement. Absolutely!”
Josee Lupien Transcript Josee Lupien’s Show Resource and Information * LinkedIn * Vertima
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Experienced Program Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the government administration industry. Skilled in Policy Development, Sustainable Design, Renewable Energy, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), and Change Making. Strong design professional and manager with a BARC focused in Sustainable Architecture from Mississippi State University.
Show Highlights * How a childhood focus on buying an Atari kickstarted Lance’s building and ultimately green building career. * A hotbed of crazy ideas that created LEED and the sustainability movement. * How did building trust as an architect allowed Lance to write policy for green building across the nation? * What you need to know to create a green oasis for community projects? * A spectacular moment of humanity and how architecture and sustainability work to bring everybody together. * Push the envelope and raise the bar by finding balance with these tips. * Embodied energy. Determine a building’s need to transform waste to energy. * Lance speaks about Fitwel, and various healthy building programs, and ideas that incorporate healthy options for employees.
“All of that was sort of born out of a common group and challenging ourselves about the future. I think it’s been super important continuing to build those relationships and continuing to challenge our thinking. It’s where we come up with that next big idea and find the right people to help us implement it -- relationships.”
- Lance Davis
Lance Davis Transcript Lance Davis’ Show Resource and Information * USGBC | Monumental Green * Gentle Architecture of Malcolm Wells * The Biggest Little Farm * The Story of B * My Ishmael * LinkedIn * U.S. General Services Administration
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Jean is HDR’s Sustainable Principal for the firm globally. She is based in San Francisco, California with 30+ years of experience in interior design, departmental planning and sustainable design. Ms. Hansen is responsible for advancing HDR's sustainability initiatives in project and research work for healthcare, commercial and institutional environments.
She served on Kaiser Permanente’s High Performance Building Committee to develop national sustainable design standards, led a team in the development of a USGBC Volume Build Pilot Program for Wells Fargo Bank in 39 states and was a green consultant with the University of New Mexico’s new Children’s Hospital and Critical Care Pavilion. She led sustainable research in the textile industry for Kaiser Permanente and co-authored a white paper on the research, titled, Future of Fabric: Healthcare. She was a core committee member in the development of the USGBC’s LEED Healthcare rating system and more recently is a pilot committee member in the development of the HealthProduct Declaration (HPD). She is past president of IIDA (International Interior Design Association) for the Northern California Chapter, IIDA Fellow and past board member and secretary of the USGBC Northern California Chapter.
Jean is working on or has worked on over forty LEED projects, developed sustainable guidelines and led sustainable research for healthcare organizations and manufacturers, provided sustainable training for a variety of clients, including the U.S. Army and in-house staff; she has inspired many to pursue LEED Accreditation, and integrated sustainability into multi-million dollar projects. Her clients have ranged from Federal agencies such as the U.S. Army, the Department of Veteran Affairs, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and NOAA, to universities such as the University of California system, Stanford, and numerous healthcare organizations and furniture manufacturers.
Show Highlights * Jean shares her expertise on how to design healthy buildings with emphasis on product specs and protocols that won’t harm humans or the environment. * How to guide corporations to answer the question “Where should we put our energy and our money first?” * Green Guide for Health Care and LEED Healthcare. * Jean’s work with numerous organizations to create sustainable products and a questionnaire for product transparency. * Valuable tips on building awareness on safe product materials and warnings. * Knowing the difference between manufacturers vs distributors when selecting materials and products. * Protocol for selecting healthy materials for facilities. * Jean talks about another lens that really needs to be added to sustainability to take it to another level.
“It's not too late for anyone to consider learning and adopting sustainability for whatever type of work you're doing because luckily the green building movement or the sustainability movement in general needs people with any and all skills. I say that with all truthfulness and sincerity, and there's always a way to combine sustainability to any and all phases of our work. Your voice is incredibly important and we can only be stronger when we're stronger together.”
- Jean Hansen
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Jean Hansen’s Show Resource and Information * Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken: * The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben * What the Robin Knows by Jon Young * Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke * LinkedIn * Twitter * HDR Architecture
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Dake Wells Architecture is a progressive architectural practice with an emphasis on design as problem solving. Their work is experiential and attempts to define memorable spaces through architectural means while respecting the contextual influences of site, program, the environment, and economy. Jason Hainline has tremendous experience in the green building industry and is a LEED Fellow, the highest honor. In this podcast episode, Charlie finds out more about Jason’s background, his work for client’s like Bass Pro, and more.
Show Highlights * How to create a marriage between design and sustainability on your projects * Hiring a dream team to create a green Bass Pro Store launched Jason’s career in sustainability * How LEED became the central line in sustainable design for Jason’s company in the early years of LEED being in the marketplace * EMSI helped established LEED in China and other parts of the world as the go-to green building rating system * Jason recommends course topics and skills to make students much more marketable, knowledgeable, and ethical when they get out into the world and practice * What is the measuring stick green builders need to be making decisions based upon? * A LEED Fellow’s advice for decisions on how to emphasize your efforts in sustainability
“It's important for us all to not lose sight of traditional ways of assessing environmental impacts. And, for me, that includes looking back at some of the early pioneers in the late sixties and early seventies and how the tools that they used to measure daylighting design or energy efficiency can still apply today.”
-- Jason Hainline
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Jason Hainline’s Show Resource and Information * That Used to Be Us by Thomas L. Friedman * Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman * LinkedIn * Dake Wells Architecture * jhainline@dake-wells.com
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Dr. Kath Williams, LEED Fellow, is an experienced business leader with a demonstrated history of working in the green building industry globally. Sustainability Consultant for 20+ years. Skilled in Green Building Rating Systems (especially LEED, WELL and SITES Projects). Supports corporations in meeting and documenting their SDGs. Strong business development professional with a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) focused in Conflict Resolution, Adult and Higher Education from Montana State University-Bozeman.
Show Highlights * Lessons Learned of what not to do in a project launched Kath’s firm into becoming a world resource for sustainability. * Kath built her business with a golden “Rolodex” and direction from the three (3) biggest influences on her life. * The Green Building Councils’ worldwide impact and influence on sustainability. * The perfect global response to quiet any critic of sustainability. * Kath shares what it was like being part of the inaugural group of LEED Fellows working on projects that advance the mission. * Some misconceptions about water. Kath provides tips on the complexity of water on our projects and how to utilize this most valuable resource. * Kath shares profound advice on COVID-19, politics, culture, and the best part of not being a designer to support the industry and not forfeit the gains to the environment.
“It's worth it to put in a time to get the credentials. It's worth it to put in the time to be a resource and learn as much as you can. Practically speaking, experts in sustainability are needed everywhere. It doesn't matter what the industry, it doesn't matter what your background; my degrees are not in environmental anything. In fact, my doctorate is in conflict resolution. It's the idea that we can all work together and we can all contribute.”
- Kath Williams
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Kath’s Show Resources and Information * Brave New Arctic by Mark C. Serreze * Confessions of a Radical Industrialist by Ray Anderson * LinkedIn * Facebook * Twitter * Kath Williams + Associates
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Jason F. McLennan is an architect and prominent figure in the green building movement. He is the Founder and the board of the International Living Future Institute and Cascadia Green Building Council, a chapter of both the U.S. Green Building Council and the Canada Green Building Council. He is the CEO of McLennan Design, his own architecture and planning firm that does work all over the world. McLennan is also one of the creator of Pharos, an advanced building material rating system, Declare, an ingredient disclosure label for building products, and JUST, a social justice transparency platform for organizations. In addition, he developed the Living Community Challenge and the Living Product Challenge.
Show Highlights * Jason transformed the industry when he launched these projects, programs, and materials certifications to build on what LEED had started. * Get inspired by a pioneer that really shook up and raised the bar in how a green building can be built and operated. * The brilliant thing LEED did for the market and changing the world. * How the Living Building Challenge supplements LEED for those that are ready to go beyond looking at levels of certification. * Jason created the Red List to do the “impossible” to create transparency and change the course of conversations for manufacturers all over the world. * 2020 is proving to be a year of incredible disruption. Jason gives you humanity’s next 5 assignments we need to default to. * We need to find and focus on the end game. Why green building is way off target in every category of impact. * How to go further and faster. Check out The New Climate Pledge Arena.
“Mentorship has been incredibly important to me. I think we reach our potential when we learn from others who have been down the paths further...It really pays to listen to elders and learn from those that have walked the path before you. I think too many people now, for whatever reason, discount our elders and that's great peril. They focus too much on themselves and that's what technology and the social communication and everything that we have at our disposal is allowing for sort of a level of narcissism that's unhealthy.”
-Jason McLennan
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Jason McLennan’s Show Resources and Information * Jason McLennan: Books - Amazon.com * Drawdown: * McLennan Design: Home * International Living Future Institute * 097 Marni Jade Evans * LinkedIn
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Nancy E. Clanton, PE, FIES, FIALD, LEED Fellow
Nancy is CEO of Clanton & Associates, founding the sustainable lighting design firm in 1981. Nancy speaks throughout the nation on topics relating to sustainable design, energy efficiency, and light pollution, and has been an instructor at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Her notable work includes: * Served as the Lighting Group Leader for the 2009 C40 meeting in Seoul Korea * Topic editor for the 9th Edition IESNA Lighting Handbook and her committee was responsible for the production of the IES Recommended Practices on Outdoor Lighting * Group leader for the "Greening of the White House" initiative and received the 1999 "Contribution to the Built Environment Award" from the Colorado North Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) * Received the International Clean Design Award 2013 * Received ACEC Colorado Outstanding Woman Engineer Award 2013 * Served as a final editor for the Advanced Lighting Guidelines, California Energy Commission * Chairperson for the IES Lighting of Public Spaces committee * Past chairperson for the IES Outdoor Environmental Lighting Committee, Mesopic Committee and joint IDA/IES Model Lighting Ordinance Task Force * Past member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Lighting Designers * Past member of the Board of Directors International Dark Sky Association (IDA) * Past member of the Board of Directors of the Illuminating Engineering Society * Voting member of the ISO TC 205 WG7 * Past member of the USGBC EQ TAG
Nancy obtained her Bachelor of Science Degree in Architectural Engineering with an emphasis in Illumination from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is a registered Professional Engineer in the states of Colorado and Oregon. She is a Fellow of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES), International Association of Lighting Designers, Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) and the United States Green Building Council (USGBC).
Show Highlights * Nancy shares what it was like to be part of the first charrette. * Understanding the importance of daylighting and bringing back what electric lighting should be. * Hear how Nancy is preparing the States to get cities ready to become “smart cities.” * Nancy’s essential questions every green builder should ask themselves will motivate and transform your career. * World designing guidelines in helping educate and bring back green design to every single project. * Number one, but access to views and daylighting number two. * Learn what’s important to people’s productivity to create new design and how the shape of buildings function.
“Go for it. Question. Question things. Question the way they’ve always been done, and explore brand new ways of doing it, but also get feedback after you've designed something. Go back and talk to people that are using your buildings.”
-Nancy Clanton
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Nancy Clanton’s Show Resources and Information * Sustainable Nation: * Made to Stick: * LinkedIn * Clanton & Associates, Inc.
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Nico is a founding director of Atelier Ten’s New York City office and member of Atelier Ten’s US and international leadership group. He consults on a wide variety of large scale residential, commercial and institutional buildings, as well as on masterplan and renovation work in the United States, Europe, South America and Asia.
Nico specializes in the application of advanced building analysis including facade optimization, daylight and shading analysis, and in the optimization of building systems. Recent work includes, among others, the first LEED Platinum condominium high rise in New York City, the sustainability framework and first two significant buildings for Columbia University’s new Manhattanville Campus, the U.S. Embassies in Nairobi and Brasilia, the Masterplan and Phase 1 for the Fulbright University Vietnam campus, the new wing for the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the new LEED Platinum-target Comcast Research and Innovation Center tower in Philadelphia.
Nico has held teaching engagements at Harvard GSD, Pratt Institute and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation with a focus on building systems integration and sustainability. He is a LEED Fellow, and served as an industry representative member on the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Green Building Advisory Committee from 2011-2016. He also serves on the board of Urban Green Council and Storefront for Art and Architecture. Nico holds a Dipl. Ing. in Architecture from the Technical University in Munich, an M.S. in Building Technology from MIT and a DDes from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
Show Highlights * Nico embraces being both technical and creative as a leader in sustainability in Germany and the US. * Essential questions on performance and design that help influence Nico’s career and move the industry forward. * What it is like to work for Atelier Ten and clients who want to push the envelope with environmental design and energy systems to be more “human centric.” * Why the LEED Silver and Gold levels have really become a baseline for projects. * Nico shares why architects will need to educate themselves with the dynamics of the utility grid. * Nico breaks down the plan, obstacles, and shifts for electrifying buildings and decarbonizing our grid. * Why building trust and building relationships takes both technical prowess and social skills.
“Trust in a design team is incredibly important because everybody's taking risks all the time because nobody's ever done this before (on a highly advanced sustainability project). So the importance of personal relationships and really being aware of that and understanding stakeholders and people I work with on the client side on a deeper level.”
-Nico Kienzl
Nico Kienzl Transcript Nico Kienzl's Show Resources and Information * Thermal Delight in Architecture * LinkedIn * Atelier Ten * Local Law 97
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Today's gonna be a little different format. I'm actually just going to give a PSA, a public service announcement. I can't believe it, we're halfway through 2020, what a wild and crazy year it has been for all of us. What I want to cover today is just some stats, some trends in the green building and now healthy building movement.
We want to make sure you understand what's happening on the LEED front, WELL, FITWEL and other programs. We want to talk about credentials, credential trends, and online learning. Want to tell you a little bit about how my company's in this green building movement have been innovative during the pandemic time.
I want to open up for some feedback on the podcast. So first, I know everyone's been impacted a little differently here with the pandemic and COVID-19, I hope you're okay. I hope you and your family are healthy. I hope your carriers and jobs are intact. I know some have been drastically affected much more than others. I know, I'm still working from home. My boys are out of school now for the summer. I'm based here in Atlanta, Georgia, and we're definitely fortunate to be able to keep most of our work. Most of our projects, most of our learning going both from remote work and we're doing the best we can on all fronts. I know we're still in the middle of the pandemic as we record this podcast, but I just want to give you some encouragement and just say, I hope everything is okay with you.
Show Highlights * Learn the latest on LEED * 1. LEED Professional Count 2. Speciality Credential Growth 3. Big news on LEED and WELL exams * WELL and healthy buildings * 1. Accredited Professional 2. Which version of WELL is on the exam? 3. Credential count updates 4. WELLness real estate programs * How to become a Fitwel Ambassador. * Projects * 1. LEED square footage certified statistics 2. Protip for registrations * Best practices and protocols from each program * WELL came out with a Health Safety Rating * Our Top 10 COVID-19 resources * Innovations during the pandemic
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Show Resources and Information * LEED professionals at a glance * COVID-19 Resources * WELL certification * Fitwel.org * U.S. Green Building Council * Infographic: What do LEED-certified cities and communities do * WELL Health-Safety * Global Biorisk Advisory Council (GBAC) * GBES.com * charlie@gbes.com
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Hannah is the sustainability and sales operations manager at Recycle Track Systems (RTS). She is an experienced senior sustainability programming and training professional who manages and executes comprehensive sustainability and waste diversion data analysis and programming for RTS’ Mid-Atlantic Region. Hannah earned her MA in Environmental Resource Policy from George Washington University and has a LEED AP O+M Accreditation.
Show Highlights * Hear how Hannah molded her policy degree to focus on internal company policy compared to federal policy. * Give yourself permission to discover your place in the green building movement by learning to use internships, certifications, and collegiate experiences to build a career you love. * The benefits of Recycle Track Systems (RTS) to divert from landfills. * Hannah’s pro tips from the broad range of clients from stadiums, office buildings and being part of the first university in the US to reach carbon neutrality. * How to increase diversion rates by creating long term education programs to fit the clients and tenants needs. * Exciting new technology available that fits the big picture in a circular economy. * Sustainability is less of a battle in United States because of two factors.
“What's exciting now is that you can find a job basically anywhere in any industry that's focused on sustainability. I think it is such an exciting time to be in. If you're interested, you can find a sustainability sports job or find a sustainability education job. There's so many different ways that you could be part of the green (building) movement in all different aspects.”
-Hannah Moskowitz
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Hannah Moskowitz's Show Resources and Information * Educated * LinkedIn
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For over 12 years as a LEED consultant, Mr. Wenmin Zhu has dedicated himself to creating and promoting green and sustainable buildings. Through exceptional projects, leadership, education, and advocacy, he has become a prominent voice for the green building development in China.
Mr. Zhu started his green building career as an Energy Simulation Specialist with Beijing Das Daring Energy Technology Co., Ltd. back in 2007.
As the Deputy General Manager of Das Daring from 2017 through today, Mr. Zhu has continuously led the green building consulting units of the company for over 10 years.
Mr. Zhu works directly with business leaders, universities and policymakers on issues related to LEED certification, high-performance design, net-zero building, green building policies.
Show Highlights * What it's like to work with clients under mandatory regulations. * Conversation with Charlie Zhu, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design * During Charle Zhu’s postgraduate studies, he learned and used energy pass building performance stability simulation software to analyze micro and HP systems. * Determined the need to pursue green building path through various projects and recognized it was the way of the future. Number of green building projects doubled that year in China * Charlie discusses the different green building programs like RESET * Charlie’s projects leave a big impact in China * Rejuvenation of Cities: Renovating pre-existing buildings and incorporating green building concepts to create new offices, hotels, apartments, etc. Way to jumpstart sustainability. * Charlie Zhu’s time management rating system for accountable productivity
“The first thing is I think we're in a good industry. It's very new in comparison to other industries. So there are a lot of potential and opportunities in this industry. I hope that young people can join this industry and find a lot of fun and success in this industry.”
-Charlie Zhu
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Charlie's Show Resources and Information * Linkedin * Top energy.cn * Das Daring Energy Technology Co * Sustainable Design: * 40 Sai No Tame No
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James brings project management, commissioning and sustainability consulting experience to the Elementa Engineering team. His strong connection to water and nature, fostered by his love of surfing, led him to explore a career in sustainability. After implementing an award-winning sustainability program at Forbes-rated five-star hotel focused on energy and water efficiency, waste reduction, recycling, and sustainability education projects, James has transitioned to a career as a sustainability consultant and commissioning agent.
James strives to support his clients by understanding their needs and developing strong relationships, resulting in buildings and spaces that are loved and enjoyed by those who occupy them. He enjoys the challenge each project brings, from water and energy efficiency to healthy materials. He has worked on many “deep green” projects including the Living Building Challenge targeted Gulf State Park Interpretive Center and Zero Net Energy targeted TreeHouse Sustainable Home Improvement Store.
Show Highlights
- Surfing after the rain brought James to sustainability.
- The significance of USGBC meetings and local chapters on your career.
- Taking the untraditional path to success.
- James created Net Zero water calculator.
- The changes and priorities you can expect regionally.
- How James straddles new and existing builds?
- The impact of the Green Financing Program from multifamily builds.
“When I was younger I didn't take chances on things because I didn't think I was prepared and I was maybe afraid of failure. I look back now and I see how much that held me back because anytime I've taken on a big challenge, it's really just taught me how much I'm capable of and you have to be your own champion. You have to believe in yourself.”
-James
James's Show Resources and Information * LinkedIn * The Happiness Advantage: * Shawn Achor: TED Talks * Grit: * Angela Lee Duckworth | TED Talks
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Kristina earned both her Master of Architecture and her Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee along with certificates in Sustainable Design and Historic Preservation. A LEED Accredited Professional since 2008, Kristina is also a self-proclaimed credential junkie. She was the fifth person in the world to obtain all five LEED AP specialties as well as being an early adopter in the WELL AP program.
Kristina has a wide array of experience in sustainable design including traditional architectural practice/design, performing official LEED reviews while working at USGBC/GBCI, and acting as a sustainable consultant. Her experience includes work on both new construction projects as well as existing buildings and spans the gamut of the commercial real estate sector including offices, higher education, healthcare, and community buildings. Kristina has successfully led over 100 projects to achieving their LEED certification goals and has also worked on a variety of projects pursuing WELL and LBC certification. Kristina serves as the Chair of the Minnesota Wellness Collaborative, an industry volunteer group aimed at developing market demand and industry capacity for wellness in the built environment.
Kristina Bach serves as Vice President of Innovation with Sustainable Investment Group (SIG). In this role, she provides insights into emerging trends, software and technology within the built environment. Her focus is on developing new resources for SIG’s consultant teams as well as cultivating new opportunities to better support our clients in meeting their sustainability initiatives.
Kristina utilizes her background in the traditional architectural design and construction realm to help clients integrate sustainability practices within their projects. Her pragmatic approach to certification ensures that clients are incorporating the practices that will best serve their organization’s needs and goals. As a former LEED Reviewer for GBCI, Kristina has helped hundreds of projects achieve LEED certification. Additionally, her project management experience extends to guiding projects through various other sustainability systems including WELL, Living Building Challenge and local standards.
Kristina’s wealth of project experience and in-depth knowledge/background in the nuances of sustainability certifications enables her to be a strong resource to project teams and individuals wishing to get more involved with the sustainability movement.
Show Highlights * Pros and cons of being a credential junkie * Linking the construction realm for new projects with functional designs * Avoid getting pigeonholed by challenges different industries and sectors face * Changes the current pandemic climate is making on the industry * Ways to leverage best practices to benefit the clients * Sneak peak into what Kristina’s working on industry * Learn valuable tips from LEED reviewer
“Figure out what you can do to move the sustainability needle just a little bit for every client. We help move the industry by pushing on that frontage as opposed to just the jewel projects that get all the resources thrown at them.”
-Kristina
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Kristina’s Show Resources and Information * Kristina on LinkedIn * Kristina I. Bach Sustainable Investment Group * Managing to Change the World: * Alison Green: work advice columnist
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Sally Wilson, LEED Fellow
Exclusively representing tenants such as corporations, associations, and professional service firms in developing real estate solutions that fulfill organizational goals. Areas of expertise include portfolio and transaction management, site selection, lease and work letter negotiation, workplace, and carbon accounting.
She was the first Commercial Real Estate (CRE) broker to achieve LEED AP, and is the only #CRE broker to be elevated to LEED Fellow. And, fun fact - her husband is a LEED Fellow, also!
Show Highlights
- Learn why brokers are also the gatekeepers to sustainability projects
- Sally’s journey in carving a path during the male dominated years in architecture and real estate
- The benefits of organizations like CREW
- Sally’s tips on educating landlords to negotiate green leases that drive market transformation
- New market standards to consider on the healthy building side
- The top priorities for the mature tenant market and forming a transparent partnership with the landlord/owner
- Pro tips from a pioneer in multiple facets of green building and commercial real estate
“I would say my gift is, I just care. I care so much about the environment, the earth, other people, and the human condition, so that's my gift.”
-Sally
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Sally’s Show Resources and Information * LinkedIn * Facebook * Drawdown * The Overstory: * Sally Wilson Newmark Knight Frank
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As a licensed architect and LEED Fellow, Susan Heinking has over a decade of experience designing and managing sustainability programs and initiatives. She currently leads all of Pepper Construction's sustainable projects and is also an active advocate for sustainability in the Chicago and other regional markets. Her many initiatives include Chicago's Energy Benchmarking Ordinance, the AIA2030 Chicago Working Group, co-chairing Chicago's AIA COTE knowledge group, participating in RETROFIT Chicago, and working with the Chicago Biomimicry Group. In addition, she leads over $2.4 billion in high-performance projects. Some of my top accomplishments include designing the first biophilic Walgreens flagship store in Northwestern Hospital, managing the Google Chicago headquarters sustainability efforts, designing the first functional Net Zero construction trailer and currently working to make the world's first net-zero zoo in Cincinnati.
Her work at Pepper enables her to put design into action, provide decision-making tools that determine investment paybacks and reduced operating costs, lead Pepper's projects to their sustainability goals, assist clients with their corporate environmental compliance during construction, and put existing buildings on a path to sustainability. Her vision for Pepper includes expanding the high-performance perspective to create greater value through building performance and human performance. This includes enhancing existing efforts with energy modeling, ROI analysis, and local utility incentives as well as building on Pepper's healthy jobsite initiative "Nothing Hits the Floor" program and promoting the use of healthy building materials and construction practices to protect the long-term health of construction workers.
She holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Oregon and is an active presenter at multiple national sustainability conventions.
Show Highlights
- Susan shares how a mentor is an important asset in boosting your career
- Understand the process of how to sell sustainability to clients
- How to avoid being a line item in a budget and clarify the green benefits
- Learn Susan’s Four Solutions strategy to every building and other valuable programs
- The benefits of shifting the conversation from sustainability to high performance and building functionality
“I really look at architecture and building as just another form of art in the community. The fact that buildings impact so many people, people that you're probably never going to meet, I think that you have a personal tie into everything that you touch, that you design, that you build. Then, you can, drive down the road and just point out to your kids, “You know, mom built that or mom was part of that project. There's that pride factor.”
-Susan
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Susan’s Show Resources and Information * LinkedIn * Twitter * Susan Heinking - Pepper Construction * Drawdown: * slide:ology: * Resonate:
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LEED AP BD+C, LEED Project Reviewer, WELL AP: Allison Cunningham
Prior to joining Ecoworks Studio, Allison took a leap and moved from her home state of Indiana to Atlanta, GA to pursue her passion for sustainable design as a consultant for a well-established and nationally recognized sustainable consulting firm. There she quickly assumed the role of primary project manager for several significant projects varying in size, location, LEED Rating System, and LEED Certification level. Currently, as a long-time project manager for Ecoworks Studio, Allison brings a wealth of knowledge from past projects and uses a collaborative and practical approach to guide her projects to reach their sustainability and certification goals. Allison is a member of the USGBC Georgia Chapter and is an on-going member of the USGBC Georgia Chapter Atlanta Branch Outreach Committee where she aids in organizing volunteer opportunities and events to promote sustainability and education in the Atlanta and greater Atlanta communities. She also has an Interior Design degree from Purdue University and prior to graduation completed the Industry Cooperative Education Program working for a furniture dealer and interior design firm in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Show Highlights * Learn creative sustainability solutions to integrating concepts that are in the standards. * Allison provides valuable tips on intent of credit when working on large scale and unique projects. * Allison shares complexities from her various projects for location and building type. * Why you need to utilize the USGBC and GCBI to find alternative solutions that fit LEED and WELL standards * The Pandemic parallel impact on green building * How to pursue a holistic approach to sustainability by forming a bridge between LEED and WELL
“...when I was new in my career, the expectation of me (and kind of often) was when you're being graded, when you're going through school, is to be perfect or to try to be perfect, 100% right? I don’t think that's how the real world works and you're going to make mistakes, but sometimes those mistakes often turn out to be the things that you can learn the most from and you result in growing the most. So don't be afraid to make a mistake.”
-Allison Cunningham
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Lourdes (“Lu”) Salinas has more than 10 years of experience in Evaluation of Sustainability Strategies. She has developed multidisciplinary knowledge in energy, emissions, water, and environmental quality. Since 2008, she earned the LEED AP BD+C credential and since then has participated in more than 60 LEED projects and eight Green Star certifications. She has been a volunteer for the Mexican Council for Sustainable Building, now SUMe, since 2006 and has organized events in conjunction with the World Green Building Council. Lu developed her experience working in the United States and later in Australia, performing environmental certifications, energy modeling and design of passive systems at WSP Built Ecology, one of the most internationally recognized firms in the Sustainable Building sector. An, for the last 10 years, has led Three Consultoria Medioambiental.
Show Highlights * Healing a tree launched Lu’s passion and enthusiasm for creating resiliency that impacts the world * Why the kindest advice from her boss suggested she resign to advance her career * SITES provides tools to protect eco-systems in/around projects * The challenges and misconceptions facing green building in Mexico * What credentials should you go after in today’s climate? * Lu breaks down the difference between sustainability and resiliency * Lu hacks the system to keep increasing her purpose
“I think that architecture is one of the best arts that exists in the world because architecture can definitively include...sound and beauty and colors and shadows and light. At the end of the day, what you get is a final result that fills in all your emotions”.
- Lourdes (“Lu”) Salinas
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Lourdes’s Show Resources and Information * LinkedIn * Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance: * Radical Candor: * Three Consultoria - About Us
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Vessela Valtcheva-McGee, LEED Fellow, LEED AP BD+C AP, BREEAM International Assessor, DGNB auditor and EDGE Auditor.
Vessela has extensive experience with sustainability in both practice and education. With over 10 years of experience in sustainable development, she has both practical hands-on experience with sustainability assessment tools and frameworks in the construction and development sector, and deep theoretical knowledge of business sustainability, policy and education development, and leadership. While working closely with the business sector as a sustainability consultant, Vessela has also been actively involved in changing leadership through the international NGO green building council network.
In 2010 Vessela became a founding member on the Board of Directors of the Bulgarian Green Building Council where she is currently President. She works on sustainable policy development, voluntary certification initiatives, and represents the council at the World Green Building Council's Europe Regional Network, a coalition of organizations working together to facilitate industry leadership and drive the transition to a low-carbon, circular economy.
Since 2008 Vessela has been a Managing Partner in Triple Green Building Group, LLC - a full service sustainability consulting and education company. Triple Green is one of the first companies recognized as Authorized Education Delivery Partners by the United States Green Building Council, providing the company with a license to deliver professional education curriculum to the international market. Triple Green works with a number of major professional education development companies in the US and Europe to create courses on sustainability and provide both live facilitation and web based education programs, as well as train-the-trainer events. Today, after 10 years of collaboration, the company continues to be a trusted Education Partner of the USGBC.
At present, Vessela heads the European branch of Triple Green Group which is based in Sofia, Bulgaria. In her capacity as a green building consultant who has every recognized credential in the branch, Vessela has had the opportunity to work on numerous green building certification projects of national and international significance. She has personally managed the certification of LEED and BREEAM projects in Bulgaria, Russia, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Vietnam, Mexico and the US.
Vessela Valtcheva-McGee holds a Master of Architecture degree from the Savannah College of Art and Design where she is an honorary guest lecturer, and a post-graduate diploma in Business Sustainability from Cambridge University. She has delivered guest lectures on sustainability at Harvard, Berkeley and various universities in Eastern Europe. She is a LEED Fellow, LEED AP BD+C AP, BREEAM International Assessor, DGNB auditor and EDGE Auditor. Vessela is part of a recognized group of change leaders of sustainability in Europe working to coordinate a collaborative sustainable development effort with governments and relevant stakeholders across the region.
Show Highlights
- Learn what is possible when you are motivated to start off in a different direction and don’t follow business as usual.
- What rating tools and criteria does Vessela use to sway clients to meet their desired level of certification.
- The green movement depends on where you are but why is the US falling behind Europe? What are the challenges and success does location provide?
- Why the green building may quickly be in a place where certification is what we use to be the average.
- How the pandemic will provide a radical approach and focus on green building
- Vessela’s journey of firsts
“It's a great movement. Jump into it and do it with passion and pursue whatever angle in green building you most love and are interested in. And don't be afraid that there's a formula that you have to stick to. That's the beauty of this movement. It's wide open. There's a lot of room for experimentation for exploring paradigm shifts that we've been talking about and haven't quite made yet. There is still a lot of room for growth and great fields. Dive right in. No fear.”
-Vessela
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Vessela’s Show Resources and Information * Triple Green Building Group * Facebook * Linkedin * A Gentleman in Moscow:
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Architect, planner, and activist bringing design leadership, creative group facilitation, expertise and advocacy to organizations working to advance inclusive and equitable sustainable design solutions. Project types include academic and student life facilities for K-12 schools, colleges and universities, workplaces for mission driven organizations, and urban design and planning that advances equity, sustainability and resilience.
With 30 years of experience designing high performance buildings, campuses and urban neighborhoods, I am a passionate advocate for the “next” sustainable design agenda, which integrates architecture and planning to find synergies between high performance buildings, infrastructure, and community development strategies that build equity and resilience.
Lead author of two editions of “The HOK Guide to Sustainable Design,” one of Wiley’s best-selling sustainable design texts, and with work widely published in print and on the internet, I speak often at universities, conferences and industry events. Current research and writing focuses on the dual challenges of resilience and social equity.
Specialties: Architecture, urban design, planning, visioning, programming, community engagement, sustainable design, EcoDistrict planning, resilience planning
Show Highlights * Why you never share more than 5 ideas or concepts at a time * Building pedagogy. Buildings that are performing on multiple levels. * Hear about the various projects from her career in green building * How to redesign our communities now so that we're more resilient and prepared * Downturns in the economy provided a big opportunity in Sandy’s career. How she knew when to make changes. * The challenge on the issues of sustainability and systemic inequality * Sandy explains why general sustainability and reduction isn’t a big enough impact. * A good designer creates something that solves problems proactively and adds their voice to the solution
“I think we need to look beyond individual buildings; into the patterns of development in the way neighborhoods are built. We have to find the way as architects, to not just work where the most resources are, but to also work where there aren't enough resources. We can unlock a lot of opportunity and a lot of great things through designs.”
--Sandy Mendler
118:Sandy Mendler Transcript Show Resources * Sandy Mendler * The Value of Everything: * Sustainability | Chatham University * The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design:
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Laura joined ESG in Minneapolis after working for almost 10 years at a similar-sized firm in Dallas, specializing in mixed-use, multifamily housing and corporate office. Laura uses her various experience on complex projects to create an inspiring atmosphere of teamwork and collaboration. She also uses her leadership skills to develop and grow strong client and consultant relationships. Laura has served as the Chair of the AIA Dallas Committee on the Environment and on the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) North Texas Regional Council. She takes special care to include sustainability initiatives in the projects she works on. “My intention is to always make sure functionality in architecture and engineering come together in a holistic way,” she explains, “to create long-lived projects with efficiency and durability.”
Laura’s an avid listener, energetic, and extremely organized. She loves creating working relationships with clients and consultants, to build a team that works well together. “My intention is to work with the same clients over the years, so we come to know each other well, and can elevate our design goals with each new project.”
Laura graduated in 2010 with her Masters of Architecture from the University of Kansas and became a licensed architect in June 2013. In the past, she has been an active member in AIA Dallas, The Real Estate Council (TREC), and USGBC Texas. She is a graduate from the 2015 AIA Emerging Leaders Program and TREC’s 2017 Associate Leadership Council (ALC) class.
Show Highlights * Track Laura’s green journey from Missouri to Texas to Minnesota * Laura makes a culture of sustainable building with less top down roles * The best learning tool is having to build the requirements to get LEED and Passive House certifications * Affordable housing is an integral part of urban density projects * Why green builders need to add a level of commitment on all project requirements to include climate change * What shift does GenerationZ , the younger generation want to see all inclusive?
“Your passion can align with what you want to do with your career and there’s always time to learn so much more so you can focus on that one thing.”
-Laura Eder
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Show Resources * LinkedIn * The Hard Thing About Hard Things * A Company Of Owners: * The Energy Bus - Amazon.com * Studio 804
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Gary Gene Olp was one of the handpicked students admitted to the University of Cincinnati known for Michael Graves and other prestigious architects. He received a chapter AIA award for his first professional project, a new clubhouse for a century-old revered country club in Ohio. Gary has been designing residential projects since the mid-1980s expressing his contemporary architecture in organic shapes, smooth surfaces, and accentuated by the warm tones and textures of the steel struts, beams, and elements allowed to oxidize. His homes are sited to capture the southeasterly breezes and soft east and north light and to shield the harsh west sun.
Show Highlights * Learning how to use a hammer (and its symbolism) and scavenging for materials * Co-op program at the University of Cincinnati * The story of building his first house * The story of three all-nighters and a better design that resonates with a structure * Passive Solar vs PV Solar power * The first LEED Platinum certification in Texas * Designing for zero ecological footprint * The importance of preparing from the eyes of the builder
“You can’t build with bricks until you understand the brick.”
-Louis Kahn
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Show Resources * Gun, Germs, and Steel * The Botany of Desire * The Devil in the White City * Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright * Architecturally Significant Homes * Gary on LinkedIn
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Diego Ibarra is Principal and Founder of EA Buildings (formerly ENERGY ARQ), a consulting firm with offices in Boston MA, Santiago, Chile and Bogota, Colombia. EA Buildings specializes in sustainable design, building simulations and LEED® Consulting. Through his firm, Ibarra has been involved in over 80 projects with more than 20,000,000 SF, including commercial office towers, shopping malls, industrial facilities and academic institutions in North America, South America and Europe.
Ibarra's expertise involves advanced building performance simulations and their application in an integrated design process. He has taught over 30 Building Performance Simulation and LEED Trainings in the U.S and internationally. He has worked as a Teaching Assistant and Teaching Fellow at Harvard University in over 10 courses, such as Building Energy Performance Simulations; Environmental Technologies in Buildings; Energy Technology and Buildings; Daylighting Buildings; Building Technology, Thermal Performance of Buildings Systems, among others. Diego has also worked as a LEED Reviewer, including review of ASHRAE compliant energy models. He has been a speaker at international conferences, such as, Greenbuild, International Radiance Workshop, and IBPSA's Building Simulation.
Ibarra, a Fulbright Scholar, graduated with his Doctor of Design from Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2014. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Chile Green Building Council, IBPSA Chile, and a member of IBPSA-USA Boston Chapter Technical Committee. He also holds a Master in Design Studies in Environmental Technologies from Harvard University and is a LEED AP & ASHRAE BEMP.
Show Highlights * Diego tells you how to implement your knowledge at different levels, in terms of strategy surveying * Creating a planning roadmap that assesses specific technologies helps clients navigate the sustainability transformation * Diego talks about his journey to becoming a LEED Fellow * The valuable insight you gain from tracking your time. Diego shares an app to help you allocate your time to maximize growth. * Why it’s imperative to find a mentor who has been through the green building journey. * 3 big trends Dr. Ibarra says you should be reading up on now * If you equip yourself with these key skills it will be easy to find professional opportunities
“I try to dedicate the first half an hour to really plan the day and make a long list. I highlight what of those things to do actually match my priorities. The three big goals for the week. Really the whole point is try to avoid becoming reactive every day or our agendas get packed and we start putting out fires instead of really chasing the things that will push us forward.”
-Dr. Diego Ibarra
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Show Resources * Diego Ibarra * Hard Thing About Hard Things * Never Split the Difference
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John A. Lanier joined the Ray C. Anderson Foundation as Executive Director in May 2013. Serving in this role has been an immense honor, and he feels privileged to work with his family to advance the legacy of Ray, his grandfather. Lanier's passion for environmental stewardship was sparked by Ray's example and story, and he never tires of sharing this story with others. For those that don’t know, Ray Anderson was the founder and chairman of Interface. He was a pioneer in building product sustainability and proved how sustainability can make good business sense.
Prior to joining the Foundation, John Lanier was an associate attorney with Sutherland, Asbill and Brennan, LLP, specializing in U.S. Federal taxation. He represented the interests of various Atlanta-based nonprofits, gaining experience in nonprofit formations, compliance and applications for recognition of tax-exempt status. During that time, the Ray C. Anderson Foundation was one of his clients.
Lanier currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors for Southface, the southeast's nonprofit leader in the promotion of sustainable homes, workplaces and communities through education, research, advocacy and technical assistance. Lanier was a member of the 2014 class of the Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership (IGEL).
Lanier earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of Virginia School of Law, and he holds Bachelor of Arts Degrees in History and Economics from the University of Virginia. He is an Atlanta native who simply enjoys life. Lanier is blessed to be married to Chantel, a truly wonderful woman, and the two of them have two children, Joseph Ray (J.R.) and Cecilia.
Show Highlights * Learn Interface’s journey as they climbed mount sustainability * John shares his grandfather’s insights on how a company could be profitable and responsible to the planet * How business can be a force for good in the world. * John lets you know if the current economic system that has generated more quality of life than any other is sustainable * John explains how Atlanta’s soccer club, Atlanta United represents the sustainability movement * Why John says we need a systems level approach to sustainability, a redesign of our economic system
“We need as many people understanding the intricacies, the nuances of what it takes to solve sustainability challenges as possible, and that requires people being willing to read and listen to podcasts like this and go deep on these issues. Becoming experts in as many different areas within sustainability as possible. It's hard work. It takes time, but it's a rewarding journey.”
-John Lanier
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Show Resources * Ray Anderson TED Talk * Mid-Course Correction Revisited * Ecocentricity Blog * LinkedIn * Twitter * Ray C. Anderson Foundation * U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation
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Michelle L. DeLora, AIA, LEED AP, is an Associate Principal at SchenkelShultz Architecture in Orlando, FL. A registered architect in Florida with more than 20 years of experience, DeLora joined SchenkelShultz in 2012 and is part of the firm’s Greater Orlando Aviation Authority (GOAA) general consultant team. She is certified as a LEED accredited professional and is a past U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) central Florida chapter chair. DeLora holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Oregon and is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
Show Highlights * Michelle shares how to look for your passion and put roots into a lasting career * Learn what technologies there are and how to leverage that technology to make a better build environment * Consider what you're doing, where you should be, and what's the next thing to help pass your LEED exams * Michelle makes sense of how to pursue a project, what strategies to look for in the beginning, and how to discuss your LEED boundary * What is floating solar? * Michelle predicts a move towards app based products because sustainability and technology go hand in hand * Why WELL resonates with the clients today
“Be agile. When I was younger I was a little bit more sedentary and a little more afraid, but just really think about being agile, evolving with the times and thinking about what you could do. Always search for the next what's next.”
-Michelle DeLora
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Show Resources * Confessions of a Radical Industrialist
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Mandy Mahoney has served as president of the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance (SEEA) since March 2013. Prior to that, she served as the organization’s Vice President of Policy and Operations.
Prior to joining SEEA in 2011, Mandy served as Director of Sustainability for the City of Atlanta under Mayors Reed and Franklin. She holds a master’s degree in environmental management from Duke University and earned a law degree and a bachelor’s degree in biology and environmental studies from Emory University.
Selected to Georgia Trend’s 2016 “40 under 40” list and the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2014 “40 under 40” list, Mandy is also a graduate of LEAD Atlanta 2010; the Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership 2010; and the 2011 American Council of Germany’s Young Leaders Program. She serves on the boards of the Piedmont Park Conservancy, the Turner Environmental Law Clinic, the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE), Southeast Wind Coalition, and the Mississippi Early Learning Alliance (MELA). She and her husband Sean are the proud parents of Paul.
Show Highlights * Learn why some current laws aren’t good enough in clean energy and climate change * Mandy shares her green project highlights, as the first Director of Sustainability in Atlanta, that impacted the culture and policy * Why you need to be risk seeking in terms of finding new opportunities to address sustainability * Mandy explains what information to provide departments to empower, understand, and address climate change * How Mandy upgrades existing infrastructure to have a resilient economic base and healthier population * Essential resources that go beyond base level energy codes and predictions with net zero buildings and storm hardening * Mandy cautions listeners that your success will be short lived if you don’t bring together these two sides for durable gains
“It's okay to want to be happy. Like it's okay to want to follow something that really gives you joy. Working in this field can be a slog and you need to follow something that sparks your interest every day that you want to learn about when you're tired, an event you want to go to just because it's fun and I think that that can serve you very well in this field.”
-Mandy Mahoney
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Lindsey Perez is one of DLR Group's sustainable design experts and serves as a national resource on LEED, Green Globes, and Architecture 2030 project planning and certification processes.
A passionate advocate for integrated design, she works with project teams to incorporate sustainable strategies in every project. Lindsey is highly proficient with communicating and maintaining open lines of communication between all parties, with personal attention to every detail.
Lindsey has been involved with more than 500,000 SF of renovation projects for educational clients and is intimately familiar with the management and coordination of these K-12 and Higher Education projects.
Show Highlights * Moving towards environmental justice is an essential shift in green building. Lindsey explains how to be mindful of unintended consequences and global impact. * Use your passion as a bridge between sustainability, personal and architecture built environments * Lindsey describes sustainable project planning and management beyond a design perspective * Lindsey describes how she applies pilot credits * Listen to Lindsey’s pro tips on minimizing the green building industry stressers * Learn essential questions Lindsey’s construction materials and methods curriculum focuses on * Lindsey explains the significance of not becoming a lone wolf but look for allies and mentors
“I am very passionate about education, sustainability, the built environment,and how they all come together. But, I'm extremely passionate about being a mom and how am I raising my kids to be more thoughtful of the environment in which we live, in the communities in which we are living, working, and learning.”
-Lindsey Perez
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Andrew's primary areas of expertise are in low carbon buildings and renewable energy, both large and small scale. His professional and academic experience ranges from consultancy, programme management, technical and non-technical articles and publications, lecture and workshop delivery, and primary research.
Andrew's main goal is to help organizations adopt and deliver low carbon solutions, particularly energy efficiency measures.
Specialties: Passivhaus, low carbon construction, energy efficiency, low carbon technologies, PV, wind, sustainability lectures and workshops, study tours, programme management, certification, technology assessment methodologies, helpline management, thermal modelling, c programming, technical research.
Show Highlights * Andrew’s commitment to the work carved his own path in the industry and created a company and energy standards. * Unpacking the misconceptions and how Passive House can fundamentally be applied to any building type. * Andrew shares what's realistically happening with projects pursuing both Passive House and LEED programs * + Are they complementary? + When would you apply Passive House instead of LEED? * Learn Andrew’s unique way of tackling the cost question by steering the budget discussion differently * Impactful targets to consider for industry transformation and the future of sustainability and green building. * How partnering in the industry ensures a great project and out of the box thinking * Andrew explains how routine meditation helps reshape your thinking to support creativity and why he doesn’t take work that doesn't align with his mission or vision.
“Get a vision for your life and your career. Like what really motivates you, what you are passionate about, and take action towards that despite what others may say. Carve your own path. There's always some level of realism, but do what you're passionate about. It's really about what do I want to be doing on a day to day basis. I've always had interesting projects that keep me engaged. I'm always learning. So always, always find opportunities to learn and grow.”
-Andrew Peel
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Show Resources * Breaking-Habit-Being-Yourself-Create * Andrew Peel * Peel Passive House Consulting
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Avneet has led the sustainability process for a portfolio of 18 Million+ square feet/ $8 Billion+ budget, projects certified at high performance thresholds. A passionate advocate with over 20 years experience, recognized for the delivery of sustainable resilient communities, both public and private. Driven to provide performance based holistic solutions targeting the triple bottom line, Avneet's international experience shows focus on critical regionalism. She draws from vernacular architecture across the globe, responsive to its climatic, social and economic fabric. Designing to maintain the balance of a fragile ecological system for the 2400 acre Indian Naval Academy Ehzimala Kerala, engendered her passionate commitment to sustainability.
Show Highlights * How Avneet’s journey brings community and project work together to impact market change. * The gamut of green building from pre design through construction of green systems. * Avneet shares best practices and key routines to merge professional goals into a personal lifestyle. * Entrenching in sustainability * Taking risks and making leap of faith are essential * Avneet’s inspirational projects for sustainability that go above and beyond. * How LEED and Carnegie Mellon propels her to be experimental and to push the envelope.
“There is a line where you have to be really passionate to not just survive, but to actually begin to move the needle…communicate deep, passionate, get into it and really communicate that fire that you feel within you. I do.”
-Avneet Gujral
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Show Resources * Death-Life-Great-American-Cities * Modern-Man-Corbusier-Architect-Tomorrow * Laurie-Baker-Life-Work-Writings * Website * Linkedin
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Noreen is a Principal Architect, LEED Fellow, and LEED AP BD+C with Verdacity, LLC. She has extensive experience in coordinating and integrating building systems, regulatory and programmatic requirements, and other criteria to support performance, efficiency, and health. Her expertise in green building project management, green criteria for rating systems, energy analysis, and developing strategies for meeting high-performance benchmarks provides a solid foundation for working with clients to achieve their goals. Additionally, Noreen was a facilitator in the implementation of State of New Mexico Executive Green Building Executive Order and served as faculty at the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning developing and teaching sustainability curriculum.
Show Highlights * Noreen’s journey from New York to New Mexico * How Noreen’s work as an artist influenced her career in green building * Driving professors crazy and sticking to your path * The one assignment that had a profound impact on Noreen * People experimenting with green building in New Mexico
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Show Resources * Noreen on LinkedIn * Little Book of Hygge * How Buildings Learn * The Clock of the Long Now
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Emre is from Istanbul, Turkey.
After graduating from Bogazici University Civil Engineering Department, Emre completed Master of Science program in Engineering Management at University of New Orleans in
- He also has M.A. degrees in Financial Economics and Statistics. He is currently working on his Ph.D. Dissertation and he is a part-time faculty in Istanbul Technical University, Department of Architecture-Construction Sciences program.
Emre has 14 years of experience working in several sectors, including Construction, Real Estate, Transportation and Sustainability Services as an engineer, project manager and consultant. Through his professional life, he has been involved in many projects located in different countries including Turkey, Hungary, Jordan, Mozambique, Djibouti, Uganda,
UAE, Russia, Pakistan, Kazakhistan and USA.
In 2008, he founded Altensis, the leading company in Turkey, specialized in Sustainability Management and Engineering services. Since then, Altensis has been providing consultancy and project management services for Green Building Certification, Sustainable Urban Regeneration, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy applications in the built environment. By the end of 2019, Emre and his team completed more than 200 Green Building Projects in several countries. As managing partner of Altensis , he received the leading solution provider award in GreenBuild Europe 2018.
Mr. Ilicali is a LEED Fellow, LEED AP, LEED for Homes Green Rater, BREEAM International Assessor, and IFC Edge Auditor. He is also an accredited Real Estate Appraiser. He is the Education Coordinator of Altensis, developing Green Building and Energy Efficiency Expert Training programs for interested parties.
Show Highlights * Leading the green building movement in Turkey * The value of LEED certification * Differences in LEED and BREEAM projects * Why office buildings and high rise residential properties are going LEED * The pros and cons of green building projects in developing countries
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Jeremy is a designer with a deep passion for sustainable building, social equity, and service-learning. As a Project Manager with BNIM, he completed the Bancroft School Apartments, a Kansas City development of 50 LEED Platinum affordable apartment units with a large community-center, built based on a public interest design process with the local Neighborhood Association. He has built on the lessons from this and other projects to transform the architecture industry through developing a network and standards of practice for Public Interest Design, a system which prioritizes community vision. Through his volunteer leadership with Historic Green and the US Green Building Council, he has helped residents throughout Kansas City and New Orleans to improve the efficiency of their homes while training hundreds of professional and student volunteers in hands-on preservation and sustainability techniques.
Specialties: LEED certification system, Public Interest Design, LEED Online, Revit, Sketchup, Microsoft Suite (Word, Xcel, Powerpoint, etc), Photoshop, Acrobat, and many other programs.
Show Highlights * Living abroad and learning about sustainability * The importance of finding your passions in the industry * No matter where you are around the world, we are experiencing similar problems * Jeremy’s green building journey and starting a recycling program within his company * What Jeremy learned working in the lower 9th ward of New Orleans
Show Resources * Jeremy on LinkedIn * Seveneves * Aretemis * Pushing Ice
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Today’s episode features Sarah Talkington of Austin Energy. Sarah is a Texas native and has been a part of Austin Energy for over 13 years. She is a green building and energy expert and a recently minted LEED Fellow! Austin Energy offers year-round rebates and incentives to help offset the cost of making energy-efficiency improvements to homes or businesses in the Austin, TX area.
Sarah Talkington manages the Commercial Austin Energy Green Building team. In this position, Sarah coordinates with local developers, owners, design teams and other building professionals to find best practice, sustainable design & construction solutions for Austin. She is responsible for the development and adoption of the Commercial Energy Code for the City of Austin. She also serves as the Vice Chair of the United States Green Building Council’s Technical Committee.
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3 Reasons to Listen * Moments that reminded Sarah she was on the right path * Her experience working on the Dell Children’s Hospital project * A new way to think about energy management: the Power Partner Thermostat Program
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Today’s episode features an interview with LEED Fellow Deepa Sathiaram.
Deepa is a leading international green building, HVAC, and building systems design professional. Deepa has been named as one of "India's Top 15 Nature's Keepers" for actively spearheading India's green building movement. She was in the early USGBC LEED Fellow Class of 2013, and also is recognized as an India GBC Fellow and WELL Faculty.
She founded En3 which has operations in the U.S., India, the Middle East, and Africa. Her work includes 600+ green buildings covering over 250 million square feet of green projects worldwide. Her work includes many industry firsts including one of India’s 1st Net-Zero Energy Buildings, 1st carbon-neutral organization and India's 1st carbon-neutral construction project.
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3 Reasons to Listen * Deepa transcended gender bias in the engineering field * Sustainability in India and regional hurdles * Innovating in energy efficiency and sustainability
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Today’s episode features Kim Lombard.
Kim's adaptability has allowed her to be part of a variety of project types which include education, healthcare, commercial, and federal. She has had a professional focus on sustainability and creating green buildings. She has developed an interest in how suitability of the built environment can affect the purpose for which projects are built.
Kim sees projects through from scorecard development to the award of the LEED plaque. Her fluency with the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED rating system and its many version has positioned her as a subject matter expert.
3 Reasons to Listen * Kim’s roots regarding sustainability * How to maximize what you learn from a project * Projects tackling sea level rising
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About the Episode In today’s episode we are joined by John Boecker. He is a green building expert with over 20 years of experience in the industry. John will be helping us understand some important things regarding green building and regenerative practice. He will also share with us his journey to becoming a green building expert.
Stay tuned to learn more.
Key Talking Points 1. Getting to know John Boecker 2. John’s first green building project 3. John’s turning point in his career 4. Who does John consider a mentor in his life? 5. Cool accomplishments in John’s career 6. Getting to know the Seven Group better 7. Understanding regenerative design better 8. What is John best at? 9. What John wishes he had known earlier in his green building career
Key Milestones of the Episode [01:42] Getting to know John
[02:44] John’s first green building at the Department of Environmental Protection
[04:14] The call that made a difference in John’s career
[06:03] What did John train in?
[10:02] John’s mentors
[11:24] John’s cool achievement
[12:11] Getting to know the Seven Group better
[16:29] What’s it going to take for some more significant breakthroughs with regenerative design?
[18:03] Importance of collaboration
[20:48] John’s gift
[23:50] On the bucket list
[26:50] A must-read book
[28:40] What John wishes he knew earlier in his career
Key Quotes from the Episode 1. “What is it that you need to develop so that you can express your unique voice and think bigger about the contribution you’re being called to make?” 2. “Life is about asking the right questions.” 3. “There’s nothing new. It’s just rethinking how to put it back together again and express it in each individual case differently.” 4. “We can either hold that and sell it or give it away, and we made a choice to give it away.” 5. “The real value of that book was helping us clarify how we want it to work and then share that with others.” 6. “Look, to see, to remember.”
Key Resources 1. The Overstory- by Richard Powers 2. Carol Sanford’s books
Learn More about John Boecker John is a green building expert and one of the founders of Seven Group. His specialties include Green Building Architect and LEED, Integrative Design, and Regenerative Development Consulting.
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Today’s episode is a special one with Charlie Cichetti.
Charlie shares a high-level summary of what he’s learned over the last 100 shows.
And a big THANK YOU for being a regular listener of the podcast and HAPPY NEW YEAR
3 Reasons to Listen * Why right now is a great time to join the green building movement * The importance of hope * Career advice for those new to green building
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About the Episode
In this episode, we have Green Building professional Alan Scott. We will talk about the early days in Philadelphia and the early days with the living building challenge. Alan is a successful leader and works with many groups of individuals in the green building and sustainable sector striving for meaningful results.
Tune in to this episode to hear more about Alan’s journey.
Key Talking Points
- Getting to know Alan
- Living in Oregon
- Alan’s journey in Architecture
- Sustainability of Green building movement
- Alan’s special gift
- Routines and Rituals
- Career Advice and word of encouragement
Key Milestones of the Episode
[01:19] Introduction of Alan Scott
[03:19] Starting career in Architect
[05:22] Aha moments
[08:24] Career at Green movement
[10:15] Finding Team members
[14:08] Alan’s Projects
[19:27] Importance of Resilience
[23:27] Alan’s specialty
[24:38] Alan’s rituals and routines for success
[25:49] Alan’s bucket list
[29:37] Alan’s Wish in Career
[30:25] Words of Encouragement for new fellows
Key Quotes from the Episode
- “When I talk about something I care about that really gets me out there and doing things on a timeline”.
- “My superpower is empathy and that actually grew out of my introversion.”
- “I connect at a deeper level with the people around me.”
- “I'm an early riser even before the birds in the morning without an alarm clock and I treasure that for quiet time”.
- “I wish somebody had pushed me earlier to not play it safe and be bold and take chances and do it with humility and clarity of attention.”
- “Stay open to possibility.”
Key Resources
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Leadership: in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital by Kimberly Clausing
Learn More about Alan Scott
Alan is an experienced leader, strategist, architect and consultant, successful at guiding teams to create and maintain high performance buildings and sustainable built environments. In a world of specialists, a conductor, orchestrating the vital talents of technical experts to lead teams in concert toward ideal solutions and meaningful results for clients. Skilled facilitator and teacher, engaging groups and individuals in professional development, goal setting and problem solving activities.
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About the Episode
In this episode, we talked to Green Building Professional Robert Phinney. Robert is an architect specializing in creativity and sustainability. In this episode, we talk about his journey to green building and sustainability. Robert talks about his passion for creativity and what he does at the DLR group. He also talks about his turning point after learning about sustainability and the importance of the environment in design. Stay tuned to learn more about Robert’s journey.
Key Talking Points
- Getting to know Robert
- Joining the Sustainability building and mentor
- Robert mentors
- Building a career in sustainability
- Robert's proudest achievements and working at DLR group
- Roberts secrets to success
- About the Sustainability/Green building movement.
- Defining resiliency and explaining why people fail to adopt social sustainability.
- Robert's specialty and words of encouragement
Key Milestones of the Episode
[00:58] Robert's career background
[04:39] Joining the sustainability architect design
[06:29] Robert mentors
[07:48] Building a career in sustainability
[11:34] Robert's proudest achievements
[13:34] Working at DLR group
[15:59] Roberts secrets to success
[20:09] About the Sustainability/Green building movement.
[24:39] Defining resiliency
[28:59] Explaining why people fail to adopt social sustainability.
[32:21] Robert's specialty
[38:13] Robert's words of encouragement
Key Quotes from the Episode
- “I think there's a lot of opportunities to influence large scale change here and it seemed to work out that way.”
- “How I can help the younger professionals coming up is that I've made all the mistakes. I've tried all the things and see what works, what doesn't work, what needed to shift.”
- “You succeed most when you have failed the most.”
- “When you are trying to create a new process or advocate for getting design professionals, whether it’s architects, engineers, planners, interiors, folks do something a different way.”
- “You can't have environmental responsibility without having social and economic responsibility as well.”
Key Resources
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Learn More about Robert Phinney
Robert was born in Northern Virginia. He had a passion for creativity. Robert pursued his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Virginia and State University of North Carolina respectively. He started his sustainability career when in his graduate program. Currently, Robert practices sustainability consultancy at the DLR group where he advocates for Green building and social sustainability adaption.
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About the Episode
In this episode, we talk to Green Building Professional Jerry Yudelson. Jerry is a prolific speaker, author and the first organizer of the Greenbuild conference; in 2011, he was named a LEED Fellow by the U.S. Green Building Council. Jerry talks about his career journey and roles in the green building movement.
Tune in to this episode to hear more about Jerry’s experience.
Key Talking Points
- Getting to know Jerry
- Jerry's mentor
- Involvement in the US Green Building Council
- Jerry's proudest achievements in sustainability
- Jerry's best practice in writing
- Current exciting projects
- The source of Jerry's memoir title: Godfather of Green
- Screen building and sustainability movement
- The sick building syndrome
- Jerry's specialty
- Jerry's success rituals and routines
- Jerry’s bucket list
- Early life wishes and advice
Key Milestones of the Episode
[01:21] Intro to Jerry Yudelson
[05:09] Jerry's mentor
[07:46] Involvement in the US Green Building Council
[12:57] Jerry's proudest achievements in sustainability
[17:26] Jerry's best practice in writing
[19:53] Current exciting projects
[21:48] The source of Jerry's memoir title: Godfather of Green
[23:20] Screen building and sustainability movement
[26:09] The sick building syndrome
[30:05] Jerry's specialty
[34:26] Jerry's success rituals and routines
[36:33] Jerry’s bucket list
[41:58] Early life wishes and advice
Key Quotes from the Episode
“It’s like they say in the army, never raise your hand to volunteer for anything.”
“If I give any advice to the younger people, it's find something just starting up where there aren't too many experts and just dive in and you'll become an expert pretty fast.”
“Go do whatever you feel like doing. Try to make it of use to other people and then see what happens.”
“I know that the most important two words in every book are-the end.”
“Buildings aren't there just to look pretty for architectural record. They're there for people to work, play, and learn; so we can live in so they got to be healthy for people.”
“The only way to get green in a building is in the first hour of the first meeting when the decision-makers for the client are in the room.”
“If you're standing at the edge of a cliff, the first sign of wisdom is to take a step backward. It's not to turn around and take a selfie.”
“If you want to be successful in your career, you've got to really get out of your comfort zone.”
Key Resources
The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
Learn More about Jerry Yudelson
Jerry Yuldelson is a prolific speaker and author in the green building sector. Nationally and internationally recognized keynote speaker and the leading published author in the green building field. Keynote speaker at 100 conferences and events in 20 countries since 2006. Available for keynotes and other presentations by contacting: jerry.yudelson@gmail.com or www.reinventinggreenbuilding.com. Jerry is dubbed as the Godfather of Green for his roles in the Green building movement. Currently, he is on the verge of completing his Memoir about his green career and life.
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Light House Building Centre’s Brenda Martens
About the Episode
In this episode, we visit with Brenda Martens. Brenda has worked in the building industry for over 25 years. She is a practitioner, educator, and advocate in the field of green building and sustainability. She is also the Director of Research and Collaboration for Light House Sustainable Building Centre.
She has served on the Board of Directors of the Cascadia Green Building Council, is a past faculty member of the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) and the University of British Columbia Continuing Studies, and is a co-founder of Recollective Consulting and the Open Green Building Society, an organization that open sources information about green buildings. She currently teaches green building and sustainability for BCIT.
Tune in to this episode to hear more about Brenda’s journey.
Key Talking Points
- Getting to know Brenda
- Brenda’s start in sustainability
- First experience with Green projects
- Exposure to Mentors
- LEED Fellow
- Cascadia
- Projects during Brenda’s Career
- What does the future hold
- Bucket List
- Brenda’s Advice
Key Milestones of the Episode
[01:43] Intro to Brenda Martens
[02:30] Early Exposure to Physics
[03:05] Brenda’s AHA Moment
[05:36] Mentors
[10:25] Living Building Challenge
[16:20] Buildings at the end of life
[18:34] Trends in the future of green building
[22:56] Areas of Strength for Brenda
[24:32] Brenda’s Bucket List
[29:25] Final Words of Encouragement
Key Quotes from the Episode
- “My focus was on commercial buildings at the time, I had never worked in the single-family, residential market.”
- “That’s when I had my first epiphany that we didn’t have to do business as usual.”
- “The design for disassembly and reuse is not strong. How do you design for buildings and life?”
- “I see a proliferation of different standards and rating systems. Some of them like the Living Building Challenge and LEED are holistic and some are more concentrated on a portion of the characteristics of buildings.”
- “You look at it as an opportunity not a challenge.”
Key Resources
- Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone
Learn More about Brenda Martens, B.Sc., CSBA, LEED AP BD+C, LEED Fellow
Brenda's work experience encompasses residential, institutional, commercial, and industrial projects throughout British Columbia, including the Vancouver and Whistler Athletes' Villages, the Okanagan College Centre of Excellence (a Living Building Challenge Petal candidate), and over 20 BC housing projects across the province. She is deeply involved in the green building movement and has served the community as Chair of the Site and Water Technical Advisory Group (TAG); LEED Canada Steering Committee member; and the City of Vancouver Green Building Strategy Committee member, amongst other roles. She is committed to growing the green building movement through practice, mentorship and education.
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About the Episode In this episode, we have Green Building professional Marni Jade Evans. Marni is a LEED Fellow. We will explore the early days around LEED when she was an Associate Green Building Consultant at Paladino and Company. Additionally, Marni will talk about early influences on the Living Building Challenge. Marni is a proud Canadian with dual citizenship.
Tune in to this episode to hear more about Marni Jade Evan’s journey.
Key Talking Points 1. Getting to know Marni 2. Marni’s inspiration 3. First experience with Green projects 4. Gaining insight from the Greenbuild Conference 5. Starting a new company 6. Proudest Achievements 7. USGBC update 8. What does the future hold 9. Bucket List 10. Marni’s Advice
Key Milestones of the Episode [01:43] Intro to Marni Jade Evans
[02:30] Early Exposure to Architecture
[04:58] Marni’s mentors
[06:36] Paladino and Green Projects
[10:55] Greenbuild Conference
[13:20] Starting a new company
[18:34] Update on US Green Buildings Council
[24:56] Trends in the future of green building
[34:32] Marni’s Bucket List
[39:42] Final Words of Encouragement
Key Quotes from the Episode 1. “Tom Paladino had to be the best mentor, hands down.” 2. “One of the big highlights in my life was deciding in 2008 to start my own Green Building Consulting Firm in the heat of a recession.” 3. “I’m really lucky, I get to work from home while still being a part of the DC office.” 4. “My intuition is telling me the entire building industry is about to be completely disrupted by buildings that are mobile, that are temporary, that are fast built, that are inexpensive and technological.”
Key Resources 1. Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo 2. trim tab blog
Learn More about Marni Jade Evans As a Green Building Specialist, I serve as a technical subject matter expert for all USGBC and GBCI published guidance related to LEED, SITES, WELL and EDGE certification. Drawing on cutting-edge knowledge of, and direct experience with, the suite of LEED Rating Systems and SITES, I assist teams in the design, construction and real estate industry and serve as a resource and problem-solver for technical issues. My role is focused primarily on improving customer service through direct customer engagement.
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About the Episode
In this episode, we have Green Building professional Michelle Halle Stern. The way Michelle grew up has a lot to do with what she does now, and she credits her mentor for that. Michelle grew up in Rockford, Illinois, which was the second largest city in Illinois. She started her career in Heroes Universe and architecture and got two degrees, one in civil engineering and other in architecture.
Key Talking Points
- Getting to know Michelle
- Michelle’s journey into building engineering and public health
- Green facilitator
- Technology of participation
- Michelle is keen to learn languages
- Routines and Rituals
Key Milestones of the Episode
[01:33] Intro to Michelle Halle Stern
[02:07] Aha moment
[04:46] Michelle’s mentors
[05:36] Michelle’s first project
[09:30] Green facilitator
[16:29] Bucket list items
[20:48] Bottom Line
[21:54] Routines
Key Quotes from the Episode
- “I would say that you don't have to have all the answers.”
- “Always be an advocate for yourself.”
- “There's you should always be standing up for what you believe in.”
- “It’s kind of one of those things that you just have to do through practice.”
- “There are seven basic principles in the Regeneration and really when we talked about it in terms of a project is about building capacity and it's about what are you affecting beyond your project? How do we co-create with a community to make sure that everything everyone has a steak and a unique role not just for people but also for the ecology and environment.”
Key Resources
- The Moments of Lift
- The Sixth Extinction
Learn More about Michelle Halle Stern
Michelle Halle Stern is the national Director of Sustainable Design Services at HDR where she manages business operations and strategic planning for their sustainable design consulting group.
Prior to joining HDR, Michelle was a Sustainability Strategist at Perkins+Will, director of green building initiatives and LEED consulting for the non-profit Delta Institute, and the first Director of Sustainability at OWP/P.
She has been sought after as a green building expert since the late 90s, when
she started one of the country’s first sustainability programs, and founded
the USGBC Chicago Chapter. Michelle’s background in architecture, engineering,
and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, which offers her a unique
perspective and understanding of complex systems, and the human health
impacts of green design.
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About the Episode
In this episode, we have Green Building professional Rob Fleming. The way Rob grew up has a lot to do with what he does now, and he credits his parents for that. Rob’s mom took he and his sister to Woodstock in 1969 so a lot of his early experience was being exposed to counter culture and alternative ways and finding a better way of moving forward with sustainability.
Rob started gravitating towards sustainability and green buildings in undergrad school at Temple, and he continued this journey in grad school at Virginia Tech.
Key Talking Points
- Getting to know Rob
- Rob’s journey into building engineering
- Temple and Virginia Tech
- Rob has always been involved in organizations
- Starting a Master’s of Science in Sustainable Design
- Why we moved from climate change to climate adaptability
- Self-Awareness
- Routines and Rituals
Key Milestones of the Episode
[01:33] Getting to know Rob
[02:54] Aha moments
[04:00] Organization value in career
[05:41] Rob’s mentors
[09:25] Rob’s proudest achievements
[14:00] Teaching at Thomas Jefferson University
[19:44] Moving from climate change to climate adaptability
[25:25] Area of specialty
[27:32] Quadruple Bottom Line
[29:08] Routines
Key Quotes from the Episode
- “Why use so many resources when you don’t have too?”
- “I have been a participant in organizations as an architect since the beginning of my career.”
- “One of the first things I was exposed to was materials and their effect on the planet.”
- “I decided to write my first book at the kitchen table.”
- “Incremental improvement is not going to get us to the finish line.”
- “We need to be able to see the world through multiple lenses simultaneously so that we can begin to make more wholistic and comprehensive decisions to serve the world better.”
Key Resources
- Design Education for a Sustainable Future by Rob Fleming
- Sustainable Design for the Built Environment by Rob Fleming and Saglinda Roberts
- Eco Man and the Skeptic Podcast
- Sustainable Design Basics-coming soon
Learn More about Rob Fleming
Rob Fleming is a design professional with over 20 years of high-level facilitation experience. He uses authentic DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) strategies to make sure that all stakeholders are valued and heard in the process. Additionally, he integrates TBL (Triple Bottom Line) also referred to as People, Profit, Planet concepts into all sessions to ensure that environmental justice is front and center in the process.
Rob’s educational work seeks to train the next generation of sustainability leaders. As Program Director for the MS in Sustainable Design Program at Jefferson, he works to transform higher education for more value and more impact. Rob is building a new platform to deliver cutting edge knowledge and concepts to a diverse audience.
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About this Episode Today’s episode is about training on LEED and Well in other countries. Charlie would like to get some feedback on the podcast from his listeners and he will provide some of the latest statistics from around the world.
Take time to email Charlie at charlie@gbes.com to share your feedback.
Key Talking Points * Intro to PSA * Share Feedback w/Charlie * Statistics for Green Building * International Programs * Links to several resources
Key Milestones of the Episode [00:17] Introduction to training, feedback and statistics
[01:07] Asking to share feedback from listeners
[02:34] Two Amazing trips
[06:20] Train Well Consultants
[11:50] Green Building Statistics
[13:23] Well Building Standard
[15:25] Outside US programs
Key Resources * https://www.worldgbc.org/
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https://www.usgbc.org/articles/leed-professionals-glance-july-2019
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https://www.usgbc.org/articles/leed-numbers-16-years-steady-growth
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https://www.fitwel.org/certification
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https://centerforactivedesign.org/fitwel
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https://www.wellcertified.com/about-iwbi/
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https://www.greenglobes.com/about.asp
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https://www.dgnb.de/en/news/statements/Comparison_LEED_and_DGNB/index.php
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https://gbca.org.au/
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https://www.bca.gov.sg/green_mark/
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https://www.hkgbc.org.hk/eng/about-us/what-is-green-building/index.jsp
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https://www.usgbc.org/articles/leed-and-industrial-facilities-meet-four-top-users-leed-videos
- https://resources.wellcertified.com/articles/iwbi-named-to-fast-companys-annual-list-of-the-worlds-most-innovative-companies-for-2019/
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About the Episode In this episode, we are honored to have Alan Traugott share with us his green building journey. Alan is one person who has a rich history and quite a different path from what many people have had.
Back in high school, Alan was interested in oceanography. The most amazing thing about Alan’s journey is the fact in every step of his life; he has had a helping hand. He has worked with a good number of mentors, and he is currently a mechanical partner at CJL Engineering.
Key Talking Points 1. Getting to know Alan 2. Alan’s journey into building engineering 3. CJL Engineering and Alan’s role there 4. Alan’s proudest achievements 5. The future of green building movements 6. Alan’s words of encouragement 7. The bucket list
Key Milestones of the Episode [01:24] Getting to know Alan
[02:29] The beginning of Alan’s career
[04:06] Transitioning into building engineering
[15:23] Joining CJL Engineering
[19:32] Alan’s proudest achievements
[21:42] The future of green building movement according to Alan
[31:40] Effects of greenhouse emissions
[38:31] Encouragement for someone jumping into this green building movement
Key Quotes from the Episode 1. “Learn what you’re good at, and learn how you can make that contribution.” 2. “Have confidence in your own abilities and ideas that you can go out and do something.” 3. “It’s about persistence, determination, and basically not taking no for an answer.” 4. “How you communicate and can make something accessible to people is important.” 5. “Communications and writing is an incredibly important skill set to have.” 6. “Every person’s efforts can make a difference for change.” 7. “As the ocean absorbs more CO2, it becomes more acidic.” 8. “CO2 lives in the atmosphere somewhere between 50 and 800 years.”
Key Resources 1. The fifth center for sustainable landscapes 2. The power of one- Bryce Courtenay 3. An American Life- Ben Franklin
Learn More about Alan Traugott Alan is a partner at CJL Engineering. He has professional designations including LEED Fellow and LEED AP BD+C. Alan believes that the most exciting thing is a good idea, but thinks his specialty is being able to translate technical issues and make them accessible to lay people.
Additionally, Alan says his confidence has helped him figure things out and bring value; he is not afraid to jump into unknown situations and this has contributed to his success.
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About the Episode
In this episode, we are humbled to have the Vice President of Quality and Sustainability at McCarthy, Chad Dorgan. Chad started out as a mechanical engineer and served the Air Force for four years. Chad shares with us how he transitioned from mechanical engineering to green building and much more.
Listen and learn from Chad.
Key Talking Points
- Chad’s introduction
- From mechanical engineering to Green building
- Chad’s mentors
- Building commissioning
- From commissioning to McCarthy
- Chad’s proudest moments
- What’s the future for green building?
- Chad’s gift
- Decision making tips
- Words of wisdom from Chad
Key Milestones of the Episode
[00:37] Getting to know Chad
[03:19] Chad’s mentors
[05:40] From the Air Force to building commissioning
[10:59] The vast shift to McCarthy
[14:52] Chad’s proudest moments
[18:32] What’s the future of the green building industry?
[21:42] Chad’s Gift
[22:31] How does Chad make decisions?
[24:54] Sneak peek on scrum
[30:02] Words of wisdom from Chad
Key Quotes from the Episode
- “Use everything that you come across as tools and guides, but make sure you’re actually understanding what people want and use there.”
- “We spend a lot of years trying to get a rating or getting a certification, and we sometimes miss the conversation that we should have.”
- “You have to set time aside or put on the calendar for key things you need to do.”
- “I spent a lot of time on that front end and make sure I’m going to where I need to go before I go.”
- “There’s a lot of failures out there, but ultimately it’s, it’s going to be better, cheaper, and faster.”
- “We live where we build.”
- “In the end, it’s getting everyone engaged and collaborating that we got success.”
- “Commissioning is helping an owner understand and document their requirements.”
Key Resources
- Scrum Methodology
- 2 Seconds Lean- Paul Akers
- The Scrum Book- Jeff Sutherland
Learn more about Chad Dorgan
Chad Dorgan is Vice President - Quality and Sustainability for McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., a 100% employee-owned national construction company specializing in complex, high technology facilities such as hospitals, research laboratories, and industrial plants. In this role, he is responsible for the development and implementation of McCarthy’s innovative Quality without Question Program and oversees McCarthy’s Virtual Design and Construction efforts, both focused upon consistently building the best buildings in America for the firm’s clients and industry partners. Chad is also responsible for McCarthy’s Sustainability Initiatives and is the Corporate Leader of McCarthy’s Green Steering Committee.
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About the Episode Imagine you are on a beach to have a relaxing moment, but the trash there triggers a turning point in your life. Our guest today tells us how waste on a beach changed her life for the better.
We are humbled to have Denise Braun join us on this episode. Denise grew up in Brazil, and it’s incredible how her sustainability career started. She was having a good time at the beach when a flood came accompanied by so much trash that it raised the alarm for her.
In 2001 she created a beach cleanup remote program and started a waste audit to understand what kind of trash it was. She involved the media, the government and everybody she could to bring to their attention what was happening and created a beach cleanup education.
Her initiative landed her job with an engineering company. In this episode, she tells us how her career evolved, how she moved to the US, and all the beautiful things she is doing for the industry.
Key Talking Points 1. Denise’s career 2. All about zero waste 3. Denise’s routine/rituals 4. What is in her bucket list?
Key Milestones of the Episode [00:25] Denise’s introduction
[01:09] How Denise got into the sustainability industry
[05:45] Who mentored Denise?
[08:02] Proudest moments that Denise has had
[10:03] Solid waste data collection and analysis in the US
[23:48] What is Denise best at?
[24:56] What rituals help Denise stay on point?
[27:08] What is in Denise’s bucket list?
[29:57] What does Denise read?
[37:08] Words of wisdom from Denise.
Key Quotes from the Episode 1. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.” 2. “Whatever situation I am in, I see it as a learning experience.” 3. “In order to build in Brazil they have to build a LEED project.” 4. “I am most interested in is how can we eliminate the idea of waste?”
Key Resources 1. Miracle Morning- Hal Elrod 2. The Natural Step- David Cook
Learn more about Denise Braun Denise Braun is a LEED and WELL accredited professional, as well as a Fitwel Ambassador, an Envision Sustainability Professional, and a TRUE Advisor. She has over fifteen years of experience in the sustainability field, starting in Brazil and then moving to the United States. She has worked in various capacities on over 127 LEED certified projects, many of which have achieved the highest level of certification with no clarifications. Denise is currently working on several WELL projects. She recently worked on the first TRUE-certified zero waste high-rise commercial building in the world!
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About this Episode
Dean D’Angelo joins Green Building Matters Podcast from South Florida and unpacks his background in sales, entrepreneurship, construction, and everything he is doing at GBES with Corporate Education. Dean is the Director of Corporate Education at Green Building Education Services.
Key Talking Points
- Dean’s first focus on sustainability
- Background in business and construction
- Mentors and Achievements
- Roles in his journey to sustainability
- Corporate education and training
- Pain points for clients
Key Milestones of the Episode
[01:07] Dean’s introduction
[03:52] Dean’s first focus on sustainability
[05:10] Mentors that took Dean under their wing
[07:00] Achievements that Dean is proud of
[12:45] Intrapreneurial
[16:18] Pain points for clients
[20:02] Dean’s rituals
Key Quotes
- “I didn’t become more sustainability minded until I matured and starting thinking of others and not myself.”
- “One of the constant themes in my life is that I like to help people.”
- “My proudest achievement that I always fall back on is my family and friends.”
- “I am very thankful for the culture we have at GBES that lends to that intrapreneurial spirit.”
- “People are falling through the cracks because they are so busy. We are helping to provide a tool to give them their time back.”
Key Resources
- Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
- Free to Focus by Michael Hyatt
Learn More About Dean D'Angelo
Dean D’Angelo is a business-minded serial entrepreneur who has experience in all areas of operating a successful business. Working in multiple industries has provided a priceless education and has allowed Dean to manage a variety of projects and work with many talented individuals. Dean has created and launched new brands, as well as develop and manage multi-million dollar real estate projects.
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About this Episode
Today’s episode is about the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo. Charlie tells some stories from some of his past conferences as well as “pro tips” on how to get the most out of this event each year whether you are a first time attendee or have been to several!
About 20,000 green building professionals from all over the world get together each year with rotating host cities/venues. This year’s Greenbuild will be at the Georgia World Congress Center, November 19-22 in Atlanta, GA. Greenbuild is the world's largest conference and expo dedicated to green building. It provides the opportunity to visit with top suppliers to see the latest green building technology, and features three groundbreaking days of inspiring speakers, invaluable networking opportunities, industry showcases, LEED workshops, Continuing Education Sessions, and tours of the host city's green buildings.
Green Building Tours are one of Greenbuild's most popular and exciting features, providing the opportunity to explore green buildings ranging from higher education facilities to sports venues. Tours help attendees learn outside the convention center walls and present the best of the area's sustainable buildings and neighborhoods.
Key Talking Points
- Why should you go to Greenbuild?
- Create Memories
- Green Building Super Bowl
- Best Practices
Key Milestones of the Episode
[00:58] Greenbuild International Conference and Expo - Introduction
[01:10] What a seasoned veteran gets out of the conference
[03:41] If this is your first conference...
[05:14] Technical vs Master Speaker Sessions
[07:08] Greenbuild Celebrations
[09:50] 50 Tours to sign up for
[12:05] Networking and Follow-Up
Key Quotes
- “You leave the conference feeling that you are making a difference.”
- “You go to get that energy, that validation that you are in the right movement.”
- “If this is your first conference, really make sure you are getting a good mix of sessions.”
- “We want to make sure you feel that southern hospitality when you come to Atlanta, so we’ll have a Podcast Listener meetup.”
- “Hope to see you at Greenbuild Atlanta!”
From Charlie’s Colleague, Kelsey A.:
“My tips for Greenbuild would be to look at the seminar listings beforehand. Pick classes/seminars that interest you the most or seem most relevant to your daily work or your property/team’s goals. Take notes, and get out of your comfort zone when it comes to the networking events. Remember to bring plenty of business cards!”
From Charlie’s Colleague, Asa P.:
- Network as much as possible. No other place will have such a collection of green building experts.
- Choose sessions that interest you – not just once that you think fit your expertise. Branch out of your comfort zone to learn new things.
- Attend the plenaries & keynotes, if possible. Great energy and passion for the movement.
Key Resources
- Greenbuild International Conference and Expo Website
- Green Building Tours
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About this Episode How much do you know about sustainability in regards to green buildings? Maybe you have no idea what that is or you have some scanty information. On this episode, we are honored to have William Paddock on the show. William is the director at WAP Sustainability. Before starting WAP Sustainability, William served as the Sustainability Manager for Mars, Inc. This experience exposed him to the broad nature of sustainability and the challenges of managing sustainability at an enterprise level. As a sustainability manager, he learned first-hand how to prioritize sustainability issues, manage competing stakeholders, and to generate budgets for sustainability projects.
Key Talking Points 1. William’s journey to being the director of WAP Sustainability 2. Understanding sustainability 3. Understanding life cycle assessment 4. Understanding EPDs
Key Milestones of the Episode [00:58] William’s introduction
[07:40] William’s transition from the corporate world to entrepreneurship
[12:05] Understanding the value of what life cycle assessment brings
[13:49] Evaluating carbon costs
[15:25] William’s proud moments
[18:02] Data transparency when it comes to products
[23:38] What helps William stay on point?
[28:08] William’s advice
Key Quotes 1. “Where there's carbon, there's costs.” 2. “We get out of bed every morning getting to do, and getting to work on something, really unique, fun, and different.” 3. “There's plenty of room for reason to change the rules.”
Key Resources 1. Cradle to Cradle by Michael Braungart and William McDonought
Learn More About William Paddock William Paddock is a managing director at WAP Sustainability. William is responsible for day to day management, business development, strategic partnerships and client delivery. His straightforward approach to sustainability offers business leaders a pragmatic, unbiased, third-party opinion that is designed to broaden and accelerate sustainability initiatives.
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Sustainability in British Columbia with Teresa Coady
About this Episode
In this informative episode, we talk with Teresa Coady, an architect working on globe-transforming projects. Teresa shares her unlikely path to architecture, the work the United Nations’ Environmental Programme, her “12 Principles of Conscious Construction,” and why she believes we need to support the building industry as it moves into the digital age.
Key Talking Points
- Teresa’s unlikely path to architecture- - and how that made her a better architect
- Terea’s unlikely firm-that helped lead the industry
- The 12 Principles of Conscious Construction
- Why everyone in the building industry has an important role to play for the planet
Key Milestones of the Episode
[1:30] Teresa’s origin story
[3:32] How Teresa got into sustainability before it even was a thing
[5:34] Finding mentors when you are an outlier
[7:36] Projects at the innovative Bunting Coady Architects
[10:42] Teresa’s work with the United Nations
[15:05] More current projects
[16:35] Where is the future of sustainability going?
[18:28] 12 Principles of Conscious Construction
[29:48] Rituals to keep you grounded
Key Quotes
- “My career start was an actual refusal to be an architect because my father felt architects are underappreciated.”
- “I realized that our industrial cities...were making us unwell.”
- “While all the other sciences has moved onto to the digital age, architecture was still in the Dark Ages…”
- “Architecture is all about shaping our world so we can live better.”
- “LEED, at its heart ...is an education program.”
Key Resources
- Rebuilding Earth: Designing Eco-conscious Habitats for Humans
Other Resources
- BC Architect Teresa Coady Wins Canada’s Top Business Award For Female Entrepreneur
- COP21
- COP25
- Montreal Protocol
- United Nations Environmental Programme
- Universal Water: The Ancient Wisdom and Scientific Theory of Water by West Marrin
- The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
- Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina
- Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
- Comprehensive Wealth
Learn More About Teresa Coady
Teresa Coady is the Board Chair of Capital Regional District. An architect by training, she co-founded her own agency, B + H Architects, winning several awards for her sustainability work. She is also a member of the United Nations Environmental Programme Advisory Board.
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From Envelope Cx to Sustainability Training with Stevan Vinci
About this Episode
Energy efficiency and regulation is the focus of this Green Building Matters episode. We talk with Stevan Vinci, a LEED Fellow with various sustainability-focused credentials and many certified projects. Stevan shares how he got into sustainability, regulations, envelope commissioning, and the future of the movement.
Key Talking Points
- Entering sustainability: How Stevan moved from mechanical engineering into sustainability and green building certifications
- Looking at the bigger picture in this sustainability movement
- Envelope Commissioning (Cx) & LEED
- The future of sustainability
Key Milestones of the Episode
[1:50] Stevan’s original story
[4:24] How did you get into sustainability?
[5:26] Mentors
[7:08] Greatest accomplishments
[8:58] What is your stance on ratings?
[11:26] Current projects
[12:17] Understanding envelope commissioning
[16:42] What does a good envelope commissioning project look like?
[19:14] Are we properly training people with envelope commissioning?
Key Quotes
- ”I was more ‘buildings” minded...
- “You can design for a rating like LEED...or you can design for true sustainability.”
- “Our philosophy is making sure the design is right, that the building is going to perform the way the owner wants it to perform…”
Key Resources
- Morrison Hershfield
- LEED Accreditations
- Green Globe certification
- LCA certification
Connect with Steva Vinci
Stevan Vinci is the Sustainability Specialist and Building Envelope Commissioning Practice Lead for Morrison Hershfield;.
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About this Episode In this episode, we focus on making the green building more resident-friendly. We talk with Matt Daigle, CEO and co-founder of Rise. Matt shares why he got into the sustainable movement, why homeowners need to focus more on the basics, and where the future of sustainable homes are going towards the future.
Key Talking Points * The one change that sparked Matt’s journey into the sustainability * Practical tips for getting started with green building * Future of sustainability * Improving the green building industry for homeowners
Key Milestones of the Episode [1:26] The start of Matt’s journey
[5:08] The spark that moved Matt into sustainability
[8:19] Mentors
[11:05] Achievements
[12:30] Current projects
[15:50] Practical tips for reducing building costs and going green
[19:30] Future of sustainability
[21:35] How can we improve green buildings for homeowners
Key Quotes 1. “Things that are bigger-ticket items..just make sure that you’re doing them in the right order.” 2. “What having a kid did for me ...it unlocked that desire to look into the future a little bit more in terms of what were leaving behind.” 3. Getting to work with folks who are just like crazy smart people who are really good at work they do and getting to work with them and learn from them everyday is something I can feel really proud of…” 4. “Sustainability is the path forward. It’s not a trend.”
Key Resource Rise Home Design
Other Resources Melissa Schiffman on Green Building Matters podcast
Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
Tools of Titans
About Our Guest Matt Daigle is an MBA graduate who worked with tech companies until he committed to making a more positive impact on the Earth for the next generation. He is the CEO of Rise Home Design.
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About this Episode
In this episode, we talk about the intersection of technology and “going green” with Mary Davidge who is Google’s Director of Real Estate and Workplace Services. Mary shares her journey from growing up on a California ranch, and then to leading foundation-building work with Google. She also shares why she got into the sustainability movement and why she is extremely optimistic about the next generation of green professionals that are entering the industry.
Key Talking Points
- Mary’s journey from a fifth-generation Californian Art major to working with the largest tech companies in the world
- Early influences and mentors that led Mary to her career in sustainability
- How to balance internal sustainability demands with external certification
- What’s the future of sustainability?
- Three perspective-shifting books you have to read
Key Milestones of the Episode
[1:42] The start of Mary’s journey
[2:39] The “Aha moment” that moved Mary into sustainability
[5:01] Having Google as your first client
[8:30] A look at some of Google’s sustainability projects
[12:40 Creating your own certification vs following the industry
[16:49] Future of Sustainability
[19:10] What do you think is your impact on the green building industry?
[20:50] Tips for staying focused
[23:00] Favorite books
Key Quotes
- “I started as an Art major...but I quickly shifted to industrial and interior design.”
- “I am proud to be a LEED fellow.”
- “I’m hopeful that we’re smart enough...that we begin to look at this as a system.”
- “My greatest talent is hiring people smarter than me, helping them to work well together, and then getting out of their way/”
Key Resources
Portico, the Healthy Materials Tool
Biophilic Design Initiative
Indoor Environmental Quality (Google’s Green, Clean & Mean site)
Living Building Challenge and “Petals”
Healthy Building Network
Other Resources
William McDonough
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness
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About this Episode In this episode, we speak with the multi-talented green building professional in Mexico City, Caroline Verut. Caroline is undertaking several sustainability projects in Mexico City. Caroline shares how a meditation course and email invitation to a sustainable design course (when she couldn’t draw) led her to world-changing career.
She also shares why it’s important for all sustainability professionals, especially female leaders, to persist.
Key Talking Points * Caroline’s international background & how she learned 3 languages by age 4 * How Caroline got into the sustainability movement & why nature drives her passion to do more * Understanding the principles, not just the prescription of sustainable buildings * Sustainable certification in other countries * Why we should be optimistic about where the sustainable industry is heading and how to do better * Recognizing the importance of female leaders in the sustainable industry
Key Milestones of the Episode [1:34] Caroline’s unique background & education in Mexico City
[3:05] Caroline’s career change into sustainability from economics
[7:14] Caroline’s mentors & motivations
[10:14] Learning to look at nature from a different perspective & Caroline’s most important accomplishments
[16:18] Caroline’s current projects
[20:00] EDGE Green Building certification
[22:20] Where is the future of sustainability going?
[25:00] Favorite books & why women have the power to save the planet
Key Quotes 1. “By the time I was 4, I already spoke three languages.” 2. “I don’t know if it was my ‘Aha moment’ or the universe conspiring to take me where I needed to go.” 3. “...”and I said, ‘ They must have really lost it ...I don’t even know how to draw.” 4. “What I see now is that kids are terrified of insects.” 5. “I think people forget how important buildings are.”
Key Resources 1. Itaca Proyectos Sustentables 2. The Influence Effect: A New Path to Power for Women Leaders 3. Why Women Will Save the Planet
Other Resources 1. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition 2. Jason McLennan 3. Green Building Council of Mexico 4. HQE certification 5. LEED certification 6. EDGE certification 7. Women in Green Breakfast at the U.S. Green Building Council 8. Silent Spring
About Caroline Verut Caroline Verut left a governmental position as an economist to pursue a career in sustainability. Using her skills as a researcher and administrator, she coordinated and assisted with several projects that are transforming how Mexican society (and other green professionals) are supporting the environment. She is the assistant director of Itaca Proyectos Sustentables and the president of Conciencia y Acción Ambiental AC.
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About this Episode
On the Podcast today, Charlie Cichetti visits with Shan Arora, Director of The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design at Georgia Tech.
They discuss Shan’s journey in sustainability, career highlights, mindset strategies, and regular habits that have helped him get to this next chapter.
Key Talking Points
Shan has over a decade of sustainability sector experience under his belt.
He has served at various organizations such as Deloitte Tax and Southface Institute. At Southface, Arora honed his experience in the sustainability industry, developing content and working on urban sustainability issues, sustainability planning, stakeholder engagement, and clean energy policy.
Listen in and hear:
- Arora’s backstory before dipping his feet in the sustainability industry.
- Why it is important to keep updating yourself in the sustainability industry.
- How being versatile can help one grow in their career and sustainability world.
- The future of the green building movement.
Key Milestones of the Episode
[02:37] Shan Arora’s, backstory.
[06:10] How Shan fully transitioned into the sustainability industry.
[07:27] Shan’s team of friends who fueled his energy on his new job as mentors.
[10:18] What Arora takes pride in at a personal and at a career level.
[13;53] How being versatile helps him in the sustainability industry.
[17:02] Examples of sustainability projects that helped him sharpen his skills in the industry.
[19:47] Shan’s talks about his role at the Kendeda Building for Innovative and Sustainable Design.
[25:45] Shan’s elaborates on his work with Georgia Interfaith Power & Light and how the organization advances Georgia’s green building movement.
[28:42] The future of the green building movement and sustainability.
[32:39] Arora reveals what is his special gift.
[38:43] Book recommendations.
[41:17] What Shan wishes he knew before jumping into green building movement.
Key Quotes
- “If you can construct to the rigorous living building challenge standards in Atlanta, then what’s your excuse for anywhere else?”
- “We’re fast approaching the end of the luxury of saying that we can have one thing to do one function. We need to figure out ways for our built environment to have multiple functions.”
- “Sometimes people don’t know what’s out there until someone says, go do it, just forge your own path.”
- “If you’re really interested in a topic, you got to read about it. You got to be on top of what’s happening in that world.”
Key Resources
- The Kendeda Building for Innovative and Sustainable Design.
- Southface Institute.
- Georgia Tech.
- The History of the Living Building Challenge.
Connect with Shan Arora
Shan Arora- LinkedIn
Shan Arora- Twitter
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About this episode In the Green Belt Movement Podcast today, Charlie engages Eden Brukman, who leads the Living Building Challenge. Eden Brukman is formally trained as an architect, and also a creative writer, with a strong bias in creating children's books.
Eden shares her journey as an architect until she took a significant shift in her career to education advocacy in sustainability development by leaving the architectural practice.
Key Talking Points 1. Eden’s backstory in architectural practice. 2. Eden Bruk’s transition in career to sustainability development. 3. Eden’s opinion on the architectural industry. 4. The future in the sustainability industry.
Key Milestones of the Episode [01:26] Eden’s backstory on her background.
[03:07] Why Eden was interested in venturing into architecture.
[03:51] The people who inspired Eden to focus on architecture.
[08:14] Eden’s opinion on the architecture industry.
[14:58] How Eden delved into the sustainability industry.
[20:03] Eden’s current goals and projects in the sustainability industry.
[26:14] Eden's take on her career world.
[27:18] The habits that help Eden remain successful in her career.
[30:29] Eden Brukman’s favorite book.
[32:08] Eden’s advice to people getting into the green building industry.
[33:21] What made Eden transition from architectural practice into advocacy education.
Key Quotes “Architecture is a social science; we have to learn everything about design for our clients who haven't seen them to design something that will be successful to them.”
“Everyone has their own path and we need to embrace the path and give people the ability and help along the way to bring them along; and for them to bring others along.”
Key Resource The Living Building Challenge
Connect with Eden Brukman Eden Brukman is on Twitter
Eden Brukman is on LinkedIn
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Passive Houses and Zero Net Energy with James Geppner
About this Episode
In this episode, Charlie talks with James Geppner about zero net energy and how we adjust our behaviors and adjust as a society. James is the Executive Director for Erase 40 in New York and has lived there for the last 30 years.
Key Talking Points
- James’s journey in the film industry to sustainability and zero net energy.
- Working with behaviorists to develop programs to launch Zero Building Industry
- Contrast of consumer behavior
- How our point of view can be incredibly inaccurate of what our needs will be
- Why wasn’t the choice of passive homes commonplace
- What costs come with certain risks
Key Milestones of the Episodes
[0:41] James’s background
[1:48] James’s unusual career
[4:41] James’s entry into sustainability
[5:51] An enormous amount of authority at a young age
[8:14] Jame’s achievements
[10:56] Next trend
[15:50] Started studying why passive homes weren’t commonplace
[20:34] The Lucky Game Project
[31:27] Having conversations with people who have small firms
Key Quotes
“Early on in my film career I ran one of the offices in New York and was connected to a studio….”
“I was basically asking basic sort of very fundamental behavioral question, which is what motivates people.
“It’s having conviction around something so others will join you in your effort.”
“We tend to be very bad at predicting what our needs will be even a very short time out.”
Key Resources
Erase 40 Website
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely, Simon Jones, et al.
Death and the Afterlife: Biblical Perspectives on Ultimate Questions (New Studies in Biblical Theology) Paperback – March 6, 2018 by Paul R. Williamson Get in Contact with James
James Geppner on LinkedIn
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About this Episode In this episode, Charlie talks with Z about his very unique career through the green building industry after earning multiple degrees. Z Smith decided to get his Master’s degree in Architecture after he already had a Bachelor’s in Physics and PhD in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science. Yes, you read that right. His career also includes a variety of experiences with pioneering brands and countries including Xerox, RCA Labs and the Japanese government.
Key Talking Points * Why Z Smith became interested in the “green” movement * The journey Z Smith took from physics through electrical engineering and computer science to architecture * The importance of internal researchers within architecture firms * Setting up feedback loops and learning from the outcomes * What are we really trying to get the building to do, elegantly, with the least amount of materials * Finding resistance when hiring * Picking up the pace with rating systems and raise the standards in communities
Key Milestones of the Episode [1:40] Z Smith’s background
[2:34] The university job that introduced Z Smith to the sustainable industry
[5:57] The start of Z Smith’s journey into architecture
[7:49] What is happening behind the scenes on the research side
[10:50] What frustrated Z Smith the most in architecture
[14:46] Touchstone throughout career
[18:29] Tracking our work
[23:13] Applying rigor to a practice
[27:15] David Lake’s Spice Girl moment
[31:49] Rating systems have a place but we need to pick up the pace
Key Quotes “At the time I was going to college, it was the late 70’s. We were just getting through the energy crisis and it looked like if we didn’t solve problems with energy, we were going to end up in some war with the Middle East.”
“In fact, if you pick up your iPhone or smartphone, you are actually looking at a field of amorphous silicate.”
“Many of our clients would love to have an energy efficient building if not a net zero building but they just assume that it is not possible and not practical.”
“My main gift is to convince people that things are possible.”
Key Resource Home Energy Saver
Get in Contact with Z Smith Z Smith is the Director of Sustainability and Building Performance at Eskew+Dumez+Ripple and an associate professor of architecture at Tulane University, and a speaker on sustainability issues.
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About this Episode In this episode, Charlie talks with Brad Pease about his 16-year career as a green building expert with Paladino and Company. Brad shared how he got into the sustainability industry, why he chose to work (and continue to work) with Paladino and Company, and his thoughts of the future of the sustainable building industry.
Key Talking Points * Brad’s reasons for jumping from history to architecture and then to the sustainable building industry * Architecture’s relationships - Brad shares his unique perspective on architecture * The shift in sustainability * What’s needed in the sustainability industry right NOW
Key Milestones of the Episodes [1:38] Brad’s background
[3:00] Brad’s entry into sustainability
[5:50] The four people that had the most impact on his career
[10:32] Brad’s current projects
[14:18] The shift in checking LEED for performance vs points
[17:00] What we need in the future of sustainability?
[18:07] The importance of conversation in the sustainability
Key Quotes “At the end of the day, it’s not the projects that I worked with. It’s going to be the people I worked with…”
“The narrative has changed from ‘I need to get a LEED certification’ to ‘How do I impact my carbon footprint’?”
“I don’t spend any time convincing anybody that sustainability should be a core value...but I can show them how a strategy...that aligns to the values that they hold dear to themselves.”
Key Resources Paladino and Company
747: Creating the First Jumbo Jet and Other Activities from a Life in Aviation by Jay Spenser and Joe Sutter
Get in Contact with Brad Brad Pease was a history major who switched into is the Vice President of Technical Services with Paladino & Company.
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About this Episode In this episode, we talk with Prasad Vaidya about his experience growing up in one of the most populous cities in the world (Mumbai) to a LEED Fellow/consultant/professor of a Master’s degree program that is scaling the sustainability industry. Prasad shared his initial interest in sustainability and how he (and the sustainability industry) have evolved over the years.
Key Talking Points * Transitioning from traditional architecture to sustainability * Early mentors and projects in Prasad’s career * The evolution of the sustainability building industry * Improving sustainability building models to improve energy efficiency * Why sustainability is about more than checklists * Why there is so much to be done in sustainability
Key Milestones of the Episodes [1:46} Prasad’s background
[3:09] How did you get that spark to sustainability?
[5:00] Prasad’s transition to the US
[7:19] Mentors and early influences
[9:50] How has sustainability and the energy-efficient movement changed over the years?
[17:00] Early design assistance
[14:09] Prasad’s proudest work achievements
[19:17] What is your current “green” mission?
Key Quotes “There’s so much to be done.”
“There are architects who want to make a difference…”
Key Resources Fundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building
Solar Decathlon Entry by CEPT University's Team Kill Bill (Affordable Housing Category) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_p3MmZ_Ucg
Other Resources Race to Zero student competition
The Art of Andy Goldsworthy
Passage by Andy Goldsworthy
Get in Contact with Prasad Prasad Vaidya is a LEED Fellow, professor at CEPT University, and consultant with a background in architecture who specializes in energy efficiency, sustainability, and integrated design.
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Nate Adams, The House Whisperer About this Episode In this episode, we talk with Nate Adams, aka “The House Whisperer” about the residential side of things, particularly energy performance.
Nate shares how he got into the field of improving home energy performance and
the powerful movement he is supporting to help make energy efficiency the norm in the industry.
Key Talking Points * Nate’s nontraditional route into the “green” movement * The “Electrify Everything” movement & Nate’s mission to improve energy performance in every home * Why home performance needs a measurement upgrade * The importance of teaching while learning to make a stronger movement
Key Milestones of the Episodes [1:19] Nate’s background
[2:13] Nate’s nontraditional route into sustainability
[4:16] The “Electrify Everything” Movement
[8:00] Nate’s movement into the “entrepreneur” side of building green
[14:03] The “House Whisperer” Process
[20:13] What should the industry be focused on?
[21:57] Why we need standardized energy measures
[23:59] Consistent routines & teaching while evolving
Key Quotes “The math has flipped to where renewable energy is the least expensive source [of energy] in most places.”
Key Resource The Home Comfort Book: The ultimate guide to creating a comfortable, healthy, long lasting, and efficient home.
Other Resources An Inconvenient Truth
Electrify Everything! A Practical Guide to Ditching Your Gas Meter
Energy-Efficient Homes Are Worth More. So Let’s Create an Easy Metric for Buyers
An Efficiency Manifesto: Energy and Home Performance Programs Need Serious Reform
Get in Contact with Nate Nate Adams is the owner of The House Whisperer, green building industry writer, consultant, business partner for One Knob Consulting and Energy Home Performance, and author of “The Home Comfort Book”
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Joe Connell has been Executive Director of the Building Materials Reuse Association (BMRA) since 2017. Being in the building trades since I was 15 years old, and in reuse nonprofits for the last 20 years I am a builder at heart. Whether it's renovating our 1887 home on an offshore island in Maine, or restructuring and building a nonprofit for success, I delight in looking for ways to improve systems and structures. Building a successful nonprofit, is not much different than building a solid house; square, level, plumb, is the trick; and keep the junk out. The difference with nonprofits is that the people are the foundation; and that’s the fun part.
Since 2000, I have been a leader in the reuse industry, first in the Northwest where I helped launch several local reuse groups in Portland, Oregon; and served on the City of Portland’s Deconstruction Advisory Group to pass the nation’s first deconstruction ordinance. Then nationally with Habitat for Humanity through my work on the National ReStore Committee. I am now continuing that work nationally with the BMRA.
While with Habitat we built the Portland Habitat ReStores into one of the nation’s top 5 ReStores in revenue and net profit. Since joining the BMRA I have been revising and refocusing the organization to align the BMRA with other industries in the sustainable materials management industry and continue to heighten the awareness of reuse and deconstruction. I am also strongly focused on the incredible potential for workforce development and social ventures within the reuse economy.
Other than building and rebuilding I love to cook, garden, and walk the rocky island beaches of my home in Maine.
My favorite quote is from another Maine transplant; "I wake up every morning determined both to change the world and have one heck of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day a little difficult." E.B. White
Joe Connell - Get To Know Joe Joe grew up in an inner city, New Jersey working class family. He went to school in Chicago, Wheaton College and got into construction because his father was a painter. Joe started working with his dad when he was 13 and then decided he did not want to be a painter, so he learned how to be a carpenter.
“Growing up in an inner city in New Jersey it was a rough place, a rough environment, I didn’t get out of New Jersey or really see trees without buildings until I was 13 years old and went to a camp in upstate New York in the Adirondacks and it blew my mind.” -Joe Connell
Early Start of Career While Joe was at camp, it was his first exposure to the natural world. He was the kid that walked around without permission exploring without permission. They were always looking for him, but he always found his way back. The men Joe met at this camp became the most influential people in his life.
“They taught me what it meant to be a person of honor and respect and gave me something bigger to shoot for while at the same time teaching me that the natural world was an extremely valuable place.” - Joe Connell
Making a Career in Sustainability Joe lived in New York City after college working as a carpenter and was frustrated with the trades and the amount of waste. He didn’t really know what to do about that or how to wrap his head around it. Joe then moved to Maine and started working with some contractors who were working in the very early stages of green buildings and were way ahead of the curve. Once they stopped swinging their hammers I went back to school.
“I went back to school and got a degree in Conflict Management Mediation and Facilitation because I’d gotten involved in a couple board of directors locally and wanted to turn to non-profit.” - Joe Connell
Potential of Building Materials Joe got a job while going to school at Habitat for Humanity Restore. He knew construction and building materials but not the sales side of building materials. They were doing about $250,000 in sales that year but Joe knew it had more potential. In the 12 years he was there they increased their employees and went to 4.5 million a year in sales.
“I went to my boss and said we’ve got to change this up or I’m going to go because we’re just nowhere in mapping the potential here.” - Joe Connell
Book Recommendations Essays of E. B. White by E. B. White, Malcolm Hillgartner, et al.
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Cesar Ulises Trevino is the General Director of Bioconstrucción y Energía Alternativa, a pioneering consulting firm and leader in sustainable building in Mexico and Latin America. He has developed emblematic projects including the first LEED-NC Gold and LEED-NC Platinum certifications in Latin America.
Cesar has been the keynote speaker at multiple conferences in America, Europe and Asia. He is a member of the Advisory Group on Sustainable Building of the Commission of Environmental Cooperation for North America. Additionally Cesar is an editorial collaborator in various magazines and specialized magazines.
Cesar Ulises Trevino - Get To Know Cesar Cesar grew up in Monterrey, Mexico. He was a civil engineer at Tec de Monterrey, with a master's degree in construction management from the University of Newcastle in England. He developed his professional career in Grupo Vitro (Mexico), the Norwegian Institute of Research for Construction (Norway) and the General Directorate of Construction of Works of the Metro (Mexico). He was the first professional Hispanic to receive the LEED Accreditation™ AP and the prestigious LEED™ Fellow. Cesar was also the founding president of the Mexico Green Building Council and former Secretary-General of the World Green Building Council.
Mentors Cesar looks to people that have encouraged and helped him throughout his career. He mentions his family first, saying how they’ve always had his back. Cesar mentions how he has had many mentors and it is hard to single anyone out. He has enjoyed working with everyone and continues to love it.
“I can tell you that the best experience from this journey is the people.” - Cesar Ulises Trevino
Accomplishments Cesar is very happy with his group for completing milestone projects. He has completed projects in Latin America, Mexico, and Norway. There have been some challenges with LEED in Cesar’s region. They have gotten better over time, but at one point it was hard for Cesar to make a business case and do what he wanted to do. Cesar has had to work extremely hard to get where he is, and it shows with the progress made in his region.
“It was a very strong message to the industry. This project can be done, and it was achieved by Mexicans.” - Cesar Ulises Trevino
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A More Sustainable and Resilient City with Mike Hess Mike Hess is the Smart City Project Director in Orlando, Florida. He was born and raised in southeastern Wisconsin. He graduated from the Milwaukee School of Engineering. Mike spent most of his life in Wisconsin and then was recruited by an engineering company in Orlando and focused on mechanical/electrical/plumbing engineering for buildings.
“My background is in mechanical engineering but I quickly switched to an energy and sustainability focus early in his career.” -Mike Hess
Mike’s Aha Moment Mike remembers bumping into the CEO at the coffee machine where they had a discussion about Energy Star. The CEO asked Mike if he would do some research and provide him a short memo version so he was up to date for clients. That whole exercise caused Mike to stumble upon LEED and more holistic green building rating system. It was just a chance encounter that has brought him to where he is today.
“Once I read about it (green buildings), I just gravitated towards it and realized that it was just the right thing to do.” -Mike Hess
Transitioning From the Engineering Side Mike started out as a mechanical engineer right out of college. He traveled across the country trying to convince people to pursue LEED and Energy Star. Mike believes it was too early for those customers. He started his own green building consulting firm so he could focus on sustainability. Once the sustainability movement started to pick up, Mike was recruited back and took his small business to a national and international reach.
“For about 10 years projects were mostly LEED, well over a hundred LEED certified projects.” - Mike Hess
Book Recommendations Cradle to Cradle: . Remaking the Way We Make Things by Michael Braungart and William McDonough
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M Benyus
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BuildingWrx is a firm founded by Susan Kaplan for the purpose of providing collaborative solutions for greening buildings, sites, cities and businesses, and finding more equitable solutions for all design, planning and community endeavors. Clients have included GSA, Community Environmental Center, Perkins Eastman Architects, NYSERDA (via Sustainable Performance Consulting, Inc.), Federal Reserve Bank and The RockefellerGroup.
Susan Kaplan - Get To Know Susan Before her company went all-in on green, Susan worked on a few eco-minded projects and didn’t fall in love right away. Susan said landscape architecture didn’t really inspire joy at this point, but this feeling was temporary. They brought in a new president who wanted to go green, and that is when Susan fell in love with building/architecture and that change luckily came at a time that my office started embracing sustainability, about 1999. So I really got in at the beginning - the Solaire was my first project for Battery Park City Authority!. She worked on parks and buildings, and found it fascinating to find new ways to benefit the environment around her. She always wanted to make things better not only for the projects, but for the surrounding environment as well.
“It is interesting to think about the impact we have on the environment in ways we don’t think about.” -Susan Kaplan
The Future of Sustainability Susan says it is very important to look to the future for sustainability. This is where we have to go as a society and we need to make it the best environment possible for future generations. Susan says we need to collectively raise our children to respect and care for the environment. They will be the ones here after we are gone, and instilling these values can ensure that idea of sustainability will exist beyond our own lifetime.
Words of Encouragement Susan said it is most important to find work in an area you love, because it makes it much easier to stay motivated in that field. It is a simple concept, but only a small percentage of people work in a field that they genuinely enjoy. We all have an untapped potential in areas we may have never thought about. Susan encourages everyone to find that thing they love, and turn it into something special.
“There is something we all really love doing, and once we love doing it, we are so much better at it.” - Susan Kaplan
Book Recommendations Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America’s Sorted-Out Cities by Dr. Mindy Fullilove
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Susan El-Naggar is a LEED Green Associate and WELL AP and along with her husband, Tarik, AIA both are principals at Healing Environments. Susan has over 20 years of experience as an interior designer. She received her education for interior design at The International Academy of Design & Technology in Chicago and completed additional studies in Portugal, Egypt, Israel, and Montreal. She has worked on a variety of projects in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and California. Susan is an NCIDQ certified interior designer and a registered interior designer in Indiana and Illinois.
Susan has been recognized in Who's Who in Entrepreneurs, participated in showcase houses for interior design in Indiana and Illinois, and has been a speaker and consultant throughout Northwest Indiana and the Chicagoland area. She has been a chairperson for the American Society of Interior Design IL Chapter, and Porter County Builders Association. She also sat as a juror for the National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ). She is currently a professional member of the American Society of Interior Designers, Valparaiso Chamber, and U.S. Green Building Council.
Susan El-Naggar - Get To Know Susan Susan got her start at the International Academy of Design and Technology, focusing on interior design. She became sustainable-minded when she and her husband started to study products in their household. They began to switch these products with green products that worked for them. Then, they leaned into their interior design and agriculture business. Susan and Tarik now make sure houses and rooms promote healing and inner peace for the spirit.
“My husband and I started to gather all of the products in our home and started to replace them with green products. This was the beginning of my journey into that space.” - Susan El-Naggar
Early Sustainability Journey Susan begins by telling us how she wanted to be an interior design and create her own business. This love started at a young age when she went to art school and would create art. Susan would do everything by herself when her first business started and then she went to school for interior design.
Proudest Achievements Susan’s greatest moment in her career was creating a project with her husband. This project was at a home, and the client wanted a healing spot for their household. Susan and her husband were able to tear down a master room and create a spa room. This was made with green products and natural products. They entered this in the American Society of Interior Design Illinois chapter and won first place.
“We started to knock the room down all the way, and we could do whatever we wanted. All they wanted was a room like a spa retreat room. We were able to use green products, and it was one of the first times doing so.” - Susan El-Naggar
Book Recommendations Your Best Life Now by Joel Osteen
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Mark Loeffler is a professional member of the International Association of Lighting Designers and a LEED Fellow and has practiced lighting and sustainable design consulting for more than 30 years. Based in the New Haven area, Mark enjoys working with innumerable architects, engineers, organizations, and institutions across the Northeast US on a wide range of ambitious and notable projects of every type and scale.
Mark collaborates with architects, engineers, planners, and facility managers to help them better leverage their own lighting and sustainable design talents and resources to deliver inspired and vital buildings. From hourly consulting on individual project challenges to more comprehensive involvement in strategic planning, Mark assists with architectural lighting, day lighting, and sustainable design workshops, concept development, performance criteria, analytical requirements, peer review, and benchmarking readiness.
Mark Loeffler - Get To Know Mark Mark grew up in Austin, Texas in the 1960s and 1970s. He started off at the University of Texas as a novelist but became an assistant lighting designer of Austin Ballet Theater. He then finished his degree in Humanities but focused on lighting as a career. In 1987, Mark and his wife moved to New Haven, Connecticut and finished with an MFA in Agricultural Lighting. Very quickly, Mark started integrated lighting and agricultural lighting, then got involved with energy efficiency and design.
“I went to work for a woman who started her own firm that started integrated lighting and agricultural lighting and that’s where I really got involved with energy efficiency and sustainable lighting design in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, well before LEED.” - Mark Loeffler
Early Sustainability Journey Mark made the change from theatrical design to agricultural pretty quickly. Mark took what he knew from theatrical design and applied it to his agricultural practice. Mark admired that people respond to lighting in different ways and the combination of natural and artificial lighting is where he found his passion. Mark uses this as a framing tool to approach a design for his projects. Mike eventually worked for Howard J. Brown who let him explore this passion and taught him how to do better with less.
“Howard Brown was a huge influence and gave me the opportunity to practice lighting design as part as early sustainable designs environmental management systems for corporations, which would become a big part in the sustainable movement.” - Mark Loeffler
Proudest Achievements Mark has had the pleasure to work on very notable buildings around the Connecticut area. He has been blessed with the opportunity to work on over 100 projects at Yale University and led the early beginnings of the sustainable movement on campus. He helped with the Brain Museum which was their first LED project and won Sustainable Project of the Year from the Illuminating Engineering Society. Mark was the founding member of the New Haven office that led the design team for the Brain Museum.
“I’ve had the privilege to work on a lot of notable buildings since the 2000s, especially here in New Haven. Working at Yale University, we have been able to save 29% of their energy and have them use LEED Gold. So, over the years I’ve been able to work on over 100 projects.” - Mark Loeffler
Book Recommendations Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
by Malcolm Wells
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Mark Loeffler is a professional member of the International Association of Lighting Designers and a LEED Fellow and has practiced lighting and sustainable design consulting for more than 30 years. Based in the New Haven area, Mark enjoys working with innumerable architects, engineers, organizations, and institutions across the Northeast US on a wide range of ambitious and notable projects of every type and scale.
Mark collaborates with architects, engineers, planners, and facility managers to help them better leverage their own lighting and sustainable design talents and resources to deliver inspired and vital buildings. From hourly consulting on individual project challenges to more comprehensive involvement in strategic planning, Mark assists with architectural lighting, day lighting, and sustainable design workshops, concept development, performance criteria, analytical requirements, peer review, and benchmarking readiness.
Mark Loeffler - Get To Know Mark Mark grew up in Austin, Texas in the 1960s and 1970s. He started off at the University of Texas as a novelist but became an assistant lighting designer of Austin Ballet Theater. He then finished his degree in Humanities but focused on lighting as a career. In 1987, Mark and his wife moved to New Haven, Connecticut and finished with an MFA in Agricultural Lighting. Very quickly, Mark started integrated lighting and agricultural lighting, then got involved with energy efficiency and design.
“I went to work for a woman who started her own firm that started integrated lighting and agricultural lighting and that’s where I really got involved with energy efficiency and sustainable lighting design in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, well before LEED.” - Mark Loeffler
Early Sustainability Journey Mark made the change from theatrical design to agricultural pretty quickly. Mark took what he knew from theatrical design and applied it to his agricultural practice. Mark admired that people respond to lighting in different ways and the combination of natural and artificial lighting is where he found his passion. Mark uses this as a framing tool to approach a design for his projects. Mike eventually worked for Howard J. Brown who let him explore this passion and taught him how to do better with less.
“Howard Brown was a huge influence and gave me the opportunity to practice lighting design as part as early sustainable designs environmental management systems for corporations, which would become a big part in the sustainable movement.” - Mark Loeffler
Proudest Achievements Mark has had the pleasure to work on very notable buildings around the Connecticut area. He has been blessed with the opportunity to work on over 100 projects at Yale University and led the early beginnings of the sustainable movement on campus. He helped with the Brain Museum which was their first LED project and won Sustainable Project of the Year from the Illuminating Engineering Society. Mark was the founding member of the New Haven office that led the design team for the Brain Museum.
“I’ve had the privilege to work on a lot of notable buildings since the 2000s, especially here in New Haven. Working at Yale University, we have been able to save 29% of their energy and have them use LEED Gold. So, over the years I’ve been able to work on over 100 projects.” - Mark Loeffler
Book Recommendations Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
by Malcolm Wells
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Dan Burgoyne is the Sustainability Manager for California’s Department of General Services (DGS), where he develops and helps implement policies improving California’s sustainable buildings, energy, water and resource efficiency. Dan is a California-licensed architect and LEED Fellow, with over 26 years of experience in the design and construction industry, and green building policy.
Dan led the development of California Governor Jerry Brown’s green building Executive Order B-18-12, and now leads its implementation under the direction of the Governor’s office, pushing California toward Zero Net Energy buildings, LEED certified buildings, reduced emissions, improved energy and water efficiency, and sustainable building operations. Dan has served as a green building advisor to the California Green Building Code (CalGREEN), GSA, and California’s High Speed Rail Authority. Dan served twice on the USGBC Board of Directors, as well as Government and LEED MR TAG committees, and on the USGBC’s Advisory Council. Dan is also an advisor and instructor for the University of California, Davis Extension.
Dan Burgoyne - Get To Know Dan Dan grew up in Eugene, Oregon in the 1960’s and 1970’s. There were a lot of trees around and Dan had another career in mind. He was told he would be a good chemical engineer or architect. In high school he enrolled in Chemistry and Drafting. Very quickly he had dropped Chemistry and the rest is history.
“I pursued architecture and went to a number of schools. I started out in a drafting trade school in Arizona outside the Phoenix area. I went to Brigham Young for a few years, transferred to the West Valley College in Saratoga, California where I started studying architecture again. I finished up a Cal Poly in San Luis Ospido in architecture.” - Dan Burgoyne
Early Sustainability Journey Dan admired the simplicity of the shelters that earth-minded people lived in that were around the Eugene, OR area. He was passionate about passive design earth sheltered homes and read everything he could on those subjects. It was still new but there were a lot of designs. Dan eventually became a Sustainability Manager and the green building and LEED movement sparked his interest.
“I worked in my career as an architect for a number of years and then got into project management and ended up at the State of California in the Department of General Services. After a year at the state I interviewed for and accepted a position as Sustainability Manager. I have there for 17 years.” - Dan Burgoyne
Proudest Achievements Dan’s proudest achievement by far is his family. He has been married for 34 years and has 3 children, They are all in school pursuing their own careers, none of them in architecture but have been a great influence in is life.
“In my career, developing green building policies for the state is also a proud achievement. I have served under 4 different administrations and under the last 3 very much more involved and in 2004 I participated with Schwarzenegger's Executive Order. At that time we took a leap of faith and became the first government that required LEED Certification for new and existing buildings.” - Dan Burgoyne
Book Recommendations The Earth-Sheltered House: An Architect's Sketchbook
by Malcolm Wells
The Passive Solar Energy Book by Edward Masria
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Kenyona Pierre is currently a Sustainability Consultant with Energy Cost Solutions Group, LLC (ECSG,LLC). She is still involved with the USGBC Florida Chapter, GBES’ Green Building Matters Community, and Habitat for Humanity Young Professionals. Her goal and passion for green buildings and sustainability remain the same.
Kenyona Pierre - Early Career Kenyona is a native to Miami, Florida. She was introduced to engineering in high school and at that time wanted to be an architect. She was open minded about it and decided she would do both. So Kenyona pursued architectural engineering at Tennessee State and then upon graduation she got a job as an engineering intern and was in their sustainable group. Kenyona went on and did post graduate coursework in Transportation Engineering at the University of Alabama and then earned her MBA from Florida Institute of Technology.
“What I got out of it is the best of both worlds. It was one of those niches and engineering that really don't get much, it just doesn't get as much accolades as it should. It's basically engineering the systems of a building that are just, engineering the systems or to all the systems. We focused on the structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, acoustics even go into the facade of the building as well as the construction management portion of it.” - Kenyona Pierre
Career Highlights Kenyona is currently working on a lot of sustainability documentation. It’s not all strictly towards LEED but she is learning the background about how you become building certified. Kenyona spent a lot of time advocating for the movement and learning about green buildings and sustainability.
“It is completely different once you actually get into the trenches and start, you know, documentation and trying to go through the actual process of certifying the buildings. And so it's a lot of project management. I'm learning to utilize the skills that I obtained in my MBA program. And so a lot of the projects that I've been working on is, it's a mix.” - Kenyona Pierre
Proudest Accomplishments Some accomplishments that Kenyona is proud of is the completion of her EcoDistricts AP credential last summer. She has been part of the inaugural cohort for the AIA Miami Christopher Kelly Leadership Development Program. Kenyona will be wrapping up this program soon and is looking forward to utilizing the skills set developed from her time participating in the program.
Book Recommendations Atomic Habits by James Clear
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
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Erik Ring has a breadth of experience in engineering, consulting, design, analysis, and commissioning for green building projects. Erik is a Principal and the Director of Engineering at LPA, Inc., an integrated design firm specializing in sustainable design for commercial, educational, civic, sports and recreation, and health care projects.
Erik has provided MEP systems design, energy modeling, LEED documentation coordination, energy efficiency consulting, and commissioning services to numerous green building projects, including over fifty completed LEED-NC and LEED-CI projects.
Erik Ring - Early Career Erik grew up in a college town named Lawrence in Kansas. He wanted to see another part of the world so he went to Harvey Mudd College and earned a BS in Engineering and then to the University of California, Berkeley where he earned an MS in Architecture. Erik still lives in California today.
“At Berkeley I was able to work with the building science group and learned a lot about thermal comfort and gained a different attitude and approaches as to what makes a building comfortable, healthy, and sustainable.” - Erik Ring
LEED Experiences Erik did some early LEED (version 1.0) work when LEED was just a pilot program. After grad school he was fortunate to work on some brand new LEED projects right when the first public version of LEED was released in 2000-2001.
“I was able to cut my teeth on the engineering side of what made those early LEED (version 2.0) projects and that helped me learn a lot about how the industry was approaching green buildings and develop my own kind of attitudes and ideas towards what I thought about green buildings and how I wanted to approach and apply that to the projects I’m working on.” - Erik Ring
Rituals and Routines In Erik’s firm they talk a lot about balance and taking the time for all the other things in your life. He strives to shut down after a hard day and head home to spend time with his family or head to the gym. Taking the dogs on a walk is a time he enjoys reflecting.
“I think it is important to find time in your day and in your routine to relax and reflect on the day ahead.” - Erik Ring
Book Recommendations Factfullness by Hans Rosling
Wild Ones by John Mooallem
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Rosalind Wyatt is a consultant that helps companies develop the right 'SUSTAINEGY' by combining smart business strategy with sustainability to achieve a strong triple bottom line. She believes the key is to balance the goals of making a profit, protecting the planet, and meeting the needs of stakeholders.
Rosalind is a Marketing educator that helps current and future business leaders understand the importance of achieving the triple bottom line and the role that marketing plays in helping companies develop more sustainable business practices.
The Path Ros Followed Ros started out at Prairie View A & M University in Texas and earned her B.S. in Electrical Engineering. She then went to work for Tennessee Valley Authority in a nuclear power plant but knew she wanted to go back to school. Ros then decided to get her MBA at Tennessee Technical University and then returned to Houston, TX where she is from. Someone encouraged Ros to get her Ph.D, Marketing at the University of Houston and ended up teaching there for the next 10 years.
“I was having a hard time finding what I wanted to do next so I had some down time and I said I am going to do something I have always wanted to do, it’s like a fun thing. I had just gotten married, I had a little freedom to explore some things so I decided to go and work for the National Public Radio Affiliate here.” - Rosalind Wyatt
Business, Marketing and Sustainability Ros was starting to feel uneasy in her work and went to a conference on business in sustainability. She was inspired and changed the way she taught marketing. Teaching sustainability in business and marketing became the norm.
“My aunt had an iron that I swear she had for about 45 years. I know that is could also be used as a weapon, it was really heavy. I told young people that we used to have appliances like that, built to last a really long time and what you did was repair them. Students looked at her and said what is this repair you speak of” - Rosalind Wyatt
Mentors Ros didn’t really have anyone who opened any doors or influenced her in this journey. But you do meet people along the way that encourage you that are already in that space. Ros mentioned a lady she worked with along the way who was determined to have a LEED certified retail store. She wasn’t in academia but she inspired Ros and her students to do better and to continue learning.
“If we are doing a project with a local business, I like to take them there. I like for them to go on site. Don’t just listen to the person come and speak to you, go and see what they see, what they see from their perspective, talk to their customers.” - Rosalind Wyatt
Book Recommendations Drawdown by Paul Hawken
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
150 Years of ObamaCare by Daniel E. Dawes
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Chris Webb is a licensed professional engineer (civil) in the States of Washington, Oregon, California, and a LEED™ Fellow and Accredited Professional (ND & BD+C) whose passion and technical expertise is focused on providing civil engineering designs that demonstrate the highest degree of sustainability and are based on ecological principles. Chris is a frequent speaker on the technical aspects of sustainability as it is applied in civil engineering.
Chris’ sustainable development project experience includes working with many local and state governments, private and public entities, utilities, and non-profit groups.He works as part of diverse design teams across the spectrum of project scales from the single lot to large multi-unit developments and from master planning through permitting and construction documents across many building and site types.
The Early Days with Chris Chris grew up in northern New Jersey and was really active outdoors which lead to an early connection with the environment. He then went to the University of New Hampshire and studied civil engineering.
“The University of New Hampshire now is a leader in research and development on green stormwater infrastructure. But at the time that I went there, green infrastructure was not really a thing yet. So it's been fun to run into some of my old professors at a low impact development conferences and talk about that.” - Chris Webb
Sustainability Minded Chris went to school for engineering and focused more on structural and had yet to resolve his personal values of the environment with his career. Chris then took a job a few years out of school where he continued to work with structural engineering at a nuclear power plant. He then moved out to the west coast to pursue a career in green engineering which wasn’t as obvious of a career choice as it is today.
“One day I was at the nuclear power plant and went into an area where there was some contamination apparently. I think I picked up some contamination on my clothing and site containment there and came out and set off all the alarms that I picked up some contamination and they kept my clothes and I walked out of there in a paper jumpsuit and I was 24 years old. That was definitely a moment where, you know, maybe it's time to resolve my environmental ethic with my career and quit my job.” - Chris Webb
Early Influencers Chris served on the Northwest EcoBuilding Guild Board of Directors and became connected with Kathleen O’Brien, Kurt Stafford, Rob Harrison and the green community. Others in the cadre such as Tom Pallidino, Richie Athens, Patty Southard were early adopters in the area and they became a cohort . Chris was always getting great advice
“I'd always planned on getting a master's degree and had talked to Stuart Cowan who had written the book Ecological Design. And he gave me some really good advice, which was hey, look, you're tapping into something that's changing really rapidly. And at that time, there were not really any graduate programs that were sufficiently advanced to really capture the rapid change that was happening. There's some really great programs to jump into. So I was given advice to basically by him, he had gotten his PhD and he gave me advice rather than going back to school, you should really seek out those people whose work you admire in those projects that you really think are awesome and just go to them and just directly learn. So that is what I did.” - Chris Webb
Book Recommendations Getting Things Done by David Allen
Podcast Recommendations 99% Invisible
Hidden Brain
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Lance Hosey, FAIA, LEED Fellow, a nationally acclaimed authority on sustainability and design innovation, is a Design Director and the Global Co-Director of Design Resilience with Gensler. His latest book, 'The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design' (Island Press, 2012), the first to study the relationships between sustainability and beauty, won a 2013 New York Book Show award, was a 2014 finalist for the National Urban Design Awards Book of the Year, and has been Amazon’s #1 bestseller for sustainable design. In 2017, Environmental Buildings News listed it as one of the books “all designers must read.” A popular public speaker, Lance has spoken at TED and keynoted SXSW Eco, the Idea Festival, and many other events. Lance has chaired the USGBC’s LEED Advisory Committee and served on the National Advisory Group for the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on the Environment (COTE), and as of 2016 he was one of only thirty people in the world named as Fellows with both organizations. In 2018, he won the AIA’s Sarah Booth Conroy Prize.
Growing Up and College Lance grew up in Texas, spending half of his childhood in El Paso. He spent the last half of his childhood in the suburbs of Houston which gave him a sense of how communities should not be developed. Lance went to High School for performing and visual arts and then went to New York and earned a B.A. in Architecture at Columbia University and went on to Yale for his Masters in Architecture.
“So I have this sort of primal memory of wandering around in a very specific landscape, one that's fairly harsh. I liked the combination of that, of those two experiences from my childhood because I kind of got a sense of what it's like to be in a unique environment while also being in a very generic environment.” - Lance Hosey
Sustainability Minded Lance studied jazz at his high school of performing and visual arts and played the sax and piano. Playing was instrumental in his career and his thinking throughout the rest of his life because there was so much emphasis in sustainable design and on integrative and multidisciplinary collaboration.
“This place was an early environment where I really got immersed in that kind of approach. There's all the different art areas. We're encouraged to collaborate. And it was such an incredible environment and so creative and very diverse, a lot of my thinking later in my career about how we stimulate creativity and innovation comes from that early experience.” - Lance Hosey
Mentors Bill McDonough was a mentor early in Lance’s career. He then mentions Bo Burkabile was the original chair of the committee. He never worked for him, but he got to know him through the AIA and Lance thinks that he is one of the leading lights of all of this, not just because of the interest in sustainability, but also just such a great soul, a really great example of someone who can be a motivator but also be a really terrific down to earth person. Susan Maximin also served as a mentor, she is retired now, but she was the first female president of the American Institute of Architects, but Lance shares she was also the first to embrace sustainability as something that the AIA should be thinking about. The theme of her tenure was sustainability.
Proudest Achievements Lance is proudest of his book that came out in 2012, The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design. The book is dedicated to the aesthetics of sustainable design and contains a lot of the ideas that are already being talked about.
“What does it mean for experience and joy and and the things you can actually see and touch and feel and a building. What does sustainability mean for those things?” - Lance Hosey
Book Recommendations The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design by Lance Hosey
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace
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Holley Henderson is the founder of H2 Ecodesign which has led over 4 million square feet of successful green building certifications worldwide including several firsts in China and Thailand. She has served in a variety of leadership positions for the National U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) LEED Steering, Market, and Education Committees.
Holley is author of the book “Becoming a Green Building Professional.” A frequently sought speaker on sustainable design issues, Holley provides engaging presentations and trainings for numerous annual meetings, conferences, companies, professional associations, and universities.
The Early Days with Holley Holley grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. She went to Auburn University School of Architecture. After college, Holley lived in Atlanta for about 20 years, and she is now back in Birmingham to be closer to family. Holley spent 10 years in the convention market sector where she could scale and increase the magnitude of projects, which was her specialty.
“I feel so blessed to have had the experience of working at TVS. It is a pretty large firm. It still is a pretty large firm, but at the time There were about 200 people in Atlanta, and it was a magnificent foundation for early education and best practices in the field and had a great infrastructure. Some of my best friends and mentors are still from there.” - Holley Henderson
Sustainability Minded Holley’s interest in sustainability started in college at Auburn. She had her early epiphany with an environmental biology teacher who was a big influence and then it evolved during her 10 years in the convention market sector as she observed the waste. She knew there had to be a better way. That was part of the catalyst of moving into the environmental realm.
“I also heard Ray Anderson speak about overhead transparencies. That is when it all kind of came together for me.” - Holley Henderson
Transition From Architecture Firms Holley worked for Interface for a short time and discovered that they did indeed walk the walk and were very true to form. She saw some really remarkable things there and considered her time there as her transition from an architecture firm to her own company.
“I had no history in my own family of anyone owning their own company. It was a foreign concept to me really. When you come from the architectural interior design it’s a fantastic background and has a billable mentality which has been very helpful in my business.” - Holley Henderson
Proudest Achievements Holley discusses that one of her proudest achievements is learning to be a better listener which is still an evolving process and secondly, she loves the education side of what she does. Holley’s most rewarding project was working with Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta to create an Ipod walking tour.
“The more I can help others to understand good stewardship of our planet, efficiencies, and taking the next step in their journey... all of those things are really exciting to me.” - Holley Henderson
Book Recommendations Becoming a Green Professional by Holley Henderson
Emotional Agility by Susan David
Tim Ferriss Podcast
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Heather Holdridge is the Sustainability Director at Lake|Flato Architects. Leveraging her mechanical engineering background, she directs all Lake|Flato teams in establishing and achieving sustainability goals by devising strategies and systems under programs such as LEED, the 2030 Challenge, and the Living Building Challenge. Heather works closely with teams to evaluate passive systems and performs energy modeling throughout the design process. As an active Board Member for the United States Green Building Council, Heather has been instrumental in establishing LEED standards and is Co-Chair of the San Antonio AIA Committee on the Environment.
Early in Heather’s Career Heather is a native Texan, growing up in Houston. She studied mechanical engineering at the University of Texas in Austin. Heather pursued mechanical engineering knowing it would give her the opportunity to deal and have an impact with energy and water and other resources when it came to sustainability.
“I was pretty lucky that my first job out of college was with a sustainable architecture and consulting firm in San Antonio. So it was a multidisciplinary consulting group and I got to see how all kinds of building professionals work and how their design and work processes.” - Heather Holdridge
Sustainability Minded Heather’s interest in sustainability was a slow evolution. As a teenager she was curious about how buildings were constructed. Then as a young adult Heather observed how inefficient the process was.
“I consider myself to be sustainability minded and environmental steward, but I think that it grew out of just a love for efficiency and elegance and how we construct more than anything else.” - Heather Holdridge
Proudest Achievement Heather has many achievements while working on building projects at Lake Flato Architects. Her proudest accomplishment is the San Antonio 2030 districts which is a district in downtown San Antonio. The district is established of property owners and managers that are committed to reducing water, energy and transportation impacts.
“I started working on this about six years ago with a really small group of people in San Antonio. The 2030 district in San Antonio now has 80 member buildings representing 9 million square feet. I'm actively participating. So this year the San Antonio district is getting established as its own 501c3. So that's a really exciting milestone in our progression.” - Heather Holdridge
Book Recommendations The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
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Chris Shaffner, Founder and Principal with The Green Engineer, Inc., a sustainable design consulting firm providing LEED Project Management, Building Performance Analysis, and Sustainable Design Consulting. Chris grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio but went to MIT in Boston where he earned his mechanical engineering degree.
“If I was going to do it again, I would've gone to architecture school instead of engineering. But the nice thing about being an engineer is you've got a lot of tools that you can apply to a lot of different problems and a lot of different ways.” - Chris Shaffner
Energy and Sustainability Minded Chris worked in the Boston area as a mechanical engineer then got married and moved to California. He worked for a couple different firms in California and that is where he started to make the connection between the stuff he was doing and the environmental impact of buildings. Chris was energy minded and then became sustainability minded. He moved back to Boston 10 years later and started working in a firm where they saw him as the green guy because he had been in California.
“At some point I made the connection that, well, that's just not right. I started speaking up and saying, look, you know, if you do it this way, not only will it work better, but it'll be better energy. And actually it was a really critical point because then I really felt like I was fully engaged in the work I was doing. And I would say that was an inflection point in my career that if I hadn't figured that out, I wouldn't have moved into the green building world in the way that I did.” - Chris Shaffner
Mentors “One of the great things was getting involved with the US Green Building Council in the late nineties and early two thousands and I was part of the original group of lead faculty. And there's some people there that I definitely see as mentors and three specifically who are unfortunately no longer with us. And I always remember Greg Franta and Gail Lindsey and Muska Martin, all great people that really set a tone and an attitude about the way we do things in the green building world, that it was about people and it was about fun and it was about all of the things together that they'd make it not just about ducts and energy. ” - Chris Shaffner
Proudest Achievement Chris’s proudest achievement is the company they have built, The Green Engineer. They have 20 people with the company and they are organized as a social benefit organization and they are a benefit organization legally in the state of Massachusetts. They are a B Corporation certified through B Lab and have been recognized as best in the world for the past few years.
“Then along the way we've switched from a company that was started and owned by me too. Now we have a fully distributed ownership, 14 of the 20 employees here are owners. And, you know, so that sort of whole challenge of creating an organization that works and the projects that we do I’m very proud of.” - Chris Shaffner
Book Recommendations Getting Things Done by David Allen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Draw Down by Paul Hawken
Seth Godin’s Blog
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David Rodriguez, LEED AP BD+C has a philosophy that provides, in principle, buildable, practical projects with a sense of aesthetics and belonging. David grew up in Panama spending a lot of summers in Europe. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and his Master’s degree from the University of Notre Dame. He returned to Panama and eventually started Rodriguez and Toledo Architecture and Design in 2007.
“Sustainable architecture focuses on the commitment to minimize the environmental impact of the projects we design and develop on the environment for present and future generations. This commitment is applied at the urban level following the principles of design and development of communities according to the Charter of the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU) and architectural level respect the success of the traditional architecture of each region and implement practices and materials that reduce the impact environmental project according to the parameters established by the LEED certification of the USGBC.” - David Rodriguez
Sustainability Minded David was not really aware of sustainability when he was growing up. While he studied at the University of Notre Dame, he became aware of varying levels of sustainability through the curriculum that was taught. David became sustainability minded during his studies later in life.
“If this awareness, this efficiency of how things are grown, how you have an alive city, etc. There was varying reign as part of the culture of the curriculum in terms of trying to leave a better world that when you started with.” - David Rodriguez
Mentors David mentions two mentors. Michael who was a dean of the school of architecture at the University of Notre Dame. Michael was David’s thesis professor and he was really good about showing you what you do transcends beyond just the immediate. He also emphasized trying to leave a legacy for the world. David’s other mentor was an urbanist and was a really good friend for over 20 years and first boss after college, Victor Dover. He works with CNU and urban design and urban planning.
“My parents have always had really good values in terms of having a notion of what's around me and the world. And even my first few summer jobs that I had really good bosses that gave me really good examples of good work ethics and tried to leave a good legacy.” - David Rodriguez
Proudest Achievement One of David’s proudest achievements was working in a hope six project, which was a social housing project in Tacoma, Washington. The project won numerous awards both in sustainability and smart living.
“I was the lead designer for that project when I was working in Washington DC and this is right before I left for Panama. So I really felt proud that I ended up my 11 year stay in the US with something that left a legacy here.” - David Rodriguez
Palmer Green Building Council Founder When David first founded the Palmer Green Building Council they had around 4 LEED AP and had just come from the US with some experience. Others had just received their certification. The only project that had been completed was the US Embassy by US staff and professional.
“And what we find incredible is that nine years later we have a green building council that has about 130 members, both enterprises and people. We have over 35 certified projects, some even high profile in terms of mags, laboratories, the general facilities. And you have a movement where we have been able to certify over a hundred people in terms of LEED green associates.” - David Rodriguez
Book Recommendations Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas Friedman
The Original Green: Unlocking the Mystery of True Sustainability by Stephen A. Mouzon
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Jason Twill has a career spanning over 20 years in urban development. Jason has been at the forefront of built environment transformation. His career experience includes delivery of sustainable mixed-income housing projects throughout New York City, delivery of Vulcan Inc.'s South Lake Union Innovation District in Seattle, Washington, and serving as Head of Sustainability and Innovation for Lendlease in Australia.
In 2016, Jason was appointed as an Innovation Fellow and Senior Lecturer within the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney and leads research into regenerative urbanism, housing affordability, and property economics.
Jason was designated a LEED Fellow by the United States Green Building Council in 2014, and he was named a Next City Global Urban Vanguard in both 2015 and 2017. Jason is also an appointed Champion and advisor to Nightingale Housing in Australia.
Love for NYC Jason was born just outside of Philadelphia and grew up on the east coast. He then moved to Columbia, Maryland, before he moved again to a suburb outside of New York City, during high school. Where Jason grew up shaped his passion for the built environment and his desire to transform it.
“My father worked in New York, and I think I grew up hating the suburbs and the monoculture status to it of car dominant environments. I think experiencing New York City as a young adolescent and teenager really introduced me to tolerance, diversity, language, ethnicity and all these different things and I just fell in love with the city.” - Jason Twill
September 11, 2001 Jason fell in love with architecture and construction. He was working in New York for an architecture firm and was planning to go to school at Columbia. In 2001, Jason was working for Mass and Duffy in the World Trade Center during the attacks and barely escaped. He postponed going to graduate school due to the aftermath of 9-11.
Shifting from Architecture to Real Estate Jason began to gravitate towards real estate development. He wanted to be a change agent around sustainability, social responsibility, and development in cities. Jason was pushing people to get affordable housing.
“I remember a lot of us getting made fun of. There was a cluster of us that we're incubating the urban green, the green building chapter of New York City, and just kind of fighting to have a voice to educate the building industry, the architects, and the engineers.” - Jason Twill
Urban Apostles Founder Jason is founder and Director of Urban Apostles, a start-up real estate development and consulting services business specialising in regenerative development and deliberative housing models for cities. Urban Apostles’ work focuses on the intersection of the sharing economy and the art of city making.
He is a co-founder of both the International Living Future Institute and Green Sports Alliance as well as an originator of the Economics of Change project. In 2017, Jason founded and launched the City Makers’ Guild, an education, advocacy and research group promoting more equitable and inclusive cities.
Book Recommendations The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann
The Well Tempered City by Jonathan Rose
Garrison Institute
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Melissa Rappaport Schifman is an experienced sustainability and finance professional with a demonstrated history of creative problem-solving, thorough analysis, and bottom-line financial results. Skilled in Sustainability Tools and Metrics (including LEED, GRI, and ISSP), Renewable Energy, Strategic Planning, Business Development, Finance, Energy and Environmental Policy, Writing and Editing.
Environmental Policy Melissa grew up in Minneapolis and then went to Georgetown University in Washington D.C. where she majored in Government and spent time on Capitol Hill as a legislative assistant, handling energy and environmental issues. Melissa earned her Masters in Public Policy and her MBA from the University of Chicago and spent several years in finance in the airline industry before she pivoted to the world of green building.
“I was living in Phoenix, and there were just some really obvious things that were a problem there. First, there was the sun that was just omnipresent, and I couldn’t understand why there wasn’t more solar power. Then, there was a lack of water. You would see people watering their lawns in the middle of the day, and the water was just evaporating. What really hit me, when I lived there, were these air quality alerts that warned you about high air pollution days that it was really unhealthy to go outside. I hike a lot, and that was my form of exercise; so, to not be able to go outside just seemed ridiculous. We as humans were creating that pollution that made it unhealthy. None of that made sense to me; so, those were the seeds that got me thinking that we need to be more sustainable.” – Melissa Rappaport Schifman
Shifting from Policy to Green Buildings Melissa shares that shifting from policy to buildings and green buildings was the combination of becoming a mother and wanting to make sure we have a healthier world for our future and her children. She had also left the toxic corporate environment and didn't want to go back to the “corporate ladder”. Additionally in 2006/2007 Melissa and her husband had the opportunity to build a new home, and the LEED for homes rating system had just come out. Melissa wanted to make her home as sustainable as it could be. After she led the LEED certification of her own home, Melissa became a LEED accredited professional and spent the next eight years working as a sustainability consultant, primarily LEED certifying commercial buildings under the LEED EBOM rating system.
“I believe the LEED rating system is the most powerful and impactful rating system because it measures ongoing performance. We even used LEED for a basis of one client's Corporate Sustainability Report.” - Melissa Rappaport Schifman
Building a Sustainable Home and Melissa’s Book “I’m most proud of my book: Building a Sustainable Home: Practical Green Design choices for Your Health, Wealth, and Soul” – Mellissa Rappaport Schifman
During the process of getting her new home LEED certified, Melissa started a blog and wrote about all the different LEED credits, the associated costs, and her thoughts on whether it was a good credit worth pursuing. She posted one blog a day Monday thru Thursday. This turned out to be the seedlings of her new book. She felt like she needed to write her book because all the other guidebooks and resources she had been exposed to seemed to be missing things.
“I took everything that LEED has to say, and I reorganized it into something that is relatable and comprehensible, and hopefully not overwhelming. I tried to really bottom line it for people.” – Melissa Rappaport Schifman
Link to Melissa’s book on Amazon
Influences The biggest influence early in Melissa’s career was reading Paul Hawkin’s book the Ecology of Commerce. He really took all the issues that that were being created in terms of pollution and waste and showed how businesses are contributing to it. She loved Paul Hawkin’s positive attitude about how businesses can be an agent of change and that businesses can get on board to become more sustainable.
Book Recommendations
Building a Sustainable Home, Practical Green Design Choices for your Health, Wealth and Soul by Melissa Rappaport Schifman
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
by Paul Hawken
The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition: A Declaration of Sustainability
by Paul Hawken
The Open-Focus Brain: Harnessing the Power of Attention to Heal Mind and Body
By Les Fehmi and Jim Robbins
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Steve Guttmann is a Principal and the Director of Quality Assurance at Guttmann & Blaevoet (G&B). With more than two decades of leadership in integrated building design, energy conservation, and sustainable and healthy building design, he has been a Principal since 1991. G&B is a mid-sized consulting engineering firm in California that has received national and regional ASHRAE awards for innovation in sustainable design. The firm’s Sacramento office was named Sacramento Sustainable Business of the Year in 2007, and again in 2012.
Engineer and Environmental Studies Steve is a native San Franciscan. He is a 1983 graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a B.S. with Honors in Mechanical Engineering; and a B.A. with Honors in Environmental Studies. As a 4th generation engineer, Steve didn’t start done this avenue in college but discovered it was in his blood and after 6 years embarked on this journey with the family business.
“I graduated with a double engineering and environmental studies and had an idea that I wanted to combine the 2 but wasn’t sure how to do that. I decided I didn’t want to go to work for my dad right out of college so I figured I better find out what I could do and what I could offer this industry.” - Steve Guttmann
Areas of Expertise Steve has extensive experience in the energy analysis, design and construction of complex projects, including higher education facilities, libraries, hospitals and medical centers, laboratories, museums and aquariums, and performing arts/media facilities. Steve serves on national committees that developed guidelines and best practices for sustainability in our nation’s healthcare facilities.
“I quickly realized when I joined my dad that the old style engineering was dying and we need to rethink how we approached delivering our products and services.” - Steve Guttmann
Mentors Some of Steve’s contemporaries who he met early on and he is still close with were his inspiration. Amory Lovins was a large presence in his mind. David Brauer was a big influence that challenged how engineers did things. These people really pushed market transformation and gave Steve a headstart to be an early adopter of LEED.
“Most of my mentors were outside of the engineering field.” - Steve Guttmann
Book Recommendations Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People
Books by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Eight Years My President
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Tim Trefzer is a Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility Manager at the Georgia World Congress Center. With his team, he creates and establishes the CSR strategy not only for the GWCC but also for, the Centennial Olympic Park, Mercedes-Benz Stadium and the Savannah International Trade and Convention Center.
"Green building has definitely leveraged sustainability. It has affected all aspects of organizations aside from the building environment." - Tim Trefzer
Green Super Bowl This podcast is featuring a new format at GBMS Headquarters in Atlanta, GA. Today is a Town Hall and Tim is going to take us through how the Super Bowl is going to be a very sustainable event even though we can’t see that while watching on television. The Mercedes-Benz Stadium is the first platinum LEED professional sports stadiums in North America. It is one of the greenest sports facilities in the world. Being green brings business to Atlanta and provides more efficient events.
“I like to think that we are one of the greenest places in the world for events, conventions, and sports. It’s definitely a complex campus with a lot of LEED event space.” - Tim Trefzer
Waste Waste helps get LEED points and Atlanta is growing in this area. Convention Industry standpoint they are one of the leaders. They compost their food waste which is a big part of their waste stream and they donate food and materials when they can and have great relationships with the non-profits.
“We have a lot of construction demolition type material so we work closely with our contractors to separate that material to make sure it is recycled.” - Tim Trefzer
Construction Projects Renovation of Centennial Olympic Park and have a giant sculpture of the Olympic rings-a new selfie spot has just been finished. An underground cistern has been added to help with water and the water features recycling. In addition, it has been made more pedestrian friendly. A new hotel, 1,000 rooms, will begin construction in Q4 and will be a LEED Gold facility.
Q & A Tune into this podcast in it’s new Town Hall format to listen to the Q & A session hosted by Charlie and Tim.
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Announcement Starting on January 1, 2019, GBMS will begin rolling out it’s new membership community. Members will be given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions to, if you are preparing for an exam there will be more insurances that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member and so much more.
John Harrison is the store development services manager for the innovation & sustainability support group at Starbucks Coffee Company. He is a licensed architect and LEED Fellow with over 25 years of diverse experience in private practice, and as an owner/owner's representative. As a part of the company's high performance building team, he co-authored the Starbucks LEED for Retail Volume Build Program and leads the execution team responsible for sustainable strategies and LEED certifications. To date, the program has certified 1,615 CI and NC projects in 20 countries/US territories across the globe including stores in Europe, the UK, North America, South America and Asia. In addition to leading the programs global development, he has worked with directly with teams in China, the U.S., Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Korea, Singapore and Thailand to certify Starbucks stores. Before joining Starbucks, John spent 13 years at Mithun, Inc. in Seattle working with a variety of retail, commercial and institutional clients including: REI, Seattle Coffee Company, Precor, Mirival and the IslandWood Environmental Learning Center.
John Harrison- Love for Drawing Led to Architecture John grew up in a small town in southeast Idaho in a farming community. John was the first person in his family to graduate from a university. Finding that he loved to draw, he went to the University of Idaho to become an architect. John moved to Seattle in the spring of 1990 and has been there ever since. He has been with Starbucks for the past 11 years.
“I looked at my dad’s hands when I was about 10 or 11 years old and decided that I would be going to college.” - John Harrison
Sustainability Minded John’s sustainability mindedness began in Environmental Control System and Design classes in school. His professor, Bruce Haglund, an offspring of a movement in the late 70’s early 80’s where it was about integrating both active and passive systems to heat, cool, provide daylight. This was not a time when sustainability was a keyword in architecture.
“So it’s something that has been implanted in my since I was 19-20 years old so ever since then it has been about integrating architecture and engineering systems to some degree.” - John Harrison
Mentors Burt Gregory, CEO at one time of Mithun and is still there as a partner. John first worked with him on the REI flagship store in Seattle which was a groundbreaking project in sustainability. Burt also taught John how to get projects done and that the architect doesn’t have to be passive but an active member of projects. Rob Deering, another mentor was a huge influence by being a hard worker with high expectations for quality. At Starbucks, Tony Gail is the mentor who pulled him into the current sustainability.
“When I came here to Starbucks, Tony Gail who was the corporate architect became another mentor was the one who pulled me into the program we built at Starbucks, the sustainability program.” - John Harrison
Achievements John is a LEED Fellow which is a culminates years of work and he highly recommends that you take advantage of this. REI built a flagship just outside of central Tokyo, Japan. While it wasn’t that successful financially for the company, the building itself was. One of the best integrated both active and passive sustainable projects that John has ever done. At the same time he was working on a project on island with the Environmental Learning Center on Brambridge Island and it ended up being on of the first 5 LEED Gold projects in the world. Listen to the podcast to hear more achievements.
"At the time we really didn’t know what LEED was about it was just one of these things emerging and it was on the cutting edge but we decided to try it and it ended up being a groundbreaking experience for us." – John Harrison
Pro-Tips/Routines/Rituals John is really relationship driven and gets a lot out of peer connection. He loves doing presentations, podcasts to share and to learn from others. John also believes that everyday that you need to try and learn something.
“A job is a job, but a career is a highly orchestrated and random things at the same time where you need to take in information; it may not mean anything for 6 months or 6 years but it eventually turns into something that you can utilize to make progress. ” - John Harrison
To hear more about John’s journey with sustainability, download and listen to the episode!
Book Suggestions: The Curious Incident of the Dog and the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Epitaph for a Peach by David M. Masumoto
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Starbucks celebrates 1,000 LEED-certified stores
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Dan Carney & Brett Taysom, both of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta join Charlie Cichetti live at the Fed. Dan Carney grew up outside Boston and moved around quite a bit as a child. Dan went to the Ohio State University and earned a Master's of Architecture. He joined the Fed after the big recession and for the last 9 years has worked on sustainability for the bank. Brett Taysom is from Roswell, GA but went to school in the Carolinas. His undergraduate studies were at Furman University where he started to get into the sustainability arena. Brett then went to school in Charleston in an environmental studies and started focusing on sustainability.
Dan & Brett- Introduction to Sustainability Brett grew up loving science and enjoyed the environment and became more focused on sustainability in grad school. Dan heard about the term LEED for the first time during grad school in his second year during a Mechanical Systems class. This peaked Dan’s interest but wasn’t a strong connection at that time with architecture. When he started working, the buildings included sustainability and he took his first LEED exam.
Mentors Brett recognizes his professors at Furman University as the ones who got him started. They encouraged him to go to grad school. He also credits his father who was in the real estate industry who recognized changing trends and shared those with Brett.
“If it wasn’t for them I wouldn’t have gone to grad school and found sustainability and wouldn’t have found this path.” - Brett Taysom
Dan credits his parents as a big influence. A big part of his childhood upbringing included not being wasteful, conserving energy, and not wasting water.
“I think about those aspects of my childhood and I think that planted some seeds that later on shaped who I was; a sustainability professional.” - Dan Carney
Real Estate and LEED Dan and his team developed a sustainability plan and strategy when he first joined the FED. That was 10 years ago, but was the first time that they had developed a strategy and thought about all the environmental impacts. Planning their strategy and setting goals was something they pursued vigorously for the next 5-6 years.
"Brett came on board and was really able to apply a lot more attention to our sustainability program, work with the green team and really refine and enhance our communication with bank employees and how we engage with bank employees so we were able to take our reporting and data to the next level." – Dan Carney
Pro-Tips/Routines/Rituals “Have coffee every morning.” - Brett Taysom
“Exercise daily, stay up to date in the sustainability world.” - Dan Carney
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Book Suggestions: Brett Taysom’s Suggestion: The China Study by T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell II
Dan Carney’s Suggestion: The Desert and the Sea by Michael Scott Moore
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John Zinner, LEED Fellow, is Principal of Zinner Consultants,having founded the firm in 1990. He brings clients a broad sustainability and environmental perspective as well as experience in policy development, project and program planning, and project management. John has developed and managed groundbreaking sustainable development and environmental mitigation programs for, among others, Playa Vista, Whole Foods, Boeing Corporation and the City of Rancho Cucamonga. His leadership has been recognized through numerous awards, he has lectured nationwide before professional, university and public audiences, and he has been interviewed on Good Morning America. In acknowledgment of John’s contributions to the field of green building and sustainability, he was recognized by the U.S. Green Building Council as a Fellow in 2012.
John Zinner - Sustainability Opportunities John was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He started his career in policy and program side. John was involved in solar energy in grad school and has leveraged his experiences to future jobs. 1978 was John’s first sustainability project.
Prior to founding ZC, John founded and managed the Los Angeles office of an environmental consulting firm, and served as both Energy Coordinator and Planning Advisor for the City of Los Angeles Office of the Mayor. He holds an MA in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Southern California, and a BA in Political Science from The Colorado College.
"I was asked to lead a charge to write a residential sustainability guideline for over 5,000 residential units in 1978 and LEED was in pilot." – John Zinner
1970 Challenges Early challenges in the 1970’s centered around education. On the Playa Vista project, workshops were held but everyone wanted to know what they really had to do and that is how guidelines were developed.
"Playa Vista is a project that I am still involved in and have a lot of support." – John Zinner
Mentors John recognizes Dave Peterson a grad school professor was a mentor that stood out. He was involved in the solar energy lab and was the one who got it started. We were all excited about getting involved at the ground floor as something new.
LEED Movement One of the first LEED projects for John was the first Platinum Museum. There were a enough developers doing LEED core and shell that it spiked the interest for others to join in for market purposes.
"It was an interesting voyage. Some developers were eyeing it, not quite sure what to do with it. A lot of the early push came out of the local government." – John Zinner
Pro-Tips/Routines/Rituals "Having a good staff, focusing on where my skills are best and letting my staff do the technical side of LEED including documentation and I am more focused on client relations and strategic opportunities. I think knowing who you are, knowing what you are good at and knowing what you’re not good at and surrounding yourself with or joining a team with the skills to fill the holes." – John Zinner
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Book Suggestions: The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
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Brendan Owen oversees technical development and integration of rating systems at USGBC. In this role Brendan collaborates with teams developing LEED, PEER and other rating systems and led the team that established the overarching system goals for LEED v4. He is currently working to integrate this thinking into the other programs USGBC collaborates with. Brendan is a member of the integration committee working to align Standard 189.1, the IgCC and LEED. He is a board member of the New Buildings Institute and is deputy director of the center for cycling technology at USGBC. Additionally, Brendan is a board member of the foundation USGBC that is partnering to build the William Jefferson Clinton Children’s Center in Port au Prince, Haiti.
Brendan is a proud Boilermaker, a licensed Professional Engineer and was honored as a LEED Fellow in 2012.
Brendan Owen - Spark of Interest Brendan was born in Alabama and his father was in the Coast Guard. He bounced around from mostly Great Lakes and Gulf Coast states throughout his childhood. Brendan ended up at Purdue University largely because of the strength of the engineering program. He had little affiliation to the Purdue prior to ending up there.
Brendan never considered sustainability a conscious choice, but part of his dad’s job in the coast guard was environmental protection under sort of a marine safety heading and a lot of times his dad would end up doing response activities to oil spills or any other type of a disaster at sea. It was easy for Brendan to sort of understand the environmental ramifications of that type of activity and the responses that were necessary.
"I think if there's one, there's one moment Exxon Valdez was the thing that sparked my interest in the idea of being a part of the solutions that could be created from an environmental perspective. I just wanted to engage in a problem solving way." – Brendan Owen
Mentors The person who had the most profound effect on the trajectory of Brendan’s career at USGBC is Malcolm Lewis. Malcolm was the chair of the technical and scientific committee. When Brendan started at USGBC this was the place that they stuck all of the issues that were too hard to deal with. There was a group of brilliant people that would get together and bang around on the pieces of the technical aspects of the rating system development or generally USGBC policy that were impossible to solve. Malcolm is the right person to lead that group.
"Malcolm also work with the steering steering committee and just was a brilliant thinker; sort of introduced the idea of a pragmatic approach to systems engineering that I think has been something that I've tried to carry throughout the time that I've been involved in the technical development of any other rating systems that USGBC and GBCI are working on." – Brendan Owen
Current Projects Brendan has been spending a lot of time on carbon in all of its forms. They are looking at the embodied carbon of materials and looking at the embodied carbon and water. In addition, they are looking at the embodied carbon of energy and transportation. They are trying to make sure that they are positioning the rating system to provide incentive for and reward project teams that are taking steps to reduce the carbon footprint of the projects that are being rated.
"I'm understanding that the metrics that we care about is something that is so cross cutting and ubiquitous in terms of how you look at issues in terms of building sighting and what you're going to make the building out of in terms of how the building's gonna be oriented on the site as it affects the energy use of the building." – Brendan Owen
Advice "Tell all of us people who have been doing it for the last 15 years to get out of the way." – Brendan Owen
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Maria Perez is a Senior Associate and Director of Sustainable Design for Gensler, an integrated architecture, design, planning and consulting firm of 5,000+ professionals networked across 46 global offices. In this role, she serves as one of the firm’s leading sustainability ambassadors and promoters, engaging staff, clients, and the public on innovative and sustainable design, construction, and operational thinking.
A recognized expert in LEED standards and sustainability rating systems, Maria is a leading advocate for performance-based design. Maria is a licensed architect in Texas. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico and a Master of Science in Architecture from the University of Houston. In 2015, she was named a LEED Fellow for her exemplary leadership, impactful commitment, service, and advocacy in green building and sustainability. She is an Accredited Professional in multiple credentials including Building Design(BD+C), Interior Design(ID+C), Operations and Maintenance(O&M), Neighborhood Development(ND) and WELL. Maria is currently serving in the GBCI Credentialing Steering Committee and USGBC Texas Chapter Board of Directors.
Maria Perez - Cultural Impact on Future Maria was born in Mexico City and grew up in Chihuahua, Mexico. She was influenced at a young age by the three, distinct people groups within her hometown - the Tarahumara Indians, the Mennonites and the Mexicans. Each different in their own culture and lifestyle, the Indians lived without electricity in their homes made of stone or adobe, the Mennonites produced their own energy, made their own clothes, and did not use anything civilized and lastly, the Mexican culture seemed more wasteful, taking many of their natural resources for granted. As a child, Maria began questioning these varying lifestyles and knew she wanted to help find a balance.
“I decided in high school I wanted to be an architect to design buildings that reduce environmental impact.” – Maria Perez
Influenced in Sustainability A few years into her career in Monterrey, Mexico, Maria and her husband applied to several Masters programs across the United States. Upon both her and her husband’s acceptance to the University of Houston, they relocated their family and she began her Masters of Architecture with a focus on historic buildings and adaptive reuse. Following graduation, Maria accepted a job in Gensler’s Houston office, where has worked on everything related to sustainable design for the last 18 years.
“We need buildings that do more and use less” – Maria Perez
The 3 B’s Maria strongly believes that three design principals could help solve our biggest challenges related to sustainability and climate change: 1) Biomimicry, which deals with nature. 2) Biophilia, human connection with nature and 3) Bioclimatic Design, where all buildings in their local environment look the same. Focusing on these three B’s could satisfy the pressing need for resilient communities and to build them with limited resources in the face of shrinking materials, energy and water supplies.
“If I ever write a book, I will write about the 3 principles of sustainable design 'biomimicry, biophilia and bioclimatic design'”– Maria Perez
Greatest Skill Maria embraces change and would argue it is one of her greatest skills. Once she is comfortable with a certain task, she tends to find another to learn. Being passionate about learning and exploring change allows her to pursue just about anything in her professional and personal life.
“Change always brings new opportunities.” – Maria Perez
Book Suggestions: Drawdown by Paul Hawken
Advice Maria’s favorite quote is “Everything we imagine is real.” Pabla Picasso
Never say no, keep pushing if you think it is for the greater good.
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Scott Bowman is passionate about high performance buildings and helping design teams succeed. Recently, Scott retired as Principal and Corporate Sustainability Leader with KJWW after 25 years with the firm to develop a consultancy related to early project development, sustainability, high performance, and to help the practice of integrated design to become the norm for the built environment. He represents over 30 years of extensive experience in mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering design and overall project management. His specialties include direct digital controls, energy efficiency, sustainable design, LEED, and systems commissioning, but he has also developed significant skills in engaging and leading teams…helping them reach higher performance within constraints of time, site and budget. He is a licensed Professional Engineer and LEED Accredited Professional. Scott has worked extensively with alternate delivery methods such as integrated, design/build, collaborative, negotiated, and fast-track.
Scott Bowman - Exposed to Sustainability Scott grew up in Mason City, Iowa and graduated from a community college there in Pre-engineering, went to Iowa State University and earned a Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering. Started with a firm in Des Moines and spent rest of his career in Iowa. That first job was with a smaller foundational firm. Scott retired from KJWW; was their first branch office and he started to expand that organization with approximately 550 engineers and an extensive sustainability portfolio.
Aha Moment Scott was fascinated by passive solar and read the book Passive House which really sparked his interest. His aha moment came in high school in drafting class where they were designing a solar home using passive and active solar. The 70’s was the first energy crisis he went through and he eventually started designing energy efficient buildings.
"I learned a lot from the idea of how can we use the environment, how can we use our buildings to power themselves, their own conditioning." – Scott Bowman
Mentors Scott mentions Frank Pulley as his first mentor. Frank taught Scott that everything had to have a basis and make sense technically. Scott had an internal drive for efficiency and reducing the impact on the environment.
"I had some good professors that showed me the holistic view of energy in buildings and looking at the bigger picture instead of what we are contracted for and just what we are suppose to design to." – Scott Bowman
Proudest Achievements Being part of growing a firm is one of Scott’s proudest achievements. The number of engineers he was able to mentor in those years and working with many quality engineers are included in his career achievements. The Iowa Utility Board Office of Consumer Advocate building in Des Moines. It is still the most efficient building in Iowa.
“That whole process is what really got me into integrated design and why I think it is such an important part of sustainability and green buildings .” – Scott Bowman
Book Suggestions: Consulting-Specifying Engineer: “Integrating a High Performance Building” article with Carey Nagle
ASHRAE Journal: “Sustainable Stewardship” article with Carey Nagle
High Performance Building: “From Darkness to Light” article with Carey Nagle
Passivhaus
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Building Green, Nadiv Malin
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Tommy Linstroth is the founder and CEO of Green Badger, a cutting edge greentech software solutions company, and Principal of Trident Sustainability Group – a triple bottom line consultancy firm. To date, Tommy has been involved with over 70 LEED certified projects nationwide. He has leveraged a decade of industry knowledge to launch the Green Badger LEED Documentation software - the world's first truly mobile LEED Construction Documentation software. Green Badger manages all aspects of LEED Construction documentation, including construction waste, sustainable materials, erosion control and indoor air quality reporting, and VOC management and tracking.
Tommy Linstroth - Pioneer of Sustainability Tommy grew up in Wisconsin where he went to high school and college. He earned his Masters of Science, Environmental Studies from the College of Charleston. Tommy’s junior year he knew he had to focus on sustainability. He made his home in Savannah, Georgia and began to figure out how to apply it. Tommy then became the Director of Sustainability at Melaver, Inc. who believed in sustainability to the level of everything they do needed to be green. They were truly a pioneer of sustainability.
"It was a great opportunity that I find myself fortunate to be in and it really diverted me out of that public policy side into the actual development side." – Tommy Linstroth
Mentors Martin Melaver, CEO of Melaver, Inc. was Tommy’s mentor when he first started. They still collaborate occasionally, but Martin is a leader who focuses morally, ethically and is a visionary. He helped Tommy early in his career and they still communicate 14 years later.
"There are a lot of people who can do great things but it is really empowering to work with someone who has the type of vision of what we need to be doing and how we need to be doing it. " – Tommy Linstroth
Highlights of LEED Tommy started with Melaver on new construction where everything would be green. He was working on the first LEED Cornshell Shopping Center and as part of that they did LEED McDonald’s and then they moved into affordable housing. Tommy started TriDents and consulted up and down the coast which led him to Green Badger due to the administrative hassle to try and eliminate the headache and barrier of further adoption of green adoption.
"Before the wave of LEED affordable housing came out and it really redefined how they recognize green affordable housing in the state of Georgia which was great because we were the first ones to get certified in the state ." – Tommy Linstroth
A Few Current Projects Tommy is currently working with 8 of the top 10 green contractors using Green Badger on projects. He is focusing on how they can continue to improve the functionality. Tommy is also looking at other ways they can address some of the other rating systems.
"The impact that we have and the feedback we are getting from our customers-is how great this is and easy this is making it for them is what keeps us going everyday." – Tommy Linstroth
Pro Tips Tommy works out 4-5 days weekly to re-focuses himself because he is wearing about 20 different hats with his start up company as each day is hectic.
“If I can find the time to get a good workout in it helps rejuvenate me and keep me on task.”– Tommy Linstroth
Book Suggestions: Living Above the Store by Martin Melaver
Shogun by James Clavell
Pieces is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh
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Kimberly Pexton is an innovative executive level leader that possesses the business skills needed to inform the development of operational programs that yield high performance results. Kimberly is a LEED Fellow and the Director of Paladino and Company. She leverages her experience in developing solutions that meet the challenges of corporate sustainability and social responsibility, environmental management programs, and supply chain transparency.
Kimberly Pexton - Exposed to Sustainability Kimberly grew up in Willoughby, Ohio close to Cleveland. Kimberly went to Ohio State University and earned a degree in Journalism. Additionally, Kimberly pursued a graduate degree in Architecture. During her coursework she was exposed to structural engineering and structural design. This sparked her early interest in sustainability.
Mentors Kimberly recognizes Sandy Mendler was the head of the sustainability practice at HOK in Washington, D.C. and ended up being one of Kimberly’s critics and an influential mentor. Sandy provided support and encouragement to incorporate sustainable design in every project.
"[Sandy was] definitely one of those people I looked up to." – Kimberly Pexton
Developing Green Programs Kimberly was managing construction projects and presented a business plan on sustainability and was hired into a new position on that focus. Kim grew the company’s number of successful LEED projects and eventually moved to another company as a GC to do the same. She built their book of business and got into integrating environmental compliance in the safety department.
"I have enough self-motivation to be able to develop programs that address green building needs, specifically on the construction side and be to implement them in a way that was integrated into the process and not bandaid it in." – Kimberly Pexton
A Few Current Projects Kimberly is currently running the practice for Paladino practice in Washington, D.C. Her role is to make sure that Paladino is making good on their promise of creating value through a sustainability lens. Kim is currently working on a Hotel and Convention Center in Columbia, South America, with LEED aspirations for Platinum. She is also working on reimagining a fortune brand in NYC and collecting sonar data in various places across the world for the department of state to dictate where they are installing wind turbines.
"I think what kind of gets me on a day-to-day basis, especially clients who develop and hold property, it’s great to take the sustainability aspect past what they are doing in the real estate space and actually link it to stakeholders." – Kimberly Pexton
Pro Tips Kimberly discovered yoga years ago and cannot live a day without it. It helps her re-center. She reads like crazy and encourages everyone to do the same.
“I think it is a routine of curiousness and helps you to continue to be creative.”– Kimberly Pexton
Book Suggestions: It’s All For a Sale by James Ridgeway
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
Advice Have self-awareness. Self-awareness is the key to growth. Continue to be curious and learn your craft.
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Nathan Gauthier is a sustainable real estate professional with global experience in program management and facility design, construction and operations. As Director of FM Integration and Sustainability with Shawmut Design and Construction in Boston. Nathan works to improve the transition of construction projects into the facilities management infrastructure and support efficient and sustainable building operations.
Nathan Gauthier - Marine Biology to Sustainability Nathan grew up in very rural Michigan and went Texas A&M at Galveston- Maritime Academy and studied Marine Biology. Going from a midwestern town to Texas was quite a change for Nathan. He was loved the water but became interested in sustainability at a younger age by hiking and the outdoors.
“I just really like being outside and have continued throughout whatever I’ve done; I really wanted to spend time outside whether near the water our mountains.”– Nathan Gauthier
Mentors Nathan was in South Carolina in grad school and recognizes Trish German as an influential mentor. Trish ran the sustainability university initiative and was the first sustainability professional Nathan had met. Nathan interned there and Trish had him working on influential projects and motivated him to finish his thesis. Dr. Phil Barnes, a professor who managed the Environmental Management Systems Program. Nathan became an auditor with him.
"I really liked the explorating nature and problem solving just going into a facility and pulling people aside and asking what their environmental policy was and seeing if they were walking the walk ." – Nathan Gauthier
Teaching and Consulting Nathan teaches graduate courses on green building at the Harvard Extension School and MMA. He has consulted on real estate projects across 5 continents, more than 100 of which have become LEED certified (14 Platinum). Nathan has chaired the USGBC Energy and Atmosphere Technical Advisory Group and been a member of their board of directors at the state (MA) and national level. Nathan is a Licensed Residential Builder (MI), Certified Energy Manager, Facilities Manager, Energy Auditor, Construction Document Technologist, Ground Source Heat Pump Installer, Cx Process Provider, Existing Building Cx Professional, LEED AP, Fitwel Ambassador, NCI Charrette System accredited, and more. Nathan was selected as a 2014 LEED Fellow.
A Few Current Projects Nathan is currently working on a solar installation as an owner’s rep. He is learning a lot through this project. Nathan has done a lot of projects on the roof but this is his first parking lot. They have also been dealing with a lot of net zero energy proposals lately and is excited about seeing this in an RFP. Our group does a lot of integrated product delivery and are co-located once a week for one of their projects.
"Construction hasn’t gotten more efficient over the years, it is kind of lacking behind the industry, hopefully IPD will address that." – Nathan Gauthier
Best Practices Nathan is committed to professional development. He splits his time between technical and managerial to learn and apply more. Nathan also pushes himself to talk at conferences and write case studies.
“I like telling my story on my projects-successful and unsuccessful attempts.”– Nathan Gauthier
Podcast Suggestions: The Weeds
Political Gabfest
Cultural Gabfest
99% Invisible
Malcalm Gladwell
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Michaella Wittmann is the Director of Sustainability for HDR and leads the Office of Sustainability, which oversees the integration of sustainability into HDR’s projects, as well as our own day-to-day business practices. She is A LEED Fellow and Envision Sustainability Professional.
Michaella Wittmann - Commitment & Contributions Michaella grew up in Omaha and had a passion for the environment and specifically the ocean very early. She was encouraged by her dad to pursue engineering and marine science did so at the University of San Diego. After college Michaella did some informational interviews, one with HDR where she is today.
Influential Mentors Michaella has had many mentors, one that stood out is Ray Anderson, the founder of Interface Carpet. He changed his whole company and set aggressive sustainability goals. He would give career and career advancement advice. Michaella took to heart a lot of the things he did and said.
"I have many mentors as you might imagine, some of them were well known." – Michaella Wittmann
Proudest Achievements Michaella is has fond memories of and is very proud of the Pentagon project. HDR was responsible for the underground extension to the Pentagon that was the remote delivery facility. It was a LEED pilot project. There was a second project on the Metro Entrance Facility that Michaella has personal memories from 9/11 and had the honor of being part of the team that rebuilt that ledge in a years time.
"I was humbled and honored to be a part of that institution and sustainability very early on.." – Michaella Wittmann
Inspiration and What’s Next? HDR has an annual sustainability summit and they invite outside speaker in and they had a local coffee roaster who is setting some aggressive zero waste goals among other inspiring points. Michaella also pointed to other games created by staff helped jazz up the employees of HDR to think outside the box.
"Absolutely looking outside the architecture engineer community often brings ideas we wouldn’t have thought of." – Michaella Wittmann
Advice Think outside the box, read opinions other than your own, go to conferences and ask people that are doing things in the industry that are really cool. Connect with people and look for opportunities.
“Don’t be afraid to ask questions and challenge things you are told and challenge yourself.”-Michaella Wittmann
Michaella suggests the following books: There’s No Such Thing As Bad Weather by Linda Akeson McGurk
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Jason Kliwinski is a Certified Sustainable Building Advisor (CSBA) 2014, LEED Fellow, Licensed Architect, NJ, NY, PA, LEED AP BD+C, LEED AP O+M, and LEED Faculty. Additionally, Jason is the Co-Founder of USGBC-NJ Chapter founded in 2002.
Jason Kliwinski - Commitment & Contributions Jason grew up in Jersey and knew he wanted to be an architect in high school. His high school had an architecture program and his senior year he earned college credit. Jason currently specializes in Sustainable Design, LEED, State and Federal Energy incentives and Grants, Carbon Neutrality planning & design, Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy systems design, and implementation.
Aha Moment and Mentors In Jason’s second year of college, he took the only class offered on sustainability. The class focused on passive energy and this peaked his interest. Jason’s high school architecture teacher Mr. Clayton was his first major influencer. During his first real job, David Gibson gave him a platform and some significant projects to explore sustainability in high performance design.
"When LEED came out, I saw it as a way to be a real good organization structure to talk to people about green buildings." – Jason Kliwinski
Advice and Words of Encouragement Jason wishes there would have been more green building education in his college years and early in his career. He highly suggests that anyone in the field get as much hands-on experience as they can. He encourages everyone to always look out for the next wave in green buildings.
"The way you really learn this stuff is by doing it." – Jason Kliwinski
Proudest Achievements & Favorite Books Jason Kliwinski was the first in his family to go to college and pay for it all. He is also proud of getting his architect license, being an early LEED adopter, and a LEED fellow. Another proud achievement is the creation of the Green Building Center.
"If you haven’t read these 5 books you don’t really know the sustainability movement." – Jason Kliwinski
Jason suggests the following books: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by Bill McDonough and Michael Braungart
Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken
The Green to Gold Business Playbook: How to Implement Sustainability Practices for Bottom-Line Results in Every Business Function by Daniel C. Esty and P.J. Simmons
Biomimicry in Architecture by Michael Pawlyn
Our Choice by Al Gore
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Marc Mondor has been a licensed architect for over a decade and has been an influential voice in sustainability since the early 1990’s. As Managing Principal and Cofounder of evolveEA, Marc works with greening design and construction projects in order to leverage organizational and operational sustainability. His consulting work has led to many notable and innovative firsts, including the first LEED certified project in Africa, the oldest LEED EB certified project (1869) and the first LEED certified supermarket.
Marc Mondor - Commitment & Contributions In 2015, Marc was selected as a LEED Fellow for his service, commitment and contributions to the green building and sustainability field. Marc has lectured nationally, is one of several dozen international professionals to be named US Green Building Council LEED Faculty and is a trained facilitator. Prior to co-founding evolveEA, Marc was Project Manager for the Pittsburgh Green Building Alliance, where he consulted for organizations, managed the Green Building Fund and helped chair the USGBC Greenbuild Conference. Marc received his Bachelor’s of Architecture from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo and studied sustainable design in Scandinavia and Denmark and this is what kindled his interest. He is a Registered Architect and a LEED O+M BD+C and ID+C Accredited Professional.
"There was really no name for the type of work that we wanted to do back then." – Marc Mondor
Studying Abroad and Mentors Marc studied in France, Scandinavia and Denmark. This opportunity did spark his interest in sustainable design. Marc had several mentors along his journey. Bill Browning was one of the mentors later in his studies that provided much needed validation to ensure this was the career for him.
“You look far beyond the components of the building, you are looking at all the systems that impact the building.” – Marc Mondor
Projects with Impact Marc notes that the work done on supermarkets is one of the projects he feels is making an impact still today. Additionally, they did a project in Egypt for HSBC which was a global concern and they were mandated to do a LEED project without being fully aware of what it was. Ended up with the Regional Headquarters and was the first LEED project in Africa.
“We had to create a lot of communications graphics for them in regards to what LEED is and why should they care about this rating system that is from the United States.” – Marc Mondor
Around the Corner, Routines & Favorite Books Marc believes technology is going to cause massive efficiency at all levels in the future. This will allow people to be engaged and contribute in a way they haven’t been able to before with sustainability. Marc and his partner try to empower their employees and personally works out to keep a balance. He would like to begin writing books in the next decade.
“90% of being successful is showing up.” – Marc Mondor
Marc suggests the following books: Commonwealth by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Behavioral Economic books by Dr. Dan Ariely
Biographies: Steve Jobs and Leonardo Divinchi by Walter Isaacson
The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone
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Rick Carter is a Senior Vice President in LHB’s Minneapolis office where he utilizes his 30 years of experience to lead the firm’s Integrative Design Team, a group of 100 architects, mechanical and electrical engineers, landscape architects, planners and interior designers serving five market sectors. An early adopter of healthy building principles, Rick has led LHB’s focus on high-performance design since the early 1990s. He is recognized as an expert in sustainable design and speaks regularly at regional and national conferences on this topic.
Rick Carter-Sustainability Minded During Career When Rick was younger he was fascinated by the underground space center. That center has evolved to the Center for Sustainable Building Research. Sustainability has always been in the forefront of his mind but didn’t really come to fruition until he started working. Rick works extensively on design for efficient resource use and occupant well-being, leading efforts for LHB to be visible experts in regenerative design and research. His projects range from the building to regional scales with the goal of contributing to achieving Minnesota’s greenhouse gas emission reduction goals. Rick helped develop the Hennepin County/Minnesota Sustainable Design Guidelines and currently co-manages the Buildings, Benchmarks and Beyond (B3) Project including execution of sustainable guidelines for the State of Minnesota.
"We know it’s something that we don’t know enough about, so we are going to try and learn about it. We also know that it’s okay to go out and tell people we are good at it." – Rick Carter
Proudest Achievements Rick’s proudest achievements include his family and two children. Professionally he helps lead a diverse 90 person team; Integrated Design Team. His current projects include the ongoing development of the Regional Indicators Initiative and Local Government Project of Energy Planning (LoGoPEP), large scale efforts created by LHB to provide data and tools for Minnesota local government energy and climate action.
“We do amazingly cool projects.” – Rick Carter
Routines and Suggested Books Rick is a list maker and follows through quickly in order to prepare for the next step. He likes to “clear the stacks” and works hard so he can play hard. Rick enjoys books about the outdoors and climbing. He suggests the following books:
Alone at the Top: Climbing Denali in the Dead of Winter by Lonnie Dupre
Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
by Gabriel Weinberg (Author, Narrator) Justin Mares (Author) LLC Gildan Media (Publisher
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
“The key to reading books is when you finish one book you immediately pick up he next book and start reading.” – Rick Carter
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Marcus Sherrer is an energy/environmental consultant with over 30 years of professional experience. He formed Energy Opportunities, Inc. In 1993 to provide technical consulting service on projects relating to energy management, efficiency and conservation; renewable energy systems and the environmental impact on human enterprises. Marcus is a LEED Fellow and partner in 7Group. In addition Marcus published the article Regenerating Our Place In Earth dated September 15, 2018
Marcus Sheffer – Early Adopter of LEED for Existing Buildings Marcus grew up in the Pennsylvania suburbs and attended State University Shipmanburgs. He studied Environmental Studies as an undergraduate and continues to practice in that area. He is also a partner in 7Group which came about while working on server all different projects for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection as they were not doing green building projects.
Path Picks Us In Sustainability Marcus discovered that environmental impacts and ecology fascinated him. He is very passionate about these issues and believes that sometimes we pick the path we want to go down. In Marcus’ case, everything while growing up continue to point him in the direction of environmental issues and ecology and this is where he focuses.
"I think the path picks us as wellso in many ways there all these signs in school that pointed me down this path of energy impact." – Marcus Sheffer
Mentor In Form of a Book Marcus recognizes Emery Lovens’ book Soft Energy Paths as his first mentor. The book resonated deeply with him. He followed the soft energy path and he continues to implement strategies from his reading.
“I tend to think that a mentor is someone who has a personal connection to me.” – Marcus Sheffer
Recommended Books Marcus recommends two books for a foundational start.
- Regenerative Design for Sustainable Development by John Tillman Lyle
- The Regenerative Business by Carol Sanford
“If you are early interested in how you can apply a regenerative design process, I would say these 2 books would be foundational to get started.” – Marcus Sheffer
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RDH Building Science with Steve Kemp
Steve Kemp has joined RDH Building Science in their Toronto office as a Senior Energy and Sustainability Specialist. At RDH, Steve will play a senior role in the development of their low-energy building design services, building-energy research, and team development in Toronto.
Prior to RDH Steve lead MMM Groups Buildings-Sustainable division, the firm's world-renowned green building, energy modeling, and building performance monitoring group. With unsurpassed experience in building energy modeling (particularly for green buildings), Steve guides design teams through the process of choosing financially-appropriate, high-return energy-efficiency strategies. During and after construction, Steve's team works with owners to install metering systems to monitor energy use and find opportunities for improvements.
Steve Kemp – Becoming Sustainability Focused
Steve grew up in Canada and attended Dalhousie University where he earned three degrees. A B.Sc., Physics; B. Eng., Mechanical Engineering; and a M.A.Sc., Mechanical Engineering. Early on, Steve joined Enermodal Engineering and was surrounded by design decisions that embodied the same ideals as LEED prior to LEED making its stamp in the world. This was the turning point when he became sustainability focused.
The Importance of a Mentor
Steve was fortunate to work at Enermodal Engineering from 1998 to 2015. He was part of a team of eight that included three individuals he considers excellent mentors and lifelong friends. First, Stephen Carpenter, LEED Fellow in Canada. Second, John Coco who was essentially their measurement guru and started their commision group. Finally, Richard Lay who served as the mechanical design engineer. All three influenced Steve in very positive ways.
Proudest Achievements
Steve’s proudest achievement was an invitation to help design a solar community in a small town south of Alberto consisting of 52 homes.
“The design goal was to provide 90% of their heat from the sun.” – Steve Kemp
More recently, after transitioning to RDH, Steve is proud of the Joy Center for innovation and Partnerships at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario. Steve helped win this net zero project and deliver a net zero building.
“I believe the next phase of this high performance building and partnership is going to be very much enclosure focused.” – Steve Kemp
Advice for Success and Recommended Reading
Steve encourages everyone to reach out to the decision makers before meetings take place to let them know what you are thinking and discuss. This alleviates any surprises and tension in the meeting.
“More decisions happen outside of the meeting room than you think.” – Steve Kemp
Steve believes that the next big challenge we have is what we are going to do with all the existing buildings. He recommends reading How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built by Stewart Brand.
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Vivian Loftness is a University Professor and former Head of the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University. She is an internationally renowned researcher, author, and educator with over thirty years of focus on environmental design and sustainability, climate, and regionalism in architecture and design for performance in the workplace of the future. Her research has contributed to innovative design projects with leading architectural firms, the General Services Administration, and international governments. She has served on ten National Academy of Science (NAS) panels, the NAS Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, and has given four Congressional testimonies on sustainability.
Vivian Loftness – Sustainability Minded Early Vivian received her BS and MS in Architecture form MIT and has served on several National Boards. She is a registered architect and a LEED Fellow. She knew as early as high school she wanted to be part of the environmental movement. Vivian had the opportunity to travel to Finland on a Rotary Scholarship and focused on modern architecture and continues to be sustainability minded.
Mentors with Different Backgrounds Vivian’s first mentor was her father. He was a Physicist focusing of energy from the supply side while Vivian was on the demand side. He gave her incredible insight and taught her the way energy was going to change practice. She credits John Everhart, an MIT Advisor and Fred Dubin, an engineer she worked with. Lastly, she had the privilege of joining her husband, Volker Hartkopf at Carnegie Mellon who was involved in the heart of both energy and environmental design.
“It’s absolutely invaluable to have a partner and a spouse who is as dedicated to the same kind of revolution you are.” – Vivian Loftness.
Greatest Achievements Vivian’s proudest achievements include serving on several boards in advocacy roles. Hence, accomplishments in research and practice. Vivian was part of a collaborative team that built a 7,000 square foot Living Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon to explore and research the next generation of lighting, facades, mechanical, networking and interior systems.
”It’s a real wonder to know that we’ve been able to transform education and practice to a certain extent.” – Vivian Loftness
Book Recommendations: Vivian recommends to start with books on biophilic foundations, cities and patterns. There is a series by author Stephen R. Kellert that she believes everyone should read.
Amazon Link to Stephen R. Kellert books
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Matt Grace is currently a Sustainable Buildings and Communities consultant in Canada and served in the same capacity in the UK from 1995 to 2007. He has over 25 years of experience and has excellent experience in net zero energy buildings, LEED of all types, Built Green, Living Building Challenge, WELL and many other aspects of sustainability. His professional goal is to work with project teams to make more of the construction industry more sustainable. Matt Specializes in Green Building Rating systems such as LEED (BD+C, ID+C, ND), BREEAM and BuiltGreen.
Matt Grace – Enthusiasm Nurtured Matt was only 15 years old when he became interested in energy and everything going on with the climate. He went into engineering at The University of Manchester and specialized in Aeronautical Engineering. Matt then went to Cranfield University for one year of intensive coursework in Energy Conservation and The Environment, Sustainable Development. Matt wanted to solve the world’s energy crisis by building wind turbines.
"You can’t be a good engineer without having that creative zest as well, it’s not just about the science.” – Matt Grace
Proudest Moment Matt is very proud of what they have done at Mission Green Buildings. He has a great team and loves to watch the interactions they have with clients.
"I am very pleased that I have been able to arrange my life so I have pretty low environmental impact; I’ve been able to bike to work and most meetings and I can reduce my own personal environmental footprint." – Matt Grace
Recommended Books/Routines/Rituals Over the years, Matt has read many books regarding the industry. He recommends the following books to our listeners.
- How Buildings Work: The Natural Order of Architecture by Edward Allen
- Building Revolutions: Applying the Circular Economy to the Built Environment by Dave Cheshire
- Zugunruhe: The Inner Migration to Profound Environmental Change by Jason F. McLellan
In addition, Matt shares what routines/rituals make him successful.
- Have Fun
- Biking to work-avoid driving or taking transit
- Guided Meditation
- Have a stand up meeting with the whole team 10-15 everyday-best thing he has ever started.
Matt’s Advice and Words of Encouragement Matt earned his Professional Engineer License and advises that engineers log the hours and take the test. This gives engineers the confidence, logic and rigor behind decisions being made.
“I would encourage anybody going down that path of coding to pursue a Professional Engineering designation. It’s really a good backstop for any career.” – Matt Grace
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Amanda Madrid is a Commercial Property Manager with 25+ years of experience in managing property operations to minimize costs and maximize income while achieving excellent client satisfaction. Amanda is a high-energy leader with excellent communication and negotiation skills who works effectively with staff, clients and fellow executive team members alike to consistently achieve or exceed operational objectives.
Amanda Madrid – Early Adopter of LEED for Existing Buildings Amanda was an early adopter of LEED for existing buildings and help Charlie get his start on the LEED consulting side. Being Energy Star since 2008 the next logical step was to look at how you can make things better in the industry. LEED was the logical next step. Amanda is adventurous and always looking for something new and with Charlie’s energy and tenacity they took the LEED journey together. As a result, they had to convince ownership that this was a move toward the future and sustainability, not the mainstream.
Precious Resources Instilling Sustainability
Amanda has always been sustainability minded. She grew up in a Latin America country where the resources are precious. As a result, living in New York she was conservative and valued what she had. Amanda recognized waste and immediately wanted naturally to do something about it.
"I had the vehicle to do that; I’ve had that here at my properties. I’ve always been empowered to do that and once again, why not?" – Amanda Madrid
The Importance of a Mentor When Amanda first started her career she did not have a mentor. She went through some tough times growing up in this career and believes that having a mentor might have alleviated those. Amanda now has a mentor that she values and still has to this day.
“The day I have the opportunity to be one for somebody, I’ll do it in a heartbeat.” – Amanda Madrid
Greatest Achievements and Quality Routine Amanda’s proudest achievements are her children. Additionally, she is also proud of gaining the respect and trust of her team as they value her leadership. She is trusted and valued which consequently makes Amanda to want to give more. It’s all about relationships. As part of her daily routine, Amanda uses blocks of uninterrupted time. She found herself scrambling from one thing to the next. This helps her to keep things organized and reflect.
Amanda’s Advice
Always set out to accomplish and do what you love to do in your career. She advises to educate yourself, listen, be respectful and know when to be quiet and lear.
“Always look behind you and see what you’ve left behind that was not finished or forgotten.” – Amanda Madrid
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Eric Corey Freed is a nationally known architect, author, speaker and thought-leader based out of Portland, Oregon. Eric has 25 years of experience with deep green and innovative buildings. He is the Founding Principal of organicARCHITECT, a visionary design practice focused on biophilic and regenerative design. Additionally, Eric serves as a Sustainability Disrupter at Morrison Hershfield.
Eric Corey Freed – Concrete Jungle to Rolling Hills Eric grew up in Philadelphia and went to Overbrook High School. Living in a city with a strong sense of urban planning. His environment at the time was a concrete jungle of asphalt and graffiti and it was an unnatural place to play. Consequently, Eric sought out nature. Behind his house, a fence with a hole in it lead to a golf course and ultimately a sustainability career! He earned his B. Arch from Temple University and his Masters in Ecological Design from San Francisco Institute of Architecture.
"We went from a concrete jungle to rolling hills...it was our hidden escape." – Eric Corey Freed
The Journey From the age of 8 years old, Eric knew he wanted to be an Architect. During college he was able to live a year in Rome and then he worked for Beverly Willis in New York. He was planning his escape from New York and started reaching out to mentors. One of the mentors he reached out to offered him an opportunity in Sante Fe, New Mexico. Eric jumped at the chance.
"New York is an exciting place to be but not when you are broke." – Eric Corey Freed
Light Bulb Moment In Sante Fe, Eric built a dozen houses out of unusual materials and was able to apply this to his practice. Becoming restless, he went to San Francisco. Eric had 21 interviews in 3 days and was offered 21 jobs. He lasted 6 months at one of these jobs and then was ready to branch out on his own. His firm was originally his namesake, but his clients referred to it as organicARCHTECT.
“I knew if I could speak passionately about sustainable architecture it would start to attract clients.” – Eric Corey Freed
Bucket (and Book) List Eric creates a bucket list each year. He wants to travel to Japan and scuba dive in the Maldives. Books he recommends are The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson and I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara.
To hear more about Eric’s passion to affect change and make an impact to build green, download and listen to the episode!
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Publications:
Architect Registration Exam (ARE) Study Guides (Series of 7 books)
“Green$ense for the Home: Rating the Real Payoff from 50 Green Home Projects”
Green Your Home All in One For Dummies
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Charlie Cichetti, host of Green Buildings Matters, shares a public service announcement on how you keep up your credentials. Charlie discusses LEED and WELL AP credential maintenance to clear up any confusion, and he also answers frequently asked questions.
Charlie Cichetti – LEED Exams Around 2009, professionals were rushing to take the LEED AP exams for fear they would get more difficult. These professionals were wanting to be grandfathered in; therefore, Charlie’s company was doing a lot of training preparing individuals for the exams. The following 2009 credentials are still in place today. Tier 1 LEED GA (Green Associate), Tier 2 LEED AP (Accredited Professional), LEED BD+C (Building Design and Construction, LEED ID+C (Interior Design and Construction), O+M (Operations and Maintenance), LEED ND (Neighborhood Development) and Homes.
A Few Frequently Asked Questions
What if am an old LEED AP only? Technically you don’t need to do anything, and are referred to as a legacy LEED AP.
For those of you who opted in or tested in to the elite LEED AP with specialty: You have to earn continuing education every 2 years. 30 general hours total (of which, 6 of those 30 hours must be LEED specific to your specialty).
After the major updates in June 2009, all professionals had to test into the LEED Green Associate and specialty credentials. Charlie Cichetti did take and pass all LEED exams.
"As a consultant and as an educator and as a trainer I wanted to see what it was like to take and pass all of these LEED exams and be ready for the rating systems, building projects, and to help others pass the exams." – Charlie Cichetti
Resources The LEED CMP (Credentialing Maintenance Program) Guide provides information on the requirements to be LEED specific. The purpose of the LEED CMP Guide is to make sure you are keeping current and if not you could lose your credentials.
“Why this change? The folks at GBCI want to make sure that you are continually learning, staying up to date and you stay competent and know what is going on today.” – Charlie Cichetti
To hear more about how to keep up your credentials, download and listen to the episode!
Resource:
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Jorge Lopez, Founder and current Chairman of Eosis, Inc., joins Charlie Cichetti. Jorge received the LEED Fellow recognition from the U.S. Green Building Council in 2016. He spends his time between Austin, Texas which he calls home and Mexico where he is from and has several sustainability projects. Eosis is a independent high-performance energy-modeling and LEED consulting firm, based in Austin, Texas.
Jorge Lopez – Traveling, Sharing and Learning
Jorge studied architecture and graduated from ITESO (Universidad Iberoamericana) specializing in sustainable design and construction. He then graduated from the Architectural Association in London, receiving a Masters degree in Housing and Urbanism. In 2014, Jorge participated in the program Leadership in Sustainability at the UBC in Vancouver. Although Jorge is based out of Austin, Texas he travels frequently to México and Latin America. He has lectured and participated in forums in different cities, the US and Latin America, and teaches graduate courses at several universities such as UNAM, ITESO, Ibero and ITESM.
"I love traveling for this." – Jorge Lopez
Sustainability Concept is Essential
A consultant with an architecture firm from New York City introduced Jorge to the sustainability concept. He discovered that sustainability is a great way to give purpose to the design. Clients want sustainability and having the tool to design with sustainability is essential.
"Having this lever of energy modeling and letting the client know what the consequences of their decisions became a powerful tool." – Jorge Lopez
Consequently, the architecture firm began to design LEED buildings.
Several Early Influencers and Achievements
Jorge has several mentors that he admires. He also learns from those he dislikes if they have great careers and are intelligent. In addition, Jorge mentors others and believes it is very important for them to learn sustainability information.
Greatest achievement….”is having my own firm and keeping it going.” – Jorge Lopez
Advice Jorge shares is the importance of the research from the World Green Building Council about the impact of green buildings.
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Jenn Mahon, Sustainability Consultant with Sustainable Investment Group (SIG), joins Charlie Cichetti. Jenn is based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is not only a LEED expert but is also out in front of the New Wellness Real Estate movement.
Jenn Mahon - Sustainability Radar
Jenn went to the University of Minnesota. She has a Bachelor’s of Design in Architecture and a Minor in Sustainable Design. Sustainability became a hot topic her sophomore year of college during her minor program. Eventually the university built programs around sustainability.
Jenn had an early interest in architecture and grew up sustainability minded. Her career path included working in advanced programs for a large general contractor, also.
"I have an engineer brain but I also have this artistic side - I really love to build things."
–Jenn Mahon
Jenn also graduated from Boston Architectural College in 2013 with a Masters of Sustainable Design. She worked with M. A. Mortenson Company for several years gaining valuable experience in rating systems even outside of LEED.
Sustainability Minded Leads To Success
Jenn is always sustainability minded in her personal life. She loves the outdoors and growing up, her family instilled the value of awareness of fixing and not always throwing things away.
Jenn stayed at Mortenson for 6 years and wore various hats including advanced green building programs and Building Information Modeling (BIM) to show clients virtual models of all facets of the project. Jenn started to work on additional sustainability reporting which moved her into their sustainability department.
Due to her success and growing interest in multiple green building programs, Jenn joined the team at SIG and works on LEED for New Construction and Core & Shell projects in Mexico, New York City, and more. Jenn is also currently working on Fitwel and LEED projects in San Francisco and Las Vegas. Additionally, Jenn is a WELL AP and Fitwel Ambassador.
"I like working on Well and Fitwel projects that deal a more with the occupant health and well-being - it’s a different conversation now." – Jenn Mahon
Jenn is currently a certified LEED Green Associate, LFA, GGP, Fitwel Ambassador, and WELL AP.
Early Influencer
During Jenn’s sophomore year of college she had the opportunity to be part of a group that went to a conference in Denver where William McDonough spoke. Although the speech was depressing regarding what is really going on around us, this speech helped Jenn change her focus to sustainability.
To hear more of Jenn’s sustainability success story, download and listen to the episode!
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Today is a special episode where host Charlie Cichetti shares his “Top 10 Tips to Make Your LEED Project a Success.” Many of the tips focus on new LEED projects, but the principles can be applied to some older projects too. Listen to the entire episode to hear Charlie unpack each tip for you!
Top 10 Tips to Make Your LEED Project a Success 1. Decide to go for LEED early. IPD.
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Set expectations of each team member on the design + construction iteam early.
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Don’t just chase LEED points and check boxes.
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Use the Energy Model as collaboration after getting modeler up to speed on wish list ECM’s.
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Keep a consistent LEED update meeting format and agenda so everyone comes prepared.
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Partner with the Contractor, share examples, and then have subs sort LEED data to the top.
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Make sure your LEED Online data is consistent so you don’t get flagged (people count, SqFt, etc.).
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Commissioning (Cx) expectations set early and try to avoid wasted testing visits.
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When LEED Review comments come back, use narratives and only answer what they are asking for!
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Market Your Building as a Green Building!
To hear host Charlie Cichetti unpack all of his “Top 10 Tips to Make Your LEED Project a Success,” download and listen to the entire episode!
Helpful Links from the Podcast:
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Michael Cichetti, Director of Marketing and Sales at Green Building Education Services (GBES), joins Charlie Cichetti in this episode. Residing in Atlanta, with an entrepreneurial spirit, he is passionate about sustainability in the green building industry. Michael and Charlie are brothers and share the same passion for focusing on the green building movement and environmental sustainability.
Michael Cichetti - Early Inspiration Growing up in Blue Ridge, Georgia, Michael fell in love with the outdoors. Most importantly he enjoys the natural wonders of the mountains and the area he grew up in. As a result, he went to college at Georgia State University, receiving his business management degree in 2010 and currently lives in Atlanta.
Early on, Michael had one professor that really stood out in an entrepreneurship class. This professor is an angel investor. Hence, he was able to introduce experts to the class to give real world hands-on expert advice. Therefore, Michael was intrigued and was able to apply this experience to his current work.
Right out of school Michael was hired on at a real estate law firm as a Title Curative Specialist. He then transitioned to SIG and GBES and focuses on helping commercial real estate professionals be more sustainable which he is very passionate about.
“Being able to work toward a good cause like sustainability really makes me feel like I am spending my time in a valuable way.” - Michael Cichetti
Big Learning Curve Michael initially lead the sales department with Sustainable Investment Group (SIG) and now Green Building Education Services. Michael works on the company’s marketing and strives to boost sales to help scale the company. In the early years of these companies, most of the business SIG earned was through word of mouth for doing great work. So, a sales department was new to the company, and Michael, had to figure out what worked best by trying a lot of different things. Therefore, it was very challenging and big learning curve, but he appreciated the opportunity to learn so much so quickly.
“I had to throw everything against the wall and see what stuck.” - Michael Cichetti
As a result, Michael brought in new business to SIG. Furthermore, Michael has an entrepreneurial mindset and is very successful. Most noteworthy, his vast background allows him to share his knowledge which is beneficial to clients’ careers.
Survival and Sustainability When Michael was young, his interest in a survival course given by Tom Brown Jr. certainly made an impact. Michael explains that Tom Brown Jr. was raised by native americans and they taught him about sustainability and how to rely on the land. This intrigued Michael and consequently he continued to read and explore in this arena.
“Taking things from nature, choosing the trees that will actually help the other surrounding plants and animals flourish more.” - Michael Cichetti
Michael was very fortunate to have the exposure to the outdoors. Because of this exposure, he loves the sustainability story of the native american ways. Michael is a highly encouraging person. He believes the green building movement and sustainability are here to stay. Above all, today there is more of a need for us to be sustainable in every industry.
To hear more of Michael’s journey with SIG and GBES where he shares his daily routines and rituals that help him be productive and a better employee, download and listen to the episode!
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Tom Brown Jr., The Tracker
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Josh Radoff is a Senior Vice President at WSP. In today’s episode, he joins Charlie Cichetti to share his sustainability journey, including growing a respected green building consulting firm that has since merged with a larger company. Josh also discusses some pretty advanced projects he is working on and gets us thinking about what’s around the corner in this green building movement.
Josh Radoff - The Origin Story Boston-born, Josh came from the East Coast, moved to Connecticut when he was three, but eventually ended up in Colorado. He went to college in Maine. With his upbringing, Josh leaned more towards the Red Sox than the Yankees.
Josh was a physics major at Colby College, a liberal arts school. Trying to get as much diverse experience as he could, he joined its soccer team. He was also into film, writing movie review columns, and even hosted a radio show with a co-host.
Career Start He liked physics but knew he wasn’t going to stay at a lab so Josh became a high school teacher in Virginia, handling physics along with earth science. With a new-to-him environment in the South, he went through some adjustments on top of his daily preparations for the job.
Convinced that he wasn’t learned enough for his postition, Josh furthered his education by earning a Masters in Electrical Engineering. He didn’t realize he nursed an interest in sustainability until he sat in a course on energy and found out that it was something he would like to sink his teeth into.
“That may have been my first taste into what would be my eventual career.” - Josh Radoff
The Epiphany The real shift began when Amory Lovins came to speak at his college. Josh had never heard of Lovins, but sustainability had already wormed its way into his brain. After hearing the advocate’s words, Josh decided that it was time for a change.
“Amory Lovins has a certain way of introducing an idea and transforming the way people think about it. That was certainly true for me.” - Josh Radoff on the radical shift of his interest to sustainability
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Today’s show is a special release. Host Charlie Cichetti takes some time today to pause halfway through 2018 and look at the Green Building Industry Trends he sees.
Charlie discusses:
- Statistics in 2018
- LEED trends
- WELL trends
- Are the LEED exams changing?
Resources from today’s show:
- International WELL Building Institute
- FitWel
- Green Building Certification, Inc. (GBIC)
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Bill Spohn is a mechanical engineer and the President and CEO of TruTech Tools. The company serves technicians in the HVAC&R and Energy Audit Industries by providing them with advanced tools and instruments. In this episode, he chats with Charlie Cichetti to discuss HVAC, Passive House, building science, and more.
“I’m gonna commit to sneezing twice a week, and what I mean by that is: I want to spread the ‘germs’ of the idea of responsible use of energy and good home performance to one consumer and one technical professional a week.” - Bill Spohn
Bill Spohn - The Environment, Engineering, and Energy Bill grew up in an Italian-American neighborhood in the small town of Rome in New York. It was a beautiful community with a lot of great food and values, including his family’s own sensibilities regarding the environment.
With his aptitude in math and physics, he decided to take mechanical engineering, a decision backed up by library books. Putting his natural inquisitiveness to work, he took up a four-year degree at the University of Rochester. Right before graduation, he had a feeling that he would want to pursue a career path related to energy, and so he did.
Gaining the Relevant Experience He worked with Kodak for a few years, got a master’s degree in mechanical engineering, and obtained his license as a professional engineer. Shortly afterwards, he went to work for an instrumentation company called Fisher Scientific, where Bill worked closely with lab instruments.
He then transferred to Bacharach where he led an engineering team focused on HVAC. A couple of years later, with an impressive background of testing instruments under his belt, TruTech Tools came to be.
Homegrown Sustainability Advocate Bill has always been active in waste management and energy conservation. It’s mostly thanks to his parents who grew up in the depression era. With the lessons imparted to him at a young age, he was able to become the man that he is now.
“It’s not so much the cost of energy, but it’s just being efficient with the finite resource.” - Bill Spohn
This early exposure to responsible use of energy coupled with his mentors’ influence and his penchant for engineering shaped Bill into a leader of the sustainable energy and building movement in his own right. Together with his team, he’s helping raise awareness of their advocacy two sneezes a week.
To hear more of Bill’s story on sustainable building and energy efficiency, download and listen to the episode!
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- A Pattern Language
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Part of the Qatar Green Building Council, Hamoda Youssef is also a member of the USGBC. An architect by heart, his journey in sustainable building started upon pursuing a European education. Now a proud member (and leader) of the LEED movement in his region, Hamoda shares with us how sustainability has become an integral part of his career.
Sustainability in Education and Career Hamoda grew up in Cairo, Egypt, where he studied architectural engineering at Cairo University. His early career was spent as an interior design architect before he moved to an architectural engineering multidisciplinary consultancy firm.
Somewhere down the road he took up environmental planning for his graduate studies in Italy, which exposed him to the (USGBC’s) LEED movement through an internship. This is when it became clear that sustainability was a path that he could take, when back in college it was mostly a concept attached to loads of coursework.
LEED Held The Answers Earlier in his career, Hamoda met a lot of people who advocated for sustainable building which allowed him to see how groundbreaking the LEED movement was for the built environment. Before LEED, there was no framework to validate sustainability designs. There was no way to convert designs into actual, usable (and recognized) products in the marketplace.
“It’s not about technology advancement but how smartly [we] combine things and integrate them together from a multidisciplinary approach to enhance our overall design and products.” - Hamoda Youssef
LEED gave the answers. There was no skyrocketing upgrade of technology involved, but a genius understanding of how best to approach the ultimate goals of the sustainability movement.
Challenge as a Mentor Stereotypes dictated that architects must possess excellent freehand sketching skills and handwriting. Hamoda had neither, so he took it upon himself to fill in the niche of computer design and 3D software. This first challenger, he said, was also his first mentor.
“If I have a good imagination, I can be a good architect. It’s a matter of finding a right tool to represent.” - Hamoda Yousef
From there on, he had several mentors, in the form of (growth) challenges and people.
To hear more about Hamoda’s journey as a LEED expert, educator, and project manager from Egypt to Qater, download and listen to the episode!
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Daniel Dreher, Founder and Principal of Tecreation, LLC, joins Charlie Cichetti. Although primarily located at New Orleans, Daniel has projects in regions as far as India. Throughout his career, he has completed multiple projects with great partners and also has been able to overcome the challenges of hurricane Katrina.
"Sustainability is a shift in consciousness. It's an evolution in our consciousness as individuals and as a collective. And when that starts to happen, other things start to follow." - Daniel Dreher
Daniel Dreher - Sustainability Consultant Daniel's passion for sustainability traces back to his college years. He was studying Architectural Engineering at the Ohio College of Applied Science when he learned about Frank Lloyd Wright. His innovative architecture inspired him so much.
"LEED offered to really take a lot of these things that are intangible that I knew were good design principles and formalize them." - Daniel Dreher
Daniel later went to pursue a business degree. In 1986, he returned to Phoenix for his practice. By 2009, he became a LEED AP. The Boulders Resort is among the notable projects he completed with his partners.
Hurricane Katrina Experience In 2004, he had another project. It was the renovation of the student campus of Tulane University.
2005 came and they were right in the middle of the project when Katrina swept over the US. Nonetheless, they completed it in 2006 and was awarded LEED Silver certification at this building.
Inspiring Mentors and Partners Daniel sends his thanks to his mentors. Some of which he never got to meet in person, like Frank Lloyd Wright. He also learned a lot from his partners in the field.
Among them are Allen Eskew and Ray Manning, with whom he had the privilege of completing great projects, namely, the IMAX Theater Aquarium, some of Xavier University, and an art village.
To hear more of Daniel’s sustainability success story, download and listen to the episode!
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Leslie Montgomery, Education Director at Green Building Alliance (GBA), joins Charlie Cichetti in this episode. Residing in Pittsburgh, she helps host events in the region to promote high-performance green buildings. Leslie is also an educator who shares the same love for teaching and sustainability as Charlie.
“I am sort of one of those green building nerds who’s so much in awe of the people who innovated this industry and championed sustainability and green building.” - Leslie Montgomery
Leslie Montgomery - A Child of Nature Leslie lived in Baltimore, Maryland until college when she went to Winthrop University in South Carolina. A few years after getting her communications degree, she went on to get her master’s degree in sustainable systems at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.
While she didn’t formalize sustainability as a career path until graduate school, Leslie admits that her love for the natural environment bloomed at an early age. Growing up, her mother would take the family to trips to undeveloped places. Her grandfather was also a huge nature lover who hugged trees in the backyard, a habit that Leslie emulated.
Shifting Interests During her undergraduate years, Leslie’s interest was in non-profit work. She did all her internships at non-profit organizations and landed a job in the same line upon graduation. It was around that time when she was first exposed to green building.
Upon her move to Pittsburgh in 2007, her interest in green building peaked. She wanted a career change, but she knew that no one would hire her unless her credentials bore ‘sustainability’ in them. She took a shot at going after what she wanted and went through workshops on green remodeling to find out if it was for her, and it was.
“I loved it and it felt like I was with my people. I was exploring what I wanted to do.” - Leslie Montgomery
The Definitive Move She went back to school and took up her master’s. She didn’t have any design and construction background, but she was able to get into a program that let her discover everything that has to do with green building. Eventually, she got involved with Green Building Alliance through a professor, marking the turning point of her career.
To hear more of Leslie’s journey with GBA, her geek-level love for sustainability and teaching green building, download and listen to the episode!
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In this episode, Charlie Cichetti talks about LEED and WELL history and statistics. Along with a bit of storytelling, he discusses the latest numbers, trends, and LEED professional exams. By listening in, he hopes you can take the next step towards becoming part of the LEED movement.
“Maybe you have a colleague or a friend… or a student you know needs a little nudge to finally go ahead, study, take the exam, pass it, and advance their career.” - Charlie Cichetti
LEED AP Exam: A History There’s been about eighteen years’ worth of LEED projects, but the first LEED Accreditation Professional Exam first came out a year later, in 2001. The exam wasn’t updated until June 2009, the last time anyone could take it LEED NCv2.2’s exam.
Three tiers to the exams rolled around one after another, more advanced, specific, and challenging.
Updated LEED AP Exam LEED Green Associate (GA), Tier 1 of the new version of LEED exam, came out that summer. Everyone starts with this hundred-question exam, but not everyone opts to take the other tiers.
Following the GA exam, Tier 2: Specialty was launched. People taking this exam get to be accredited in their desired fields of specialization. Tier 2 can be taken on the same day as the GA exam, provided that they pass it first.
Sometime later, Tier 3: LEED Fellow also came out but is for 10+ year industry leaders and is not exam-based.
Statistics of LEED This April 2018, USGBC updated their interactive overview of the number of holders of LEED credentials. LEED Professionals have risen in number for the past eighteen years. Worldwide, they are now about 202,000 in total.
While this number may look huge, you must keep in mind that this is almost two decades’ worth of exams passeed. There’s no need to worry about how this can potentially hinder your career growth with a lot of competition because these credentials will stay with you as an individual. All it takes is a different perspective to see the benefits of taking this exam.
“These LEED Professional credentials really are gonna help you in your career, make your company more competitive for that next bid, help you ask better questions.” - Charlie Cichetti
To hear more firsthand information regarding the LEED and WELL credentials, statistics, and trends, download and listen to the episode!
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- LEED Professional Exams
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LEED and WELL AP Lauren Wallace has been the Certifications Department Manager at Epsten Group since 2010. Her team has tremendous experience with Architecture (including Zoo Projects), LEED Consulting, Third-Party LEED Reviews, Commissioning, and more. Not just LEED, she is out in front with SITES, TRUE, and more rating systems/certifications. Today, she shares the story of her architectural journey as well as her love for a community running on sustainability, with our host, Charlie Cichetti.
Lauren Wallace - A Series of Changes Originally from Long Beach, California, Lauren grew up mostly in San Diego. Over 25 years ago, though, she transferred to Atlanta, where has spent most of her life. Lauren lives intown and walks to Epsten’s LEED Platinum HQ.
She had a passion for the medical field back in high school. Lauren had biology-based classes, trained to get certified as a lifeguard, and even volunteered for the hospital. Lauren knew she was going to become a radiologist, but a drafting course in her last semester of high school changed it all.
Meant for Architecture Taking a drafting course for additional credits opened Lauren to her creative side. Designing, which has always been in her blood thanks to her father’s genes, became something that she embraced.
“When it’s science and math, there’s always an answer. And doing something in the design field tickled my brain in different ways because you’re never done.” - Lauren Wallace
While she signed up for both medicine and architecture, her letter of acceptance at Georgia Tech was all that she needed to know that she was meant to design.
An After-College Sustainability Mindset Lauren spent a lot of her college years in studios. At these studios, there were a lot of people who influenced her to explore sustainability, the community, and built environment, but she didn’t get heavily into sustainability until after college.
By the dawn of LEED rating systems, she’d gotten her degree in architecture. It all began from there.
“I think there were some projects that kind of pushed those buttons, but there was not a lot of connection from the studio to the real world. And about that time, it was the birth of the LEED rating system... I think I’m not surprised that as soon as I graduated is kind of when I started to explore some more of that.” - Lauren Wallace
To hear more about Lauren’s story and her passion for the environment and sustainable communities, download and listen to the episode!
Learn more about Lauren Wallace: * Connect with her on LinkedIn * Epsten Group Profile * Serenbe - Sustainable Community
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Fernando Arias is the Director of Sustainability at Clark Construction Group. The firm has been named as one of the greenest contractors in the US, with a tremendous amount of completed LEED projects. In today’s episode, Fernando shares with Charlie Cichetti the story of his colorful childhood that helped shape the sustainability-minded professional that he is now.
A Child of Nature Colombia-born, Fernando was surrounded by the fertile land of the City of Eternal Spring. Coffee plantations, flower farms, and a variety of butterflies are among his earliest childhood memories prior to his family’s big move to New York.
“I’ve always been immersed and impressed by the abundance of natural and urban ecologies and I learned to respect the natural environment very much.” - Fernando Arias
His first interests involved tinkering with toys and their machineries, eventually leading him to become part of the military as a tech mechanic, but his career track was never a linear path. Over time, he switched gears.
The Greatest Influencer It was when he moved to San Francisco that he met the person who enabled him to change paths. With his talent in collage and 3D art, Fernando was steered into thinking about taking up architecture classes.
Fernando’s interest in the physics of buildings grew into a fascination with how forces and nature affect the form of buildings. He went abroad and got more immersed in the landscape environment.
Integrating Nature in Design A few years down the road, he furthered his studies at Columbia University. Fernando came to a deeper understanding of how various factors come into play to meet the green standards of the built environment.
“Thinking about urban systems was not just merely about ways to transportation or energy. It was also about public health and economic drivers in cities and how all of these things work together to prepare cities for challenges.” - Fernando Arias
To hear more about Fernando’s many realizations and the evolution of his career as a LEED specialist, download and listen to the episode!
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Michael Bean, Jr., LEED AP O+M, has always been environmentally aware. His passion for engineering and architecture has opened a lot of doors that advanced his career. Combined with his inherent concern for sustainability, he has managed to affect more people to become fellow stewards of the LEED movement.
From HVAC to Property Management Michael worked his way up to where he stands now. He started out as a building mechanic during his early career. He eventually got into a hospital where he was exposed to a wealth of knowledge on building systems.
He eventually jumped over to property management involving smaller units, until such time that he was given the opportunity to take on properties with a cumulative area of 200,000 sq. ft. The experience of managing separate buildings joined together was as enriching as it could get.
Two Degrees Stronger When he took up the 200K sq. ft. project, Michael was juggling his school work and career. During that time, he was on his way to earning his degree in architectural construction engineering. While it was a challenge, he found it quite valuable.
“I was able to leave school and then the next day apply what I’ve learned, which helped me immensely.” - Michael Bean, Jr.
An Upgraded Sustainable Mindset Michael has always been an active campaigner for the environment, involved in his community’s efforts to mitigate environmental degradation.
“I’ve always been in the awareness level, but sometimes these issues morph into bigger problems.” - Michael Bean, Jr.
What really sparked sustainability within him is his curiosity for energy engineering.
To hear more about Michael’s story as a facilities manager, champion for energy conservation, and LEED advocate, download and listen to the episode!
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Becca Rushin has been Vice President for Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility for Jamestown since 2016. Her involvement in sustainability began with being outside a lot as she was growing up, taking a ‘Walking the Land’ class in college, and getting hooked with environmental literature. She is now as active in the campaign for green building as ever.
“Look, I have never heard of this sustainability thing before but it makes a lot of sense… why would we not do things this way?” - Becca Rushin on her life-altering breakthrough
Sustainability: The Epiphany Becca grew up in the coast of Georgia, developing her love for travel and the outside world. In college, she took up a class that introduced her to ecology and the environment through a lot of classic reading. It wasn’t until after college that she got hold of Cradle-to-Cradle, which brought to the surface the part of her that leaned towards sustainability.
With her undergraduate degree in environmental studies, she went on to study in Netherlands to get her MSc in Sustainable Development from Utrecht. Her degree has not only equipped her with the necessary credentials to land jobs befitting her education. She has also put it to use by testifying in defense of environmental policies, the ultimate culmination of her learnings.
A Work Smarter, Not Harder Approach Becca thinks that sustainability is a lot simpler than most people would like to think. It’s a “work smarter” rather than a “work harder” kind of approach in making our way of life better for the sake of the environment. In fact, no one is exempt from adopting a sustainable manner of living.
“I’ve never seen sustainability as kind of mutually exclusive with a kind of busy, happy, fulfilled life, like the one I grew up living.” - Becca Rushin
Sustainability can be injected into everything we do. Through lighting, energy, and water conservation, we can all act with added environmental benefits. Like she said, it is silly to not go with such an easy upgrade.
The Impactful Duos Becca’s career was defined by tandems. During her startup days, a pair of mentors with unique skill sets guided her growth by providing a leash long enough to cut her teeth on everything she needs to learn.
Presently, Becca wears two hats, that of sustainability and of corporate social responsibility. It is her belief that both are actually important in achieving a company’s shared goals by involving charity and humanity in the process.
To hear more about Becca’s story of sustainability and social responsibility, download and listen to the episode!
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WELL and Fitwel are two programs gaining momentum in the marketplace for the Wellness Real Estate movement. They’ve been out for about three and a half years, setting up the standard for advancing health and wellness in today’s buildings. Charlie gives us cliff notes on what these programs are, the building types that are easier fits to each program in their current form, and how they can be used as guidelines in their own right.
“This is where all the research shows we should be focused on when it comes to health & wellness and what we design, build, and operate.” - Charlie Cichetti
A Focus on People Both WELL and Fitwel are people-oriented programs that aid in the promotion of policies and designs geared towards healthier workplaces. These standards seek to lower the chances of disengaged workers and discomfort, whether it be at schools, churches, offices, and homes.
“How do we have buildings that will actually produce more productivity, less absenteeism, more presentism?” - Charlie Cichetti
While they have obvious differences, WELL and Fitwel are actually one and the same in this vision of focusing on the people that will become the dwellers in buildings.
WELL Building Standard Designed by Delos, a team led by Paul Scialla, WELL is the brainchild of a group architects and doctors crammed into a room and emerged out of it with the rating system. The program champions for people being more conscious of the air, water, and lighting systems in their buildings, even conversations on nourishment. Ultimately, it seeks for better human resource policies that will set up future occupants and tenants in a great environment.
WELL spun off the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), the health and wellness counterpart of U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) in LEED. Both IWBI and Delos are based in New York, the former having remote colleagues from all around the world to keep their policies updated.
Fitwel Building Standard The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and General Services Administration (GSA) initiated Fitwel. Administered by the Center for Active Design, it provides guidelines for the design, construction, and operation of healthier buildings.
Unlike WELL that is updated by the IWBI and certified by the Green Business Certification Inc.(GBCI), Fitwel is an all-in-one sort. The Center for Active Design keeps it updated and certified.
To hear more about the similarities and differences of WELL and Fitwel, download and listen to the episode!
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Asa Posner has been in the sustainability realm for ten years. His career began with a curiosity in geology, which eventually led him to take environmental studies courses in college. Along with learning grew his love for the ecosystem, and now he has made it his life mission to make the built environment eco-friendly.
“Let’s make the built environment better so that it’ll have less of an impact on the ecosystem.” - Asa Posner
Asa Posner - A Not So Forward Path Asa remembers first being exposed to nature when his uncle would take him and his brother hiking. Originally wanting to pursue medicine in college, he enrolled in a geology course thinking it would be nice. Little did he know that this little detour would lead him to a truly different path.
Through the mentoring of great geology and paleontology professors who shared the same concern for the environment, Asa’s career path was solidified. With his honors thesis, he was able to assess the impact of urbanization on flora and fauna. And while his findings compelled him to stand in line with the picket fence, he realized he wanted to affect change in a different manner.
Towards Sustainable Building Sustainability became a buzzword by the turn of the millennium. LEED became a guidepost in different projects in different areas, including building of college classrooms.
Asa was in the frontlines of many school construction projects through which he was able to work with engineers and architects. This professional experience helped open his eyes as to how commitment to sustainable building should not end with the completion of a project.
Jiving the Dichotomy During his earlier stints in the built environment, Asa’s work culminated when the building was built. This puts into perspective where the industry stands in the context of sustainability.
“Just because it’s designed and built green, doesn’t necessarily mean that it operates green, and vice versa.” - Asa Posner
Asa realizes the need to bridge the gap of this dichotomy. LEED construction rating systems will help rid of this gap. He has been an advocate of the movement ever since.
To hear more about how Asa is living and breathing sustainability and LEED, download and listen to the episode!
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Alyson Laura is an all-around Sustainability Maven, who seeks to evolve human success and planetary delight. She is currently the Director of Education for GBES. Her responsibilities include ensuring the highest quality product in their study materials, developing new on-demand webinar content, and staying updated on the latest green building trends and certifications.
"Think bigger. Don't just get stuck at what other people are doing or what seems to work, challenge yourself to really push that envelope and dream big." - Alyson Laura
She was also a Sustainability Consultant for SIG prior to joining GBES. And, she taught in-person exam prep classes all over the United States.
Coming from an architectural background, she became captivated by the triple bottom line of the green building movement. She worked as a LEED Reviewer for one of USGBC's veteran review firms, has reviewed hundreds of LEED certification applications, and has worked on dozens of successful LEED Consulting projects.
Influence in Sustainability Alyson grew up in Florida, which gave her an advantage in sustainability. The place valued recycling, composting, and rain water catching. There was a lot of support.
They were so close to sea level, and so placed a high priority on conserving their environment. Her father was also a civil engineer who worked on conserving the Everglades.
Into the Green Building Movement With the rise of technology in the early 2000s, she initially applied to Georgia Tech as a Computer Science major. But she changed her major into Architecture. During which, she was able to spend her entire senior year abroad in Paris, France.
"A big part of my education was being on a bicycle in the major city of Paris, seeing recycling bins on the public sidewalks -- just really living and breathing what it means to be in a connected society." - Alyson Laura
When she returned home in Atlanta, she challenged herself to live car-free and take advantage of the transits and bicycles.
Specializing in LEED It was not easy for Alyson to break into the field of sustainability. There wasn't always a clear path for her to get to where she wanted. She first heard about LEED while working at an architectural firm.
"These are the buildings I wanted to be a part of. This is what I want to attach my name to." - Alyson Laura
It was the perfect marriage for her and her career. It allowed her to utilize her architectural education and background and to drive towards those that mattered most to her. Her first role in the industry was that of a LEED reviewer.
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Part of our job here at Green Building Education Services (GBES) is to stay out in front of the green building industry changes and then keep you updated on what you really need to know. LEED is really growing in the internationally. Apart from the United States, which has the highest number of LEED buildings (and professionals), there is rapid LEED growth in China, India, the Middle East, and Europe. Listen to this (short) Green Building Updates for 2018 episode, where we discuss major LEED and WELL updates that are coming our way.
"40% of all LEED projects registered to pursue a LEED certification right now are outside the United States." - Charlie Cichetti
Greenbuild-Europe Conference 2018 The Green Building Europe Conference recently took place with around 300 LEED professionals in attendance in Berlin, Germany. Greenbuild Conferences will also be held in Mexico, China, India, and the United States this year. A simulcast will be conducted for the events in India and the U.S.
Major LEED Updates This year shows an interest in global growth and improvements in data and org platforms. USGBC President and CEO Mahesh Ramanujam announced a new LEED version. Version 4.1 has already been introduced on the U.S. website and newsletter for the O+M beta first.
"LEED goes through major updates every five or so years, but in this case, v4.1 is an incremental upgrade in between a major overhaul of the most popular green building rating system." - Charlie Cichetti
Beta Version Now Available LEED v4.1 O+M Beta is now out and available for download at the U.S. Green Building Council website. It does away with certain prerequisites and highlights substantial changes towards more performance and less prescriptive. Keep in mind, this is beta, can be commented on, and will be voted on later.
To hear about the Green Building Public Service Announcement, download and listen to the episode!
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- LEED v4.1 O+M Beta
- WELL Certified website
- U.S. Green Building Council
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Stacie Stamper is the Commercial Marketing Associate for CertaPro Painters of Duluth & Norcross. She has a diverse background, but she has always been an advocate for reducing construction’s carbon footprint by diverting construction and demolition waste from landfills.
"The appreciation for things out in the industry … sitting in warehouses, storage units, garages … the things kept piling up … people didn’t want to throw them away, but they didn’t know what to do with them.” -Stacie Stamper
She is the creator of the “Follow the LEEDer initiative.” In this initiative she introduces the concept of a 'deconstruction' contractor. This new type of contractor would remove materials for reuse and recycle as opposed to a demolition contractor that removes materials for disposal. With the creation of the Masterformat 2018, recycle and salvage vendors, liquidators, materials brokers, reuse retailers and manufacturers will be able to bid on salvaged waste from construction sites.
She volunteers as a Project Manager for the Gwinnett Habitat for Humanity. She has been a board member at Global Paint for Charity since 2012. Stacie received her BS in Computer Science and Computer Technology from Indiana State University.
The Ah-Ha Moment It was working with Habitat for Humanity projects where Stacie Stamper became more aware about sustainability and started to understand the importance of conservation. Working there opened Stacie’s eyes to the opportunity of reusing materials from a job site.
Before that Stacie had an interior design studio. The space this firm occupied was in a 200 year old historic building. Her firm took it, refurbished it, and the creativity with reusing materials was born through this experience.
The Recycling Challenge Some states have not figured out how to recycle used materials like paint although some states have a system in place that pays for itself. In California, paint is taxed by the gallon as a service charge and this pays for the recycling program. By paying up front, people are able to return the unused paint “free of charge” to have it recycled.
"My day job filters into my passion project which is ‘To rally the industry and bring people into the movement who can identify where the materials are. Then, we can engage before construction starts and have time to manage and plan the diversion.’” - Stacie Stamper
Expanding Recycle and Salvage Codes Inviting the procurement vendors to the table is the biggest change the industry is facing. If these vendors knew all materials were available prior to starting the project, they could come in and bid like contractors. Re-education is needed in the our industry to work with the construction industry.
"The word for 2018 is collaboration … it’s not just one industry that needs to take responsibility” - Stacie Stamper
Stacie shares an example of how as a painting contractor, she was able to reuse store fixtures marked for garbage and instead found a way to have this “waste” be reused to serve multiple purposes. At Habitat Restore the materials were sold to generate proceeds for families in need and as a contractor Stacie earned a tax receipt for the donation and reduced her waste disposal fees.
To hear about Stacie Stamper and how he is making with her “Follow the LEEDer initiative,” download and listen to the episode!
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At the age of 25, Davis Richardson already accomplished much in his life. He is the Founder, Brand Manager, and Design Director of Nomad Design-Build. Recently, he published a book called Going Tiny: Failure + Opportunity in the Future of Affordable Housing.
"The fact that it's been on tv shows means that people are looking for it. We should move forward, so that we won't miss an opportunity to live greener and more affordably. There are also design opportunities that we can maximize." - Davis Richardson on tiny houses
Passion in Baseball and Design Before attending the University of Texas, Davis attended the College of Charleston to study Historic Preservation and Community planning. He went on the receive his BA in Interior Design from Harding University.
He was a student athlete, and was named 1st-Team Capital One Academic All-American in 2015 when he played baseball for the Harding Bisons.
Pursuit in Architecture Davis is currently a M.Arch Candidate studying at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. His career goal is to become a licensed architect. Sustainability was a big part of his education.
"This is a major issue that we have to deal with, and architecture has the opportunity to make a big difference." - Davis Richardson
Mentors from the Community Davis sincerely appreciates his mentors. His first mentor was Greg of Smith Dalia Architects in Atlanta. He honest feedback and encouragements ushered him forward in his career.
"You can't be afraid to ask. You have to know that what you are asking [involves] someone's time. " - Davis Richardson on having a mentor
Another mentor was his college professor in the interior design program. She made him think closely about design and also encouraged him in his pursuit. Nowadays, social media have made it easier to learn from others and get involved in the community.
To hear about Davis Richardson and how he is making a difference with affordable housing, download and listen to the episode!
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Michael Deane is Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer at Turner Construction Company. He is a LEED BD+C Accredited Professional, and a LEED Fellow. His responsibilities include developing and implementing sustainable policies and procedures for Turner’s national and international operations, green building training, operational oversight and sales.
"Focus on the middle distance to see what's coming down the road, so you can say to people, 'Hey, this is going to be important, this can help us build better buildings, this can help our clients.'" - Michael Deane
Start in Green Building Michael received his BA in History from the University of Colorado in Boulder. He also has an MS in Historic Preservation from Columbia University.
"All those early years and those that I was interested in came back and preservation seem to be that put all of the pieces together." - Michael Deane
The path led him to work as the Project Manager at the NYC Cultural Preservation Unit. He worked closely with theatres as well as a public library. His career in a construction company later introduced him to green building.
Active LEED Fellow Michael served for three years from 2012 to 2015 in the Federal GSA Green Building Committee as a member.
"It was a recognition of a commitment and of a certain level of achievement." - Michael Deane on getting the LEED Certification
At present, he is part of the Board of Directors of the Recycling Certification and of the Board of Governors of the Design Futures Council Institute. He was named a LEED Fellow in 2013 -- the most prestigious designation of LEED Professional.
Green Building Track Record Now with more than 28 years of experience in construction management, Michael has worked with a wider array of clientele. It includes K-12 schools, cultural institutions and hospitality. He also served on the USGBC National Board of Directors from 2005 through 2008 and is a founding board member and past chair of the USGBC New York Chapter.
To hear about Michael Deane and his insights in the green building movement, download and listen to this episode!
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Francesca Mayer Martinelli is the CEO of the Peru Green Building Council, where she leads the comprehensive implementation of sustainable construction in Peru. Her responsibilities include ensuring the council’s profitability and efficiency, representing the council with government agencies, preparing the annual and monthly goals and objectives, and expanding the council’s network.
"Green building is for everyone ... It's very important for us to identify what the best strategy is to approach [specific] projects and what is [needed to implement that]." - Francesca Mayer Martinelli
Woman with a Green Heart Francesca enjoys getting in touch with nature. The green building movement resonated with her even before she started her career.
"I liked how easy and how logical sustainable decisions actually were." - Francesca Mayer Martinelli
When she proceeded to college, she received a scholarship in South Carolina where she studied Interior Design. She discovered her love for research and learned about sustainability through her teacher.
All for a Sustainable Environment Prior to becoming the CEO of the Peru Green Building Council, Francesca worked as the Senior Project Manager for SUMAC Inc., an international consulting and development firm committed to sustainability and energy efficiency.
She maintains LEED BD+C and ID+C accreditation and received her BFA in Interior Design from Converse College. She went on to receive her MPS in Sustainable Design and Construction from the New York School of Design.
At Work with the Peru Green Building Council It was in New York where she became deeply immersed in the green building movement. Francesca learned so much about sustainability and was able to apply her skills in various projects including designing beach houses and retail stores.
"We need things that are really important for the government to provide the right framework and the right tool to be aware of what is really happening in the market and to provide incentives." - Francesca Mayer Martinelli
Currently at the Peru Green Building Council, they have an exciting project with specific municipalities. They are working on raising more awareness and creating better systems for everyone.
To hear more about how Francesca Mayer Martinelli is leading the way for a sustainable environment in Peru, download and listen to the episode!
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Charlie is proud to be one of the leaders in the green building industry. Today, Alyson Laura interviews Charlie Cichetti. They are long-time friends and colleagues. She's a sustainability maven excited to put him in the hotseat and find out what green building means and how it matters to Charlie.
“You’re a risk taker, you started a business in an emerging industry.” - Alyson Laura
“Calculated risk...the industry was still strong even during the recession.” - Charlie Cichetti
Charlie and Alyson’s Backstory Charlie and Allison’s friendship began in the early 2000’s soon after college at Georgia Tech. Go Jackets!
At that time, there was not the opportunity to obtain a degree in sustainability. LEED wasn’t eve taught in the School of Architecture where Alyson was enrolled. Those early programs whether construction or architecture did not expose students to LEED since it was still in its infancy.
“LEED, we need to teach people, help them pass exams so they can navigate this crazy market of what is going on right now in the industry.” - Charlie Cichetti
Charlies says his attendance at GT was natural from his upbringing in the mountains of GA and coming from a small town. Hie family encouraged sustainability. His mom is from OR where the early adoption of recycling programs got its start. His start in sustainability has its roots in the resourcefulness of his parent.
Focusing on LEED Upon graduation, Charlie worked for a very large general contractor, Batson-Cook Company. They built a lot of building across the Southeast. Charlie started as an estimator and then project management. After Batson-Cook, Charlie took a job with a real estate developer, Opus.
Charlie’s professional path could have gone two ways, focusing on LEED or BIM. Those were the hot topics in the mid-2000’s in the construction world.
When he took job with Opus, they were focused on LEED certification. This was Charlie’s start in LEED projects.
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Trace Blackmore is an expert in energy savings through better water treatment. His career is rooted in educating his clients so they better understand the full impact of water treatment and the real value of efficient water treatment.
“Water treatment is one of the most misunderstood...in the building world.” - Trace Blackmore
Trace Blackmore - Defining Water Treatment Defining and explaining water treatment is not always easy. Most people in his industry do a very poor job of explaining it. Trace tries to make a career of educating his customers to know enough to hold me accountable so then they see the value of water treatment.
If you get water savings, you’re going to get energy savings.” - Trace Blackmore
He explains it as a four-legged stool with water treatment sitting on top. The four legs represent the four things you have to do completely to have a sound water treatment program. Those are control of corrosion, scaling, microbial fouling and general debris.
Energy Savings with Water Treatment Most people don’t realize how much water is used with their heating and cooling equipment and how much energy is used with that. Most people tend to focus on how much they pay for water treatment service but not how much they are spending running all the equipment that takes that water service.
Leed version 4 now rewards you 3 points if you are really doing a better job with your cooling towers and water treatment. Charlie challenges you to ask better questions of your HVAC installers those that are servicing your buildings.
Green Movement Steward As a person that lives on this planet, you have to respect the finite amount of resources. Whether you are good steward of the planet or you just want to be more frugal, you have to buy less energy and water.
For Trace, that pairs so well with water treatment. He thinks water treatment was the original green movement before there was ever a green movement. Water by far is the best heat transfer medium out there and there is only so much water readily available to us.
As a water treater Trace has a huge impact and so much he can do to protect this valuable resource and make sure we are using it the way we should.
To hear more about how Trace is changing the way water treatment can positively affect the environment,, download and listen to the episode!
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GBMS 006 Peter Smith Emerging Technology Transforms WELL Building Standards Peter Smith is the Sr. VP at International WELL Building Institute IWBI where he works to transform buildings in ways that help people thrive. On today’s show, Charlie and Peter discuss the ways that buildings, and everything in them, can enhance and not compromise, our health and wellness.
“As sensors become more sophisticated, cost effective, and more consumer oriented, we will see an immediate shift...and have to be more responsive to air quality demands by occupants.” Peter Smith
The Road to Green Building Peter has always had a passion for architecture and design and being outdoors. He and his brothers spent a lot of time growing up playing outside and visiting national parks. Peter developed that passion into transforming the outdoor environment into the built environment.
In college, Peter majored in Environmental Economics which merged traditional economics with environmental studies. He really began to focus his future on the notion of Green Building with his capstone project.
Green Building Influences Campuses For his capstone project, Peter inventoried several buildings at Colgate to determine the inefficiencies and measures that could be put forward to improve them.
The second seminar focused on economics. Peter ran an econometric model to understand the prevalence of green buildings at higher ed institutions. His research began to impact faculty and staff and the hiring a Head of Sustainability and started a ‘Roundtable of Sustainability’ for students.
To hear more about how changing technology can improve the environment within a building and the local community, download and listen to the episode!
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Peter Smith Bio Peter is Senior Vice President, Business Development at IWBI. Prior to working at IWBI, Peter was Vice President of Delos Solutions. Delos is committed to transforming the built environment by placing health and wellness at the center of its design and construction. In addition, Peter worked as a Sustainability Consultant at Steven Winter Associates. SWA specializes in energy, sustainability, and accessibility consulting.
Peter holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Economics from Colgate University. He maintains a LEED AP Homes accreditation. He is currently pursuing his Master’s in Business Administration from Columbia University.
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Shelby Buso Director of USGBC/Georgia with an environmental law background. Shelby Buso is the Director at USGBC Georgia, and has been with the USGBC since July 2016. She holds a Juris Doctor and Masters of Environmental Law and Policy from Vermont Law School. Shelby is passionate about improving and continuing the green building movement.
“USGBC is more than just LEED now...everyday there is a new program that we have to learn very quickly” Shelby Buso on the importance of tying all certifications under one umbrella.
Travel Inspires her Shelby was on track for an anthropology degree and that gave her the opportunity to study abroad in places like Puerto Rico and New Zealand. She had taken a lot of bio classes thinking she might take a pre-med track. Then organic chemistry happened and she ended up creating her own major in environmental studies.
In New Zealand, Shelby found it amazing to study in a country that actually had environmental protections as a constitutional right.
Green Building Movement Progression A lot of the universities in Georgia such as Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia have really made campus life commitments to green building and be a leader in the industry because they see that as a learning tool as well.
Away from the local Georgia area, KSU and Agnes Scott have partnered to construct a Leed certified building. Georgia USGBC has a great tool, Leed Lab, that enables KSU to partner with Agnes Scott for a student led construction of a Leed certified building on the Agnes Scott Campus. This is the first partnership of its kind and provides students with real world experience.
To hear more about the future of the green building movement and how it impacts people on an everyday basis, download and listen to the rest of the episode!
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GBMS 004 Global LEED Growth, Careers and Leadership with Mahesh Ramanujam Mahesh Ramanujam is the President and CEO of both the USGBC and the Green Business Certification, Inc. (GBCI). He believes that sustainability is a way of life, and empowers hundreds of employees across the globe with his charismatic leadership and his belief that the green building movement can truly transform the built environment.
"The journey has been about humility, carrying your values, understanding what the planet wants you to share, and most importantly inspire the people around you and give them a fair chance at whatever they don't have because you can give them one." - Mahesh Ramanujam
Start of a Journey in Sustainability From his humble beginnings in India, Mahesh has stepped up the ladder to becoming one of today's leaders in the green building movement. He thankfully acknowledges his parents' support and the values that they taught him.
It was from them that he learned to be thankful and to pay it forward with the things he has. To him, sustainability is a way of life and is about leaving the world with a sense of abundance.
Leading in the Industry Mahesh graduated from Annamalai University with a degree in Computer Engineering. His line of expertise includes optimization, technological innovation, negotiation, global business and market development.
Prior to becoming President and CEO, Mahesh served as the Chief Information Officer at USGBC. He also served as the COO of Emergys Corporation and led various business transformation programs at IBM and Lenovo.
Community Involvement and Advice At present, Mahesh also serves on numerous boards and advisory committees, including Bank of America's National Community Advisory Council and the Board of Directors of GRESB.
He encourages everyone to take a step forward and reach out when you need help. As he said, there is a green building movement that will support, enable and welcome you.
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- US Green Building Council
- Green Business Certification, Inc.
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Shaping the Construction Data Industry and BIM with Arol Wolford Arol Wolford served as the CEO of Construction Market Data and SmartBIM. He has devoted his career trying to balance the function, aesthetics, costs, and energy impacts of buildings through the creation of software that will make it possible for architects and engineers.
"More money is being spent counting and measuring things in the United States than is spent for all of design. It is such a huge waste." - Arol Wolford
Importance of Quantity Survey Arol emphasizes the importance of quantity survey in buildings. He discusses how relevant it is to the energy movement.
In a quantity survey, a builder would determine how many units are needed for a specific component. Architects specially need it to make an appropriate analysis of the building.
Leader in the Construction Industry Since 1982, Arol and his team evolved into a global leader in building information. They offer a variety of well-known information sources.
Together, they sold the CMD Group to Reed Elsevier for $300 million. He went to become a Board Member of Revit Technology Corporation, which created the first parametric building modeler.
Accolades Over the Years Arol is a pioneer and passionate advocate of building intelligence. Apart from CMD, he also founded other companies including SmartBIM and VIZZ.
In 1997, he became an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects and an honorary board in 2007. He also received the Construction Specification Institute President's Award in 1999.
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- Construction Market Data
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HOK Sustainable Design with Anica Landreneau Anica Landreneau is the Director of Sustainable Design at HOK. She has devoted her career to energy efficiency and is committed in leading her firm to optimize all projects. At HOK, they carry out the duty and responsibility of designing high-performance buildings.
"Sustainability is about how all these things are interrelated, and relationships and all that we practice are incredibly important to make all these things work." - Anica Landreneau
Stepping Up the Ladder From a traditional role at a firm, Anica quickly stepped into becoming the green leader. She moved to DC to work at a climate think tank.
During that time, legislation passed regulatory laws for buildings across the country. Her expertise led her to a full-time job, focusing on sustainability at an architecture firm.
Outside of HOK, she is also an appointee on the DC Green Building Council. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Design, Architecture, and Sustainable Design from the University of Houston.
Green Building: A Healthy Choice As a leader in the field, Anica would teach her colleagues about green building. She has worked with privately owned facilities in her career, too.
Among which was a pediatrics. She enjoys working with such health facilities and connecting green building to human health.
High-Performance Projects at HOK From the regulatory laws, Anica and her team found a huge demand for high-performance buildings. That led them to create substantial requirements in their projects.
It prompted them to dive into materials research, energy optimization, and cost balancing. They look into various strategies to implement effectively. Form a small firm, they have grown into a network with key experts located at different places.
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- HOK Global Firm
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Overseeing Sustainability for a 4Msf Convention Center with Tim Trefzer Tim Trefzer is a Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility Manager at the Georgia World Congress Center. With his team, he creates and establishes the CSR strategy not only for the GWCC but also for the Georgia Dome, the Centennial Olympic Park, and the Savannah International Trade and Convention Center.
"Green building has definitely leveraged sustainability. It has affected all aspects of organizations aside from the building environment." - Tim Trefzer
Career in Sustainability Tim has served as the Sustainability Chair for multiple sporting events in the United States. These include the 2013 NCAA Final Four and the 2018 Super Bowl.
After receiving his degree in Residential Science & Housing and Business Administration from Florida State University, he furthered his studies with a Master's Degree in Sustainability Leadership from Arizona State University.
Step Higher with the Online Program The year 2014 opened the opportunity for Tim to enrol in the Sustainability Leadership program online. ASU has been a leader in higher education for sustainability for more than 10 years now.
Among those who join the program are individuals from corporations, local governments, nonprofits, and independent consultancies. There is a wide range of organizations where sustainability can be implemented.
Sustainability For and With the Community Tim works with different stakeholders in the campus to incorporate sustainability in various areas. Integrating it with the community they belong is also something that they look forward to. More than simply being a big campus on the block, it pays forward to also be the neighbor of choice.
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- Georgia World Congress Center
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Start Here: Welcome to the Green Building Matters Podcast! This year is just about to get more exciting as Charlie Cichetti brings you the Green Building Matters Podcast! Get to know what it is and how you can tune in!
"This podcast is gonna fuel your fire no matter where you are at with your green building career journey." - Charlie Cichetti
Meet Charlie Cichetti For more than 10 years already, Charlie has dedicated himself to the green building movement. He has a solid background in commercial construction and the real estate.
Later on, he founded his own consulting firm and also became active in educating others about the movement. He is passionate about connecting people and ideas through positive thinking.
Because Green Building Matters The Podcast will take you behind the scenes with interviews featuring industry and nonprofit leaders. They will share with you their insights, inspiring stories, and any early career advice they could give.
It is perfect for architects and anyone else who has a part in the building environment. This show can be your guide in aligning your building with the "green movement" standards.
Subscribe to the Show The Green Building Matters Podcast airs one episode every week, and is available on iTunes and other podcast platforms. Show notes will be provided to guide you in your listening.
Don't miss an episode; you may tune in immediately or download to listen at a later time. Keep your “green movement” fire going and ignite other individuals in the field.
Link for Today:
- GBES.com/podcast
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