1.) CRGBC – Cascadia Region Green Building Council 2.) REHVA – Federation of European Heating and Air Conditioning Associations 3.) ASHRAE – American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers a. 2006-07 ASHRAE Puget Sound Chapter TEGA Committee Chair (Technology, Energy, and Government Activities) b. TRG4 National Technical Research Group – Sustainable Building Guidance and Metrics/Resource Gap Analysis; Subcommittee Chair for the Industry Collaboration section of this research project. c. TG1 National Task Group – Exergy Analysis of Sustainable Building; Corresponding Member d. TC7.1 National Technical Committee – Integrated Building Design; Corresponding Member e. TC2.8 National Technical Committee – Building Environmental Impacts and Sustainability; Corresponding Member

I have been a consulting mechanical engineer and designer in the building systems industry for fifteen years. Throughout my engineering career, I have acted as an advocate and educator of sustainable design concepts and ideals. I received my LEED Accreditation in 2001 and completed the Sustainable Building Advisor Certificate Program and passed the national certification exam in 2004 (NaCSBA). In my profession I often wear two hats – one as a mechanical engineer and the other as a sustainability advisor. I frequently contribute to design charettes and perform energy performance evaluations for a variety of integrated building components through building simulation modeling (using EQuest and VisualDOE) and computational fluid dynamics (TAS). The goal is always to assist the design team to reduce the overall building loads, incorporate passive strategies where feasible, and optimize the energy efficiency of the resulting mechanical systems - all with the intent to provide a healthy and comfortable indoor environment. This effort has also included achieving LEED and SPiRiT mechanical credits. I have presented on the topics of high performance building systems, integrated design, sustainability and LEED for a variety of organizations including the ASHRAE Puget Sound Chapter and Inland Empire Chapter, Washington State Society of Healthcare Engineers (WSHE), Vashon Household, and to various architectural firms wishing to expand their understanding of these concepts. I have also lead lectures on “Sustainability in Engineering” for the Air Conditioning class at the UW School of Mechanical Engineering.

The single most important means of promoting green building is education. This has been the primary focus of my green building activities both as a member of a project design team and in my volunteer contributions to the local engineering community, most recently as the current ASHRAE Puget Sound Chapter TEGA Committee Chair. For example, I was the lead coordinator of the very successful Engineering Green 2006 conference, which was a collaborative event between the ASHRAE Puget Sound Chapter and Cascadia. The first event of it’s kind in the region; it was developed to provide innovative technical information to mechanical engineers to support sustainable building practices. This event was so successful that it will be offered again in the fall of 2007 and will encompass electrical engineering as well. I will also be the lead coordinator for this event.

I have been an active member of Cascadia for several years. In addition of the Engineering Green conference, I was a volunteer (along with my teenage son) at GreenBuild 2004 in Portland. I helped manage the list of student and professional volunteers prior to the event and then helped wherever needed at the event. An example of the types of activities I have participated in with other organizations with a green building focus, in 2005 I acted as a facilitator during an eco-charette training/exercise at the “What Makes It Green” conference in Seattle.

I feel I would bring two skills to the Cascadia board. One of my best skills is knowing how to identify talented, dedicated and passionate people to pull together as a cohesive team that can take on tough challenges and get them done. Engineering Green was a good example of this. I have also been told that my personal enthusiasm is infectious and motivates others. The other skill that I bring to the board is several years of experience promoting green building as a consulting design engineer. I have worked on many projects that have pursued a variety of levels of sustainable design and I have experienced both the good and the not so good side of this. This includes the project that plows full speed ahead in the beginning with high sustainable goals only to end up value-engineering every one of them out by the end of the project. It also includes the type of project where there is a sustainability conscious owner who asks the design team to incorporate what is feasible, makes sense and is the right thing to do, but does not necessarily want to go through the LEED documentation process. And every once in a while it includes a team that is on board and carries the sustainable goals all the way through the project. As many practicing engineers can relate to, I understand the paths and the barriers to bringing green building into the mainstream.

The Cascadia Green Building Council and the USGBC has made great strides in promoting green building. I would like to contribute to their efforts by continuing to develop educational opportunities to both the current engineering community and the soon-to be engineering community – the Emerging Green Builders. I would also like to be involved in developing industry wide collaboration on the subjects of energy efficiency and energy quality, which is the balance between the energy use and the energy source (also referred to as exergy efficiency). An issue that is receiving very serious attention in the international energy community, I believe this is fundamental to the overall energy/environmental equation and should be a part of the goals of the USGBC.