Podcasts about fitwel ambassador

  The Green Impact Report Quick take: From architect to researcher, Stuart Shell reveals how evidence and nature-inspired thinking are transforming sustainable design beyond conventional metrics to create holistic building solutions that benefit both people and the planet. Meet Your Fellow Sustainability Champion Stuart Shell works with an interdisciplinary team at BranchPattern to create building solutions that place people first. As an architect-turned-researcher, he focuses on what occupants need to be healthy and engaged.  At BranchPattern, their beliefs are rooted in nature which has taught them that true sustainability sits at the intersection of human experience and environmental stewardship. Stuart Shell received a Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a Master of Science in Architectural Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  Stuart is also certified by the Center for Active Design as a Fitwel Ambassador, Autodesk in Building Performance Analysis, the League of American Bicyclists as a League Certified Instructor, and the State of Nebraska as a Registered Architect.  In addition, he is credentialed by the U.S. Green Building Council as a LEED AP and by the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) as a WELL AP. Finally, he has been certified by The Center for Health Design in EDAC.

  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

  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  

  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  

  Brittany Storm, LEED Fellow, 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. “I do encourage project teams to work with manufacturers. Don't just ask them for their sustainability information. Educate them, explain your green goals, then let them help you select the best product that makes the most gains for your sustainability project…I strongly believe that green building standards need to do a better job of educating and/or keeping manufacturers informed of what's being asked of them so that they can keep up with the growing demand for sustainable products.” -Brittany Storm   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  

On this week's Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, brings you a special preview of the upcoming 10th Annual Louisville Sustainability Summit with Stuart Ungar, the new Executive Director of the Louisville Sustainability Council, and Tiffany Broyles Yost, who is the Director of Sustainability and Resilience at the design firm GBBN and is on this year's Summit Planning Committee. You can learn more and get your tickets now at http://louisvillesustainabilitycouncil.org. The theme of this year's Summit is Livable Louisville: Addressing local climate risks through planning and design. It will take place on Tuesday. October 17, 2023 from 12:30pm - 5:00pm at Louisville Visual Art, 1538 Lytle St. Recent studies predict Kentucky's risk of extreme heat, drought, wildfires, and inland floods will increase significantly. At the Summit, we'll explore the risks and stressors our region is facing and how our buildings and cities can adapt to this new normal and address the problems. This year's Keynote is on: “Sustainability Lessons from NYC to KY” with Jennifer Bloom Leone, AIA, LEED, Chief Sustainability Officer NYC Dept. of Housing Preservation and Development. She oversees the strategic development and implementation of standards, programs and policies to meet the goals of the Mayor's Climate Action Plan "PlaNYC: Getting Sustainability Done” to tackle climate change and other strategic initiatives. Jennifer will discuss how her Department's new standards, policies and programs ensure that the city's affordable housing can meet New York City's ambitious climate goals while addressing the unique health and safety needs of the vulnerable populations. There will also be a Panel on: Housing for a Changed Climate, featuring: Marilyn Harris – Director, Department of Housing and Community Development at Louisville Metro Government; Ben Eilerman – Director of Real Estate Development at Over-the-Rhine Community Housing in Cincinnati; and Tiffany Broyles Yost, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Fitwel Ambassador, Director of Sustainability and Resilience – GBBN And a Panel on: Global Crisis, Local Response, featuring: Moderator, Allison Smith, Project Manager, NREL; Sumedha Rao, Executive Director, Mayor's Office of Sustainability; and Brooke Pardue from the Parks Alliance. Join us immediately after the Summit from 5-7 pm for a reception across the street at PORTAL @ fifteenTWELVE. The after party will include heavy hors d'oeuvres provided by Farm to Fork Catering, as well as a cash bar. A new special exhibit titled "The Sustainability Compass - N, E, S, W" curated by Rebecca Norton & Clare Hirn will make its debut with works by: Nathan Smith, Clare Hirn, Gwen Burke, Rebecca Norton, Danica Novgorodoff, Jim Weaver, Fran Kremmer, Katy Marshall, and Julia Coash. Curated for the Louisville Sustainability Summit, "The Sustainable Compass; N,E,S,W" brings together a diverse group of individuals whose work is informed by the history and practices in sustainable thinking and design. All tickets will include admission to the Summit, Art Exhibition, and After Party including appetizers. *If cost is a barrier but you would like to attend, please reach out to info@louisvillesustainabilitycouncil.org to request a scholarship. As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW! Sustainability Now! is hosted by Dr. Justin Mog and airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at http://forwardradio.org The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at http://appalatin.com

This week's episode features a conversation with Baltimore architect, Melanie Ray, of Hord Coplan Macht. We cover her journey into the profession, the impact NOMA has had on her career and various tips for students pursuing architecture.Links:Bmore NOMATangible Remnants on InstagramTangible Remnants WebsiteLinkedTr.ee for resourcesGabl Media NetworkSarah Gilberg's MusicBio: Melanie RayMelanie is a licensed architect and Associate in the Affordable Housing studio at Hord Coplan Macht in Baltimore, MD. Since graduating from Penn State's architecture program in 2015, she has worked on various market-rate and affordable mixed-use housing projects, as well as community development projects in Baltimore city and beyond. She is the 424th living black woman licensed in the US to practice architecture and seeks to be an active mentor to promote the goal of doubling the number of licensed black architects by 2030. She currently serves as the President of Bmore NOMA, the Baltimore Chapter of NOMA, the Northeast University Liaison for NOMA National, and on the Board of Directors for AIA Baltimore. In addition to her work at HCM, Melanie is a regular volunteer for pro bono design projects through such organizations as Habitat for Humanity and The Neighborhood Design Center, the latter of which she received the Volunteer of the Year Award in June 2020 and also currently serves on the board of directors. Melanie is a certified Fitwel Ambassador and LEED Green Associate. **Some of the links above maybe Amazon affiliate links, which means that if you choose to make a purchase, I will earn a commission. This commission comes at no additional cost to you.**

Championing sustainability in the architecture and design industry and beyond can help to create a more sustainable future. This episode unpacks the importance of fostering a culture that drives sustainability goals and highlights how we can all become advocates for sustainability. Host Caroline Saba chats with Pablo La Roche, Principal & Sustainable Design Director, CRTKL, Steven South, LEED AP, NCIDQ, IIDA, Fitwel Ambassador, Design Director, Senior Associate Spectorgroup, Ellen Mitchell, Director of Sustainability & Applied Research, LPA Design Studios, and Martha Larson, Director of Sustainability, RMF Engineering to share ideas and offer insight on how we can create a more sustainable future for all.The Design Board, by UpSpring, is a proud member of SANDOW Design Group's SURROUND Podcast Network, home to the architecture and design industry's premier shows.

  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    Get your episode transcript here!!   Show Resource and Information LinkedIn 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 Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram   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!   Copyright © 2023 GBES  

  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.  Get the episode transcript here!!   Show Resource and Information Principles of Winning Gregory Patton Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram   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!   Copyright © 2023 GBES

  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 LinkedIn Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work | TED Talk Brené Brown: books Simon Sinek: Books Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram   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!   Copyright © 2023 GBES

Air and water quality in the home is something that should be front-of-mind for us all. Thankfully, companies like RePure have brought solutions to market that make it easy to do it right. Learn what they do, how they do it, and how to improve air and water quality by utilizing their products and resources in this episode of Connecting Tech+Design with RePure President, Michael Don Ham — who is also WELL AP certified, a member of the WELL Faculty, and a Fitwel Ambassador. For interior designers, architects, and technology integration professionals, this episode offers valuable insights as well as new market opportunities. Download and tune in today! To learn more about RePure, visit www.puretech-alliance.com and www.linkedin.com/company/52175681/admin, and to connect with Michael Don Ham, go to www.linkedin.com/in/michael-d-ham.

  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.  EC3 - an embodied carbon construction calculator tool.  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 Get the episode transcript here!!   Show Resource and Information LinkedIn Bridges to Prosperity Design for Freedom Toolkit Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram   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!   Copyright © 2022 GBES

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                                Get the episode transcript here!! Vaishali Sampat's Show Resource and Information LinkedIn Sustainability - Kilroy Realty Instagram  The Four Agreements  Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram   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!   Copyright © 2022 GBES

We're so happy to be back after our summer hiatus. We've missed our wonderful educators and listeners. To kick off the school year, we're diving into a series of interviews with our CERTIFIED Ambassadors. We're starting off the school year with Greg King.  Greg King is a Computer Assisted Design Instructor at McCann Technical School in North Adams, Massachusetts. Prior to leaping into a teaching career, Greg was a Senior Mechanical Designer/Project Manager for HVAC projects in both the design build and plan-spec marketplace. Greg has been an Autodesk student & user since 1997 with a primary focus on AutoCAD and Revit. Greg has an A.S. in Engineering Technology, and holds several accreditations including LEED AP O+M, WELL AP, Fitwel Ambassador, Autodesk AutoCAD Certified User, as well as a MA Construction Supervisor License to name a few. In this episode, we chat with Greg about all things engineering. You've probably heard the joke, “Engineers aren't boring people. They just get excited over boring things.” But, that doesn't have to be true. Engineering doesn't need to be boring, and Greg is out to change that perception with his students.  Listen for Greg's ideas to make engineering the coolest class at your school. He covers some of his favorite tools and topics, plus assignments that didn't go down as well as he'd hoped. Find out how to make engineering and design come alive!  If you'd like to connect with Greg for additional ideas (or just to geek out over engineering), you can reach him at gking@mccanntech.org. You can also watch for more of Greg's ideas from our webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyqbVGcKDdY. You can also read more about Greg on the blog: https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/Blog/2022/April/Educator-Engineers-a-Brighter-Future-with-ACU-Cert.   Podcast edited and managed by Haili Murch LLC. If you are interested in starting a podcast or you are currently a podcaster needing help managing or relaunching your podcast, you may email Haili Murch at hello@hailimurch.com or you can click here to book a call: https://calendly.com/hailimurch/podcast-discovery-call

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   Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram   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!   Copyright © 2022 GBES

What to do when air is 'bad' James Matthews of Carbon Intelligence on getting indoor air quality right. James is an Associate Director responsible for implementing Carbon Intelligence's Health and Wellbeing service. A qualified WELL Accredited Professional (AP) and Fitwel Ambassador, able to advise how best to implement health and wellbeing strategies to workplaces. James provides consultancy services for landlords, developers and occupiers around sustainability and wellness in the built environment; from integrating sustainability and wellbeing into property management activities to full certification services. He has advised a large organisation to deliver the WELL Building Standard to a 110,000 sq. ft. office refurbishment in Canary Wharf. James has also worked with a developer to deliver the WELL Building Standard for a 95,000 sq. ft. grade A office development in Scotland. Matthews works with Carbon Intelligence's clients to identify opportunities to improve the sustainability performance of managed properties.   Episode transcript: The transcription of this episode is auto generated by a third-party source. While Microshare takes every precaution to insure that the content is accurate, errors can occur. Microshare, Inc.  is not responsible for any errors or omissions, or for the results obtained from the use of this information. Micheal Moran [00:00:00] This is manifest density. Hello, everyone, and welcome to this edition of Manifest Density. Your host, Michael Moran, here to explore the intersection of COVID 19 global business and society. Manifest density is brought to you by the Global Smart Building and ESG data company Microshare unleashed the data today. I'm speaking with James MATTHEWS, who is an associate director at Carbon Intelligence, one of our partners in the UK. And James is an expert in indoor air quality and he has done a lot of work from his days at the University of Exeter. James, give us a little background on yourself. Yeah.    James Matthews [00:00:40] So I'm James MATTHEWS. I working for Carbon Intelligence. I've been prior to that with a young for 6 to 7 years looking at building standards and looking at how that can be implemented into buildings built kind of from a land developer point city into the base build and also from fit out project level work. So it's really interesting space and I'm very kind of keen to talk about it.    Micheal Moran [00:01:07] Well, we are living at a time with change expectations about all sorts of things. One of those things is the wellness and safety of the indoor spaces that they're going to spend a good deal of their time in a workplace is a great example. Obviously, commercial real estate in the office sector especially are eager to see people flowing back in. So are the people who run cities who worry about tax revenue and street level commerce. So we now know that air quality is part of the demand or expectation that some people have if they're going to go back into these offices. What are you seeing in the marketplace in that regard?    James Matthews [00:01:48] So I think my observations would be prior to COVID and the kind of lockdowns that everyone saw around the world, the well being narrative was all around productivity. And with regards to sort of indoor air quality, it was looking at reducing vaccines and the impacts that that can have on people's health. Volatile organic compounds, I should say, but also carbon dioxide levels. So there's been some really interesting research that suggests that proves that if you have CO2 levels that go over 1200 parts per million can have a real impact on your cognitive ability. So anecdotally, that's the equivalent of maybe going out for lunch and having a couple of points. So I've been taught and it's that kind of slowing down of your mental ability and it's it's all around that productivity piece. If you imagine you're in the boardroom and you've got the most important people in your company thrashing out a big deal and they've been in there for hours. The indoor air quality that's going to be poor. Can you be set? Decision making at the end of the meeting are the best decisions they're able to do. That was where wellness was prior to the shift I've seen kind of in the market is is about reassuring people that the space they now choose to operate in is healthy. It is a place that isn't going to do us any harm.    Micheal Moran [00:04:16] Sure. And it could be a doctor's office where they're making decisions that are relevant to your life and death. So obviously, these are not small issues. So I have to ask, as you're in the world and you're seeing the demand for this certainly is there among people who now feel compelled to go back into the office, they kind of want to know. But what what about the purchaser of this kind of a capability, air quality monitoring? Who is that?    James Matthews [00:04:43] So, yeah, I think you can look at this from a landlord developer point of view. If you're developing your next asset wellbeing, it's very much about sort of 10 to 15 years ago where sustainability was. Sustainability used to be a nice to have. Now it's a must have without. Your asset is already going to be behind the curve against its competition. The indoor air quality and wellbeing is very much on the up and is being used as a as a USP. So I have experience with a couple of projects in Glasgow, in Scotland, and there was a project there that we were working on and they specifically targeted the well building standards because a building opposite going up in a similar sort of time that was also targeting the well building standards. So it's very much about kind of creating a premium product in the market.    Micheal Moran [00:05:34] And of course, well, building is going to ultimately have greater value when it's sold and it's probably going to attract a higher rent.    James Matthews [00:05:44] Absolutely. Yeah. There's been there's been some interesting figures coming from from the US that would suggest assets with wellbeing certificates can come on a high premium bit for rent.    Micheal Moran [00:05:56] Hold that thought. We're going to take a quick break to hear from our sponsor.    Sponsor [00:06:01] Manifest density is brought to you by Microshare, a world leader in the technologies they're helping the world return to work safely. Our ever smart suite of smart facility solutions, including indoor air quality monitoring, predictive cleaning and room occupancy solutions, bring safety, wellness, sustainability and operational cost savings to indoor spaces. Learn more at microshare. I. O.    Micheal Moran [00:06:30] Okay. I'm back with James MATTHEWS. Carbon Intelligence. James, as you confer with clients and advise them on things to do. What is the intersection of these various building certifications? Brim and Well and lead and things like air quality? Do they get credit for doing this.    James Matthews [00:06:49] From lead in the in the UK isn't so much of a big thing. The main driver over here is is Brim, which is fairly similar. There is a cross crossover between well and Brim I think for about 33% if memory serves. So if you do some credits within Breeam, you'll achieve them and well and vice versa. So that certainly leads to some efficiencies. It is definitely becoming more and more demand for in the market and we are talking to clients more regularly about implementing such certificates.    Micheal Moran [00:07:25] And so if you let's say you implement indoor air quality monitoring, is it in and of itself useful to know or are there a series of actionable data points you're going to get that take you down a journey to improve air quality?    James Matthews [00:07:42] There are certain metrics because one of them say volatile organic compounds, and that's generally found from paint or off gassing, from new furniture or plastics, things like glues. That's definitely something you can see generally as a spike in new projects where things new new kit and new furniture is brought into a space. You would potentially clear the office of people for potentially up to two weeks, leave it with the air conditioning units and the fan crews running to extract as much of that gas out. And then you would then bring people back into the office. CO2 wise, you can increase the fan speeds, obviously circulate more and more out of the building and that too will improve the interactions.    Micheal Moran [00:08:31] So I would imagine as you take someone through the process of improving the wellness of these indoor spaces, air quality is just one thing. There's a number of different metrics that you might want to correlate, right? See, you know how densely occupied spaces what what the cleaning regimen is. You know, there's all sorts of interesting questions about decibels and lumens. How much of that do you get into and.    James Matthews [00:09:00] Carbon intelligence. We are predominantly focused on indoor air quality, although clients do want to look at implementing the standard, we will walk them through everything that is required of them and the wellbeing standards are quite flexible. So you can pick and choose certain metrics to to it to benefit your, your particular fit out of your building. And that's the benefit of it. It is flexible so you can choose what's kind of interesting to you and then we will walk them through all the different the ten different requirements as a part of the standard.    Micheal Moran [00:09:39] James, hold your thought. I'm going to take a quick break for our sponsor.    Sponsor [00:09:45] Michael sure is proud to support Manifest Density, the podcast that examines the intersection of COVID 19 business and society. Each week we bring you conversation with global leaders and visionary enterprise nurse who are helping the world adapt and apply the tragic lessons of the pandemic so the planet can build back better. Subscribe to Manifest Density on our website microshare. I o or download it on Apple, iTunes, Google Play, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, and a host of other podcasting venues.    Micheal Moran [00:10:23] I'm back with James MATTHEWS of Carbon Intelligence. James is an expert in implementing indoor air quality. JAMES Indoor air quality is one thing from the standpoint of the person who runs the building or owns the building, but what about the people who occupy it? You must get questions about how much of this data should be shared with the staff of a corporate space, for instance, and what kind of issues that might raise.    James Matthews [00:10:53] It's a tricky one, I think. If you are the landlord and you have a problem, you might be inclined not to share that information. If you're a tenant, then you're obviously going to be interested in your indoor air quality. I think the benefit of the market of where we are is that the democracy of data or the ability to access data is relatively cheap and easy these days. People can get hold of that information relatively quickly. If you are a tenant, for example, there are certain monitors that have really good standards that are only a couple of hundred pounds that you could implement. And having that information is key. It's the old adage of you can't you can't change what you don't monitor. And it's getting getting your hands on that data, which is invaluable if you want to make improvements and change into your space.    Micheal Moran [00:11:47] There's still that ethical quandary. Joe, if you're the director of h.r. Or facilities management and you find you've got this data, it's not consistently good. Maybe it's good some days, not others are good in some spaces and not others. Do you democratize that data and show it to all the staff?    James Matthews [00:12:06] Yeah, it's a tricky one. I think you'd probably work with your facilities team and your landlord if you're a tenant or if you are the facilities manager working on behalf of the landlord, then you'd certainly use that data to drive improvements and look at ways to improve the space. I think obviously with people choosing to work from home and choosing to work in the office these days, you'll see a shift in occupation patterns as well. So typically you might see higher levels of been in poor indoor air quality on say, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. If people are choosing to occupy the office more in that time, you could then set about strategies to improve the indoor air quality, potentially running the phone calls at a higher rate on those particular days, and then offset by saving a bit of energy and reducing the phone calls potentially on Wednesdays, sorry, on Mondays and Fridays when you have lower occupation.    Micheal Moran [00:13:07] You bring up a really good point. I think when people think of indoor air quality monitors, they think of something that looks like a smoke detector that just sits there and detects the air. But it's really affected by a lot of things. One of the most important is that the quickest way to get poor air in a room is to put a lot of people in and close the door. Right. Because we do nothing but emit carbon when we breathe. And if you're not, ventilating that occupancy data is key to correlate with the air quality, right?    James Matthews [00:13:38] Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. If you if you can marry the two, you've got a really powerful solution there.    Micheal Moran [00:13:45] Well, we've already taken two breaks for the sponsor, so I won't tell our married solution here. But I think that's the idea. And it's not just occupancy, but there's other things that that affect to temperature, humidity. How often do you run? To concern. I mean, you're working primarily in the UK, so it may be that it may not be as big an issue as it would be in places like Beijing or Mumbai. How often do you run into concern about particulate matter, the outdoor pollution penetrating the indoor space?    James Matthews [00:14:15] There's a lot of concern, I think in the UK this fall, especially in London where you have quite a high traffic density. There's been recent kind of unfortunate examples of where there was a child that died and it was linked back to poor air quality because the school was on a on a highway, on a big busy street. And it was it was proven that the not the sort of poor air quality that cars and trucks and everything that was emitting was was a was the root cause of, unfortunately, this child's death, which is awful. It is a concern. And I think probably pre-pandemic when people were traveling more, there was more concern. I think that I would imagine this is my educated guess is that there's probably slightly less of an issue at the moment with people traveling less. But it's certainly it is an issue. And you do see, especially in London in the summer, you do see a sort of foggy haze sometimes, but there's no winds or anything here.    Micheal Moran [00:15:24] In the United States. This is a I almost said burning issue. That would be a little bit of color. This is a huge issue in the American West where forest fires emit a lot of particulates into the air every year. Now, California, Colorado, where I live, there have been recent fires that made it unsafe to be in your house miles and miles from the actual event. I would imagine this is something we're going to see more of. And then, of course, you have cities like Beijing and Mumbai and industrial cities that burn coal.    James Matthews [00:15:55] It is going to be a fact of life for for the foreseeable future. In Europe we are phasing out diesel in the UK, in Europe we are phasing out diesel engines. I'm not sure if that's happening in the US as well. And there is is a huge increase in EV charging and drivers as well. So the future is getting better and it will slowly phase down. But I think that's a fair way to go here.    Micheal Moran [00:16:19] And we can certainly thank Mr. Putin for keeping the oil pumping, but prices are very attractive for oil producers now, so the incentives don't always work in the direction that we might want for clean air. If you were to want to follow James MATTHEWS in your work and or carbon intelligence into work, what would be the best way to do that?    James Matthews [00:16:41] I would visit carbon. See, that's a web page and you can get more information on everything that we do that and find me on LinkedIn.    Micheal Moran [00:16:50] James MATTHEWS James, I want to thank you again.    James Matthews [00:16:53] Thank you. A real pleasure to speak to you.    Micheal Moran [00:16:55] And that's it for this edition of Manifest Density. Thank you, James MATTHEWS, for being our guest today. I'd like to remind everybody you can learn more about how Microshare is helping get the world safely back to work with our ever smart suite of products, including every smart air and ever smart, clean, smart space and energy management, ESG solutions as well. You can find more about these great solutions at WW share. I hope you can also subscribe to this podcast there or on iTunes, iHeartRadio, Google Play, Spotify and many other platforms. Well, that'll do it for this week on behalf of Microshare and all of its global employees, this is Michael Moran saying So long. Be well. And breathe clean air. 

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 The value of being active in AIA and your local USGBC chapter.  Effective ways to see change through advocacy and education. Solar Decathlon, pedagogical framework fused into an architectural studio. Debunking rumors surrounding LEED.  A peek into Indiana, LEED platinum projects and the challenges in building in a four season region. Issues related to renewable energy and the economic payback of that.  Why we are against the clock on embodied carbon. 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 Daniel Overbey Transcript 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 Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram   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!   Copyright © 2020 GBES

What to do when air is 'bad' James Matthews of Carbon Intelligence on getting indoor air quality right. James is an Associate Director responsible for implementing Carbon Intelligence's Health and Wellbeing service. A qualified WELL Accredited Professional (AP) and Fitwel Ambassador, able to advise how best to implement health and wellbeing strategies to workplaces. James provides consultancy services for landlords, developers and occupiers around sustainability and wellness in the built environment; from integrating sustainability and wellbeing into property management activities to full certification services. He has advised a large organisation to deliver the WELL Building Standard to a 110,000 sq. ft. office refurbishment in Canary Wharf. James has also worked with a developer to deliver the WELL Building Standard for a 95,000 sq. ft. grade A office development in Scotland. Matthews works with Carbon Intelligence's clients to identify opportunities to improve the sustainability performance of managed properties. Sponsored by Microshare. Listen to our other podcasts on the Manifest Density portal. - Subscribe to DataStream: the Microshare Newsletter - View our LinkedIn page -  Contact Us They can also access the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, PlayerFM, Listen Notes, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Tune In, Podcast Addict, Himalaya, Deezer, and on Podbean.   Podacst transcription: The transcription of this episode is auto generated by a third-party source. While Microshare takes every precaution to insure that the content is accurate, errors can occur. Microshare, Inc.  is not responsible for any errors or omissions, or for the results obtained from the use of this information. Michael Moran [00:00:00] This is manifest density. Hello, everyone, and welcome to this edition of Manifest Density. Your host, Michael Moran, here to explore the intersection of COVID 19 global business and society. Manifest density is brought to you by the Global Smart Building and ESG data company Microshare unleashed the data today. I'm speaking with James Mathews, who who is an associate director at Carbon Intelligence, one of our partners in the UK. And James is an expert in indoor air quality. He has in the past been a senior consultant as at you know, he has also been a senior consultant at Avison Young, another big UK advisory firm where he was a sustainability consultant and he has done a lot of work from his days at the University of Exeter to today dealing with clients in the UK. James, give us a little background on yourself and how you come into contact with questions like quality.    James Matthews [00:01:08] Yeah. So I'm James MATTHEWS. I working for Carbon Intelligence. I've been prior to that with a young 6 to 7 years looking at the wellbeing standards, building standards and looking at how that can be implemented into buildings. Bit kind of from a land developer point into the base building and also from fit out project level work. So it's yeah, really interesting space and I'm very kind of keen to talk about it and have a conversation with you.    Michael Moran [00:01:47] Well, we are living at a time, you know, we're not post-pandemic yet, but people are, you know, eager to look beyond and hopefully get past it. But we're living in a world with change expectations about all sorts of things. One of those things is the kind of wellness and safety of the indoor spaces that they're going to spend a good deal of their time in. So a workplace is a great example. Obviously, commercial real estate in the office sector especially are eager to see people flowing back in. So are the people who run cities who worry about tax revenue and street level commerce. So we now know that air quality is part of the demand or expectation that some people have if they're going to go back into these offices. What are you seeing in the marketplace in that regard?    James Matthews [00:02:44] So I think my observations would be prior to COVID and the kind of lockdowns that everyone saw around the world, that well being kind of narrative was all around productivity. And with regards to sort of indoor air quality, it was looking at reducing vaccines and the impacts that that can have on people's health. Volatile organic compounds should say, but also kind of carbon dioxide levels. So there's been some really interesting research that suggests that proves that if you have CO2 levels that go over 1200 parts per million can have a real cognitive impact on your ability, sort of impact on your cognitive ability. So anecdotally, that's the equivalent of maybe going out for lunch and having a couple of pints. So I've been told and it's it's that kind of slowing down of your mental ability and it's it's all around that productivity piece. If you imagine you're in the boardroom and you've got the most important people in your in your company thrashing out a big deal and they've been in there for hours. The indoor air quality is going to be poor. Can you be certain that decisions they're making at the end of the meeting are the best decisions that they are sort of they're able to do, able to perform? And it's it's kind of that that was where wellness was prior to the shift I've seen kind of in the market is. As you say, we're not post COVID, but wherever we are in this sort of return to office stage is about reassuring people that the space they now choose to operate in. Because we've all been working, majority of us been working from home for the last year and a half, two years or so. So it is possible with the space that we now choose to go back into the office is healthy. It is health. It is. It is it is a place that isn't going to do us any harm.    Michael Moran [00:05:01] So give us an idea of the cognitive effects and other effects that that getting CO2 and other things about air quality wrong will have on a space.    James Matthews [00:05:14] And yes, it's been proven that CO2 can have a real impact on your cognitive ability. And anecdotally, that's the equivalent of potentially having to pay a couple of points at lunchtime and then going back into the office. And it's that kind of slowing down and that slightly fuzzy, hazy feeling that you might have. And it's that impact on any decisions that you may then have that. Getting the indoor air quality wrong. Could lead to. Imagine if you've got a boardroom full of executives thrashing out the latest deal and they've been in there for hours. The CO2 levels could be going through the roof. Are they are you confident that they're making the correct decisions based on the indoor air quality? So it does it does have a real, tangible impact on people's performance.    Michael Moran [00:06:05] Sure. And it could be a doctor's office where they're making decisions that are relevant to your life and death. So obviously, these are not small issues. So I have to ask, as you're in the world and you're seeing the demand for this certainly is there among people who now feel compelled to go back into the office, they kind of want to know. But what what about the the kind of purchaser of this kind of a capability, air quality monitoring? Who is that is and what what are the types of people that would buy this? And what different kind of lenses do they view this through?    James Matthews [00:06:42] So, yeah, I think you can look at this from a landlord developer point of view if you're developing your next asset. Wellbeing is very much about sort of ten or 15 years ago where sustainability was. Sustainability used to be a nice to have. Now it's a must have. Without it, your asset is already going to be behind the curve against its competition. The indoor air quality and wellbeing is very much kind of on the up and is is being used as a as a USP. So I have experience with a couple of projects in Glasgow, in Scotland, and there was a project there that we were working on and they specifically targeted the well building standards because a building opposite going up in a similar sort of time that was also targeting the well building standards. So it's very much about kind of creating a premium product in the market. And of course, well, building is going to ultimately have greater value when it's sold than it's probably going to attract a higher rent. Right. Absolutely. Yet there's been there's been some interesting figures coming from from the US that would suggest assets with wellbeing certificates can command a high premium bit for rent.    Michael Moran [00:08:04] Hold that thought. We're going to take a quick break here from our sponsor.    Sponsor [00:08:10] Manifest density is brought to you by Microshare, a world leader in the technologies that are helping the world return to work safely. Our ever smart suite of smart facility solutions, including indoor air quality monitoring, predictive cleaning and room occupancy solutions, bring safety, wellness, sustainability and operational cost savings to indoor spaces. Learn more at microshare. I. O.    Michael Moran [00:08:39] Okay. I'm back with James Mathews Carbon Intelligence. James, as, as you confer with clients and advise them on things to do. What is the kind of intersection of these various building certifications? BREAM And well, lead and things like air quality, do they get credit for doing this? And is there are there certain standards that these these certification programs impose on them?    James Matthews [00:09:07] So from leading the in the UK isn't so much of a big thing. The main driver over here is Prem, which is fairly similar. There is a cross crossover between well and Brim I think for about 33% if memory serves. So if you do some credits within prem, you'll achieve them and well and vice versa. So that certainly leads to some efficiencies. It is definitely becoming more and more demand for in the market and we are talking to clients more and more regularly about implementing such certificates.    Michael Moran [00:09:46] And so if you let's say you implement indoor air quality monitoring. Is it in and of itself useful to know or. Are there a series of actionable? You know, data points, you're going to get that, you know, take you down a journey to improve the air quality.    James Matthews [00:10:11] Yeah, absolutely. So there are certain metrics because one of them said volatile organic compounds, and that's generally found from paint or off gassing, from new furniture or matchsticks, things like blues. And that's definitely something you can you'd see generally as a spike in new projects where things new, new kit and new furniture is brought into a space. You would potentially clear to the office of People for potentially up to two weeks, leave it with the air conditioning units and the fan crews running to extract as much of that gas out. And then you would then bring people back into the office. CO2 wise, you can increase the fan speeds, obviously, and circulate more and more out of the building. And that too will improve the indirect with.    Michael Moran [00:11:09] Have you come across situations where I mean, you know, pre-pandemic we would have called the sick building syndrome where air quality is just one element of something that's going on that leads you kind of to be a detective, try to figure out what's wrong with that.    James Matthews [00:11:27] In all honesty, I haven't had that experience, but I certainly have heard of it, and my experience is delivering it on projects. It's less of the sort of detective work. So I can't really talk to that.    Michael Moran [00:11:48] So I would imagine as you take someone through the process of improving the wellness of these indoor spaces. Air quality is just one thing. There's a number of different metrics that you might want to correlate, right? See, you know how densely occupied spaces is, what what the cleaning regimen is. You know, there's all sorts of interesting questions about decibels and lumens. How much of that do you get into in your day to day?    James Matthews [00:12:24] At Carbon Intelligence, we are predominantly focused on indoor air quality and although clients do want to look at implementing the standard, we will walk them through everything that's required of them and the wellbeing standards are quite flexible. So you can pick and choose metrics to to it to benefit your your particular fit out the building and that's the benefit of it. It's, it is flexible so you can choose what's kind of interesting to you and then we will walk them through all the different, the ten different requirements as a part of the standard.    Michael Moran [00:13:04] James, hold your thought. I'm going to take a quick break for our sponsor.    Sponsor [00:13:09] Microshare is proud to support Manifest Density, the podcast that examines the intersection of COVID 19 business and society. Each week we bring you conversation with global leaders and visionary enterprise nurse who are helping the world adapt and apply the tragic lessons of the pandemic so the planet can build back better. Subscribe to Manifest Density on our website microshare. I o. Or download it on Apple, iTunes, Google Play, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, and a host of other podcasting venues.    Michael Moran [00:13:48] Okay, I'm back with James MATTHEWS of Carbon Intelligence. James is a an expert in implementing indoor air quality, or at least in consulting on that. James Indoor air quality is one thing from the standpoint of the person who runs the building or owns the building, but what about the people who occupy it? How do you you must get questions about how much of this data should be shared with the the staff of a corporate space, for instance, and, you know, what kind of issues that might raise?    James Matthews [00:14:25] It's a tricky one, I think. If you are the landlord and you have a problem, you might be inclined not to share that information. If you're a tenant, then you're obviously going to be interested in your indoor air quality. I think the benefit of the market of where we are is that the democracy of data or the ability to access data is relatively cheap and easy these days so people can get hold of that information relatively quickly. If you are a tenant, for example, there are certain monitors that have really good standards that are only a couple of hundred pounds that you could implement. And having that information is key. It's the old adage of you can't you can't change what you don't monitor. And it's getting getting your hands on that data is invaluable if you want to make improvements and change into your space.    Michael Moran [00:15:28] But then it doesn't. There's still that ethical quandary. Joe, if you're a director of h.r. Or facilities management and you find you've got this data, it's not consistently good. Maybe it's good some days, not others are good in some spaces and not others. Do you democratize that data and show it to all the staff?    James Matthews [00:15:48] Yeah, that's a tricky one. I think you'd probably work with your facilities team and your landlord if you're a tenant or if you are the facilities manager working on behalf of the landlord, then you'd certainly use that data to drive improvements and look at ways to improve the space. I think obviously with people choosing to work from home and choosing to work in the office these days, you'll see a shift in occupation patterns as well. So typically you might see higher levels of been in poor indoor air quality on say, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. If people are choosing to occupy the office more in that time, you could then set about strategies to improve the indoor air quality, potentially running the course at a higher rate on those particular days, and then offset by saving a bit of energy and reducing the phone calls potentially on Wednesdays, sorry, on Mondays and Fridays, when you have low or no occupation.    Michael Moran [00:16:51] You bring up a really good point that I think when people think of indoor air quality monitors, they think of something that looks like a smoke detector that just sits there and detects the air, but it's really affected by a lot of things. One of the most important is that the quickest way to get poor air in a room is to put a lot of people in and close the door. Right. Because we do nothing but emit carbon when we breathe. And if you're not, ventilating that occupancy data is key to correlate with the air quality, right?    James Matthews [00:17:24] Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. If you if you can marry the two, you've got a really powerful solution there.    Michael Moran [00:17:31] Well, we've already taken two breaks for the sponsor, so I won't tell our married solution here, but I think that's the idea. And it's not just occupancy, but there's other things that that affect to temperature, humidity. How often do you run into concern? I mean, you're working primarily in the UK, so it may be it may not be as big an issue as it would be in places like Beijing or Mumbai. How often do you run into concern about particulate matter? You know, the kind of the the outdoor pollution penetrating the indoor space.    James Matthews [00:18:06] I think there's a lot of concern, I think, in the U.K., this for especially in London, where you have quite a high traffic density. There's been recent kind of unfortunate examples of where there was a child that died and it was linked back to poor air quality because the school was on a on a highway, on a big, busy street. And it was it was proven that the not the sort of poor air quality of cars and trucks and everything that was was emitting was was a was the root cause of, unfortunately, this child's death, which is awful. But it is so it is a concern. And I think. Probably pre-pandemic when people were traveling more. There was more concern, I think. I would imagine this is my educated guess is that there's probably slightly less of an issue at the moment with people traveling less. But it's certainly it is an issue. And you do see, especially in London in the summer, you do see a sort of foggy haze sometimes when it's snowing and that there's no winds or anything and there is a real kind of issue. So I suppose it's more anecdotal than anything else, but there is there is certainly concern that I've noticed speaking to colleagues and clients as well.    Michael Moran [00:19:39] And, you know, here in the United States, this is a I almost said burning issue. That would be a little bit of color. This is a huge issue in the American West, where forest fires emit a lot of particulates into the air every year. Now, California, Colorado, where I live, there have been recent fires that made it unsafe to be in your house, you know, miles and miles from the actual event, just breathing the air. So I would imagine this is something we're going to see more of. And then, of course, you have cities like Beijing and Mumbai and industrial cities that burn coal. So it's not something going away as quickly as we might want. Right.    James Matthews [00:20:23] Yeah, absolutely it is. It is going to be a fact of life for for the foreseeable future. I think I was saying in Europe we are phasing out diesel in the UK and Europe. We are phasing out diesel engines. I'm not sure if that's happening in the US as well. And there is a huge, pretty big increase in EV charging and drivers as well. So the future is getting better and it will slowly phase down, but I think that's a fair way to go.    Michael Moran [00:20:56] And we can certainly thank Mr. Putin for keeping the oil pumping, but prices are very attractive for oil producers now, so the incentives don't always work in the direction that we might want for clean air. James, I wanted to ask, this has been fascinating. If you were to want to follow James MATTHEWS in your work and or carbon intelligence's work, what would be the best way to do that?    James Matthews [00:21:24] I would visit carbon.ci That's a web page and you can get more information on everything that we do there. And finally on LinkedIn, James MATTHEWS.    Michael Moran [00:21:37] James, I want to thank you again for being part of this manifest into the episode, and I wish you well in your work and be safe.    James Matthews [00:21:46] Thank you. Real pleasure to speak to you.    Michael Moran [00:21:52] And that's it for this edition of Manifest Density. Thank you, James Mathews for being our guest today. I'd like to remind everybody you can learn more about how Microshare is helping get the world safely back to work with our ever smart suite of products, including ever smart air and ever Smart, Clean, Ever Smart Space and energy management, ESG solutions as well. You can find more about these great solutions at WW w dot microshare i o. You can also subscribe to this podcast there or on iTunes, iHeartRadio, Google Play, Spotify, and many other platforms. Well, that'll do it for this week. On behalf of Microshare and all of its global employees, this is Michael Moran saying So long. Be well. And breathe clean air.   

We can do nearly anything virtually now—go to the doctor, shop at the grocery store, catch up with friends over a glass of wine, and even take a cooking class in a foreign country. But, it's the way places make us feel that attract us to physical spaces—their power to improve our mental health, encourage human connection, refresh our wellness, expand our experiences, and enrich our life. People were not designed for a life behind the screen, yet as more and more of our life moves to virtual or hybrid settings, the challenge remains for physical places to care for the core things that make us human—face to face interactions, movement, access to nature, and more.     In the same ways that LEED measures the impact of the physical building on the surrounding environment, WELL provides a scientifically-based measurement to evaluate the impact of a building on the people and culture inside. On this week's episode of TheSquare, Caroline Compton, Interior Design Project Manager and Senior Associate at Corgan, who is also a Fitwel Ambassador and WELL Accredited Professional shares how WELL principles may help those at the helm of recruiting and retaining talent, promoting a sense of belonging, and ultimately, building corporate culture to tap into the power and possibilities of human-centric design.   #WELLDesign #WELLBuildingStandard #WELL   VISIT: https://www.Corgan.com/   Also connect with us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/CorganInc/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CorganInc/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CorganInc LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/corgan   Video Produced by: Corgan Have Questions? We'd love to hear from you.  Email: communications@corgan.com

In the second part of Leading Voices in Real Estate's discussion surrounding sustainability in the built environment, Matt is joined by Elena Alschuler, Head of Americas Sustainability for LaSalle Investment Management, and Marta Schantz, head of ULI's Greenprint Center for Building Performance. While much of the global conversation surrounding carbon emissions centers on transportation issues the built environment is responsible for about 40% of global emissions, while transportation is just 20%. Directly after recording this episode, the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a new report going further than any previous statement indicating that climate change is “a code red for humanity”. While some of these changes are irreversible, this demonstrates the growing importance of climate mitigation and adaptation globally, particularly in the real estate industry. Both Elena and Marta share their perspectives from their respective roles, Elena being with a leading real estate investor, and Marta leading a global alliance of real estate owners, investors, and strategic partners from the Urban Land Institute. They discuss strategies for organizations to reduce their carbon footprint as well as advice for current and future leaders of the real estate industry to tackle this issue head-on.About Elena:Elena is a central leader for LaSalle's North America sustainability initiatives. She works closely with the firm's Portfolio Management team on sustainability strategies, as well as its Asset Management group to develop programs for property-level initiatives, including certifications, efficiency projects, energy procurement, green leases, and health & wellness projects.Elena joins LaSalle from View Inc., where she led real estate activities including the firm's strategy and execution to scale adoption of smart glass in the office and multifamily sectors across the US and Canada. Prior to View Inc., Elena worked at the US Department of Energy in Washington, DC as a Building Technologies Project Manager, as well as the MIT Department of Urban Studies & Planning in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and HR&A Advisors in New York.She has a Bachelor's degree from Bard College, and a Masters in City Planning from MITAbout Marta:Marta Schantz is the senior vice president for the Greenprint Center for Building Performance at the Urban Land Institute, a research center and worldwide alliance of real estate leaders committed to improving the environmental performance of the industry – reducing carbon emissions, and increasing building value. Recent focus areas range from City/Real Estate Partnerships for Climate Policy, to Embodied Carbon in Real Estate, to Net Zero Buildings. Before her time at ULI, Marta worked at Waypoint Energy, Booz Allen Hamilton, and the US Department of Energy. Marta is a LEED Green Associate and a Fitwel Ambassador. She holds a BS in biological engineering with a minor in science technology and society from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.ResourcesLaSalle Investment Management Sustainability WebsiteULI's Greenprint Center for Building Performance WebsiteLaSalle Report: ESG Themes Take Center Stage (May 2021)ULI Greenprint's Blueprint for Green Real Estate Report (2020)United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment ReportA Code Red for Humanity: Latest U.N. Report Reveals Many Climate Changes Irreversible (Urban Land Magazine Article | August 2021)Benchmark Your Building Using ENERGY STAR® Portfolio Manager®Greentech Media's Energy Gang PodcastGRESB Real Estate Reference Guide (2021)Design the Future Podcast

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   Theresa Lehman Transcript   Theresa Lehman's Show Resource and Information   Becoming Greenthink LinkedIn Twitter       Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram   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!   Copyright © 2021 GBES

On this episode, Amira Ayoub, an architect out of Cairo, Egypt talks about her passion to change the world and create a resilient future for her kids and future generations. She is an architect that specializes in biophilic and regenerative design. Amira is USGBC® LEED & WELL Faculty™,  a Living Future and Fitwel Ambassador, and has designed the first Fitwel and Living Building Challenge projects in North Africa and the Middle East.She is the founder of the Living Future Cairo Collaborative and  was also awarded as a Living Future Hero for 2019. In 2019 she was nominated by the UNFCCC with other 100 visionary thinkers and interdisciplinary thought leaders from around the world to join the Resilience Frontier Initiative and co-create visions of desirable climate-resilience futures beyond 2030.

Be sure to check out the Green Building Matters Community where you can have unlimited exam prep for any of the professional credential exams. You're tackling next as WELL as putting your continuing education on autopilot, saving time with GBES reporting your hours on your behalf. Check it out https://www.gbes.com/join.  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   LEED Professional Count Speciality Credential Growth Big news on LEED and WELL exams WELL and healthy buildings Accredited Professional Which version of WELL is on the exam? Credential count updates WELLness real estate programs How to become a Fitwel Ambassador. Projects LEED square footage certified statistics 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   GBMS July 2020 PSA Transcript   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    Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram   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!   Copyright © 2020 GBES

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    Denise's career   All about zero waste   Denise's routine/rituals   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   “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.”   “Whatever situation I am in, I see it as a learning experience.”   “In order to build in Brazil they have to build a LEED project.”   “I am most interested in is how can we eliminate the idea of waste?”   Key Resources   Miracle Morning- Hal Elrod   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!   LinkedIn   Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram   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!   Copyright © 2019 GBES

In this episode, we talk to the ‘travelling ergonomist' Kirsty Angerer about the understated value of ergonomics in the workplace. Included are some practical tips you can use to improve your well-being at work today. Kirsty is a Certified Professional Ergonomist, Frequent Flyer, Workplace Wellness Advocate, Fitwel Ambassador and Self Confessed Ergonomics Nerd.She has worked in the areas of ergonomic program development and training for managers and employees for quite some time now, with a global client base. Travelling the world regularly, she strives to make it a more healthy and comfortable place

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   To hear more about Nathan's journey, download and listen to the episode!   Learn more about Nathan Gauthier: LinkedIn   Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES: Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram   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!   Copyright © 2018 GBES

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!   Learn more about Jenn Mahon:      LinkedIn   Connect with Charlie Cichetti and GBES: Charlie on LinkedIn Green Building Educational Services GBES on Twitter Connect on LinkedIn Like on Facebook Google+ GBES Pinterest Pins GBES on Instagram   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!   Copyright © 2018 GBES