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CHRIS CARLSON
Chris Carlson is the Regional Manager of Whiting-Turner’s Raleigh, North Carolina office with 26 years of experience in the construction industry. Chris is a graduate of the University of Florida in Gainesville with a Bachelor of Science in construction management. During his career, Chris has managed many different construction market types; however, his primary focus has been in the arena of Higher Education/ University and Research Facilities. He has been involved with over 380 million dollars of University and research projects in the Southeast over the past 7 years. He became one of the first individuals within Whiting-Turner to acquire LEED Accreditation and was instrumental in the company’s corporate membership in the United States Green Building Council. As an active member of the USGBC, Chris has been elected to the LEED AGL committee to compile a laboratory specific LEED guideline. He has been involved in numerous sustainable building projects company wide like the Yerkes National Research Center and the Whitehead Biomedical Research Building both at Emory University and the Paul D. Coverdell Center for Biomedical & Health Sciences at the University of Georgia.
GEORGE FELICI
George Felici has over 25 years of experience in the construction industry and has a BS in Civil Engineering from Villanova University and a Masters in International Business from St. Joseph’s University. George has spent most of his career as a Project Manager for many types of projects both large and small, and he has worked for mid-size to large Construction Management firms including Skanksa USA. George currently serves as a Senior Project Manager/Business Development Coordinator for a mid-sized CM firm in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania and is responsible for Business Development, Estimating, Preconstruction Services, and Project Management.
George developed awareness of Sustainability and Green Building while working on a large conversion of an old silk mill into 115 apartments. This project presented several opportunities for implementation of Green Building concepts. George holds a Green Advantage Commercial Certificate and is a Certified Green Advantage Instructor. George also serves on the Whitpain Township Planning Commission where he is currently working on a Climate Action Plan with Township officials.
TOM FISHER
Tom Fisher, AIA, LEED AP, GA-C, is a project manager with Sustainable Design Consulting's DC metro region office (see www.sustaindesign.net).
As such, he manages and directs the LEED and green building processes for numerous office building, school, and institutional projects.
Tom has practiced architecture for over 25 years. With an MA in Architecture and a BA in Human Ecology, he has also been a LEED(tm) Accredited Professional (AP) since 2002 and has participated in the design, LEED, and green building processes of numerous projects for the past 12 years.
Tom also has previous experience in construction as a form, framing and finish carpenter.
ROB FLEMING
Rob Fleming received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Temple University and went on to practice architecture for the next 7 years, earning his professional registration in 1992.
In1996 Rob received his Master’s of Architecture degree from Virginia Tech: Washington Alexandria Architecture Consortium. His thesis project, The Seeds of Sustainability set the stage for a lifelong pursuit dedicated to better understanding, promoting and visualizing a sustainable future.
Rob began teaching full time at Philadelphia University in 1996 and was charged with the design, development and teaching of courses focused on sustainable design. His sustainable design studio, taught since 1997, explores the relationship between environmental efficiency, community vitality and green aesthetics. In 2000, Rob co-founded the Engineering and Design Institute @ Philadelphia University, an interdisciplinary research center focusing on green materials, sustainable design and community outreach. Funded by a grant from the Ben Franklin Technology Development Authority of Pennsylvania, the center develops green materials, serves as a design resource for firms seeking to design and build LEED rated buildings and provides community outreach initiatives such as the Sustainable Design Resource Library.
In his professional capacity, Rob Fleming, Sustainable Designer, has served as a team leader or participant on over 12 integrated design charettes. Rob has worked as a consultant on several LEED rated projects including the Aerzen USA headquarters project, where he served as the Green Advocate.
Professor Fleming is committed to the issue of sustainability as evidenced by service to a number of organizations including ACSA, AIA C.O.T.E., ADSPSR and is a founding board member of the Delaware Valley Green Building Council. Professor Fleming has worked with DVGBC to design and offer the first training program in the country for Green Advantage Certification – a program that teaches construction professionals about sustainable design, construction and the LEED rating system. In 2006, Professor Fleming was appointed to the Montgomery County Climate Change Task Force.
MICHAEL A. KAWECKI
With nine years of experience in design and construction, Michael Kawecki has represented various roles through the building industry, including architect, owner, contractor, and consultant. He received a Master of Architecture from Texas Tech University, and is an Associate Member of the AIA. He is also a LEED Accredited Professional, Green Advantage Faculty and the 2007 Chair of the North Texas Chapter of the US Green Building Council.
Previously as a Project Manager for the City of Dallas , Michael had the opportunity to pursue sustainable building projects for the City. He wrote the selection requirements for LEED consultants and Design/Builders for the Division, and managed the Division's first LEED Major Renovation project.
This project was the renovation of an 80,000 s.f. facility into a vehicular maintenance center for the City, and was the first LEED certified project in the City of Dallas, achieving Gold status. With the success of the Hensley Field Operations Center, he also pursued several other LEED projects from a Contractor's perspective with the design/build contractor Harrison, Walker & Harper. He is currently with O'Brien & Associates, focusing on sustainable
municipal/government design and retail/mixed-use.
SCOTT KELLY
Scott Kelly is a principal at Re:Vision Architecture, an architecture and planning firm committed to re-visioning and restoring the balance between natural and built environments. Beginning his career with historic preservation and adaptive re-use projects, Scott became interested in the building elements and methods that cause buildings to endure. Scott also studied how buildings were designed to work with nature prior to mechanical heating and cooling. Today, Scott is known nationally in the vanguard of sustainable design and was the twenty-third U.S. Green Building Council L.E.E.D. certified professional in the nation. In addition to practicing green architecture, Scott also consults to design firms, developers, contractors, building owners and manufacturers who are interested in sustainable design and L.E.E.D. certification. He has personally worked on over 60 LEED projects.
Advocacy is an important part of Scott’s work and he serves as: Co-chair of the Philadelphia AIA Committee on the Environment; Founding Board Member of the Delaware Valley Green Building Council (DVGBC); Chair of the DVGBC Green Schools Committee; Energy Ambassador to local schools through the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association; and as the teacher of courses on Advanced Sustainable Design.
THERESA LEHMAN
Theresa Lehman,
LEED-AP, QCxP, AVS, AC, GA-C, has used her education and experience in various positions since joining Boldt in 1999 as a controls engineer. She has successfully held positions such as controls engineer, scheduler, field engineer, assistant project manager, value specialist, and manager of sustainable services. She is an honor graduate of Milwaukee School of Engineering with a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management. She has experience in a wide range of project types in the corporate office, industrial, healthcare, education and commercial arenas, specializing in sustainable and LEED® projects.
Theresa has been working in sustainable design and construction since 1998. She has built green libraries, has taught sustainable courses, has authored sustainable papers and been a guest speaker regarding sustainability for many professional organizations such as IFMA, AIA, AGC, etc., Wisconsin Air National Guard, Wisconsin Army National Guard, universities and K-12 schools.
Theresa is a member of the USGBC’s LEED® Core Curriculum Committee and LEED® Construction Curriculum Committee and was identified by the USGBC as a Subject Matter Expert, thereby invited to be on the USGBC’s LEED®-EB Exam Writing Panel. She is also the Fox Valley Chairperson for the Education & Advocacy Committee for the Wisconsin Green Building Alliance and is the founder of “Fox Valley Green Drinks”, a local chapter to the international organization.
Theresa continues to serve on The Boldt Company’s “Green Team”, authors the “Going Green” articles for The Boldt Communicator, a quarterly publication, has planned numerous Earth Day events, and was on the design team for Boldt’s sustainable construction job trailer that is currently being utilized on one of the many Boldt LEED® jobsites.
WILLIAM MARSTON
William J. Marston, AIA and LEED™ AP is an experienced practitioner in the field of architecture and facilities planning for the spectrum of buildings, with special focus on educational and healthcare institutions. He achieved accreditation by the US Green Building Council in 2000.
Mr. Marston entered architectural practice in 1971 becoming a licensed architect in New York State in 1974. Embracing human-scaled, commercially and environmentally healthy downtowns as opposed to car-driven, wasteful sprawl he contributed substantially to one of the first pedestrian downtowns by contributing his professional skills to instigate the founding of the State Street Mall in Ithaca, New York. By the mid-1970s during the early years of his healthcare buildings focus, he had become a specialist in sound planning principles as demonstrated by his dilemma-breaking construction solution to the “Core Building” at Benjamin Franklin’s historic Pennsylvania Hospital, its last major addition. He moved to Philadelphia in 1978.
Throughout his personal and professional life Mr. Marston has encouraged respect for the environment—participating in the city-wide composting trial under a state grant, co-founding the first state-wide Committee for the Environment of the American Institute of Architects, representing the responsible community of architects in 1997 before the Governor’s “21st Century Environment Commission”, and organizing public voices which helped the state legislature’s passing of new planning and sprawl regulations in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He co-chaired the AIA Philadelphia Academy of Architecture for Healthcare committee for 4 years and served as the architectural community’s voice on the state’s Regulatory Review Commission in updating hospital & healthcare facility regulations. He is a faculty member of the 2005 Green Advantage™ Training program, an educational partner of the USGBC. Bill has also advised the School District of Philadelphia, two senatorial candidates and many politicians on the economic advantages of building green.
MUSCOE MARTIN
Muscoe Martin, AIA, LEED is the founding Principal of M2 architecture. His 20-year architectural career reflects his passion and commitment to ecological design. Muscoe has managed the design of a number of award-winning "green" projects including the Cusano Environmental Education Center and Natural Lands Trust Headquarters. He is currently working on an environmental education center designed to rely on zero fossil-fuel use; and a residence that will recycle rain and grey-water and provide all its power via on-site renewable energy. Muscoe is a member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Green Building Council and the LEED Steering Committee. He is on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Design where he teaches a course on Ecological Design. Muscoe lectures frequently around the country on the subject of sustainable design.
BRUCE OFFNER
Mr. Offner has over thirty years of construction industry experience. Bruce began his career in 1972 as a carpenter apprentice in the residential marketplace and moved into commercial construction in 1976. Bruce spent over twenty years as a Field Superintendent for several major Philadelphia area ENR Top 100 Construction Management firms with experiences in Historical Restorations, Bio-Pharma, Hospital and Educational projects in both urban and rural areas. For the past ten years, he has served a ENR highly ranked Construction Management firm at their Philadelphia Area offices in Spring House, Pennsylvania, managing their pre-construction services, project planning and logistics, cost development and field operations.
In 2003, Bruce attended his first LEED workshop and immediately recognized the need to bring more contractor input into the Green Building process. In 2004, he had an opportunity to present this opinion in a LEED panel discussion at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia, on the cost of building green and has continued his quest to bring an "enviro-mentality" to our contractors and tradespersons. He also volunteered his time with the Green Advantage Focus Group in the development of the current GA curriculum.
He is currently a member of the Delaware Valley Green Building Council and holds a Green Advantage Commercial certificate.
ROBERT POLITZER
Robert Politzer is the President and founder of GreenStreet Construction. Under Robert’s leadership, GreenStreet has grown from a small environmental testing and abatement company to a leading green building firm, operating primarily in the New York tri-state region. Robert is a LEED® Accredited Professional and was the Chair of the Sustainable Business Task Force of the New York State Environmental Business Association. He is a former New York City public high school teacher and Adjunct Professor at New York University and the New York City Technical College. Robert holds a B.S. in Biology from Indiana University, an M.A. in Environmental Policy from the University of Michigan, and an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Manhattan College. Robert is also a Tai Chi Teacher at the West Side YMCA.
VICKI SAVILLE
Virginia born, Vicki Saville has a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree and a Master of Architecture degree from Virginia Tech. Since 1989 she has served as Facilities Architect/Landscape Architect for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, the 22nd largest school system in the nation. She is LEED Accredited, and founding board member and treasurer of the USGBC Charlotte Region Chapter. She is a member of the American Institute of Architects and the American Society of Landscape Architects. She is CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) and Advanced CPTED certified.
Vicki has recently been a presenter of Education based programs to regional conferences of the Council for Education Facilities Planners International and the Charlotte Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
During her tenure at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Vicki has been integrally involved in the design and construction of over 40 new schools and numerous additions and campus renovations worth over $1.3 billion.
Equally important to her passion for the land and for architecture, Vicki shares grounds keeping responsibilities with her husband for four and a half wooded acres at their Charlotte home.
RIVES TAYLOR
Rives Taylor is a Texas licensed, practicing architect and educator. He leads the firmwide sustainable project delivery area for the design firm of Gensler. He also is engaged in research with the Houston Advanced Research Center, focusing on sustainable building technologies for the hot and humid climate of the Gulf Coast. For his efforts in advancing sustainable design in the Houston region he was recognized in the fall of 2005 with the President’s Citation of the Houston Citizen’s Environmental Coalition.
Rives is the Kirksey Fellow for Sustainable Design at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture of the University of Houston. Both here and at the Rice University School of Architecture, where he is a lecturer, he teaches numerous sustainable design methodology seminars as well as advising studio on this approach. As adjunct professor at the University of Houston he teaches general quantitative structures and materials/methods core classes, architectural history and theory lectures and seminars, and architectural research methods.
He is on the board of the Rice Design Alliance, sits on its programs, editorial and fund raising committees, and is active in the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects. He is also a member of the national USGBC and is a member of its program committee. He is a board member, as well as director of communications, in the Houston USGBC chapter. He is LEEDTM 2.0 accredited. He is a certified Green Advantage trainer, to assist the building contractor community in its sustainable efforts.
RICHARD WARHALL
Rick Warhall is a Vice President of The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company in New Haven, Connecticut. Rick has 24 years of experience in managing large commercial construction projects for Whiting-Turner. His most recent focus has been on healthcare & sustainable construction. Rick is a LEED Accredited Professional and serves as Whiting-Turner’s coordinator for sustainable construction and the coordinator for the company’s twenty-one other LEED Accredited Professionals. Some of Rick’s sustainable/ LEED projects include: the School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture for PENN State University (LEED Gold), The Sterling Hall of Medicine C3 Renovation (LEED Gold) and the Engineering Research Building (LEED Silver) for Yale University, and the Clinical Research Building for Pfizer (LEED Silver). Rick is using both his sustainable and healthcare experience during with upcoming his involvement of the addition for the Lehigh Valley Hospital Cedar Crest Campus.
JOSEPH A. WEIDLE
Mr. Weidle began his career in Construction as a Laborer in 1972 working primarily as a Mason’s tender. From 1976 until 1980 he successfully completed an apprenticeship with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America Local # 129. He was promoted to foreman shortly after completion of his apprenticeship and in 1981 was elevated to the position of General Superintendent, a position he held until 1989, at which time he became a Project Manager.
In1998 when, while working for the Dick Corporation of Pittsburgh, PA, Mr. Weidle was promoted to Project Director with ultimate responsibility for several major projects simultaneously.
At the present time Mr. Weidle is in the position of Project Executive as part of The Bedwell Company and has the responsibility of the construction of the Chester County Justice Center a 380,000 Square Foot County Courthouse and administrative center for Chester County, PA. Mr. Weidle has had major responsibility in several nationally prominent projects including Ronald Reagan National Airport, The West Virginia University Life Sciences Project, NFL Films Studio Complex and The Hyatt Hotel and Convention Center in Pittsburgh International Airport.
While working his way through the construction ranks, Mr. Weidle attended Temple University’s Evening School as part of the industry advancement fund administrated by the GBCA, to pursue a degree in Civil and Construction Engineering Technology.
Mr. Weidle’s affiliation with sustainable design and construction started in 1998 while employed by the Dick Corporation. Dick Corporation constructed the nation’s first LEED Silver rated building, the PNC Operations Center in downtown Pittsburgh. As a result of this affiliation, Mr. Weidle became an early participant in the methods and practices employed by the sustainable design and construction community.
In November of 2001, Mr. Weidle became one of the founding members of the Delaware Valley Green Building Council, a chapter of the USGBC. He has been part of many sustainable initiatives in the Delaware Valley and takes particular pride in the accomplishments of our region. In November 2004 Mr. Weidle and Mr. Rob Fleming, a Professor at Philadelphia University’s Architectural Department, in a partnership with Green Advantage, created and co-authored the Green Advantage curriculum and certification training program for construction practitioners. This program has been accepted as the national standard for the certification of construction personnel actively engaged in sustainable design and construction.
Mr. Weidle often speaks to public groups around the country promoting the principles of Green Building. He presently serves as Vice President of the Board of Directors of the DVGBC. |
