GBCI Announces LEED Fellow Class of 2011

Washington, D.C. (September 6, 2011) – The Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI) today revealed the inaugural class of LEED Fellows. The LEED Fellow Program is GBCI’s new and most prestigious professional designation. The LEED Fellow designation recognizes exceptional contributions to green building and significant professional achievement within the rapidly growing community of LEED Professionals. 

Thirty-four of the world’s most distinguished green building professionals were selected to be LEED Fellows through a peer nomination and portfolio review process. Among other requirements, LEED Fellows must have at least 10 years of green building experience and hold a LEED AP with specialty credential. 

“We are thrilled to bestow the LEED Fellow designation upon these highly accomplished individuals,” said Peter Templeton, president, GBCI. “The Fellows are some of the leading innovators and vanguards of the green building movement, and their bodies of work strongly underscore their commitment to LEED and a sustainable built environment.”

The 2011 LEED Fellows are: 

Alan Scott, Green Building Services 

Alicia Ravetto, Alicia Ravetto Architect

Anthony Bernheim, AECOM 

Chris Schaffner, The Green Engineer, LLP 

Christopher J. Webb, Chris Webb & Associates, Inc. 

Dagmar B. Epsten, The Epsten Group, Inc. 

Dan Nall, WSP Flack + Kurtz 

Dan Young Dixon, Opus AE Group, Inc. 

Gail Vittori, Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems 

Helen J. Kessler, HJKessler Associates 

Jerry Yudelson, Yudelson Associates 

Jim Ogden, 3QC Inc. 

Jim Weiner, Collaborative Project Consulting 

John Boecker, 7group 

Kath Williams, Kath Williams + Associates 

Kathleen Smith, Davis Langdon

Ken Wilson, Envision 

Kim Shinn, TLC Engineering for Architecture 

Kris Callori, Environmental Dynamics, Inc. 

Lidia Berger, HDR Architecture, Inc. 

Lois Vitt Sale, Wight & Co. 

Malcolm Lewis, CTG Energetics, Inc. 

Marcus B. Sheffer, 7group 

Mario Seneviratne, Green Technologies 

Michaella Wittmann, HDR Architecture, Inc. 

Michelle Halle Stern, Perkins+Will 

Nellie Reid, Gensler 

Paul Marmion, Stantec 

Prasad Vaidya, The Weidt Group 

Rick Carter, LHB, Inc. 

Rob Bolin, Syska Hennessy Group 

Sandra Leibowitz, Sustainable Design Consulting, LLC 

Stephen Carpenter, Enermodal Engineering 

Tom Liebel, Marks, Thomas Architects

The LEED Fellows will be recognized in Toronto at the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo from October 4-7, 2011. The nomination period for the 2012 LEED Fellow class will open January 4, 2012. For more information on the LEED Fellow program, please visit www.gbci.org/fellow.

 

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The Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI) provides third-party confirmation that specific criteria related to LEED building certification and LEED professional credentialing have been met. Early in 2009, GBCI assumed responsibility for administering the LEED building certification program for the more than 36,000 commercial projects seeking third-party verification of compliance with the industry’s leading green building rating system. For more information, please visit www.gbci.org.