USGBC’s Director of LEED - Wes Sullens

Wes Sullens, LEED Fellow has direct experience in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. He specializes in green building projects, policy, materials, and codes & standards development.   He’s been a LEED AP since 2002 and has worked directly on over 100 green projects seeking LEED and other environmental labels, including the coordination of the first LEED Version 4 Platinum EB project in the world (StopWaste Headquarters, 2014). Show Highlights Wes talks about technical committees, guidelines,  and tracking materials. All things LEED, upcoming version, and the big plans for the future. Criticism about what LEED needs to do in the future.  Solid climate focused solution. Committees, volunteering, and technical advisory groups for LEED. Carbon storing materials and the science of how you sequester carbon in products and materials. Requirements about reducing embodied carbon. The ripple effect for creating buildings to be part of the solution for better environments and better communities. Avoid being blindsided by climate change. The importance of circularity and the challenges of executing a circular economy. Doubling down all kinds of products with packaging. Wes shares what it was like to be at the table early in the movement and how he is continuing to help scale up the green (building) code to make it mandatory in more places.    “Don't worry so much about where you get on this bus on this journey towards sustainability, towards regenerative environmental issues. Just get on. Pick your place, see that you're good at something, and enter.” -Wes Sullens     Wes Sullens’ Show Resource and Information The Queen of Greenwich Village 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 © 2022 GBES