The Green Building Matters Podcast with Charlie Cichetti

John Dalzell is a Senior Architect for Sustainable Development at the Boston Redevelopment Authority. Leading the City's E+ Green Building and E+ Green Communities Programs which are joint BRA and Department of Neighborhood Development initiatives. John also has served on: the Board of Directors, US Green Building Council, Chair USGBC Location and Planning Technical Advisory Group, Member of the LEED for Neighborhood Development Core Committee, and is a Founding Board Member of the USGBC Massachusetts Chapter. In 2013, Dalzell was awarded LEED Fellow by the US Green Building Council.     Show Highlights   Revitalizing Boston’s commercial districts was a fundamental sustainability strategy that created the largest urban main street program in the country.  LEED For Neighborhood Development, and other fantastic programs and competitions that will inspire.  Addressing the impacts of sea level rise and climate change to ensure citizens thrive long into the future.  Conversations on climate risk models and the resiliency models.  John reinforces why green building and sustainability is really a group effort and journey. Pioneer design engineering strategies, products and practices that are achieving net zero carbon in public and private development.  The importance of being stewards of a community to connect the national movement with a local city.      “Ultimately it  comes down to continuing to look at how we function best as a community. In those regards, whether you're volunteering, or serving at the professional level in your town or region, it’s all an expression of caring. A tangible expression of - we do better when we work together. I think that's an important message this time of year, and especially for these last few years.”  -John Dalzell      John Dalzell ’s 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 © 2020 GBES

With more than 14 years of experience, Miranda’s portfolio ranges from research of corporate water footprinting and review of financing options for energy efficient homes to sustainable master plans. She has worked for internationally recognized organizations, such as the US Green Building Council and KfW, and within city governments in Germany and the UAE. In 2020, she was recognized for her ongoing sustainability work with the distinction of LEED Fellow from GBCI/USGBC. Her passion for the environment drives her to improve sustainability practices through local engagement and on the global scale. While at USGBC, she launched the LEED Pilot Credit Library and was the technical manager for LEED for Retail and LEED for Healthcare. Miranda’s clients have implemented and achieved a variety of green building certifications including BOMA BESt recertifications and Estidama Pearl Ratings. Additionally, Miranda is a distance running coach and cycling instructor, who believes that caring for oneself resonates in caring for the planet.    Show Highlights  The education traveling has on your career to blend experience that will help you understand different approaches in sustainability tactics Miranda’s experience in Germany during an immigration crisis and how they maintained their sustainability agenda to integrate people and values into their culture.  How to keep pushing the sustainability line forward when you are being tested.  Forming “how” and not “can” questions LEED Fellowship honors the people who made sure Miranda was moving the buck forward The diverse portfolio of HKS with firm-wide resources  Working within the confines of federal funding and what that looks like for sustainability elements.  2020 green building highlights and how to navigate the healthy building movement There will be a new normal in the industry and it doesn't have to cost us a lot   “Opening up and helping facilitate a lot of the dialogues that we're having right now, in some part, thanks to 2020. The conversations that have to come up, dismantling systemic racism, looking at community engagement, looking at how our building designs are much more holistic than just quote unquote sustainability in the lens of the built environment are so important right now.” -Miranda Gardniner     Miranda Gardiner’s 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 © 2020 GBES

Tate Walker is the Director of Sustainability at OPN Architects and leads projects and initiatives across the firm’s four offices. His experience is rooted in the architectural design process but also includes program and project management as well as the development of technical guidelines for high performing buildings. He has served on the AIA’s Committee on the Environment and USGBC’s Energy & Atmosphere Technical Advisory Group. Tate firmly believes that the connection between architecture and energy provides leadership opportunities for architects as creative problem solvers. This is especially true for those willing to stretch their practice beyond its traditional boundaries. Show Highlights  The blue ocean of green building The COTE Toolkit operational guide to achieve the COTE top 10 A framework for design excellence beyond sustainability for the entire Institute.  Fundamental measures about design and equitable communities, energy, water, wellbeing Projects that weave concepts to tailor unique circumstances through a lens of what health hazards people are currently facing AIA, commitment 2030 challenge and other mechanisms, and tools to achieve green building goals Tate shares the essential questions he asks when walking a client through options  How to embrace strong divergent thinking to cast a wide net to determine what's out there, how things fit together, and that is what is missing.  “We're tripping over ourselves, no one person can span the breadth of all these subject areas for sustainability.  We need to pick a subject and go deep on that. Figure out what you're passionate about. If it's energy, if it's materials, if it's resilience, these are all super important and the crossover is huge. I've been deep into energy for my entire career and we still are not building net zero buildings.” -Tate Walker     Tate Walker’s 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 © 2020 GBES

Join a lively town hall discussion as two LEED Fellows, and a nationally leading builder discuss the unbelievable year 2020 has been and forecast the year in 2021. The wide-ranging conversation will cover a variety of pressing issues impacting the green building industry, including the US Presidential election, the US leaving the Paris Agreement, COVID building re-entry and the new LEED COVID response credits, diversity and inclusion, B Corporations, the buzzword of the year “carbon,” the climate crisis, California net-zero legislation leading the way for the country, and recaps of the nationally leading green building conferences — the  and Greenbuild.   Moderator: Charlie Cichetti, LEED Fellow CEO & Co-Founder Sustainable Investment Group Panelists: Drew Shula, LEED Fellow Founder & CEO Verdical Group Michael Strong Senior Project Manager Pankow

Susan Inglis is the executive director and a founding member of the Sustainable Furnishings Council (SFC), an independent coalition incorporated in March 2007 with the aim of promoting sustainable practices within the industry.  Under her direction, SFC has led the green revolution by working with industry leaders to establish standards and practices to measure furniture sustainability.  The SFC 275 members in its short lifetime. Inglis is also founder and owner of From The Mountain (FTM), a company that develops, sources, and manages the production of casegoods, home accents, and textiles handmade in Bolivia, Columbia, Peru, Serbia, Madagascar, Uganda and other international locales. FTM is known for products which are handmade, unique, storied, connected to the greater world, and affiliated with green industries. She has earned international recognition for her achievements meeting the specific needs of both for-profit marketers and not-for-profit foundations, often linking indigenous artisan groups to new markets and supporting international microenterprise development organizations. Inglis has served as business development consultant and trainer for publicly-funded development organizations around the world. As producer and sourcing agent/broker, she has developed or sourced home, gift, fashion, and natural products for some of America’s most innovative companies, including ABC Carpet & Home, Aveda, Egg by Susan Lazar, Grant Dawson Collection, National Geographic Catalog, Red Egg, Sundance Catalog, Tucker Robbins, Vietri, and more. Inglis holds a degree in anthropology from the UNC at Chapel Hill. Asked what is the most important thing a person can do to encourage a more sustainable approach to business, Inglis gives a short answer: “Buy carefully.” Specialties: sourcing handmades & sustainable manufacture   Show Highlights  Why the largest furniture market in the world is in North Carolina Sustainable Furnishings Council (SFC) provides resources, guidance, and education for the industry and conconsumer.  Their website is a valuable resource with the finder and scorecard features WithIt is the best networking organization in the industry  SFC’s data initiative encourages transparency in supply chains and stimulates innovation towards the elimination of harmful chemicals  You can trust certifications and labels. Learn about GOTS, Global Organic Textile Standard and OEKO-TEX certification. Circularity is gaining in importance because in circularity many sustainability segments intersect to meet sustainability targets  Susan’s insights and contagious enthusiasm for the sustainability industry will inspire you “It is not uncommon for the material to come from one continent to be processed on another, to be manufactured into something on another for use by consumers on yet another.” -Susan Inglis     Susan Inglis’ 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 © 2020 GBES

Sustainability Consultant with more than ten years of experience in LEED, green building, and sustainable facility management. Project work has spanned over 500 projects in all of the commercial LEED rating systems for new and existing buildings, as well as sustainable master planning, building operations and maintenance, and sustainability reporting. Familiarity with Energy Star, WELL, CHPS, GRESB, TRUE, EDGE, SITES, Fitwel, Green Classroom, Parksmart and Green Globes programs. International work throughout Europe and Asia. Ability to work in high pressure, fast-paced environments.    Show Highlights  The benefits of having one of the original sustainability pioneers as a mentor  A cup of coffee and a well meaning conversation can open up opportunities in your career The growing content and writing overhaul of the system being released by Master Spec for specifications writing  Developing WELL content for Cal Green to make green building more accessible for everyone Increasing focus on occupant health to address how much time people spend in buildings Camp walks you through how to put design development specifications and requirements needed in one book to ensure everyone on the project is seeing the requirements The power of when and how to say “no” to benefit your career Focus on more than the direct environmental impact of the building itself “It was a fantastic experience [as a LEED Reviewer]. It was really cool to go from the consultant side to the reviewer side. It was just amazing to see all the projects that come in and the different types of projects. I reviewed projects from all over the world, Europe, the Middle East, South America, of course all over the US, Canada and Mexico as well. And then just to sort of learn after having done the documentation for so many years, being on the other side and learning kind of specifically what to look for in the documentation, like getting that training of exactly what some of these key things are that they look for right off the bat.” -Camp Boyd     Camp Boyd’s 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 © 2020 GBES

Angi Rivera has over 15 years of Sustainability Management experience and is the Managing Director + Project Manager at GreenShape, LLC. Formerly Regional Sustainability Practice Leader of one of the world’s largest Architecture and Engineering firms, Angi has managed Sustainable Design and Planning for both government and commercial globally. Angi has worked on a vast array of projects including: new and renovated mixed-use, residential, military, educational, industrial, correctional, and medical program facilities.    Education MA Environment and Energy 2004 Architectural Association, London Bachelor of Architecture 2001 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Louisiana State University, 2000   Show Highlights    The positives and negatives of working for a large global company  Angi shares her experience working in the UK that kick started her career  Networking and getting involved in USGBC is invaluable  Learn how GreenShape’s projects were very integral early on in the sustainability movement in DC and what they are working on now.  The reward of ambitious sustainability goals, impacts of daylight analysis, and all the energy modeling you could possibly do for all the different options on your projects How to intentionally communicate with force and respect when dealing with stressors in Green Building. A tip to help you find level understanding.  Technical design changes that impact energy consumption to quantify how your designs make sense.   “[when planning a new development] We always have community meetings. We have the planning initiatives, but far too often, a large segment of that community does have its voice heard, because they're either not active participants or they have been made to feel that they're not invited or welcomed to participate. Whatever the reason, part of our planning and part of our input process needs to include everyone. We need to also understand how we gentrify areas. We need to be more sympathetic to how our developments impact entire populations of people who have built their lives in a particular neighborhood and go far beyond giving just a small percentage of the neighborhood the ability to remain where they chose to live and make their life. We displace entire groups of people and it really shouldn't happen as it does now.”  -Angi Rivera     Angi Rivera’s 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 © 2020 GBES

Today is a special episode with our one and only, Charlie Cichetti, with a special announcement regarding the "2020 LEED FELLOWS and GREENBUILD ANNOUNCEMENT." Show Highlights 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 © 2020 GBES

Robert Sroufe is a Professor of Sustainability, Operations and Supply Chain Management in the Palumbo-Donahue School of Business at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Professor Sroufe develops and teaches a course on Strategic Sustainability and Models, which covers the forces and models driving current decision making while integrating sustainable business practices into operations. He also develops and teaches a course on Sustainable Tools and Processes which teaches students how to develop sustainability management plans, how to understand energy management systems, and there even is a LEED competition!   Sroufe believes that students thrive when challenged with real-world problems. Thus, he likes to engage students in problem based learning and research. During both the Fall and Spring semesters, Sroufe co-instructs Sustainability Consulting Field Project courses and oversees student teams that are consulting real-world corporate clients!  Sroufe is currently working to develop new opportunities to integrate sustainability courses within the Graduate and Undergraduate programs. Sroufe's course, Sustainability Tools and Processes for New Initiatives was one of just 20 winners selected internationally by the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program (Aspen BSP) for the 2017 Ideas Worth Teaching Award. Sroufe was also an Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer finalist, and has received the University Creative Teaching Award, and the Decision Sciences Institute Instructional Innovation Award for the development and delivery of these courses. As a faculty member within the innovative and #1 ranked U.S. MBA Sustainable Business Practices program, he is also an integral member of the faculty team awarded the Page Prize for Best U.S. Environmental Curriculum.   In his research, Professor Sroufe primarily aims to understand what drives sustainability performance and how firms can develop effective environmental management systems to enable the measurement and management of a triple bottom line. His work has been published in a number of journals, including the Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Society, the European Journal of Operations Research, Journal of Supply Chain Management, International Journal of Production Research, the Production and Inventory Management Journal, Greener Management International, and Business Strategy and the Environment, while also publishing books on Integrated Management: How Sustainability Creates Value for Any Business, Developing Sustainable Supply Chains to Drive Value: Management Issues, Insights, and Tools; and Strategic Corporate Environmental Management Systems. Professor Sroufe consults with a range of corporations, and conducts quantitative and qualitative research with firms including Alcoa, Baxter, Dow, Eco Labs, Ford, Gillette, GSA, Herman Miller, IBM, Intel, Interfaces, Lucent, and Steelcase. Prior to joining the MBA+Sustainability program, Professor Sroufe was an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at Boston College. He holds a Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Operations and a dual M.B.A. in Materials and Logistics Management, along with Procurement from MSU.   Show Highlights    The best way to protect the environment is to avoid reactive approaches.   Investigate the interaction between the environment and the state of the world.  The top MBA sustainability program in the country puts best practices into action by providing experience and understanding of the importance of buildings in the sustainability movement.    Robert is actively looking for participants that would want to engage a team of MBAs to figure out how to solve a problem that we don't know the answer to. Projects at no cost to clients    Examine how products interact with space and contribute to indoor air quality issues when designing for human health and productivity. Decisions that can turn a return on investment into a return on integration and a feature on net present value turned into an integrated future value.  Why the phrase “Triple Bottom Line” should be changed to an “Integrated Bottom Line”? The highlight reel filled with projects and curriculum that inspires world sustainability every student and young profession needs to hear.  Tips to understand the overwhelming amount of data when selecting products with less impacts on the environment and society.   “I want to face real problems with student teams and then apply a framework for the solution . The framework is a strategic sustainable development framework looking at understanding systems. Think about what is strategic, how we define success, and what tools can we apply to help solve the problem.” -Robert Sroufe   Robert Sroufe’s 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 © 2020 GBES

As a Building Scientist, Andrea’s interests are in pushing the performance and minimizing the environmental impact of her projects. She also enjoys building the firm’s knowledge and intuition about  sustainability through research endeavors and project explorations. At Payette, Andrea works across projects to bring rigor to the performance of projects. She integrates performance modeling tools into Payette’s design process at the very beginning to inform and push designs. Additionally, she leads a number of internal research projects, and was the Principal Investigator on the 2012 AIA Upjohn Research Initiative-funded “Thermal Performance of Facades,” a research project focused on thermal bridging. She also leads the firm’s efforts on the AIA 2030 Commitment, tracking and benchmarking the performance of projects across the firm. Andrea received a Master of Science in Architecture Studies in Building Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was the recipient of the Tucker-Voss Award and focused her thesis on the thermal performance of facades. She is also a Lecturer at MIT in the Department of Architecture’s Building Technology group where she teaches a class on building envelope performance. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the USGBC Massachusetts Chapter, as well as the national USGBC Chapter Steering Committee and Education Steering Committee, and is a member of the COTE Advisory Group to the Board. EDUCATION MS, Arch. Studies, Building Technology, 2011, Massachusetts Institute of Technology B.Arch., 2002, Carnegie Mellon University   Show Highlights    Payette focuses on the most energy intensive typologies out there on the fusion of design and performance  Why there is no value in holding research that helps to advance the industry.  Andrea provides useful online tools to benefit projects with apples to apples comparisons  Thinking holistically about carbon, climate change and the impact buildings have The vast amounts of carbon emissions come from the operational carbon forcing energy modeling and embodied carbon to move to the forefront  Make sure building science is part of conversation from the onset of design, even in interviews Being able to articulate to your firm your interests and your skills will help you and your organization find your sweet spot to make a profound impact in an emerging industry     “According to the ITCC. The report that they put out in 2018, we need to globally cut our carbon emissions in half by 2030, and eliminate them completely by 2050. If we look over that kind of critical time period between now and 2030, the vast majority of the emissions, actually even from energy intensive buildings,  is really going to come from the embodied carbon. We can't ignore it and it's something that I think is starting to really grow as a focus for firms and across the industry.  I think we'll continue to push to become more mainstream throughout the practice.” -Andrea Love   Andrea Love’s 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 © 2020 GBES