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Debora Gloria
Registered Architect, LEED AP, Team Member, Greenform

Having spent most of her architectural career in the high-end residential sector, Debbie Gloria came to realize the opportunities in smart resource management, energy and water conservation and green building design .

With a background in the sciences, Debbie is able to appreciate the issues around global warming and the ecological issues related to the demands of an expanding population. She recognizes the important role that mitigating the impacts from building and development plays as part of a larger solution to bring human activities back into balance with the natural environment.

Debbie's understanding of the issues related to architectural design and building science in sustainable design and her knowledge of the LEED rating systems are instrumental in her ablity to assist in creating environmentally intelligent buildings.

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Elizabeth Zampolli
LEED AP+, Team Member, Greenform

With Elizabeth Zampolli's background in the life sciences and her experience in sales and marketing, she has helped companies minimize their ecological footprint of their business practices and products. Recognizing the tremendous impacts of buildings and development on the environment, Elizabeth is educated on the concepts and issues related to green building. Through her participation with the American Institute of Architects, Committee on the Environment and the US Green Building Council she has built up a knowledge base and strong network of others devoted to sustainable design.

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Dr. Marina Alberti
Urban Design and Planning

Marina Alberti is Associate professor of Urban and Environmental Planning in the Department of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington. She teaches courses in Urban Ecology, Environmental Impact Management, Geographic Information Systems, and Group Dynamic and Conflict resolution. Her research interests are in the impacts of alternative urban development patterns on ecosystem dynamics. She is currently directing a NSF funded research project aimed to study how changes in land use alter the biophysical structure and affect ecosystem dynamics in the Puget Sound region. She is also developing a simulation model that integrates urban development and ecological dynamics to predict the impact of urban growth in this region. Her research also focuses on measures of urban environmental performance that can be used to monitor progress and inform policy-making. She is especially interested in advanced interdisciplinary approaches to urban ecological problems.

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Bob Alpers, PE
TestMarc -- Commissioning

Mr Alpers has been commissioning since 1997. He is a commissioning authority, working in project administration on over 25 LEED NC, CS, CI projects. He provides commissioning expertise including design review, performance testing, and O&M staff training. He began his commissioning career in 1996 and was the project manager for commissioning consulting firm in Colorado. He provides analysis for ECM's, and was involved in the Federal Grants Program for Hospitals and with the American Hospital Association and the Hospital Shared Services to develop an energy conservation program. As a past VP and Director of Marketing and Product Development in the controls industry, Mr Alpers has extensive experience designing systems and providing training for controls and mechanical systems. He has written several controls and HVAC systems training manuals and taught evening controls classes to building engineers and operators.

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David Banks, PhD, PE
CPP, Inc.

Dr. Banks completed his PhD in Wind Engineering at Colorado State University in 2000. His dissertation was awarded the Robert H. Scanlan Outstanding PhD Award at the 2001 Americas Conference in Wind Engineering. Dr. Banks has been instrumental in the developing of CPP’s Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling capabilities. He has performed CFD studies of smoke control for atrium fires, buoyancy and wind driven natural ventilation in office buildings, and general internal circulation flow patterns for laboratories. He has also provided numerical analyses for unusual projects ranging from wind turbine efficiency to hurricane movement to dust dispersion following building implosions.

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Clark Bisel
Flack & Kurtz

Clark Bisel is a LEED-accredited professional who provides comprehensive architectural lighting design and complete services in mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design. Other services include energy efficiency analysis, computer modeling, energy code compliance, and building automation design.

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Beth Brummitt
Brummitt Energy Associates

Principal, founded Brummitt Energy Associates in 1998 to focus on high performance buildings. With over twenty years of experience in energy efficiency and building modeling, she has been training, writing, and speaking on the Title 24 energy codes since 1992 and on green building since 2001. A graduate of Stanford University, Beth is a former Chair of California Association of Building Energy Consultants (CABEC), was the founding Chair of the San Diego Chapter of USGBC.

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Nancy E. Clanton, PE
Clanton & Associates

Nancy E. Clanton is founder and president of Clanton & Associates, a lighting design firm specializing in sustainable design.  Ms. Clanton has 28 years of experience in lighting design and is a past chairperson of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) Outdoor Environmental Lighting Committee.  Ms. Clanton is a member of the United States Green Building Council and served as final editor of the California Energy Commission’s Advanced Lighting Guidelines.

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Andy Frichtl, PE, Principal
Interface Engineering

The recipient of numerous achievement awards, Andy Frichtl is well known in the world of architecture and infrastructure as a leader in sustainable design. Andy specializes in energy efficiency and conservation, and uses energy modeling and energy analysis studies as a key component of solid sustainable design that is cost effective as well. He has extensive experience in designing mechanical, electrical, and architectural systems that offer surprising payback timeframes.

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Nicholas Groh
Impact Design Associates

Nick's graphic design expertise in brand identity, environmental graphics, and wayfinding is invaluable to the group. Nick has managed and directed notable company projects such as Fontana Library & Technology Center, USC Credit Union, Palms Place Hotel & Spa; Rio Hondo College Signage Master Plan, and Terranea Resort, Palos Verdes. He is currently involved with the Flight 93 Memorial and the Orange County Great Park projects. Prior to founding IDA, Nick worked in the industry for a combined 14 years with Pentagram San Francisco, Selbert Perkins Design Los Angeles, and 212 Associates New York City. Monumentally recognized, he was senior design director for the LAX Enhancements Project, which included the LAX Gateway 2000. Other significant projects include an identity & wayfinding system for the renovation of the Los Angeles Union Station; environmental sculpture and wayfinding for the Pacific Design Center; a campus-wide wayfinding system for the University of Southern California; an environmental communications master plan for Universal City Hollywood; and the City of Cincinnati wayfinding system. Nick has been recognized for projects such as LAX Gateway 2000, in receiving SEGD, ID Magazine, and Art Directors Club design honors. His work has been published in several design books and periodicals. Nick has a Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design from the University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning.

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Joel Eugene Loveland
Integrated Design Lab

Joel Loveland, is the Director of IDL and a Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington. Professor Loveland was voted one of the 2004 Top 25 Sustainable Design Professionals by the editorial staff of the Sustainable Design Journal. Since 2003, four Lab projects were honored with AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) National Green Building awards. These were the Pierce County Environmental Services Building by the Miller Hull Partnership, the Seminar Two Education Complex at the Evergreen State College and Ben Franklin Elementary School in Kirkland, both by Mahlum Architects, and the Ballard Branch Library by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. He has given dozens of invited lectures and workshops in the US and Canada to audiences as diverse as the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, Lake Flato Architects, San Antonio, NBBJ and ZGF Architects, Lightfair International, and a groups of 50-100 architects at a day-long workshops at the summer 2007 AIA National Convention in Los Angeles and the PG&E Pacific Energy Center in San Francisco. Loveland is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Architecture and Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington where he teaches design studio and seminar courses related to sustainability, the nature of light, landscape and architecture. He held the 1998 Baker Chair of Architectural Lighting at the University of Oregon.

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Deb Oestreicher
Writer, Editor, Project Manager Services

Deb Oestreicher, principal of Red Pen Creative, Inc., is a versatile writer, editor, and project manager with more than 20 years of experience in diverse fields including engineering, high technology, health care, finance, and education. She is especially adept at rendering technical information comprehensible, and editing to clarify ideas and express them logically and concisely. An experienced teacher and trainer, she also offers coaching for clients who wish to improve their writing skills.

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Henny van Lambalgen
Quest Energy Group, LLC

Henny van Lambalgen has over 20 years experience in the energy industry with a principle focus on building energy consumption. He is an expert in the use of state-of-the-art computer programs such as DOE2 for determining the energy and economic impacts of alternative building architectural features and heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems. Mr. van Lambalgen has used this expertise to provide design assistance to architects/engineers and owners in the design of energy efficient buildings as well as to demonstrate compliance with energy codes such as ASHRAE 90.1 and California's Title 24. Showcase projects include the California headquarters of the Victor Valley District which received the 1993 grand-prize energy award from both the California Energy Commission and Southern California Edison. Additionally, Mr. van Lambalgen has supported and developed utility efficiency programs ranging from residential programs such as Arizona Public Service's Good Cents program to large commercial programs such as Southern California Edison's (SCE's) Unit Energy Savings (UES) project. Recently, he has assisted with energy efficiency design on several large warehouses in Southern California which will qualify for owner incentives of $250,000 as part of SCE's "Savings by Design" program.

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Louise Sandhaus
Louise Sandhaus Design


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