Part of the USGBC’s mission is to support and encourage individuals in the green building industry who work tirelessly to advance the tenets of sustainable design and construction. Two of the organization’s programs recognize people with that devotion. The USGBC’s 2012 Leadership Awards and LEED Fellows were recently announced and will be honored during the annual Greenbuild conference. “The green building industry didn’t grow in to a global movement by chance,” states Rick Fedrizzi, president, CEO, and founding chairman of the USGBC, in a release. “We got here because of the hard work and innovation of sustainability pioneers and visionaries.”
Several of the 43 new LEED Fellows and nine Leadership Award recipients focus their efforts in the residential sector. They are listed below:
Tom Darden, executive director, Make It Right Foundation, Leadership Awardee
Steve Saunders, CEO, Texas Energy Solutions, Leadership Awardee
Donald Simon, attorney, Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean, LLP, Leadership Awardee
Penny Bonda, Ecoimpact Consulting, LEED Fellow
Robert Harris, Lake|Flato Architects, LEED Fellow
Scott Kelly, Re:Vision Architecture, LEED Fellow
Nico Kienzl, Atelier Ten, LEED Fellow
Nancy Malone, Siegel & Strain Architects, LEED Fellow
Jason McLennan, Cascadia Green Building Council, LEED Fellow
Thomas Nelson, MITHUN, LEED Fellow
