GROUNDWORK - Key Persons
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- Energy Analyst, Co - Founder Rocky Mountain Institute, Author "Soft Energy Paths"
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- Senior Engineer, Sustainability Consultant, ARUP
Cole Roberts, PE, LEED™ AP is a Senior Engineer and Sustainability Consultant for ARUP, one of the world's leading engineering firms and most advanced in green technology with 7000 staff in 77 offices in 29 countries. Mr Roberts specializes in sustainable design, assessment, and consultation. As a registered Professional Engineer with a strong background in business concerns, Cole brings a technically versed and financially pragmatic understanding of project sustainability to the table. Recent work includes the development of sustainability performance criteria for Stanford University and the first Pre-Certified Platinum LEED™-CS project in the world. Cole has presented at numerous conferences including the USGBC's Greenbuild and is a regular guest lecturer at Stanford University and the Integrated Building Services program at the California College of Art. Cole has performed numerous sustainable assessments and participated in a myriad of building designs based on the LEED™ rating system, Labs21 EPC and the SPeAR™ appraisal routine.
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- Director, Institute of Urban and Regional Development
Director, Institute of Urban and Regional Development and Professor of City & Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley. Expert in infrastructure economics, urban economic development & planning and financial feasibility analysis.
Professor Dowall is Director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD) at the University of California at Berkeley. Dowall is also a professor of city and regional planning and former chair of the University's Academic Senate. He is a leading expert in infrastructure economics, urban economic development & planning and financial feasibility analysis. He has been a consultant to 51 countries & regions, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, India and Pakistan amongst others. He has advised over 124 projects worldwide including projects for the World Bank, Asian
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- Architect / City Planner, University of California at Berkeley.
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- Energy Analyst, International Project for Soft Energy Paths.
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- Director, Greenhills Center for Studies at the Interface Between Town and Country.
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- Environmental Psychologist, University of California at Los Angeles.
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- Associate Professor of Environmental Design, Tianjin Academy of Arts. Design Director, TEDA Construction Company, One of the Largest Developers in Tianjin, China
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- Natural Lighting Expert, Professor of Architecture MIT
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- Executive Director
- Architect / Builder, Executive Director, Groundwork Institute.
Huck Rorick has been a journeyman carpenter, general contractor, architect, professor of architecture, real estate developer and Director of the non-profit Groundwork Institute. He has over 45 years experience in the field of architecture, planning and construction. He has two professional degrees in architecture from the University of California. He has been a professor of architecture and taught at major universities including the University of California at Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Idaho, University of Washington, University of Oregon and Tianjin University in China . He has been a consultant to the governments of Cuba, China, Nicaragua and Grenada, the Inter-American Development Bank and community organizations
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- Attorney, Co - Founder Rocky Mountain Institute.
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- Co - Founder Institute for Food and Development Policy, Author With Frances Moore Lappe "Food First"
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- Architect, Building Energy Consultant, Software Developer
Joseph has worked on projects throughout the US and in more than a dozen countries to reduce greenhouse gases, to improve building sustainability and energy efficiency, and to develop energy efficiency building codes. Joe is a member of AIA, IESNA, USGBC, and ASHRAE (voting member of Standards 55 and 90.1). He is the AIA Liaison to ASHRAE's 90.1 energy standard and Chair of ASHRAE 90.1 Envelope Subcommittee. Joe is an Advisor to the AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE). Joe holds a LEED-AP certification from the US Green Building Council.
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- Founder
- Founder & Executive Director of the Local Government Commission. Ecologist. Co - Developer of Village Homes. Time Magazine "Hero for the Planet" 1999
Judith A. Corbett is the founder and since 1982 has served as Executive Director of the Local Government Commission (www.LGC.org). She holds an M.S. in Ecology from the University of California and was co-developer of the highly-acclaimed Village homes, a model for sustainable development. Corbett has coauthored three books on resource efficient land use and building design, and published over 50 policy
guidebooks for local government officials on topics including community water sustainability, hazardous waste reduction, recycling, energy conservation and alternative energy, sustainable economic development, and resource-efficient land use patterns. The Ahwahnee Land Use Principles, spearheaded by Corbett, forecast the Smart Growth movement. She has served as a featured speaker at conferences throughout the US, Mexico, and Europe. She was named by Time Magazine as a "Hero for the Planet" and in 2005 received the National Leadership in Planning Award from the American Institute of Planning. She serves as a board member for several organizations including the Congress for the New Urbanism and the Railvolution Conference.
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- Landscape Architect, Urban Designer
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- Physicist, Former Director of Passive Cooling Program, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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- Member of the BOARD of ADVISORS
- Professor and Chairman of the Department of Architecture, University of California at Berkeley.
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- Architect, Low Cost Housing Specialist.
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- Architect, Solar Designer, Planner. Author of "Pedestrian Pockets", "Redefining Cities"
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- Member of the BOARD of ADVISORS
- Founder of URBANEXUS
Mr. Oliver is the founder of URBANEXUS through which he works on managing land and creating built environments. He also teaches and advises real estate students at the University of Washington. Early in his career, Mr. Oliver worked for public agencies including the City of New York and the Governor's Office of Planning and Research in California. For the next three decades, he worked on master-planned communities at the Irvine Ranch and other properties in western North America and abroad. Mr. Oliver is a graduate of San Francisco State University and holds a master's degree in urban planning from UCLA, a member of the Urban Land Institute and a founder of the California Planning Roundtable.
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- Architect
- Chief Planner, Tianjin City Planning Bureau, China. Former Vice Director, Tianjin Urban Planning and Design Institute. Architect. Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley
Qin Chuan is an architect and the Chief Planner for the Tianjin City Planning Bureau, China. He is former Vice Director of the Tianjin Urban Planning and Design Institute in Tianjin. He was a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley College of Environmental Design.
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- Director, Center for Cuban Studies.
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- Member of the EMERITUS BOARD
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- Director of the Architecture
- Director of the Architecture and Community Design Program in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of San Francisco
Seth Wachtel
Director of the Architecture and Community Design Program in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of San Francisco.
Seth Wachtel is the Director of the Architecture and Community Design Program in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of San Francisco and is Co-Director of the Garden Project Living-Learning Community at USF. He received his MArch from UC Berkeley in 1987 and has worked in architecture and construction in India, Colombia, Israel, Mexico, and Zambia as well as the San Francisco Bay Area. His
focus is housing and the development of innovative construction techniques that produce sustainable and aesthetically and culturally appropriate buildings for human environments. Professor Wachtel runs the Community Design Outreach courses, which provide students the opportunity to work on real world design/build projects for communities both locally and internationally.
Sheila Brady, LSA/Brady Associates, Landscape Architecture & Planning.
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- Member of the EMERITUS BOARD
- Professor and Vice Chancellor, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley.
- Vice - Chancellor Emeritus of the University of California
Dr. Ellis is Vice-Chancellor Emeritus of the University of California at Berkeley. Trained as a sociologist he was a distinguished Professor of Behavioral Sciences in Architecture and an inspiration to generations of students in the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley. He was director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change a research center dedicated to understanding the processes of social change and contributing to the transformation of conditions of inequality. He received the Berkeley Citation in 1994 which celebrates extraordinary achievement in the recipient's field coupled with outstanding service to the Berkeley campus. Beyond his academic and community work he is a sculptor with work to be exhibited at Smith Anderson North.