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The BuildingGreen editorial staff behind LEEDuser include:
- Nadav Malin, LEED Fellow, President
- Paula Melton, LEED-AP BD+C, Editorial Director
- Brent Ehrlich, LEED-AP BD+C, Product and Materials Specialist
LEEDuser also features a wide array of guest experts, who provide answers on our popular discussion forums. We’re proud of our team of experts, listed here.
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Content from WSP—LEED and sustainable built environment experts
WSP Built Ecology (formerly YR&G) is the primary content developer and expert resource for LEEDuser. Built Ecology is a national, collaborative team of professionals dedicated to the goal of creating a sustainable built environment. Built Ecology represents a range of capabilities, strategic thinking, industry leadership, technical depth, and integration with WSP’s global building, transportation, and environmental engineering, and infrastructure capability.
Built Ecology provides expertise in the following areas:
- Design analytics and modeling
- Design & construction strategy and certifications
- Existing buildings & portfolio strategy and certifications
- Materials health and transparency
- Health and wellness
- Building performance commissioning, auditing, and data analysis
- Renewable and district energy
- Neighborhoods, campus master planning, and infrastructure
- Resiliency
- Organizational sustainability and reporting
- Sustainability finance and economic analys
The Built Ecology team includes professionals from a wide range of disciplines, including experts and leaders in the green building industry. Staff have worked with LEED since its inception, including on hundreds of LEED projects across the spectrum of rating systems and located around the world. Built Ecology staff have also worked as contractors to the USGBC and GBCI for LEED Reference Guide content, LEED project certification reviews, Credit Interpretation Requests, LEED Volume program roll-out communications, and more.
LEEDuser experts from the field
In addition to LEEDuser's guest experts, the following groups have provided special support to LEEDuser's development.
Overall review of credit material for the NC, CS, Schools, and CI rating systems was provided by Thornton Tomasetti (through the formerly independent group Fore Solutions, led by Gunnar Hubbard).
Dan Ackerstein provided overall review of LEED-EBOM material. Dan provides sustainability consulting and EBOM project guidance to public, private and nonprofit clients across the country from the offices of Ackerstein Sustainability, LLC in Santa Cruz, California.
