Vivian Loftness - University Professor, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon

Vivian Loftness is an internationally renowned researcher, author and educator with over thirty years of focus on environmental design and sustainability, advanced building systems and systems integration, climate and regionalism in architecture, as well as design for performance in the workplace of the future. Supported by a university-industry-government partnership, the Advanced Building Systems Integration Consortium, she is a key contributor to the development of the Intelligent Workplace - a living laboratory of building innovations for performance, along with authoring a range of publications on international advances in the workplace.

She has served on seven National Academy of Science panels as well as being a member of the Academy‘s Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, and given three Congressional testimonies on sustainable design. Vivian’s work has influenced both national policy and building projects, including the Adaptable Workplace Lab at the U.S. General Services Administration and the Laboratory for Cognition at Electricity de France.

As a result of her research, teaching and professional consulting, Vivian Loftness received the 2002 National Educator Honor Award from the American Institute of Architecture Students and a 2003 “Sacred Tree” Award from the US Green Building Council. Vivian Loftness has a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Architecture from MIT, and is on the Board of Directors of the USGBC, AIA Communities by Design, Turner Sustainability, and the Global Assurance Group of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a registered architect.

Martin Vachon, Director of Marketing, AXIM Concrete Technologies,
Division of Essroc Cement Corp.

Martin Vachon holds a bachelor and master of engineering degrees in Civil Engineer from the University of Sherbrooke (Canada). He has an experience as a quality control manager in the ready mix industry in Canada in 1991-1994 and as a research and research manager with Italcementi Group in Europe in 1995-2000. He worked in Europe on the development of specialty admixtures and mix design software for Self Consolidating Concrete (SCC). In addition to his work in the field of fresh concrete characteristics, Mr. Vachon was involved in several R&D projects, including concrete maturity, surface quality characteristics of architectural concrete, electrical conductivity and hydration kinetics of cement, tribology and pumpabiliy of concrete.

In his current position Director of Marketing at AXIM in the United States, a subsidiary of ESSROC-Italcementi Group, Mr. Vachon has been promoting the use of SCC in the United States for the last eight years and is considered as a pioneer in this field. He has published numerous technical papers and reports pertaining to concrete technology, including mixture design and performance of SCC. He is the past Chairman of the ASTM C09.47 sub-committee on SCC and has played a significant role in the development of the Interim Guidelines for the use of SCC by the Precast Concrete

Bill Browning, Founder, Terrapin Bright Green

Bill Browning is one of the green building and real estate industry’s foremost thinkers and strategists, and an advocate for sustainable design solutions at all levels of business, government, and civil society. His expertise has been sought out by organizations as diverse as Fortune 500 companies, leading universities, non-profit organizations, the U.S. military and foreign governments.

Early in his career, Bill helped build luminary thinker Buckminster Fuller's last experimental structure, based on advanced geometry systems. In 1991, he founded Green Development Services at Rocky Mountain Institute, an entrepreneurial, non-profit “think and do tank” whose work advances energy-efficient and environmentally-responsive design. In 1999 Green Development Services was awarded the President's Council for Sustainable Development/Renew America Prize. Bill remains a Senior Fellow at RMI.

Bill was a founding member of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Board of Directors, and still serves on the USGBC’s Governance Board. He is a co-author of Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate; A Primer on Sustainable Building; and “Greening the Building and the Bottom Line.” 

Bill received a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Design from the University of Colorado, specializing in energy-conscious architecture and resource management. He holds a Masters of Science in Real Estate Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1998 Bill was named one of five people “Making a Difference” by Buildings magazine. In 2001 he was chosen as an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects, and in 2004 he was honored with the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership Award. Bill is based in Washington, D.C.

Anna Dyson, Director, Center for Architecture Science and Ecology

Anna Helen Dyson is the Director of the Center of Architecture Science and Ecology (CASE), an entity spanning several institutional collaborators, and co-hosted by Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM) and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The mission of CASE is to create an exceptional context for the innovation of high performing next generation building technologies, by uniting multiple (typically disparate) interests across the building disciplines, both industrial and academic, in order to support common interests for innovation. CASE is collaborating with several industrial collaborators on next generation environmental systems development and their demonstration and deployment on several building projects world wide.

Dyson is currently directing interdisciplinary research funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, and the New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation to develop building systems that integrate applications of emerging technology from diverse research fields. CASE is committed to bridging these worlds by proposing a new collaborative model for building research that straddles interdisciplinary technological innovation concurrently with building and development practices. The consortium attempts to achieve this without the schism that has typically divorced building science pursuits from the aesthetic, social and conceptual aspirations of architectural design inquiry, which, for the consortium participants, remain inseparable from the quest for technological innovation.

Peter Doo, President, Doo Consulting, Competition Consultant
Peter Doo, AIA, LEED AP, is founder and Partner of Doo Consulting LLC. He is a recognized leader in the sustainability industry with experience assisting companies and project teams meet their sustainability goals. Peter is a commissioner on the Baltimore City Sustainability Commission and a member of the State of Maryland Green Building Council.

2009 recipient of the Maryland Daily Record “Innovator of the Year” award, Peter is credited with founding the Maryland Chapter of USGBC headquartered in Baltimore and served as its first president. He is Past-Chair of the North East Corridor Regional Council of the US Green Building Council and served on the USGBC National Chapter Steering Committee at that time. Peter co-chaired the Baltimore City Green Building Taskforce and is credited with reaching out to the broader community, including developers, City agencies and others to craft a supportable package of recommendations for Baltimore City. He is a past president of the Baltimore Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

As an architect, Peter has designed LEED certified, LEED registered and net-zero energy projects. He brings this experience to assist design teams in developing creative, project specific and appropriate strategies for sustainability. He assists clients in crafting policy and implementation plans for achieving sustainability goals and assists project teams in the LEED certification process for their green buildings under all of the LEED rating systems.

Peter speaks regularly to schools, businesses and associations on issues of green buildings and sustainable development. He likes to garden and golf – sometimes simultaneously.

Rob Busler, Competition Consultant

Rob Busler is an accomplished DC-based architect and firm leader who has been responsible, as designer and manager, for many of the largest public architecture projects in the National Capital Region. From his design leadership on the IRS Headquarters project, to the NAVSEA headquarters facility at the Washington Navy Yard, to the Washington Convention Center at Mount Vernon Square to the Washington Nationals Baseball Park on South Capitol Street, Rob has creatively pushed for “smart growth” development ideals on all his projects and delivered, in the case of the new Ballpark, the first LEED rated professional sports facility in the United States. Mr. Busler is a consultant to Doo Consulting and Potomac Valley Brick for the Brick Stainable competition and Rob has served as the competition advisor for the competition since its conception in early 2009.