What Inside Matters can do for your organization:

  • Provide LEED® and GGHC (Green Guide for Healthcare) certification services for your new buildings, major remodels, operations and maintenance of existing buildings, and tenant improvement projects.
  • Develop green and healthy building and materials policies and standards.
  • Conduct field research on building materials for evidence-based business case studies.
  • Develop implementation tools and “Tool Kits” for actualizing green and healthy building standards.

item_leader and experience for the above services comes from a varied background including:

  • USGBC Faculty for LEED Commercial Interiors, Healthcare, Product Manufacturers, and LEED 101. Asked by USGBC to also teach LEED NC and LEED for Schools.
  • LEED Development and Tools
    • Past Chair of Advanced and Intermediate LEED Training Development [Curriculum and Accreditation Committee];
    • Conceived and developed evaluation system for Professional Development review process which became the Educator Provider Program/EPP
    • GreenPRINTS database - Conceived of and developed the first green building database with environmental attributes for tracking and managing municipal construction projects for the City and County of San Francisco.
  • Selected LEED Certification Projects
    • San Francisco PUC Headquarters [LEED CI - LAP],
    • CA Academy of Sciences [LEED NC – Advisory role],
    • Plaza Apartments/Public Initiatives Development Corporation/San Francisco [LEED NC – Advisory role],
    • California Department of Public Health Richmond Campus [LEED EB],
    • PG&E Stockton Customer Service Center [LEED CI].
  • USGBC - Participant with the USGBC since 1996, long standing member U.S. Green Building Council; LEED Accredited Professional: New Construction and Commercial Interiors. Member of the Northern California Chapter.
  • USGBC GreenBuild – Presenter for 2005 and 2006; Presentation Reviewer for 2007 and 2008 conferences.
  • USGBC Indoor Environmental Quality Technical Advisory Group – Past member.

Selected Past and Current Clients

"Environmentalism is, ultimately, a question of design -- of ethical design"
David Orr, 1992