Chapter welcomes new Executive Director

Our new Executive Director, Pam Losefsky took over leadership of the Chapter in January. Pam brings more than 20 years of communications expertise and a wide variety of non-profit leadership and development experiences to the chapter. Most recently, she served as director of communications and development for the San Antonio-based National Trauma Institute, where she was instrumental in building a public face for the young organization and growing its constituency. She has served on and led numerous non-profit boards in Austin, where she is based. Pam will continue to run the Chapter office at GSC Architects in Austin. Click here for the press release.

LEED Regionalization Process

Input to LEED 2012 Regionalization Process
The Chapter is working with USGBC National to ensure that professionals from our region are inputting to the LEED Regionalization discussion on the next evolution of the LEED rating system.

The Chapter recently issued a survey to its community inviting input to help us define regional environmental priorities specific to Central and South Texas for consideration by USGBC National as the program evolves.

If you have questions on the process please contact Colleen McGinnis, our Chapter Intern responsible for coordinating our Regionalization activities, at cjmcginnis@utexas.edu.

Texas in Top Ten States for LEED certified green buildings

Texas ranked eighth in the List of Top 10 States for LEED-certified Green Buildings in 2011, which was released in January (Jan. 19, 2012) by the Washington D.C. based U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).

The 2011 list of top 10 states for LEED-certified commercial and institutional green buildings per capita was based on the U.S. 2010 Census information. The District of Columbia leads the nation, with more than 31 square feet of LEED-certified space per person in 2011, with Colorado being the leading state, with 2.74 square feet per person in 2011.

Other top states include Illinois, Virginia and Washington, with 2.69, 2.42 and 2.18 square feet of LEED-certified space per person respectively. Texas ranked 8th with 50,001,476 Sq. ft. of space to earn LEED-certification in 2011, representing 1.99 Sq. feet of LEED-certified space per person.

Click here for the full release Texas in Top Ten States.