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EPA Involvement

The Lifecycle Building Challenge Supports:

EPA Strategic Plan Construction and Demoliton Debris Strategic Target 3.1.1
- Objective 3.1: Preserve Land
  By 2011, reduce adverse effects to land by reducing waste generation, increasing recycling, and ensuring proper management of waste and petroleum products at facilities in ways that prevent releases.

Sub-objective 3.1.1: Reduce Waste Generation and Increase Recycling
By 2011, reduce materials use through product and process design, and increase materials and energy recovery from wastes otherwise requiring disposal.
Strategic Targets
By 2011, increase reuse and recycling of construction and demolition debris by 6 percent from a baseline of 59% in 2003.*
* Baseline includes both building-related construction and demolition debris and C&D from roads.

EPA and American Institute of Architects Memorandum of Understanding signed by Administrator Johnson, 2006
Resource Conservation Challenge Industrial Materials National Priority Area
EPA's Green Building Workgroup
Office of Solid Waste - Resource Conservation Challenge
Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation - Construction Sector
Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances

Project Leadership

The Lifecycle Building Challenge is supported by these visionary U.S. Environmental Protection Agency leaders:

Eileen Sheehan, Manager, Office of Pollution Prevention and Solid Waste, U.S. EPA Region 9
Jeff Scott, Director, Waste Management Division, U.S. EPA Region 9
Laura Yoshii, Deputy Regional Administrator, U.S. EPA Region 9
Wayne Nastri, Regional Administrator, U.S. EPA Region 9
Jimmy I. Palmer, Regional Administrator, U.S. EPA Region 4
Alan Steinberg, Regional Administrator, U.S. EPA Region 2
Matt Hale, U.S. EPA, Director, Office of Solid Waste
Jay Benforado, U.S. EPA, Director, National Center for Environmental Innovation
Charles Auer, U.S. EPA, Director, Office of Pollution Prevention & Toxics
Dr. William Sanders III, U.S. EPA, EPA Green Building Executive Champion

Special thanks to the Chartwell School project team members whose work inspired this competition:

Douglas Atkins and Marli Melton, Chartwell School
Scott Shell, Octavio Gutierrez, and Lynn Fischer, EHDD Architecture
Brad Guy, Hammer Center for Community Design Assistance
David Mar and Henri Mannick, Tipping Mar + Associates
Timonie Hood, Saskia van Gendt, and Adrienne Priselac, U.S. EPA Region 9

Planning Team

Timonie X. Hood, LEED AP

Timonie X. Hood Waste Reduction Coordinator
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9

Timonie works on resource conservation, environmentally preferable purchasing, and green building for EPA's Pacific Southwest region covering Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii, California, the Pacific Islands, and over 140 Tribal Nations. She manages grants and partnership programs to develop innovative projects, coordinates training and outreach events, and has led efforts to expand EPA's green building initiatives. She was the EPA project officer for the EPA Chartwell School Design for Deconstruction grant, and was inspired by the project to create the Lifecycle Building Challenge with a fabulous team of partners. Timonie was the first Federal employee to become a U.S. Green Building Council LEED Accredited Professional, and has received Office of the Federal Environmental Executive, Department of Defense, and EPA awards for her environmental work. She holds a B.S. degree from Auburn University, a law degree from Arizona State University, and is a member of the State Bar of Arizona.

Pamela Swingle

Pamela Swingle Pollution Prevention Program Manager
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4

Pam Swingle is currently the EPA Region 4 Innovations Coordinator and is nationally known as a recycling market development expert. Prior to coming to EPA in 1999, she spent the previous 12 years working for the State of Illinois and the University of Illinois Extension Service as the State Program Leader in Recycling Market Development. Pam has been a strong advocate of deconstruction and "life cycle construction" in Region 4 and nationally. As the Innovations Coordinator she hopes to bring a greater awareness of the importance of sustainable building practices and elevate the need for proper management and recycling of construction and demolition debris. Pam is also a national expert on scrap tire management and municipal solid waste recycling.

Brad Guy, AIA

Brad Guy Director of Operations
Hamer Center of the Penn State School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Architect Brad Guy is Director of Operations of the Hamer Center of the Penn State School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. He has been a pivotal force in researching and advancing design for deconstruction and building materials reuse. Brad was previously Associate Director of the Powell Center for Construction and Environment at the University of Florida. He is President of the Building Materials Reuse Association (BMRA), co-founded the Florida Green Building Coalition, and has chaired BMRA Deconstruction and Building Materials Reuse Conferences. He is a past recipient of The Tides Foundation Environmental Leadership Program Fellowship, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Research Fellowship, and the University of Florida President's Humanitarian Award. Brad has developed long-term partnerships with the U.S. EPA, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Americorps, Habitat for Humanity, and numerous organizations. He co-edited "Construction Ecology," in 2001, and is the co-author of the soon to be released book, "Unbuilding: Salvaging the Architectural Treasures of Unwanted Houses."

Scott Shell, AIA, LEED AP

Scott Shell Principal
EHDD Architecture

Scott Shell is a Principal at EHDD Architecture specializing in educational projects including housing, laboratories, libraries, and schools. His current projects include the Chartwell School, CSU Monterey Bay Main Library, Ideas Zero Energy Office, Marin County Day School, the Stanford Green Dorm, and a biomedical lab at UC Santa Cruz. Scott is a nationally recognized expert on high performance and sustainable design, and directs the firm's sustainable design efforts. His emphasis is on creating beautiful and people-friendly spaces providing excellent natural lighting, thermal comfort, and indoor air quality. He works to accomplish this while significantly reducing the environmental impacts of energy use, carbon emissions, and materials selection. Scott has written and lectured widely on sustainable design topics ranging from The Feasibility of Factor 10 Resource Reduction to Zero Carbon Buildings. Scott received a Bachelors Degree in Architecture from Auburn University, a Master of Arts in Humanities from Stanford University, and studied Tamil language and culture at the University of Chicago and the American Institute of Indian Studies in Madurai.

Christi Graham

Christi Graham Founder & Executive Producer
West Coast Green

Recognized nationally as an expert in green and healthy living, Ms. Graham has spent the past seventeen years as a pioneer successfully producing and directing numerous visionary events, programs, and organizations. After serving the early part of her career directing environmental non-profits, including founding the Green Resource Center of Berkeley, Ms. Graham directed her passion and talents to the residential green building arena. In September 2006, West Coast Green inaugurated the largest residential green building conference & expo in U.S. history. Over 8,000 decision makers from every state nationwide and 14 foreign nations were in attendance - breaking all records and becoming the most featured green building event in the media. Featured in hundreds of newspapers, television stations, and magazines including The Economist as the evidence of the "tipping point", West Coast Green became established as the preeminent green building conference. Ms. Graham is the President and CEO of Healthy Home Plans, LLC a source for healthy and sustainable home plans designed by award-winning architects.

Andrea Korber

Andrea Korber Architect
Square Feet Studio

Andrea is an architect practicing at Square Feet Studio, an Atlanta-based firm. Her approach to design focuses on the lifecycle of a building, ensuring adaptability over time. In 2006 Andrea completed a design for disassembly case study home while working at the Community Housing Resource Center, also in Atlanta. This case study home continues the line of research begun in her thesis studies while a student at Harvard Design School. Her thesis consisted of a reusable system for high turn-over types of commercial structures. The Atlanta case study home brings that same research into the residential realm. Andrea plans to continue practicing design for adaptability and disassembly in her future architectural practice. Before joining Square Feet Studio she oversaw a Design Build program at the non-profit Community Housing Resource Center, which followed a work at Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects. Andrea volunteers for her neighborhood association and the board of AIA Atlanta.

Ken A. Scalf, AIA, LEED AP

Ken A. Scalf Advisory Group
American Institute of Arichitects
Committee on the Environment

Mr. Scalf is a member of the EPA Partner; American Institute of Architects, National Committee on the Environment (AIA/ COTE). He was nominated by his peers and appointed by the AIA National Board Knowledge Committee to serve on the 2006 AIA/COTE Advisory Group. He is employed as the Southeast Regional Manager in Nashville, Tennessee by Architectural Energy Corporation, an energy engineering firm concerned with energy, buildings, and the environment. Additionally he is a Board Member of the Middle Tennessee Chapter of The U.S. Green Building Council.