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Staff
Sarah Boren, LEED AP Homes & BD+C
Executive Director
U.S. Green Building Council North Florida Chapter (USGBCNF)
Email: sarahboren@usgbcnf.org
Website: www.usgbcnf.org
Member Category:
Professional Firm – Non-Profits
Bio: Sarah Boren is the Executive Director of the U.S. Green Building Council North Florida Chapter, a non-profit organization committed to creating a sustainable community inspired by green building in NE FL through education and open collaborative leadership. She served on the Board of the Chapter for several years before becoming its Executive Director. Sarah is also the Executive Director of the Green Team Project, a program of the Tides Center and a solutions-oriented national non-profit that helps individuals and small businesses save money by becoming environmentally-friendly in their everyday practices. She has over seventeen years of professional experience in the environmental sustainability field in the non-profit, private and government sectors including at the Smithsonian Institution in DC and green business consulting in CA and FL. Sarah received her BA in Politics and a minor in Chinese from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1991 and a Masters of Environmental Management in Resource Economics, Policy and Business, including corporate environmental management, from Duke University in 1999.
Board of Directors
Ellen Leroy-Reed, LEED AP BD+C (President)
Vice President - Dean of Schools
Solar EOS - a subsidiary of Solar Energy Initiatives, Inc
Email: ellen.reed@solar-eos.com
Website: www.snrysolar.com
Member Category:
Professional Firm – Consultant
Bio: Ellen Leroy-Reed, LEED AP BD+C, is President, Dean of Schools of Solar EOS. With over 15 years of experience in business development, training, and public relations, Ms. Leroy-Reed has forged her commitment to sustainability with her business strategy. Through her work with the US Green Building Council as current President of the North Florida Chapter, she has carried the message of green building throughout the country and continues to spread the word about the importance of sustainable communities and green building. Also serving as past chair of the Public and Government Education committee, she humbly assisted (in small part) in the formation of Jacksonville’s Sustainable Building Ordinance. Her professional experience includes Project Team Administration on several LEED projects for clients ranging from small business to large businesses, schools, and non-profit organizations.
Along with her work in the green building industry, she has also volunteered with organizations such as the Navy League, the American Lung Association, Habijax, the USO, and Camden Area Players Theater Company. She is the proud parent of five children and wife to one ex-pat from the United Kingdom, is an avid reader of non-fiction, and in a repetitive exercise in futility, attempts and fails at growing vegetables in her garden each year. Her ‘frustrated author’ status was fully established during a three-year assignment as a humor columnist and she plans to someday write a book.
Mark Gelfo, P.E., LEED AP BD+C, LEED AP O+M, CxA (Vice President)
Principal and Division Director
TLC Engineering for Architecture
Email: mark.gelfo@tlc-eng.com
Website: www.tlc-engineers.com
Member Category:
Professional Firm - Engineers
Bio: Mark Gelfo, PE, LEED AP, CxA has a bachelor degree in Architectural Engineering for Penn State University and specializes in Green and Sustainable Building design and consulting, and has been very active in the USGBC North Florida Chapter since its inception. Mark was one of the original founding members of the North Florida Chapter, has served as Program Committee Chair, served two years as Chapter President, and currently serves as Education Committee Chair. He has given countless presentations, lectures, seminars, and study groups on LEED, Sustainable Design, and Commissioning, and has been helping hundreds of people become LEED Accredited Professionals.
Mark is a Principal and Division Director for the Jacksonville office of TLC Engineering for Architecture. He is a LEED Accredited Professional and a Certified Commissioning Agent. He has worked on numerous projects that have achieved LEED certification and has dozens that are LEED Registered and pursuing certification.
Kim Newhouse, LEED AP O+M (Secretary)
Senior Facility Manager
Grubb & Ellis Management Services, Inc.
Email: kimberly.newhouse@citi.com
Website: www.citi.com
Member Category:
Professional Firm – Facility Manager
Bio: Kim Newhouse is a LEED Accredited Professional with twenty-five years of facilities experience to include office buildings, universities and airports, with an extensive background in tenant relations, training, sustainability initiatives and policy development, LEED EBOM, APPA guidelines and contract administration. Kim has Master of Arts and Bachelor of Arts Degrees in Organizational Management from Concordia University, St. Paul, MN. She is also a Graduate of the Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers (APPA) Institute of Facilities Management.
Kim has been involved as a member of the USGBC NF Education Committee and was responsible for mini-workshop coordination. In May 2009, she was a Master Speaker for our luncheon program on “BOMA and USGBC, Partners in Sustainability for Existing Buildings.” That same month, she presented a LEED 2009 EBOM Workshop for USGBC NF.
Kim’s LEED EB involvement includes: LEED AP – Received accreditation through EB track
- Citi – Jacksonville Campus – 584, 186 square feet
- Citi – Family Center – 44,500 square feet
- Grubb & Ellis National Green Team – Sustainability Policy Development, Grubb & Ellis National Sustainability Webpage, Corporate Sustainability Initiative Implementation
- Grubb & Ellis Market Champion – Mid-Atlantic Region – Regional trainer and LEED project manager
Other society involvement includes GBCI and BOMA.
Thomas H. Goldsbury, P.E., C.B.O., LEED AP (Treasurer)
Chief, Building Inspection Division
City of Jacksonville
Email: TomG@coj.net
Website: www.coj.net
Member Category:
Professional Firm – Local Government
Bio: Tom Goldsbury is presently the Chief of the Building Inspection Division of the City of Jacksonville (Building Offi cial). He has held this appointed position for over twelve years. He is responsible to ensure that all structures built, modifi ed, repaired in the City of Jacksonville conform to the Florida Building Code (FBC). Prior to, and during this period he managed various design/construction projects for the City.
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Associate Attorney
Holland & Knight
Email: robert.riva@hklaw.com
www.hklaw.com
Member Category:
Professional Firm – Law Firm
Bio: Rob Riva is a member of the Holland & Knight’s Real Estate, Sustainable Development, Corporate and Business Law practice groups. He currently heads the Jacksonville office's Green Building and Sustainable Development practice group, which serves to assist and advise clients in all legal facets of green building, including the development, leasing and financing of sustainable real estate projects, as well as energy performance contracting. Rob is a member of the North Florida Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council's Marketing Advertising and Communications Committee, where he is the Chapter Newsletter Team Leader. He also is Chair for the Public and Government Education Committee of the North Florida Chapter.
Rob received his Bachelors of Science degree from Penn State University and his law degree from Florida Coastal School of Law. While in law school, Rob was the Editor-in-Chief of the Florida Coastal Law Review and was awarded the Founder's Award by his peers, which recognizes a recipient's significant contributions to the ideals and objectives of Florida Coastal School of Law. Additionally, he received a Book Award, which recognizes the top overall grade in a law school course, in each of Contracts, Professional Sports Law and Legal Research and Writing, in addition to receiving the Best Respondent Brief and Best Respondent Oral Argument in Legal Research and Writing.
Rob currently co-chairs Holland & Knight's Opening Doors for Children program, which is part of the Holland & Knight Charitable Foundation and focuses on helping children in need of tutors, mentors and role models locally in Jacksonville. In addition to serving as a member of the Board of Directors of the Florida Coastal School of Law Alumni Association, Rob is also a member of the Florida Bar Association and the Jacksonville Bar Association.
Adair Owen, LEED AP
Contractor
Elkins Constructors
Email: Adair@elkinsconstructors.com
www.elkinsconstructors.com
Member Category:
Professional Firm – Contractors and Builders
Bio: Adair Owen is a LEED AP and the Preconstruction Services Coordinator for Elkins Constructors, Inc. She has and is serving on the USGBC Board as Treasurer and as Co-Chair for the LEED for Schools Advocacy Committee. She has been involved in one LEED Certified Project (UNF Social Sciences Building) and served as Preconstruction Manager for Elkins on the University of North Florida's Student Union which is LEED Registered and on track to achieve a Silver Certification. She has been in Jacksonville for her whole professional career and is a Native Floridian. Adair is a part of the USGBC to further sustainable practices in the state that she loves.
Wayne Dunn, P.E., LEED AP BD+C
Principal & Mechanical Engineer
E. W. Dunn Developments, Inc.
Email: waynedunn@ewdunn.com
Member Category:
Professional Firm – Engineers
Bio: Wayne Dunn, PE, has been involved with project management, systems integration, quality assurance and commissioning for over 20 years. Project experience varies from Modern Offices to Laboratories and Launch Complexes with effort focused on equipment/ system validation, improving technical performance and energy efficiency for both existing mechanical systems and new construction projects. Currently Wayne is commissioning projects for the State of Florida and Leon County as well as providing ongoing management consulting services for JEA.
Wayne is a Principal and Mechanical Engineer with E.W. Dunn Developments, Inc. and has been involved with USGBC North Florida Chapter since inception. In past years he has served as Program Chair. Currently he is on the Chapter Board of Directors, Local Chapter Steering Committee, North Florida Chapter Regional Representative, Regionalization Task Force, LEED for School Subcommittee, & Business of Green Conference Committee.
Other society involvement includes ASHRAE, having chaired technical committees such as ASHRAE: SSPC 55 Thermal Comfort Standard & ASHRAE: GPC 20 – XML Definitions for HVAC&R. Wayne has published several papers on commissioning relating to how it improves energy performance and owner satisfaction. He is an industry speaker on energy efficiency and commissioning.
In addition to being a registered professional engineer in USA and Canada Wayne holds an AEE certificate as an indoor air quality professional. He is a member of ASHRAE, AEE, ASQ, and BCA.
Benjamin Moore, LEED Green Associate
Energy & Environmental Planner
Email: Ben.Moore@rsandh.com
Member Category:
Professional Firm - Architects/Engineers/Planners
Bio: Ben Moore is an Energy and Environmental Planner with Reynolds, Smith and Hills (RS&H). As a member of RS&H’s Energy Service Group, Ben applies his experience with energy efficiency, renewable energy, and climate change project development and management on behalf of municipal, state and federal government clients. At RS&H, Mr. Moore has contributed to facility energy analysis reports, municipal energy conservation strategies, approaches to sustainable transit system management, and sustainable capital improvement policies and procedures, including application of the LEED rating system to public buildings.
President
HomePro Inspections
Email: wally@gohomepro.com
Website: www.gohomepro.com
Member Category:
Professional Firm – Consultant
Wally Conway, is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, retired Navy Pilot, licensed contractor, and ASHI certified home inspector who is President of HomePro Inspections, right here in Jacksonville!
Wally’s Green journey started while living until recently on a 36’ trawler. Discovering that he could shower on a gallon of water, be cooled with a breeze, and read rather than own a television made being efficient easy after moving back ashore in 2008.
Credentials earned include LEED AP, LEED Green Rater, HERS rater, BPI Building Analyst and others. Wally has performed over 5,000 home and building inspections as well numerous energy audits and infrared evaluations.
As a media-active educator, Wally is a regularly featured expert on the HGTV hit series “House Detectives”, is co-host of the television series “Finders-Fixers”, created and hosts “My Buddy’s Boat” and is co-host of “The Home and Garden Show” radio show heard on WOKV every Saturday. Passionate and ever-eager to share an idea, Wally also speaks regularly across North America.
When not speaking in front of a live audience, Wally writes routinely and recently authored the book “Secrets of the Happy Home Inspector”.
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