About me
Chris is an accomplished project manager who has developed a number of successful programs that overcome market barriers and result in lower energy buildings that are heated and cooled without on site pollution. He possesses a well-developed knowledge of energy use in residential buildings and has the experience to know the policy triggers to encourage action.
As a Senior Green Building Planner at the City of Vancouver, Chris develops and implements building bylaw, policy, and incentive programs to achieve new buildings that run on renewable energy, while at the same time helping to reduce greenhouses gases from existing homes. He works to remove barriers existing home retrofit, and possesses an understanding of regulatory and incentive options a city has at its disposal. Increasingly Chris has been enabling electrification in buildings with process, policy, and incentive change. Chris is a spokesperson at national conferences and to various media outlets.
Chris worked for the Canada Green Building Council from 2008-2014, developed the LEED Canada for Homes program for single along with multifamily homes and supported its delivery in all provinces and two territories. Chris sits on the technical committee for the Building Decarbonization Alliance. Chris has served on the board of directors for Passive House Canada. Prior to that Chris found his love of better buildings while working as Mountain Equipment Cooperatives store planner. Chris is a Newfoundlander but has made British Columbia his home for the last quarter century.
