The Green Building Advisory Committee (GBAC) provides independent policy advice and recommendations to GSA’s Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings, as required by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA), to advance federal building innovations in planning, design, and operations to reduce costs, enable agency missions, enhance human health and performance, and minimize environmental impacts.
The Designated Federal Official for this Advisory Committee is Michael Bloom in GSA’s Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings.
Membership
The Green Building Advisory Committee’s membership reflects a broad range of stakeholders including senior officials from Federal agencies as well as leading high-performance building experts from state, local, private, non-governmental, and academic sectors. The members of the Committee include:
| Committee Membership | Member | Organization |
|---|
| Chair | Fernando Arias | HITT |
| Federal | Nicolas Baker | Council on Environmental Quality |
| Gopinath Boray | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| Jonathan Petry | U.S. Department of Defense |
| Brent Kurapatskie | U.S. Department of Transportation |
| David Wagner | U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs |
| Dr. William Healy | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Vacant | Office of Science & Technology Policy |
| Mary Sotos | U.S. Department of Energy |
| Conan Wilson | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
| Christine Harada | Office of Federal Procurement Policy |
| Non-Federal | Fernando Arias | HITT |
| Donnel Baird | BlocPower |
| Roger Chang | Buro Happold |
| Dr. Whitney Austin Gray | International WELL Building Institute |
| Joyce Lee | IndigoJLD Green + Health |
| Keiva Rodriques | Maryland Aviation Administration |
| Dr. Timothy Unruh | National Association of Energy Service Companies |
U.S. General Services Administration