Advocacy & Policy
The Advocacy Committee was founded in recognition of the necessity to engage the Institute in industry standards, codes, and public policy as a strategy to further the mission of accelerating a transformation to sustainable buildings and urban habitat. This may involve developing and forwarding our own initiatives or supporting the initiatives of other groups. For example, FTI members recently provided proposed facade related modifications to the USGBC for incorporation in their latest building rating system. Our own initiatives could potentially involve the development of codes, standards, metrics, rating systems and/or guidelines relating to various aspects of facade system design and delivery.
Committee Initiatives:
- We recently submitted proposals to LEED v4 with recommendations to improve facade performance and occupant comfort – read the full announcement.
Committee Members
Helen Sanders
General Manager, Technoform North America
Committee Chair
Tony Cinnamon
Associate Principal, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates (WJE), Inc.
Committee Member
Chris DeHaven
Project Director, McCarthy Building Companies
Committee Member
Stéphane Hoffman
Vice President Facade Engineering, Morrison Hershfield
Committee Member
Louis Koehl
Project Architect, Handel Architects
Committee Member
Katherine Miller
The Hilton Foundation
Committee Member
Mic Patterson
Ambassador of Innovation & Collaboration, Facade Tectonics Institute
Committee Member
April Rawson
Senior Manager, Business Development, National Fenestration Rating Council
Committee Member
Stephen Selkowitz
Senior Advisor for Building Science, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Committee Member
Bryan Toton
CEO, North Carolina State University
Committee Member
Hamid Vossoughi
Senior Principal, WSP Canada
Committee Member
Richard Green
Facade Designer, Engineer and Consultant, Green Facades LLC
Committee Member
Roger Fricke
Vice President, Clark Construction Group
Committee Member
Joe Conover
Vice President, Clark Construction Group
Committee Member
Stacey Hooper
Principal, NBBJ
Committee Member
Audrey Wu
Gensler
Committee Member
Irene Martin
Arup
Committee Member
Keith Boswell
Partner, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Committee Member
Peter Weismantle
Consulting Director Supertall Building Technology, AS+GG
Committee Member
Ron Sucik
Technoform North America
Committee Member
Matt Staublin
Director - California, Lerch Bates Building Insight
Committee Member
Dahmahlee Lawrence
Project Architect; Associate, Perkins&Will
Committee Member
Alex Cox
Marketing Communications Manager, Permasteelisa
Committee Member
Jeff Heymann
Vice President, Business Development, Benson Industries, Inc.
Committee Member
Jesse Bright
Architect - Facade Specialist, Studio NYL
Committee Member
Want to get involved?
Applications to this committee are considered by the committee members on a case-by-case basis.
