Nov 15 2013
Turner Construction Company is pleased to announce the U.S. Green Building Council today named Chief Sustainability Officer Michael Deane to the 2013 class of LEED Fellows. The LEED Fellow Program is the green building industry’s most prestigious professional designation. The LEED Fellow designation recognizes exceptional contributions to green building and significant professional achievement within the rapidly growing community of LEED Professionals.
Deane was among 51 of the world’s most distinguished green building professionals to be selected this year as LEED Fellows through a peer nomination and portfolio review process. Deane’s LEED AP BD+C credential, 13 years of green building experience, and extensive portfolio of LEED projects comprise a few of his outstanding qualifications.
“We are thrilled to present these highly accomplished individuals with the LEED Fellow designation,” said Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO & Founding Chair, USGBC. “The Fellows are some of the leading innovators and vanguards of the green building movement, and their bodies of work strongly underscore their commitment to LEED and a sustainable built environment.”
Deane leads Turner Construction Company’s green building and sustainability efforts. During his tenure, Turner has completed more than 300 LEED Certified projects comprising 69 million square feet of space with a construction value of $18 billion; initiated a LEED and green training program which is largely responsible for the dramatic increase in the number of LEED professionals on staff from 42 to more than 1,400; and developed a construction waste tracking system that has documented the diversion of more than 1.8 million tons of waste from landfills since 2005. Turner has been named the number one green builder in the United States by Engineering News-Record each year since 2006, and has been awarded a Climate Leadership Award by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Michael Deane will be recognized with the rest of the 2013 LEED Fellow class at the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in Philadelphia this month. For more information on the LEED Fellow program, please visit usgbc.org/leed/credentials/leed-fellow/.
Source: http://www.turnerconstruction.com/