Phone: (503) 274-0448

Email: info@thegbi.org

Chair Alison Hoagland, Amlan Mukherjee, Chair 2023, Immediate Past Chair Tim Thiel, Board member John Lister, and CEO Vicki Worden.

The Green Building Initiative is governed by a multi-stakeholder Board of Directors representing a broad cross-section of the building industry, such as building owners, architects, engineers, consultants, academics,
and representatives from NGOs, manufacturers, and service providers.

This diverse representation reflects GBI’s commitment to consensus-based solutions that balance technical rigor, market realities, and public interest. Board members are selected through an open nomination process and provide strategic direction for the organization while ensuring responsible stewardship of GBI’s resources
and accountability to its members, stakeholders,
and the public.

Through their leadership, the Board helps guide the development of standards, certification programs,
and educational initiatives that advance sustainability, resilience, and health across the built environment.

• Decrease carbon emissions and support growth of carbon neutral buildings.

• Improve water efficiency through strategies that include reducing consumption, increasing recycling, and using alternative sources of water.

• Promote health and well-being through excellence in planning for design, construction, use, accessibility, operations, maintenance, and low impact deconstruction of buildings.

• Pursue the goal of zero waste using life-cycle thinking to reduce, reuse, recover, and recycle while emphasizing responsible design, production, purchasing, and consumption.

• Support the use and advancement of smart buildings and other technology in achieving sustainability, health, and resilience objectives.

• Provide quality education that supports a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce for all levels of learners.

• Foster respectful and inclusive communities where transparency, consensus, due process, diversity, equity, inclusivity, openness, and innovation are guiding tenets.

• Encourage collaborative reporting on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) objectives and U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) toward collective action and achievement of positive, measurable impacts.

GBI’s primary objectives and principles are to: