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RTKL appoints Lance Hosey as Chief Sustainability Officer and Senior Vice President

RTKL appoints Lance Hosey as Chief Sustainability Officer and Senior Vice President

Author and authority on green design to spearhead RTKL Performance-driven DesignSM initiative.


By Posted by Tim Gregorski, Senior Editor | September 11, 2012
Lance Hosey AIA, LEED AP
Lance Hosey AIA, LEED AP
This article first appeared in the October 2012 issue of BD+C.

RTKL, the global architecture, planning and design firm, announced that Lance Hosey AIA, LEED AP, author and recognized authority on green architecture and design, joined RTKL as Chief Sustainability Officer and Senior Vice President. Hosey, whose latest book, The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology and Design (Island Press, 2012), sets forth clear principles for the aesthetics of sustainable design, will direct RTKL’s strategic initiative in Performance-driven Design SM, a metric-focused approach to architecture, planning and urban design.

Hosey joins RTKL after serving as president & CEO of GreenBlue, a non-profit company dedicated to sustainable innovation in design and production. Prior to that, Hosey was a director with William McDonough + Partners, a pioneer of sustainable design, where he worked with clients such as Google, NASA, Palm, and SC Johnson. +

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