Sustainable Building Resources

Big News! The Guild Welcomes Chris Van Daalen as Executive Director

Building on the success of our signature programs, the NW EcoBuilding Guild is making bold moves to expand our leadership in the region.

At the annual Green Building Slam & Summit event last weekend in Seattle, the Guild announced the promotion of Chris van Daalen to the position of Executive Director. This is an interim position for 6 months; making it permanent will depend upon the success of membership fundraising efforts getting under way now to ensure a sustainable budget in 2018.

Van Daalen has been a volunteer, Chapter president and program consultant for the Guild since 2007. He led development of our signature policy program, the Code Innovations Database, pulling off a major win for the Guild in 2016 by “crowdfunding” $25,000 from EcoBuilding members and supporters, then leveraging that for another $95,000 in grant funding. Read more...