Faculty & Staff

Board Members

FACULTY AND STAFF

Brian Dunbar, LEED AP, Executive Director, CSU Faculty
dunbar@cahs.colostate.edu, (970) 491-5041
Brian Dunbar is director of the Institute for the Built Environment (IBE) and professor of Construction Management at Colorado State University. Professor Dunbar holds two degrees in architecture from the University of Michigan, is a U.S. Green Building Council LEED AP, passing both the 2.0 and 2.1 exams. Brian’s teaching, research, and project work focuses on environmentally sustainable design and construction materials, methods, and systems. Professor Dunbar coordinates the graduate emphasis in sustainable building at Colorado State and has developed university and professional courses on sustainable building, including an annual course on St. John, USVI.

Through IBE, an interdisciplinary research institute that engages faculty and industry partners in healthy and sustainable building issues, Brian has guided project work and facilitated charrettes for the National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, American Institute of Architects, municipalities, school districts, and the Colorado Governor’s Office of Energy Management and Conservation. Brian has served as LEED consultant for six registered projects and, in 2004, was selected as a LEED-CI faculty member by the USGBC. Brian’s sustainable building teaching and research as been honored and recognized by the AIA, the USGBC-Colorado Chapter, local communities, and universities.

Angela Guggemos, PhD, Director of Research, CSU Faculty
guggemos@cahs.colostate.edu, (970) 491-2473
Angela Guggemos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Construction Management at Colorado State University. She has Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the environmental and economic assessment of the built environment, modeling of life-cycle environmental and economic assessment, development of computer-aided environmental analysis and management tools, and environmental performance measurement. She has published peer-reviewed journal and conference papers on the life-cycle environmental implications and LCA of construction methods and materials, extended producer responsibility in the construction industry, environmental decision support tools, and integrating service-learning and sustainability in coursework. Her research integrates concepts in economics, engineering, management, environmental science, and public policy.

She has over five years of experience in the construction industry on tenant improvements, seismic retrofits, and historic renovations for commercial projects as well as sewer line maintenance and rehabilitation for a government agency. She has worked for contractors, owners, and construction managers.

Dale Pettigrew, Director, Outreach Education
dpettigr@cahs.colostate.edu, (970) 491-3260
Dale Pettigrew directs Outreach Education for IBE, coordinating the Green Building Certificate Programs and professional trainings. She has a long involvement in sustainable building and energy conservation, building two personal homes which incorporated solar and wind energy as well as other green building strategies. She brings extensive experience in coordinating events and programs, publishing, and marketing to her position at the Institute for the Built Environment. Other entrepreneurial adventures include beekeeping and raising, training and selling llamas.

Dale is an active member of the Northern Colorado branch of the Colorado Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council and serves as adviser to the CSU Emerging Green Builders student group. She graduated from Colorado State University with a B.A. in English.

Josie Plaut, LEED AP, Director of Projects
jmplaut@cahs.colostate.edu, (970) 491-5041
Josie is Director of Projects for the Institute for the Built Environment at Colorado State University. She has a degree in Business and Sustainability from Fort Lewis College and a Masters of Construction Management with an emphasis in Sustainable Building at Colorado State University.

Josie has worked in the private, non-profit and government sectors to facilitate and coordinate green building projects and is an experienced instructor, lecturer and workshop facilitator. Josie is LEED v2.0 and v2.2 Accredited Professional with working knowledge in LEED compliant design, construction, and documentation. Josie’s research interests include organizational change and processes as they relate to the adoption of sustainability and integrated design.

Lara Holland
Student Assistant

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Dana Villeneuve, Intern

Aaron Kemp-Hesterman, Intern

Shelley Kawamura, Intern

Anthony Mecca, Intern

Steph Hodgin, Intern

April Wackerman, Intern

Kristin Brinkman, Intern

Erik Beke, Intern

Clayton Bartczak, Intern

Last updated on December 18, 2007