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1. Fellow, ConstrucDon SpecificaDons InsDtute
James ScoU Brew, FCSI, AIA CerDfied Passivhaus Design Consultant
LEED® Accredited Professional BD+C
American InsDtute of Architects
Main: 303.245.1003
Direct: 303.567.8557
Mobile: 720.891.0363
Email: jbrew@rmi.org
Speaker Profile
Since the early 1980s, James Brew, FCSI, AIA has been designing buildings and
communiDes stretching from the Midwestern U.S. to Europe and the far East. His
experDse is in creaDng whole‐system, fully‐integrated building and community
designs through energy, water and
resource efficiency, climate‐ “James has been involved in guiding the
responsive design, and designing design of environmentally sustainable
indoor environments that are projects for many years before LEED was
h e a l t hy a n d p ro d u c D ve fo r born. His knowledge and passion for
humans. He has provided design sustainable design bring a unique set of
Principal Architect
a n d c o n s u l D n g s e r v i c e s o n posi<ve aKtude, team building and
Design & Planning Studio Leader,
hundreds of projects around the leadership skills to any team interested in
Rocky Mountain InsDtute (RMI)
world including residences, historic accomplishing significant sustainability
Boulder, Colorado.
buildings, offices, laboratories, goals”
Responsible for scaling RMI’s
impact from single buildings to retail and public projects for
‐ Ronald G. Kirk, Architect, President
campuses, communiDes and ciDes corporaDons, campuses and
KPMI Program Management
to lead us toward resource communiDes.
efficient, sustainable and livable Much of James’ current
built environments. work centers around creaDng livable communiDes
for a reduced‐carbon and post‐peak‐oil world. His
Clients recent research includes finding sustainable
• APi Group, Inc. soluDons to feeding our growing urban populaDon
• Cambridge Energy Alliance and learning from communiDes around the world
• Deutsche Bank that are creaDng “real community” soluDons.
• Environmental Defense Fund
• Ferraro Choi Architects Professional RecogniDon
• Rafael Viñoly Architects • AIA CommiUee on the Environment Top 10 Award
• Urban Re:Vision • Many preservaDon, energy, sustainability and
• US Forest Service design awards from AIA, CSI, ASHRAE, ACEC and
• Whole Foods Co‐op other organizaDons
Speaking Engagements • Contributor to Business Week, CNBC Europe,
• US Green Building Council TreeHugger, Environmental Design + Construc<on,
• American Solar Energy Society Popular Science, Builder and Plenty magazines
• American InsDtute of Architects
• ConstrucDon SpecificaDons Educator • Leader
InsDtute (CSI NaDonal) • Designed & conducted training workshops for over
• Intl. Green Building Challenge 1,200 people around the world on the USGBC’s
• Urban Land InsDtute Global LEED Green Building RaDng System
Conference (Tokyo) • Trained hundreds of people on CSI’s professional
• NaDonal Apartment AssociaDon cerDficaDon programs (CDT, CCS, CCCA)
• NAIOP‐Commercial Real Estate • Past President American InsDtute of Architects
Development AssociaDon Northern Minnesota
• NaDonal Council of AcousDcal • Founding President Twin Ports Chapter, CSI
Consultants • Past President DC Development AssociaDon
• 2nd InternaDonal Conference on • Past President Douglas County Historical Society
Climate Change (Hong Kong)
Rocky Mountain InsDtute • 1820 Folsom Street, Boulder, Colorado 80302