Tahanto Middle School (MA). Photo courtesy of HMFH Architects

National Technical Committee

The CHPS National Technical Committee is a group of industry leaders across multiple disciplines charged with supporting CHPS vision by providing technical, practical, and strategic assistance.

Expertise and leadership

Working hand-in-hand with The Committee is the main way CHPS establishes and maintaining rigorous high performance national standards and best practice resources. The Committee specifically helps to develop and update criteria, answers credit interpretations, and more broadly offers their expertise and guidance on the ongoing development of CHPS visionary program. 

Responsibilities

  • Review, revise, and maintain CHPS Criteria and Credit Library to ensure technical rigor and consistency across CHPS resources.

  • Revise and maintain the CHPS Best Practices Manuals.

  • Assist local CHPS Committees when regional modifications or proposed new criteria are being considered during CHPS Criteria Development/Revision process.

  • Issue interpretations of the CHPS Criteria (CCIs).

  • Provide assistance and coordination with other CHPS Committees and Subcommittees on cross-cutting issues and criteria.

  • Other technical matters that are occasionally referred by the Board of Directors.

Committee members

CHPS Members can join the National Technical Committee as full participants or serve in a leadership role as a subcommittee co-chair or as one of two co-chairs of the overall National Technical Committee. Non-members are invited to participate as advisors during criteria updates. Non-members are considered Subject Matter Experts (SME) and are non-voting.

Leadership

  • Arnel Catalan

    CO-CHAIR
    Mount Vernon Group Architects

  • Raffi Manjikian

    CO-CHAIR
    Interval Data Systems

  • John Zinner

    TRANSITION CO-CHAIR
    ZC Sustainability

Integration and innovation subcommittee

  • Alice Sung

    CO-CHAIR
    Greenbank Associates

  • Claire Barnett

    Healthy Schools Network

  • Christopher Gerber (SME)

    Gerber Consulting

  • Arlene Hopkins (SME)

    Arlene Hopkins & Associates

  • Ying Wang

    Okapi Architecture

  • Dana Waters

    California Air Resources Board (CARB)

  • Annie Kell (SME)

    Group 14 Engineering

Indoor environmental quality subcommittee

  • Heather Jauregui

    CHAIR
    Perkins Eastman

  • Samantha Rawlings

    CO-CHAIR
    Veneklasen

  • Leo Cedolin (A) (SME)

    Waveguide

  • Jason DeMarco

  • Shawn Good (L) (SME)

    Brinjac Lighting Studio Design

  • Pat Wong (V)

    California Air Resources Board (CARB)

  • Pat Jennings

    Carpet and Rug Institute (CRI)

  • Jani Palmer (SME)

    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

  • David Rhodes

    DuctMate

  • Zack Rogers (L) (SME)

    Daylighting Innovations

  • Josh Roper (A)

    Charles M. Salter Associates, Inc.

  • Trevor Schatz (V)

    Healthy Buildings

  • Richard Shaughnessy (V)

    University of Tulsa

  • Michael Siminovitch (L)

    California Lighting Technology Center, UC Davis

  • Toni Stein (SME)

    IGC.org

  • Ed Stuber (SME)

    Galson Labs

  • Ying Wang

    Okapi Architecture

  • Mir Mohsin Ali (A)

    Swegon

Energy subcommittee

  • Sean Denniston

    CHAIR
    New Buildings Institute

  • James Anderton

    Independent Commissioning Consulting, LLC

  • Christopher Armstrong

    PACE Representatives, Inc.

  • Karen Butler

    EPA Energy Star

  • Oscar Corcios

    Los Angeles Unified School District

  • Miles Dake

    M.E. Group

  • John Diffenderfer

    Aedis Architects

  • Tony Hans

    CMTA Consulting Engineers

  • Scott Harrison

    TXU Energy

  • Katy Hatcher

    EPA Energy Star

  • Shona O’Dea

    DLR Group

  • Jim Ogden

    3QC Inc.

  • Richard Shaughnessy (V)

    University of Tulsa

  • James Shwe

    Maroko & Shwe, Inc.

  • Aaron Wintersmith

    Capital Engineering

Water and site subcommittee

  • Toni Stein

    CHAIR
    IGC.org

  • Bevin Ashenmiller

    Occidental College Department of Economics

  • Vanessa Carter

    Ecoliteracy Content Specialist at SFUSD

  • Eric Corey Freed (SME)

    Organicarchitect.com

  • Sara Greenwood

    Greenwood Consulting

  • Arlene Hopkins

    Arlene Hopkins & Associates

  • Mark Hyer (SME)

    Earth Networks

  • John Koeller (Alternate)

    Alliance for Water Efficiency

  • Thomas Pape

    Alliance for Water Efficiency

  • Alice Sung

    Greenbank Associates

  • Sharon Danks (SME)

    Green Schoolyards America

  • Carolyn Kolstad (SME)

    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

  • Annie Kell (SME)

    Group14 Engineering

Materials and waste management subcommittee

  • Nate Belke (SME)

    CHAIR
    VWR

  • Annie Bevan (SME)

    Sustainability Made Simple

  • Gregory Dick

    CA Department of Resources Recycling & Recovery

  • Chris Lee

    Jacobs Wyper Architects

  • Kurt Siggard

    Concrete Masonry Association of CA & NV

  • Raja Tannous

    Berkeley Analytical

  • Patty Karapinar

    Architect/Sustainability Consultant

Operations and metrics subcommittee

  • Anna Klovstad

    CHAIR
    Tahoe-Truckee Unified School District

  • Carrie Havey

    CO-CHAIR
    The Green Engineer

  • Margi Ammon

    Adams 12 Five Star Schools

  • Michal Healy

    Santa Clara Unified School District

  • Tania Van Herle

    Harley Ellis Devereaux