Steve brings a strong commitment to sustainable design, energy conservation, and healthy building design. Steve has extensive experience in the energy analysis, design and construction of complex projects, including for higher education facilities, libraries, hospitals and medical centers, laboratories, museums and aquariums, and performing arts/media facilities. Steve serves on national committees that are developing guidelines and best practices for sustainability in our nation’s healthcare facilities. He served on the LEED for Healthcare Core Committee, which developed LEED for Healthcare, and serves on the Steering Committee of the Green Guide for Health Care. He has also presented numerous conferences on sustainable design for healthcare, including the ASHE PDC, CleanMed, and GreenBuild.
What’s Always on My Mind: Is there enough venison and wild boar in my freezer. Did I do the right thing at the right time. Am I leaving my kids a world in which they could have a better life than I did.
Fun Fact: In 8th grade I was a National Merit Scholar in French. Once upon a time my bowling average was 145. I was the Tragedian female impersonator in “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.”
Mantra: Be the change you want to see in the world. War does not determine who is right - only who is left. Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, and wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
People don’t know that…My mother was an artist, and my father was a third-generation engineer. I taught Sustainable Lifestyles and Organic Gardening at Rivendell Farm in Cave Junction, Oregon in the Summer of 1982. I enjoy hunting for wild game to eat. I played alto sax in the Pep Band in college. I love photography. I am a huge fan of the artist Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser.
Steve Guttmann PE, LEED AP, BEAP
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