Fiona was trained as a real estate investment analyst, working for the European branch of Gill Savings, a Texas Savings & Loan institution.  Her career in construction started in the mid 1980s as a project manager of a design, build, management company developing hospices and large commercial nursing homes in England.  In 1995 Fiona moved to the Pacific Northwest, where she continued her career in residential construction.  Until 2008 she was Sustainability Director for Apple Homes, a design build construction company building ENERGY STAR®, Built Green 5-Star custom homes in the South Puget Sound region.  In 2008 Fiona founded SEEC LLC, an education and consulting firm, bringing together a group of residential green building professionals and appraisers based in the Pacific Northwest concerned with the accurate recording of value for green and energy efficient homes.  Fiona is an Approved Real Estate Instructor with the State of WA.

In May of 2009, Fiona was elected president of the Northwest EcoBuilding Guild, a non-profit, volunteer-based organization with over 500 members, which since 1993 has been pioneering sustainable green building education to design and building professionals in the four States of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana.

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Terry started her career as a Plans Examiner, before taking the apprenticeship path to professionally practicing architecture.  Since 1994, as Principal of Living Shelter Design, Terry has created designs for, and overseen documentation of, over 140 custom single-family homes, 5 clustered community projects, and 3 commercial structures.  Her focus is on sustainable design solutions, including teaching about low-impact solutions on sensitive sites.   Terry’s progressive work was recognized in 2005 when she was given the King County Earth Hero award.

Since 2003 Terry has been giving strawbale workshop trainings and is now invited regularly to speak at regional conferences such as Cascadia Region Green Building Council’s Living Future and Built Green.  She is the host of Living Shelter Cafe, an interview style talk show on sustainable building, design, and living options. Program was broadcast online weekly during 2009 through two internet-based radio stations, and archives are available on www.livingshelter.com/radio.html.

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Sam is a Certified Residential Appraiser in the Seattle area and a founder of G2B Ventures whose mission is to drive energy efficiency in existing buildings.  He has ten years of experience in real estate appraisal, discounted property acquisition, existing building rehab, new construction management, implementation of green building methods & materials and real estate portfolio management in the Seattle residential market area. As a certified appraiser for HomeStreet Bank, Golf Savings Bank, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan/Chase Bank and others he personally completed over 3,000 real estate appraisal assignments in the greater Seattle market area and successfully built an appraisal company on the strength of credible property valuation. As a developer and investor he developed new construction residential projects, acquired discounted properties, managed properties as rentals and sold for profit. His most recent project is a Five Star, “Built-Green” home in the Seattle city core which recycles rainwater for laundry, toilets and irrigation featured in Feb 2009 Seattle Metropolitan Magazine.

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Robbi is a Certified Residential Appraiser and has been appraising residential and small income properties in the five central counties of Western Washington since 2003.  She has appraised “green properties” in both metropolitan and rural/suburbia areas, as well as consulted with developers on the most profitable way for them to “go green”.  Her interest in alternative energy and sustainable building spans over 10 years.

Robbi was one of the appraisers contracted under the Green Building Value Initiative, a Cascadia region initiative to investigate the hypothesis of a premium for green.  She was a contributing author of “Green Building: An Emerging Sector in Residential Appraising” one of the first clock hour courses for appraisers in WA and more recently contributing author of ”Green and ENERGY STAR appraising: how agents affect the process” a course developed for real estate agents.  Robbi is an Approved Real Estate Instructor with the State of WA.

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Cate has been a promoter, organizer,  educator and early adopter of  green building in Washington State since 1990.  She founded ESP Services to work with private enterprise, non-profits, and government agencies designing, supporting and promoting Green Building initiatives and projects throughout the Northwest, primarily in the Seattle metropolitan area.  Notable projects include the Green Pages for the Northwest EcoBuilding Guild since 2002, the Built Green® manuals for King and Snohomish Counties, and most recently, editorial manager for the Nisqually Watershed Building Guide in collaboration with Stewardship Partners. Cate served for three years as the Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Sustainable Development Task Force in Snohomish County, increasing awareness and opportunities for sustainable development in this rural and growing county, especially for low impact development.

Bringing green education to the real estate market has been Cate’s focus for the last few years: creating curriculum for  GreenWorks Realty‘s Healthy Home Series, and providing an even more thorough examination of green building, by developing several classes for the North Seattle Community College’s Green Real Estate Certificate program.  Her lastest achievement has been to develop a new Green Real Estate Designation for Built Green Washington, that focuses on how to become a Certified Built Green Real Estate Professional.  Cate is an Approved Real Estate Instructor with the State of WA.

Cate was honored in 2010 with the Built Green Pioneer Award.  When Cate is not doing something ‘green,’ she’s playing with her dogs.