Chris Schaffner
Chris Schaffner, PE, LEED Fellow, WELL AP, WELL Faculty is the founder and CEO of The Green Engineer, Inc. Chris has 35 years of experience in the design of building systems, with a focus on energy efficiency and sustainability. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T., and is a registered professional engineer in Massachusetts, California and Vermont. A long time promoter of sustainable design, Chris was a charter member of the US Green Building Council's (USGBC) LEED Faculty, and trained more than 10,000 building industry professionals in using the LEED Rating System. He previously served on the LEED Steering Committee, as the 2019 LSC Chair. In addition, Chris also served on the USGBC Board of Directors, the USGBC Advisory Council, as Chair of the Energy and Atmosphere Technical Advisory Group (TAG) and LEED Advisory Committee, and as a member of the Indoor Environmental Quality TAG, among other volunteer roles with the USGBC. Chris is a part-time Lecturer at Northeastern University's Sustainable Building Systems program. He previously taught at Boston Architectural College and has also lectured at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, MIT, Brandeis, Duke, WPI, and Wentworth. Chris is a member of ASHRAE, which certified him as a High-Performance Building Design Professional, a Certified Decarbonization Planner, and a Building Energy Modeling Professional. He is also a member of IBPSA and the Society of Building Science Educators. He holds the LEED AP designation with BD+C, ID+C, and EB+OM specialties. In addition, Chris is a WELL AP, a member of the WELL Faculty, and serves on the WELL Air Advisory. Over the past 35 years, Chris has been involved in many projects incorporating energy efficiency and sustainability. These projects have been across many building types, from high-rise office buildings to small-scale multi-family residential. His projects have included energy-intensive building types such as research laboratories and hospitals. His portfolio includes more than 220 projects that have achieved LEED Certification.