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Core Values and Guiding Principles

 

 

ACDDC Key Staff:

Michael Gatto, co-founder and president of the ACDDC, has a passion for green building and sustainability issues, such as energy and water conservation, use of recycled content materials, and indoor environmental quality.  Gatto has been working in sustainable design for more than 5 years, and is also currently intern architect and project manager at Foundation Communities, a regional affordable housing provider, where he completed his architectural internship during his Rose Architectural Fellowship.  Prior to Foundation Communities, Michael worked as a LEED sustainable design consultant on several municipal buildings at the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems in Austin. Michael earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from MIT and a Master of Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin

 

ACDDC Board of Directors:

o        Hayden Brooks, American Realty Group

o        Michael Gatto, Rose Fellow, Intern Architect, Foundation Communities

o        Sonya Lopez, Principal Planner, City of Austin Neighborhood Planning & Zoning Department

o        Scott Marks, attorney, Real Estate/Affordable Housing Group, Coats Rose Yale Ryman Lee

o        Steven Moore, Professor, University of Texas School of Architecture

o        Michael Oden, Associate Professor, University of Texas School of Architecture

o        Barbara Wilson, Luce Fellow, PhD Student, UT Community and Regional Planning Program

o        Layton Wilson, Layton B. Wilson Co.

 

ACDDC Board of Advisors:

o        Luke Brown, LZT Architects

o        Jennifer Daughtrey, Foundation Communities

o        Pliny Fisk III, Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems

o        Corey Flanders, Dzogchen Center

o        Rik Haden, Architectural Engineers Collaborative

o        Rich MacMath, HDR Architecture

o        Andrew McCalla, Meridian Solar

o        Elizabeth Mueller, UTSOA

o        Walter Moreau, Foundation Communities

o        Sergio Palleroni, UTSOA

o        John Rickard, Olicon Construction, Inc.

o        Jim Walker, Central Texas Sustainability Indicators Project

 

 

 


michael.gatto@foundcom.org

3036 South First Street

Austin, TX 78704

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