B3 and SB 2030 Leadership

Michelle Gransee, Minnesota Department of Commerce

Bee Yang, Minnesota Department of Administration

Richard Graves, Center for Sustainable Building Research, University of Minnesota

Pat Smith, Center for Sustainable Building Research, University of Minnesota

Chris Baker, Willdan

Maureen Colburn, LHB Inc.

Russ Landry, CEE

Contact us:

B3 Program General Questions
info@b3mn.org

B3 Guidelines
guidelines@b3mn.org

SB 2030 Energy Standard
sb2030@b3mn.org

B3 Benchmarking
benchmarking@b3mn.org

B3 Energy Efficient Operations
operations@b3mn.org

B3 Post Occupancy Evaluation
poe@b3mn.org

B3 Case Studies Database
casestudies@b3mn.org

Acknowledgements:

The development of the B3 Guidelines has been a multiyear process in collaboration with many people and departments in the State. The team assembled to develop and run the B3 Guidelines program represents regional and national expertise. The B3 Guidelines Team would like to recognize the following individuals for their contributions:

The Executive Team has previously included: Janet Streff, Department of Commerce; Wayne Waslaski, Real Estate and Construction Services; Linda Kane, Department of Administration, State Architect’s Office; Kath Ouska, Department of Administration, State Architect’s Office; Wes Chapman, Department of Administration; and Jim Jarvis, Department of Administration; Gordon Christofferson, Department of Administration, Jessica Burdette, Department of Commerce

The Core Team responsible for advising development of prior versions of the guidelines included: Bruce Nelson, Department of Commerce; Rajan Thomas, Department of Administration – Plant Management; Ed Robinson, Department of Administration – Plant Management; Steve Hernick, Department of Administration – BCSD; Mark Wallace, Department of Natural Resources (DNR); John Strohkirch, Department of Natural Resources (DNR); Peter Paulson, Department of Natural Resources (DNR); Linda Nelson, Department of Health Services (DHS); Joe Dotson, Department of Health Services (DHS); Richard L. Post, Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT); Lee Mehrkens, Department of Finance; Bill Sierks, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency; Laura Millberg, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency; Laura Oatman, Department of Health; Audrey Bomstad, Department of Children, Families & Learning (CFL); Tom Vesely, Military Affairs; Todd Christenson, Department of Employee Relations (DOER); Rolf Nordstrom, Minnesota Planning; Bill Breyfogle, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU); Sally Grans, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU); John Grundtner, University of Minnesota; Paul Kroening, Hennepin County (representing Association of Minnesota Counties); Leslie Wilson, Carver County (representing Association of Minnesota Counties)

Management Team previously included: John Carmody, Center for Sustainable Building Research, University of Minnesota; David Eijadi, The Weidt Group; Tom McDougall, The Weidt Group; Graham Adams, The Adams Group; Rick Carter, LHB.

Center for Sustainable Building Research, University of Minnesota

Jonee Kulman Brigham

Rebecca Foss

Kerry Haglund

Jim Wise

Rolf Jacobson

Garrett Mosiman

Liz Kutschke

Diba Malekpour

Matt Tierney

Natalie Georgieff

LHB, Inc

Molly Eagan

David Williams

Thea Rozenbergs

Becky Alexander

Beth Tomlinson

The Kestrel Design Group.

Annette Walby

Sarah Sutherland

Peter MacDonagh

University of Minnesota

Bob Gunderson

David Grimsrud

Willdan (Formerly The Weidt Group)

Craig Andemar

Prasad Vaidya

Jason Steinbock

Vinay Ghatti

Cheri Schneider

Idea Works

Betti Iwanski

Art Pearce

Wayne Trusty – Athena Sustainable Materials Institute

Rebecca Ellis – Questions & Solutions Engineering, Inc.

Jim Keller – Gausman and Moore

Ashraf Salama – The Adams Group

Leonard Krumm – CNA Consulting Engineers

Ray Cole – University of British Columbia

Gail Lindsey – Design Harmony Inc

Joyce Lee – City of New York, Office of Management & Budget

Jim Toothaker – High Performance Green Building Services