Chris Schaffner, PE, LEED Fellow, is Founder and Principal of The Green Engineer, Inc. a sustainable design consulting firm based in Concord, MA. Chris has 28 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.
Chris has been a member of the US Green Building Council’s (USGBC) LEED Faculty since 2001. He was chair of the USGBC’s LEED Energy and Atmosphere Technical Advisory Group during the development of LEED v4, and currently serves on the USGBC Advisory Council.
Chris frequently speaks at conferences on sustainable design, and is a lecturer at Northeastern University. He has taught previously at the Boston Architectural College, and lectured at Harvard GSD, MIT, Duke and Wentworth. In 2008, Chris was selected as a member of the Massachusetts Zero Net Energy Building Task Force. He also served on the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust Fund Green Building Advisory Committee and on Mayor Menino’s Green Building Task Force Advisory Committee.
Chris is a member of ASHRAE, which certified him as a “High Performance Building Design Professional” and a “Building Energy Modeling Professional.” He holds the LEED AP designation with both BD+C and ID+C specialties.
Chris has been involved in a large number of projects incorporating energy efficiency and sustainability. These projects have been across many building types, ranging from high-rise office buildings to small-scale multi-family residential. Many of his projects include energy intensive building types such as research laboratories and hospitals.
