Martine Dion

Martine Dion, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, is Principal and Director of Sustainable Design at SMMA with twenty two years of experience. She is the sustainable expert within the firm, providing sustainable design and LEED consulting services to clients. Ms. Dion has been in charge of the implementation and coordination of sustainable design practices for the firm for the past fifteen years and has largely contributed to its consolidation across the firm’s A&E disciplines. She has completed LEED projects and multiple school projects under the LEED for Schools, MA-CHPS and NE-CHPS certification. She is the chairperson of SMMA’s Sustainable Design and Energy Efficiency Services. She has contributed to the AIA’s National Committee on the Environment, to the Massachusetts State’s Roundtable Action Plan for Green Buildings, the Massachusetts Governor Patrick’s Zero Net Energy Task Force and Zero Net Energy Advisory Council, as well as the Federal DOE Zero Net Energy Task Force. She recently took part of the workgroup overseeing the new MA Stretch Code, as well as the original and new version of NBI’s Advanced Buildings Core Performance Guidelines. She is also a contributor to the Health Product

Declaration Initiative and trained under the Living Building Challenge program. Ms. Dion has made several presentations on sustainable design and LEED projects in the US, Canada, and Asia. She is a frequent speaker to client groups, facilities managers, community officials, and planning committees on sustainable design and energy efficiency. She has been a guest lecturer on sustainable design, sustainable materials and renewable energy at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Wentworth Institute of Technology, Northeastern University and University of Massachusetts (UMass). She has contributed to numerous articles on the topic. Martine sits on the NESEA Board of Directors. She is a founding Director of the USGBC Massachusetts Chapter and sits on the USGBC MA Green Schools’ committee.