Jerry Yudelson, one of the country’s leading experts on green building, and Principal of Yudelson Associates, has joined the advisory boards for HFI and HHI. He has more than 25 years of experience with renewable energy systems, green building design, environmental remediation and water conservation.
 
Yudelson is a Registered Professional Engineer in Oregon, and a U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED Accredited Professional since 2001 (LEED AP BD+C/O+M). He has an MBA from the University of Oregon, engaged in PhD studies in Environmental Engineering Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and in Graduate Studies as a Rotary Foundation Fellow in Civil Engineering, Technische Hochschule, Aachen, Germany. Jerry has an MS in Environmental Engineering from Harvard University, and a BS in Civil Engineering from Caltech.
 
He is author of 13 books on green building, green development, green homes and water conservation. He served on the national board of the USGBC, and was named by the U.S. Green Building Council to the inaugural group of 34 LEED Fellows.  In 2011, Wired magazine named him the “Godfather of Green”.  As a keynote speaker, Jerry Yudelson has addressed nearly 100 green building, sustainable development and water efficiency conferences in 12 countries since 2006.
 
As one of the original 10 LEED national faculty members, from 2001 to 2008, Jerry trained more than 3,500 people in the LEED rating system. For the U.S. Green Building Council, from 2004 through 2009, he chaired Greenbuild, the country’s largest green building conference. In 2006, the U.S. General Services Administration named him a “National Peer Professional.”