Gregory Franta

Since the mid 1970’s, Greg Franta, FAIA has been leading, pioneering, and inspiring ecological architecture and sustainable development. His expertise is in creating high performance, sustainable buildings through energy, water, and resource efficiency, climate responsive design, material selection, and indoor environmental quality. He has provided design and consulting services on over 800 projects world wide, including residences, offices, retail, public projects, laboratories, and new communities. Many are considered the most efficient in the world and have received high environmental accolades.

Much of Greg’s current work focuses on “Making the Business Case for Sustainable Development”, research on the barriers and enablers of greening corporate real estate, and “Integrated Solutions” to cool the warming due to the built environment. He has been spreading his message by writing, speaking, and creating inspirational, documentary videos.

Greg is the Principal Architect Built Environment Team Leader where he is leading, inspiring and creating through research, outreach, and consulting projects that are resource-efficient, sustainable developments in the built environment.