About EcoCitéValuesBuilding Green

The team behind ECOCITÉ Developments

Christopher Sweetnam-Holmes
Alex Hill
Huston Eubank

Christopher Sweetnam-Holmes,

B.Int'l Bus, B.E.D.S.(Arch), LEED AP, is an environmentalist, designer, real estate developer and businessman. Passionate about the environment, Christopher believes that social and environmental entrepreneurship can be a powerful way to affect change. This belief has been translated in the development of his EcoCondo and EcoCité housing concepts.

Recently nominated to the Board of Directors of the Candian Green building council, Chris also sits on the board of BioRegional North America. Winner of the McGill University Management Award, (2005) and the Berkeley Prize for Architecture, from the University of California at Berkeley (2001), Christopher has been featured in numerous media for his innovative housing ideas. He was included in “The Great Warming”, a major documentary series that aired on the Discovery Channel, Canal D, and PBS.

Contact Christopher at cholmes@ecocite.ca

 

 

Alex Hill,

MEng, project manager and mechanical systems specialist with expertise in renewable energy and water systems, led the implementation of Energie Vert Benny Farm, a large, international award-winning, community geothermal system. Alex directs our fundamental commissioning services.

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Huston Eubank,

is an architect and green development specialist who is working internationally as an independent consultant on sustainability. His long and interesting career in green development has given him a wide range of experience in many areas. His background includes serving as Executive Director of the World Green Building Council, a Principal with the Green Development Services team at Rocky Mountain Institute, the Director of Building Futures Services for David Gottfried (the founder of the USGBC and WorldGBC), the “EarthSmart Ambassador” at Portland General Electric, and a senior project architect at Gensler. Huston has a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University. He is a LEEDTM Accredited Professional and Fulbright Senior Specialist. He was a founding member of the Oregon Natural Step network, liaison to the NW Regional Council of the US President's Council on Sustainability, served on the Board of Envirosense, advised the Portland AIA's Architecture+Energy Award program, chaired the Los Angeles CSI Technical and Environmental Committees, and was Chair of the Oahu Citizen's Advisory Committee on Coastal Zone Management in the mid 1970's. Huston has also served as a certified construction specifier, a developer, a contractor, a US Navy officer, and the proprietor of his own firms.

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