Energy Connections and Infrastructure Manager / Senior Green Building Planner (Working jointly with BC Hydro and City of Vancouver)

Chris is an accomplished project manager who has developed a number of successful programs that overcome market barriers and result in lower energy buildings that are heated and cooled without on site pollution.  He possesses a well-developed knowledge of energy use in residential buildings and has the experience to know the policy triggers to encourage action.

Chris develops and implements building bylaw, policy, and incentive programs to achieve new buildings that run on renewable energy, while at the same time helping to reduce greenhouses gases from existing homes. He works to remove barriers existing home retrofit, and possesses an understanding of regulatory and incentive options a city has at its disposal. Increasingly Chris has been enabling electrification in buildings with process, policy, and incentive change.  Chris is a spokesperson at national conferences and to various media outlets.

Chris is a Newfoundlander but has made British Columbia his home for the last quarter century.