Gail Vittori

Co-Director
Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems

Gail Vittori is Co-Director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, a non-profit sustainable planning and design firm established in 1975 engaged with strategic development, design, policy, education and research initiatives. She was the 2009 Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Board of Directors, served on the USGBC Board from 2002-2010 and is currently on the Green Building Certification Institute Board of Directors.  She was Founding Chair of the LEED for Healthcare committee (2004-2008), is Convener and a Co-Coordinator of the Green Guide for Health Care and co-author of Sustainable Healthcare Architecture with Robin Guenther.  In Austin, she oversees sustainability initiatives for the 709-acre Mueller Redevelopment Project including LEED for Neighborhood Development Pilot Certification, and coordinates Sustainability and LEED initiatives for the 1.1 million square feet mixed use Block 21 project and for the new Austin Federal Courthouse, both located in Austin’s Central Business District.  She was the sustainability and LEED consultant for Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas, the first LEED Platinum certified hospital in the world.  Ms. Vittori is on the advisory boards of Environmental Building News and Natural Home magazine. She was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and was featured as an Innovator: Building a Greener World in TIME Magazine.