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Q&A: Sally Wilson on the USGBC Headquarters, LEED Fine Print, and Negotiating a Green Lease
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The USGBC’s new headquarters are housed in a renovated 1970s office building, for which Wilson negotiated a green lease. Photo: Larry Olsen/courtesy Envision
If green building is to ever become mainstream (and, trust me, it’s not even close today), it will need people like Sally Wilson working behind the scenes. A trained architect, Wilson is a real estate broker in the CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) Washington office, and the firm’s global director of environmental strategy.
She had the distinction of being the first real estate broker in the world to be LEED accredited. Since green building will never become business-as-usual unless business itself signs onto it, this was a very significant first. Wilson served as a real estate consultant for the USGBC’s new headquarters—her husband Ken’s firm,Envision Design, created it—helping to negotiate its green lease. Recently I spoke to her about the USGBC, her work with the real estate behemoth CBRE, and the next frontier for green building.
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