Nils LARSSON

Short Bio for Nils Larsson
Nils Larsson is an architect and is Executive Director of the International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment (iiSBE), an international non-profit organization. While working with the Canadian government, he developed a demonstration program for commercial buildings with energy consumption 50% of current standards and, as part of this work, developed a formal implementation of the Integrated Design Process (IDP), which has been widely emulated around the world. Mr. Larsson is also the main organizer of Sustainable Building Challenge (SBC), an international project of iiSBE, whose aim is to develop and test new methods of assessing the environmental performance of buildings. On behalf of iiSBE he also led the development of a web-based multi-lingual information system.He has published many peer-reviewed papers, served as a juror on three architectural competitions in Europe and Montreal, and is Chair of the Regional Committee for the global SB08 Melbourne conference.