Light House Board of Directors

Dan Paris - President / Director of Development, Vancity Enterprises
Chris Corps - Vice President / President, Asset Strategics
Murray MacKinnon - Secretary / Director, Project Development Canada, Ledcor Construction Ltd.
Nina Winham - President, New Climate Strategies
Wilma Leung - President, WISA Healthy Homes
Vladimir Mikler - Partner, Cobalt Engineering 
John Holland - President & CEO, PHH ARC Environmental Ltd

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Dan Paris: Director of Development, Vancity Enterprises

Light House President
What I do: I work with a great team of people at Vancity Enterprises to deliver leading edge, sustainable real estate development projects. Most are affordable housing projects developed in partnership with community groups who are trying to meet a specific need. With nearly 20 years experience in development, consulting and design, I contribute practical and creative solutions to the process. I also actively research and promote Vancity's affordability and sustainability initiatives.
My Vision of Light House: I believe that Light House is one of the very best organizations capable of promoting the adoption of sustainable building practices to government, industry and the marketplace. I'm excited to help shape the organization's direction and growth. In particular, I'd like to see Light House help the private development industry adopt green practices as a matter of course. Private developers build more than any other player in the construction sector and therefore they hold the greatest potential to positively impact our communities and the environment.   

Chris Corps: President, Asset Strategics

Light House Vice-President
What I do: Work on complex real estate problems and make them work. Add substantial value to client assets. Work on leading edge initiatives.
Why I am excited about being involved with Light House: Other than Helen telling me that I would be, it would have to be because Light House can help provide a legacy and transfer both knowledge and skill sets to effect and support change and sustainability.
My Vision for Light House:By providing or referring people to affordable and informed resources and knowledge on sustainability. That way we can help those who don't know where to start on sustainability, and help the informed take things to the next level. To provide grounded, sound and yet leading edge help with a ready smile and a willing hand. To have fun.

Murray MacKinnon: Director, Project Development Canada, Ledcor Construction Limited

Light House secretary
What I do: The majority of Ledcor’s work is evolved in cooperation with our clients and I provide the bridge between the construction side and our development partners and their designers. We are increasingly involved with sustainable design & construction methods and I am often involved in the workshops which focus those projects’ objectives.
Why I am excited about being involved with Light House: I see Light House as a clearing house of ideas, a place where movement is being encouraged toward sustainable work over a very broad scale – from small to large – without authorship or ownership being an issue. We are all desperately needing to go in the same direction and whose name is on the solution is much less important than the solution itself!

Nina Winham: President, New Climate Strategies

What I do: I am a business and communications consultant with a focus on sustainability engagement: helping people understand sustainability issues and move towards meaningful change. For companies, this can mean building a social brand, engaging employees and developing leadership, and articulating new business strategies for a changing marketplace. For governments and non-profits, it often means innovative communications strategies to build commitment and excitement, particularly atter of course. Private developers build more than any other player in the construction sector and therefore they hold the greatest potential to positively impact our communities and the environment.
Why I am excited about being involved with Light House: I think there are far more solutions to our global environmental crisis than we realize, and Light House is engaged in the solutions business where it really counts: in our homes, our workplaces, our public buildings. I love green building because it demonstrates the best aspects of sustainability: what's good for the planet is, surprise, good for our health and our individual well-being too. (Funny, isn't it, that we needed green building codes to tell us that bringing sunlight and greenery into our workplaces is good for us?) True sustainability may seem like a lot of change and in some ways a lot of sacrifice; what we are only starting to realize is that it really means a higher quality of life, better balance, and stronger communities. Light House is very effectively promoting and synergizing one aspect of the shift we need to learn to make, and I'm pleased to help it along.   

Wilma Leung: President, WISA Healthy Homes

What I do: I run a residential design-build contracting company that uses the R2000 Standard as the Minimum Standard for all its work. My background is in engineering and environmental protection, and I am currently the Chairman of the 700-member Western Canada Group of Chartered Engineers. I am also active in the industry outreach of the builder-led BuiltGreen BC Program.
Why I am excited about being involved with Light House: What else can I say? It is simply exciting to meet and work with people who simply make things happen.
My Vision of Light House: Primarily one of capacity building, and insights and experience sharing. A place where we meet as individual entities and are dispatched as teams to build sustainability.

Vladimir Mikler: Partner, Cobalt Engineering

What I do: With over 20 years of experience in sustainable building design, I have completed a numerous of successful sustainable ‘Green’ projects. My work experience includes practical design and management in both consulting engineering and design-build environments, to “hands-on” construction management and field system installations. One of my most distinguishable accomplishments is being recognized as the Engineer-of-Record for the first “constant temperature building” in North America.        
Why I’m excited about being involved with Lighthouse: My involvement with Lighthouse is a result of the fact that I want to bring ‘Green’ building awareness to our society as much as possible. I believe that Light House is well positioned to lead some of these ‘sustainable’ practices to the forefront of the building industry.

 John Holland: President & CEO, PHH ARC Environmental Ltd

What I do: I work with a great team of people at PHH ARC Environmental (PHH ARC), providing leadership and overall direction to our staff across Western Canada and the United Kingdom.  We perform environmental assessment, sustainability, remediation, health and safety and hazardous materials management services to the real estate, government and industrial sector.  Outside of my responsibilities at PHH ARC, I sit on several professional committees and working groups including: APEGBC Environment Committee (Chair) and the APEGBC Sustainability Committee.
Why I am excited about being involved with Light House: Being a part of Light House is an opportunity to work with great people that are playing a key role in defining the look of sustainable real estate in BC.

My Vision of Light House: Light House is and will continue to be a leader in the evolution of green buildings in BC and beyond for many generations to come.  Lighthouse will play a key role in making sustainability accessible for the homeowner and the not for profit sector.