Our Advisors
Industry experts in resiliency, sustainability, clean-tech, architecture, energy policy, data science, leadership and other related disciplines within the built and energy space
Brad Bass
Advisor, Trainer
Dr. Brad Bass received is PhD in Geography from Penn State University, in 1989. He has been working with green walls in since 1996, and in 1998, he co-authored Greenbacks from Green Roofs, the first green roof publication intended for Canadian audiences. He helped establish the first green roof field site in North America and pioneered the use of simulation models to assess the potential for green roofs to reduce energy consumption. Dr. Bass has spoken extensively on how green infrastructure could enhance urban biodiversity and has written a manual on constructing an integrated green wall-biofilter system to treat wastewater. In 2010, he ran a field course where his students had to build this biofilter into a shower.
In 1999, Dr. Bass led the development of COBWEB (Complexity and Organized Behaviour Within Environmental Bounds), an agent-based simulation model that is now being used to simulate the exchange of energy across different trophic layers in a vertical ecosystem. In 2012, Green Roofs for Healthy Cities awarded Dr. Bass the Lifetime Achievement Award for Green Infrastructure Research. Dr. Bass has recently been named as an Associate Executive Director of the Foundation for Student Science and Technology.
Phil Fung
Founder & President
Mr. Fung is a Professional Engineer and Designated Consulting Engineer in Ontario, Canada. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering and Master of Science in Systems Engineering. Mr. Fung holds several professional designations including LEED Accredited Professional, Certified Energy Manager, Certified Sustainable Development Professional, Certified Measurement and Verification Professional, Certified Energy Auditor and Certified Building Commissioning Professional. His areas of expertise are energy efficient, sustainable, and resilient buildings design, biomimetic and biophilic buildings design, energy modelling, and LEED certification management.
Starting his career as an Automation & Robotics Engineer in 1987, Mr. Fung joined SRS Consulting Engineers in 1997, and became its Managing Principal in 2004. In 2012, he accepted the part-time professorship at Humber College teaching Sustainable Buildings Design, Bio-Inspired Buildings Design, and Energy Modelling courses.
Mr. Fung has advised for more than 200 energy efficient buildings design utilizing energy modelling tools and managed over 1,000,000 m2 of LEED projects across Ontario, Canada. In the course of his career, Mr. Fung developed a vision in design and develop an affordable, self-sustaining, and regenerative Multi-Unit Residential building. He patented his Vertical Indoor Gardening and Aquaculture (VIGA™) system in early 2014 which was based on biomimetic and biophilic design principles.
Mr. Fung brings to the building design industry many years of experience as a consultant, an engineer, a system designer, an entrepreneur, an educator, and his boundless passion for education.
Lloyd Helferty
Executive Director
Mr. Helferty is the Executive Director of the Resilient World Institute (RWI). He does multidisciplinary technical consulting, education, training, empowerment, knowledge mapping and networking for responsible environmental management and resource sustainability. As a Cleantech and Sustainable Development Technology Trainer & Educator focused on the peaceful and practical deployment and use of sustainable technologies, Mr. Helferty had been at the forefront of Eco-Tech sector development, and has been promoting the early and rapid adoption of next generation of integrated sustainability technologies to support Sustainable Development in Canada and globally for more than ten years.
Mr. Helferty was one of the co-Founders of the Canadian Biochar Initiative (CBI) and is currently the President of the regional Environmental Industry Association, Biochar Ontario. He is also the Principal of Biochar Consulting (Canada), a sole proprietorship that has been providing technical consulting services to the emerging global biochar industry since 2009.
Most recently, Mr. Helferty has also been working with Energime University (New York) as their Project Development Director, System Leader and Sector Expert for the “Climate Smart” Platform to develop a global “Future Tech” Training and Education network to support the next generation of sustainable energy, transportation, integrated waste processing and integrated organic Climate Smart food production systems in communities around the world.
Interested in becoming part of our team?
We are always looking for quality candidates in energy management, sustainability, resiliency and bio-inspired design.
