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Debra A. Lombard, LEED AP, EIT

Sustainability Consultant

Expertise

• Sustainable Design/LEED^® Consulting
• Sustainability Program Development and Implementation
• Construction Procurement & Administration
• Project Development & Management

Debra Lombard is a sustainability consultant to Celtic Energy. She teaches classes at Gateway Community College in Connecticut on sustainable living and sustainable design/construction. She is currently working as an expediter and sustainability consultant for a residential design/build firm. She initiated their C&D Waste recycling program saving thousands of pounds of construction and office waste from going into the landfill. She provides construction administration to support both the design and construction teams. She is also their in-house sustainability consultant for their renovation projects. 

She has worked on more than two-dozen sustainable design projects, half of those for Yale University. She worked with Yale to develop their sustainable design prototype and first sustainably designed building (Yale '56 Chemistry Research Lab Building) receiving LEED-NC Certification. Many of the other building projects she consulted on received various higher levels of LEED certification from the US Green Building Council.

In addition, Debra played a big part in the development and implementation of a sustainable building assessment program for BP America, which was presented at GreenBuild in 2005. Other projects she has worked on include: Battery Park City 18A, 4 Times Square, NY DEC State Headquarters building (while with Steven Winter Assoc.), National Marine Life Center (for Courtney Miller Architects). She was a project manager on the national's first Rails-to-Trails project to received ISTEA funding. Debra continues to provide sustainability research and consulting to numerous A/E/C firms, including Celtic Energy Inc. and most recently Schemitz Design/ Elliptipar Lighting. Debra also consults individuals on sustainability issues.

She worked for several years in the capacity as safety engineer on a large construction project, and for Travelers Insurance Company.     

She is a regular volunteer for the Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven. She has given sustainability presentations for the CT Green Building Council, CT Green Expo 2007, CT Solar Energy Association, SoundWaters, and to a group of touring Russian architects in Westport, CT.  

Debra founded New Haven Green Drinks as a social networking group promoting sustainability issues. She has been on the Board of Directors for the Connecticut Green Building Council for many years and is currently a Board Advisor. She is also on the building committee of a local social services non-profit, LEAP, and assisted another such non-profit in New Haven, Fellowship Place, with receiving money from the Kresge Foundation.

She received her Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering from Tulane University and attended Tulane and the University of New Orleans for Master's studies in environmental studies.