as a strategic program planner for his laboratory (Con-
struction Engineering Research Lab – CERL), which
is co-located with the University of Illinois in Cham-
paign-Urbana. He serves as adjunct faculty with the
University of Illinois Geography Department, and he
is a Department of Defense representative to the Na-
tional Climate Assessment. Along with Sam Higuchi
of NASA, Mr. Goran co-chairs an inter-agency forum
on climate change impacts and adaptations.
Mr. Richard L. Schneider
Mr. Schneider has worked on facilities and infra-
structure activities for the U.S. Army Corps of Engi-
neers for over 37 years, twenty-nine years in archi-
tectural design, facilities management, installation
master planning and sustainable design research at
the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research
Laboratory (ERDC CERL) and eight years in master
planning project management at the U.S. Army En-
gineer Division, Europe (USAEDE). He was the lead
author of the Corps Engineer Research and Devel-
opment Center (ERDC) team, which developed the
Sustainable Projects Rating Tool (SPiRiT); he was in-
strumental in the Army’s adoption of the U. S. Green
Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy
and Environmental Design (LEED) for New Construc-
tion, Green Building Rating Tool; and recognized as a
leader in Army implementation of sustainable facility
planning, design, construction and operations prac-
tices. He provides support to HQUSACE, CE Divi-
sions, CE Districts, ACSIM and Army Installations in
LEED requirement interpretation, and scoring as well
as general design and planning issues associated with
sustainable design; and he serves as the Army’s single
point of Contact for membership in the USGBC. Mr.