Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

<h2><strong>Announcement</strong></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Starting on January 1, 2019, GBMS will begin rolling out it’s new membership community.  Members will be given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions to, if you are preparing for an exam there will be more insurances that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member and so much more.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Dan Carney & Brett Taysom</strong><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, both of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta join Charlie</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Cichetti</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">live at the Fed.  Dan Carney grew up outside Boston and moved around quite a bit as a child.  Dan went to the Ohio State University and earned a Master's of Architecture.  He joined the Fed after the big recession and for the last 9 years has worked on sustainability for the bank.  Brett Taysom is from Roswell, GA but went to school in the Carolinas. His undergraduate studies were at Furman University where he started to get into the sustainability arena.  Brett then went to school in Charleston in an environmental studies and started focusing on sustainability.</span></p> <p> </p> <h3><strong>Dan & Brett- Introduction to Sustainability</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brett grew up loving science and enjoyed the environment and became more focused on sustainability in grad school.  Dan heard about the term LEED for the first time during grad school in his second year during a Mechanical Systems class.  This peaked Dan’s interest but wasn’t a strong connection at that time with architecture. When he started working, the buildings included sustainability and he took his first LEED exam.</span></p> <p> </p> <h3><strong>Mentors</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brett recognizes his professors at Furman University as the ones who got him started. They encouraged him to go to grad school.  He also credits his father who w