Harvard and Maritime High Performance Building Edu with Nathan Gauthier

<p><strong>Nathan Gauthier</strong> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">is a sustainable real estate professional with global experience in program management and facility design, construction and operations. As Director of FM Integration and Sustainability with Shawmut Design and Construction in Boston.  Nathan works to improve the transition of construction projects into the facilities management infrastructure and support efficient and sustainable building operations.</span></p> <p> </p> <h3><strong>Nathan Gauthier - Marine Biology to Sustainability</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nathan grew up in very rural Michigan and went Texas A&M at Galveston- Maritime Academy and studied Marine Biology.  Going from a midwestern town to Texas was quite a change for Nathan. He was loved the water but became interested in sustainability at a younger age by hiking and the outdoors.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>“I just really like being outside and have continued throughout whatever I’ve done; I really wanted to spend time outside whether near the water our mountains.”–</em> Nathan Gauthier</strong></p> <p> </p> <h3><strong>Mentors</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nathan was in South Carolina in grad school and recognizes Trish German as an influential mentor.  Trish ran the sustainability university initiative and was the first sustainability professional Nathan had met.   Nathan interned there and Trish had him working on influential projects and motivated him to finish his thesis. Dr. Phil Barnes, a professor who managed the Environmental Management Systems Program.  Nathan became an auditor with him.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>"I really liked the explorating nature and problem solving just going into a facility and pulling people aside and asking what their environmental policy was and seeing if they were walking the walk ." –</em> Nathan Gauthier</strong></p> <p> </p> <h3><strong>Teaching and Consulting</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-