LHB's Green Team with Rick Carter

<p><strong>Rick Carter</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is a Senior Vice President in LHB’s Minneapolis office where he utilizes his 30 years of experience to lead the firm’s Integrative Design Team, a group of 100 architects, mechanical and electrical engineers, landscape architects, planners and interior designers serving five market sectors. An early adopter of healthy building principles, Rick has led LHB’s focus on high-performance design since the early 1990s. He is recognized as an expert in sustainable design and speaks regularly at regional and national conferences on this topic.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /> <br /></span></p> <h3><strong>Rick Carter-Sustainability Minded During Career</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When Rick was younger he was fascinated by the underground space center.  That center has evolved to the Center for Sustainable Building Research. Sustainability has always been in the forefront of his mind but didn’t really come to fruition until he started working.  Rick works extensively on design for efficient resource use and occupant well-being, leading efforts for LHB to be visible experts in regenerative design and research. His projects range from the building to regional scales with the goal of contributing to achieving Minnesota’s greenhouse gas emission reduction goals. Rick helped develop the Hennepin County/Minnesota Sustainable Design Guidelines and currently co-manages the Buildings, Benchmarks and Beyond (B3) Project including execution of sustainable guidelines for the State of Minnesota.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">"We know it’s something that we don’t know enough about, so we are going to try and learn about it.  We also know that it’s okay to go out and tell people we are good at it." –</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Rick Carter</span></p> <p> </p> <h3><strong>Proudest Achievements</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rick’s proudest achievements include hi