Vivian Loftness is an internationally renowned researcher, author and educator with over thirty years of focus on environmental design and sustainability, advanced building systems and systems integration, climate and regionalism in architecture, as well as design for performance in the workplace of the future.  Supported by a university-industry-government partnership, the Advanced Building Systems Integration Consortium, she is a key contributor to the development of the Intelligent Workplace - a living laboratory of building innovations for performance, along with authoring a range of publications on international advances in the workplace.

She has served on seven National Academy of Science panels as well as being a member of the Academy’s Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, and given four Congressional testimonies on sustainable design. Her work has influenced both national policy and building projects, including the Adaptable Workplace Lab at the U.S. General Services Administration and the Laboratory for Cognition at Electricity de France.

As a result of her research, teaching and professional consulting, Vivian Loftness received the 2002 National Educator Honor Award from the American Institute of Architecture Students, a 2003 “Sacred Tree” Award from the US Green Building Council, the 2009 Shades of Green Leadership Award from the Green Building Alliance .  Vivian Loftness has a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Architecture from MIT, and is on the Board of Directors of the USGBC, AIA Communities by Design, Turner Sustainability, and the Global Assurance Group of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.  She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a registered architect.