Acknowledgments

BREAKING THROUGH THE BARRIERS TO SUSTAINABLE BUILDING-
Insights from Building Professionals on Government Initiatives to Promote Environmentally Sound Practices

by Miriam Landman

Summer 1999

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I could not have completed this project alone. First and foremost, I would like to thank my thesis committee members, Ann Rappaport and Christine Cousineau. Their feedback on earlier drafts made for a much improved final product. Of course, I am solely responsible for any word or idea problems that remain.

I am also very grateful to architects Peter R. Nobile, III, Andrew St. John, and Jim Batchelor for speaking with me and helping me to improve the questionnaire before I distributed it. Peter was also kind enough to alert me to a similar questionnaire that was being circulated by e-mail at the same time that mine was. That questionnaire was developed by Annie Pearce, a research engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Annie openly shared her research with me, even in its early stages, which was very helpful. I also benefitted from seeing the results of another questionnaire, developed by Joseph Hittinger, an interior designer working towards his M.Arch. at The Catholic University of America.

I would also like to thank Sarah Hammond-Creighton, Angela Vitulli, and Janet Landman for reviewing and commenting on drafts of my questionnaire.

Credit for getting the questionnaire up on a website goes to Stephen Landman, www.egret.net webmaster, who patiently worked through tedious formatting incompatibilities and my seemingly endless text changes. His work gave countless people convenient access to the questionnaire and my research findings.

I also owe thanks to the twenty-five building professionals who took the time to fill out my rather lengthy questionnaire. I received many thoughtful, substantive responses. Respondents' comments gave life and direction to this thesis.

To all of my friends off of whom I bounced ideas or to whom I may have whined now and then, and to everyone else who helped me along the way, thank you for your support!