William Browning, BED Colorado University, MSRED MIT, Hon. AIA, LEED AP., is one of the green building and real estate industry’s foremost thinkers and strategists, and an early leader in biophilic design research. In 2006, he cofounded Terrapin Bright Green LLC an environmental strategies research and consulting firm. Browning’s clients include Disney, Marriott, PDX International Airport, New Songdo City, Lucasfilm, I Hotels, Google, The Grand Wailea, Bank of America, the White House, Interface, and the Sydney 2000 Olympic Village. Browning is a founding board member of the USGBC. He has written biophilic design guidelines for hotel brands, conducted research, and published papers on the impact of biophilic design in hotels. He is co-author of Nature Inside, A Biophilic Design Guide, an RIBA publication that features case studies of biophilic design in hotels and other building types.
Terrapin Bright Green is a research, consulting and strategic planning firm that is committed to improving the human environment. Terrapin helps clients think creatively about environmental opportunities to achieve their highest goals. Since 2006, Terrapin has worked to shape the outcome of complex policies, buildings and large-scale planning projects. Based in New York City, and Washington DC, and works with hospitality projects around the world. We helped launch the Element Brand, crafted experiential standards for I Hotels, and worked with Marriott, Orient Express, Revolution Resorts, Grand Hyatt, the Grand Waliea, the Inn of the Anasazi and others. Through strategies for whole-systems thinking and integrative design, we work to create restorative, regenerative buildings. We believe that high-performance design means fundamentally improving human factors like health and user experience, particularly through biophilic design, while improving overall economic and environmental performance.
