David Benjamin
Senior Advisor
David Benjamin, Ph.D., serves as senior advisor at John Todd Ecological Design.
Dr. Benjamin is the owner and principal of the building, urban design, and heritage management firm of Environmental Design Partners, Inc., based in Ohio, and has experience with the design and construction of various building types, as well as designing and running community design participation workshops and charrettes.
He is certified by the National Charrette Institute as a Public Meeting Facilitator, the United States Green Building Council as a LEED Accredited Professional, and has published in scholarly journals, encyclopedias, and conference proceedings on the subject of the home, both as a concept and an element of the built environment, and was a judge on the jury of the first Bahamian government Eco-Lodge Design Competition in 2001, sanctioned by the United Nations and the Inter-American Development Bank.