ETI Senior Management
Rob Watson, ETI Chairman, CEO and Chief Scientist
Under Rob's direction as the "Founding Father of LEED" and as its
national Steering Committee Chairman between 1994 and 2005, LEED became
the most widespread and fastest-growing standard by which green
buildings are measured worldwide.A pioneer of the modern
green building movement for over twenty years, in 2007 Rob Watson
founded ECOTECH International and its subsidiaries, American SINOTECH and American INDOTECH to meet the fast-growing demand for green building technologies and services in China, India and the U.S.As
the Director of International Energy and Green Buildings Programs at
the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Mr. Watson worked in
China on green building programs and market development since 1997. He
is a green building adviser to the municipalities of Beijing,
Chongqing, Shanghai Shenzhen and Shenyang and has assisted the Chinese
government to develop energy-saving standards for commercial buildings
and residential buildings that reduce energy consumption by 50%. The
recipient of several national and international awards for green
buildings, in 2005, China's Ministry of Construction (MOC) recognized
Rob with one of its first "Green Innovation" awards--the only foreign
expert so honored--for his work on green buildings in China
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