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Shelley Penner leads a multi-disciplinary team of professionals optimizing sustainable design strategies with other hallmarks of good design – aesthetic, function, performance and cost.
Shelley has practiced interior design since graduating with a Bachelor Degree of Interior Design (1988) from the University of Manitoba. Her experience encompasses: programming; concept design; space planning; design development; contract documents; tendering, bidding and negotiation; furniture, fixtures and equipment (FF&E); contract administration; and, project management.
Her research and application of green strategies and innovative technologies gives her an extensive and practical knowledge base unparalleled in the industry. Public and private sector clients have commissioned Shelley specifically for her expertise in sustainable design.
An excellent communicator and presenter, Shelley has developed and delivered seminars and workshops on sustainable design to the Architectural Institute of BC, Canada Green Building Council, Cascadia Region Green Building Council, City of Vancouver, IIDEX Neocon Canada, Metro Vancouver (formerly GVRD), Interior Designers Institute of BC, and the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, in addition to other clients.
In 2009 and 2010, Shelley was a judge for the Green category of Western Living’s Designer of the Year competition. In 2008, she was a member of the judging panel for Canadian Interiors' 10th Annual Best of Canada Design competition. In 2006, Shelley was a judge for Vancouver Magazine's Restaurant Design Awards, and in 2005, she was a judge for Western Living's Residential Design Awards.
Shelley was also the driving force in the creation of the EcoDesign Resource Society (EDRS), an independent and multidisciplinary organization founded in 1992 to encourage environmental ethics in the building industry. From 1992-97, Shelley helped define and forward a vision for EDRS as a president and a director. Shelley's leadership and fundraising efforts were instrumental in developing a library, website and journal as resources for the building industry and general public.
