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Yahya E. B. Henry began his career in real estate as a private investor while serving in the United States Navy. After 8.5 years of service, he transitioned into commercial real estate brokerage and land development with Mid-Atlantic Commercial Real Estate. Yahya currently serves as founder and Director of Business Development for The Aribra Group, LLC a developer and think tank that promotes best practices in the built environment. He also serves as Community Manager for Aribra.com. Yahya is an entrepreneur, traveler and avid blogger, and has built his career around his passions for technology, people, the planet and real estate. He is active in his community and is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Atlanta. He was previously Membership Committee Chair and a founding member for the Young Leaders Group and apart of the Executive Committee for ULI Hampton Roads. Yahya has also been active in the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) Hampton Roads Regional Group, the Smart Growth Network, International Council of Shopping Centers and the Second Harvest Food Bank. You can follow Yahya on Twitter @YahyaHenry.

Topics: sustainability, real estate, social media, infill

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Christi Bowler Elflein, AICP, has fifteen years of experience in urban planning and is President of NuVisions, a consulting firm specializing in visioning exercises for sustainable urban development. She holds a Master’s of City Planning from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor’s of Science in Social Sciences from Florida State University. As a city planner, Christi has worked for such cities as Atlanta, Georgia, Vail, Colorado, and Newport News, Virginia. In 2005, after five years of practice for the community planning firm Glatting Jackson in Orlando, she began her own planning consulting business, NuVisions, which is now based in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Christi has been published in publications such as the Journal of the American Planning Association and the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. She received the Georgia Planning Association’s Planning Document of the Year Award in 2000 for her work on the Cheshire Bridge Road Corridor Study, and she has been a guest speaker on new urbanism for a number of local civic groups including Rotary clubs and local AIA and ULI chapters. Christi is an active member of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) where she is a founding member and former Regional Director of the CNU Hampton Roads Regional Group, a founding member and former Regional Director of the CNU Orlando Regional Group, and a former member of the organizing committee for the CNU Florida Chapter.

Topics: urbanism, TND, community design

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____________________________________________________________ Timothy HughesTimothy Hughes, LEED AP is of counsel to the firm of Bean, Kinney & Korman.  His practice focuses on representing construction, design professional and development industry clients in litigation, contract, business and corporate transactional matters. He is a LEED Accredited Professional and frequent speaker and writer on sustainable design, construction, and risk management related issues.  A graduate of Yale University and the Marshall Wythe School of Law at William and Mary, Tim is “AV” rated by Martindale Hubbell.  Tim is the former Chair of the Construction Law and Public Contracts Section of the Virginia State Bar and is  and is the lead editor for the Virginia Real Estate, Land Use and Construction Law Blog.  You can follow Tim on twitter @vaconstruction. Topics: green building, construction, LEED, sustainable design Posts by Tim:

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James BedellJames Bedell, a lighting designer by trade, grew up in the theater, where he started running cable on theatrical productions in the 10th grade. Designing lighting solutions for NYC's Off-Broadway lighting community, he has been fortunate enough to work with some of the most creative people in the world on everything for the most avant garde new works, to classical Shakespeare. Three years ago, James shifted focus from entertainment and event lighting to architectural lighting design. It was in making this shift that his love for building took hold. Understanding how buildings are used by their occupants and reducing the environmental impact of our building stock is his passion. You can follow James on Twitter @JamesBedell. Topics: politics, lighting design, sustainability, architecture, new media Posts by James: ____________________________________________________________ Christopher G. Hill, LEED APChristopher G. Hill is a construction lawyer at the Law Office of Christopher G. Hill, PC in Glen Allen, Virginia, LEED AP, and member of Virginia’s Legal Elite in Construction Law.   He specializes in mechanic’s liens, occupational safety issues, contract consulting and review and general risk management for all levels of construction professionals from contractors to subcontractors to material men.  Chris is also the author of the blog Construction Law Musings where he discusses sustainable building and other construction related topics. You can follow Chris @constructionlaw. Topics: mechanics liens, construction law, LEED, green building Posts by Chris: ____________________________________________________________ Interested in being a contributor, contact us.
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