Career
He is the Chief Executive Officer of the International Living Future Institute and Cascadia Green Building Council, a chapter of both the United States Green Building Council and the Canada Green Building Council. McLennan is also the creator of Pharos, an advanced building material rating system, Declare, an ingredient disclosure label for building products, and JUST, a social justice transparency platform for organizations. In addition, he developed the Living Community Challenge and Living Product Challenge.
In addition, McLennan serves as the Chief Innovation Officer for Integral Group.
McLennan created the Living Building Challenge, a sustainable design performance standard, while he was a principal with BNIM Architects. He transferred the intellectual property for the Challenge to Cascadia Green Building Council when he became that organization"s Chief Executive Officer in 2006, and formally launched the program in November of that year.
McLennan is married to Tracy McLennan and has four children, J-Will, Declan, Aidan and Rowan.
