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Christopher Sweetnam-Holmes, LEED AP

B.Int'l Bus, B.E.D.S.(Arch)

Christopher is founder and a partner in EcoCité, a national green development and consulting firm based in Montreal. Christopher believes that social and environmental entrepreneurship can be a powerful way to affect change. This belief has been translated in the development of his EcoLoft, EcoCondo and EcoCité housing concepts, setting the standard for urban housing, with aggressively green, innovatively designed, urban homes. Winner of the McGill University Management Award (2005) and the Berkeley Prize for Architecture, from the University of California at Berkeley (2001), Christopher has been featured in numerous media for his innovative housing ideas. Most recently he was included in "The Great Warming" a major documentary series that aired on the Discovery Channel, and PBS. Abondance Montreal, a 21 unit Net Zero Energy development in Montreal recently won a com petition sponsored by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) as part of its Equilibrium Housing Initiative.