Mike Singleton, founder and longtime executive director of Sustainable Buildings Canada (SBC), has announced he will retire at the end of this year. Under his leadership, the 20-year-old not-for-profit organization has forged a widely recognized forum for collaborative industry learning, and has built a network of advisory expertise covering all aspects of green and high-performance building design, systems and operations.

“Together, we have, and will, continue to make the Canadian built environment sustainable,” Singleton says. “The Board of SBC will be actively recruiting for a new executive director to take on this strategic role.”

SBC champions several initiatives related to decarbonization, the pursuit of net-zero emissions and professional development for existing and new generations of green building leaders. That includes producing whitepapers, a webinar series and the annual Green Building Festival.