John Ware earned a Bachelor of Environmental Design, KU School of Architecture, in 1980. He founded a solar design/build construction company in the early 1980s and has been a practicing architect for twenty five years, rising in the profession to senior project manager with a specialty in the LEED Green Building Rating System and sustainable design of the built environment.
John became the Sustainability Director in an award winning national architectural firm in 2007. In this position he influenced dozens of A/E teams, successfully integrated sustainable practice processes and tools, formalized QA/QC protocols, created and rolled out the firm’s first Corporate Sustainable Practice Plan, and researched, designed, wrote and implemented the firm’s first Carbon Reduction Plan.
More recently John created a consulting practice with two primary service areas:
- guiding executive teams through strategic planning processes using sustainability as a framework for product innovation, overhead reduction, market expansion, talent attraction and sharpened managerial capacity, and
- Leading capital projects in an integrated fashion from concept to CAPEX/OPEX budgeting, to team solicitation and negotiation, design and construction, to commissioning. Both practice areas embrace the rapidly changing realities of business today and the inter-dependent environmental and social challenges of our time.
John co-developed and is currently teaching an executive continuing education seminar series entitled “Sustainable Business Leaders Series” in cooperation with the Center for Business and Technology at Johnson County Community College.
For over ten years John has served on the Kansas City Environmental Management Commission where he was instrumental in the adoption of LEED Silver as the City’s construction standard and was the primary author of the “Kansas City Climate Protection Report” which was adopted by the Council in 2005 and has become a leading edge example of global warming policy at the municipal level.
