WILLIAM MARSTON

William J. Marston, AIA and LEED™ AP is an experienced practitioner in the field of architecture and facilities planning for the spectrum of buildings, with special focus on educational and healthcare institutions. He achieved accreditation by the US Green Building Council in 2000.

Mr. Marston entered architectural practice in 1971 becoming a licensed architect in New York State in 1974. Embracing human-scaled, commercially and environmentally healthy downtowns as opposed to car-driven, wasteful sprawl he contributed substantially to one of the first pedestrian downtowns by contributing his professional skills to instigate the founding of the State Street Mall in Ithaca, New York. By the mid-1970s during the early years of his healthcare buildings focus, he had become a specialist in sound planning principles as demonstrated by his dilemma-breaking construction solution to the “Core Building” at Benjamin Franklin’s historic Pennsylvania Hospital, its last major addition. He moved to Philadelphia in 1978.

Throughout his personal and professional life Mr. Marston has encouraged respect for the environment—participating in the city-wide composting trial under a state grant, co-founding the first state-wide Committee for the Environment of the American Institute of Architects, representing the responsible community of architects in 1997 before the Governor’s “21st Century Environment Commission”, and organizing public voices which helped the state legislature’s passing of new planning and sprawl regulations in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He co-chaired the AIA Philadelphia Academy of Architecture for Healthcare committee for 4 years and served as the architectural community’s voice on the state’s Regulatory Review Commission in updating hospital & healthcare facility regulations. He is a faculty member of the 2005 Green Advantage™ Training program, an educational partner of the USGBC. Bill has also advised the School District of Philadelphia, two senatorial candidates and many politicians on the economic advantages of building green.