Victor Olgyay FAIA is a bioclimatic architect and Principal at the Green Design Collaborative (GDC) an environmental consulting business. In 1978 he designed his first passive solar house, and has since worked as an architect, writer, researcher, daylighting designer, and environmental consultant. As a Principal with RMI for 20 years, Victor encouraging widespread adoption of net zero district developments, low embodied carbon materials, and comprehensive building energy retrofits. He has consulted on hundreds of high performance building projects, lectured worldwide, published dozens of papers and testified to the US Congress in support of building efficiency.

From 1993 to 2000 Victor was an Associate Professor and Director of Research at the University of Hawaii School of Architecture and was Chairman of the AIA Honolulu Energy and Environment Committee. Victor served on the Board of Directors for the American Solar Energy Society, the University of Colorado Design Review Board, the Carbon Leadership Forum, ASHRAE’s Task Force for Building Decarbonization, the AIA National Committee on the Environment (COTE AG) and the United States GSA Green Building Advisory Committee, where he ran a task group to promote the procurement of low embodied carbon materials by the Federal government. He currently is on the board of the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP), and is Co-Chair of the upcoming 2026 ASES solar conference in Austin Texas. His company Green Design Collaborative consults on high performance buildings to deliver innovative, cost-effective, sustainable solutions.