A Manifesto on Working with Water with Engineer Chris Webb

<p><strong>Chris Webb</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is a licensed professional engineer (civil) in the States of Washington, Oregon, California, and a LEED™ Fellow and Accredited Professional (ND & BD+C) whose passion and technical expertise is focused on providing civil engineering designs that demonstrate the highest degree of sustainability and are based on ecological principles. Chris is a frequent speaker on the technical aspects of sustainability as it is applied in civil engineering.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chris’ sustainable development project experience includes working with many local and state governments, private and public entities, utilities, and non-profit groups.He works as part of diverse design teams across the spectrum of project scales from the single lot to large multi-unit developments and from master planning through permitting and construction documents across many building and site types.</span></p> <p> </p> <h3><strong>The Early Days with Chris  </strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chris grew up in northern New Jersey and was really active outdoors which lead to an early connection with the environment.  He then went to the University of New Hampshire and studied civil engineering.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">“The</span></em> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">University of New Hampshire now is a leader in research and development on green stormwater infrastructure.  But at the time that I went there, green infrastructure was not really a thing yet. So it's been fun to run into some of my old professors at a low impact development conferences and talk about that.</span></em><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">”</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">- Chris Webb</span></p> <p> </p> <h3><strong>Sustainability Minded</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chris went to school for engineering and focused more on structural and had yet to resolve his personal values of