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Dean Barone, IDSA,
LEED®AP BD+C

President, Barone International Inc.

Michaela Rosette M.
Santos, UAP, LEED®AP
BD+C

Architect, Barone International Inc.

Dean Barone has been an Accredited Professional of the US Green Building Council’s Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) since 2003. He is presently working with Sun Life, JP Morgan,
RCBC Savings Bank and Citibank to achieve LEED® certification for their new and existing building projects
in the Philippines.
Dean is a licensed Interior Designer and received his BFA in Environmental Design from Rochester
Institute of Technology. In 1984 he established Barone Design Group, a Houston, Texas based architectural
and design firm. Dean first came to the Philippines in 2003 to develop Shell Oil Company’s new financial
support offices at the RCBC Plaza in Makati City. In 2006, he relocated his family to Manila to work with
local architectural firms to implement sustainable building projects within the Philippines.
In 2007, Dean was employed by HOK International (Asia/Pacific), a global leader in sustainable
architecture worldwide. As a Senior Project Manager for HOK, he and his design team developed and
implemented sustainable projects in Singapore, China, Indonesia, India and Hong Kong. In 2009, Dean
formed Barone International, a Philippines based corporation. Through this company, Dean continues to
pursue his personal commitment to sustainable design and practices.
Michaela Rosette M. Santos, has been a registered Architect since 1998 and a LEED® Accredited
Professional since 2008. With over fifteen years of professional experience, she is presently working as a LEED®
consultant on the new Globe Telecom Headqu arters, currently under construction at the Bonifacio Global City.
Rosette received her Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture from the University of Santo Tomas.
After graduating from UST in 1994, she got involved in several residential, commercial and mixed-used
developments with a couple of promising design firms. In 2004 she became part of the academe in the
Department of Architecture of the College of Engineering and Architecture of Holy Angel University, Angeles
City. In 2007, Rosette worked in Dubai for an Italian Interior Design firm after which she joined a multinational
project management firm working on LEED® registered projects such as The World and City Of Arabia, where
her advocacy for sustainable architecture and environmental protection was reinforced.
Returning to the Philippines in 2009, Rosette went back to teaching at the Holy Angel University to
continue to share her knowledge and passion for designing green buildings. In addition to her teaching
responsibilities, Rosette is currently working with Barone International to provide LEED® consultancy services.
Dean and Rosette, along with several Philippine-based LEED®APs, have created an informal “Philippines
LEED® Chapter” to assist individuals interested in becoming LEED AP’s and to further promote and implement
green building projects throughout the Philippines.
Dean is an active member of Green Architecture Advocacy Philippines (GAAP) and Rosette is an active
member of the United Architects of the Philippines - Green Architecture Movement (UAP-GAM) and Philippine
Green Building Initiative (PGBI) promoting a credible green building rating system, GAM-3EAB.

“LEED® in the Philippines: How it is done”

Since the Industrial Revolution our society has been driven by an increasing pace of change in business
and technology. Every decade or two we have faced a new and disruptive event that challenges business
and creates opportunities - the locomotive, the electric light, the automobile, the airplane, the television
and the computer, to name a few.
But the greatest disruptive event of the next 20 years may come, not from a single invention, but from the world around us - that is, climate change.
How Architects respond to the climate challenge will differentiate you from the competition and launch new and successful building projects
by leading you from today’s “business as usual” to developing a long-term sustainable approach to growing a Green Architectural business in
the Philippines, and beyond its borders.
This presentation, led by Dean Barone, LEED® AP BD+C and Michaela Rosette Santos, UAP, LEED® AP BD+C will explain the benefits
of employing sustainable principles in your building projects, clarify the misinformation about the cost of green buildings and provide real
life examples of on-going certified green projects in the Philippines. With four completed LEED® Certified building projects in the Philippines
and dozens more in the pipeline, Dean and Rosette will present an overview of the US Green Building Council’s – Leadership in Energy
and Environmental Design® (LEED®) green building certification program. The LEED® program encourages and accelerates global adoption of
sustainable green building practices through a suite of rating systems and implementation strategies.
As third-party certification program, LEED® is an internationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of highperformance green buildings. LEED® promotes a whole-building approach to sustainability by recognizing performance in five key areas of human
and environmental health: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality.
The presenters will discuss how the USGBC LEED® rating system can be successfully implemented on green building projects outside of
the United States and how it can be adopted for use with local construction practices and available building materials.
After attending this presentation, Architects will have a better understanding of how the future of green buildings will change the way
you will implement new building projects and how LEED® related services will provide new business opportunities in this new and exciting
sustainable world.
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