Member, National Management Team

National Sales Team Leader, Municipal Infrastructure Lending Program

Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation (CMHC)

 

Mark is a recognized expert in sustainable housing and community design and is CMHC's media spokesperson on a broad range of housing issues.

 

Mark is one of 250 Canadians personally trained by U.S. Vice President Al Gore to present the live version of 'An Inconvenient Truth' as part of the Climate Project Canada Initiative.

 

Through CMHC, he works to foster public, private partnerships and coalitions in support of the creation of sustainable housing and communities.  In this regard, he has spearheaded many successful sustainable housing demonstration initiatives such as Home 2000, The Sustainable Condo, and most recently the canühome.  Collectively, they have been visited by over 350,000 people and have garnered significant media coverage including CTV's Live Earth telecast, Canada AM, and countless TV/Radio news spots, newspaper/magazine articles.

 

Recently, Mark took on the role of managing a National Sales Team within CMHC to promote the $2 Billion Municipal Infrastructure Lending Program – a key offering of CMHC under Canada’s Economic Action Plan.

 

Through his former CMHC position ('98-'02), Sr Research Consultant, BC/Yukon, he was instrumental in leading a multi-party consortium of housing stakeholders focused on resolving the highly contentious “Leaky Condo” issue.  This also included the management of over $2 million in research projects intended to enhance the energy efficiency and moisture management of building envelope assemblies.

 

Prior to joining CMHC he was a building science professor at Toronto's Seneca College as well as a designer, consultant and project manager on sustainable building design projects.

 

Mark has a Master of Architecture Degree and a Bachelor of Technology Degree and is a Member of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.  He also participates in numerous committees and boards as follows:

 

- Member – CMHC Ontario Management Team & CMHC National Management Team

- Member – Royal Architectural Institute in Canada

- Executive Board Member & Treasurer, Canada Green Building Council Greater Toronto Chapter

- Executive Board Member, EcoSmart Foundation

- Board Member, Green Light on a Better Environment (GLOBE)

- Member, Toronto Real Estate Board's Green Task Force

- Member, Ryerson University's Sustainability Certificate Program Advisory Council

- Member, Centennial College’s Architectural Technology Program Advisory Committee

- Advisor, George Brown College's Institute Without Boundaries

- Member, George Brown College Architectural Technology Program Advisory Committee

- Member, Humber College Sustainable Energy and Building Technology Program

- Member, Seneca College's Civil Engineering Technology Program Advisory Committee

- Member, Education Alliance for a Sustainable Ontario Steering Committee

- Member, Social Housing Asset Management Group Steering Committee

- Member, City of Toronto Green Development Standard Cost-Benefit Study Committee

 

Suite 300, 100 Sheppard Ave. E., Toronto, Ontario, M2N 6Z1

Phone: 416-250-3219  Fax: 416-218-3310

msalerno@cmhc.ca

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