I have been engaged with green building concepts since 1998. I attended national green building conferences to learn about emerging work on sustainable design and construction. These learnings were applied to the design of Rieth Village at Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College. This facility was constructed in 2005-2006 and earned the Platinum rating from the US Green Building Council in 2007. This was the first Platinum certified building in the State of Indiana.