Laura Longsworth

Laura Longsworth is the Senior Vice President of Parking Operations for Brookfield Properties. Longsworth has furthered Brookfield Properties commitment to sustainability, environmental friendliness and technological advancement for the company's parking operations. Longsworth has over 30 years of parking industry experience, including 18 years with Brookfield. She is the Chairperson of the Woman in Parking Association, and an active member of both the National Parking Association and the International Parking Institute.

Certify your parking structure for the future with Parksmart

Parksmart is the world’s only rating system defining and recognizing sustainable practices in parking structure management, programming, design and technology. An industry-driven, field-tested road map for high-performance new and existing parking garages, Parksmart recognizes forward-thinking facilities working today to shape tomorrow’s transportation ecosystem.

Mark Martin

Martin has over 20 years of client-centric management and executive leadership experience in the technology sector of the parking industry. He has focused on building teams and replicable process-based programs while driving regional and global Class A office, retail, hospitality and airport projects.

Vicki Pero

Vicki Pero, principal at a national parking management consultancy, has more than 19 years of experience in parking industry work for national operators in both Operations and Administrative business units. She previously had overall responsibility for a regional territory comprised of 80 locations across five cities, designing training solutions, developing and leading a policy and procedure program, and creating and leading a company’s Field Audit function.

Susi Rowe

Susi Rowe serves as Vice President of Sustainability for Green Courte Partners, where she is responsible for all sustainability efforts relating to the firm’s portfolio of assets in both the land-lease/manufactured housing community and parking sectors.

In addition to her work with GBCI, Rowe serves as Green Courte’s representative with the Real Estate Roundtable’s Sustainability Policy Advisory Committee. She also is a member of the Urban Land Institute, where she focuses on sustainability best practices.

John Schmid

John Schmid is CEO/Managing Partner of Propark America, a national leader in parking management services and parking real estate acquisition. Schmid also serves as managing partner of Winpark, which specializes in providing parking management services tailored to Class-A office towers.

Kevin Shrier

President and Chief Executive Officer of The Parking Spot, Kevin Shrier has been with The Parking Spot since its inception in 1998 and is responsible for all strategic and operating elements of the company. During Mr. Shrier’s 27-year real estate career, he has distinguished himself as a proficient transaction executor as well as a proven leader and manager of people. Mr.

Rachel Yoka

CAPP, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP

GBCI to Administer Green Garage Certification Program

New GBCI offering recognizes importance of sustainable parking facility design and management to the built environment

Washington, D.C. (Jan. 15, 2016)—Today, GBCI, the certification body for USGBC’s global LEED green building rating system, announced it will now administer the Green Garage Certification Program through its acquisition of the Green Parking Council.

International Parking Institute and Green Parking Council Collaborate with GBCI, the Certification Body for LEED

New collaboration recognizes importance of sustainable parking facility design and management to the built environment