Bob Noble, CEO of Tucker Sadler Noble Castro Architects

Tucker Sadler Noble Castro Architects, a San Diego architectural institution, has grown from 25 to 41 employees in the last year, and moved from Bankers Hill to Downtown offices at 225 Broadway. Now its leader, CEO Bob Noble, has became a major advocate of environmentally sensitive design principles and will use his position in 2005 to advance green building arguments.

Noble already chairs the San Diego chapters of the U.S. Green Building Council and the AIA Urban Design Committee. His energy-conserving ideas have been integrated into design projects throughout the county, including the San Diego Main Library proposed for East Village, the $34 million Helen Woodward Animal Care Center in Rancho Santa Fe, the Bishop’s School in La Jolla, and the new Boys and Girls Club in Linda Vista. His firm’s projects are enrolled in the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification program, as well as through SDG&E’s “Savings by Design” program.

In 2005 he will focus on his business and green design.

“Professionally, (my goal is) to continue to expand the geographic range of our business to get projects nationwide and to work with the building industry to support sustainable and environmentally responsible design, such as low energy and low water usage, non-oil energy sources, and recycled materials,” he says.