Jim Stone is a principal with G70 and recognized as one of the Pacific Region’s leading sustainability experts. He was among Hawai‘i’s first LEED Accredited Professionals and served as the founding chair and Pacific Region representative for the U.S. Green Building Council – Hawai‘i Chapter and board of director of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) – Honolulu Chapter. Jim joined G70 in 2001 and specializes in the formation of highly effective and accountable integrated design principles for award-winning sustainable, institutional, defense and resort projects.

Through harnessing his creative and problem-solving skills, Jim has successfully delivered some of the firm’s most challenging and budget-constrained projects. The revitalization of Kamehameha School’s Haleiwa Store Lots on Oahu’s famed North Shore is exemplary of Jim’s successful execution of a challenging project involving layers of entitlements and approvals on a site with several infrastructure constraints among other historic, cultural and natural resource concerns. Jim is also credited with the design of the award-winning Kaupuni Village in Waianae, the country’s first net-zero affordable housing development and LEED Platinum community. He has been recognized by the AIA for his work on Kapolei Hale and by the City and County of Honolulu for Chinatown Manor, which was named City Project of the Year.

Protecting our island home is in Jim’s DNA, and his role in the sustainability community has led to numerous sustainable design presentations to national organizations. His doctoral thesis, entitled Hoa‘äina, Communities in Cultural and Ecological Harmony, created a cultural sustainability metric based on the Ahupua‘a to measure, and then apply the sustainable strategies to both historic and contemporary island communities. Within the firm, Jim’s leadership and successful mentoring has encouraged more than 40 percent of G70’s professional staff to pursue LEED certification. Today, the company proudly employs 34 LEED APs, the most LEED APs in a single Hawaii design firm, and in 2014 was awarded Pacific Business News’ inaugural Best in Sustainability recognition in the Business Leadership Hawaii Awards.

Since 2007, Jim has been a member of the USGBC – Hawai‘i Chapter. He is also a member of the AIA, American Resort Development Association and Urban Land Institute.

Jim is a licensed architect in the State of Hawai‘i and earned a doctorate and Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Originally from Maui, the Honolulu resident is an avid cyclist and enjoys spending time with his active family.