Qualifications

Theddi Wright Chappell, CRE, MAI, FRICS, AAPI, LEED AP is a Co-Founder of US Solar Values and CEO of her own woman-owned business, Sustainable Values, Inc., Park City, UT. She has extensive experience in the valuation of commercial properties, with a specialization in analyzing both the costs and benefits of high performing, energy efficient properties.

Ms. Chappell is a national and international speaker and educator on the implications of green strategies on asset value. She co-authored the first seminar on valuing green commercial buildings for the Appraisal Institute and subsequently developed their two-day commercial course entitled, Case Studies in Valuing Green Commercial Buildings, which she teaches throughout the US. She also teaches the Appraisal Institute’s course on Residential and Commercial Valuation of Solar.

Her publication, High Performance Green Building – What’s It Worth? was created for, and widely disseminated by, the Cascadia Chapter of the US Green Building Council and the International Living Future Institute.

She has developed and participated in numerous classes, presentations, webinars and training programs for a variety of clients including ULI, DOE, USGBC (Greenbuild), EPA, NAR, Connecticut Green Bank, the Real Estate Roundtable, NYU Shack Institute of Real Estate, Bank of America and others.

She recently premiered a new course she developed for the Department of Energy entitled Energy Matters!

During her valuation and consulting career, Ms. Chappell has worked with clients throughout the US and Canada, in Europe and Australasia. She is a Founding Member of the team developing the Economics of Change, a multi-year international project which incorporates economic, environmental and social considerations into investment, valuation and underwriting criteria. Ms. Chappell was an organizer of and presenter at the international Vancouver Valuation Summits I, II and III in Vancouver, BC.

Ms. Chappell is Chair of the Invitation Advisory Committee for the Counselors of Real Estate, the pre-eminent, invitation-only consulting organization in the US; has served on ULI’s Responsible Property Investing Council; is on the Advisory Board of the Utah Chapter of USGBC; and active in Utah’s Purpose Investment Network, and CEO Space.