The Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems (CMPBS), established in 1975, is a non-profit education, research, and demonstration organization specializing in life cycle planning and design. CMPBS undertakes projects based on their potential contribution to site, regional and global sustainability and human health, and actively pursue collaborations with associate organizations, businesses and professional firms. Projects emphasize regional contexts as bases for responsible resource use relative to materials, energy, water, waste, food, and meaningful employment. The expertise of CMPBS is accessible through green planning and design services, conference presentations, public lectures, and published papers.

The organization was founded by Pliny Fisk III

Pliny Fisk III

Pliny Fisk III is a co-founder and co-director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems , a sustainable design and planning 501c3 non-profit established in 1975...

 and Daria Bolton, and is co-directed by Fisk and Gail Vittori

Gail Vittori

Gail Vittori is Co-Director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, a non-profit design firm established in 1975 dedicated to sustainable planning, design and demonstration where she has worked since 1979.-Work:...

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Mission

The Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems' mission is to make adaptive life cycle planning and design the standard for the built environment.