Technical Advisors

Living Future’s community of practice is vital to informing the technical development, continued industry leadership, and transparency of Living Future’s programs.

Living Future’s volunteer technical advisors are critical partners that represent built environment and building industry leadership with deep technical expertise in relevant topic areas. A key role of these advisors is to weigh in on decisions pertaining to the development and implementation of Living Future’s program requirements. 

Living Future has both Technical Advisory Groups (TAGs) and Individual Technical Advisors (TAs). TAG members are selected from a pool of applicants who respond to a public call. They serve an initial term of one year with the option of extending for one or two years at a time for up to a total of four years. Living Future plans to launch additional TAGs as needs arise over time. When the need for a new TAG is identified, Living Future will conduct an open call for applications. Individual TAs are engaged as needs and opportunities arise. If you have any questions about our technical advisory opportunities, please reach out to tech.advisory@living-future.org. 

Call for Applications

Individual Technical Advisors

Living Future is accepting applications for several Individual TA opportunities. Please review the 2025-2026 Living Future Technical Advisor Overview to understand the role, expectations, and benefits. The application period will close August 8, 2025.

Living Future is seeking Individual TAs in the following areas:

• Material Data and Technology: Living Future seeks advisors with expertise in the storage and sharing of product sustainability data in material databases and digital tools. This includes familiarity with: the developing requirements for digital product passports in the European Union, product identification and traceability standards, commonly used data schemas for product composition, life cycle analysis data, and other related topics.
• Ecosystem Services/Biodiversity: Living Future seeks advisors with expertise in assessing nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks, and opportunities for product manufacturers. This could include measurement, modeling, and documentation of ecosystem services and biodiversity footprints of businesses, and familiarity with nature-related data tools.
• Supply Chain Traceability for Products: Living Future seeks advisors with expertise in product supply chain traceability as it pertains to responsible sourcing, labor practices, and environmental impacts. This includes supplier sustainability, supplier training, supplier audits and verification, labor recruitment practices, environmental management in supply chain, carbon disclosure in supply chain, etc.

Important Dates

• July 14, 2025 – Application period opens
• August 8, 2025 – Application period closes (last day to submit applications)
• Applicants will be notified of decisions on a rolling basis following the close of the application period

Please note that Living Future is not currently seeking additional applicants for our existing Technical Advisory Groups.

For further inquiries, please contact our Tech Advisory team.

Energy and Carbon

The Energy and Carbon TAG will advise on how Living Future programs can continue to lead building teams, of both new and renovation projects, to achieve aggressive energy and carbon reduction targets and be combustion and fossil-fuel-free.