John W. Mogge Jr., PhD, AIA, REM, FSAME

In addition to being an executive expert for Green Diamond, Dr. Mogge is a courtesy faculty member of the University of South Florida Patel College of Global Sustainability, where his course focuses on sustainable and resilient solutions for the built environment.

Previously, at Jacobs Engineering, Dr. Mogge served as one of the senior Solutions and Technology Directors, Global Environmental Market Director, and Interim President for the legacy CH2M Environment and Nuclear business group. In prior roles at CH2M, he also served as Interim Business Group President, Environmental Services Business Development and Planning Director, and Southeast Regional Business Group Manager for Transportation and Development.

Dr. Mogge has specialized experience in large program delivery management, prototypical and definitional project development as sustainable outcomes, and extensive experience in technical and executive leadership, project and program delivery systems, change management in infrastructure and environmental planning, programming, budgeting, design, construction, fire protection engineering, operations, and maintenance. His 2004 doctoral work was driven by his belief that the governmental entities and industries of the built environment must transform and become orders of magnitude more resource efficient. His Georgia Institute of Technology dissertation examined the economics of sustainable planning, design, and construction.

His industry experience includes the successful delivery of multiple large scale military weapon system bed down programs for the US Army and US Air Force, large program sustainability planning and start-up operations, including the London 2012 Olympics Sustainability Program Plan, and the MASDAR City (UAE) Sustainable Transportation Technical Integration Program Plan. Beyond sustainability, his environmental focus has been and remains on creating innovations for large scale nuclear decommissioning, Superfund and RCRA clean up technologies and programs.

Dr. Mogge is a USAF Colonel, retired from active duty in 2001, and previously served as the Air Force Reserve Major Command Civil Engineer for his last assignment. His command included 14 operational bases, 39 reserve cantonment wings on active duty bases and 5,000 airmen organized into 40 deployable civil engineer squadrons and flights. He is past National President of the Society of American Military Engineers, the largest and oldest professional society in the United States, as well as founding President of the Society’s Foundation. He was the Society’s 1996 Fellow, 2019 Gerald Brown Mentoring Award recipient, 2020 Gold Medal recipient, and its 2022 Distinguished Fellow. In 2018, he was also recognized with a lifetime achievement award by the Environmental Business International.