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Vice President of Corporate Responsibility | Thornton Tomasetti
As the Corporate Responsibility Officer for Thornton Tomasetti, Amy Seif Hattan works with the firm’s executive leadership to "green" the corporation's operations across more than 50 office locations and achieve greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals internally and externally in the firm's projects. She co-leads Thornton Tomasetti's Embodied Carbon Community of Practice, is on the Board of the Carbon Leadership Forum, and is a co-initiator of the Structural Engineers 2050 Challenge. She has long been actively involved in Thornton Tomasetti’s efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of the built environment through such programs as the TT embodied carbon measurement study and development of Beacon, an open-source embodied carbon optimization tool. With over 25 years experience working in the field of sustainability, Amy was an early champion of campus sustainability efforts and she worked as senior staff at Second Nature, the organization that founded the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. She received a Masters of Public Administration of the Harvard University Kennedy School, where she focused on climate change policy and organizational change.
Courses
Embodied Carbon 101: Process + Firm Culture
In order to make true progress toward carbon reduction, carbon-thoughtful design must be part of the AEC industry’s standards and culture, instead of approached on a project-by-project basis. Hear from sustainability leaders representing a range of practices, including architecture, engineering and consulting, construction, and design/build firms who share the vision and infrastructure of their own firms’ sustainability and embodied carbon practice, and elaborate on how they arrived at a place where sustainable design and construction is built into their firms’ cultures. These leaders identify barriers to adopting carbon-thoughtful design and strategies for breaking down those barriers, including leveraging existing cultural and industry structures (for example: the AIA 2030 Commitment) and strengthening the connections between the existing values of firm leadership (for example: operational energy reduction; for example: materials and occupant health) and carbon reduction.
Course expires 11/14/2026