With more than 20 years of experience with educational clients, Jesse Walton, AIA is passionate about creating sustainable, healthy spaces for learners of all ages. As a senior project architect and low carbon specialist, he works closely with design teams and district staff to lower operational and embodied carbon. An early adopter of BIM, he is an office-wide leader in Revit documentation, building envelope design, and energy code compliance.
Jesse holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design. He is a registered architect in Washington, a LEED Accredited Professional, Certified Passive House Consultant (CPHC), and serves as co-Chair on the AIA 2030 Commitment Working Group.
Courses
AIA 2030 Commitment By the Numbers (RY22): A Look into Firms’ Progress Towards Net Zero Emissions
What progress has more than 23,000 projects totaling 3.8 billion GSF designed last year made towards net-zero carbon? The AIA 2030 Commitment, a key climate action program, brings together a network of over 1,250 signatory architecture and design firms dedicated to tracking their projects’ energy data to reach carbon neutrality in the built environment. Upon this year’s release of the 2030 By the Numbers (RY22), join us for a conversation on the high-level findings from the report, including where we are succeeding as an industry and where we can still improve based on the reported data. We will discuss data trends on overall energy performance, the incorporation of energy modeling in projects, the inclusion of renewable energy sources as well as embodied carbon data.
Course expires 12/12/2026
This session was recorded live on October 31, 2023.
AIA 2030 Commitment By the Numbers (RY23): A Look into Firms’ Progress Towards Net Zero Emissions
What progress has more than 24,000 projects totaling 3.9 billion GSF designed last year made towards net-zero carbon? The AIA 2030 Commitment, a key climate action program, brings together a network of over 1,350 signatory architecture and design firms dedicated to tracking their projects’ energy data to reach carbon neutrality in the built environment. Upon this year’s release of the 2030 By the Numbers (RY23), join us for a conversation on the high-level findings from the report, including where we are succeeding as an industry and where we can still improve based on the reported data. We will discuss data trends on overall energy performance, the incorporation of energy modeling in projects, and the inclusion of renewable energy sources and embodied carbon data.
2030 and Beyond: Architecture2030 and the AIA’s Work Towards Net Zero Emissions
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 | 2-3pm ET
Now five years away from the year 2030, leaders from AIA 2030 Commitment and Architecture2030 come together on this panel to discuss where progress is being made in the buildings sector and where needs improvement. Speakers will chart the history of Architecture 2030, the AIA 2030 Commitment and then outline what specific actions are needed from the industry to mitigate the worst emissions pathways. In doing this, they will deep dive into two new reports, the AIA 2030 By the Numbers (RY24) and Architecture2030’s 2030 Beyond the Numbers (RY24), that analyze the reported predicted energy data from over 450 AIA 2030 Commitment signatory firms that culminate to >40k projects and 4 billion gross square feet (GSF).