Buildings & Energy Program Manager | City of Seattle, Office of Sustainability and Environment.
Sandra Mallory is the Buildings & Energy Program Manager in the Seattle Office of Sustainability and Environment. She leads the buildings team to develop programs and policies that will transition Seattle’s building sector to a net-zero carbon future. She developed the buildings priority actions for Seattle’s 2018 Climate Action Strategy and is managing their implementation. Additional key initiatives include creation of the Resource Conservation Management program for City-owned buildings and development of the Seattle Building Tune-Up mandate. She also designed and secured funding for the City’s Tune-Up Accelerator Program, a Department of Energy funded initiative to assist owners of small to medium sized buildings comply with the mandate. Before joining the City, Sandra both practiced architecture – with Environmental Works, where she focused on greening affordable housing – and taught Sustainable Design – in an interdisciplinary Sustainable Systems program.
Courses
Zero Carbon Communities - Just Transitions to Zero Carbon
This session tells stories from across the United States which address questions such as: How do you finance and retrofit real energy improvement projects with energy and environmental justice in mind? Do practices need to change for architects implementing work in cities with building energy performance standards? How do policies in more progressive cities in turn influence other US cities? What are progressive cities like Seattle doing to jumpstart zero-carbon goals and how are architects engaging in this work?
Course expires 01/12/2025