Sustainable Design Leader | HOK
Vanessa is a Sustainable Design Leader with HOK, based in Kansas City. She is the global AIA 2030 manager for HOK and currently serves as Working Group co-chair. She has extensive experience in high-performance design for large complex buildings and works daily to implement sustainable best practices, including energy efficiency analysis, renewable energy integration, occupant wellness strategies, and third party Certification. Vanessa is a member of the ICC Code Action Committee for Sustainable / Energy / High Performance buildings.
Courses
AIA 2030 Commitment’s By the Numbers Report: A Look into Firms’ Progress Towards Net-Zero (RY21)
What progress have more than 20,000 projects designed last year made towards net-zero carbon? Join us for a conversation on findings from signatories of the AIA 2030 Commitment in 2021, a key climate action program for reaching net zero emissions in the built environment. We’ll examine a variety of achievements, ranging from increases in gross square footage meeting the 80% reduction target to the big leaps in renewable energy reported, signaling positive trends for the industry in meeting net-zero carbon goals. Beyond high-level trends across all projects, we’ll also investigate the performance between different use types and various geographies, and where we can see just how important policy is in accelerating high performance.
Course expires 9/18/2025
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.