Aurora Jensen

Aurora is the Embodied Carbon Lead in Brightworks’ office in New York, where she specializes in embodied carbon measurement and reduction strategies. Aurora supports clients and design teams in understanding and driving down the carbon and environmental impacts of their buildings. She has led many whole building life cycle assessments (WBLCAs) for LEED and International Living Future Institute (ILFI) and has published USDA funded research on the embodied carbon of mass timber buildings. With previous experience in operational carbon modeling and evaluating passive strategies, she also helps clients link operational and embodied carbon considerations and evaluate trade-offs. Aurora currently sits on the Steering Committee for the Carbon Leadership Forum in New York City and teaches Environmental Design as a part-time faculty member at Parsons at The New School. She has guest lectured on embodied carbon for the New Buildings Institute, ACSA, IBPSA, Pratt, UPenn UC Berkeley and GSAPP.