ARCHITECTURE 2030 - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Founding Director of Waugh Thistleton Architects
Andrew is a founding director of Waugh Thistleton Architects, an architecture practice dedicated to designing buildings and places of the highest architectural quality that acknowledge their impact on the environment.
Andrew is a passionate advocate of low carbon design and construction; encouraging clients to look at the beauty and benefits of innovation. He has led the practice on award winning schemes from synagogues to social housing, offices and public buildings and was responsible for the design and delivery of Murray Grove, the building which spearheaded the international movement in tall timber construction.
Andrew teaches and lectures frequently with a focus on sustainability, timber construction and the future of architecture. Andrew is a member of the steering committee for Architects Declare in the UK and an ardent campaigner for good causes.
Bill Burke is an architect with a long background in energy-efficient building design and environmental issues related to buildings, planning, and public policy. He was on the staff of the PG&E Pacific Energy Center (PEC) for many years where he oversaw architectural educational programs, with a focus on building enclosure, daylighting, Title 24 Part 6 Energy Standards, zero net energy/zero net carbon design, and decarbonization. Bill retired from PG&E in 2020 but continues to work on education and policy initiatives through AIA California's Climate Action Committee and Architecture 2030. Bill believes high performance building design is key to protection of Earth's atmosphere and improving the quality of the indoor environment and occupant health and comfort.
Prior to his work at PG&E, Bill managed the Vital Signs Curriculum Project for the University of California, Berkeley in the mid-1990s. Vital Signs assisted educators to incorporate building performance topics into architectural curricula at schools throughout North America. Early in his architectural career Bill worked at HOK San Francisco and MBT Architecture (now part of Perkins & Will).
Bill has served on the Board of Directors of AIA/San Francisco and on the AIA/California Council Committee on the Environment (AIA/CC COTE). He graduated from the University of Oregon School of Architecture where he earned his M. Arch. His undergraduate degree was in History from Grinnell College.
As Executive Director of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Seattle for the past 15 years, Lisa Richmond helped lead the association's national agenda on climate change mitigation and adaptation. She partnered with Architecture 2030 on the development of the AIA+2030 Professional Series and Materials Matter, professional development programs that sought to transform architectural practice towards zero-carbon buildings.
Under her leadership, AIA Seattle's Public Policy Board made significant progress on critical policy priorities including building electrification, and was a founding partner of Shift Zero, a green building advocacy consortium. She co-authored the AIA's national climate plan, and supported development of climate action and education in AIA chapters across the US.
A serial entrepreneur, Lisa founded the Seattle Design Festival to spotlight design as a tool for progress, and developed Seattle's Center for Architecture & Design, an exhibit and event space. She received her BA from University of Virginia and an MA from University of Wisconsin, and was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She is a certified leader and mentor with Al Gore's Climate Reality Project.
Lisa is currently taking a sabbatical, using her time to accelerate her leadership on climate change and find inspiration in nature. She recently completed a 3-week solo bike trip down the coast of Oregon and California.
Brett Phillips is an award-winning sustainability leader and advocate, whose private and public work on decarbonization is shaping how the built environment is addressing climate change. He is Vice President of Sustainable and Responsible Investments at Unico Properties, a subsidiary of Unico Investment Group, where he manages high-performance green building and renewable energy projects for Unico's national real estate portfolio. He is also co-founder and Vice President of Unico Solar Investors, a Unico subsidiary that develops, operates, and supplies solar energy for commercial real estate and business portfolios across the United States.
Since 2008, Brett has overseen sustainable development and operations projects for over 25 million square feet of LEED-certified real estate. Notable projects include the Bullitt Center (the world's largest commercial "Living Building"), LEED Platinum Stone34 in Seattle, and the award-winning LEED Platinum development of Circa Building in Denver. In a personal venture, he is developing Inspire, Seattle's first zero-carbon multifamily building which is drawing the blueprint for net-positive residential developments in the region.
Brett is a co-founder and the current board chair of the 2030 Districts Network, a nonprofit organization devoted to creating a global network of low-carbon cities. He authored the update to Seattle's Living Building Challenge Pilot and the creation of the 2030 Challenge Pilot which provide critical land-use incentives for new and existing buildings in exchange for delivering low-carbon buildings. He is also an Architecture 2030 Senior Fellow, where he is promoting the adoption of the 2030 Challenge to rapidly decarbonize the built environment as a central solution to stemming the climate crisis.
Job Titles:
- Senior Program Director
- Member of the 2030 Districts Network Board of Directors
Erin McDade leads Architecture 2030's building reuse and public policy initiatives, developing and communicating scalable, data-driven solutions for built environment decarbonization. Her recent work includes co-developlopment of the CARE Tool, designed to provide decision-makers in the preservation, planning, architecture, engineering, and policymaking communities with the capability to quantify the impact potential of, and advocate for, beneficial building reuse.
Erin studied architecture as an undergraduate at Smith College and hold a master's degree in architecture from the University of Washington, where she focused on the intersection of buildings and the environment. In addition to her primary roles with Architecture 2030, she harnesses her background in design to ensure that the organization's mission and project outcomes are effectively represented and communicated globally using clear and compelling graphic design. After seven years of design reviews in architecture school followed by another ten years presenting Architecture 2030's work at numerous conferences and events, she is also an accomplished public speaker, regularly representing Architecture 2030 and acting as a built environment decarbonization expert and advocate in public forums across the country.
Erin is a member of the 2030 Districts Network Board of Directors, the American Institute of Architects 2030 Commitment Working Group, a founding member and former co-chair of the Embodied Carbon Network, and previously sat on the Carbon Leadership Forum Advisory Board.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder of Ha / F Climate Design
Architect Kelly Alvarez Doran is Co-Founder of Ha/f Climate Design, a design consultancy established to work with designers, planners, building owners, and city builders to halve greenhouse gas emissions from buildings this decade. Kelly is a Senior Fellow with Architecture 2030, Director of the Ha/f Research Studio at the University of Toronto, and Climate Strategy Lead at the Bartlett's Landscape Architecture Department. He currently serves on the RAIC's Committee on Regenerative Environments, and the US Architects Declare Steering Committee.
Job Titles:
- General Manager of DLR Group 's Shanghai
Leon (Lihong) Qiu is the general manager of DLR Group's Shanghai office and a Chinese Class I registered architect and a fellow of the China Architecture Association. Leon was instrumental in the development and signing of the Architecture 2030 China Accord.
After graduating with an architecture bachelor degree from Tongji University, Leon developed his skills and passion for design through various architectural and executive positions with Xian Dai Architecture Design (Group) Co., Ltd. Since beginning his career in 1988, he has grown rich, strong professional and social relationships with people at companies, government and trade organizations throughout China.
Job Titles:
- Architect
- Structural Engineer
- Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
Lori Ferriss is an architect, structural engineer, and conservator known for sustainable redevelopment of historic and existing buildings. Her award-winning work spans design projects and research investigations to policy development with a focus on advancing climate action and equity through design.
She is a co-developer of Architecture 2030's CARE Tool, which estimates the carbon benefits of reusing and retrofitting buildings for designers, owners, planners, and policymakers. Her work establishing carbon accounting methods for historic buildings has been featured in publications ranging from the Journal of Architectural Conservation to Architect Magazine and presented on-stage at UN COP Climate Change Conferences. Lori is a Design Fellow at Northeastern University and a Principal Consultant with Cameron MacAllister. She serves as the 2023 Chair of the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment, sits on the Steering Committee of the Climate Heritage Network, and is an expert member on the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Energy, Sustainability and Climate Change.
Job Titles:
- CEO of the Latino Hotel Association
Lynette Montoya, CEO of the Latino Hotel Association since 2015, has been actively involved in the hotel industry for 20 years, working as a broker for properties throughout the United States. Ms. Montoya is the founder of the Santa Fe, New Mexico, Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and served as its founding executive director. She is also a board member of Architecture 2030, a non-profit think tank tackling climate change through the design of the built environment. As director of economic development for the City of Santa Fe, Ms. Montoya was instrumental in the development and construction of a new convention center.
Lynette serves on the Advisory Council of the California State University Hospitality and Tourism Management Education Alliance and volunteers extensively in her community, where she has been a key member of charities serving homeless use, battered women, and other vulnerable populations. She is currently a member of the Big Brothers Big Sisters gala committee.
Charles Eley, P.E., AIA, BEMP, CEM, Member ASHRAE, LEED® AP is an architect, mechanical engineer and author with 40 years' experience in energy efficient and sustainable design. As a Senior Fellow, Charles worked with Architecture 2030 in creating the ZERO Code, the first national and international zero net carbon building code standard.
His latest book is Design Professionals Guide to Zero Net Energy Buildings (Island Press 2016). During his career, Mr. Eley has made significant contributions to the California energy standards, ASHRAE Standard 90.1, and energy codes in Hong Kong, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa and Australia. He has also developed a number of important technical manuals and publications; served as the founding executive director of the Collaborative for High Performance Schools; developed a number of energy analysis software applications; and has served as energy consultant for a number of landmark green buildings. Mr. Eley currently writes, serves on non-profit boards, provides specialized consulting, and teaches classes on building energy efficiency and green technologies.
Pamela Conrad, PLA, ASLA, LEED AP, is an internationally recognized landscape architect, Founder of Climate Positive Design, Faculty at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, and Architecture 2030 Senior Fellow. Her passion for the environment is deeply rooted - from growing up on a farm in Missouri to degrees in Plant Science and regenerative landscape architecture. Conrad's 20-year career most recently as a Principal at CMG Landscape Architecture has focused on implementing nature-based solutions in the built environment from large-scale habitat restoration to a decade of urban sea level rise adaptation projects in San Francisco, California and beyond.
Pamela's influential research on carbon sparked by the 2019 LAF Fellowship for Innovation and Leadership is elevating landscape architecture's role in climate change and has continued through the 2023 Harvard Loeb Fellowship. She focuses on finding solutions to the climate crisis and planning for a resilient future as ASLA's Climate Action Plan Chair and IFLA's Climate Action Committee Vice-Chair. Conrad has been featured in Forbes, TIME Magazine for Kids, the recent book "Build Beyond Zero", and on stage at the UN COP27 Climate Conference. She has received numerous awards including the Metropolis Planet Positive Award, ASLA's Award of Honor, and San Francisco Business Times Women of Influence Award.
Job Titles:
- General Manager of BRE ( Building Research Establishment ) China
Quinnie Li is the General Manager of BRE (Building Research Establishment) China, responsible for leading BRE's business growth in China, working with multiple stakeholders from government, industry and academia to facilitate knowledge exchange, collaborations and partnerships. Quinnie was previously the Vice President and one of the youngest female partners of leading global engineering company. She was the first to assist the company in establishing its Asia practice and has successfully managed many complex, high-profile sustainability projects. Quinnie has a BA in architecture and urban planning with a concentration in Business Administration from UC Berkeley. She is also pursuing an EMBA from London Business School/Columbia University/Hong Kong University. She is a qualified professional of various green building standards from China, US and UK.