Join Green Design and Career Services for a great event next Wednesday evening, February 22nd.
Hear from five accomplished panelists in different sustainable design disciplines about their own career paths. Learn from their experiences and get ideas on how to build your own career in sustainability. Then stay for a networking session with hors d'oeuvors.
RSVP to career@gsd.harvard.edu
Bios of Panelists
Barbra Batshalom
Executive Director,
Green Roundtable
Barbra
Batshalom is the founder and Executive Director of The Green Roundtable. GRT is
an independent “not-just-for-profit” organization whose mission is to transform
the paradigm of the built environment so that natural systems and human systems
thrive in synergy.
Under her
direction, GRT organizes and facilitates a forum for proactive dialogue among
diverse professions and provides resources and expertise to the development,
design and construction community. GRT is also active with legislative and
policy initiatives so that eventually, sustainable strategies become
"business as usual". Barbra is an educator, design and policy
consultant and works with a wide range of governmental, institutional and
private sector clients.
Barbra
provides the vision and direction for GRT’s programs to transform the market
from products to practice and policy to planning. Barbra created and launched
the first industry wide Sustainable Performance Institute Certification for
design and construction companies. With a diverse background of fine arts,
social psychology and seventeen years in architecture and consulting, Barbra
brings a variety of skills to all of her work and unique perspective engaging
the human dynamics of decision-making and creative collaboration to technical
work, to ultimately optimize building system integration, enhance quality and
performance of projects.
Philippe Généreux
Architect
+
Sustainability
Coordinator, Symmes Maini & McKee Associates
Philippe
Généreux brings 17 years of experience in architecture and interior design,
having worked at distinguished design firms in both Montréal and Boston. A LEED
Accredited Professional since 2003, Mr. Généreux has been a member of the
Boston Society of Architects’ Committee on the Environment for the last twelve
years and his now co-chair of the committee. His passion for environmentally-friendly
design is reflected through his dedication to the mission of SMMA’s Sustainable
Design Committee. Mr. Généreux has implemented BIM software through all phases
of design and construction for documenting several of the firm’s LEED and
MACHPS projects.
EDUCATION
* University of Montreal, Bachelor of Architecture
* CÉGEP du Vieux-Montréal,
Technical Degree in Architecture
EXPERIENCE
* Blue Cross Blue Shield Rhode Island, Providence,
RI, 360,000sf 13-story new corporate headquarters, LEED NC Gold, Energy Star
Certification
* Ft Devens, Armed Forces Reserve Center, design
build for new 273,000sf, 6-building campus
* Quincy, MA, New Comprehensive High School with
Science and Technology Academy (320,000sf), 1500 Students, Grades 9-12
* Springfield College, Springfield, MA, Campus Union
* Wellesley High School, Wellesley, MA, New High
School (220,000 sf), 1400 Students, MACHPS
* Bedford, MA, Hanscom Air Force Base, Full Design
Services for New Acquisition Management Facility (40,000 sq. ft.)
* Andover Elementary School, Andover MA, 101,000 sf,
LEED for School Silver predicted.
Erin
Kelly MLA ‘11
Detroit
Revitalization Fellow, NextEnergy
Erin is a
landscape architect and designer who was born in Oregon, raised in Texas, and
educated on both of the coasts. She earned a bachelor’s degree in community
development and propaganda from the Evergreen State College in 2002 and a
Master Degree in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of
Design in 2011. Erin comes from a lineage of woodworkers and believes that
transforming space with materials is a privilege.
As a Detroit
Revitalization Fellow with NextEnergy, Erin is working to grow southeast
Michigan’s regional waste economy. The majority of her time is spent
accelerating the City of Detroit’s capacity to remove formerly residential
structures, while enhancing local opportunities to diversify this process as it
unfolds in the private and non-profit sectors. In addition to her work with
Detroit’s urban wood waste stream at NextEnergy, she is presently leading the
development of a proposal for Detroit’s first geothermal energy district
project.
Irina Mladenova MUP ‘10
Vice President of
Research + Consulting, Sustainability Roundtable
Irina
Mladenova brings an interdisciplinary urban planning and development
perspective. She completed an A.B. in Urban Studies at Harvard College and a
Master in Urban Planning with concentration in Sustainable Design and
Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Currently Irina serves as
a Vice President of Research and Consulting at Sustainability Roundtable Inc.
(SR Inc), a private, mission driven, research and consulting company based in
Cambridge, MA.
Irina
helps global leading companies such as AAA, Adobe, Autodesk, BNY Mellon,
Brandywine Realty Trust, Brookfield Properties, Capital One, Cisco, Equity
Office Properties, IBM, ING Clarion, Intuit, J.P. Morgan, Oracle, SAP,
Symantec, US GSA, among others to accelerate the development and adoption of
management best practices in more sustainable business and higher performance
global corporate real estate portfolios. She leads the development of
shared-cost member-directed research methodology, decision frameworks, best
practice case study format, tools, templates, checklists. Key areas of research
and consulting include portfolio-wide sustainability strategy, advanced energy
management systems (AEMS), enterprise energy and carbon accounting (EECA),
green leasing, alternative workplace
strategies (AWS), innovating financing for energy efficiency, renewable energy, water efficiency, etc.
Prior
to joining SR Inc, Irina was a core member of the Harvard Zofnass Program for
Sustainable Infrastructure as well as an intern at the New York City Mayor's
Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability. Irina has extensive research
experience on both local and international level. Her field work and research
include China, India, Argentina, Singapore, Austria, Bulgaria, Senegal, and US.
Robert Osten, Jr.
Principal, Lam
Architects
In his 26
years of lighting design experience, Bob has consulted on numerous large-scale
projects totalling several billion dollars in construction cost, and is the
author of several articles and technical papers. He has a particular interest
in architectural daylighting and in emerging design tool technology, and is the
primary developer of Lam's "Sunscan" daylight model testing software.
In 2008, he co-presented a half-day daylighting workshop at the AIA National
Convention.
EDUCATION
* MIT, Master of Architecture, 1977
* Harvard College, Bachelor of Arts, 1970
SELECTED AWARDS
* IESNA New England Section Illumination Design
Award, 2007 – MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences Center, Cambridge, MA
* IESNA-IIDA Award of Merit, 2006 – Purdue
University Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, West Lafayette, IN
* IALD Award of Merit, 2001 – University of
Pennsylvania Module VII Chiller Plant, Philadelphia, PA