Adjunct Assignment Professor at CEPT University
She also worked as an energy performance specialist on over 50 commercial office and institutional buildings in the USA and worked as a reviewer for the GBCI (Green Building Certifications Institute) alongside her consulting work. She has worked with three generations of the LEED rating systems (from version 2.0 to version 4.1). Her key projects include the Hawaii preparatory academy, Hawaii, the first building to ever achieve the Living Building Challenge, Eighth Avenue Place, Calgary, Canada’s first LEED Platinum high-rise office building and La Jolla Project, San Diego, a large-office net-zero energy building.
Her current professional affiliations include IDA (International Dark-Sky Association), ASHRAE and IBPSA. She also serves as editor for the Journal of Sustainable Real Estate.
The three main global energy concerns of providing access to modern energy, enhancing the security of the energy supply, and minimising the impact of energy systems on the climate have an impact on both national and international energy governance. To develop solutions that address the many facets of these difficulties, however, a variety of actors and stakeholders must be included due to the complexity of the energy challenges.
Cities are responsible for more than 70% of the world’s energy consumption and 40% to 50% of its greenhouse gas emissions. Managing increasing urbanisation is a challenge, and nations must deal with the effects it will have on the environment in terms of energy and climate.
Our transition to a future with lower carbon emissions depends heavily on buildings. They are our places of residence, rest, and employment; they also account for around one-third of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and nearly 40% of the world’s energy usage.