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AIA Eastern Pennsylvania, Fall Lecture Series with Jill Kurtz
AIA Guest Speaker: Jill Kurtz - Designing for Impact
Event info:
Join AIA Eastern Pennsylvania for an engaging guest speaker event with Jill Kurtz, Principal and Director of Sustainable Design at Page, now Stantec. In her talk, Designing for Impact: Advancing the Profession and Practice of Sustainability, Jill will share insights from her 20-year career advancing sustainability within architecture—highlighting how impact measurement and building performance analysis can transform ideals into measurable results.
BIO:
Jill is a Principal and Director of Sustainable Design at Page, now Stantec. She has spent her 20 year career focused on sustainability and public interest design. As a registered architect and environmental building design specialist, Jill leverages her strengths as a systems thinker and her ability to “speak engineer” to work across the firm’s interdisciplinary practices to integrate sustainability and building performance analysis across all markets and disciplines. “Intention requires rigor” is the mantra she frequently repeats, emphasizing the importance of follow through on our ideals aspirations towards meaningful and measured results. Page was one of the first large firms to sign the AIA 2030 commitment and now ranks as one of the top performing large firms for this pledge.
Jill has a Bachelor of Architecture from Kansas State University, Masters in Intercultural Studies from Union University, Master of Environmental Building Design from the University of Pennsylvania, and certificate in Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership from Harvard. She’s found herself living and working in India, South Sudan, San Francisco, Southeast PA, and is now located in Houston, Texas.
Designing for Impact: Advancing the profession and practice of sustainability
Over the past two decades, sustainability has moved from the margins to the mainstream of architectural practice. Yet our industry’s organizational structures, career pathways, and accountability metrics have not kept pace. Jill will share her own circuitous journey as a practioner, her experience in growing sustainability within an integrated design practice, as well as some of the research she has been leading with other national firms with established sustainability leadership. She will share about the power of Impact Measurement to advance meaningful sustainability within projects and the power of building performance analysis in the design process.
Date: Thursday, November 13
Time: Lecture starts at 6:00 pm
Location:
Lehigh University,
Business Innovation Center, Rm. 108
201 E Packer Ave
Bethlehem, PA 18015
Business Innovation Building | Lehigh University
Cost: $10 / FREE for students (Dinner will be provided)
Don’t miss this chance to connect and be inspired by one of the field’s leading voices in sustainable design.
Thank you to our sponsors!