Full Name
Kathleen Hetrick
Job Title
Associate Principal
Company
Buro Happold
Speaker Bio
Kathleen Hetrick is associate principal at Buro Happold Los Angeles and is a Bloomberg Fellow at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. As the California Sustainability Lead for Buro Happold, Kathleen combines her passion for regenerative design with a technical background in Architectural Engineering and Public Health. She leads the sustainable design process on a wide range of cutting-edge projects including LEED Platinum, ILFI Zero Carbon and Living Building Challenge buildings, portfolio-wide scope 3 emissions reduction plans, social impact studies, resiliency analysis and corporate sustainability implementation workshops. Recently her work has focused on leading circularity for important public projects, ranging from piloting the Circular Design and Construction Guidelines for New York City's flagship deconstruction project (SPARC-Kips Bay), promoting community solutions for material salvage for the Los Angeles General Hospital in Los Angeles, and developing a county-wide circular economy plan for the San Diego Region. She is currently an advisor to the USGBC-CA Los Angeles Region and the Co-Chair of the USGBC-CA Circularity Committee
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