Insights
Dec 19, 2022 _ insights
New York City Architecture Biennial
Earlier this fall I was invited to speak at the New York City Architecture Biennial where I shared GBBN’s process for integrating sustainability, resilience, and design strategies into our projects and our practice.
As GBBN’s Director of Sustainability and Resilience, I’m dedicated to advancing regenerative design and health focused strategies for our clients and in our own offices. As architects and designers, we can help create and operate health enhancing, net-zero carbon buildings that are generous and attractive in every city. Collectively, we can move beyond the mere efficiency sustainability conversations of the last few decades and aim for holistic design excellence in our work.
But it takes persistence, collaboration, and innovation. In many of the regions where we work, energy and land are cheap, energy codes are lax, and expectations for what architecture can do for people and cities is low. Our risks are not easily identifiable: extreme heat waves, flash flooding, and extended power outages. What risk do we assume by not acting aggressively? My presentation provides answers and insights. You can view it here.
Learn more about the GBBN project case studies I shared at The Biennial: our net-zero design for Tree Pittsburgh, and our Passive House design for Fifth & Dinwiddie East & West.
Read GBBN’s own Sustainability Action Plan here.
Tiffany Broyles Yost AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Fitwel Amb., is an associate principal and the director of sustainability & resilience at GBBN. Tiffany provides strategic leadership for sustainable design across the firm’s portfolio of projects, manages the research of the firm’s Sustainability Action Network, oversees our Sustainability Action Plan, and spearheads related educational initiatives. Her work includes sustainable design on projects at all scales from international tower mixed-use buildings to single story existing building renovations. Tiffany serves on several non-profit boards and committees including, the Greenbuild Summit Advisory Board, the Fitwel Advisory Council, the Louisville Sustainability Council, and the Green Umbrella/Cincinnati 2030 District Health Strategy Committee.
