Erin Kirkpatrick
National Sustainability Manager Swinerton
As the National Sustainability Manager, Erin Kirkpatrick directs Swinerton’s Sustainability Program, working with offices across the country to develop and implement best practices for integrating sustainability into projects in every market and to continually improve the company’s environmental performance. She is responsible for benchmarking and tracking office and jobsite resource efficiency and designing Swinerton’s roadmap to reduce its carbon impact on the built environment. Erin brings operational experience to sustainability in construction, having started her career as a traditional Project Engineer and Project Manager, where issues around materials management, embodied and operational carbon, waste management, and jobsite operations need to be better integrated into traditional or existing systems and processes to realize sustainability scopes. She is a Living Future, LEED BD+C, and WELL Accredited Professional. She holds a Professional Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) from the University of Oregon and a Master of Urban Studies and Sustainable Development from Portland State University, and is based in Seattle.
Seminars
- Driving progress in the current policy world, navigating challenges and making progress in an environment with “winds blowing back and forth”
- Strategies for driving deeper, more systemic levels of decarbonization, focusing on the broader supply chain and value chain concepts
- Strategically discussing climate risk management, including critical success factors for driving greater levels of climate risk management
- Exploring an EPD deep-dive from a manufacturer’s perspective to better understand how A1-A3 data is collected and published
- Understanding how tracking realized A4 & A5 impacts can inform design and construction
- Using LCAs as a tool to better understand the gaps in our understanding of A1-A5 data
