By M. Walker

I wanted to take a moment to share with you a fantastic article about the Architect's role in curbing climate change, written by Stephanie Carlisle of KieranTimberlake (btw they created the Tally plugin for Revit, which is a great LCA tool). Her piece is thoughtful, timely, and very insightful. I've compiled a couple of quotes here for digest, but I highly recommend the read. 

I am, as I'm sure many of you are as well, very interested to see how the next 10 years will play out across the country as the AEC industry begins to reconcile with its need for sustainable design and high performance outcomes. But even if the largest firms in the country didn't care about the physical realities of climate change at all, there's still a strong business case to be made for implementing sustainable practices. The investment markets have already signaled they're taking climate risk into account (i.e. BlackRock just instituted a company-wide climate risk adjustment/divestment for all $7 Trillion in its portfolios) so it's only a matter of time before we see this manifest in the building markets. Real estate tends to follow financial services trends and one of the most major players in finance just started talking about a new language of accounting for their clients' investments that calculates the climate impact of an asset. 

Those who are ahead of the curve are already there. The question now is who will get left behind.