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Sustainability

We partner with clients to deliver high-performance, low-carbon buildings and districts optimized for energy, resilience, and occupant health across the full life cycle.
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200+ LEED-accredited employees
9,496 tons CO₂ saved
2,000+ Sustainability & Resilience Projects

Here's How

We work collaboratively with stakeholders to define goals, evaluate constraints, and identify opportunities across interconnected systems. Leveraging advanced modelling, simulation, and analytical tools, we assess performance, test scenarios, and quantify impacts to inform decision-making. Our role is not simply to recommend solutions, but to provide the technical rigor and clarity needed to support resilient, efficient, and implementable outcomes.

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We partner with architects, engineers, building owners, and operators from early planning through design, construction, and operations to integrate sustainability and resilience throughout the built environment. 

Our expertise combines energy and carbon analyses, decarbonization and net-zero strategies, and building performance optimization with resilience and risk advisory to improve asset performance. The result is future-ready, high-performance buildings and portfolios that balance efficiency, resilience, and occupant health.
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Here’s how we can help you:

  • Integrated design process and performance-driven charrette facilitation
  • Whole-building parametric energy, daylight, and systems optimization
  • Whole-life carbon analysis (embodied + operational, LCA, net-zero pathways)
  • Advanced materials intelligence (low-carbon selection, toxicity screening, supply chain risk)
  • High-performance building systems (Passive House, envelope + systems optimization)
  • Climate resilience strategy (multi-hazard risk, adaptation planning, asset vulnerability analytics)
  • Integrated water systems optimization (hydrological balance, re-usue, and stormwater performance)
  • Certification strategy and technical compliance (LEED, LBC, Net Zero, BREEAM, SITES, Fitwell, Envision)
  • Digital dashboards and twins

Our Team

Julie Pietrzak
Julie Pietrzak
Senior Principal & Sustainability and Resilience Practice Leader
jpietrzak@thorntontomasetti.com +1.917.661.7972 New York
Lisa Bolle
Lisa Bolle
Senior Associate
lbolle@thorntontomasetti.com +1.212.367.2911 New York
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