Kathleen Hetrick

Kathleen Hetrick is a Senior Sustainability Engineer at Buro Happold and a WELL AP and LEED AP accredited professional. Kathleen combines her passion for environmental justice, with a technical background in architectural engineering to improve health and environmental outcomes across engineering projects and their supply chains. Kathleen leads the sustainable design process for a wide range of cutting-edge projects including LEED Platinum, Zero Carbon and Living Building Challenge projects, historical adaptive reuse, and university sustainability plans. She is also heavily involved in Buro Happold’s Diversity and Inclusion Forum, spearheading the outreach initiatives to encourage local K-12 students to pursue sustainability-focused careers in STEM. She is currently a board member of the U.S. Green Building Council and co-founder of the Carbon Leadership Forum – both located in Los Angeles.

Buro Happold is an international consultancy of engineers, consultants and advisers operating in 25 locations worldwide, with 72 partners and over 1,900 employees. Over 40 years Buro Happold has built a world-class reputation for delivering creative, value led solutions for an ever challenging world and improving sustainability in the built environment, from infrastructure to city planning and building operations.