Jennifer serves as a Senior Sustainability Manager for the Institute for the Built Environment at Colorado State University. An implementer by nature, Jen thrives on helping organizations, municipalities, and interdisciplinary teams transform strategic vision into impactful projects. She blends a collaborative spirit with a "let's get it done" attitude to keep teams moving together toward a common goal. At IBE, Jen leads a variety of organizational sustainability, community engagement, and education initiatives, including behavior change programs. She manages survey services, including community and organizational surveys related to climate action, behavior change and building occupancy surveys that help clients understand how building design and programming are impacting occupant health and wellbeing.
Jen's project management expertise spans green building, biomimicry, education, website development, communications, marketing, and ecology. A jack of many trades, Jen has previously worked at the Biomimicry Institute, the U.S. Green Building Council, the Center for Living Environments & Regeneration, a land trust, and an aquatic entomology lab, and she has provided consulting services to a variety of conservation nonprofits.
Speaking at
Mon May 12
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time
Enhancing Real Estate Value through Healthy Design: Tools and Insights from Lakehouse
Category
Housing/Residential
The conversation around maximizing real estate benefits often focuses on net zero emissions and adaptive reuse, overlooking human health. The emerging model of wellness real estate addresses this gap by introducing new metrics to evaluate the built environment's impact on individuals. Using Lakehouse, Colorado's first WELL Certified community, the panel will explore how wellness-driven design can generate social and economic benefits. The project architect will explain the rationale behind Lakehouse's healthy infrastructure, while researchers from Colorado State University will present findings from a multiyear study on the positive effects of thoughtful design on residents' emotional and physical health. In addition, an international research scientist from the International WELL Building Institute will provide a pro forma analysis of the financial implications of WELL Certification, including its effects on consumer attraction, social capital, health care outcomes, and employment. Join us for this discussion on the transformative potential of healthy design in real estate and its dual economic and community well-being benefits.