High Performance Design

Leigh Pfeiffer, AIA, LEED AP, ILFI_LFA, NCARB, EcoDistricts AP

LS3P Sustainability Leader

LS3P’s Sustainability Leader, Leigh Pfeiffer, joins our Greenville office and will serve as a firmwide sustainability and high performance design resource. With a Bachelors and Masters in Architecture from Tulane University, Leigh has nearly 30 years of architectural design experience and 16 years of teaching at the university level for sustainable design studios. She has worked as a thesis committee member for the last decade alongside Bachelors and Masters students with AIA and USGBC top awarded projects, competition wins, and has produced and implemented original sustainable-focused syllabi and courses.

Previously, Leigh was involved in urban planning in California, Florida, Germany, and China, with responsibilities ranging from design and implementation to construction documents and LEED documentation. She has spent the last 5 years working with a structural engineer to push her knowledge and design integration further while consulting with architectural firms.

NEWS

LS3P has signed the AIA Materials Pledge! As a signatory, LS3P has committed to supporting:

Human Health by preferring products that support and foster life throughout their life cycles and seek to eliminate the use of hazardous substances

Climate Health by preferring products that reduce carbon emissions and ultimately sequester more carbon than emitted

Ecosystem Health by preferring products that support and regenerate the natural air, water, and biological cycles of life through thoughtful supply chain management and restorative company practices

Social Health & Equity by preferring products from manufacturers that secure human rights in their own operations and supply chains, positively impacting their workers and the communities where they operate

Circular Economy by reusing and improving buildings and by designing for resiliency, adaptability, disassembly, and reuse, aspiring to a zero-waste goal for global construction activities

OUR COMMITMENT

LS3P joined the AIA 2030 Commitment program in 2009, pledging to take all necessary steps in our practice to advance the AIA’s goal of carbon neutral buildings by the year 2030.

The places where we live, work, and play represent the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in America, as well as around the world. The design and construction industry has made significant strides toward creating high performance buildings of all types and uses. As a result, the industry is positioned to have a profound impact by continuing to foster high building performance and reducing building-related greenhouse gas emissions.

As architects, we understand the need to exercise leadership in creating the built environment. We believe we must alter our profession’s practices and encourage our clients and the entire design and construction industry to join with us to change the course of the planet’s future. A multi-year effort will be required to alter current design and construction practices and realize significant reductions in the use of natural resources, non-renewable energy sources, and waste production and promote regeneration of natural resources.

Through our processes and continued work with AIA, USGBC, and Well Buildings, LS3P is committed to helping AIA achieve their 2030 goal.

EXAMPLES OF HIGH PERFORMANCE DESIGNS

HIGH PERFORMANCE FORESIGHTS

Why high performance design is important and the impact it has on our clients.