Susan Heinking,

The youngest LEED Fellow (representing <1% of AEC professionals worldwide), Susan leads $2.4 billion in high-performance work for Pepper Construction.  Her passion for sustainability was developed in college, where she envisioned a world no longer dependent on the grid. That vision has become a career ambition, and she's already taking measures to make it happen.

Susan's vision for Pepper expands the high-performance perspective to create greater value through building performance and human performance. This includes enhancing existing efforts with energy modeling, ROI analysis and local utility incentives, as well as building on Pepper's healthy jobsite initiative "Nothing Hits the Floor" program and promoting the use of healthy building materials and construction practices to protect the long-term health of construction workers. Her work at Pepper enables her to put design into action, provide decision-making tools that determine investment paybacks and reduced operating costs, lead Pepper's projects to their sustainability goals, assist clients with their corporate environmental compliance during construction and put existing buildings on a path to net zero. Susan has received a sustainability leadership certificate from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.