As we enter 2025, the BE+ community gathered to celebrate the past year’s achievements and welcome the new Board of Directors. During the Annual Meeting & Volunteer Celebration, we honored individuals and companies that have demonstrated commitment and leadership in various ways in 2024 by acknowledging their contributions, planting trees in their honor, and welcoming new faces to the leadership team.
The awards went out to the following:
1. Company of the Year: WSP
2. Net Zero Hero: Noah Klammer and Rand Lemley
3. Living Building Champion: Jim Newman
4. Member of the Year: Cameron Burkacki
5. Health & Wellness Champion: Mandy Miller
6. BE+ Community Leader: Yanni Tsipis
7. Emerging Professional of the Year: Michelle Silverwood
8. Women in Green Warrior: Elizabeth Venuti
9. Most Studious Company: Fennick McCredie Architecture
BE+ also announced the new Board Members and the BE+ community would like to congratulate and give a warm welcome to Hessann Farooqi (Boston Climate Action Network), Julian Groenendaal (Thornton Tomasetti), and Jennifer Lawrence (Hideo Sasaki Foundation). Additionally, we would like to congratulate the re-elected board members Kate Bubriski, Sarah Michelman, and Jacob Knowles.
As we bid farewell to 2024, we would like to thank our departing Board Member Axel Jeremie for his dedication, passion, and invaluable contributions. A tree will be planted in his honor, along with 90 others in honor of our volunteers who make our community so special.
Congratulations to the award winners, new board members, and everyone continuing their hard work. Here’s to a year of furthering our success and progress within the BE+ community!
PE | Associate, LeMessurier
Vice President, AEW’s Architecture & Engineering group
Interior Designer, Jacobs, Boston
Senior Vice President, Market Transformation and Development U.S. Green Building Council
AIA LEED AP BD+C | Senior Associate, Gensler Boston 
LEED Fellow, WELL AP | Founder and Principal, Ecoworks Studio
LEED AP BD+C | Environmental Sustainability Manager, Armstrong World Industries
Sustainability Director, Steven Winter Associates
Assistant Professor of Exposure Science | Director of the Healthy Buildings program
Managing Director, Harvard University Office for Sustainability
Principal & Director of Certifications and Consulting, Epsten Group, Inc.
Vice President of Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility, Jamestown
Founder and Principal, Linnean Solutions | LEED AP, O+M; EcoDistrict AP
Associate Principal, BuroHappold Engineering
Senior Vice President, Sustainability at Kilroy Realty Corporation
Co-Founder, Facilitator at The Laurentia Project | LEED AP BD+C, LFA
Founder and President, Board of the Healthy Building Network
Building Technology Director, Kingspan North America
LEED® AP ID+C, BD+C, USGBC Faculty, WELL® AP, WELL Faculty and Fitwel Ambassador
Workplace Strategy Expert and Researcher, EYP
Principal, Integrated Ecostrategy
Senior Vice President, International WELL Building Institute
AIA, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP
Principal, Bruner/Cott
Architect, Associate, and Sustainability Design Leader, Stantec Architecture and Engineering
FAIA, LEED Fellow, Long Green Specs
Products & Materials Specialist, BuildingGreen
Director of Acquisitions and Development
Director of Restorative Enterprise, Interface
Vice President of Sustainable Development, Shaw
Sustainability Manager, Consigli Construction Company
Global Head of Sustainability, Superior Essex