Aurora Jensen
- Brightworks Sustainability
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Aurora's Role at Brightworks
Aurora Jensen is Brightworks' Embodied Carbon Lead, based in New York, where she specializes in embodied carbon measurement and reduction strategies. She has led many whole building life cycle assessments (WBLCAs) for project's seeking LEED and International Living Future Institute (ILFI) certification. She has also published research on the embodied carbon of mass timber buildings. With previous experience in operational carbon modeling and evaluating passive strategies, she helps clients link operational and embodied carbon considerations and evaluate trade-offs.
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Previously a sustainability engineer with Buro Happold Engineering, Aurora served as a technical expert in embodied carbon and shaped the firm’s services from advisory scale analysis to Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment (WBLCA).
Aurora currently sits on the steering ccommittee for the Carbon Leadership Forum in New York City and teaches environmental design part-time at Parsons School of Design. She has guest lectured on embodied carbon for ACSA, IBPSA, GSAPP, the New Buildings Institute, Penn, Pratt, and UC Berkeley.