Jessie Templeton
- AIA, LEED AP BD+C, LFA
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Jessie's Role at Brightworks
Jessie Templeton is an expert in reducing embodied carbon. Her building type experience includes affordable housing, data centers, multifamily housing, campus communities, transit-oriented developments, and urban neighborhoods. Before Brightworks, Jessie was a Senior Associate Architect at GGLO Architects in Seattle, where she led the firm's embodied carbon-related work. She was a core member of GGLO's Climate Positive team advancing sustainability in the firm's projects and acted as Design Lead and Project Architect on multifamily developments.
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In Jessie’s role as GGLO’s Embodied Carbon Specialist, she ran a firm-wide embodied carbon benchmarking study to create embodied carbon baselines for different building typologies. This involved iterative whole building lifecycle assessments (WBLCAs) on all GGLO projects to inform structural system and enclosure selection, identify material reuse potential, and recommend optimized materials. Jessie also co-led a Design Equity Initiative to promote a more equitable design process and built environment. These two efforts culminated in the integration of low-carbon materials as the basis of design for office-wide specifications and critical revisions to project process and delivery to improve low-carbon outcomes.