March 30, 2023

Building Transparency

Seattle-based Building Transparency hired Francesco Pomponi as program director for Europe; and Katie Poss as procurement and policy program manager. Also, Vaclav Hasik was promoted to program director for North America, where he will continue to spearhead the development of Building Transparency's tools and training programs. Pomponi will be the nonprofit's first Europe-based employee, where he will play a fundamental role in driving growth and awareness globally of the organization's tools and the importance of embodied carbon awareness and reductions. He joined the organization from Edinburgh Napier University, where he was a professor of sustainability science and head of the Resource Efficient Built Environment Lab. Poss will focus on elevating the embodied carbon conversation and ensuring that project stakeholders understand their role in decarbonizing the built environment sector. Poss was the sustainability program manager for the Technology Division at Turner Construction, where she managed LEED certification, embodied carbon accounting and reduction, and construction phase emissions tracking. Promoted from his previous role as program manager, Hasik will lead methodology, data quality and LCA research. He will also spearhead demos, webinars and trainings of tools to help educate the AEC industry on the importance of reducing embodied carbon emissions. Formed in 2020, Building Transparency provides open-access data and tools that support action across the building industry in addressing embodied carbon's role in climate change.