For our latest epsiode, Lindsay Baker and I talked with Kayleigh Houde. She is Associate Principal and Global Computational Projects Lead at Buro Happold, where she is responsible for the development of new technologies within the open-source coding platform BHoM.
Her leadership extends to chairing the MEP 2040 Commitment, participating in the ECHO Project and ASHRAE Center of Excellence for Building Decarbonization.
We spoke with Kayleigh soon after the MEP 2040 and Carbon Leadership Forum released The Beginner's Guide to MEP Embodied Carbon, a critical resource for the community. "We have coalesced a lot of data to to bridge gaps for the MEP disciplines and provide clarity about the MEP impact," she says. Kayleigh's technical leadership is paralleled by her deep commitment to collaboration across disciplines, evidenced in many ways, including her work on the ECHO effort to harmonize data across disciplines and certification programs.
One way that Kayleigh raised her voice to cross disciplines was through an article for the Architecture 2030's ARCHITECT Magazine colum, Carbon Positive, in which she framed her articles as a letter from the MEP discipline to architecture (https://lnkd.in/gMiJ_gmy).
Of the potential of computation in climate work, Kayleigh says, "Computers aren't the thing. They are the thing that gets you to the thing. What computations helps you to solve are some of issues that we have in human collaboration. Getting people to talk and collaborate is a big part of the solution in computational work."
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related links:
MEP 2040's new Guide: https://lnkd.in/e3na_kiB
the ECHO work: https://lnkd.in/gts3m37P
ASHRAE's Center of Excellence for Building Decarbonization: https://lnkd.in/et8GFrCP
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Kira Gould Hon. AIA
Kira Gould CONNECT
Mission Hills KS
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