Amanda Sturgeon AIA

Principal

LEED Accredited Professional

3427 39 th Avenue SW
Seattle , Washington 98116

Voice: 206/624-7544
Fax: 206/938-1691

E-mail: Amanda@fgainc.net
URL: www.fgainc.net

For the last eight years Amanda has been a leader in the emerging sustainable building field. She has worked in the private and public sectors to design and promote sustainability as a good design decision. In 1998 Amanda started the AIA Seattle Committee on the Environment and the annual sustainable design event that now draws 400 attendees called Greenworld/What Makes It Green? Amanda worked on LEED projects when LEED was still in it’s pilot phase with the Island Wood project, which certified at a LEED gold level upon completion. Amanda was a founding board member of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council, the first regional chapter of the USGBC.

As an Architect Amanda’s projects have included educational and public buildings. Amanda worked on the 54,000 sq ft Newcastle University School of Nursing building in 1995-96 in Australia which won the 1998 Royal Australia Institute of Architects (RAIA) New South Wales Chapter Environment Award. The building includes academic offices, teaching spaces and a 450 seat theatre. Sustainable strategies were geo-thermal heat retention/rejection, natural ventilation, rainwater collection to flush toilets, shading and lightshelf daylighting strategies.

While employed at Mithun Architects in Seattle Amanda was a Project Architect for Island Wood (formerly the Puget Sound Environmental Learning Center), a 70,000sf environmental education center. The center is a unique outdoor learning center on a 255 acre site that provides kids, adults and families with hands-on learning experiences that combine science, technology and the arts in a natural setting. The project preserved wetlands, a stream and ponds while restoring salmon habitat. The center consists of office and meeting facilities, a classroom, dining hall, and arts studio as well as lodging for the residential program and staff. The project achieved a LEED Gold rating in 2002.

Since January of 2001, Amanda has been working at the City of Seattle, implementing the sustainable building policy into seven LEED silver projects within the Capital Projects Division. Amanda managed a new sustainable building tool called Implement, now available on the web at www.seattle.gov/implement. Amanda is active in the citywide green building team, assisting in the implementation of the nations first LEED green building policy. Most recently she has become a principal in a firm specializing in sustainable architectural projects:Fulton GaleArchitects.

Amanda has lectured on sustainability at the UW School of Architecture and has given many presentations. A few of Amanda’s most recent presentations are “The Dollars and Sense of Green Building” with David Gottfried at the Design Trends Conference (April 2004), “How to implement LEED into your projects” CMAA (March 04) and “LEED – lessons on how to use it” Cascadia Region Green Building Council (March 04).