Sustainability Partner for the Real Estate and Workplace Services team at Google | Lauren Sparandara, LEED Fellow

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lauren Sparandara has over 15 years of experience as a green building leader where she has been a champion for green building projects in California and across the globe. For the past eight years she has worked for Google’s Real Estate and Workplace Services team where she is currently a Bay Area Sustainability Partner. In her role she advances Google's efforts to optimize our built environments for the health and performance of Googlers and the natural environment. For the six years prior to Google, she was a Senior Green Building Consultant for the DNV GL Group. Mrs. Sparandara obtained her environmental management degree from Yale University and her architecture degree from Washington University in St. Louis. She is a LEED Fellow and Living Future Hero.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She has taught many green building courses and contributed to a variety of green building publications, blogs and podcasts. Over her career, she has volunteered with sustainability rebuilding efforts at Historic Green in New Orleans, was appointed to be part of the City of Mountain View’s Sustainability Task Force, and was a member of the USGBC Materials and Resources Tag.</span></p> <p><strong>Show Highlights</strong></p> <ul> <li aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A visionary approach to thinking about buildings.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The challenge and honor of working at a place like Google with regard to green building projects and opportunity.  </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lauren unpacks her role as Bay Area Sustainability Partner within the Real Estate and Workplace Services team at Google to unite workstreams. </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Determine best practices and minimum sustainability building goals on diverse projects.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Key components to circul