Kevin Pierce

Architect and Sustainability Consultant with over 20 years experience, focused on energy, high performance buildings, green infrastructure, carbon management, and sustainability management systems.

Kevin Pierce’s Specialties:

Sustainability
Energy
Architecture
Affordable Housing
Green Roofs

Kevin Pierce’s Experience

Managing Director

Shaw Sustainable Design Solutions of Illinois, LLC

(Architecture & Planning industry)

2008 — Present (1 year)
Director of Sustainable Design

Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Architecture & Planning industry)

February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

Strategic sustainability consulting. Helping organizations manage and leverage the changes they will have to make to become more sustainable. Kevin applies his understanding of the critical impact integrated systems thinking can have on the operations and decision-making processes in companies, non-profits, cities, and other enterprises. The approach is founded on the triple bottom line, the notion that sustainable enterprise must address social, economic and environmental factors (and the relationships between them) if it is to take advantage of the promise of sustainable thinking for improving the way we do business while reducing negative impacts on and in the world.
Board Member

AIA Illinois

(Architecture & Planning industry)

2007 — Present (2 years)
President and CEO

Emergency Picnic, Consulting for Sustainability

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Renewables & Environment industry)

June 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)

Emergency Picnic is a consultancy that helps organizations leverage sustainability efforts and deal with global climate change. Emergency Picnic was founded on the realization that architecture can have only a small impact on global climate change.
He applies his understanding of the critical impact integrated systems thinking can have on the operations and decision-making processes in companies, non-profits, cities, and other enterprises. The approach is founded on the notion that sustainable enterprise must address social, economic and environmental factors if it is to take advantage of the promise of sustainable thinking for improving the way we do business while reducing negative impacts on and in the world.
Advisory Board and CSBA Member

Chicago Sustainable Business Alliance

(Renewables & Environment industry)

2005 — Present (4 years)
Chairman of the Board

The Resource Center

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Renewables & Environment industry)

February 2004 — Present (5 years 6 months)

Chairman of the Board of the Resource Center.The Resource Center, a non-profit environmental education organization, develops, demonstrates, and implements innovative techniques for recycling and reusing materials. Too often in the urban setting, abundant and important resources are wasted. Our recovery work aims to reverse waste and to improve the quality of life for urban dwellers. We have been devoted from the beginning to the economic and educational revitalization of city neighborhoods through recycling, urban gardening and other programs that reclaim and reuse resources.
Principal | Director of Architecture

Farr Associates Architecture & Planning

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)

November 1998 — June 2006 (7 years 8 months)

Directed the architecture practice and acted as chief operating officer for the firm. Most recently lead teams for the design of Christy Webber Landscapes headquarters, a LEED Platinum Design, Sanctuary Place 72 unit affordable housing, and large affordable housing projects in Indianapolis, IN.
Director of Planning

Lohan Associates

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)

September 1996 — November 1998 (2 years 3 months)
Senior Urban Designer

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)

August 1986 — September 1996 (10 years 2 months)

Kevin Pierce’s Education

Harvard GSD Prof Dev Program

Architecture 2001 — 2001

Activities and Societies:

Graduate School of Design Professional Development Program
University of Oregon

Bachelor of Architecture , Architecture , 1979 — 1985
California State University-Chico

Art, Engineering 1975 — 1978