The Importance of Sustainability with Susan Kaplan

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">BuildingWrx is a firm founded by Susan Kaplan for the purpose of providing collaborative solutions for greening buildings, sites, cities and businesses, and finding more equitable solutions for all design, planning and community endeavors. Clients have included GSA, Community Environmental Center, Perkins Eastman Architects, NYSERDA (via Sustainable Performance Consulting, Inc.), Federal Reserve Bank and The RockefellerGroup.</span></p> <p> </p> <h3><strong>Susan Kaplan - Get To Know Susan</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Before her company went all-in on green, Susan worked on a few eco-minded projects and didn’t fall in love right away. Susan said landscape architecture didn’t really inspire joy at this point, but this feeling was temporary. They brought in a new president who wanted to go green, and that is when Susan fell in love with building/architecture and that change luckily came at a time that my office started embracing sustainability, about 1999.  So I really got in at the beginning - the Solaire was my first project for Battery Park City Authority!. She worked on parks and buildings, and found it fascinating to find new ways to benefit the environment around her. She always wanted to make things better not only for the projects, but for the surrounding environment as well.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">“It is interesting to think about the impact we have on the environment in ways we don’t think about.”</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">-Susan Kaplan</span></p> <p> </p> <h3><strong>The Future of Sustainability</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Susan says it is very important to look to the future for sustainability. This is where we have to go as a society and we need to make it the best environment possible for future generations. Susan says we need to collectively raise our children to respect and care for the environment. They will be the ones here after we are gone, and ins