Rachelle is a licensed engineer with 7 years of experience as a structural engineer and previous director of sustainability at Glotman Simpson. She’s had the opportunity to work on a variety of structures, including K-12, higher education, multi-family residential, mixed-use development, and high-rise construction. She is the Chair of the SEAOSC Sustainability Design Committee, Co-Lead for CLF-LA and a member of the AIA California embodied carbon working group. She’s worked with jurisdictions and policymakers to help write local embodied carbon reach codes. Throughout her experience, participation in the SE 2050 program, and the passage of landmark embodied carbon policy, designing low-carbon structures and implementing more sustainable materials became an important and inevitable design consideration. Her work on 843 N Spring Street, one of the first and largest mass timber buildings in Los Angeles, and Park Habitat, a sustainability-focused tower in San Jose, highlighted the importance of minimizing embodied carbon through structural solutions, tracking GWP in a building through LCA implementation and the strategic role that design consultants and owners play in realizing our collective zero carbon objectives.
Rachelle Habchi
Low Carbon Product Lead
