Speakers

Remy Mermelstein, LEED AP BD+C

As a specialist on KPF’s Environmental Performance (KPFep) team, Remy closely collaborates with design teams using an evidence-based design approach to integrate sustainable best practices into every stage of the design process. His work not only helps individual projects meet their environmental performance targets and certifications but supports KPF’s decarbonization goals of minimizing the impact of the firm’s global portfolio and achieving net-zero projects by 2030.

Remy has worked across numerous program types, scales, geographic regions, and stages in the design process to identify unique solutions suited to the particulars of a project’s climatic context, environmental performance goals, and brief. Remy has been a key team member in the design of the Northbund Lot 91 supertall tower in Shanghai, which will be the tallest all-electric, triple-glazed tower in the world and is pursuing China's ambitious net-zero and 2060 carbon reduction goals in addition to LEED Platinum certification. As the sustainability lead for 570 Fifth Avenue, a Class-A office tower in New York City with an integrated retail component, he supports the project’s LEED Gold certification and ambitious embodied carbon reduction goals.

Remy earned his B.Arch degree from Cornell University, where he worked in the Environmental Systems Lab and completed an undergraduate thesis on how design can impact microclimate in Phoenix, Arizona. He has published multiple academic papers on thermal comfort research.