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SWA Partnership Selected for Empire Building Challenge

October 5, 2022

We are thrilled to announce SWA’s involvement in the latest round of partnerships selected for the Empire Building Challenge! SWA’s Building Optimization, Decarbonization, and Energy Efficiency team will support LeFrak in achieving its clean energy goals for a 20-story commercial building in Queens, NY, totaling 395,745 square feet. Read the full press release below to learn more.

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PRINT Magazine: The New ‘Building Equity Standard’ Championing Our Differences When Designing

PRINT magazine’s Charlotte Beach talks with SWA’s Victoria Lanteigne, Ph.D., Principal of Research, about Universal Design vs. designing for equity and the Building Equity Standard (BEST)—a new resource aimed at helping practitioners embed equity in the design of the built…

SWA’s Victoria Lanteigne Co-leads Effort to Relaunch the Center for Universal Design

North Carolina State University and Steven Winter Associates have been awarded a grant to reinvest in the CUD given increasing interest in related efforts such as inclusive design and building equity.

New Building Standard Advances Equity in the Built Environment

Today, a new equity-focused design standard was launched for architectural practitioners interested in embedding equity in the design of the built environment. Victoria Lanteigne, Ph.D., WELL AP, in alignment with award-winning building performance firm, Steven Winter Associates, announced the release of…