Faculty

Profile

Aurora is a Senior Technical Specialist and the Embodied Carbon Lead with Brightworks Sustainability in New York City with a focus on materials and carbon, and a part-time faculty member at the Parsons School of Design. With her work she seeks to engage multiple scales of social and environmental concerns—from microscale heat flows to macroscale supply chains—by linking passive, active, and materials design decisions to climate. She uses her experience in high performance energy modelling and whole building life cycle assessment (WBLCA) to drive down the operational and embodied carbon of projects. While previously at Buro Happold she led the LCAs on two USDA Wood Innovation Grants focused on evaluating the embodied carbon implications of mass timber construction and acted as an instigator and advisor for the LCA toolkit for the BHoM. Aurora received her Masters in Design Studies in Energy and Environment with distinction from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.

Degrees Held

Master of Design Studies (with distinction), Energy and Environment, Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Bachelor of Arts, Growth and Structure of Cities, Haverford College.

Professional Affiliation

International Living Future Institute, Energy and Carbon Technical Advisory Group (TAG)

Recent Publications

Jensen, A.; Norford, L.; Grinham, J. (2020) Mass(ive) Timber: Examining the Thermally Massive Behavior of Mass Timber Construction, Technology|Architecture + Design, 4:2, 186-199, DOI: 10.1080/24751448.2020.1804763  

Jensen, A.; Sehovic, Z.; St. Clair Knobloch, N.; Klein, J.; Richardson, P.; Janiski, J. (2020) Mass Timber Solutions for Eight Story Mixed-Use Buildings: A Comparative Study of GHG emissions. PLEA 2020 Conference Proceedings.

Research Interests

Sustainability, Embodied Carbon, Operational Carbon, Supply Chain, Materials