Dana Sorensen to Serve as a Panelist on Designing for Impact: AIA Framework + LEED V5
Dana Sorensen, Associate Prinicpal at BNIM, will join a panel unpacking how LEED v5 moves sustainability toward outcomes-driven, values-based design. This session explores how LEED v5 translates into meaningful design practice, offering architects and designers a clear understanding of the framework’s shift toward outcomes-driven sustainability.
LEED v5 aligns closely with the AIA Framework for Design Excellence and its emphasis on climate-responsive, equitable, and human-centered design. The discussion will focus on how the updated structure supports integrated, values-based decision-making and helps teams move from certification requirements to design intent.
Attendees will examine LEED v5’s three impact areas of decarbonization, ecological conservation and restoration, and quality of life, and how the new impact scorecard can be used to strengthen early project visioning, align design strategies, and support clearer communication with clients and collaborators.
Panelists will also connect these updates to corresponding principles within the AIA Framework, demonstrating how the two frameworks reinforce one another to elevate design quality, streamline collaboration, and demonstrate leadership on climate, equity, and health.
The session will take place at 8:00 AM at the Center for Architecture & Design, located at 1801 McGee St, Suite 100 in Kansas City, Missouri.
Panelists include:
Sara Greenwood, Greenwood Consulting Group
Dana Sorensen, BNIM
Jeremy Nelson, AIA, SLATTERY Design + Architecture
Julie Peterson, USGBC Central Plains
This course is approved for 1 General GBCI CE unit and 1 AIA HSW credit