Meet the NYC 2025 Content Committee

Tristan Grant is an Associate Director of Codes & Policy at the New Buildings Institute, with experience in the renewable energy industry and high-performance building design and construction. As a interdisciplinary team member and project leader, he crafts positive-sum solutions for complex problems relating to energy, sustainability, resilience, health, and equity in the built environment. Tristan has experience overseeing teams providing design consultation, energy modeling, site inspections, testing and verification for green building and sustainability projects primarily in the Northeast region. In addition to managing the technical completion of project deliverables, Tristan's work has aided clients in scoping and developing comprehensive and strategic approaches to decarbonization, sustainability, and resiliency at the project and portfolio level. He has overseen the implementation of research and pilot demonstration projects, helped craft corporate sustainability strategies to aid clients in meeting internal and externally imposed sustainability objectives, co-authored industry white papers, presented at and curated regional energy and sustainability conferences and webinars, and been featured in industry articles. Tristan volunteers with NESEA on the Building Energy NYC and Boston annual conferences, and is a founding board member of the PHIUS Alliance chapter, Passive House Rhode Island (PHRI). Tristan holds a B.A from Hampshire College in Sustainable Design and Development, and a Master of Design Studies (MDS) in Sustainable Design from the Boston Architectural College. He is a PHIUS+ Verifier, RESNET HERS Rater, LEED Green Associate, and former BPI Building Analyst.

Amritha Rajan is a Senior Project Manager at Bright Power, with over seven years of experience in New York City's building design sustainability industry. Her work focuses on high performance retrofits and green building certification program compliance not limited to Enterprise Green Communities (EGC), Energy Star, and LEED AP. She is a Certified Passive House Designer and LEED AP BD+C and has led over 30 building construction and retrofit projects, specializing in program compliance, testing and verification, building decarbonization and incentive procurement for affordable housing. A civil engineer by training, Amritha is currently pursuing her MBA at Yale University, with a focus on sustainability and asset management. She has been actively involved with the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association since 2022.

Crystal Ng, AIA, NOMA, LEED AP, CPHC is Director of Sustainability at Curtis+Ginsberg Architects. She leads the firm’s commitment to meeting the AIA 2030 Challenge and Material Pledge, including research efforts and ensuring sustainability and resiliency integration on all our projects. Crystal also leads many of the firm’s Passive House and LEED projects. For her dedication to advancing the firm’s research and innovation in sustainable building systems, she was recognized as one of Crain’s 2020 40 under 40 honorees. Crystal is a nationally recognized expert on sustainable design and is regularly invited to speak and teach about innovations in the field. Crystal is deeply committed to building equitable communities. She has collaborated on projects with Urban Design Forum, Open Architecture Collaborative, Architects Without Borders, and Habitat for Humanity. Crystal received a Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Architecture from University of Southern California.