Megan Nedzinski
As a Partner, Senior Architect, and Senior Project Manager at Vermont Integrated Architecture, PC (VIA), Megan considers emerging research, applied technology, and the surrounding environment to deliver high-performing commercial and institutional projects. She has been instrumental in the development of many high-profile projects, including the first-in-Vermont mass-timber addition to the Fairbanks Museum which employs the first-in-the-world eastern hemlock CLT. Megan also designed the net-positive renovation of Vermont Natural Resource Council’s historic headquarters, employing low embodied carbon materials/strategies and piloting the tracking of construction-phase carbon emissions.
Megan’s work also includes on-going research. She was the lead author on four recent white papers for Efficiency Vermont, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), and the Cellulose Insulation Manufacturer’s Association (CIMA); all with a focus on embodied and operational carbon. Her leadership was instrumental with the 2015-2019 NNE Committee on The Environment Leadership Summits and in successfully amending the National AIA Code of Ethics to include sustainability. Megan was a member of the Wood Science faculty at West Virginia University and continues to teach at various conferences and Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Waitsfield. Megan currently serves on the Vermont Green Building Network (VGBN) Board and also the NESEA Board of Directors.
Megan’s passion for science, adventure, and experimentation feed her curiosity while out exploring rivers and mountains, on the homestead in her “culinary laboratory,” and in her research and teaching endeavors.
