Sara Greenwood

LEED Fellow, LEED-AP BD+C, WELL Faculty, GGP

Principal

Greenwood Consulting Group

BIO

Ms. Greenwood is a sustainability consultant with over 16 years of experience. Her expertise and insight into emerging green building practices and technologies provide a unique perspective for clients pursuing green building certification and sustainable business initiatives. Her demonstrated experience in sustainable program development and management helps to guide project teams through strategic planning, documentation, and certification processes. Ms. Greenwood has managed the green building certification for over 32 million square feet of space. Project experience ranges in building types such as public assembly, multifamily residential, commercial offices, retail, aviation, hospitality, K-12, higher education facilities, healthcare, logistics parks, and government buildings. She has supported the US Green Building Council to inform updates to the last two versions of the LEED rating system, participated on the LEED Steering Committee, and served as one of a few LEED project reviewers for GBCI. Ms. Greenwood currently serves on the LEED Advisory Committee and is recognized as the highest status professional as a LEED Fellow. She also serves on the WELL Advisory Committee and is WELL Faculty. She has strong experience in several green building rating systems on has worked on projects nationwide. She is passionate about improving the health and lifestyle of building occupants and supporting developers to achieve their performance goals. Sara has presented on green and healthy building topics to professionals nationwide.
Ms. Greenwood founded her independent consulting firm upon moving to Kansas City from California in 2012. Her firm consults on green building certification projects nationwide. GCG is a Women’s Owned Business and demonstrates strong leadership in the green building industry. GCG provides green building project management services, sustainable business initiatives, and carbon emissions reduction strategic planning services. Consulting services for different building types, green building rating systems, companies, and municipalities seeking our professional expertise is at the core of her firm’s skillset. Through an integrative design process, GCG helps to establish the owner’s performance requirements which drive design decisions and a roadmap to achieve performance goals. We are proud of our team’s vast expertise and strive to place people and buildings at the forefront of what we do.