Kayleigh Houde

Kayleigh Houde is an engineer and technologist whose work focuses on the impacts of whole life carbon and human health. She is an Associate Principal and the global Computational Projects Lead at Buro Happold where she is responsible for the harmonized development of new technologies, within the open-source platform BHoM, that support project automation and innovation research projects.

Kayleigh joined the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design as a part-time Lecturer in 2022. She teaches Parametric Life Cycle Assessment, a course that focuses on myriad design considerations from embodied carbon to human health impacts to social and ethical responsibility for material selection, all through the lens of open-source parametric tools. She will also be teaching the Fundamentals of Embodied Carbon course for Weitzman’s Executive Program in Design for Sustainability.

Kayleigh is a founding member and co-chair of the MEP 2040 Commitment and the ECHO Project.