Mass Timber Specialist/ Senior Business Development Manager
Lendlease
In her role as Lendlease’s Timber and Innovation Specialist, Lisa is
responsible for developing and executing a regional strategic marketing
and development plan pertaining to mass timber solutions for the entire
US. She serves as the in-house timber material specialist and design
expert and leads West Coast timber construction strategy. She consults
with our clients on mass timber solutions, technologies and approvals.
Lisa is considered one of the leading US industry resources for Mass
Timber sitting on several industry and professional advisory boards
supporting mass timber research and market development for individual
research projects and organizations like the Tallwood Design Institute
and the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. She has published
several papers on innovative wood construction and cross laminated
timber solutions, including author and peer reviewer for the 2012 US
Cross-Laminated Timber Handbook and the Nail Laminated Timber
Guide. She participated in the first study exploring the life cycle impacts
of structural systems using LCA tools and spearheaded the first live
blast testing of CLT.
Prior to her current role, Lisa worked as the Senior Technical Director
for the market development and research division of WoodWorks,
where she identified issues and presented solutions for mass timber
projects across the country, as well as serving as an in-house wood
industry expert on fire/life safety, sustainability, mass timber
construction, cross-laminated timber and innovative systems. In this
role, she became well versed with the full catalog of project goals and
challenges relating to a variety of timber project types allowing her to
successfully develop and launch market development plans for mass
timber nationwide.
Lisa has been an active member in local and national engineering
organizations, including American Society of Civil Engineers Structural
Engineering Institute, the Structural Engineers Association of California
and the CALGreen Code Development group. She is the rotating Chair
of both the state and regional chapter of the Structural Engineers
Association of California’s Sustainable Design Committees.
On Demand