Senior Consultant, Sustainable Materials, Arup; MDes, Energy & Environments, Harvard University
Christine Tiffin is a senior consultant on Arup’s Sustainability, Climate, Resilience and Environment team whose career has centered on advancing embodied carbon strategies, whole-building life cycle assessment and healthy materials across the built environment. She helps teams make more informed design decisions using data and computational tools that integrate easily into real workflows. Tiffin frequently supports major projects by providing robust analytical support that enables teams to make positive selections for their projects that consider climate impact and human health. She has contributed to a wide range of commercial, mixed-use, residential and urban design projects and often consults on global projects given her expertise in embodied carbon of building services equipment and systems. In her role, she leads teams conducting whole-building life cycle assessments across multiple projects to identify decarbonization opportunities and develop reduction roadmaps for implementation. Tiffin also has supported major infrastructure and civic projects. At San Francisco International Airport, she led sustainability, healthy-buildings and circularity initiatives and she managed certification efforts that resulted in LEED BD+C Platinum for Harvey Milk Terminal 1 Boarding Area B, while also supporting the achievement of WELL Building Standard Platinum. Beyond project delivery, she leads Arup’s Embodied Carbon Working Group, fostering collaboration and sharing data, resources and best practices across teams. Outside of work, Tiffin enjoys hiking the Bay Area’s coastline, redwood forests and mountainous landscapes, as well as woodworking and spending time with her rescue dog, Caba.
