Steve Loppnow

Strategy | LEED
As Senior Director of Certifications, Steve aligns client goals with established frameworks that have long driven high-performance real estate and serve as a critical piece of Stok’s integrated sustainability services. He works with Stok’s full range of certification experts to strategically guide clients through certifications including LEED, WELL, Fitwel, Living Building Challenge (LBC), Zero Carbon, Zero Energy, and more. Applying his belief that every project represents an opportunity to take steps toward higher levels of performance and sustainability, Steve leads project teams in the implementation of sustainability strategies with a focus on impact and continuous improvement. He employs a pragmatic and integrated approach, leveraging the expertise of his project teams to realize high-performance building solutions. Steve’s work spans all phases from design through operations and includes K-12, higher education, multifamily, hospitality, mixed-use, commercial, and public projects.

Credentials

  • MS, Construction Management
  • LEED AP BD+C
  • LEED AP O+M
  • LEED AP Homes
  • LEED Green Rater
ON REIMAGINING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT:
“I’m reimagining a building industry that fully values the external impact of our processes and captures the life-cycle costs of our choices and practices. I also reimagine a society that fully appreciates the impact of the built environment on quality of life and demands a built environment that enhances rather than hinders it. We have the ability and know-how to get there. We need better financial models and frameworks and the will to realize a restorative built environment.”
ON A FUTURE THEY WANT TO LIVE IN:
“I want to live in a decarbonized future where science, technology, and data inform a built environment that is health positive, carbon positive, and socially and environmentally restorative. I want to live in a future in balance with nature that fully values our natural capital. ”