At Building Ecosystems, Amanda Kaminsky builds on 25 years of experience in architecture, real estate development, construction and materials research and development to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to construct and scale the industrial ecosystems necessary for well-performing beneficial building industry innovations to thrive.

She has led piloting, standardization and scaling of systemic industry improvements for recycled ground-glass pozzolan cement replacement; closed-loop gypsum drywall recycling; commercial and residential portfolio organics collection; building material ingredient transparency and health through the Health Product Declaration; and adoption of electric construction equipment.

Amanda chairs the New York City Economic Development Corp.’s Green Economy Advisory Council and serves on the boards of the Carbon Leadership Forum, Health Product Declaration Collaborative, Construction & Demolition Recycling Association, Recycling Certification Institute, and Center for Zero Waste Design. She’s a member of Build Reuse and a certified Passive House tradesperson. She holds a Bachelor of Science in architecture from the University of Virginia.