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Sustainability Intern, Summer 2024

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Buro Happold

Sep 21, 2023

Applications are closed

  • Internship
    Full-time
    Summer Internship
  • Architecture & Urban Planning
    Sustainability
  • Washington, DC, +4

Requirements

  • The successful Sustainability Intern will be currently pursuing a Bachelor or Master’s Degree in Architectural Engineering, Energy Planning, Mechanical, Landscape Architecture, Environmental Engineering, with a focus in Sustainability. We also expect you to have:
  • Coursework in Sustainability concepts (e.g. energy, carbon, water)
  • Experience using Revit is preferred
  • Graphic skills and experience using Adobe Creative Suite is preferred
  • Proven interest in the built environment
  • Ability to communicate thoughts and technical ideas in an accessible manner
  • Eagerness to learn and work as part of a multidisciplinary team

Responsibilities

  • During your time in this Sustainability & Analytics role, you can expect to:
  • Research energy, carbon water and waste strategies, studying opportunities to reduce impact and resource consumption
  • Research of materials and innovative indoor air quality design strategies
  • Investigate preferred site strategies for stormwater management, external comfort, heat island reduction, improved air and acoustic quality, biodiversity and ecology, enhanced user experience
  • Assess renewable energy production feasibility and research viable technologies and available funding and incentive opportunities.

Engineering | Consultancy | Advisory

Real Estate
Industry
1001-5000
Employees
1976
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

We are an international, integrated consultancy of engineers, designers and advisers. For over 45 years, we have built an unrivalled reputation by delivering creative, value-led solutions for the benefit of people, places and planet. Described by our clients as 'passionate', 'innovative' and 'collaborative', Buro Happold is synonymous with the delivery of exceptionally complex projects on every continent, working with the world's leading architectural practices and organisations, such as the United Nations, UNESCO and C40 Cities. Through our global community of driven, world-leading engineering, advisory and design professionals, we are acting to address major challenges in an ever-evolving world.

Culture & Values

  • We value human wellbeing, and are discontented with limitations. We commit to taking this as seriously for our people as our projects.

  • We are a diverse, one-firm culture. When we get it right, it sings. Internal barriers are always to be overcome through inclusivity and equity above all else.

  • We embrace mutual responsibility. It is easy to default to individual success. Teams need to share success and failure in the same way.

  • We are more than a business. We care about the legacy of our work. We have a responsibility of care as an employer and influencer in the shaping of the world.

  • Sustainability is intrinsic to the economic and social impact of our work. Going beyond compliance requires challenging preconceptions, taking extra steps.

  • It takes courage to create. Our culture fosters a dynamic between technology and empathy to gain deeper insight, unleash imagination, and manage risk.