Michael Cropper

Biographie: Brief bio: Mr. Cropper is a Principal, structural engineer, and office director at Thornton Tomasetti’s Washington, DC, office. He has over seventeen years of experience designing structures of all sizes for commercial, retail, residential, hospital, government and cultural projects. Recent projects include 600 Fifth, Amaris DC, Capital One Hall, and Metropolitan Park which is Amazon’s headquarters in Arlington. He co-led TT’s Embodied Carbon Community of Practice for two years, a group of approximately 250 staff passionate about embodied carbon and grouped into seven working groups. Mr. Cropper helps drive Thornton Tomasetti’s efforts on embodied carbon tracking and reduction and has presented on embodied carbon at conferences for the American Institute of Architects, American Concrete Institute and American Society of Civil Engineers, among others. Involvement and leadership: Embodied Carbon CoP Working Group co-lead: Materials and Specifications (2021) Embodied Carbon Community of Practice Co-Leader at Thornton Tomasetti : October 2021 through June 2024 (200+ members with 7 working groups) Carbon Leadership Forum: Washington DC Chapter: 2021-present Structural Engineering Association of Metro Washington Sustainable Design Committee: 2023-present Industry Conferences and Presentations: • New Priorities - Embodied Carbon in Concrete Construction, American Concrete Institute, Strategic Development Council Forum 47, Charleston, SC, February 2020, presenter • Embodied Carbon in Concrete Construction, American Society of Concrete Contractors, webinar, October 2020, presenter • Embodied Carbon Reductions without EPDs, CarbonCure, webinar, February 2021, presenter • Embodied Carbon Reductions in Concrete, Carbon Leadership Forum Washington DC Hub, February 2021, presenter • Climate Action Through Collaboration: Tackling Embodied Carbon Across Disciplines, AIA Conference on Architecture, June 2022, panelist • Embodied Carbon Education: Scaling Climate Action Across the Structural Engineering Profession: AEI 2023, April 2022, speaker • Decarbonizing the AEC Value Chain: Panel presentation at TT in New York as part of ClimateWeek NYC, September 2023 (Moderator) • Embodied Carbon Education: Scaling Climate Action Across the Structural Engineering Profession: ASCE Inspire 2023 • Concrete + Getting to Zero Carbon: DesignDC, April 18, 2024 (Panel discussion with ZGF and HITT) at District Architecture Center • ULI 3rd Embodied Carbon Convening, Washington DC, 6/4/2024, Presented Mets 678 as a case study • Arch Record / SINY article: CE Center - A Number and a Story (bnpmedia.com) • AIA Accredited presentation: "Embodied Carbon - A Structural Perspective", presented to over 10 architecture firms, general contractors, and industry groups • ULI webinar - March 26 • ACI Convention Spring 2025, Toronto: "From Innovation to Reality" panel, moderator • ULI Spring Meeting 2025, Denver: "The Business Case for EC Reduction", panelist